HIVE – The Citizens Archive of Pakistan

The Citizens Archive of Pakistan

Organization Name: The Citizens Archive of Pakistan

Head Office: Karachi

Contact Person: Anoosha Zahid, Manager Communciations

Working Since: 2007

Areas of Operations: Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore

(as of March 2015)

No. of trainings/workshops delivered to date: N/A

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Cities these were delivered in: N/A

No. of conferences/seminars organized to date: N/A

Themes: N/A

Cities these were held in: N/A

No. of campaigns launched to date: N/A

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Cities these were held in: N/A

No. of arts & culture events held to date: 50

Themes:Oral History, History, Partition, Memories of Pre-Partition, Peace Building, Photography, Culture, Literature and Historical Documentation

Cities these were held in: Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and London.

(as of March 2015)

No.	Name	Date Published	PDF File/Web link
1	CAP Monthly Newsletter	Monthly

(as of March 2015)

No.	Name	Nature of Project
Successfully Completed
1	The Oral History Project (ongoing)	Oral History recording, memory preservation
2	Exchange for Change	Peace building, Removing cultural misconceptions
3	CAP Outreach Tours	Education
4	Google Cultural Institute	Promotion of Pakistani Heritage
5	Lollywood Project	Preservation of films, images, articles and advertisements of films
6	Shanaakht Festival	Peace Building, Festival of art, photography, music, theater, story-telling and history.
7	Birth of Pakistan	Outreach project on significant events of Pakistan’s early history
8	Dialogue With Pakistan	Counter Extremism
9	State of Being so Divided	An interactive exhibit to take visitors through an interactive timeline from 1947 to 1971
10	Dekho Pakistan	An interactive exhibition designed to commemorate the reopening of one of Pakistan’s heritage sites – Frere Hall, as part of the Hamara Karachi Festival 2011
In Progress/Upcoming
No.	Name	Nature of Project
1	The Oral History Project	Oral History Recording and Memory preservation
2	CAP Outreach Tours	Education
3	Exchange for Change	Peace building and Removing cultural misconceptions
4	Humans of Karachi	Photography, recording stories of regular Karachiites
5	CAP Sheep Mobile Library	Literacy, Mobile Library for Underprivileged School Students

CAP was recognized by the Sindh Education Foundation for its participation in the Adopt-a-School Program
CAP was was awarded Azme-Aalishan award 2012 for significant contributions to the nation