Donors because of you we are able to continue this program. I am happy to report the 2016 Visual Arts program organised by Youlou Arts Foundation is taking shape. We have spent several months creating projects for this year’s program.
As I write this report we are in the midst of collecting and buying art materials, which will be shipped in barrels to St. Vincent. We have also been collecting children’s books from a private school here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the program these books are read to the children and at the end they are distributed among the children.
July 11th starts the Teacher’s Training Workshop, and ends July 15th. This is followed by the children’s visual arts program which starts July 18th and ends August 5th. This year’s program is titled “It’s All About Me”. The idea is to get the children to do some self reflecting.To be introspective. We would like them to think about their place in the world. How do they see themselves in the next 10 years .Encourage them to think about the things they like doing. We want to create an opportunity for the children to start thinking about their future. We believe children who have some self knowledge are in a better position to make choices for themselves.
Projects planned for this year are designed to get the children to focus on themselves. By drawing and painting the children will make a series of self portraits. Books will be made in which they will write their body measurements, lists will be compiled of things which make them happy and sad, also their future travel plans. There will be jewelry making from recycled materials, poetry writing and field trips to various parts of the island. We envision 3 weeks of focused activities on the “self”.
Donors we would not be able to have this program without your financial support. We are committed to providing art education to primary school children, escpecially in the rural areas of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Thank you for your support.
Youlou Arts Foundation 