Mukhtar Dar Explained

Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born^[1] photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist. He became a founding member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement in the 1980s in England, and later joined the Birmingham Asian Youth Movement.^[2] Dar has served as Director of Arts at the Drum, an intercultural arts centre in Birmingham, and in around 2008 served as Director of Arts of the Birmingham-based agency Sampad Arts.^[3]

The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which in 2022 displayed a number of photographs and film clips by Dar in a pop-up exhibition about the history of the United Kingdom's Asian and African Caribbean communities' struggles with racism,^{[4] [5]} dubbed Dar "the unofficial artist of the largest grassroots movement in the history of the UK's South Asian communities."

Notes and References

1. 2009. Indian Horizons. Indian Horizons. Indian Council for Cultural Relations. 56. Originally from Pakistan, Mukhtar Dar was trained as a painter and filmmaker before becoming Director of Arts at the Drum..
2. Web site: Blacklash: Racism and the Struggle for Self-Defence. BirminghamMuseums.org.uk. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. 10 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221010044708/https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/blacklash-racism-and-the-struggle-for-self-defence. 10 October 2022. live.
3. Book: Godiwala. Dimple. 2006. Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 170. 978-1904303664.
4. Web site: Black History Month: Birmingham museums announce events. 3 October 2022. BBC. 10 October 2022.
5. Web site: The Black History Month events that are taking place in Birmingham. McCallister. Robson. 5 October 2022. Birmingham Mail. 10 October 2022.