All events are free and open for all (Except for Zia Mohyeddin and Shafqat Amanat

Ali Khan)

FRIDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2023

Hall 1 Hall 2 Gallery
6:00 – 7:00 pm 5:00 – 6:00 pm Exhibition Opening
‫اب تم ہی کہو کیا کرنا ہے‬
Guests to be Seated Guests to be Seated

4:00 pm

7:00 – 8:30 pm ‫چمن زادتم و از نک شاخسارتم‬

6:00 – 7:30 pm
For the bloom of one branch is what
‫بول‬ Play by Ajoka Theatre
َ
‫انی مانی دا ُسفنہ‬
we are. (Iqbal)
An Evening with Shafqat Interpretation of Iqbal’s Persian
Amanat Ali Khan Poetry into Siyah Mashq
Live Calligraphy Performance
(Shahabdullah Alamee)

Note: Please download latest copy of the schedule nearer to the festival as slight changes are expected.
 SATURDAY 18th FEBRUARY 2023
Time Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Adbi Baithak Exhibition Area
َ
Up, Close & Personal with Navid ‫اونچی رک ھیں لو‬ ‫پڑھ نے والوں کے نام‬
12:00 pm ‫شاقیا! رقص کونی رقص صیا کی صورت‬ Shahzad Keeping the Living Heritage Alive Muhabbat ki Sau Nazmain: Translation of
Dance Performance (FFT in collaboration with Farhad Humayun
12:45 pm Salima Hashmi, Danish Husain, Atul Pablo Naruda's 'Cien Sonnet De Amor' by
Foundation)
Lahore Grammar School (1A1 Branch) Tiwari Rehman Faris
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat Amjad Islam Amjad, Rehman Faris
(Mahtab Rashdi)
(Navid Shahzad)

َ ‫خواب کی ت یلی کے تیچھے‬

‫جنہیں ہم نے دنکھا‬ ‫شاز کی لے تیز کرو‬
1:00 pm
Contemporary Trends in the Literature ‫ پرس بعد انک بیٹی کی سرگوشیاں‬40 :‫کچھ ِدل نے کہا‬
Zehra Nigah in conversation with Dr Arfa (Instrumental Performances) for Children
1:45 pm Moneeza Hashmi, Nayyar Rubab
Zehra Piano (Asad Anees) Rakhshanda Naveed, Baela Raza Jamil,
(Sheeba Alam)
Flute (Akmal Qadri) Basarat Kazim, Musharaf Ali Farooqi
(Ayesha Jahanzeb)

‫آج تم ناد نے خساب آنے‬

Jadunama ‫خو میرا دیس ہے‬
2:00 pm Remembering Nayyara Noor
2:45 pm
Javed Akhtar in conversation with Adeel ‫داشیان گونی‬ Shehryar Zaidi, Arshad Mahmud, Khawaja
Daak to Lahore
Hashmi Amie Singh
Najam
(Arvinder Chamak)
(Amina Ali)
‫دھرنی کی ملکابیں‬
Women in Political Leadership: Past and The Other in the Mirror: Stories from India
3:00 pm and Pakistan
Preparation Time Present
3:45 pm Khawar Mumtaz, Fauzia Viqar, Huma Sehyr Mirza, Danish Husain
Price (Salima Hashmi) ‫اب تم ہی کہو کیا کرنا ہے‬
Laal Band Exhibition
(Mahtab Rashdi)

‫آج جانے کی ضد نہ کرو‬ ‫کدھرے نہ بییدناں وشاں‬

4:00 pm The Ornaments in our Music Nain Sukh, Prof. Zubair Ahmed, Shabana
4:45 pm A Tribute to Habib Wali Muhammad Yousaf Kerai & Muhammad Aizaz Sohail Abbas, Fazal Jutt, Ilyas Ghuman
(Rizwan Wali Muhammad)
(Sughra Sadaf)

‫ن‬ ‫ مرے مسافر‬،‫مرے ِدل‬

‫ہم بھی د ک ھیں گے‬
Pakistan Left Review - Then and Now
5:00 pm Travel through Pakistan Salima Hashmi, Ali Usman Qasmi,
Preparation Time An Evening of Poetry and Piano
5:45 pm Salman Rashid Ammar Ali Jan
(Adeel Hashmi and Asad Anees) (Ali Dayan Hasan)
(Wajahat Malik)

6:00 pm ‫آج نازار میں نانجوالں جلو‬ ‫قیض کا قیض‬ Workshop: Dance as a form of resistance
Faiz Saheb and Arshad Preparation Time Dramatic Reading
7:00 pm Farah Yasmeen Shaikh
(Young Artists Singing Faiz) )‫(عین ادب‬
‫سرمقیل‬
ِ
7:00 pm Qawali: Discussion and Performance
8:00 pm Salim Sabri & Wasim Sabri Qawals
(Huma Price)
‫خواب کی تیلی کے تیچھے‬ ‫ڈھول کی پرنگ‬
OUTDO Open Mic ‫اسیرتٹ پرفارمنس‬-‫صحت کارڈ‬
OR Alif Laila – Takhleeqi Bus 1:00 – 2:00 pm Drum Circle
2:00 – 2:30 pm
12:00 – 6:00 pm 3:00 – 5:00 pm
 SUNDAY 19th FEBRUARY 2023
Time Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Adbi Baithak Exhibition Area
ُ
‫سنو گپ شپ‬
Sach Gup: A Tribute to Shoaib Hashmi, Nayyara
‫یہاں سے شہر کو دنکھو‬ ‫پڑ ھ نے والوں کے نام‬
12:00 pm ‫شاقیا ! رقص کونی رقص صیا کی صورت‬ Noor, Farooq Qaiser Lahore: A City besieged and its artistic, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by
Navid Shahzad, Salima Hashmi, Maryam
architectural, and literary toll Muslim Women
Dance Performance Dr Arfa Sayeda, Kamran Lashari,
12:45 pm
Hasan, Abbas Shafi, Irfan Khoosat, Salman Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Joseph
Lahore Grammar School (JT) Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi
Shahid, Shehryar Zaidi Majchrowics
(Amina Ali) (Dr Osama Siddique)
(Arshad Mahmud)
The Politics of Economics in Pakistan: Spreading the Joy of Urdu across the
Talking Life ‫ رواتت اور نارنخ‬:‫داشیان گونی‬ An Alternative Perspective world through bilingual content
1:00 pm Danish Husain in conversation with Atul
Javed Akhtar Dr Ali Hasanain, Dr Hadia Majid, Dr Dr Arfa Zehra, Zarminae Ansari, Syed
1:45 pm (Adeel Hashmi) Tiwari Ikramul Haq Shamoon Hashmi
(1:00 - 1:30 pm) (Dr Haroon Sharif) (Qasim Jafri)

Female Representation in Pakistani ‫خو دل نہ گزرنی ہے رقم کرنے رہیں گے‬

Female Writers: From Classics to contemporary
Artists and Their Mentors
Cinema
2:00 pm
Sajal Ali, Sammiya Mumtaz, Sania Saeed, ‫داشیان گونی‬ (A Tribute to Bushra Rehman) Faiza Butt, Farida Batool, Wardha
2:45 pm Danish Husain Neelum Ahmed Bashir, Amna Mufti, Shabbir
Simi Raheal, Imran Abas
Nasir Abbas Nayyer (Sarah Pagganwala)
(Moneeza Hashmi)
(Sheeba Alam)
‫کچھ کہٹی ہے ہر راہ ہر اِ ک راہگزار سے‬
‫دعانے ِعشق‬ Rewriting the History: Punjabs @75 ‫مگدے نارے‬
‫اب تم ہی کہو کیا کرنا ہے‬
3:00 pm
Preparation time A Kathak Performance Prof. Munish Singh, Bobby Sachdeva, Sarwat Mohyuddin
3:45 pm
(Adnan Jahangir) Asma Hamid Awan, Dr Mazhar Abbas (Dr Shahida Dilawar Shah) Exhibition
(Arvinder Chamak)
‫زنداں نامہ‬
A session on the inauguration ‘Faiz Ahmed ‫ قیض اچمد قیض کی سوانح ِجیات‬:‫مہر ووفا کے ناب‬
4:00 pm Faiz Ward’ in Central Jail, Sahiwal Ali Madeeh Hashmi (Author), Nayyer
Preparation time Preparation time
4:45 pm Noor ul Hassan Bagela, Nasir Abbas Rubab (Translator), Haris Khalique
Nayyer, Dr Riaz Hamdani (Sheeba Alam)
(Moneeza Hashmi)
‫ان گنت ضدبوں کے نارنک یہیمانہ طلسم‬
Awadh and its influence on Cinema Civilizational context, politics, ideas of gender,
5:00 pm ‫انک شام قیض اچمد قیض کے نام‬ Preparation time
and Music and 'Zikr' ka Zikr justice & modern appeal of
Tilism- e-Hoshruba
5:45 pm (Zia Mohyeddin) Muzaffar Ali in conversation with Atul
Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Dr. Osama
Tiwari
Siddique
(Asghar Nadeem Syed)

6:00 pm ِ ‫رق‬
‫ص مے تیز کرو‬ The Evolution of Ghazal as a Genre of
Interactive Workshop
Preparation time A Kathak Performance Music
7:00 pm (Siobhan Lambert-Hurley)
(Farah Yasmeen Shaikh) (Ally Adnan)
Mushaira
Kishwar Naheed, Iftikhar Arif, Javed Akhtar, Be your own Protagonist: Explore
7:00 pm Pirzada Qasim, Anwar Shaoor, Khursheed Movement, Expression, and Performativity in
8:00 pm Rizvi, Amjad Islam Amjad, Abbas Tabish, our Theatrical Workshop
Yasmeen Hameed, Haris Khalique, Arvindar (Imran Nafees, Platform)
Chamak

‫خواب کی تیلی کے تیچھے‬ ‫خواب کی تیلی کے تیچھے‬ Open Mic ‫ڈھول کی پرنگ‬
OUTDOOR Alif Laila – Takhleeqi Bus A performance by Sanjan Nagar Students Drum Circle
2:00 – 3:00 pm
12:00 – 6:00 pm 1:00 – 2:00 pm 3:00 – 5:00 pm