Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) The British Council Pakistan is bringing the 6th version of WOW – Girls of the World Pageant in collaboration with ECDI Pakistan and Olomopolo Media on Saturday 4 and Sunday, 5 March 2023 at Seashore Luxurious Lodge, Karachi. After two digital editions (in 2021 and 2022) that is the primary in-person WOW Pageant in three years.
The programme for the WOW competition is essentially the most numerous and thrilling because the competition started and contains dynamic panels, workshops, immersive performances, vibrant marketplaces and exhibits for youngsters. The competition may even characteristic an artwork exhibition, a drum circle, artwork installations, and movie screenings. The opening efficiency on the competition will characteristic Shae Gill, the singer of final 12 months’s largest hit ‘Pasoori’ and the closing efficiency is by Pakistan’s legendary singer Naseebo Lal.
Introduced in partnership with the WOW Basis, the theme for the competition this 12 months, is Ral Mil – the Seraiki phrase for coming collectively as a neighborhood. The theme ‘Ral Mil’ builds upon concepts of communities of care and imagines methods to construct higher, strengthen bonds, heal wounds, discover pleasure, and salvage the earth from the results of local weather change. Final 12 months Pakistan was ravaged by devastating floods. A number of areas are nonetheless beneath water months later and the WOW Pageant needs to make the most of the competition construction to start to put the bottom for the way we are able to come collectively to mirror, be taught, result in change and to heal.
Jill Richens, Director Arts South Asia, the British Council stated: “We’re dedicated in our work with ladies and ladies throughout South Asia and consider that there are thousands and thousands of inspiring ladies who exemplify why empowerment, range and having significant platforms for connection assist shut gaps to gender equality. Our work within the arts and strategic priorities help ladies’s voices and company, and that’s additionally why festivals like WOW speed up progress.”
Maarya Rehman, Deputy Director, British Council Pakistan stated: “This 12 months we’re excited to current the largest and most formidable WOW Pageant ever and I’m delighted that the competition is returning in-person. WOW will rejoice the facility of girls and ladies to beat challenges particularly by means of the lens of local weather change which has badly affected Pakistan. I urge folks from throughout Karachi to return and attend this glorious competition.”
The WOW Pageant on the Seashore Luxurious Lodge is free and open to the general public. All content material shall be recorded and later archived on our YouTube channel. As in earlier years, the classes may even be interpreted in Pakistani Signal Language.
Jude Kelly, CEO & Founding father of The WOW Basis, stated: “WOW Festivals have at all times been about bringing essentially the most urgent problems with the day to the forefront, and gathering collectively folks to debate options and construct neighborhood. After the devastating results of local weather change seen in Pakistan in recent times, this 12 months’s competition theme of Ral Mil shall be a robust framework for addressing not solely this however the direct and devastating impression it’s having on gender equality. There shall be a lot celebration too, of the unimaginable initiatives ladies and ladies are operating and their many inspirational achievements. We look ahead to celebrating one of many longest operating WOW Festivals on the planet because it returns for an additional joyful and thought-provoking 12 months.”
