Bangladesh Embassy hosts art camp

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Feb 22 : The Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu organised a one-day art camp on the theme of ‘Love for Language and Culture’ on the Embassy premises in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

Bangladeshi Ambassador Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury opened the art camp stroking brushes on a canvas amid a gathering of over 40 Nepali artists.

According to the Embassy, the camp has been hosted to celebrate the International Mother Language Day that falls on  February 21 every year. 

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) had declared 21 February as the International Mother Language Day in recognition of the supreme sacrifice of Bengalis on  February 21 in 1952 to establish Bangla as their state language.  

Addressing the inaugural session, Ambassador Chowdhury said that the main theme of the art workshop was to protect, promote and preserve all languages throughout the world. 

Chowdhury expressed hope that the art camp would further strengthen the social and cultural relations between Nepal and Bangladesh.   “As many languages in this world are currently at the risk of extinction, it is important to preserve mother languages from multifarious challenges,” the Ambassador added.

He also said that the children should be taught in their mother language for the identity and extending the rich of education.

Deputy Chief of Mission Ishrat Jahan and other Embassy officials were also present at the event.  

Similarly, veteran artist and founder chancellor of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts Kiran Manandhar graced the camp coordinated by senior artist Sushma Rajbhandari.

According to coordinator Rajbhandari, 44 artists participated in the art camp and created mesmerising paintings.

Apart from Manandhar and Rajbhandari, Uttam Dangol, Gautam Ratna Tuladhar, Shyam Sundar Yadav, Jyoti Prakash, NB Gurung, Ganesh BC, Puja Maharjan, Uday Charan Shrestha, Dhana Yakha, Sangee Shrestha, Jeevan Raj Upadhyay, Umesh Shrestha, Mukesh Shrestha, Bipana Maharjan and Renuka Maharjan, among others took part in the camp.      

Rajbandari informed that an art exhibition in the capital would be held in March to display the artworks generated in the camp.