Shahid Sajjad is one of the most respected figures in Pakistan's art scene.

The Exhibition will open at National College of Arts Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery.

An exhibition of paintings by French artis Isabelle Braud titled "Eyes in Pakistan" is held at NCA.

Braud's work consists of her memories of various images in Pakistan, the recollection of passing days, and infographics. (Daily Times, 16.11.07)

Ayaz Ali Syed (Vice President) 92-300-9404169

Imran Sultan Ahmad (Secy General) 92-300-9400178

Pakistan's largest international Exhibition of traditional Calligraphy and modern calligraph-art is organised by the Pakistan Calligraph-artists Guild. This is the 5th such event. This year world renowned masters are participating in both categories from Bosnia, China, India, Italy, Turkey, Tunisia, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, UK, USA and Pakistan.

PCG's 2nd International Seminar: "Culture and Calligraphy" will preced e the opening. Dr. Barbara Schmitz (USA), Farid Al-Ali (Kuwait), Farooq Hammad (UAE), Kamil Khan Mumtaz and M. Athar Tahir (Pakistan) will make illustrated presentations.

Exhibition of Blue Pottery Products organizied by TEVTA's  Institute of Blue Pottery Multan & Institute of Pottery Shahdara Lahore.

http://www.tevta.org/Products/IBPD-Page.html

Friends of Rohtas is a group of artists who had begun their work at Rohtas or had been associated with it. Most paintings displayed at the exhibition are personal comments of the artists about certain issues.

Featured Artists:

Afshar Malik, Anwar Saeed, Aisha Khalid, Imran Qureshi, Naazish Ataullah, Naeem Pasha, Quddus Mirza, Sabina Gillani, Salima Hashmi, Talha Rathore, Farida Batool

A music workshop for children ages 7 to 10 years will start this Sunday. The workshop will be held 5-6pm on Thursday & Sunday. The aim is to introduce rhythm & rhyme through structured exercises. The children will be introduced to various musical instruments; beat system & structure, understanding Sur and basics of voice training. Registration is open till 4pm, 11th Nov. Sunday 2007. Please contact office for details.

Pakistan Institute of Management, in collaberation with M/S. Crown System, Primavera University, Singapore, announces the first training on Primavera Project Planner.

Speaker:

Arnaud Morvan is a MBA from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA with specilization in Operations Management, with over 10 years of experience in Primavera.

Venue: Pakistan Institue of Management, Management House 70-B/2 Gulberg III, Lahore \

Tel:042 9263137 & 926313335   e-mail: pimihe@...

http://www.pim.com.pk

Festival Area: Open Air Concert

Fusion Music Night
 

Three hour long Music Session with the best Musicians from Pakistan and abroad playing together in Fusion style.

The following artists will perform:

Cankisou (Czech Republic)
Mithu and Goonga Saien
Sain Zahoor
Fawzia Afzal / Suriya Khanum
Wahab Shah
Sher Miandad
Pete Pankee
Arieb Azhar
22 Drumming Act
Shafquat Ali

Festival Area: Open Air Concert

Devotional Music Night

Three hour long Music Session with Devotional Music from Pakistan and abroad.

The following artists will perform:

Raza Allan Fakir
Akhtar Chinar Zahari
Zarsanga
Areeb Azhar
Sha jo Rag Fakirs
Saien Zahoor
Goonga Mithu
Iqbal Bahoo
Surreya Khanum
Sanam Marvi
Taj Mastani
Shafquat Ali

Hall 3

Vocal:
Sharafat Ali Khan
Nigam Aleem Khawaja

Tabla solo:
Ghulam Abbas Khan

http://apmc.info/2007/11/21/concert-on-1-december-2007/ 

Festival Area: Open Air Concert

Qawali Night

Three hour long Music Session with the best Qawali Musicians from Pakistan and abroad.

The following artists will perform:

Sher Miandad
Rizwan Muazzam Ali Khan
Sher Ali Mehr Ali
Abou Muhammad Farid Ayaz Hussani Group
Javaid Bashir

Festival Area: Open Air Concert

Classical Night

Three hour long Music Session with the best Classical Musicians from Pakista.

The following artists will perform:

Fawzia Afzal Khan
Ustad Ghulam Hussein Shaggan
Hamid Ali Khan
Hussain Bux Gullo
Naqi Ali Khan
Imtiaz Ali Riaz Ali
Shafqat Ali
Ustad Muhammad Akhtar
Ustad Badey Fateh Ali & Rustam Fateh Ali Khan
Ustad Badey Fateh Ali Khan Hyderabadi
Sharafat Ali Khan
Mazhar Ali Shaggan
Mubarik Ali Khan
Ustad Tasadduk Ali Khan & Sadat Al i Khan
Rakae
Salman and Ali Amjad Amanat Ali Khan
Akber Ali Khan

Quaid-e-Azam-Trophy 2007-08 Group B

Lahore Shalimar v Pakistan International Airlines

Cricket - Quaid-e-Azam-Trophy 2007-08

Lahore Ravi v Multan

Festival Area: Camp#3 (Theatre)

The Company Theatre - Numbers in the Dark

The production which has been directed by Atul Kumar labels itself as a ‘theatrical creation, devised and developed by the actors of the play.’ The young actors are skilled but the production as a whole suffers from a dilettante’s approach to lofty subjects such as the scientific and the artistic underpinning for human faculties like memory, existential angst, the irony of honesty and the abuse of human rights. Very soon these concerns are either grossly diluted or appear to be out of context.  (http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/reviews/numbersin_thedark.asp)

Festival Area: Camp#1

Editta Braun Company - Coppercity 1001

 
Audience: 15 years and above

“Copper City 1001” shows humans, puppets, and masks, screaming in contorted movements, in a last desperate attempt to express themselves, to give a report before the final freeze. The performance appears like a nightmare out of the last story in Sherezade’s 1001 nights and presents itself like a dark poetic parable on the guilt of society.

Editta Braun Company performances are characterized by an expressive style, and are strongly influenced by theatre and performance, with humor and pathos often walking side by side. They are interwoven with elements showing a commitment to social criticism.

Festival Area: Hall#1 (Theatre)

Pierrot's Troupe - K.L.Saigal (Ind)

It is a revisit to the aura and era of the great K L Saigal. It is a ‘Faction’--- where ‘facts’ blend with ‘fiction’ to result into a musical drama of a ‘never before’ kind.

2nd Show: 8:20-9:20

Festival Area: Camp#2 (Dance)

Compagnie Drift - Unkaputtbar

“Unkaputtbar” (indestructible) is a dance production full of witty ideas and acrobatic intermezzos about four men traveling together on the wrong track. Imperturbably, they always fall on their feet, yet they never give up. They keep up a sturdy camaraderie amongst themselves that sometimes degenerates into unfriendly scuffles. The performance counters all that is depressed and dejected with its inexhaustible energy and comic moments.

The Zurich based dance company, Compagnie Drift, has performed in 27 countries and staged over 600 performances. They examine subtly and humorously the absurdities of everyday life.

Festival Area: Hall#1 (Theatre)

Pierrot's Troupe - Big B 

India's first ever play in broken English, with more than 45 shows to its credit. About two Hindi-speaking brothers. Trying to come to terms with English – with the difference between 'being well' and 'being in well', the difference between 'nighty and 'dark', the difference between 'Gilli danda' and 'Baseball'

2nd Show: 8:20-9:20 

Festival Area: Camp#4 (Puppet Theatre)

National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca - Ibis Bird (Romania)

Festival Area: Camp#3 (Theatre)

RPTW - Patay Khan

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/01/28/stories/2005012801360300.htm

Festival Area: Camp#1 (Theatre)

Ajoka - Toba Tek Singh

Toba Tek Singh is a short story by Saadat Hassan Manto, Hotel Moen Jo Daro by Ghulam Abbas and Shehr-e-Afsos by Intezar Hussain. Gauhar said that Shehr-e-Afsos was an attempt to reveal and relive history’s traumas. She said it was an attempt to take the audience on a journey of self-discovery. The voyage begins with Toba Tek Singh, the story by Manto with excerpts of Siayah Hashiaye and Khol Do, and summarises the monumental tragedy that takes place in the Lahore Mental Hospital in 1947.
(http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-12-2004_pg7_14)

Festival Area: Hall#1 (Theatre)

BrownBread Company - Glad Tidings/Abdullah 

Salman Shahid, theatre director and actor (recently in the Bollywood hit Kasbu Express), invited two Pakistan playwrights to give us their unique view of contemporary live. The result is a surprising, entraining and unsettling kaleidoscope of urgent new work inspired by recent events in Pakistan.

Glad Tidings by Bilal Hassan Minto is a taut and heartbreaking vision of one woman’s desperate bid to escape. Bilal Hassan minto is a well known lawyer and film-maker. He teaches at the University at Lahore and is an advocate of the High courts and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Abdullah by Salman Shahid is a potent and comic exploration of the delicate balance between the wealthy and their servants in a changing political and religious landscape.

Festival Area: Camp#2 (Dance)

Theatre & Television Associates - Nati Binodini (Ind)

More info: 

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071112/asp/entertainment/story_8533112.asp
http://www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=17880

Festival Area: Camp#1

Teatro Buffo - Troubadour (Aut)

Festival Area: Camp#3 (Theatre)

RPTW - Patay Khan

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/01/28/stories/2005012801360300.htm

Festival Area: Hall#1 (Theatre)

4-Men Show (Karachi)

“4 Man Show” involves news, politics, criticism, humor and 4 men. It projects politics in a lighter vein and pokes fun at Pakistan’s politicians, policies, and government. One of the most widely popular shows in the country, broadcast on AAJ TV, here the “4 Man Show” is being brought to the stage.

Sketch comedy is a newly introduced idea in the local e ntertainment industry. It follows a completely unscripted format in which four men perform short form improvisations (a series of sketches), as well as long form.

Festival Area: Hall#2 (Films)

Festival Area: Hall#2 (Films)

Festival Area: Hall#2 (Films)

Festival Area: Hall#2 (Films)

Reminder for Sufi Enthusiasts: Each Thursday there is a music and dance performance at the Shrine of Baba Shah Jamal. The music usually starts around eleven o'clock upstairs with Gonga and Mitou Saeen (picture) and 'round midnight downstairs with the performance of Pappoo Saeen and Joora Saeen. The dancing usually takes place around 1:30 AM.

Here's a Lahore blog entry and a Video des cribing the aura and feel of the event!

Every Thursday there is a Qawwali Music Performance at the Shrine of Data Sahib, starting around 3 pm.

Data Darbar has a website! http://www.dataganjbakhsh.com/

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Durbar_Complex

You are cordially invited on Vision Forum

"What Is The Role Of An Individual For Building A Better Society?"

Mr. Ahmed Javed

Renowned scholar regularly appearing on Geo TV
On the request of most of the participants present in last session held on the same topic on 23 October 07, Mr. Ahmed Javed has been requested to hold exclusive session.

 Committee Room 3

Part of the EU Fashion Cycle

2nd Workshop

More information for Participants -> http://www.danka.com.pk/viewEvent.php?id=2768

Mind is an organization which provides free mental health facilities to numerous villages and small cities by arranging regular(weekly/fortnightly) visits of psychiatrists and psychologists to these far flung patients. Patients are also provided with free medication and referrel in case of complication.It has been carried out successfully for the past 15 years.

All those people who had personal experience can appreciate the necessity of such intervention.On behalf of the organization i request your contribution to this cause.

Dr Usman Amin Hotiana

Medical Officer , Service Hospital L ahore.

Entrance Tickets can be collected from Services Hospital Lahore.My contact no. is 03334253170 

Enjoy the festivities of some great puppet shows all afternoon. Fun for the whole family.

For more details, contact the venue

Festival Area: Camp#6 (Puppet)

 
RPTW Lahore (Pak) - Assorted Puppet Skits/Patay Khan

Festival Area: Camp#4 (Puppet/Theatre)

Punjab Lok Rahs - Chalo Chalo Global Village Chalo

Lok Rahs was formed in 1986 as an “independent alternative theatre group”. Its manifesto states that the organisation was defiant of the “ideological confusions” of the post-Ziaul Haq 90s. Lok Rahs Coordinator Shoaib Iqbal said that at its conception the organization was a “handful of young men and women who wanted to experiment and experience developments i n street theatre”. (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-4-2004_pg7_16)

Festival Area: Camp#6(Puppet)

Phoenixplayers - Troubadour (India)

“Troubadour” is an original collage voicing the beauty and truth of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s stories and verse. It is a celebration of love, transcending time and space with compassion, humor, and insight. It is also a heartfelt tribute to the original storytellers of yore – the ‘Tarabdaars’ who talked, danced, and sang about ‘the Beloved’, inviting the audience to revel in the true abandon of self-discovery.

The Phoenix Players, founded by Salim Ghouse, believes in portraying contemporary interpretations, thereby walking the path of tradition and modernity together. It has always approached theatre with a universal sensibility, making their performances enriching for the performers and audience alike.

Festival Area: Camp#7 (Folk Puppet)

WPAF07 - Folk Puppet, Mohammad Ali (Kabeerwala)

Pakistan’s rich heritage of puppetry dates back to the Mughal era when puppeteers regularly entertained at the court of Emperor Akbar, satirizing his lifestyle and those of his courtiers.

The performances of today include wooden puppets dressed in colorful costumes accompanied by songs derived from popular films that the crowds can easily relate to. Men operate the puppets and narrate their stories, while wo men sing, thereby providing the musical backdrop to the performance.

The folk puppeteers are like gypsies, wandering in groups from one place to another like nomads, performing for the public in whichever dialect is specific to the region they are traversing.

The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (RPTW) has persisted for years in providing a platform to folk artists in order to increase appreciation for their work and ensure the survival of Pakistan’s rich cultural heritage. One of RPTW’s main initiatives is to hold a puppet festival every March at the Museum of Puppetry.

Festival Area: Camp#5 (Puppet/Theatre)

Pro Rodopi Art Centre - Chick with a Trick

“Chick with a Trick” tells the story of a Hen who lays a bonbon instead of an egg. Panicked, the Hen goes to her friend, the Duck, the Doctor, and the King, but obsessed by their own troubles, they do not pay attention to her problem. Ultimately, the Hen convinces herself there is nothing wrong if one does something unusual, especially if it brings joy to people.

Pro Rodopi Art Centre is an independent cultural centre established by Petar Todorov and Desislava Mincheva, and based in Bostina, Bulgaria, it is result of experiences of artists from Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. “Chick with a Trick” was written, directed, and produced by Petar Todorov; costumes and puppets were designed by Hannah Schwarz; and choreography and performances were done by Desislava Mincheva.

Festival Area: Camp#7 (Folk Puppet)

WPAF07 - Folk Puppet, Mohammad Bashir

Pakistan’s rich heritage of puppetry dates back to the Mughal era when puppeteers regularly entertained at the court of Emperor Akbar, satirizing his lifestyle and those of his courtiers.

The performances of today include wooden puppets dressed in colorful costumes accompanied by songs derived from popular films that the crowds can easily relate to. Men operate the puppets and narrate their stories, while women sing, t hereby providing the musical backdrop to the performance.

The folk puppeteers are like gypsies, wandering in groups from one place to another like nomads, performing for the public in whichever dialect is specific to the region they are traversing.

The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (RPTW) has persisted for years in providing a platform to folk artists in order to increase appreciation for their work and ensure the survival of Pakistan’s rich cultural heritage. One of RPTW’s main initiatives is to hold a puppet festival every March at the Museum of Puppetry.

Festival Area: Camp#5 (Puppet/Theatre)

Lahore Arts Council - Assorted Puppet Skits

Festival Area: Camp#4(Puppet/Theatre)

Florian Feisal - Herzkasper

“The Heart - Kasper” is a modern hand puppet play about friendship and fear.  It combines elements of contemporary figure theater with the traditional techniques of the German “Kaspertheater” (similar to the English “Punch”, the French “Guiginiol” and the Italian “Pulchinella”).

The Thalia Theater Halle team has concentrated increasingly on theatre projects that are anchored in their region, that pick up on reality, that introduce new designs for society and promote discussions with the audience.  Thalia has a special predilection for testing out new, unusual spaces and places in the city – theatre in urban space.

Festival Area: Camp#5 (Puppet/Theatre)

Pakisan National Council of Arts

The World Performing Arts Festival organized by Rafi Peer brings the creme de la creme of performing arts of the whole world to Lahore - from puppet shows, dance events, music shows to clowneries, serious theater, Indian drama, films and much more! A detailed schedule is provided in the different sections of the Danka website. The complete programme on one page will be provided here for download soon.

ALHAMRA OPEN AIR:

22nd Nov = Folk Night
23rd Nov = World Music Night
24th Nov = Gh azal Night
25th Nov = Pop Night
26th Nov = World Music Night
27th Nov = Rock Night
28th Nov = World Music Night
29th Nov = Fusion Music Night
30th Nov = Devotional Music Night
1st Dec = Qawali Night
2nd Dec = Classical Night