Lola Lolisanam Ulugova

Lola Ulugova (Lolisanam) has been an art manager/activist in Tajikistan since 2000. She has contributed in writing and producing the nation's first 3-D animation film, a short designed to promote awareness of environmental issues among children. ?v=c1sKbVfoEcY&t=2s&pbjreload=101
She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Turin, Italy and an undergraduate degree in Russian Language and Literature. She was a Global Cultural Fellow at the Institute for International Cultural Relations of the University of Edinburgh during academic year 2017-18 http://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/aia/131-publications/ope...
and participated in Central Asian-Azerbaijan (CAAFP) fellowship program at the George Washington University at Elliott School of International affairs for Fall 2019.
https://centralasiaprogram.org/archives/14147
She has co-produced "After the Curtain" documentary along with Emelie Mahdavian (USA) (2012-2016), covering the intimate stories of a few Tajik women dancers , also a “Youth for Laws Supremacy” (2019) performance that indicated her protest torture and violence
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Since 2019 she has been a freelance art journalist and researcher contributing to VOCA (Voices on Central Asia), Transitory White, the Diplomat, the Curator Space
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/feminism-and-central-asia-what-went-wron...
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/tajik-fashion-and-the-challenges-of-achi...
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/contemporary-art-in-central-asia-an-inte...
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/what-do-theaters-in-tajikistan-tell-us/

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Besides the publications, she has produced a few performances staging her own scripts.
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She has produced two artworks recently:
an animation 2D film of a sexually abused child story
and a documentary “Dancing Men” concerning on stigma of male dancers https://youtu.be/LDRHF736wxY