French ambassador Nicolas Galey visits Arts Council Pakistan for ‘World Tradition Pageant’

With the 2025 ‘World Tradition Pageant’ getting into its midway mark, the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi (ACP) hosted French Ambassador Nicolas Galey on Tuesday. He visited the venue along with his spouse, Camelia Galey, Consul Basic Alexis Chahtahtinsky and Director of the Alliance Française de Karachi Emmanuel Bruerec. The Alhamra Arts Council chairman and Razi Ahmed additionally joined the tour.

The go to happened as performances, exhibitions and movie screenings continued throughout the council’s grounds below the thirty-nine day pageant. Noting the dimensions of participation, Galey stated the sequence of worldwide inventive programmes on the occasion was serving to strengthen cultural connection and trade.

The delegation additionally considered a mural being painted by French avenue artist Chifumi on one of many council’s exterior partitions. Galey known as the work “an emblem of friendship and cultural concord between Pakistan and France,” including that it mirrored the continued inventive dialogue between the 2 international locations in the course of the pageant.

ACP President Mohammad Ahmed Shah, who obtained the guests and led them by way of the pageant areas, stated the council’s intent remained rooted in cultural communication fairly than ceremony. “Artwork can nonetheless communicate the place politics fails,” he stated, describing the pageant as an try to create house for dialogue at a time of worldwide division.

The ‘World Tradition Pageant’, which opened earlier this month, options artists from a couple of hundred and forty international locations and consists of people and modern music, visible artwork and quick movies centred on peace, local weather consciousness and cultural trade.