About Obokolpo Bangladesh

Obokolpo Bangladesh is a multicultural research and creativity platform exploring the relationships between arts, music, heritage, craftsmanship, nature, and human expression. Rooted in the cultural landscapes of Bangladesh and South Asia, Obokolpo Bangladesh works to preserve traditional knowledge while creating space for experimentation and new forms of expression.

Our work brings together musicians, craftspeople, researchers, artists, makers, and communities through research, documentation, instrument-making, artistic practice, exhibitions, workshops, cultural exchange, and promoting peace.

We believe heritage is not something kept as an archive only, but to be practiced, questioned, shared, and allowed to evolve. Through our work, Obokolpo Bangladesh seeks to nurture living traditions, support traditional knowledge systems, encourage ecological and material awareness, and create new possibilities for music and cultural practice.

What we preserve

Obokolpo Bangladesh believes that heritage is not limited to old objects, songs, or monuments. It lives through knowledge, skills, memory, belief, ways of life, relationships with nature, and creative practices passed from one generation to another.

Our field of preservation therefore extends across both tangible and intangible heritage. We explore the origins, making processes, uses, transformations, and cultural meanings of the things people create and the traditions they carry. Through research, documentation, collection, practice, and creative engagement, we seek to connect living heritage with the future.

What does preservation mean to us?

We preserve objects, but also the knowledge within them; sounds, but also the memories they carry; crafts, but also the craftspeople who practice them; traditions, but also the processes through which they continue to change.

For us, heritage is not a fixed image of the past. It is a living process carried through people's hands, voices, memories, landscapes, and creative practices. Preservation is not simply about holding on to the past. It is about carrying its knowledge, memory, and creativity forward.