Children Drawing Festival in TaizChildren portray their dreams [Archives:2004/704/Reportage]
January 19 2004
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Taiz- Under the sponsorship of the Taiz governor, Mr. Ahmed Abduhllah al-Hajri, the Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences concluded its child festival activities on drawing titled “Children Portray Their Dreams” in Taiz on January 15.
The Children Drawing Festival started on January 4. The festival was financed by the General Industry & Packaging Company, (Konouz) and attended by the general directors of the executive offices at the governorate and Mr. Faisal Saeed Fara'e, the General Manager of Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences. The Children Drawing Festival is considered to be the first of its kind at the national level which has been recently hosted by the Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences.
It is an exceptional annual child-related event in a time in which Sana'a has been declared as the 2004 Arab Culture Capital and Taiz is the Yemen's tourist and culture capital. The children drawing fair was a clear testimony of children's genius to express their feelings freely through those drawings their dreams, their existing reality, as well as interweave their abstract ideas into tangible portraits.
Discovering talents During the closing ceremony, a number of speeches were delivered and among those speeches was by the General Manager of the Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences, Mr. Faisal Saeed Fara'e. In his speech, Mr. Fara'e welcomed the chief guests, media men, attendees and said that crowning such progress with the world of childhood and dream was a humble endeavor from his foundation in order to draw a smile on the childhood visage.
“Honoring them might have left a wonderful impression upon them which will in turn motivate those budding talents to continue their progress in order to polish their intellectual talents,” the General Manager of the Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences remarked. In his speech, Mr. Fara'e expressed his hope that the discovery of talents would not end in such activity where both the foundation as well as children talented have taken part.
“This is because those promising budding talents are in dire need to polish that valuable gem which is lodged in their inner selves. This can not be achieved through taking an interest by the people to such child-related events,” Mr. Faisal said. “The achievement has been great and it has been achieved through mobilizing efforts made by the General Industry & Packaging Company which has believed in the child's dreams and supported the idea with everything it has. This manifests itself by its General Manager, Mr. Faez Saeed Abduh Saeed,” Mr. Fara'e noted.
The General Manager of the al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Science highly spoke of efforts made by the Education Office affiliated to the Taiz governorate for playing a pivotal role in supporting the Children Drawing Festival.
The General Manager of the Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences has highly appreciated the role of the media means in this regard which has in turn taken part and published about the children-related events. He also expressed his deep thanks and admiration to Mr. Ahmed Abdullah al-Hajri, the Taiz governor and the Chairman of the Local Council for sponsoring such events as well as Mr. Ali Mohammed Saeed and Mr. Ahmed Hael Saeed, top businessmen affiliated to the Hael Saeed Ana'am Group of companies.
Child's credibility conveyed On his part, Mr. Abdullah Abduh Saeed delivered a speech on behalf of Al-Saeed Foundation Board of Directors expressed his deep gratitude for the active role played by the Taiz governor for making the Children Drawing Festival a great success through his continuous sponsorship.
“We are delighted and happy to celebrate creativities of our budding talents and as a result, 26 of those children who have made a distinguished work have been honored.
The foundation has selected this activity in order to inaugurate its 2004 Exceptional Program which is aptly chosen,” Mr. Abdullah Saeed said. “Through their drawing and portraits which have embodied their dreams and ambitions, children have made us to stop before their portraits with high esteem.
This is because, their portraits express their innocence and credibility of their feelings in a beautiful technical style,” he noted. He also expressed his happiness for honoring the young talents because, they constitute the first seeds and hoped for such child-related events to be followed in different form of arts such as, literature, poetry, theatre, and culture.
Priorities in such fields should be given by the education ministry in order to create young generation which possess multifarious talents in the Yemen's cultural arena.
At the end of his speech, Mr. Abdullah Abduh Saeed congratulated the budding talented winners in drawings. He also expressed his deep thanks to the General Industry & Packing Company, schools taking part in the event, the organizing committee and every one who has positively contributed in the event in order to make a success of it. Existing reality portrayed On his part, Mr. Ahmed Abdullah al-Hajri, the Taiz governor and the Children Drawing Festival Sponsor expressed his deep happiness for holding cultural activities particularly during the previous period.
“There are a lot of surprises in the Children Drawing Festival where we are inattentive to. It is true that suffering exists, but we could discover that there are potential capabilities possessed by those children,” the governor highlighted.
“We haven't received deep messages from press or books, but, we could receive messages from our children through the Children Drawing Festival and we seriously reconsider their matter,” he said.
As for letters received by the governor regarding the high cost of living where a meeting was held with the local council. In the meeting, a number of decisions and recommendations were made and lodged to the cabinet for discussion. Mr. al-Hajri in his speech indicated that the children's portraits signify a real dream of the city to be clean and tranquil.
“This has helped a lot to increase our determination to adopt exceptional procedures and steps to launch tree-planning campaign in the city and preserving its our environment at the level of the city.
“We hope for the children's dreams to come true and we found that children themselves have been preoccupied with the nation's issues.
We found that the children's portraits convey symbolic connotations for the Palestinian resistance and the Zionist obstinacy and the US superciliousness. “We hope that the elderly people have to abate our children's worries and concerns.
We think that our children are not young. They are the elder ones and this is the only hope we have to pin on. We could also become conscious for the children's portraits to transmit bad the parents' habits such as, smoking and chewing Qat,” the governor commented. During the closing ceremony, the top budding talents in the field of drawing were honored as well as a number of distinguished media means which have played a significant role in supporting the Children Drawing Festival were also honored at the presence of the Mr. Ahmed Abdullah Al-Hajri, the Taiz governor and Mr. Faisal Saeed Fara'e, the General Manager of the Al-Saeed Foundation for Culture & Sciences and Mr. Abdullah Abduh Saeed.
Yemen Times Establishment for Press, Printing and Publication was honored during the closing ceremony. On its part, cash prizes were distributed to the top children winners in drawing by the Development & Family Magazine published by the Yemen Times for Press, Printing, and Publication.
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