Exchange of ideas: Storytelling plan kicks off
A male annals his story during a storytelling counter in Lahore. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE: An audio visible storytelling plan called Stories We Tell – Ao Sunayen Kahaani was inaugurated during a Alhamra Art Gallery on Friday.
Aimed during formulating an open space for everybody to pronounce out and make a routine of story pity some-more inclusive, a plan was exhibited as a partial of a four-day City in Context symposium.
The audio visible plan was carried out by a School of Visual Art and Design during Beaconhouse National University in partnership with Lahore Biennale Foundation University and Centre for Culture and Development.
Project executive and curator Rashid Rana pronounced twelve storytelling booths made like rickshaws were placed around a city for several months. The purpose was to record and disseminate stories and conversations.
People listened to a story or digression on a interactive recording shade in a storytelling counter and available their possess response.
Rashid pronounced a defining monthly theme, encapsulating a sold aspect of Lahore’s bland life, was used as a trigger account for contention and charge sessions.
He combined sessions patrician ‘artSPEAK’ were also organised to concentration on themes rising from a project, mouth-watering academics and thinkers to minister to a disussion.
He maintained, “With open spaces apropos some-more and some-more stratified and co-opted by specific classes, communication between classes has turn minimal and many of it happens in a space where a energy and category dynamics dictate.”
The plan executive pronounced a beginning would not finish there as a website, featuring available conversations from a project, will work for a subsequent dual years.
According to one of a group members, Komal Naz, during slightest 8,000 available conversations were categorised and tagged into sixteen emergent themes by a team’s video calm specialist. “Out of these, 100 engaging narratives were after shortlisted,” she said.
“If we see closely, we wuill realize that any story is connected to someone else’s story and we turn a partial of hundred other stories while vital a own. These 100 stories are not usually stories of 100 people, though they are a thoughtfulness of thousands who are interlinked by them,” Naz added.
Another group member, Rabiya Jalil, pronounced a 8 month plan was a approach to revitalise a historic, informal and inland form of storytelling as a process for sell of ideas.
She pronounced themes and topics that emerged as a outcome of these conversations were formed on gender, language, religion, prejudice, food, festivals, education, novel and films. Jalil pronounced a information gave approach to an bargain of how people responded to a practical or hyper reality, while origination connectors with digital interface.
According to Jalil, Stories We Tell – Ao Sunayen Kahaani not usually facilitated communication opposite communities, it also highlighted a significance of seeking a right kind of questions to figure learning, to rise suggestive narratives and to revitalise approved structures of believe creation.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 3rd, 2016.
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