2015 was a year of great challenges for us at The Little art. We saw a gradual expansion of our programs but also faced a challenge to respond to that growth. Working with more children and reaching out to larger audiences is great, if it allows us to maintain an inspired connection to our audience, children and youth.

Every year there is a new hope, a new lesson and a new beginning. Every year, we have new films for children, new art works that we curate and exhibit, new audiences and new stories of inspiration. We have new lessons to learn every year as well.

While creating the most exciting arts based opportunities and Festival for children and youth, we believe that we are working towards changing the culture and the narrative of arts in Pakistan. Children will grow up to become active citizens of Pakistan, and few of them might also become artists. Dreams that we have of a peaceful creative society might also become the dream of our children.

Knowledge and expression are essential parts of education. This is also where our impact lies, to celebrate experiences that changes children to become confident and expressive, those who can dream big and gain courage to achieve in their future lives.

While a short look back in the video that how we did in 2014/2015, lets' hope for a peaceful, creative 2016!

Team
The Little Art

We had a 4-days of retreat to share stories and ideas, learn skills from each other such as communication design, photography and storytelling and talk about leadership and resilience as an organization. We identified gaps in our programs, and talked about how we can fix it in the next editions. We also refined our new initiatives that we are launching in 2016.

Some members of our team also had various achievements, our Founder and Director Shoaib Iqbal was an Acumen Pakistan 2015 Fellow and spent a great learning year, Manager Programs Sahar Uzair Ahmad got scholarship for Professional MA Arts Education at BNU and created this art installation, Social Media Manager Umair Mushtaq was selected for a year long capacity development Youth Program with Women Deliver, IT Manager Zubair Mushtaq won a scholarships to study MA in Social Innovation in Digital Context.

Read from Acumen Blog:
The Art of Learning - How an Acumen Fellow is Empowering Pakistan's Children Through the Arts

We are thankful to our partners, supporters and collaborators. It was not possible without their kind support.