Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024 Presentation — Silences That Dissolve Into Tastes — Learning to Listen to Each Other’s Stories Through Art Education by Sharareh Bajracharya

Synopsis

When salt or sugar dissolves in water, how do we know they exist? A need to acknowledge when something exists is usually linked with a yearning for it. In this presentation, Sharareh shares about the works at Srijanalaya, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organisation established to create safer spaces of learning through the arts. They search for our silences, and subsequently create pathways in the field of art education in Nepal. They develop a taste for different ways of telling stories, listening, and sometimes magic happens.

About Sharareh Bajracharya

Sharareh is a Kathmandu-based arts educator who believes in the power of the arts to make the earth tremble, loosen up for change, change that begins with expressing and listening. She is one of the founders of Srijanalaya, a nonprofit organisation in Nepal, which creates safer spaces of learning through the arts. Her curatorial endeavour is to open up questions that have been silenced and to unlearn different forms of indoctrination.