Every year, thousands of Pakistanis leave the country in search of a better future, but many of them somehow end up in prisons — or even worse, on death row.

Today, almost 11,000 Pakistanis are languishing in jails across the world. To highlight the plight of these vulnerable Pakistanis, Justice Project Pakistan is displaying an art installation conceived by artist and storyteller Fahad Naveed.

Dates: December 18 and 19, 2019
Time: 7am to 7pm
Venue: F-9 Park (Gate 2), Islamabad

Fahad Naveed is an interdisciplinary storyteller working as a journalist, filmmaker, visual artist and critic in Karachi. His writing and editorial designs have appeared in various Pakistani and international publications. Fahad’s work aims to engage with, and raise, questions of identity politics.

Fahad is also a co-founder of Mandarjazail Collective, an artist collective based in Karachi, and has shown at the Karachi Biennale. His art practice is directly linked to his journalism, and questions narratives the media pushes, and his own role in perpetuating these narratives.

Fahad is also a member of the Documentary Association of Pakistan, and a programming director for the forthcoming Chalta Phirta travelling documentary film festival. Most recently he finished graduate school at New York University where he studied News and Documentary Film on a Fulbright scholarship.

Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, editor and live artist living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, New Writing Scotland and The American Poetry Review.

As a member of Highlight Arts, he has organized festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012 and the Jessie Kesson fellowship at Moniack Mhor in 2018. www.ryanvanwinkle.com