Salma Naje represents Yemen at World Children Festival [Archives:2007/1054/Local News]

SANA'A, May 26 ) The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) has announced that Salma Abd Algany Naje will represent Yemen at the World Children's Festival at the National Mall, Washington DC, on June 23-25, 2007.

The world's largest celebration of children's creativity and imagination culminates the ICAF Arts Olympiad in which nearly 3 million children in 100 countries participated. Supported by free lesson plans, the 8-to-12-year-old artists produced painting and digital art on the theme “My Favorite Sport” to celebrate the “artist-athlete” ideal of a creative mind and healthy body. Young delegates to the Festival were selected on the basis of creativity and originality through country-level competitions.

As Yemen's representative, Salma will participate in the Children First project to collaboratively create with other Arts Olympiad finalists symbolic works for President George W. Bush and 2008 presidential candidates.

Salma and fellow artists will join young performers and musicians, athletes and Olympians, educators and technologists, as well as entrepreneurs and creative leaders to generate a complete synesthetic experience – a total work of art that transform the National Mall. The Festival becomes a turning point in children's lives and a touchstone to guide them in the future.

ICAF is an international art organization for world's children that integrates arts with science, sport, and technology for the development of children's creativity and empathy – preconditions for a more just, prosperous, and nonviolent world.
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