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Miscellanea: Young world Special Activity Pavilion
For the fist time in the All About Lifestyle Exhibition a pavilion dedicated entirely to children was created. The All About Lifestyle kids pavilion was a sure shot visit for every child that came to the exhibition. With games, various prizes, lucky draws, puppet shows, magic shows, story telling sessions and non stop entertainment the place was jammed packed with children having the time of their lives.
Games that were played
1. Question Time: Children flexed their mental muscles and answered general knowledge questions relating to history, geography, sports, arts and culture and famous personalities.
2. Ring a prize: Standing 4 feet away from the cylinders, the aim was the test your throwing skills and win various exciting prizes.
3. Map Quest: Blindfolded children had to spot different countries on the world map to win fabulous prizes.
4. News pick: The children had to pick to similar news items from a matka in order to win prizes.
Other exciting activities at the pavilion
1. Lucky draw: children were asked to fill in their information and after every 5 hours winners of the lucky draw were announced and given exciting prizes.
2. Story telling sessions: children gathered and listen with sheer enthusiasm stories about how Snow White found her Prince charming and the how the frogs took over the grass lands.
3. Boogie Woogie talent show: children came on stage and showed off their dancing skills to win exciting prizes.
4. Magic Show: children were delighted to see disappearing rabbits and doves. The Magic Show kept the children on their toes.
5. Puppet Shows: singing along their favourite tunes, the children were thrilled to see how the puppets came to life.
6. Bouncing castle: energy that was overwhelming, kids jumped, jumped and jumped all day long in the bouncing castle.
7. Face painting and henna tattoo stalls: children’s faces had Tweety bird, hearts, shining stars and other cartoon characters painted on them.
The entire pavilion was decorated with branded balloons with logo of All About Kids printed on them. The pavilion was filled with excitement and entertainment with every child walking away as a winner.
International Art Project for schools 2003
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Zain Rizvi, a 16 year old student from Frobels, Islamabad has been selected as one of the winners for the Unilever International Art Project for Schools 2003, for his impressive entry entitled “Memories of California”. The talented young artist’s work is being exhibited at The Tate Modern Gallery of London — a great achievement for the youngster and a source of great pride for the nation.Chosen for its originality and novel concept, Zain’s artwork, symbolizing a gigantic wave was made from with mineral water bottles pieced together in a curve. This was an unusual interpretation of the competition’s theme, ‘Our Relationship with Water’.
Zain and other children, whose work was selected traveled to London to attend a special celebration and see their work displayed at one of the world’s leading galleries for contemporary art. There they had an opportunity to see Olafur Eliasson’s work as well.
This is the third year that such an art project has been arranged. This is a much awaited event that encourages children to take a deeper look at their surroundings.
An exhibition to promote our culture
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Realizing that culture is the essence of a community or place, the students of Al-Madrasa-tus-Saifiyah-tul-Burhaniyah, Karachi, a renowned Dawoodi Bohra institute, organized an exhibition depicting Sindh’s culture and customs. The exhibition was inaugurated by Mansoor Bhaisaheb Mohiyudeen, the head of the Karachi Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat.The exhibition depicted Sindhi customs and traditions in an extremely vivid manner through models and thought provoking murals. The school had organized an educational camp for the students of the upper secondary section due to which they had a chance to explore the interior of Sindh, earlier this year. This helped the students to attain first hand knowledge about The traditions and customs of Sindh. The people were greeted by a huge model of Moenjodaro. The collage of segments on display included lifestyles of a Wadera as well as a working class Sindhi’s life, their rituals from the Aqiqa (birth) of a child to marriage and the traditional food of Sindh. One wall had a model of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s tomb, complete with ladies painted in garish costumes and malangs dancing in a trance.
The origin of the Sindhi language was depicted wisely and accentuated with a timeline to show its evolution and also a puppet show in which a Sindhi poem was enacted. Paper mache models portrayed the game of Malakhra and Winjwitt. The section in which the handicrafts of Sindh were displayed, was the most colourful and vibrant of the lot. Here artisans were shown at work making Ajraks and tiles.
The show culminated with a display of the Fatemi culture of the Dawoodi Bohras that can be traced to the time of the Fatemi Imams (SA), descendants of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
Exhibition to highlight street children’s life
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A three-day exhibition was organized by an NGO, Azad Foundation, recently. Displayed at the exhibition were posters, advertisements, stationery, visiting cards, letter heads, envelopes, brochures, calendars, logos, etc. by a group of nine students of the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi. .Many of the exhibits highlighted the different dimensions of the issues that afflict street children .
The students who participated were Afreen Fatima, Ayesha Khatib, Faiza Sahar, Adnan Asghar, Lubna Almas, Jamal Hussain, Rabia Ansari, Samia Jalil and Shumaila Asad.
Inter-School Basketball and Throwball tournament 2003
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Recently the Shahwilayat Public School organized an Inter-School basketball and Throwball Tournament at the Aga Khan University Hospital Sports and Rehabilitation Centre Gymnasium.Six reputable schools including, Mama Parsi Girls Secondary School, Generation’s School, Foundation Public School, D.H.A. Public School, Aureole High School and the host school participated in the tournament.
Shahwilayat Public School won the basketball tournament, whereas, the runner-up was Aureole High School.
The throwball tournament was won by the Foundation Public School and the runner-up was Shahwilayat Public School.
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