Meet the NEW Global Encounters, a new institution established by Mawlana Hazar Imam. Global Encounters brings together the Jamat through international flagship programmes in sports, arts, cultural heritage, talent, and youth development, all under one institution. Click the link in the bio to read more #GlobalEncounters #OneJamat #GE ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. Join Amirali Alibhai, Head of Performing Arts at the Aga Khan Museum, as he sits down with Bageshree Vaze, Artistic Director of ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. An exploration of this majestic 14-beat rhythmic cycle, highlighting the crucial role of Tabla drum language in Kathak dance. The first half ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. With lyrics that are rhythmic in nature, the Tarana is a fantasy of movement. In South Indian dance, a tarana is known ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. This piece evokes emotional responses in both the performer and the audience by enacting the Navarasas -- imagining them as emotions ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. This piece brings to life the grandeur of the Lucknow courts, where classical dance and music were performed prior to 1858, ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. This Tarana is composed in a 20th-century raga, or melody, which is a combination of Ragas Kalavati and Rageshree. The choreography ...
Co-produced by the Aga Khan Museum and Toronto-based dance company Pratibha Arts, Tarana is a video project focused on engaging audiences with South Asian dance while equipping viewers with educational tools to further the awareness and appreciation of the Kathak tradition. This Tarana evokes a sombre, mystical quality in its composition and choreography and celebrates the Sufi and Islamic influences in Kathak dance. ...
Here is a story of Champalal, a farmer from Khedi Village, Barwani, Madhya Pradesh who has grown Micro-Forest in his farm with the support of AKRSP-India. ...
Ismaili Center Houston: Construction Progress January 2023 ...
"We must do a better job of training #leaders and shaping institutions to meet more demanding tests of competence and higher standards of excellence. This means moving beyond the notion that better #education simply means broader schooling -- wider access to formal learning. We must accompany our concern for quantity with a heightened concern for quality. Are the #curricula we teach relevant ...
QoL is back! The Council for India will shortly be launching the QoL assessment for 2023. Participate in QoL. Help us Build a Stronger Jamat. ...
On 12 October 2009, at the Opening Ceremony of the Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke about diversity being a gift. #AgaKhan #Ismaili #Dushanbe #IsmailiCentre ...
Designed by teachers at Ziyamidin Karimbekov school in Chon Alay, Kyrgyzstan, the Future Learning Centre is a reading room, set up by teachers there for students to enjoy a variety of books. The books are selected by the teachers to provide a selection of different age-appropriate stories, and includes both fiction and non-fiction. The students have time scheduled into their days to ...
"This is the power of Canadian #pluralism - that it enables people of diverse backgrounds to come together in joint and common effort to improve the quality of life of all. And it is the reason that His Highness, in partnership with the Government of #Canada, chose to establish the Global Centre for Pluralism in this country. We live in a world ...
We're so excited to feature these AKF Youth Ambassadors and hear how they are inspired by AKF's global work to become future leaders! ...
On 29 October 2022, at the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony in Muscat, Oman, Prince Amyn Aga Khan spoke about the importance of the creation of new music. @AgaKhanMusic #AgaKhan #Ismaili #AgaKhanMusic #MusicAwards ...
"Over the longer term, the Graduate School of Media and Communication will ally itself with another new project of the Aga Khan University - a Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to be created over the coming years in Arusha. In a world of growing complexity, journalists must increasingly understand the substantive, sophisticated dimensions of the fields on which they report - from ...
Onno Rühl, General Manager of the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, recalls the early days of the agency and its current aims. ...
In February 2022, Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School, the Aga Khan Music Programme's education partner in Cairo, hosted students and professors from Geneva's Haute école de musique (HEM) for a week of workshops and master classes focused on wind instruments and percussion. HEM, Haute école de musique in Geneva and its Oriental Ensemble have developed a partnership with the Aga Khan ...
On 16 December 2016, in Aiglemont, France, Mawlana Hazar Imam's 80th birthday was celebrated by the Jamati and institutional leaders, and members of his family. Watch his full speech at #AgaKhan #Ismaili ...
""Mountain peoples, in particular, have endured economic hardship, civil strife, arms and narcotics trafficking, an insecure food supply, earthquakes, water shortages -- the list could go on. But overcoming these problems will require a searching re-examination of what poverty really means... we are experimenting with innovative microcredit programs -- especially for the rural poor -- as well as with local efforts to ...
Teachers at Tugol uulu Usupbek school in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, discuss their innovative idea for improving mathematics and digital literacy in primary grade students, the Young Architects Club. ...
"First amongst the challenges and risks that face humanity today is the climate emergency in all its dimensions... The climate adaptation model developed by the Climate Action Secretariat of British Columbia will be used by the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat to assess long-term risks and opportunities in the high mountains of South and Central Asia. The goal is to help communities, some ...
"For many years now, His Highness has looked to Canada as a model of pluralism - one that is ever more critical, more urgently needed, in our increasingly divisive and fragmented world. It is this very commitment to understanding the other that has infused the initiatives surrounding us. This Ismaili Centre, the Aga Khan Museum next door, and the Aga Khan Park bridging the ...
Check out these three AKF superheroes and hear why the are committed to volunteering! ...
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture's rehabilitation of the baolis at the Qutb Shahi Tombs won the 2022 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award of Distinction. Rainwater collected by the restored stepwells facilitated the replanting of the historic gardens, and provides irrigation and conservation of the wider site. #aktc #akdn #QutbShahiTombs @UNESCO @agakhanmusic ...
Find out about how the @agakhanmusic and Awards originated, with this film featuring their director, Fairouz Nishanova: "When we were building the #Music Programme, His Highness would never miss a live performance... That willingness to recognise how much #music does for a #community, for a society, that to me is unprecedented." #AKMP #akdn ...
In October 2022, two young musicians and arts managers from Kyrgyzstan traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Worldwide Music Expo (WOMEX). Their visit was organised by the Aga Khan Music Programme as part of its long-term support for arts education and tradition-based musical innovation in Central Asia. In addition to attending showcases of artists from all continents and visiting the professional ...
Rural Youth getting employment opportunity through Yuva Junction, a youth development initiative. ...
The video highlights the enterprise support work done by AKRSP-India under youth development initiative. ...
Empathy is a commonly used but mostly misunderstood concept. This session talks about different shades of empathy, its significance for oneself and others, and its possibility in today's world. ...
Learn more about the Aga Khan Music Programme and the Aga Khan Music Awards in the latest edition of "In Conversation", where we hear from Fairouz Nishanova, Director of the Music Programme, about Mawlana Hazar Imam's vision behind the inception of this initiative. Visit to watch today! @akdn @agakhanmusic ...
The foundation laying ceremony of the Aga Hall Estate residential project was performed on 31st January 2023 by its general contractor Leighton in the presence of the project team. Aga Hall Estate is an urban regeneration project by AKDN that comprises of two Residential Towers with modern amenities, landscaped gardens, a new Jamatkhana, a state-of-the-art hospital, and an international school. For more information ...
In this virtual seminar, we deep dive into findings alongside our cohort of 2021-23 Research Partners, as well as many of our ket Aga Khan Foundation staff, and our external assessment and learning partners. ...
The session will explore different philosophical perspectives of human nature which influence the behaviours and conducts of human beings in society. ...
