The trustees of Shadhona organised an event to felicitate its artistic director Lubna Marium for being awarded the First Biswaratna Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award by the Assam Sahitya Sabha.
Marium received the award on March 28 this year in Guwahati, Assam, from Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam.
At Shadhona’s event, the citation for the award was read out. This was followed by a presentation on Assam, the Assam Sahitya Sabha, Dr Bhupen Hazarika and Lubna Marium’s works. Next there was a presentation on Shadhona and its multi-dimensional work in the cultural arena.
The final presentation was on ‘Agency and Art’ by Lubna Marium. Marium spoke about the role of art in resolving the conflict between the normative structures of society and independent human agency at the programme, ‘Art, inspires a ‘reflexivity’ of consciousness, which helps to break free of the constraints on social structure and makes it dynamic.’ She went on to state that it is this ‘counter-hegemonic’ space of art that inspires human agency to embrace pluralistic cultural practices within indigenous performing arts of Bangladesh.
Shadhona’s trustees – Dr Naila Khan, Rubana Huq and Sadaf Saaz were present at the event among others.
-With New Age input
