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About The Little Art

The Little Art (TLA), established in 2007, is a registered non-profit arts education organisation which uses the power of arts to transform learning for children and youth and the perception of learning and knowledge for families, teachers and the wider community. TLA 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.

Gender Focus

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 a preschool for underprivileged children.

What are we raising for?

Aangun – Early Childhood Education Preschool

Aangun Early Childhood Education Preschool is a unique community-based preschool for underprivileged children age 3-5 years set up by The Little Art. The preschool caters to children of working classes who either do not attend preschool or have access to very low-quality education.

The Aangun ECE Preschool offers immersive learning experiences to children to prepare them for life. Project-based learning ensures sensory, cognitive, linguistic, emotional and social development of children. It also strengthens the community through inter and intra-community links with the training of families, professional development opportunities for women from the community, and volunteer engagement.

Rehabilitation of flood affected schools in Pakistan

The 2022 floods in Pakistan has devasted a huge population of the country. The Little Art will work with local organisations and partners to provide books, stationary, clothes and art materials to the children of flood-hit areas. At the second stage, the support will also be given through our programs to help children fight trauma and stress.

Teachers Training Program

TLA offers high quality teachers training program for teachers working in underprivileged and trust schools on implementing arts education integration through art forms such as visual arts and theatre/drama. The workshops are high quality experiences that help teachers to engage students more effectively.

Changing Education through the Arts

TLA aims to work with children, especially girls, in non-profit, low-income and public schools with a focus on arts integration in education. The programme will build a school-based model of excellence through arts that ensures better learning, facilitates children’s creative expression and promotes community engagement. It will develop strategic partnerships with 3 selected schools in Lahore. Its key features include professional development of teachers to use arts for education in teaching, arts-integrated instructions for the curriculum, creating and presenting art made by children, exposure of children through art made by professional artists and filmmakers, and research and impact assessment for sustainability. It will also use the arts and technology as vehicles to reach out to families and communities.

Providing access to 50,000 children a year to arts and culture
TLA organizes various festivals and exhibitions across Pakistan throughout the year, including the Lahore International Children’s Film Festival, ArtBeat Visual Arts Exhibitions and Tamasha Theater Festival for Young Audience. These festivals showcase art created by children and professional artists to children and young people, and help them widen their horizon towards the world they live in.

The support through donations will help us to engage with more under privileged children and young people who will not have access to such experiences otherwise.

The Little Art Projects:

Aangun, Center for Learning and Culture
Aangun Early Childhood Education Preschool
Lahore International Children’s Film Festival
Equally Loud

The Little Art Social Media