Category: Culture & Heritage

ISLAMABAD June 17 (APP): American Aambassador to Pakistan David Hale inaugurated two new murals by the famed Karachi based artist Shazly Khan at the American Embassy here on Friday, saying her vibrant paintings promoted empowerment of women and their role in fostering strong communities. “The art we unveil today reflects the shared Pakistani and American… Continue reading Shazly Khan’s paintings promote empowerment of women: US ambassador

ISLAMABAD, Jun 14 (APP): Lok Virsa Publishing house aims to make regional folk literature available in the national language to promote greater understanding and closer fraternity amongst Pakistanis and to make cultural literature available to schools, colleges, universities and social scientists This was stated by Dr. Fouzia Saeed, Executive Director Lok Virsa while talking to APP, she said that… Continue reading Lok Virsa aims to make regional literature avail in national language: Dr. Fouzia

ISLAMABAD, Jun 13 (APP): Nomad Centre and Art Gallery started three-day a week summer classes for children under age of 8 to 16 years at Saidpur Village from June 13 till June 29. Two session starting from June 13 to June 29 and July 11 to July 27. During workshop, the students would learn about… Continue reading Nomad Art Gallery summer classes for children starts on Monday

ISLAMABAD, Jun 10 (APP): Pakistani artist Ghulam Mohammad has won the prestigious Jameel Prize-4 for his works in contemporary Islamic art, becoming the first Pakistani to achieve the distinction. The Jameel Prize, an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition, was awarded to Ghulam Mohammad at a ceremony held at Pera Museum… Continue reading First Pakistani artist wins Jameel Prize in Istanbul

ISLAMABAD, Jun 7 (APP): A five-day Craft of the Month series, “Mirror work: Engagement with Artisans” concluded here at Lok Virsa. Some 50 children from various schools working under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) attended the workshop. Master artisans in mirror work conducted the training to children ( 7 to 14 years) in their… Continue reading Mirror work workshop concludes at Lok Virsa

ISLAMABAD, Jun 6 (APP): The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) is all set to hold a one month summer camp for children (age group: 6-12 years) in Sindhi and Pashto languages from July 12 to August 11, 2016 at Heritage Museum, Shakarparian.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 4 (APP): Lok Virsa Heritage Museum is the first state museum of ethnology in the country which presents the history and living traditions of the people both from the mainstream and the remotest regions.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 3 (APP): Lok Virsa’s series, Craft of the Month, is aimed at raising awareness among the youth about culture and providing them with a platform for interacting with artisans and encouraging them to learn different arts.

RAWALPINDI, June 2 (APP):- An art play “Ishq Daim” was staged under auspices of Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) to provide neat and clean entertainment to the families of twin cities.

RAWALPINDI, June 1 (APP):- An exquisite exhibition on painting titled “My World My Emotions” based on impressionism and contemporary realism by young talent Saba Adeel, has been put on display here on Wednesday under auspices of Rawalpindi Arts Council as a part of providing platform to new comers. The exhibition was inaugurated by Dr Aziz… Continue reading “My World My Emotions” put on display at RAC

ISLAMABAD, Jun 1 (APP): A five-day Craft of the Month series, “Mirror work: Engagement with Artisans” started here at Lok Virsa Heritage Museum, Garden Avenue, Shakarparian. Some 50 children from various schools working under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) attended the workshop. Master artisans in mirror work will give hands on training to children (age group:… Continue reading Five-day Mirror work workshop starts at Lok Virsa

ISLAMABAD, May 31 (APP): Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) intends to organize 4th International Conference on “Language, Literature and Society” (ICLLS) in the month of September. The conference is aimed to provide opportunity to aspiring writers, linguists, research scholars and academics from across the globe to participate in the said conference and to share their new research in the… Continue reading PAL to organize 4th Int’l Conference on Language, Literature

ISLAMABAD, May 31 (APP): A special event was held here at National College of Arts Rawalpindi to commemorate the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. Over 100 participants including representatives of the National Institute for Folk and Traditional Heritage, C2D, Uniocorn Black, STEP and students of National College of Arts Rawalpindi and other academic institutions… Continue reading Special event organizes to mark world day for cultural diversity

ISLAMABAD, May 30 (APP): Lok Virsa research and publication centre had Published over 200 books on various facts of folklore and cultural heritage covering all regions of the country.