SAI welcomes applications from emerging artists in South Asia to come to Harvard University to participate in discourse with students and faculty on critical issues. The deadline for Spring 2016 is January 8, 2016.
Representing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, the council members will provide support and advisement for the Arts at SAI program.
In a SAI webinar on Dec. 3, Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School, explained why handcrafted items are losing their relevance in contemporary markets.
This week, SAI welcomed Basir Mahmood, an artist based in Lahore, Pakistan, to Harvard as the second Visiting Artist, as part of SAI’s Arts Program.
The conference aims to identify existing challenges, best practices, and innovations around mental health relief efforts in the wake of natural and manmade disasters.
Mahmood uses video, film, and photographs to build various forms of narratives. He will be at Harvard next week as SAI’s second Visiting Artist.
A SAI webinar on Nov. 17 showed how this type of health intervention has significant potential for public health at future events, from natural disasters to refugee resettlements.
The capacity building curriculum for organizations will will equip them with practical skills, tools, and knowledge that they require to maximize and deepen the impact of their work and the scale of their activities.
Imran Sarwar, Harvard Kennedy School alum, is the co-founder of Rabtt, which aims to change the education landscape in Pakistan.
SAI’s Livelihood Creation Project, supported by the Tata Trusts, is now underway in India. The SAI team visited organizations in Bangalore last week that are empowering handicrafts and handloom artisans.
Mumbai-based artist Ranjit Kandalgaonkar draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document urban flows. He will spend next week at Harvard as the inaugural Visiting Artist in SAI’s Arts Program.