YARAT organizes large-scale charity exhibition and sale
Baku, December 11, AZERTAC
The YARAT organization and Azerbaijan`s State Committee for the Affairs of Families, Women and Children have jointly organized a large-scale charity exhibition and sale, within the BACARART project at the Art Garden exhibition hall in the Icherisheher.
Addressing the event, chairman of the State Committee for the Affairs of Families, Women and Children of Azerbaijan Hijran Huseynova stressed the importance of the BACARART project.
“The main objective of the project, which is being consecutively realized for two years, is to support talented children with creative potential from the low-income families. The aim of the projects is to push the development of creative potential of talented children from various regions of Azerbaijan,” she underlined.
Mrs. Huseynova expressed gratitude to head of the YARAT organization Aida Mahmudova, adding “I wish more children will be joined the project in the future.”
Then, the participants of the project were presented with keepsakes, and attendees watched a video on the BACARART project. The event ended with a concert program.
Artists Ramal Kazimov, Vusal Rahim, Sitara Ibrahimova and Reza Hazare participated in the project in 2014. Under their guidance, the young BACARART participants mastered the basics of composition, drawing, collage and photography.
In 2014, the project has involved 11 areas of Azerbaijan, including the regions of Goygol, Sabirabad, Ismayilli, Zardab, Hajigabul, Zaqatala, Saatly, Qabala, Goranboy, Agdam and Shuvalan district. During the first phase of the project, fifty talented children and teenagers gathered in the two regional centers of Saatly and Goygol of the State Committee for the Affairs of Families, Women and Children. Ten instructors from the Committee were involved in the process.
The second phase of the project saw the participants at the summer school, organized at the resort town of Markhal, Shaki region. During ten days they visited the Palace of Shaki Khans, the “Gelersen-Gorersen” fortress, the Juma Mosque, the Kish fortress and mausoleum, the “Yukhary-Chardakhlar” fortress, the Tower and Temple of “Orta-Zeizit”, as well as other architectural sites.
150 art pieces and over 80 photographs were produced during the project. But for the final stage of the project, only the best 19 photographs and 41 art pieces were chosen.
The proceeds will be donated to the families of the thirty finalists, and will be used to further develop their talents.
Prior to the exhibition and sale, the participants of the project visited the Heydar Aliyev Center and historic places of Baku.
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