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More than 1000 kids take part in environmental painting event
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Published: Saturday October 30, 2010
A painting day participant. FPWC
Children's green bus. FPWC
Yerevan - Officially the third annual Painting Day was scheduled to
start at 10 am but the first impatient children began to arrive at the
Lovers' Park half an hour early.
Many of them were the young artists who were pre-selected to paint on
school and kindergarten tables. Since September many talented children
and youths had already uploaded their paintings on the webpage:
www.paintingday.sunchild.org.
Even though the ultimate deadline for the big painting contest is
November 30 the children who uploaded their pictures before the
Painting Day on October 24 had a special opportunity. Experts from the
Foundation for Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC)
picked their most suitable painting to decorate school tables. Many of
these designated painters wanted to start their paintings as soon as
possible.
While these early birds were already deeply involved in their art work
more and more children flocked into the park also eager to paint.
Guided by the attentive volunteers of FPWC each and every kid got the
chance to express concerns and visions about nature with brush and
colors. 100 tables, 200 easels, thousands of white sheets of paper as
well as hundreds of cups filled with bright colors were prepared for
the young artists.
At noon a concert featuring many popular children bands began
featuring choirs as well as dance groups and circus performers. At
this time the park was crowded with children, their parents and many
passers-by who enjoyed the colorful event.
With great enthusiasm children and youths took up the challenge to
create paintings dedicated to the topics of the painting contest: SOS
for Nature, Nature of my Motherland, and the Zoological garden of my
dreams.
All paintings created during the Painting Day will take part in the
painting contest and everybody who strolled through the park and
observed the young artists has no doubt about the many talents which
were exhibited in Lovers' Park on this very special occasion. But it's
not only about talent - it was also obvious that many children and
youths understood clearly that Painting Day offers a great chance to
advocate for nature and to raise a voice for nature protection. On
this very day children became teachers of the adults reminding them
that any destructive behavior towards nature will destroy the future
for all generations to come.
Ruben Khachatryan, the director of FPWC, as well as Garreth Owen,
Britain's deputy chief of mission in Armenia, thanked children for
joining the green movement and encouraged them to stick firmly to
their way as stewards of nature.
Khachatryan noted especially that this year's painting contest is
Pan-Armenian. Armenian children living all over the world are invited
to submit their paintings through the Painting Day web site
www.paintingday.sunchild.org.
Among the guests in Lovers' Park was Yerevan mayor Gagik Beglaryan,
who expressed his pleasure that so many children and youth
participated in this colorful action dedicated to Armenia's precious
nature.
At 4 pm a Painting Day full of sun and colors gradually came to an
end. The FPWC volunteers collected nearly thousand wonderful paintings
created by the young attendees. Moreover in the upcoming days the
colorful decorated school and kindergarten tables will be first
lacquered and then given back to the educational institutions. Thus
these colorful tables in the next years convey their environmental
message to many Armenian children.
And hopefully we all will meet again for the fourth annual Painting Day in 2011!
From: A. Papazian
http://www.reporter.am/index.cfm?objectidè669663-E453-11DF-A97E0003FF3452C2
Published: Saturday October 30, 2010
A painting day participant. FPWC
Children's green bus. FPWC
Yerevan - Officially the third annual Painting Day was scheduled to
start at 10 am but the first impatient children began to arrive at the
Lovers' Park half an hour early.
Many of them were the young artists who were pre-selected to paint on
school and kindergarten tables. Since September many talented children
and youths had already uploaded their paintings on the webpage:
www.paintingday.sunchild.org.
Even though the ultimate deadline for the big painting contest is
November 30 the children who uploaded their pictures before the
Painting Day on October 24 had a special opportunity. Experts from the
Foundation for Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC)
picked their most suitable painting to decorate school tables. Many of
these designated painters wanted to start their paintings as soon as
possible.
While these early birds were already deeply involved in their art work
more and more children flocked into the park also eager to paint.
Guided by the attentive volunteers of FPWC each and every kid got the
chance to express concerns and visions about nature with brush and
colors. 100 tables, 200 easels, thousands of white sheets of paper as
well as hundreds of cups filled with bright colors were prepared for
the young artists.
At noon a concert featuring many popular children bands began
featuring choirs as well as dance groups and circus performers. At
this time the park was crowded with children, their parents and many
passers-by who enjoyed the colorful event.
With great enthusiasm children and youths took up the challenge to
create paintings dedicated to the topics of the painting contest: SOS
for Nature, Nature of my Motherland, and the Zoological garden of my
dreams.
All paintings created during the Painting Day will take part in the
painting contest and everybody who strolled through the park and
observed the young artists has no doubt about the many talents which
were exhibited in Lovers' Park on this very special occasion. But it's
not only about talent - it was also obvious that many children and
youths understood clearly that Painting Day offers a great chance to
advocate for nature and to raise a voice for nature protection. On
this very day children became teachers of the adults reminding them
that any destructive behavior towards nature will destroy the future
for all generations to come.
Ruben Khachatryan, the director of FPWC, as well as Garreth Owen,
Britain's deputy chief of mission in Armenia, thanked children for
joining the green movement and encouraged them to stick firmly to
their way as stewards of nature.
Khachatryan noted especially that this year's painting contest is
Pan-Armenian. Armenian children living all over the world are invited
to submit their paintings through the Painting Day web site
www.paintingday.sunchild.org.
Among the guests in Lovers' Park was Yerevan mayor Gagik Beglaryan,
who expressed his pleasure that so many children and youth
participated in this colorful action dedicated to Armenia's precious
nature.
At 4 pm a Painting Day full of sun and colors gradually came to an
end. The FPWC volunteers collected nearly thousand wonderful paintings
created by the young attendees. Moreover in the upcoming days the
colorful decorated school and kindergarten tables will be first
lacquered and then given back to the educational institutions. Thus
these colorful tables in the next years convey their environmental
message to many Armenian children.
And hopefully we all will meet again for the fourth annual Painting Day in 2011!
From: A. Papazian