Al-Jawad and Al-Kadhim Secondary School opened its annual student arts exhibition entitled “Space of Talent”, attended by the president of the Association of the Visual Art Workshop for Culture and Arts in Lebanon Mr. Shawki Dallal, the poet and writer Mr. Suleiman Jomaa, the head of the Bekaa region artists' union Amer Al-Hajj Hassan and the union's members, the director of the Islamic Cultural Centre Sayyed Shafiq Al-Moussawi, and the school's director Ms. Souad Marah Al-Moussawi.
The school's director first delivered a speech in which she said: “Because Al-Mabarrat has taken upon itself, from the beginning of its journey, to go on working with gifted pupils and developing their talents and abilities, and because it believes in the importance of the artistic and aesthetic side alongside knowledge and learning… it was essential to give importance to holding the arts exhibition, and because our children have proved day after day their skill and excellence in competitions and outside participations, and in arts competitions in particular.”
She added: “These are shining talents that deserved of us immense efforts to open high horizons before their creativity, so we were careful to secure a motivating environment for our gifted students. Here today is the harvest of that sowing, reaped in step with marking Al-Mabarrat Week, taking shape as an art exhibition of paintings drawn with passion and love, made by our children's hands with spontaneous touches, into which they poured their hopes and their beautiful ambitions, facing the ugliness of lived reality with the beauty of colours and the breadth of imagination.”
Mr. Shawki Dallal then delivered a speech in which he affirmed that Al-Jawad and Al-Kadhim Secondary School surpasses the largest schools in Lebanon with the artistic creativity it presents. “Every time we are amazed by the varied achievements the school presents, and I say that these paintings deserve to be shown in an exhibition at the UNESCO Palace under the patronage of the Minister of Culture.”
The students then presented a set of theatrical and choral activities, and those present toured the exhibition with the school's director. More than 450 artworks from the students' creations were displayed, reflecting their abilities through varied styles of drawing reflecting most of the arts in the different visual and abstract schools.
