Ocean Mall – Sagar Samy

Karachi is the city of lights and Karachites know how to celebrate the moments. Be it shopping, hangout, cinemas, restaurants, family get together and so on. They know very well how to make it special.

When we talk about shopping then the first two things come to our mind is a sale and discounts. Yes, as it is very important for ladies who want to do shopping more and more and yes for gents as well, so they can save their money as much as possible and it’s only possible when there is a sale or an amazing discount on brands.

No need to worry now because Ocean Mall has solved this problem. Ocean Mall is celebrating “Winter Shopping Festival 2K17 (WSF17)”. With more than 120 brand outlets, the mall is offering an amazing discount on so many brands.

The festival officially inaugurated with the ribbon cutting ceremony on 15th December 2017. The opening ceremony of WSF17 was full of glam and glare. After all, it was attended by celebrities, bloggers, press, media and socialites.

The highlights of the event were the ever gorgeous Sarwat Gillani, very talented singer Natasha Baig, rapper/singer/comedian Ali Gul Pir, the legendary actor Javed Sheikh, extremely talented News Anchors Abdullah Sultan & Mubashir Hashmi and obviously host of the evening, Anoushay Ashraf.

Talking about the festival, Ms Alia Tariq (CEO of Ocean Mall) said,

“This is the 4th year of the festival and with every year it’s getting bigger and better. We have made a hub of entertainment which caters all the age groups. It’s a big shopping entertainment hub. I hope you people will avail amazing discounts with this festival. There are amazing prizes for you guys including return air tickets of Dubai and Thailand.”

Mubashir Hashmi (News Anchor of Geo News) shared his views about the fest and said,

“Such kind of festivals should be organized more and more. Families in large number visit the mall and do shopping. So people get encouraged and as a result, they do more shopping and yes they wait for the discounts as well.”

While Abdullah Sultan (News Anchor of Geo News) commented,

“It is a complete package of shopping, food, cinema and activities.”

The trend of selfies is getting popular day by day. So the mall management also allowed the audience to come on the stage for taking selfies with their favourite celebrities. The audience also participated in activities and won many exciting gift hampers.

In the end, the live performance was mandatory. So, Natasha Baig came on the stage and made the audience energetic and crazy on her performance.

As the festival has officially kicked off from 15th December and it will continue till 30th December 2017. Do visit Ocean Mall today with your friends and family to avail amazing discounts on so many brands as well as to participate in the activities for winning the exciting prizes and return air tickets.

2017 is about to end, then why not to make it memorable by spending quality time with friends and family at such place where you can get all under one roof.

The 4th Sartyoon Sang Crafts Festival was organized by SRSO (Sindh Rural Support Organization) on 6^th to 8^th January – 2017, at Ocean Mall – Clifton, Karachi. The main reason behind the festival was to display the work around 1200 women artisans from the northern districts of Sindh.

SRSO is a non – for – profit organization, which is working in Sindh. It was established in 2003 with fund of RS 1 billion by government of Sindh for reducing poverty, skill development, health and education. While Sartyoon Sang (together with friends) is struggling to empower the women of slum communities of Sindh since 2011. Not only that, it also promotes crafts, culture, embroidery work, textile products and many others.

The festival attracted a large numbers of women residents of Clifton and other areas of the city since its very inauguration day. There was a wonderful display of Sindhi handicrafts by rural women, including home textiles, basketry, jewelry, dresses, dupattas, shawls, embellished with traditional embroidery and cutwork. It was a perfect mixture of all Sindhi ingredients under one roof.

The attendees were really enjoyed this festival so much, and were highly getting attracted by those beautiful crafts. As a result they were buying things like home-made slippers, crafts, decorated things, shawls, ajraks etc.

While talking about the festival Mr. Muhammed Dittal Kalhoro (CEO of SRSO) stated,

“The event objective was to facilitate better incomes for women artisans of rural Sindh.”

He continued,

“We have trained more than 10,000 women from some of the under developed regions of Jacobababad, Kandkot, Kashmore, shikarpur, Gohtki, Kambar- Shahdakot, Khairpur, and Sukkur that to help these women gain maximum monetary benefit from their skills, they have incorporated urban trends into their work.”

He further said,

“In order to set apart their work from what is available in the market, we have made a few innovations, such as net work done on the blankets.”

It was such a great initiative to promote Sindhi culture and crafts among urban people, by displaying amazing work by rural women at such platform where people go only for buying branded things. But it’s a beauty of Sindhi culture and its crafts that people automatically get attract towards it. And at the same time, it is also so beneficial for those rural women who are from the remote areas of Sindh that just because of this platform they get a chance to display their work due to which many people get attract, and as a result earn from it.

Here are the some of the pictures from Sartyoon Sang festival.