Brazilian artist, Prof Paulo
Cesar Teles-organised international Art and Multimedia workshop made its
Nigeria debut in Osogbo, State of Osun.
The international workshop titled The Wishing Tree, held for four
days at the Blue and White Hotel, Oke Onitea, Osogbo.
Coordinated by art instructor Olaniyi Sunday
Olaniran and sponsored by Kingdom Kids International Schools and Excellent
Schools, all in Osogbo, the workshop ended with a grand finale program and the
formation of The Wishing Tree.
According to Olaniran, enthusiasm of the
participating children increased daily, during the workshop as they were
actively engaged in the distinct experience of the workshop. "The children built a tree from cheap
and discarded products, which were recycled materials available in their local
environment," Olaniran stated shortly after workshop. "Pupils and students
of both schools wrote and made drawings to express their future wishes."
Participating
students, the coordinator added "amazingly discovered that discarded and
recycled materials from the environment, used to produce different things like The Wishing Tree was made by wishes that
came true." Some of the drawings prepared by the children, he explained,
were submitted, scanned, projected and became interactive to the body movements
through ultrasonic sensors placed on the tree.
Before coming to Nigeria, The Wishing
Tree international workshop has
previously been held in Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Germany, New Zealand, with
Nigeria being the 6th country to take part of it. Teles is moving the workshop
to Japan as the next country to visit. “His ultimate objective is to build The Wishing Forest with all other built
tree together.”
Teles explained his vision: “My
joy in life is to see the multimedia wishes of children all over the world
fulfilled in the future”. He also said, “technology is
accessible to everyone and at everywhere and can be harnessed to express art
The Director of Studies, Solomon Oladapo of
Excellent Schools expressed his joy and excitement at the project, which gave
children the opportunity to participate in something international like the The Wishing Tree workshop. He added that
participating in such a rare event is a great opportunity for his school to
prove the commitment to quality learning.
Director of Academics at
Kingdom Kids International Schools, Mrs Ifeoluwa Olowoye expressed her
overwhelming excitement and satisfaction about the program. She stated that
rare art exhibition is in line with the goal of kingdom Kids International
Schools, which is to raise future leaders through quality learning in education
and character.
The self-taught professional visual artist
and cartoonist who is also the main host and the facilitator of the event, Olaniran was lauded for his initiatives that
made the Art and Multimedia event a great success. Olaniran was impressed by
the large number of children that participated in the project. He said: “I
will remain committed to promoting arts and cultural values in manners that
positively affect lives of participants, the art community and also give great
representation of the country to the international community.”
Teles is a Professor in the University of
Campinas –Brazil. He
graduated in Radio and TV Social communication, Masters in Multimedia, PhD in
Communication and Semotics and Post PhD in Educational Communication.
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