ACTIVITIES

“Recollected” is a distinctive exhibition to showcase a range of multidisciplinary artworks inspired from the history, culture and the local contemporary narratives from two architectural heritages in Sunamganj district in Bangladesh, known as the Gourarang Jaminder palace and the Shukhair Jaminder palace. All these creative......

Come along and join @osch.youngpeople for an online workshop and Q&A on the rich history of Rickshaw Art and how Rickshaw Art represents South Asia following with a discussion about symbolism, motif, design and contemporary expressions of Rickshaw Art. We are glad to arrange this......

29th Oct 2021 | Rajshahi. Facilitators: Fouzia Mahin with assistance by Sibun, Uchhash and Sadya.Participants: OSCH Youth board Rajshahi Cultural mapping workshop is part of the training session for Our shared cultural Heritage-OSCH Rajshahi youth board organized by URONTO Artist Community. The workshop was designed......

OSCH is a youth focused project to provide unique opportunity for youth to connect with cultural heritage and museums. Our Shared Cultural Heritage-OSCH is a unique opportunity for youth to get professional training for understanding and promoting cultural heritage, create a global youth network and......

Art practices in the non-Western world, an online exhibition about the Residential Art Exchange Program at The Dubolhati Palace in Bangladesh. A virtual exhibition entitled Uronto Artist Community Archive – Art practices in the non-Western world is visible online, curated by Giovanni Morassutti, an actor......

A two day long Origami workshop took place in December 2019 at the Dubolhati palace in Naogaon, BD. The workshop was part of the yearly residential art exchange program by Uronto. The workshop was conducted by Asaduzzaman Rup. He is a visual artists from Bangladesh,......

A little known Jaminder house at Naogaon District in Bangladesh called Dubolhati, is being explored by more than 25 multidisciplinary artists coming from 8 different countries by mid Nov 2019. It has become the official venue for 8th and 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art......

URONTO was in conversation with students of Arts Studies at the Durban University of Technology- DUT (city Campus) on 25 Feb 2019 to share the out of box activities and curatorial insights. Durban, a very less acknowledged art scene in South Africa, but the art......

On 11 March 2019 a Presentation of URONTO Residential Art Exchange program and a curators talk took place at the History of Arts department in University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg- Wits. The session was organized by VANSA with WITS. It was followed with a conversation......

Sadya Mizan-independent curator and Founder of URONTO Artist Community was invited as a guest lecturer by Ruth Sacks at the University of the Witwatersrand on 13 March 2019. It was a very interactive session with the Fine Art 4th year class for their Professional Practice......

The Flipbook making workshop took place under the co-curriculum program of America International School Dhaka.  Curator Sadya Mizan was invited by Francis Angelo Trainor- HS Visual Arts, AISD to take an interactive workshop with the students under their Arts curriculum. It was an amazing opportunity for......

The World Art Day Exhibition was initiated by the Narrative Movements from India under the “The World Post Contemporary Wave” platform. URONTO Collaborated from Dhaka with them in 2018 to celebrate the World Art day on 15th April. In Dhaka the exhibition took place at......

The Seventh Episode of the Residential Art Exchange Program took place in the Massive heritage palace named Shukhair Jaminder House in Shunamganj in Sylhet Division of Bangladesh. This was the second project locating in Shunamganj. URONTO team successfully traced out the family generations of the......

URONTO stood up to its Sixth Episode the residential art exchange program successfully completed in Sept-Oct 2017. The sixth Episode Located at the Gourarang Palace in Sunamganj District in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. Sylhet Division also known as Greater Sylhet or Sylhet region is the northeastern division of Bangladesh, named after its main......

On the 3rd Feb’17 a participatory workshop was arranged at the Kala Bhaban in Shanti Niketan with the students of Third and fourth Year from different departments.  The workshop was arranged by Dhairtri Boro from the painting department at Kala-Bhaban and driven by sadya Mizan.......

URONTO presented their previous works done during the Residential art Exchange program at The Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) of Baroda, India on 30th Jan 2017. It was conducted by the project director of URONTO. The presentation started with a war-up session, and ended with a......

Shimeesha Art Studio in Baroda organized an interactive discussion session with URONTO Artist community, it was organized by Debashish dutta and conducted by Sadya Mizan. The interactive session was designed to explore multiple expressions of random directions between artists. The session was refreshing and the......

Director of URONTO Artist Community was invited at the Tecnia Institute in Delhi for small presentation with their Arts Student to give them a motivation to experiment with new ideas in their practices. The presentation was arranged in Jan 2017. Tecnia institute students were very......

URONTO team has been placing their effort in creative fields and heritage histories since 2012. They stood up to its fifth season successfully completed in July 2016. The Fifth Episode was designed in magnificent Old heritage building in Chottogram near Sadarghat Area. The building is......

In the Forth Episode like every other Episode URONTO located the exchange program in a new spot. The location was a more than 300-year-old Jaminder building- Lakutia Jaminder house in historic village Lakutia in Barisal Division, Bangladesh. Barisal is one of the seven administrative divisions of Bangladesh. Located in......

A presentation of URONTO took place at the Kala-Bhaban in Shantiniketan on 5th April 2014. That was the first ever presentation done by URONTO. They completed their third Episode successfully by then. The presentation was a discussion around the works done in URONTO till the......

The third Episode was located in the Old House of Kalikananda Chattyapaddhay at Ishwaripur Shatkhira, Bangladesh. Ishwaripur is one of the historically famous villages in Bangladesh. It was the capital of Raja Pratipaditya in late sixteen and early 17th century. Ishwaripur has many beautiful sites.......

URONTO launched the second project on the 14th of August 2013, at Nikli Upazila, Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh. Other than the water life the area also has few very old structures which includes jamindar houses, Old British factories, monuments, temples, mosques etc. In this area once......

After doing a Pilot Episode in Kushtia in 2012, URONTO launched its first Episode again in Kushtia district on February 6, 2013. The team had chosen a historic building known to the locals as ‘Old Commissioner Building’ (Khodadadkhan Road, Thanapara, Kushtia) – a two-storied structure......