Punjab
Rut Festival
Inauguration
of Projects
Al-Sehar
Foundation in collaboration with Punjab Council of Arts is organizing
2-day Punjab Rut festival at Bagh-e-Jinnah in Autumn 2007. More than 20
artists of Al-Sehar will be featured in the two successive nights. Performances
will include. Expand
Al-Sehar
Foundation has planned to inaugurate its vocational center and classical
music academy projects during the upcoming Punjab Rut festival. Al-Sehar
in partnership with France Libertes Paris started these projects. Expand
Seminar
on Developmental Problems
Documentary
Project
Al-Sehar Foundation is
doing preparatory activities for the organization of a 1-day seminar at
Lahore Press Club on developmental problems of Shahi Mohalla. Expected
participants will include community members. Expand
Al-Sehar Foundation facilitated
Center for Research, Communication, and Dialogue (CRCD) Islamabad and
JIGSAW Company Paris in the recording of a 52’ minutes documentary on
traditional musicians and dancers of Lahore. Expand
General
Body Meeting of Al-Sehar
Executive
Body of Al-Sehar (2006-08)
Annual general
body meeting of Al-Sehar Foundation will be held in the first week of
July. Foundation members will get de-briefing on last one years activities
and progress made during that period. They will give suggestions and feedback
in planning next one year activities of the foundation. Expand
Al-Sehar
Foundation will announce its executive body for the year 2006-08 in the
forthcoming general body meeting. A selection board has been formed by
the board of trustees to review the performance of executive body members
and nominate members for the next two years. Expand
Al-Sehar’s
Upcoming Charity Shows
Non-Formal
Centers Lack Infrastructure and Facilities
Al-Sehar
Foundation has planned to organize a series of charity shows within and
outside the country. Charity fund will be used for the welfare and development
of marginalized and poorest communities of Old Lahore. Foundation has
currently a data base of more then 60 renowned and emerging artists in
classical music, dance and folk/sufi singing. Expand
Centers’ teachers in
a recent meeting (June 1st 2006) with Al-Sehar’s executive body members
demanded urgent action on the provision of necessarily required facilities
for more then 120 enrolled children. Six centers were established in teachers’
houses who gave space on volunteer basis. Expand
Al-Sehar
Demand Urgent Action by Women Ministry
Concerns over Human
Rights Violations in Shahi Mohalla
Al-Sehar
Foundation, during a local community meeting, passed a resolution asking
for urgent actions from women ministry and women rights organizations
regarding the multifarious problems of prostitutes’ communities and rising
flesh trade activities all across the country. Expand
Zulfiqar
Haidree (Founder President) expressed deep concerns over the gross violation
of human rights in Shahi Mohalla. While attending a seminar at Islamabad,
he told that Shahi Mohalla community is deprived of basic human and development
rights. They are facing harassment, violence, and injustice from the hands
of law enforcing agencies and criminal elements. Expand