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Issue #02 01/2025
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The Little Art's Monthly Newsletter
 
 
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The Diplomat Features The Little Art

Shoaib Iqbal, the founder of The Little Art is featured in prestigious The Diplomat, a Tokyo based premier international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region.

 
Pakistan: A Revolution in the Arts?

Shoaib Iqbal is working with Pakistani schools to encourage the use of the arts in children’s education.

Read the complete story here.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/08/pakistan-a-revolution-in-the-arts/

 
 
"We’re promoting that art allows you to be imaginative, no matter what you do in the future you’ll end up being creative in any field you get into. A creative doctor, a creative professional, a creative banker!” Shoaib Iqbal, TLA Founder
 
 
 
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Developing CutPutli

We are developing a book, "Cut Putli", more like an instructional hands-on manual to make puppets from a junk and common materials. We did the studio shoot at The Little Art to take images for the book and record videos. More

 
 
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Hands-on Puppetry Workshop - Islamabad

The Little Art in collaboration with Group Development Pakistan conducted a 15-day puppetry workshop for teachers, caregivers and psychologists to use puppetry in working with children in vulnerable situations. More

 
 
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Hands-on Puppetry Workshop with Caregivers, Psychologists & Teachers

Making Puppets | Writing Stories | Playing the Show
A 15-day puppetry workshop with caregivers of Vision working with street & trafficked children in Murree, to us puppetry in informal education More

 
 
 
 
Our work in puppetry is multi-layered. We are developing instructional books and videos for children so they can make puppet with easy materials, training teachers on how to use puppetry in classroom to engage children, and working with caregivers and psychologists to use it in informal education to teach street and marginalized children.
 
 
 
Signs MoU with BNU to raise awareness of RTI Act

The Little Art sings an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore, one of the most prominent public sector university in Pakistan, for raising awareness on the Right to Information Act (RTI) Punjab among young people through artistic means such as paintings and short films. The project was implemented in Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan. 

 
RTI Workshop with Youth Parliament, Lahore

The Little Art held a Right to Information (RTI) Act workshop with Youth Parliament on 28th May, holding discussions and dialogue with the Chairman, Abrar-Ul-Haq and the staff of Youth Parliament. Many important concerns from the participants on the role and implantation of the law was raised and the importance of Punjab RTI was brought into focus.

 
 
 
Summer Workshops with Government Schools
 
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Using Visual Arts in Teaching (Workshop with Govt School Teacher)

TLA collaborated with Progressive Education Network (PEN) and organized two-day workshop of art and craft for teacher of Govt. schools in Lahore. The workshop focused on using visual arts as a teaching aid to engage children. More

 
Photography & Visual Aesthetics Workshops with Children and Young People

 The Little Art in Collaboration with The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP) conducted two photography workshops for the children and young people of The Citizens Foundation - TCF and Sanjan Nagar Trust School Lahore. More

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Visual Art Workshops with Govt. Primary School Kids

As a part of our Summer Workshops with Government School Kids, a series of visual art workshops were conducted in two primary schools in Lahore. Nearly 63 children participated in the summer workshops.

 
Empowering Young Girls With Creative Expression

Empowering young girls is central to our mission. As part of Summer Camp, we conducted one workshop of creative expression using visual arts with young girls in Govt. High School, Ferozpur Road, Lahore.

 
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Visiting Isfahan

Two young people from Pakistan are part of international jury with Isfahan International Children's Film Festival 2014. They will be visiting the Festival next month with TLA delegate.

 
Young Artists to Sharjah

We are sending the nominations of young artists to Sharjah Art Biennial to participate this year. The nominations are of those children who are selected through ArtBeat - National Child Art Competition and Exhibitions.

 
6th LICFF is ready!

We are finalizing the dates of our Lahore International Children's Film Festival now, and will be holding the events in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad this year. Stay tuned for the big announcements!

 
ArtBeat 2014 Exhibitions

The lineup of our wonderful ArtBeat 2014 exhibition is also ready. We have selected the artworks, conducted the Studio RM residency in summers and now moving forward with the exhibitions. The dates will be announced soon. 

Support us with donations, in-kind or by sharing our stories

You can support us by giving donations that we will use to reach out to marginalized children and youth in Pakistan. We appreciate in-kind support very much, which means supporting us with books, goods, means of transport, art materials, food supplies etc. We also do not mind if you share our stories on social media.:)

 

 
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