Teachers’ Literature Festival Karachi

The 11th Children's Literature Festival was held at the Arts Council of Karachi Pakistan on the 21st and 22nd of February 2014. Under the aegis of the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) the Teachers’ Literature Festival (TLF) was held in Karachi on the 20th of February. With an aim to unlock the power of reading, the festival remained packed with round 2000 teachers from both private and government sector schools. Teachers’ Literature Festival works under 5 main strands which are: 1. Workshops on Creative Writing 2. Workshops on Creative Expression 3. Use of new media in the classrooms 4. Book launches 5. Teachers’ Voices Shaded in various themes of classical and popular literature, various sections of Arts Council Karachi were named like Daastaan Sraa'aay, Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Kitab Ghar, Talism-e- Hoshruba, Tot Batot, , Autaaq, Tota Khanani, Shahi-Guzar Gah and CLF Dhaba.

Art of Reading with Expression Empowering teachers is not only extremely important but also necessary if we want to raise a generation of ‘Change Agents’. Keeping in mind the psyche of teachers, their aspirations, demands, challenges in teaching and several other aspects, the first ever Teacher’s Literature Festival was a collection of multi-dimensional activities. As the slogan of CLF is ‘Unlocking the Power of Reading’, special attention was given to ‘Art of Reading with Expression’ in which prominent people were invited to not only read poetry with expression to the teachers but also explain the meaning of the poetry, stories to the teachers so that they can further explain it to their students. Art of Reading with Expression sessions were conducted by Imrana Maqsood, Seeemi Zaidi, Zambeel Dramatic Readings, Syed Nusrat Ali, Farheen Zehra and Adnan Jaffar & Fawad Khan.

Creative Writing Workshops One of the main aim of Children’s Literature Festival is to promote reading in such a way so that children who are interested to write feel that they have a platform where they can contribute their writings and stories. Keeping this aim in mind, various interactive creative writing sessions were also conducted by prominent teachers and authors. Resource persons tried to cover various aspects of creative writing by having interactive sessions with the teachers. Founder and Director of the Rato-Bangla School, Shanta Dixit also participated in Teachers’ Literature Festival from Nepal and conducted an interactive creative writing session where she divided the teachers into groups, asked them to write a short story and then the groups of teachers were asked to do a small skit based on their stories.

Use of New Media in the classrooms An important feature of the Teachers’ Literature Festival Karachi was the focus on new media and how new media can be used in the classrooms. Interactive sessions on the Use of New Media in Classrooms with teachers were conducted by Bolo Bhi, Asma Sikander, Azra Naseem, Sabeen Mahamud, Toffee TV and Tentative Collective. The sessions highlighted various tools of new media which could be used effectively for teaching children in order to motivate them more and make learning fun.

Book Launches Book Launches are one of the most popular segment of every Children’s Literature Festival and now Teachers’ Literature Festival.

The first book by CLF Publications “Layla aur Munni Gudia” created by Rumana Husain was launched at the Teachers’ Literature Festival by famous dramatist and playwright of Pakistan, Haseena Moin. The fourth edition of CLF magazine, Uran Tashtaree was also launched at the Teachers’ Literature Festival where the editor of Uran Tashtaree, Amra Alam read extracts from the magazine and taught the teachers how they can use the magazine in their schools and classrooms. Other books that were launched at the TLF Karachi were Laddu Paida Hua, Rana Liaqat Ali Khan Tasweeri Kahani Silsala and Something Black & White written by Rumana Hussain, Suraj the Tiger Cub by Farida Mirza, Magical Tale about Pakistan by Asma Sikander, Dotty the Unique Zebra by Batul Tunio, The Book of Little Stories and Big Dreams & Peace by Basarat Kazim, Sehat ki Kahani by Amra Alam.

Teachers’ Voices: What promotes or inhibits reading and creativity in classrooms Teachers Voices is a key session of the Teachers Literature Festival designed to elicit teachers responses to the key question of what enables or discourages creativity in the classrooms and schools in their experiences .T hey were encouraged to talk about the issues that they face in the classrooms as teachers. This session was conducted by Ameena Saiyid, Mosharraf Zaidi, Aziz Kabani, Farida Zuberi, Sadiqa Salahuddin, Zubeida Mustafa, Swaleha Alam Shahzada. The panelists tried to stress on the importance of culturing a positive environment in classrooms which would ultimately result in fostering creativity and reading in students.

Teachers’ and Literature The best part of the TLF was its variety in sessions which tried to address the various dimensions of a professional life of a teacher. A well attended session on Teacher’s Education and Literature was conducted by Shahid Siddiqui. Teachers participated very actively in this session by narrating examples of their own as well. Another similar enthusiastic session was by Shanta Dixit (Nepal) who enlightened the audience on comprehension through dramatics. The session addressed the importance of dramatics and that how doing comprehension via dramatics could yield good result.

Heritage Heritage of any nation is a living narration of its customs and tradition. Owing to the same phenomenon, a literary session on Mobilizing Living Heritage from Our Literature was led by Zobaida Jalal, Attiya Dawood, Ayub Balouch. The session was moderated by CLF founder Baela Raza Jamil.

Closing of Teachers’ Literature Festival Teachers’ Literature Festival ended with a session on making and rendition of the CLF taraana by Rakae Jamil. Rakae Jamil explained why he was motivated to compose the CLF Taraana. The session also included a short video of eminent poet, Zehra Nigah talking about her inspiration behind writing the CLF taraana.

1.01 Annex 10b: Detailed Report of Children’s Literature Festival Karachi

Acknowledgments

This report is compiled by the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) team of Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aagahi

(ITA) to share information regarding Children’s Literature Festival and Teachers’ Literature Festival

Karachi 2014 with all its partners and friends.

We are thankful to the entire team of Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aagahi (ITA), Oxford University Press (OUP)

and Karachi Youth Initiative (KYI) for collaborating for the purpose of this unique social movement in

order to promote a culture of reading, writing and critical thinking in each school of Pakistan. Together,

the 3 organizations have organized a total of 10 CLFs together and the CLF Karachi was the 11th one and

the first Teachers’ Literature Festival.

We are profoundly thankful and grateful to our key sponsor Karachi Youth Initiative (KYI) for their

generous support for the Children’s Literature Festival Karachi and Teachers’ Literature Festival Karachi.

We hope that this partnership continues to grow and that CLF is held in every school in Karachi with the

support of Karachi Youth Initiative.

We are also extremely thankful to the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi and particularly the President of

the Arts Council, Mr. Ahmed Shah for providing us the venue free of cost. The CLF Karachi would not

have been such a huge success without the cooperation and support of the entire team of the Arts Council.

We hope that the Arts Council becomes a permanent partner and venue for the CLF Karachi and we

would wish for this association to continue for the common goal of promoting the love of reading among

children and adults alike.

This report discusses the highlights of the CLF and TLF Karachi in detail and serves to inform the reader

about the overall event, acknowledge the people and organizations involved in making it a success and

the challenges.

Thank you!

CLF Team

1. Introduction

Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aagahi (ITA), Oxford University Press (OUP) in collaboration with Open Society

Foundations (OSF), The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi and the Karachi Youth Initiative (KYI) hosted

the 11th Children’s Literature Festival and the 1st Teachers’ Literature Festival in Karachi in February

2014 at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi.

The Children’s Literature Festival is a social movement that seeks to promote reading, creativity and

critical thinking among the youth of Pakistan. Children’s Literature Festival started as a response to the

low level of learning as observed in the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2008 -2012). Hence,

the CLF seeks to inculcate the love of reading among the students through multi-sensory experiences. It is

an equalizer; open to all students from all school systems.

For the first time in Pakistan, Teachers’ Literature Festival was also held to embed skills of promoting

reading in classrooms and school cultures. Teachers’ Literature Festival is workshop oriented and the

main purpose of holding Teachers’ Literature Festival is to give workshops and trainings to teachers so

that they implement the same in their respective schools.

Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aagahi with Oxford University Press, Karachi Youth Initiative and the Arts Council of

Pakistan want to extend their deepest gratitude to all the resource persons for their dedication and support

in making Teacher’s Literature Festival and Children’s Literature Festival a huge success:

Aafia Salam, Abdullah Aslam, Adal Soomro, Adeel Hashmi, Adnan Abbasi, Adnan Jaffar, Adnan

Mubeen, Afrah Qureshi, Aftab Ahmed, Aisha Omer, Akber Zia,Ali Nasir Afridi, Alif Ailaan, Ameena

Saiyid, Amra Alam, Anjaleen Agrawalla, Anjum Paul, Anusha Riaz, Asad Mian, Asad Mughni, Asif

Farrukhi, Asif Sinan, Asif Sultan, Asma Mundrawala, Asma Sikander, Atif Badar, Attiya Dawood,Attiya

Hussain, Ayesha Tariq, Ayub Baloch, Aziz Kabani, Azra Naseem, Baela Raza Jamil, Bareerah Hoorani

Basarat Kazim, Batol Tunio, Batool Nasir, Beaconhouse School System, Bernadette Dean, Danish Faruqi,

Dr. Asma Ibrahim, Dr. Fazaullah Pechuho, Fahmina Arshad, Farhat Jahan, Farheen Zehra, Farida Mirza,

Farida Zuberi, Farieha Aziz, Fatima Hussain, Fatima Naeem, Fatima Rizwan, Fatima Tufail, Fauzia

Ahsan Farooqi, Fauzia Minallah, Fawad Khan, Garage School, Ghazal Raza, Hamida Khuhro, Hamza

Lari, Hani Yousaf, Haque Academy, Haseena Moin, Hira Ilyas Bawahab, Hira Nomani, Huma Sikander,

Ihsan Hashmi, Imran Anwar, Imrana Maqsood, Imtiaz Nizami, Jacqueline Mirza, Khaled Anam, Leila

Khan, Lubna Panjwani, M.Faisal Khalid, Maham Ali, Mahvash Faruqi, Malahat Awan, Maryam

Sadriwali, Mashhood Rizvi, Mehtab Rashidi, Mohammad Ahmed Shah, Mohammad Faisal Khalid, Mona

Qaiser, Mosharraf Zaidi, Muhammad Abubakar, Mumtaz Pirzada, Nadeem Zafar Siddiqui, Naheed Javed,

Nargis Sultana, Naseer Mirza, Nayma Iqbal, Nusrat Ali, Omair Ahmed, Parveen Mehboob, Rabia Garib,

Rabia Roshna, Rahila Ashraf, Rakae Jamil, Rana Maqsood, Rumana Husain, Saad syed Ahmed, Saba

Mehmood, Saba Sultan, Sabeen Mahmud, Sadia Rashid, Sadqa Sallahuddin, Saima Asghar Riaz, Salma

Adilm, Sumra Ahmed, Sana Saleem, Sara Sitwat, Sarwat Alam, Sayyeda Hassan, Seema Zahid, Seemi

Zaidi, Shaha Jamshed, Shaheena Alvi, Shahid Siddiqui, Shakir Khan, Shanta Dixit, Shayma Saiyid,

Sheema Kermani, Shehneela Mazhar, Shehroz Hussain, Shehzad Roy, Shoaib Memon, Sibtain Naqvi,

Somra Ahmed, Swaleha Alam Shahzada, Syed Jaffar Ahmed, Syed Mohammah Ahmed, Syed Nusrat Ali

Talea Zafar, Tariq Murad, Umbreena, Uzma Sabeen, Wajiha Naqvi, Waqas Bajwa, Waseem

KhanYaminay Nasir Chaudhri, Yasir Ahmed, Zaheer Abbas, Zahid Jatoi, Zain ahmed, Zaki Ahmed, Zara

Hussain, Zara Hussain, Zara Mumtaz, Zaynah Gilani, Zehra Nigah, Zobaida Jalal, Zohra Nasir, Zonaira

Mubarak, Zubeida Mustafa

The three days festival could not be as colorful and meaningful as it was due to the performances of our

Theater Groups like:

Gripps Theatre

Shahbaz Mughal Puppet Group

Tarz Group- Yousaf Kerai

Tentative Collective

Thespianz Theatre

Zain Ahmed and Group

Zambeel Dramatic Readings

The phenomenal success at the Teachers’ Literature Festival Karachi and Children’s Literature Festival

Karachi would not have been achieved by the support of our partner organizations and sponsors.

Open Society Foundations

Karachi Youth Initiative

Alif Ailaan

Bahria University

Citizen Archives of Pakistan-CAP

Dubai Cares

Education Fund for Sindh

Government of Sindh

Habib Bank Limited

Idara-e-Taleem-O-Agahi

Karachi Youth Initiative- KYI

Oxfam GB

Oxford University Press

Sindh Education Foundation

Teach For Pakistan

The Arts Council of Pakistan

Toffee TV

Interactive Stalls at the CLF Karachi

Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aagahi

School Assessment for School Improvement

Children’s Literature Festival

Education Fund for Sindh

Sindh Education Foundation

Toffee TV

Alif Ailaan

Sindh Reading Project

Habib Bank Limited

2. Opening Ceremony of CLF Karachi

The much awaited CLF Karachi kicked off on 21st February 2014 in the presence of thousands of children,

directors, sponsors and partners of CLF. The venue was decorated with colourful banners and posters

designed by Karachi based artist, Khuda Bux Abro.

Director Programs ITA and Founder of CLF, Baela Raza Jamil in her welcome address congratulated

Karachi for successfully hosting the first event of its nature in Karachi. She emphasized on the fact that

CLF is open to all children from all backgrounds and that it is an equalizer. She said that CLF has now truly

become a social movement going even going to those places which has a deteriorating law and order

situation.

Ameena Saiyid (OBE), Managing Director Oxford University Press (OUP), Nargis Sultana, Program

Officer Open Society Foundations (OSF), Ahmed Shah, President of Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi,

Mashhood Rizvi, Program Director Karachi Youth Initiative, Sima Kamil, HBL Head Branch and Dr.

Fazalullah Pechuho Additional Chief Secretary Education & Literacy Department Government of Sindh in

their speeches acknowledged the efforts of the organizers and partners and reiterated their commitment in

supporting this social movement. Distinguished representatives from partner and sponsor organizations

expressed their deepest privileged for being the part of CLF.

CLF taraana was sung by students of the Garage School, Haque Academy and Beaconhouse followed by a

dance performance by Leila Khan and Anjaleen Agrawalla, students of well-known dancer, Sheema

Kermani.

A very interesting interactive session was held at the opening ceremony facilitated by Rumana Husain

where she asked the children to tell about the books that they like to read. As the children gave various

answers, artists Akbar Zia and Ayesha Tariq did live illustrations based on the answers of the children.

3 Main Events at the CLF Karachi

Theatre and Music

At every CLF, various theatre groups perform and interactive music sessions are held. At the CLF Karachi,

Khaled Anam held an interactive music session with children whereas theatre plays like Ali Baba and the

Chalees Chor by NAPA, Chilghozay aur Mozay by Atif Badar, Choti Moti Tota by Grips Theatre, Zambeel

Dramatic Readings kept the children very entertained.

Storytelling sessions

The most important feature of every CLF are the storytelling sessions that are held. At the CLF Karachi,

many storytelling sessions were held. The unique thing about this was that for the first time, storytelling

sessions were held in different languages including Urdu, English, Punjabi, Sindhi and Balochi.

These sessions were led by Attiya Dawood, Amra Alam, Seemi Zaidi, Ayesha Omer, Fawad Khan, Fatima

Naeem, Ali Nasir Afridi, Saima Aghar Riaz, Zambeel Dramatics Readings and Digital Story: Amai the bird

of Light by Fouzia Minallah. The zeal and zest of the children in these sessions was worth watching.

Panel Discussions

Various Plenaries were also the part of the day like plenary on Curriculum and Text books: What are the

continued problems? Are there any solutions? The panelists were Ameena Saiyid, AnjumPaul, Syed Jaffar

Ahmed, Zubeida Mustafa and Bernadette Dean and the session was moderated by Aziz Kabani. All the

speakers spoke out against rote-learning, the problems had been highlighted and their solutions were

suggested.

Second plenary was on Promoting Early year’s readings through multi-sensory methods whose discussants

were Umbreena (TRC) Toffee TV, Huma Sikander, Atiya Hussain, Sindh Education Foundation and

Rumana Hussain. Another literary session was on the Interpretations of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai for 21st

Centuary Schools. The discussion was moderated by Baela Raza Jamil with other guests like Adal Sommro,

Mehtab Rashdi and Attiya Dawood.

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema by Tentative Collective

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema founded by Yaminay Chahudhry was one of the highlights of the CLF

Karachi. They go to different areas of Karachi esp in conflict areas where they ask the children to make

videos from cell phones and using a rickshaw powered projector, they show the videos.

During the 2 days of the CLF, 3-4 children were given cell phones where they were asked to go to different

sessions, interview people and talk about their experience in the CLF. Later the videos were edited and

showed at the closing ceremony of CLF Karachi.

Book Launches

CLF reinforced its tradition of book launches by launching various books like Fourt Edition of Uran

Tashtari whose editor is Amra Alam. Urran Tashtari is bi-monthly magazine for chidren, A Magical Tale

about Pakistan written by Asma Sikander and Suraj the Tiger Cub by Farida Mirza.

Four books of Rumana Husaain for children were also launched including the 1st book by CLF publications,

Layla aur Munni Gudia, Laddu is Born, Something Black and White, Kahanian Series: Begum Rana

Liaquat Ali Khan and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

Books by Asad Mian like Biloongra Series, The Year of Quail, Ines Robert ki Diary and an Itinerant

Observor: A Multimedia Book, Hakeem Said by Farhat Jahan, Chalo Farm Chalo by Sara Sitwat and A

Magical Tale about Pakistan by Asma Sikander were also launched.

Art and Mural Painting

The most popular strand of every CLF are the art and mural painting. Art Sessions were held by Fauzia

Minallah, Abro Khuda Bux and Artpreneurs for Change.

Multi-sensory stalls

The vast open air grounds of Arts Council were transformed into a hub of innumerable cheerful activities

areas by Habib Bank Limited, Citizens Archive of Pakistan CAP, Education Fund for Sindh and Idara-e-

Taleem O Aagahi.

4 Ceremony of Children’s Literature Festival Karachi:

The 3 day festival drew to a close on the evening of the 22nd of February 2014. The closing ceremony

took place in the presence of children, partners and sponsors of CLF.

The winners of the banner competition were announced by Rumana Husain which are:

1. Seneca Academy

2. Seedling Grammar School

3. Rhodene Academy

4. Aga Khan School

Anita Ghulam Ali Award were presented to Rumana Husain and Amra Alam for their services in

promoting education.

The closing ceremony ended with CLF Coordinator, Maham Ali thanking the core partners and teams of

Oxford University Press and Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aagahi.

5 Closing Ceremony of CLF Karachi

Even though CLF/TLF Karachi was a huge success, following were the challenges that were faced during

the Children’s Literature Festival and Teachers’ Literature Festival in Karachi:

Due to the law and order situation in Karachi, many parents and schools did not allow their children to

come because of security reasons.

The venue of CLF Karachi was not large enough to host such a large crowd which become a bit crowded

and become a bit hard to manage.

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Comments of Resource Persons

What they said about the CLF

It was a most rewarding experience for me to participate in this unique experience....it

was almost like picking choice jewels out of the treasure trove that was CLF, the

speakers, organizers and the children...all. I am proud to be a part of the process of their

self actualization and always available to CLF for this purpose – Beo Raana Zafar

I’m proud and honored to be an ambassador for the Childrens Lit Fest ... its truly a

phenomenal event and each year reaches further and wider to indiscriminately bring

learning creatively, art, literature and the power of the written word to kids, parents and

educationists all over Pakistan. Ye Cheez! – Nadia Jamil

What a thrilling experience it was. This is a great step in building bridges and bringing

the walls down.It was such a pleasure and honour to be a part of it.Congratulations for the

great success – Dr Arfa Sayeda Zehra

I like to paint and draw in this event and this was a very nice festival. I like it very much

– Student of Chandio School

CLF should be held in a bigger place because it's an inspiring and awesome event thanks

to all who organized this event – Student of Indus Resource Sujero School System

I love the CLF! I love to read the great books and attend all the awesome sessions they

have. This is a really great initiative that encourages kids to read – Anusha Riaz

Program of TLF Karachi 2014

Program of CLF Karachi2014.

1.02 Annex 10c: Designs of Marketing and Promotional Material for CLF

Posters of CLFs