About HIASFEST
HIASFEST
Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Schools Festival (HIASFEST)
HIASFEST is Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Schools Festival. You don’t have its type anywhere in Nigeria. It is a brand from Niger State to the world.
HIASFEST is built around eleven major categories exclusively designed for teen artists in secondary schools. They are: On-the-spot Poetry Writing, On-the-spot Non-Fiction writing, On-the-spot Short Story Writing, Painting, Spoken Word, Contemporary Song in English, Cultural Dance, Quiz, Innovation, ICT/Technology and Drama. It is a 4-day festival minus arrival. A student can attend on his own with the support of his parents if his school is not attending. However, there are some categories that are open to all ages.
There are scholarship schemes, special awards, and national literary prizes like: The Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors (poetry and prose). The three best books in each category are published for the winners, free.
here are Nigeria Prize for Indigenous Languages (Hausa, Igbo, Gbagyi, Nupe, Yoruba, Fulfulde, Pidgin, French and Arabic) in creative writing and science books as well. The indigenous languages category is open to all ages.
HIASFEST has the following awards too: HCAF prize for the most performing branches; HCAF award for excellence in creative writing; the golden awards for Nigerian art administrators; HIASFEST star prize winners for male and female teen writers in Nigeria; the most valuable contestant awards for male and female at HIASFEST; the best teacher in-charge of schools for male and female; tuition scholarship for science and art; and honorary awards for distinguished sponsors. The overall winning schools (three in all) get cash prizes as well. Similarly, the first position in overall takes N1m for a grand science project to be conceived, invented back in their school and presented at the next edition of HIASFEST.
There are scholarship schemes, special awards, and national literary prizes like: The Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors (poetry and prose). The three best books in each category are published for the winners, free. There are Nigeria Prize for Indigenous Languages (Hausa, Igbo, Gbagyi, Nupe, Yoruba, Fulfulde, Pidgin, French and Arabic) in creative writing and science books as well. The indigenous languages category is open to all ages.
HIASFEST has the following awards too: HCAF prize for the most performing branches; HCAF award for excellence in creative writing; the golden awards for Nigerian art administrators; HIASFEST star prize winners for male and female teen writers in Nigeria; the most valuable contestant awards for male and female at HIASFEST; the best teacher in-charge of schools for male and female; tuition scholarship for science and art; and honorary awards for distinguished sponsors. The overall winning schools (three in all) get cash prizes as well. Similarly, the first position in overall takes N1m for a grand science project to be conceived, invented back in their school and presented at the next edition of HIASFEST.
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Alh. Bala Abdullahi Kwatu
Initiator - HIASFEST
Alh. Bala Abdullahi Kwatu is the initiator of HIASFEST, the largest teen arts festival in Africa. Annually, HIASFEST gathers thousands of teen artists from across Nigeria to Niger State to celebrate creativity and excellence. His partnership with HCAF has escalated her developmental art engagement as one of the most important art organisations in Nigeria that is corporate and identifiable with tangible results, Bala Kwatu’s idea to have this platform has come to form a medium for the production of not just the next generation of Nigerian writers but artists, inventors and thinkers. Every year, he publishes the wining books of the Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors categories (6 books), which are delivered freely to the authors from different states in Nigeria One man, pumping six quality books into the Nigerian book environment is a remarkable feat. Kwatu is a dogged social entrepreneur, selfless business man, father of the Nigerian child, unencumbered friendly community man, developer of art and an exemplifier of the truism that one man can change the world.
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