THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED TO MONDAY 15 AUGUST, 2016
The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art (ACAPA), Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) would like to invite you to a Perspectives:Asia seminar.
Empowering women: Advocacy through art
Never before has the issue of women’s empowerment and gender equality garnered the attention that it does today. Alongside her diplomatic career, Her Excellency Naela Chohan is a strong advocate of women's rights through the medium of visual art and her work Souffrance is on permanent display at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The UNESCO Bureau of Strategic Planning Section for Women and Gender Equality described her work as "a reflection on the position of women in society, illiteracy, economic empowerment, women's contribution to society and discrimination they face". Join us as she shares her art and explains how through her roles as an artist and a diplomat the arts and public diplomacy can engage communities in Australia, Pakistan and our region and empower and give voice to women.
Her diplomatic assignments have included the High Commission of Pakistan in Ottawa, the Pakistan delegation to United Nations General Assembly 41st (1987) Session and 42nd (1988) Session, and the Embassy of Pakistan in Tehran (1989–1993), and Kuala Lumpur (1997–2001). Prior to her post to Australia she served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Ecuador.
She has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Film Censor Board, and of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Employment Corporation of Pakistan, and Inter State Gas System (Pvt). High Commissioner Chohan is also committed to the prohibition of global Chemical Weapons, being the first civilian and woman to head the National Authority on the Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical weapons in Pakistan.
When: Monday, August 15, 2016, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (doors open at 5:30pm)
Where: Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Brisbane
Places are limited for this free event, please book early to avoid disappointment. Reservations can be made via the Perspectives:Asia event page byThursday 11August. For further information contact Natasha Vary on telephone 07 3735 5322 or email events-gai@griffith.edu.au.
Image: HE Naela Chohan and Datin Sri Endon Mahmood with her artwork Enlightenment at the Museum of Islamic Heritage, Kuala Lumpur (1999).
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RSVP on or before Thursday 11 August 2016 , by email n.vary@griffith.edu.au , or by phone 07-373555322
Event contact details
- Natasha Vary
- http://events.griffith.edu.au/d/jvq70p
- 07-37355622