Advocacy & Partnership

Everyday heritage remains invisible and excluded. It is most often lost either due to its irrelevance and lack of utility in the everyday life and existence of people or with its overarching reliability on cultural memory. At Awalkhana, we believe that there is an urgent need for people’s movement and participation in the field of everyday heritage, a rigorous detailing and archiving of cultural memory and institutional platforms to tap into the transformative power of everyday heritage. Through our initiatives we advocate and create awareness on everyday art and heritage of common people, allowing it to come into contact, and forge dialogue with the dominant, public and niche forms of heritage and art. We prepare database of region’s indigenous art and craft forms, socio-economic profiling and documentation holding the key to conserving intangible cultural heritage.