Over 1,000 students aged between nine and twelve from all over India and some neighbouring countries, joined in both online and offline mode to light-up canvases with their imagination at a unique art workshop in the city.
In the workshop, on Saturday the tiny tots from all over India and neighbouring countries like Nepal and Pakistan wielded the paintbrush to depict how life has changed after the unprecedented and unimaginable pandemic.
The 30th edition of the Apeejay Anand Art Workshop had the theme "Sakaratmak Parivartan - How has my life changed?"
As part of an international exchange programme, the workshop was attended by students from schools in Nepal and Pakistan and elsewhere virtually while many children from the city attended the workshop at the main venue on Park Street.
The workshop saw little hands using a paintbrush to depict how the challenging two years of the Covid pandemic has also infused some positivity in our lives.
Students sit and draw on the lawns of Apeejay House on Park Street on Saturday Suvendu Das/My Kolkata
The world has seen unprecedented changes in the last two years of the pandemic. As we slowly gear up to get back to the new normal, our first priority is its students," Kiranjit Singh Pannu, chief executive officer of the key organising school of the programme said.
"Students from various corners of India, including Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Gujrat, Haryana, Madurai, and Hyderabad joined the workshop virtually. Children were provided A4 size papers along with pencils, erasers, and pastels to explore their creativity.
The Art Workshop was not just restricted to students from the Apeejay School. Various other schools like DPS Kalinga in Cuttack, The BSS School and Gokhale Memorial School in Kolkata also joined in.
Song-writer and music composer Surojit Chatterjee graced the occasion to encourage the young minds.