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Lubna Marium
Native nameলুবনা মরিয়ম
Born (1954-08-06) August 6, 1954 (age 71)
🏳️ NationalityBangladeshi
💼 Occupation
Dancer, researcher, cultural activist
📆 Years active  1962-present
👶 ChildrenAnusheh Anadil and Kushan Omar Sufi
🏅 AwardsBiswaratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award (2013), Shilpakala Padak (2019), Nagad and Bangla Tribune ‘50 Years of Independence Award (2022)

Lubna Marium is a Bangladeshi dancer, art director, researcher and cultural activist. The Government of Bangladesh awarded her the Shilpakala Padak in 2019 for her special contribution in dance.[1][2][3] She participated in the Liberation War of 1971 by assisting in the Advanced Dressing Center located at the Mohdipur Mukti Bahini Camp of Sector 7, near Chapainawabganj.[4] She was also associated with the ‘Mukti-Shongrami Shilpi Shongstha’, an artists’ group formed in Kolkata during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. [5] She can be seen in the popular documentary film 'Muktir Gaan'.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Participation in the Language Movement and Liberation War of 1971

Lubna has been part of Bangladesh’s Cultural Movement from childhood. Before the war in 1971 she participated in many demonstrations, rallies and cultural performances protesting oppression by the Pakistani regime. In 1971, with her family, she worked in the Kalyani Refugee Camp in India, under the aegis of the Centre for Communal Harmony run by the late Smt. Maitreyee Devi. Later, she was part of the Advanced Dressing Center in Sector 7 of the Mukti Bahini, where her father Lt.Col. Quazi Nooruzzaman was the Sector Commander of Sector 7. He was, later, one of the Founding Members of Ekattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee. Lubna can be seen in the film ‘Muktir Gaan’ as part of the ‘cultural troupe, named Bangladesh Mukti Shangrami Shilpi Shangstha which used to travel to refugee camps and different areas of the Mukta Anchal, to perform patriotic songs, arrange puppet shows and stage dramas to inspire the freedom fighters and refugees with the Spirit of Liberation.[12]

Work Experience

Writings and Lectures on Culture

Presented papers on Culture of Bangladesh, specifically Dance Studies and Indigenous Performances, in several national and international seminars.[13][14][15][16][17]

  • Lubna Marium (2022) Interrogating the Spirit of 1971: Beyond Historicisms, Strategic Analysis, DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2021.1999698.[18]

Publications

  • ‘Children Cry Alone’, a research publication on the situation of sexual abuse of children in Bangladesh, based on a survey undertaken by ASK, in collaboration with several professional groups, as part of a UNESCAP project entitled ‘Elimination of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Youth Through Human Resources Development’; 2000.
  • Marium, Lubna, A LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE: The role of courts and civil society in safeguarding women's human rights in Bangladesh, 2006; based on a report on ‘The Role of Courts and Civil Society in Safeguarding Women’s Human Rights in Bangladesh’ for an Ain-O-Shalish Kendro (ASK), Bangladesh - Chr. Michelsen Institute for Science and Intellectual Freedom (CMI), Norway project; June 2006.
  • ‘Charyanrtya – Deho o moner shongjog’; Bangladesher Hridoy hote (Vol 1, Year 4, 1 Falgun, 1417.
  • ‘Rabindranritya: An unfinished Experiment; Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming a Cultural Icon. Edited by Kathleen M. O’Connell and Joseph T. O’Connell. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati, 2009.
  • 'Restructuring Tradition - An Experiment in the Introduction of Performance Pedagogy in an Indigenous Performing Art of Bangladesh'; Folklore Across the Boundaries of the SAARC Region; Edited by K.Satchidanandan & Ajit Cour; Delhi, June 2010.
  • ‘Understanding Creative Unity’; `Tagore Beyond Borders’; ICCR, Kolkata, 2010.
  • ‘Rabindranrtyadhara’; Shardhoshoto borshe Rabindranath, Edited by Sanjida Khatun, Chhayanaut, Boishakh 1418, May 2011.
  • Contributed with Video recording and commentary in ‘Shades of Difference’: Selected Writings of Tagore’; edited by Radha Chakravarthy; Delhi; 2015.[19]
  • 'Performing Transformation', Indian Seminar (Delhi, India), April 2016.[20]

Research Writings

  • Completed a ‘Pilot ICH inventory Project’, by UNESCO (Dhaka), involving local communities and practitioners on a selected number of intangible cultural heritages of Bangladesh in 2017.
  • Researched and revived Bengal’s martial dance, ‘Raibesh’ and the medieval dance form ‘Charya Nritya’ within dance practice of Bangladesh.
  • Researched and worked with folk theatre companies performing the ritual theatre of Manasa Mangal.
  • Researched ‘Lathikhela’ country-wide in 2010 – 2016.

Creative Writing

  • Marium, Lubna. 2921. "Whimsies." In Golden: Bangladesh at 50 Contemporary Stories and Poems edited by Shazia Omar, by Shazia Omar and eds. Dhaka: UPL.[21]

Personal life

Lubna was married to Jamal Ahmed Sufi, Managing Director of Charuta Private Ltd. Lubna’s father was Kazi Nuruzzaman and her mother Dr. Sultana Zaman Professor Emeritus of the University of Dhaka, was the founder of Bangladesh Protibandhi Foundation (BPF), an organization for the mentally disabled people. Dr. Sultana Zaman was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak in 2008 by the Government of Bangladesh. Her daughter Anusheh Anadil is a Bangladeshi musician, artist, cultural activist. Lubna’s son, Kushan Omar Sufi, is a designer and musician.[22][23][24]

Awards

References

  1. "Shilpakala Padak 2019, 2020 announced". Daily Sun. June 14, 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  2. "The dance connoisseur Lubna Marium". The Daily Star. September 1, 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  3. "Lubna Marium". 4 January 2020.
  4. "Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh Ministry of Cultural Affair" (PDF). moca.portal.gov.bd. 24 November 2021. p. 2. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  5. "কোনোদিন কাঁদি নাই সেদিনের ঘটনায় যত কেঁদেছি: লুবনা মরিয়ম". Jugantor (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  6. "মুক্তিযুদ্ধের সময় প্রতিদিন কেঁদেছি: লুবনা মরিয়ম". Samakal (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  7. "‌‌‌'শিল্প বাড়ি'তে লুবনা মরিয়ম". Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  8. "১১ বীর নারী পেলেন সম্মাননা". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  9. "১৪ ডিসেম্বরের যুদ্ধচিত্র উঠে এলো সাধনার পারফরম্যান্সে". Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  10. "জাতীয় বীরদের গল্প অপো গ্যালারিতে". Jugantor (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  11. https://en.prothomalo.com/entertainment/Bangladesh-dance-trio-set-to-enthrall-Chinese
  12. https://samakal.com/todays-print-edition/tp-charmatra/article/1704286819
  13. "Words of hope from Lubna Mariam". 16 December 2008.
  14. ""Dancers have quickly turned to technology for survival"". 25 July 2020.
  15. "The case for a national inventory of intangible cultural heritage". 4 June 2021.
  16. "Art transcending all boundaries". 3 July 2018.
  17. "Never in the Room: A Forum Theatre Presentation in Partnership with Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH)". 26 September 2019.
  18. Marium, Lubna (2 November 2021). "Interrogating the Spirit of 1971: Beyond Historicisms". Strategic Analysis. 45 (6): 513–529. doi:10.1080/09700161.2021.1999698. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  19. https://in.ambafrance.org/Launch-of-Shades-of-Difference-Selected-Writings-of-Rabindranath-Tagore
  20. https://www.india-seminar.com/2016/680/680_lubna_marium.htm
  21. "The writers of 'Golden: Bangladesh at 50' tell their tales". The Daily Star. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  22. "শিল্প বাড়িতে লুবনা মরিয়ম". Bangla News24 (in Bengali). Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  23. "An artiste-activist on the move". New Agebd. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  24. "1 Minute Please!". 13 June 2014.
  25. "Dancer-scholar gets first Bhupen award". The Times Of India. March 29, 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  26. "Lubna Marium receives Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Int'l Solidarity Award". 29 March 2013.
  27. "১১ বীর নারী পেলেন সম্মাননা". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). March 21, 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  28. "Lubna Marium to receive award in Kolkata". New Age BD. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  29. "Lubna Marium to receive the prestigious Proyash Somman Award". The Daily Star. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  30. "18 artists, two organisations to receive Shilpakala Padak 2019, 2020".
  31. "Nagad honours 50 freedom fighters, organisers". UNB. Retrieved 11 May 2022.


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