CRACK TRUST

CRACK Trust's evolution has seen a steady merging and growth of ideas anchored in the essence of discovery, collaboration, and shared experiences. It emphasizes supporting budding artists and thinkers by providing them with space and impetus to nurture their skills on a global scale. Through diverse activities, it enables the exchange of thoughts, notions, principles, and convictions among artists and other creative professionals across the globe. CRACK Trust arranges two programs yearly: CRACK International Art Camp (CIAC) and Connecting Youngsters: CRACK Summer Camp. A dedicated team of activists takes on organizing responsibilities to execute these initiatives. Throughout its progression, CRACK has established a robust network of affiliated artists worldwide, notably in South Asian countries.

CRACK TRUST

CRACK Trust's evolution has seen a steady merging and growth of ideas anchored in the essence of discovery, collaboration, and shared experiences. It emphasizes supporting budding artists and thinkers by providing them with space and impetus to nurture their skills on a global scale. Through diverse activities, it enables the exchange of thoughts, notions, principles, and convictions among artists and other creative professionals across the globe. CRACK Trust arranges two programs yearly: CRACK International Art Camp (CIAC) and Connecting Youngsters: CRACK Summer Camp. A dedicated team of activists takes on organizing responsibilities to execute these initiatives. Throughout its progression, CRACK has established a robust network of affiliated artists worldwide, notably in South Asian countries.

Artist Shawon Akand and artist Delowar Hossain’s meeting had germinated the crucial idea of this platform in 2007. Shawon Akand’s idea of artists gathering was drawn from the Baul (one kind of Sufi sects) philosophy and tradition in Bengal. Kushtia, a south western district of Bangladesh, is one of the major centers of this philosophy. This centuries old tradition accommodates an annual gathering of Baul practitioners and singers to come together, to stay few days and exchange their experience and deeper introspections with each-other. Inspired by this notion of deeper exchange and exploration, the initiators conceived a melting pot for artists and creative minds coming from diverse fields of praxis to come together and explore each other’s artistic realms. Shawon Akand’s visionary initiative and Delowar Hossain’s passionate support have made it possible to realize this platform. Eventually this platform is now constituted as a non-profit arts trust which is primarily based in Bangladesh and also charting new artistic arenas globally


Our Philosophy

Our Philosophy

Our Philosophy

CRACK Trust’s core notion is inspired by Baul’s philosophy and the heightened spiritual get-together [A.K.A. Sadhu Sanga] of masters and practitioners. The practitioners believe that exchanging experience at a heightened state of being facilitates participants to explore new uncharted creative grounds and a greater understanding of the universe. At CRACK Trust, we believe that Art is a complex process, and it cannot be separated from daily life and ways of living.

We think that every form of art has interrelation, and it is necessary to develop vigorous interlinkages between every field of culture to create a favourable environment for the progress of artistic practices. In this light, apart from visual artists, CRACK also engages creative people from various disciplines, including but not limited to theatre activists, photographers, film-makers, musicians, psychologists, singers, poets, writers, journalists, actors, anthropologists, folklorists, historians, art critics and so on.

It aims to provide a platform for all thinkers and creative practitioners worldwide with the philosophical basis to think independently and understand each other’s culture. Sharing and caring for cross-cultural art intends to establish an eco-friendly platform that considers the oneness of our planet that we all have been sharing for generations.

LET'S MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND

LET'S MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND

LET'S MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND

We are introducing our talented CRACK Team, who moves mountains every day. Our Trustees, led by Founder trustees Delowar Hossain and Shawon Akand, join their creative minds with other passionate trustees to facilitate the creative amalgamation of different cultures.

Diving into our associates, we present the relentless force scattered across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the USA, and England. They’re the experts that help us spread our wings.

Diving into our associates, we present the relentless force scattered across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the USA, and England. They’re the experts that help us spread our wings.

Delowar HOSSAIN

Founder Trustee

Shawon AKAND

Founder Trustee

Ananta DAS

Trustee

Polash Chowdhury

Trustee

Kanak ADITYA

Trustee

Rahul ANANDA

Trustee

Tanzim AHAMED bijoy

Trustee

Anarja TAPOSH

Trustee

Shakti noman

Trustee

Nahad Ul Quasem Orchid

Trustee

CONNECT WITH OUR ASSOCIATES ALL OVER THE WORLD. WE ARE OPEN TO HELP AND collaborate

Chittagong

Jaan E Alam Chanchal

Khulna

Shaheen Mahmood Reza Rajon

Shaheen Mahmood Reza Rajon

Shaheen Mahmood Reza Rajon

Rajshahi

Shushmita Chakrabarti

Shushmita Chakrabarti

Shushmita Chakrabarti

Rangpur

Akhter Hossain

Akhter Hossain

Akhter Hossain

Sylhet

Raihan Ahmed Rafi

Raihan Ahmed Rafi

Raihan Ahmed Rafi

Ahmadabad

Mrugen Rathod

Mrugen Rathod

Mrugen Rathod

Rajshahi

Shushmita Chakrabarti

Shushmita Chakrabarti

Shushmita Chakrabarti

© Copyright 2007 - 2023. Crack Trust

© Copyright 2007 - 2023. Crack Trust

© Copyright 2007 - 2023. Crack Trust