Moja Kori Festival
Moja-Kori, translating to “Let’s Have Fun”, is set to be one of the most exciting festivals of the year, taking place on December 6, 7, 13 & 14, 2024 across multiple sites in Korail, Dhaka, with the new public cultural space, Machan, at Ershad Maath of Korail, as the central venue. The festival is part of the Korail-City of Culture project funded by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, its local partner Paraa and international partner Floating e.V. The festival will explore the intersections of design, arts, climate change, accessibility, and sustainability through installations, workshops, performances, and discussions led by renowned local and international artists and designers.
The exhibition and program sites are not conventional gallery spaces but busy bazaar streets, rickshaw garages, community spaces, lakeside paths, waterbody or lake in Korail.
OPEN CALL: Moja Kori Festival
Open Call deadline extended to 1 November
This is an open call for artists / creatives / researchers/ artist-led initiative to engage with the MOJA KORI festival. This provides opportunities for all creative art practitioners ( fine arts, film, visual, workshop, public engagement, design, performance, music, research and beyond ) to submit their already produced art work or a proposal to produce or present during the Moja Kori Festival.
Korail 2100: Architecture Idea Competition
As part of the Korail Design Festival December 2024, we invite students of Architecture and other disciplines to creatively speculate the multiple futures of Korail in 2100 in an exciting, challenging architectural idea generation competition.
Hoichoi Closing Event
You are invited to the closing event of the Hoichoi Exhibition, showcasing projects developed by the participants of the 2024 CADSE Winter School programmed by Paraa, where participants focused on the ongoing project- “Korail-City Of Culture”.
Exhibition Posters
Over the years, the Paraa team have worked on many projects that have required graphic design work. Many of these are in the form of posters - be it for events, exhibitions, workshops, design competitions etc. This is a small selection of the graphic design work the studio has produced.
Hoichoi - CADSE Winter School 2024 Exhibition
Hoichoi takes you on a journey to understand Korail Culture as you interact with diverse forms of expressions emerging from the students at CADSE (Critical Architecture Design Sustainable Environments), the 2024 Winter School developed by Paraa. The exhibition presents explorations and interactions of professionals and Korail youth residents leading to this collaborative amalgamation capturing a hot pot of migrated traditions and new beliefs formed in an urban fabric.