ARTS EXHIBITION FOR CHILDREN

THE CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN TALENTS

An Arts Exhibition to promote school children’s talents as artists was organized by Mkongojo Arts Group of  Bagamoyo at Mwambao Primary School on Tuesday morning.

Ninety percent of the children’s displayed pencil sketches on plain drawing papers were an effort supervised and encouraged by the artists of Mkongojo Arts Group led by the newly registered NGO chairman Siasa Kondo Sultani  who is also a teacher  by profession. The group was recently registered as a recognized arts body by BASATA (the council of Artists in Tanzania) under certificate No. BST/5677.

The passionate artists confessed that the children and they themselves, could have produced better “Tingatinga Style” of paintings and oil or water based paintings by children but they did not have sufficient financial backing. What they needed were simple sketching papers, colour pencils, water and oil paints and different types of painting brush.

The Arts Exhibition was actually to tell the public including the parents that basically the children had natural  talent as artists. “ Given the opportunity to have the basic facilities, the children could turn out to be wonderful artists,” the Secretary of the Mkongojo (walking stick in Kiswahili) group Boniface Mwiru told the under signed writer.

Mkongojo Arts Group requested Bagamoyo News assistance to convey their request to Good Samaritans and donors for material or financial assistance. Their contact telephone numbers are: Chairman Siasa Kondo Sultani  +255715201014; Secretary Boniface Bwiru +255719538893.

Story & Pictures by Abdul Hai

 

 Bagamoyo News

Secretary of  Mkongojo Arts Group Boniface Mwiru (right) talks highly about the naturally talented primary school students who take interest in drawing and painting. The only setback is lack of drawing papers, coloured pencils, water and oil paints and painting brush.

"Mother Baby Love" black and white painting on canvass by "biki" nickname Artist Siasa Kondo Sultani.

A master piece oil paint on canvass by Siasa Kondo Sultani (right) Chairman of Mkongojo Arts Group who is also a teacher by profession.

The talented young artists at the Children's Art Exhibition at Mwambao Primary School, the first multi-racial school built by Sewa Haji sometime in 1886 during the German Colonial Era.