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Napa festival 2012 starts with a not-so-bad original student play National Academy of Performing Arts
Mar 2nd
The 10-day-long performance-packed Young Directors’ Festival of the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) commenced at the academy’s theatre auditorium here on Thursday.
Speaking to the guests at the welcome address, Zia Mohiyuddin, Napa’s chief, said that the festival was the first major opportunity for the students of the academy to showcase their work. “Performance art is seen by many as a challenge to humankind that has been carried on since ages, so whatever we can do is to try reach for perfection.”
Prominent actor and one of the instructors in the academy Rahat Kazmi said that the entertainment industry of the More >
Students of Foundation University exhibit paintings at Lok Virsa Heritage Museum
Mar 2nd
A painting exhibition by the students of Foundation University was organised here at Lok Virsa Heritage Museum, Shakarparian.
The exhibition was jointly organised by the Universal Women Children Art Therapy Association (UWCATA), Pakistan Sweet Home, a charity project of Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal and Lok Virsa and Ministry of National Heritage and Integration.
Some 100 paintings of 50 students have been put on display in the exhibition that caught attention of the visitors on the opening day. Speaking at the opening ceremony Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) Managing Director Zammurrud Khan highly appreciated the efforts of the students who gave vent to their thoughts in skilful More >
Open on Art and Society at Unicorn Gallery
Mar 1st
A programme featuring an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Prof Bashir Ahmad, a presentation on ‘Art, society and gender politics’ by Niiloufur Farrukh, screening of a war documentary by M.S. Kureshi, a presentation on ‘Rediscovering identity through the visual reflections on Sindh and Pakistani history’ by Dr Hamida Khuhro, a display of art books and readings and audience dialogue will be held at the Unicorn Gallery at 6pm on Thursday, says a press release.
(Dawn News)
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Continuous Dialogue by Tariq Gill at Khaas Gallery
Feb 24th
They come across as childlike and playful drawings. But those smirking and scared faces and the mayhem in tangled lines are mature and intense personal compositions. “The Continuous Dialogue” opened at the Khaas Gallery Thursday evening with nearly two dozen new impressions painted by Lahore-based artist and instructor at National College of Arts (NCA), Tariq Gill.
His paintings are a mixture of abstract and figuration, playful and childlike as well as stylised. The technique, according to some artists who visited his exhibition was not easy to accomplish.
An artist herself, Hurmatul Ain, respected his technique the most – the level of simplicity More >
THE SAGA OF SADEQUAIN launched at Gallery 6 Islamabad
Feb 20th
Although over one year passed since higher education commission (HEC) issued instructions to establish sexual harassment committees in educational institutions, 98 out of 138 universities and degree awarding institutes (DAI) in the country were yet to comply.
National Defence University (NDU), Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), Pakistan Naval Academy, King Edward Medical University, Lahore University of Medical Sciences (Lums), Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (Maju), Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology were in the list of those who did not implement HEC’s instructions.
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Little is known about the man More >
Sadequain’s mural in need of repairs at Frere Hall
Feb 18th
The glorious mural by Sadequain on the ceiling of the Frere Hall is showing increasing signs of damage from damp, it emerged on Wednesday.
Sadequain's mural has been affected by discolouration in certain patches and requires attention. File photo
There is discolouration in certain patches where rainwater has seeped through the roof onto the hardboard on which the mural has been painted. The work is a composite of over 100 hardboard panels mounted on wooden frames attached to the ceiling.
Some of the panels have come loose from the frames and could potentially crash to the ground.
The “Arz-o-Samawat” (earth and the heavens) mural, More >
THE SAGA OF SADEQUAIN launched at IVS Karachi
Feb 16th
When I was a child my favourite bedtime story was not Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood, instead it was about a man who had painted over the white washed walls of his house the night before a family member’s wedding – that man was Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi.
As I grew older, he became one of those people everyone had read about and if you hadn’t seen the mural in Frere Hall or Lahore Museum, you were considered uncultured. While attending the book launch ceremony for a two-volume book on his life and artwork, ‘The Saga of Sadequain,’ I More >
Punjab Institute of Language Art and Culture Art Gallery decided to activate
Feb 15th
The Punjab Institute of Language Art and Culture has finally decided to activate its art gallery. The first exhibition the institute is going to hold — ‘Colours of the Punjab 2012’ – will showcase veteran artists’ works. The exhibition will be inaugurated on Feb 21, also the International Mother’s Language Day. The works of Khaild Iqbal, Dr Ajaz Anwar, Shafique Ahmed, Dr Mussarat Hasan and Wajid Yaqoot will be showcased.
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PNCA Opened a Photographic Exhibition
Feb 12th
Culture is the binding force to bring even arch rivals on the same page. The glaring example of this was witnessed on Thursday evening inside the building of Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), Islamabad, where two political rivals – Iran and USA embassy officials – got together to showcase their cultural achievements in Gallery No 1, and Gallery No 2 of National Art Gallery (NAG). The US embassy in collaboration with PNCA opened a photographic exhibition under ‘The US Ambassador Fund for Cultural Preservation – Pakistan Projects’. The Iran Embassy in collaboration with PNCA organised sufi music programme More >
An exhibition of artist Roohi S. Ahmed’s latest work titled ‘Hermeneutics of the Body’
Feb 8th
An exhibition of artist Roohi S. Ahmed’s latest work titled ‘Hermeneutics of the Body’, curated by critic Nafisa Rizvi, opened at the Canvas Gallery on Tuesday.
While the exhibits themselves are worth looking at, the title of the show is intriguing enough to merit a discussion, which may (or may not) simplify the understanding of the artist’s creations.
There is a lot to think about here, which is perhaps the aim of the exhibition. Hermeneutics pertains to quite a few not-so-easy things.
Basically, it is a theory of interpretation.
In its early days it dealt with expressions related to linguistics used to construe religious More >
