THE EXHIBITION

“Life is a grand canvas, and you should toss all the colors on it”- the colors of joy, the colors of life and the colors of the world. To provide a frame to the splashing imaginations of our children, this season we are coming with an all new International Children’s Art Exhibition.

Today, children need more than just books and class-room learning. And we understand it. Children need a creative educational approach, which could involve them comprehensively. A Ryan Foundation and National Bal Bhavan’s initiative – the International Children’s Art Exhibition, 2009, is one of the child’s most innovative, educative and artistic event. The singularity of this Exhibition lies in its significant dual purpose. Beside encouraging children and making them compete to top this creative display, it will make children discover and get involved in the topics of human and life concerns. Reflecting child’s imaginations and perceptions through paintings, this child specific exposition and Ryan’s novel notion is here to explore and spruce-up the artistic skills of our young ones.

This year's motif for the Festival is "Sustainable Development", as we want children and society to think about sustaining our environment and act accordingly. The Exhibition is committed to educate our children about how to organize the natural resources efficiently, manage the waste proficiently and conserve our planet earth creatively. The International Children’s Art Exhibition, 2009, believes in starting-off sustainability from children because it is they who are going become custodians of our world. Moreover, through them, we aim at bringing together, their parents and other segments of the society as well, in our quest of making our planet a better and prosperous place.

WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?

“Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Sustainablity means thinking about a future in which the environment, societal and economic considerations are balanced in pursuit of development and improve the quality of life. Society can be considered prosperous only when it is accomodated in an equally peaceful environment. And to create this healthy environment, we need to embrace our up-coming generation in this drive, therefore, the very first edition of The International Children’s Art Exhibition is dedicated to ‘Sustainable Development’, where children will be exposed to, and involved in the environmental subjects like- Water, Biodiversity, Energy and Waste & Waste Management, through art.

WHY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?

The idea of ‘Sustainable Development’ had been coined from frequent environmental campaigns, held to put it in the mainstream treatment, including the United Nations declaration of the ‘Decade of Education’ for ‘Sustainable Development’, to run from 2005-2014. However, despite of several combined attempts on sustainability, the scenario doesn’t improve much. The fear of humanity extinction through the environmental degradation kept lingering as the world authorities tried harder to cope-up with deteriorating natural resources.

Moved by this concern, an idea sparked. An idea to conserve. An idea to sustain. An idea for ‘Sustainable Development’. An idea for life. And to provide shape to this thought, Ryan Foundation is joining hands with National Bal Bhavan, and blending ‘Sustainable Development’ with an all-new edition of ‘The International Children’s Art Exhibition, 2009. The International Art Exhibition has elected a rather universal yet imperative theme, from the society’s viewpoint, to facilitate children explore their creative side, and get enlightened on Earth care.