Tamasha Team 2011

What started with a brother and a sister is now a journey for more than a thousand people. Through out this journey, many have lost a lot but what they have gained is much greater than the loss that they suffered from. Only a few will understand what is being said here. Long story cut short, when I go down the memory lane each and every second of Tamasha 2010 flashes back as a movie. All I can say is, one thing that I miss about FAST is Tamasha and the Tamashites (even those who I have serious conflicts with). This is just to wish Tamasha Team 2011 all the best. My prayers are with you and may Tamasha this year be greater than ever before. May Allah Jee help you through out every hurdle that comes your way. Ameen.

Tamasha Canvas of Creativity Contest Concluded

Tamasha 2011 aims to expand the standard set by Tamasha 2010 by including every possible manner of expression and creativity in itself, along with the purpose of awakening the youth.

Particularly, for this reason, Tamasha Team decided to hold an online contest, in the name of:

Tamasha Canvas of Creativity Contest

Participants were given half a month to come up with any piece of art on the theme of: Revival of Realization. Free participation of Tamasha (worth Rs. 3500 - inclusive of accommodation charges) was announced for the winner of the contest. Just after posting the event at Facebook, we started receiving an overwhelming response. In a duration of fifteen days, around 150 brilliant entries were received. Judges's consideration yielded ten best entries, out of which the best entry was to be chosen.

The final decision eventually went in favour of Malik Jahangir Awan of NUST Business School :)

Top Ten Entrants

1. Malik Jahangir Awan, NUST Business School

2. Asad Pervaiz, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

3. Khaula Baloch, Islamic International University

4. Fatima Sohail, NUST Business School

5. Faisal Hafeez, NUCES FAST Islamabad

6. Taimur Yusuf, NUCES FAST Karachi

7. Babres Baig, Ripah International University

8. Moiz Khan, Ripah International University

9. FD Sheikh, Professional Academy of Commerce

10. Saad Ullah, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)

Tamasha Speak Your Mind Contest

Registration Fee Details, Tamasha 2011

Requirements - Registration for Tamasha 2011

Online Registration
• You should email us the following documents:
o 2 Passport size photos
o Soft copy of bank draft
o Multiple Event Details Form explaining the bank draft details
o Email Address: registeration@jaagoo.org
No drafts will be accepted after 15th January,2011. If your bank draft is not received before 15th, your team will be removed from Tamasha-20Eleven.

Participation
• There is no restriction of any kind on university students, but only college students who are currently enrolled in A- Levels or FSc. Programs are eligible for participation. Therefore students from O Level and Matric are ineligible.
• Accommodation will be provided to the participants @ Rs.2000/Person.
• Mixed Teams are only allowed for Battle of the Bands.
o Mixed team: a team where all members do NOT belong to the same institution
• Teams will only be eligible if ALL members have submitted all requirements.
• Your team will only be confirmed a place in Tamasha-20Eleven, when we receive your bank draft.

Registration
• The organizing team has the right to reject any entry. To ensure that your entry is not rejected kindly register early and post the bank draft/PO (along with the other necessary details) as early as possible.
• Registration will be on first come first serve basis.
• After getting the confirmation e-mail, you have to make a bank draft of the registration fee and accommodation charges(if required)
• A confirmation mail will be sent to you to let you know that you are now a part of Tamasha-20Eleven.

Bank Draft
Please make a Bank Draft or a Pay order in favor of Account Title: "National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad "
Write your institution name and team name at the back of the bank draft/PO as well, make sure you keep a copy of the original PO/DD for reference in case of any mishap. Mail or deliver by hand to:
Tamasha Secretariat
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
A K Brohi Road
H-11/4
Islamabad

Tamasha Canvas of Creativity Contest

'Tamasha 2010', a multidimensional event held at FAST Islamabad, offered 200 students from 30 universities of the country opportunities to express their talent in a variety of artistic and cultural pursuits. ‘Tamasha 2010’ aimed to ‘break the silence’. After attempting to reach out to the youth, what’s required is a ‘reminder’. For that purpose, Tamasha is back again through ‘Tamasha 2011’. It is time to ‘rise’ after being ‘awakened’. This time Tamasha looks forward to expand the scale, include every possible manner of expression and creativity, along with the purpose of awakening the youth.

Particularly, for this reason, Tamasha Team has decided to hold an ONLINE contest, in the name of:

Tamasha Canvas of Creativity Contest

SUBMIT a piece of art – yes, anything from a photograph to a rough drawing – on the theme: "Revival of Realization" and win free participation of ‘Tamasha 2011’ (inclusive of accomodation charges). Also, the five best entries will be showcased at the event.

Basic Guidelines:
1) Upload your entries at Tamasha Facebook Page by 18th November, 2010.
2) Entries will be judged on the basis of Facebook ‘likes’ and judges’ grading.
3) The winners will be announced on Tamasha Facebook Page.
4) Tamasha reserves the right to publish artwork of participants for marketing campaigns and other purposes.
5) Plagirized/offensive entries will be discarded immediately.

Express yourself – let the colours speak. :)

Capital Cultural Scene: 'Tamasha 2010'- a multidimensional event

By GULZAR AFAQI

WEEKEND MAGAZINE (February 20, 2010): A showcase of vigor, energy and boldness coupled with skill, craftsmanship and aesthetic called 'Tamasha 2010', a multidimensional event held at Fast University would be remembered for a long time. Around 200 students from 30 universities of the country were offered opportunities to express their talent in a variety of artistic and cultural pursuits.

It included a wide range of competition in painting, essay writing, oratory, theatrical productions and other cultural expositions. The 3-day colourful 'Tamasha 2010' was inaugurated by Dr Aftab Maroof, director of the Fast University on February 13.

He said that the event was created to provide opportunity to students so they could show their talent and craftsmanship in a variety of areas of artistic and cultural accomplishments. Our students possess talent, confidence and will to express their inner self at any platform. What they need is the provision of proper opportunities.

The budding artists were given two-day time period to furnish their visual expression in any form of paintings on the following themes; 'Renaissance', 'Psychedelic', and 'Conceptual Art'. Around 18 participants endeavored hard in the discipline. In the segment of theatrical arts 16 groups were created to perform either in traditional way, 'Notanki' or today's 'street theatre'.

Each group was given 20 minutes time frame to accomplish its presentation on socio-cultural themes. In the category of miscellaneous cultural expression students were asked to present different socio-cultural events from our daily life particularly the colourful and melodious rituals of marital occasion.

In the oratory and bilingual declamation contest students were free to select any theme or topic out of given list with an obligation of a humorous presentation too. As far as the paintings accomplishments of the budding artists are concerned one could easily term those as 'wonderful'.

The socio-cultural themes they opted from the daily life testify the powerful sense of vigilance, observation and expression they possess. One could hope that our national institutions responsible for the promotion, projection and perpetuation of national culture and art would offer their generous patronage to these budding artists.

The students with theatrical arts too proved their talent and skills in conception, production and presentation of their respective skits and short theatrical expressions. The style of dialogue delivery, control over body movements and facial expression as per theme spoke the devotion, dedication and commitment of our young generation towards art.

The richness of colours of costume and relevant stage property was attractive and suited to the situation. The marital ritual of 'mehndi' or 'hina' stole the show due to its lively blend, colourful and musical presentation. The oratory and essay competition too registered good impression with regard to the clear perception of the participants, the standard of rationale and individualistic style in establishing one's point of view.

In the painting competition budding artists Aisha Kamal of National College of Arts won the first prize, Habib Akram from Punjab University grabbed the second while the team of same university adjudged as the best in the category of 'conceptual painting'. Shaista Zeb of NUML University stood first in Urdu essay writing competition while Muhammad Hasan of UET declared as the second and Hafiz Mudussar won the third position.

In English essay writing segment Furukh Zafar of PARC National University stood first while Waqqas Maqsood of Punjab University and Rabel Mustafa of FUMC got second and third position respectively. In English fiction writing segment Salmann Latif of PSED, Syed Shahbaz and Haroon Yasir of Beacon House System got first, second and third position respectively. The team of PAF Academy got the best prize in the declamation contest.

All the participants, teachers and parents were full of appreciation of Fast University management for providing the productive opportunity to the young generation for its expression of ideas, talent and skill. It is hoped that other contemporary educational institutions would also take such initiative for grooming the creative and innovative pursuits of our young generation. The cultural institutions of the country are also expected to lend their hand of patronage in the areas fall in their purview.

Imran Tahir: a promising future: Studio 5 is the venue of a wonderful display of paintings, and calligraphy created by Imran Tahir these days in Rawalpindi. Over 20 art pieces speak a volume of intellectual and artistic entity of the artist. Imran Tahir, under the able tutelage of eminent calligraphist Rashid Butt and painter Mahmood Ali learnt the sensibilities of the genres of calligraphy and painting.

He pays extra ordinary attention to the meanings of the letters to be calligraphed. ' The art of calligraphy demands a harmonious synthesis among different elements of meanings, geometric lyricism of letters, the special diction of colours and proportionate division of space,' commented the artist with regard to his creative pursuits. Most of the calligraphic work depicts Qur'anic verses in a variety of Kufi and Nastaaliq modes with charming colors and patterns. The landscape and cityscape paintings created by the artist are the true exponent of natural beauty and our socio-cultural ambiance. Imran has so far participated in several exhibitions. His art pieces have been part of several collections in the country. One could foresee a promising future for the artist.

Kamal Hayat's visual exposition: The Nomad Art Gallery has been the venue of an exhibition of paintings and drawings by an innovative painter, Kamal Hayat these days. Inaugurated on February 16 the event would continue till 25 instant. The viewer could enjoy a good number of acrylic paintings on paper, board and canvas. The overall texture of art pieces reflect fluidity, vibration and movement. The division of space and colour application is attractive and speaks the command of the artist over his intellectual and artistic tools.

With the passage of time and having expertise in his art Kamal has developed a unique style of his own. Most of his work could be termed as the recollection and revisiting of his past nostalgic reminiscent. He recalls events and reshape them according to his own aesthetic and artistic approach. Most of his visual characters seem alive engaged in conversation with each other.

Kamal Hayat enjoys good fortune as he got the distinctive tutelage of two of our great painters like Moeen Najmee and Khalid Iqbal in Lahore. Their teaching influenced Kamal in making him a painter with difference in content, style and technique. Kamal Hayat is indeed a painter with excellent approach towards the inter relationship of art and our socio-cultural life.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2010

Tamasha... A journey!

It all started with the pain and ruthlessness. A pain, which was continuously invoked inside us because of happenings around us and ruthlessness which had engulfed our youth completely. But we didn’t let that pain become our weakness but rather made it a strength to come up with a society called Jaagoo. It induced passion in us and we ended up an energy-provider platform, Tamasha.


Tamasha is a dream that became a thought, a thought that became an idea, and an idea that has now become a reality. The journey started with Samar Waqar who with a sensitive and responsible soul aimed for a change and revolution and was headed by Haider Miraj who spent his days and nights working for it. Usman Kahloon considered it to be the only way through which students can make use of their potentials without being afraid of grudges, politics and bi-polar attitudes (essentials of university life :p). And then I, Hira Zainab, joined the caravan. For me, it started off as a passion, and then gradually (I still don’t know when) it became part of my own self.


Tamasha is a promising struggle to put a base upon which our next generation would play its part to make this nation getting better without being oblivious of their due tasks... It is an effort to make them learn about their duties for their beloved homeland without blaming them directly for not playing their role.

Tamasha’10 was organized as a three day event on 13-15th February 2010. This event experienced the honorable presence of 350+ students from around more than thirty schools, colleges and universities who participated very actively. As we aimed, Tamasha was flavoured with various cultures with targeted youth belonging to every class from NCA to Gomal University.

It aimed to provide a platform for all possible modes of expression. It covered mind-stimulating and thought-provoking competitions using the mediums of facial expressions (Theatre), words (Essay Writing & Creative Writing), speaking skills (Declamation) and world of colours (Painting). With social events like Mehfil-e-Mushaira, Musical Evening and Movie Night, the participants were provided with enjoyable atmosphere. And an ending of day by Shaam-e-Charaghan (mode of dedication to blast of Islamic University, and to invoke realization of the fact that every person can be a source of light in era of darkness by just lightening his part of ‘Diya’ through fulfilling his responsibilities) conveyed the message and theme to every person who became part of Tamasha.

At that time, all we wished was to ‘break the silence’ but now when we have tried to reach out all ruthless souls, what’s required is a ‘reminder’. So we are back again with ‘revival of realization’ through Tamasha’11. It is the time to ‘rise’ after being ‘awakened’. This time we look forward to expand the scale, include every possible way of expression and creativity, along with purpose of awakening our youth.

And as we believe, In the hands of young bearers, Tamasha is a torch that tries to aware, to alert, to affect.

Seek your light…
The torch is lit…