Countrywide mobile fine art show prog falls flat
Saturday, 20 September 2014
A government programme, titled 'Countrywide Mobile Fine Art Exhibition', aimed at attracting children and young people towards art and culture has gone in vain for the last decade for lack of fund, reports UNB.
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) initiated the unique programme in 2000, using a decorated bus to carry artworks and books for exhibitions in all the districts.
Then Planning Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir formally inaugurated the exhibition at Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala on February 25 in 2000.
The programme ran for a few years and covered all the districts until 2004 when the exhibitions were suspended for lack of funds.
BSA planned to hold mobile art exhibitions at some 464 upazilas of the country under the programme, but the plan has fallen flat due to the suspension.