Light Up the Dark | 2023

This video features live footage from the 2023 Light Up The Dark event in which animations created by OCAD University students are projected on the Aga Khan Museum’s façade on three consecutive nights in December. OCAD University Students and recent graduates worked in collaboration with the Museum and Shezad Dawood to create these animations which were inspired by the Museum Collections and current exhibition, Shezad Dawood: Night in the Garden of Love, Inspired by and Featuring Yusef Lateef and set to music by Yusef Lateef.
Special Thanks:
Shezad Dawood, Artist
Ayesha Lateef, Estate of Yusef Lateef
OCAD University Students and faculty
AVA Animation & Visual Arts, Projection design and consultancy
Featuring OCAD University Students and Recent Graduates:
Belinda Zhang “Petals and Patterns”
Ghazal Vakilzadeh “The Blue Iris”
Yiyun Zhang “Floral Reverie”
Derya Ozparlak “Nature's Narrative”
Tommy Truong “Counting Petals”
Teodora Pencheva “Flourish”
Isaac King “Focus Jump”
Marcella Driver-Moliner “Untroubled Florals”
Vladimir Kanic “Garden of Breaths”
Peter Rahul “The Hunt”
All music composed by Yusef Lateef and published by YAL Records:
“Fantasia”
“Hexatology”
“Instrumental Gospel”
“One Day”
“Perception”
“Precious Moments”
“Spirituality of Space”
“Transfer”
“Twilight”
“You Got That Right”
The Aga Khan Museum acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.