Using the power of arts for transformational learning
Using the power of arts for transformational learning
Research shows that integrating arts into the curriculum helps children stay excited and engaged. It opens the windows of opportunities for children and young people. The Little Art just facilitates that.
The Little Art (TLA), founded in 2007, is a non-profit arts education organisation which uses the power of arts to transform learning for children and youth, specially girls and marginalised from urban and rural areas in Pakistan.
It enables children and youth to create and experience arts, trains teachers to sustain and grow the activity, host exhibitions and festivals to showcase works created by children and youth, engages the community for dialogue, and promotes children’s works as voices and stories at various national and international platforms.
Organization Main Website: www.thelittleart.org
The Little Art (TLA), founded in 2007, is a non-profit arts education organisation which uses the power of arts to transform learning for children and youth, specially girls and marginalised from urban and rural areas in Pakistan.
It enables children and youth to create and experience arts, trains teachers to sustain and grow the activity, host exhibitions and festivals to showcase works created by children and youth, engages the community for dialogue, and promotes children’s works as voices and stories at various national and international platforms.
Empowering Girls
Gender remains a cross-cutting theme in all TLA programs. TLA works extensively with children, especially girls, in private, non-profit, low-income and public schools and with urban and rural communities, from national to grassroots level, from all socio-economic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Thus most of our workshop and event participants are girls and young women, and our campaigns advocate for girls’ education and equal access to opportunities.
We created the “Equally Loud” project which represents how all are equal beyond their gender and talks loudly about it through arts, films and stories.
Our Work
TLA is the first Pakistani organisation to have organised film festivals and national art competitions for children. It has worked across Pakistan with partners such as UNICEF, UNESCO, European Union and various others. It has also worked as a consultant with the Government of Sharjah for 6 years to establish a children’s media arts organisation that runs the Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival, and did similar work remotely in Qatar and New Zealand.
Since 2007 TLA has benefitted nearly 915,000 children, youth, teachers, artists and the public across Pakistan through 36 large scale festivals, 23 art exhibitions, 400 school and community level events and 4130 workshops.
Recently, TLA set up Aangun – Centre for Learning and Culture, a playground for children and youth to explore their potential through creativity, imagination and the arts. The Centre has event space, workshop and class rooms and performance halls. It also houses an early childhood education preschool for underprivileged children.
