QUETTA: Teachers and students from different schools of Awaran district took part in an art workshop organised by the Balochistan Education System.

The three-day workshop, supported by provincial culture department, was held at Model High School. It ended on Jan 28.

The students showed their capabilities in the workshop and decorated the school with paintings.

“At school level, we will keep encouraging promotion of arts in the district, as well as support young artists,” said Dr Ghulam Ahmad Mohammad Shahi, who is a project director of Housing Reconstruction Awaran.

“Through these workshops, we can showcase the talent of youngsters,” he added.

Activist Shamim Nasrat said on the occasion that Awaran district desperately needed such programmes and they would continue to organise them.

Teacher Nasrin Hasil said of Baloch women that they were basically artists, and art was mirrored in their embroideries.

She said it was the responsibility of institutions to work for the promotion of art at school level.

Artist Ahmad Baloch said: “The whole universe is an art, and it is necessary to understand its colours and create new things from it.”

Artist Zabad Baloch appreciated students and children’s arts, saying that these talents only needed a platform to show their capabilities.

Shabir Rakshani, the workshop organiser, said to organise such programmes they neither need larger level planning nor was it a rocket science.

“A few likeminded friends can also organise such programmes, and we will organise such programmes in the future, too,” he added.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2020