Promoting Art: PC-1 of cultural academy reviewed

Academy would comprise of a 150 person-capacity hall, 11 classrooms, two dressing rooms and a display area.

PESHAWAR:


A meeting was held on Tuesday to review the design and PC-I of the proposed Jabran Adeel Cultural Academy in Peshawar. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Culture and Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the proposed academy would give our artists access to national as well as international markets.


The minister said that the Culture Department has signed an MoU with Bacha Khan Educational Trust. He also stated that the K-P government has launched a traditional loan scheme for local artists, in the first phase of which artists hailing from Peshawar and Malakand Division would be given loans. The same facility would gradually be extended to the entire province.


The multi-purpose academy will be used for training artisans and would comprise of a 150 person-capacity hall, 11 classrooms, two dressing rooms and a display area.

Hussain said that the K-P government has decided to produce documentaries and stage dramas on the life and achievements of important personalities, with the first such documentary being on the life of the great Pashto poet Rehman Baba.



Published in The Express Tribune, September 7th, 2011.
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