KARACHI, Jan 18: Speakers at a media workshop drew consensus here on Friday that the fine arts are true exponent of a people’s aspirations, aesthetics and collective identity.

Critical appreciation through the media helps promote creativity of art in the country, they further said at the inaugural session of a four-day media workshop of art criticism held here under the auspices of Pakistan National Council of the Arts.

Director- General of PNCA Raja Changez Sultan, opened the workshop with his welcome address in which he also shed light on its objectives. He said the workshop was aimed to create greater intellectual rapport among the media persons, critics and the creative minds of the country.

He also unfolded a package of multi-dimensional plans and projects, the council has framed with the cherished purpose of promotion, projection and perpetuation of national culture and the arts at home and abroad.

Sultan said the council had already launched a series of dialogues on arts’ workshops for media and theatre people, friends of arts movement, artists retreat programme and Sunday Art Bazaars at Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

The DG, PNCA hoped that the media-men, art critics and the artists of all genres will get maximum benefit from the ongoing workshop.

Later, the workshop commenced with the thought-provoking discourse by its coordinator Nilofar Furrukh.—APP