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Riot of colour on Children’s Day

— Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty

Different hues: Schoolchildren busy drawing cityscape on a wall in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.

BHUBANESWAR: It was a celebration of creativity for the children on the Children’s Day in the capital on Wednesday.

City-based Bakul Children’s Library organised a painters’ camp in satya Nagar for about 60 students from 12 schools. The 200-feet boundary wall of a public building, aptly named as Children’s Art Wall, was their canvas and the theme to paint was ‘Bhubaneswar-Our City’.

“Paint whatever you feel about your city”, they were told. And there was no looking back for the brigade of budding painters. While most of them preferred to paint images of the ancient monuments, other attempted to portray the modern day monuments - malls and the high-rise buildings that dominate the cityscape. Some painted scenes from the slums.

A few speech and hearing impaired children drew some touching paintings. “It’s our humble attempt to make the children aware of their city, its heritage and environment while celebrating the Children’s Day,” said Bakul Foundation secretary Sujeet Mohapatra.

CUTTACK: Schools are now giving more emphasis on the development of latent talents in students apart from emphasizing on the academic talents of the students.

On the occasion of Children’s day on Wednesday, the local DAV school here at Abhinab Bidanasi organized a talent hunt, an exhibition and fete on the school premises on Tuesday.

“Our aim is to see that the students can get rid of stage fear completely,”. said the school principal Lokanath Pradhan.

At least 600 students from nursery to senior secondary students exhibited their talents in performing art by staging fashion show, fancy dress, classical and modern dance and playing instruments like guitar, tabla and synthesizer, he added.

Similarly, as many as 2,500 students exhibited 600 various models and projects explaining intricacies of subjects like science, mathematics, social sciences, language subjects, computer and art and craft.

Dr. Himanshu K Mohanty, the Regional Director of the DAV schools in Orissa, West Bengal and Sikkim inaugurated the exhibition .

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