The Unnati Cultural Village is a unique initiative of the Chaudhary Foundation that fuels the evolution of heritage, multidisciplinary arts, crafts and living knowledge systems of Nepal, through its harnessing, preservation, promotion and resultant economic growth. Unnati’s philosophy of revival of national heritage through forms of arts, dance, music, literature, cuisine and traditional habitat is intended to bring the past into the present. It is a sustainable creation of cultural wealth and artistic endeavor that speaks both to the traditional as well as the contemporary. The intention is to incubate a program that is sensitive and holistic.

The Himalayan region of Nepal is a land of warm, hardy, and gracious people from many ethnic cultures who are nestled among the lofty mountains of the expansive Himalayas. The cultural heritage of the Nepalese is extremely nuanced and layered.

It is this layering and complexity that the artists of Aakrit Collective explore through their works. They look into the narratives of Migration, Memory, and Continuity, combined with the technique and the relation of style with both the contemporary and the traditional. It is these components that artists explore presenting the larger picture of Nepal and its socio-political scenario.