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Culture Central, in partnership with the British Council and Arts Council England and 10 Birmingham-based cultural organisations, is going to organise an event styled as ‘Transforming Narratives Mela & Symposium’ from March 19-21 to celebrate contemporary arts and culture.
Transforming Narratives is an international programme designed to support creative and cultural practitioners and cultural organisations in Birmingham and engage in a cultural and creative exchange with artists and organisations in cities in Pakistan and Bangladesh, British Council said in a statement.
This will be a three-day online festival where new works including new art, music, and film of the artists from Birmingham, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will be showcased along with critical discussion and reflections. Interested people can pre-book their tickets at www.transformingnarratives.com. For those who can’t join the full festival, the Mela will be live-streamed on Transforming Narratives’ YouTube and Facebook channels.
According to the statement, there will be three simultaneous programmes over three days to experience for the participants. There will be a Mela where Dhaka Say Karachi Chapter Two, a film telling the parallel stories of Bangladesh capital Dhaka and Karachi in Pakistan, led by Ahsan Bari of Pakistan in collaboration with Sheikh Dina of Bangladesh, and Dear ... Kindest, a film exploring personal feelings of home, belonging and identity created by Shehzad Chowdhury in Bangladesh in collaboration with Mahtab Hussain in Birmingham, will be screened.
In the symposium, there will be critical talks and debates, investigating how local infrastructure shapes global conversations in the arts to the importance of self-organised groups and initiatives within the art infrastructure.
