Art Lectures with Dr. Norbert Schmitz and Regina Hofer
Find out the paradoxical requirements of globalization, including the historicity of art terminology and its Eurocentric projection for South Asian countries and its contemporary art on Thursday, 8 January; Time: 4:30 PM; Venue: Himalayan Bank Auditorium, Kamaladi.
Next Generation Nepal, NGN an international organization working in the field of child protection, recently released “The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering”, a landmark study on the impact of international volunteering within children institutions in Nepal. Hopefully the Report will help kick out a national conversation on a particular sensitive.
'Photographer Kevin Bubriski has been visually documenting the country and people of Nepal since his first visit in 1975. Sent as a young Peace Corps volunteer to the northwest Karnali Zone, the country’s remotest and most economically depressed region, he spent three years walking the length and breadth of the Karnali, planning and overseeing construction of gravity flow drinking water pipelines. He also photographed the local villagers, producing an extraordinary series of 35mm and large format black & white images.
"Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population.
A half full glass for ENGAGE but still a long way ahead. How a costly international pitching competition helped us rethink what we were doing. A year of learning a lot while raising the bar of our work. The blessing of having a great colleague and how a small group of pro bono advisors are making the difference…