Inputs for designing communication materials - Feb 2-3 events supported by Ishara

*All 3 events are supported by Ishara - wherever possible and comfortable, please do place
logo and/or credit lines mentioned at end of document. Thank you.

**For extended website please follow this order:

1) Public talk - including Salil’s bio(please see below)
2) Workshop Saturday(no bios required for workshops anywhere)
3) Workshop Sunday(no bios required for workshops anywhere)
4) Ishara support (amount of text here should be balanced with how much there is written
on Salil / his bio please)

1) Workshop Saturday morning (Feb 2) - for young children (facilitated by Shilpa and Tina)
 Timing: 10.30 am - 11.45 am(1.25 hours)
 Participants: Approx. 20 - 7th/8th standard

 Location: First at installation - then Art Room, Cabral Yard (Meeting point for
workshop at entrance at 10.30 am to jointly visit installation)

How do we mention meeting point 10.30 am at entrance in best way?

COM inputs:

The Power of Words Whispered

Art workshop with Children

Conducted by Artist Shilpa Gupta and Art Historian Tina Marie Monelyon

Listen to the poets whispering and then come and join us in turning a poet’s words into our
own artworks and making a Poet Wall together

2) Public lecture Saturday evening (Feb 2) - open to everyone (facilitated by Salil)

 Timing: 6-7 pm
 Participants: Open to everyone

 Location: Biennale Pavilion, Cabral Yard

COM inputs:

WORDS vs SWORDS: The anagram of antagonism

SalilTripathi
Author and chair, PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee
Vigilantes have swords, poets have words. Governments have power, poets have images.
Silencing poets has been a preoccupation for those with power - elected, unelected, self-
appointed, offended - for millennia. They seek to stop poets from expressing their
imagination. Poets respond with verse and silence. But the sounds of those silenced
reverberate. In this talk, SalilTripathi reflects on the sound installation, ‘For, In Your Tongue, I
Cannot Fit’ by Shilpa Gupta at the Kochi Biennale and the poets whose works have inspired
her: poets who have been imprisoned or killed, when they have spoken of ideas - of love, of
justice, of fairness, of humanity - because those with powers don't like those poets from
stopping the world from going to sleep.

SalilTripathi is a writer based in London who was born in Bombay. He chairs PEN
International's Writers in Prison Committee. His books include Offence: The Hindu Case, The
Colonel Who Would Not Repent, and Detours: Songs of the Open Road. He is currently
writing a book on Gujaratis. He is contributing editor at Mint and The Caravan. He has
written extensively about freedom of expression, and his awards include the Red Ink Award
for human rights journalism from the Mumbai Press Club. Salil studied at Sydenham College
at the University of Bombay and later at Dartmouth College.

3) Workshop Sunday morning (Feb 3) - for young adults (facilitated by Gopika)

 Timing: 10.30 am - 12.30 pm
 (Meeting at ticket window at 10.10 - 10.15 am - jointly going to sound installation
where the workshop starts at 10.30 am - overall about 2 hours 15 mins) ->How do
we mention meeting point 10.15 am at entrance in best way?

 Participants: Approx. 20 - Anyone from 15-20 years

 Location: First at installation (15-20 minutes) - then jointly walking to Art Room,
Cabral Yard

 Workshop idea: Brief walk-through with Shilpa and experience at the sound
installation and select poet cases as inspiration for interaction, discussion and
individually writing a letter/poem to one of the poets

COM inputs:
For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit
A workshop for young people, interacting with Shilpa Gupta’s sound installation shown at
Aspinwall House and asking questions about writing and free speech

Conducted by Poet, Translator and Educator GopikaJadeja

Listen to the poets jailed for their words and thoughts. Get inspired by and learn something
about the poets included in the sound installation “For, In Your Tongue, I cannot Fit” shown
at Aspinwall House at Kochi Biennale. Learn more about ideas of speech. Share your
thoughts, learn what others think. We will explore questions like: What did the poets write
about? How did they write? If you could address them, what would you tell them?

All events supported by - Ishara Art Foundation

Logo - please see hi-res attached to email

**They ideally would like for the logo to be either centered or right aligned, if easily
possible, and with some white space around it - that is, no text right up against the graphic.

Short credit line which could be used for FB or wherever else there is a short text

With generous support from the Ishara Art Foundation.www.ishara.org

For where there is more space - any of the following could be used as per comfort level
*For the extended website the Ishara bio should ideally be in balance with Salil’s, that is not
longer

1) One liner (optional - as per comfort level)

Ishara Art Foundation is an independent non-profit arts space focused on art from South
Asia, launching in Alserkal Avenue (Dubai, UAE) in March 2019.

2) Small paragraph (optional - as per comfort level)

Ishara Art Foundation will offer a generative platform for contemporary art and present a
dynamic programme that will build on the shared histories, continued presence and cultural
contribution of South Asian voices in the Gulf. Offering two floors of exhibition space in
Alserkal Avenue, Ishara will be the first independent institution dedicated to expanding
knowledge and understanding of contemporary South Asian art and artists in West Asia.

3) Long paragraph (optional - as per comfort level)

Ishara Art Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on contemporary art from a South
Asian context. This is the first space of its kind in the region, set across two floors of
dedicated exhibition space in Alserkal Avenue. We have an expansive definition of South
Asia, which includes the overlapping histories of the region around India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal and their diasporas. Given deep links and a wide
community from South Asia within the Gulf, our approach is anchored in local
understanding and designed to share compelling artistic perspectives with UAE and
international audiences.

Our programming will include new and established practices through monographic
presentations, group exhibitions, new commissions and touring exhibitions, developing new
dialogues and exploring regional interconnections. Further information about our
partnerships and programming will be available when the foundation launches in March.

Driven by a strong commitment to the region and guided by a research-led, intellectually

rigorous approach, Ishara will further support and celebrate the presence of South Asian
voices within the thriving art and design sector of the UAE.

Ishara Art Foundation is presented in partnership with Alserkal Avenue.