Published: April 29, 2010

Houston, Texas (04-27-2010 – Press Release): This coming Saturday, May 01, 2010 from 5pm till 9pm, at the home of Emily Sketch Haines & Zach Haines, located at 1800 Edwards Street, Houston 77007, Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) presents a global cultural programs from Pakistan, featuring the art work which is done on trucks in Pakistan. The show starting on May 01 and happening till May 08th will feature Houston art car and Pakistani truck art history, and include a preview of VBB’s first art car, Digital Meets Pakistani Truck Art, designed by Eric Hester and Sehba Sarwar. Decorations on the car include video screens showing VBB’s history, truck art designs from Karachi collected by Sehba Sarwar on a recent trip to Pakistan, and an open mic podium welded out of the passenger seat.

The Saturday, May 01, 2010 show will include: A documentary of art car history in Houston by Carlton Ahrens and Ford Gunter of del monte films, another documentary on Pakistani truck art by Maheen Zia, installations by David Cisneros, Yunuen Perez Vertti, and Pakistani Artisans led by Anj Rana. Photographs by Abro Khuda Bux, Paul Hester, Mark Lacy and Ilona Yusof will be exhibited, documenting the history of art cars and Pakistani truck art. And like all VBB living room art productions, there will be food, drinks, community, conversation, and open mic.

“I’ve had a wonderful time mixing my two homes through VBB,” says Sehba Sarwar, VBB Founding Director. “This living room art production is very special – we’ll be showcasing my retired ’93 Honda by decorating it with pieces of my life that I value greatly: the digital history of VBB recorded by many inspiring artists such as Paul and Eric Hester, Yunuen Perez Vertti and Faroukh Virani, alongside folk art decorations that have led to an international celebration of trucks in Pakistan. We specially chose to hold the show on May 1 (May Day) as a celebration of International Workers’ Day to honor those who pour so much into creating the vehicles that move us.”

This show is cosponsored by KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM, The Houston Institute for Culture, The Orange Show for the Visual Arts, and Geo TV. This project is part of VBB’s Pakistan Live Broadcast productions that aim to shed an alternative light on Pakistan, and to recognize neighborhoods where shows are installed.

All VBB Living Room Art shows are theme-based, multidisciplinary, and allow space for spoken word artists, writers, visual artists, performance artists, and musicians, and generally draw audiences ranging from 250-400. The shows are conceived and directed by Founding Director Sehba Sarwar with Yunuen Perez Vertti, Mark Lacy and Eric Hester. For more information about VBB’s programming, E-Mail info@vbbarts.org or visit website www.vbbarts.org

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