Devio Arts Centre holds its 3rd annual Children’s Arts Festival

Devio Arts Centre, a non-profit children’s art centre in Ghana which provides opportunity for children and young people to acquire creative life skills has held its 3^rd annual Children’s art festival.

The annual event which is held in every August since its maiden edition in 2013, however, took place in September this year at Ako Adjei Park near Osu in Accra on the theme: sanitation and recycling”.

This year’s festival was well patronized by over hundred school kids between the ages of 0-16 who were expertly trained in activities like comic illustrations, face painting, clay and ceramics works, recycling of crafts, Paddington activities as wells as cultural activities like drumming and dancing amongst others.

Some of the kids who took part in the clay and ceramic works session were able to mold objects like summer house, tea cups, cooking pots, swish coal pots, ant hills, birds and other objects using clay has displayed a high-level of skills and creativity towards the artwork.

Whilst others who had turns to create a vase out of an old wine bottles put up a good show to the amazement of their trainers.

According to Lily Kudzro, Executive Director of Devio Arts Centre, this year’s event was aimed at getting more children extremely creative by providing them with creative arts programs and activities that they can really learn from and have fun with.

In an interview with Joy News, Lilly Kudzro said “there’s so much lack of creativity in our schools, this is one of the ways that we really get children to practice creativity so that they can go back home, go back to schools and then continue practicing things like that on their own to get more creative, become smart and innovative”.

She therefore appealed to parents to take advantage of the annual Children’s Arts Festival in order to give their kids the opportunity to express themselves in creative ways, adding, children needs to be creative to become great people in the future.

“Parents should get more excited about programs like this which actually gives their children opportunities to express themselves in a creative way because children needs to be creative to become great people in the future, they need to be innovative and this is one of those platforms through which they can learn those things” she stressed.

According to Lily Kudzro, the art festival is a ‘huge platform’ through which children can learn skills and develop their talents.

Lilly Kudzro also called on parents not to focus so much attention on other things which wouldn’t get their children those skills but rather support them to patronize the art programs to enable them realize development of their God-given talents.

Michaela Mawutornam Mensah, 5-yr-old girl said, she is blessed to have learnt how to recycle an old bottle by creating a vase out of it which can be used to modify a house.

The event was organized by Devio Arts Centre and supported by Reach for change, Tigo, ET –Commerce, the Universal Wonderful Street Academy and the British High Commission.