The Culture Committee of the Municipality of Sotira organizes for the first time in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture a Student Painting Exhibition of all Public and Private Primary and Secondary Education Schools of the Province of Famagusta with the theme: "I KNOW, I DO NOT SEE". The schools of the occupied Rizokarpaso also participate in the exhibition, while the inauguration will be attended by students from the occupied Karpasia, as well as the art teacher, Mr. Fanis Sergiou, who designed the poster of the competition, and is the artistic curator of the exhibition.
The opening of the exhibition will be made by the Honorable Minister of Education and Culture, Mr. Kyriakos Kenevezos, today Monday, December 9, at 4:30 p.m. at Sotiras Town Hall. The exhibition will remain open to the public from December 9, 2013 until January 9, 2014 at the Municipal Hall of Sotira.
The choice of the theme of the exhibition "" I KNOW, I DON'T FORGET, I CLAIM "was based on the following reasons:
1. The issue is a goal of the Ministry of Education and Culture for this year,
2. The acquaintance of the students for the history, the traditions, the legends, the myths, the customs and traditions of the different areas of our place, both of the free areas and of our occupied homeland,
3. Efforts to preserve the memory of our occupied villages and cities,
4. Development of programs, actions and initiatives like this, highlight, through geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic elements, the unity and indivisibility of our place and bring to life in the eyes of children the traditions and history of our place.
5. Students learn to claim the liberation and reunification of our homeland by peaceful means and on the basis of the implementation of basic human rights and freedoms.
6. Attempt to acquaint students with the arts and the opportunity to express themselves through the artistic creation of the most basic human emotions.
All the schools of the province of Famagusta participate in the Painting Exhibition, as they are posted in the catalogs of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Specifically, more than 140 projects from a total of 27 schools participate in the exhibition (Rizokarpasos Primary School, Rizokarpasos High School, A 'Primary School of Avgoros, B' Primary School of Avgoros, Primary School of Vrysoulon-Acheritos, Primary School of Achnas Forest, A 'Primary School, XNUMXnd Primary School of Deryneia, XNUMXrd Primary School of Deryneia, XNUMXst Primary School of Liopetri, XNUMXnd Primary School of Liopetri, XNUMXst Primary School of Paralimni, XNUMXnd Primary School of Paralimni, XNUMXrd Primary School of Paralimni, XNUMXth Primary School of Paralimni, XNUMXst Sotiras Elementary School, Sotiras XNUMXnd Elementary School, Sotiras Elementary School C, Frenaros Elementary School, Xenion Highschool, High School of Peace and Freedom, Kokkinochorion High School of Panos Ioannou, Paralimni High School of Paralimni, Lychio Pokitiki Kokkino / Avgorou and Paralimni Technical School
The selection of projects was made after an in-school competition in which a project was selected from each class (from each year) of the schools. The students were asked to create a work with a freedom of choice of materials, which would reflect their feelings expressed by the theme of the exhibition "I KNOW, I DON'T FORGET, I CLAIM".
The Painting Exhibition is under the auspices of the Ministry and the Honorable Minister of Education and Culture.