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FIVE women from the district are to be part of a pioneering international project. They will join with five women from Pakistan to curate and deliver a weekend of digital literature festival events in November. ‘From Keighley To Karachi’ is part of a collaboration between Bradford Literature Festival and Adab Festival in Pakistan. It is backed by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund. Adab Festival was formed in 2019 to showcase Pakistan’s historically rich and diverse literature and cultures against a backdrop of “continuing challenges, stifled expression and stereotypes”. Organisers say From Keighley to Karachi will bring together women from diverse and disadvantaged communities, in Bradford district and across Pakistan, who face a range of barriers – from gender-based to economic.
Karachi
February 7, 2021
To promote learning during the pandemic, the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF), a programme of civil society organisation Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), will host the Pakistan Learning Festival (PLF) from February 8 to 10, 2021, with the collaboration of the British Council Pakistan, Children Library Complex (CLC), Oxford University Press (OUP) Pakistan, Room to Read and National History Museum (NHM).
The PLF 2021 will be a hybrid festival of learning with a few students and teachers present on site and mostly attending it online from across Pakistan and beyond.
According to a statement issued, the programme for the PLF 2021 would cater to all segments of society, including students, teachers, parents and families. Over a 100 sessions have been planned for the three-day learning festival with around 76 resource persons from Pakistan, Nepal, United Kingdom and United States.
BRADFORD’S creatives are set to break boundaries with “the brave, pioneering and struggling artists and writers” of Pakistan in a new international project. Tittled From Keighley To Karachi , the group of ten women - five from the district and five from Pakistan - will curate and deliver a weekend of digital literature festival events for public audiences in November. It is part of a collaboration between Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) and Adab Festival in Pakistan and backed by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund. Adaab Festival was formed in 2019 to showcase Pakistan’s historically rich and diverse literature and cultures in light of continuing challenges, stifled expression and stereotypes.