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. ...
On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, the Aga Khan Museum proudly presented the Lapis Ball & Digital Benefit: The Art of Transformation. A celebration of how the Museum harnesses the power of art to broaden perspectives, foster connections, and change lives, the event was enjoyed by more than 250 guests at the Aga Khan Museum, and thousands more online from around the world. Through the ...
This digital work, presented to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is a collaboration between Indigenous artist Darlene Gijuminag and Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Imran Babur. After the Aga Khan Museum's virtual Music for a New Day project brought Gijuminag and Babur together in 2020, the artists were invited to hold space in the Museum in 2021 for the first National Day for ...
Tune in live from the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, for the 2022 Lapis Ball & Digital Benefit: The Art of Transformation. The event will bring together the best of our in-person and digital offerings to highlight the Museum's incredible impact on individuals and communities both locally and globally. We look forward to sharing how we have harnessed the power of art ...
Imagine creating patterns that bring life to the interior and exterior of buildings. Using the painting of Shahnameh from the Museum's Collection as inspiration, what new patterns and shapes can you think of creating? Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how you can support the Museum ...
This week, let's think about geometry and learn how to bring it into our art. Using pieces from the Museum's collection as inspiration, take a look at this video to learn how you can draw and decorate an eight pointed star through the principles of geometry. Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote ...
With the arrival of spring, you can build your own Persian garden with all the flowers, plants and animals that you love, using The Museum's Wagner Garden Carpet as inspiration. For more #MuseumWithoutWalls activities for kids, go to . Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how you ...
What is in your universe? What is part of your world and what do you think is around us far out in space? This Family Sunday activity challenges us to think about our place in the world and the universe at large. For more #MuseumWithoutWalls activities for kids, go to Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to ...
Using eL Seed's majestic art display at the Aga Khan Museum as inspiration, see if your friends and family can guess the secret word or message that you choose to hide within your own art! Grab some art supplies, watch the video and have fun! Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between ...
Misha Euceph is the host of the podcast Tell Them, I Am and CEO of Dustlight Productions. Tell Them, I Am features major Muslim celebrities telling stories of little moments that changed their lives. She talks about her rise to podcast fame, her struggle to gain ownership over her show, and making the Quran more accessible. You can watch her Quran Book Club ...
As the founder of the popular online community Muslim Mamas, Nargis Jahan-Uddin has a front row seat to the ongoing interests and concerns of Muslim mothers. She gives us a look into the contemporary online world of Muslim motherhood, and talks about her own journey from an impoverished neighbourhood of London, to creating this growing online community, which now includes a lifestyle website ...
Tasneem Alsultan is a photographer based in Saudi Arabia. Her work has documented major changes in Saudi culture for The New York Times, National Geographic and others. But she also captures the more ordinary aspects of life. She won first prize in the 2017 World Photography Organisation Awards for Saudi Tales of Loves, a series showcasing love stories of all kinds, from ...
Ian Whiteman was a fixture of the 60's UK music scene and member of the cult classic bands Mighty Baby and The Habibiyya. He reflects on the early early days of psychedelic rock, and talks about how Islam became a major part of that scene, leading to his own conversion and his friendship with Yusuf Islam, A.K.A. Cat Stevens. His latest album ...
Marina Tabassum is an acclaimed Bangladeshi architect whose work includes Bangladesh's underground Museum of Independence and the award-winning Bait Ur Rouf Mosque. She talks about working with local materials, the rich landscape of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, and why she designed $200 mobile houses to address climate change. Marina Tabassum is the founder of Marina Tabassum Architects and the academic director of the ...
Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese political cartoonist, who publishes cartoons online under the name Khartoon! as well as in galleries and publications around the world. He talks about how Superman shaped his worldview, the dangers of his work, and why he's trying to change his relationship with the internet. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Roni Helou is a rising star from Lebanon's fashion scene. The young designer talks about making fashion with a message, why he staged a photoshoot on a mountain of garbage, and surviving the explosion that devastated Beirut in 2020. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Hamid Dabashi calls himself "the first Muslim intellectual." He is the author of more than twenty books, a consultant on major Hollywood films, a curator and juror of film festivals, and a professor of Iranian Studies and comparative literature at Columbia University. He talks about how an early love of Indian musicals, his mother's poetry and travelling storytellers led him towards a life ...
Journey behind-the-scenes at the Aga Khan Museum in part four of the Making an Exhibition series as the team prepares to open our newest exhibition: Image? The Power of the Visual. The pressure is on as the team works hard to bring the exhibition to life just in time for opening day. Learn about how the Museum engages and interacts with visitors in ...
"Healing Rhythms" is a four-part series marking Black History Month and the rich cultural diversity of Toronto. Across the series, you will be introduced to several teachers and musicians -- including the Moneka family -- who share their rhythms and songs that celebrate family and community. In the last episode of the series, enjoy songs from the fourth mood, Simba, and learn about ...
Journey behind-the-scenes at the Aga Khan Museum in part three of the Making an Exhibition series as the team prepares to open our newest exhibition: Image? The Power of the Visual. Get a sneak-peek into the final few weeks leading up to the opening as the Aga Khan Museum begins to welcome loan objects from all over the world. Learn about the acclimatization ...
Journey behind-the-scenes at the Aga Khan Museum in part two of the Making an Exhibition series as the team prepares to open our newest exhibition: Image? The Power of the Visual. With the exhibition approaching quickly, watch paper conservator, Laura Fedynyszyn as she prepares and repairs crucial exhibition pieces, and learn about how installation project manager, Simon Barron designs and builds custom mounts ...
"Healing Rhythms" is a four-part series marking Black History Month and the rich cultural diversity of Toronto. Across the series, you will be introduced to several teachers and musicians -- including the Moneka family -- who share their rhythms and songs that celebrate family and community. In the third episode of the series, the Moneka family introduces viewers to the third mood, titled ...
Journey behind-the-scenes at the Aga Khan Museum in part one of the Making an Exhibition series as the team prepares to open our newest exhibition: Image? The Power of the Visual. Hear from Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis, Aga Khan Museum CEO & Director, about suspending 275,000 photos from the gallery ceiling; enter the temperature-controlled vault to learn about the microclimates that allow centuries-old objects ...
"Healing Rhythms" is a four-part series marking Black History Month and the rich cultural diversity of Toronto. Across the series, you will be introduced to several teachers and musicians -- including the Moneka family -- who share their rhythms and songs that celebrate family and community. In the second episode of the series, the Moneka family introduces viewers to the second mood, titled ...
In honour of Black History Month, this Curator's Pick delivered by Aga Khan Museum Curator Dr. Michael Chagnon highlights Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE -- a monumental LEGO® sculpture acquired by the Museum in 2021. Created by Toronto-based Ghanaian-Canadian Ekow Nimako, Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE is an Afrofuturistic reimagining of the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Ghana. Made up of approximately 100,000+ LEGO® ...
"Healing Rhythms" is a four-part series marking Black History Month and the rich cultural diversity of Toronto. Across the series you will be introduced to several teachers and musicians -- including the Moneka family -- who share their rhythms and songs that celebrate family and community. In episode 1, you are introduced to the Moneka family and their journey from Mombasa to Basra ...
In honour of Black History Month, this Curator's Pick delivered by Aga Khan Museum Curator Dr. Michael Chagnon highlights a recently acquired monumental LEGO® sculpture in the Aga Khan Museum's Permanent Collection. Created by Toronto-based Ghanaian-Canadian Ekow Nimako, Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE is an Afrofuturistic reimagining of the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Ghana. Made up of approximately 100,000+ LEGO® pieces, Kumbi ...
This piano composition by contemporary multi-instrumentalist Afraaz Mulji is inspired by a 16th-century music manuscript in the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The manuscript, now in the collection of Western University in Ontario, was originally owned by a monastery in Spain and used for communal singing in the choir. Mulji performs his original ...
Join Hidden Stories co-curator Dr. Suzanne Conklin Akbari on an artistic exploration of the adventures and enduring legend of Alexander the Great -- recorded on December 09, 2021. The Museum exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads includes a glimpse into the enthralling life of Alexander the Great. Known in the Islamic world under the names Iskandar, in Arabic, or Eskandar, in ...
Discover the back story behind Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads with an enthralling talk featuring the leader of the Toronto-based research team whose cutting-edge work made the exhibition possible. Dr. Alexandra Gillespie delves into the deep explorations and important discoveries of the University of Toronto's Mellon Foundation-funded Books and the Silks Roads project. In her Lunchtime Lecture from October 28, 2021, ...
Discover the back story behind Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads with an enthralling talk featuring the leader of the Toronto-based research team whose cutting-edge work made the exhibition possible. Dr. Alexandra Gillespie delves into the deep explorations and important discoveries of the University of Toronto's Mellon Foundation-funded Books and the Silks Roads project. In her Lunchtime Lecture from October 28, 2021, ...
Nature is full of sounds. Outdoors in winters, we can often hear the howling of the wind, the cracking of ice and the creaking of trees weighed down by snow. We can also make the snow crunch under our boots and our stick tap against frozen ponds. What other sounds of nature can we hear and make? Find out through this family ...
Look for messages hidden within eye-catching patterns in the latest Peer Perspective video for the #MuseumWithoutWalls. In this instalment, Dr. Christiane Gruber, a professor of Islamic art at the University of Michigan, helps decode a 19th-century Iranian "talismanic chart" in the Aga Khan Museum's Collection. Viewed from a middle distance, this piece's colourful and richly detailed geometric patterns dazzle the eye. Studied more closely, ...
Through select objects in the Aga Khan Museum's Collection, Director and CEO Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis takes viewers on a journey through the Museum, exploring the many practical and spiritual dimensions of light. This session, part of the YMCA-Aga Khan Museum Mindfulness and Education series, was recorded on January 19, 2022. More about the YMCA of Greater Toronto-Aga Khan Museum Mindfulness and Education Sessions: Bringing ...
