Tag: Festival

The 64th edition of the Cannes film festival got under way on Wednesday with up-and-coming directors and Hollywood A-listers rubbing shoulders at the world's...

‘Huner-e-Hawwa’, the three-day festival organised to encourage women’s participation in practical life, continued to enthral people Saturday as they thronged the venue to entertain...

The Rafi Peer Theatre announced this year’s Mystic Sufi Festival 2011 on Tuesday. The show that will continue from 8pm till midnight will be...

KARACHI - The first 'Youth Theatre Festival' would be organised from April 27, Sindh Minister for Youth Affairs Faisal Ali Subzwari announced on Monday. Presiding over a meeting held at his office, the minister said that the two-day event would be organised in collaboration with the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi.
He further pointed out that the festival would help provide a platform to youngsters to display their talents and abilities. Sindh Youth Affairs Secretary Shoaib

LAHORE - Delegations from 21 universities, 19 local and five international, will attend the 4th Vasaakh documentary film festival being organised by Forman Christian College (FCC) Mass Communication Department from April 18 to 20.
Notable foreign universities have been invited to the festival, including University of Oslo, Norway, Delhi University, India, University of Bhopal, India and Katmandu University, Nepal. The festival will showcase student documentaries based on cultural

LAHORE - Gender Reform Action Plan (GRAP) Project Coordinator Hafiz Ilyas inaugurated the spring festival session to mark the Women's Year 2011 at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Thursday and said that gender equality was considered to be the vital concern in the process of development therefore investment in women's empowerment was the key to improve the economic, political and social conditions in Pakistan.
LCWU gender studies department organized the spring gala

LAHORE - An exciting line-up of 25 feature films will screen at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), the oldest and most prestigious Indian film festival in the US, including 15 world and US premieres.
Making its US premiere at the May 4 to May 8 festival in Manhattan will be Sudhir Mishra's acclaimed romantic crime drama 'Yeh Saali Zindagi' starring Irrfan Khan, the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) announced Tuesday. Legendary actress Shabana Azmi stars in the

LAHORE - Gender Reform Action Plan's (GRAP) Punjab chapter is holding a "Spring Festival" in Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Thursday (today) with Pakistan Today as its media partner. This festival is aimed at providing up-to-date knowledge to our future generation of efforts being made by Punjab government to address gender biases in the society and to develop alliances with the youth to take forward gender reforms.
PROFILE: GRAP has been working as a flagship

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Shopping Festival organised a cycle rally on Sunday, which provided Lahoris a maiden opportunity to watch around 100 cyclists race on city roads.
The rally started from the LCCI and culminated at the Lahore Expo Centre. Punjab Industries Secretary Dr Shujaat Ali was the chief guest while Guard Auto Zone Project Director Shehryar Ali Malik was the guest of honour. Ali said that the festival had given a new lease of life

ISLAMABAD - Besakhi - the colorful festival of Sikh minority is all set to be celebrated from Tuesday (April 12) with participation of around 13000 Sikh Yatrees from home and abroad, mainly India.
The joyful festival lift up spirits of Sikh community and add colors to their lives showing their dedication for the religion. The Sikh new year begins with the festival of Besakhi which also marks the founding of Khalsa Panth as the Sikh Yatrees will perform centuries old Besakhi

LAHORE - PESSI secured the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry Polo title and Guard Group got third place in the tournament organised by the LCCI to celebrate the spring festival at the Lahore Polo Club here on Sunday.
PESSI beat Newage Cables 9-6 for the title while Guard Group defeated Colony Sugar/Diamond Paints 9-4 in the subsidiary final. Mian Hamza Shahbaz, MNA, was the chief guest and distributed the prizes to the winners. It was a team effort from PESSI. The winners

LAHORE - A drama was presented at the Government College University (GCU), Lahore on Friday which revolved around antics of 'spiritual quacks', who were seen as a large source of social evils in society. The drama was performed at the Performing Arts Festival organised by the GCU Psychology Department. Around 16 universities and colleges took part in the festival and staged mimes and dramas on the themes of 'Sufism', 'Religion and Psychology' and 'Human Nature'. The plots of most

LAHORE - Punjab University Institute of Business & Information Technology (IBIT) on organized a colourful spring festival full of festivities and cheers at the Institute lawn. The students staged various types of stalls, which charmed Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, IBIT Director Dr Mansoor Sarwar, RO-I Javed Sami and other faculty members on their visits to the gala. Participants were captivated by the performances and gestures of the students, who set up

LONDON - The 2011 edition of the Edinburgh International Festival will be a celebration of "vibrant and diverse" Asian culture, from traditional Indian music to a Chinese adaptation of Shakespeare, organisers said Wednesday. The festival, one of several that take place in the Scottish capital each summer and which together form the biggest cultural event in the world, will present three weeks of music, dance, theatre, and opera from August 12. This year's international festival is "an

LAHORE - Taliban kidnapped 24 tribesmen and also took away 15 vehicles from a festival in Kurram Agency on Tuesday while another four people were whisked away in a similar fashion from the same area, reported a private TV channel.
The incident has been reported from the Baggan area of Lower Kurram where militants attacked the weekly festival and shifted the tribesmen to their hideout in the central parts of the agency. Sources claimed that the rebels belonged to the Sattar group

BUCHAREST - The One World human rights film festival kicked off in Bucharest Thursday offering 37 documentaries promising to tackle sometimes prickly issues under the theme "What a wonderful world?!". Alongside the showings at the six-day festival in the Romanian capital will be debates on its main themes with surprise 2010 Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, the ecologist ex-mayor of Bogota, a star guest.
The event is sorted into the categories "What would you do

KARACHI - A rally was organised on Saturday in connection with the 'Hamara Karachi' festival. Small rallies from all 18 towns of the city converged into one at the Mazar-e-Quaid. Former city naib nazim and president of the Hamara Karachi Foundation, Nasreen Jalil, addressed the gathering. She said on the occasion that Karachi is the city of all and concerted efforts would have to be made for its progress and development.
Jalil said that everyone should work towards making Karachi