KARACHI: The National Academy of Performing Arts’ second art festival will be held from March 21 to April 9 at the academy’s auditorium. This was announced by artistic director of the Napa Repertory Theatre Zain Ahmed at a press conference on Thursday. Mr Ahmed said last year’s festival spanned 11 days whereas the second edition […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Kudos to all those who came up with the idea of imparting art training to prison inmates in one of the jails in the city. It’s been more than five years since an art school was started in the Karachi central jail and the kind of work that has been regularly […]
By Mashal Usman KARACHI: Never did miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ seem so spiteful nor did the prince of Urdu ghazal, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, seem so wise as they did on Tuesday as children from ninth grade gathered to act out the lives of these literati. The parents, who […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In art time and space matter as much as nature or anything related to socio-cultural issues faced by man on a regular basis. Time indicates the epoch in which artists set their work while space signifies the milieu where their subjects exist. And when the subject is the female figure with all […]
BY: Anil Datta Karachi: The Fomma Museum was the venue of a highly informative and interesting lecture Tuesday evening on the pioneers of art in Pakistan by noted art critic and journalist Marjorie Hussein. Alongside the country’s art history, for many it was nostalgic trip back in time, especially for those few surviving who were […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: As the cliché goes, art reflects life. And over the centuries this particular cliché has stirred quite a bit of debate, especially among the ancient Greek philosophers. Some of them believed that since art reflected life it was a form of imitation. But other proponents of this theory believed that though […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Diverse views were expressed on the life and works of legendary Urdu fiction writer Ismat Chughtai at an event held to discuss the publication of the second edition of the book titled ‘Ismat Apa’ by Shakila Rafique at the Arts Council Karachi on Monday evening. Prof Sahar Ansari, who presided over […]
By: Rauf Parekh “Poetry is the most effective way to protest,” said Ahmed Faraz, recounting how he had begun composing poetry. In a piece titled ‘Main kyun likhta hoon?’ (Why do I write?), included in Mehboob Zafar’s book ‘Ahmed Faraz: fun-o-shakhsiyet’, Faraz says that when he had been in school it had been difficult to […]
By: Zeeshan Azmat Karachi: The Sindh Writers and Thinkers Forum (SWTF) released its “Sindh agenda for Election-2013” at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday. Speaking at a conference “Unity of Sindh and its requirements”, the participants asked the masses to reject the party that attempted to divide Sindh by implementing the controversial Sindh People’s Local […]
By: Waseem Shamsi SUKKUR, March 10: A large quantity of ancient artefacts being taken from Islamabad to Karachi has been seized by the Customs intelligence, officials said on Sunday. The seized artefacts worth millions of rupees belong to Gandhara civilisation, pre-Christian era and the periods of Muslim rule, Tasawwar Shah, a local Customs officer, told […]
SANGHAR: Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo on Sunday unveiled the plaque of an under-construction cultural complex in Sanghar. Speaking to a gathering of the local literati and Pakistan People’s Party held on the occasion, the minister said that 30 per cent construction work of the cultural complex had already been complete. She said that the […]
By: Shazia Hasan KARACHI, March 10: Cultures of Resistance, a 72-minute documentary film about resistance movements all over the world, is a beautiful kaleidoscope of the show of resilience through expressions. Its filmmaker/director Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, believes that it is good to vent frustrations through art and culture. At the screening […]
By: Rahib Raza Girish Karnad, a writer, actor and director from India, came to pay his tribute to Pakistani literature and poetry. He gave details about theatre and films being in contrast to culture, tradition and politics. He admired prominent names of literature Saadat Hassan Manto, Ismat Chughtai and Faiz Ahmad Faiz and their contribution […]
Echoes of a century of drama at Kinnaird College Lahore By Sarwat Ali As part of Kinnaird College’s centenary celebrations ‘Echoes: Bazghasght’ was staged on the premises of the college. When an institution is one hundred year old, the celebration is a recount of the salient features, some milestones and those remarkable individuals who helped […]
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