Art Workshop for the Underprivileged Children on Saturday, Feb 1st, 2014

St. Mary's School (ICSE) influences futures through Education with Art

Makes education fun for underprivileged children by organizing an ART WORKSHOP

 Saturday, February 1st, 2014

Mumbai, January 28, 2013: Mumbai's distinguished St. Mary’s School (ICSE), Mazagaon, will host an Art Workshop for underprivileged kids on Saturday, February 1st, 2014 at its Senior Assembly Hall. The motto of the event is "Influencing Futures...through Art & Education".

Renowned celebrity artist, Arzan Khambatta will kick start the workshop. He is looking forward to enthrall the audience wielding his paintbrush with the usual mastery that is his wont and in the process and infusing into the participating kids the “Joy of Art”. This event will be organized in partnership with the VAMA Foundation, a premier social welfare group focused on providing education, developing skills and empowering children for life. The foundation works closely with schools in the slum areas. The workshop will host around 90 kids gathered from multiple catchment areas in the city extending from Byculla to Chembur to Kurla to Ghatkopar and including the kids of the Class IV employees of the school. The selection of these kids from varied catchment areas and broad geographical dispersion is done in such a way as to maximize the impact of this social initiative.

This full-day workshop will involve the kids by having them paint umbrellas with fluorescent colors. These umbrellas would carry the logos of the School and the sponsor and will belong to the participants along with the "art gift hamper" that the kids can carry back with them, to their homes. St Mary's School and the VAMA Foundation believe that these kids would transmit the joy and educational impact of this workshop. The attendee children will also be served breakfast and lunch during this workshop.

Such Social Outreach programs are part of the School’s endeavor to make education more inclusive and participative in society. Over the course of the year, the school would consciously reach out and meaningfully influence the lives of as many underprivileged kids as possible. Our dear Principal, Rev. Fr. Kenneth Misquitta is committed to do the fullest to  meaningfully impact as many futures as possible. Providing underprivileged kids the perspective and opportunities to aspire for and experience  a “well rounded” education is the focus of the School's 150th year commemoration.

This event promises to be a spectacle with the umbrellas assembled in various patterns. St. Mary's School's students, staff and parents will truly witness these kids take center-stage and add color to its 150th year celebration.