368 – We are the children of tomorrow

International Children’s Day Basement Cultural Foundation celebrated with creative children at the Knowledge Exchange Forum on Thursday, November 23, 2017, entitled “We are children of Tomorrow”. Where a group of young artists presented their creations in the areas of painting, digital design, singing and playing.

The event began with guitarist Elias Amiri, who was recently chosen by UNICEF as a children’s representative in Yemen. Elias learned to play by himself and then began learning it for months by a professional trainer.

Eight-year-old singer Serena Mohammed has also performed a violin . Serena has learned to play for a month and a half and is also learning ballet.

At the age of 10, Heba Amin studied programming language (Scratch). She has her own blog on the Internet. She draws her paintings using digital design programs. She presented an interesting piece entitled Digital Art, in which she presented her various artistic works. Some of her ideas from the Yemeni fashion and architecture. She also painted international works and cartoon characters in her modern style and added to her own touches, in an attractive manner, offering her unique creative ideas.

Doha al-Maqaleh, 14 years old, paints most of her paintings using sprays, and paints with water colors and acrylic colors. She spoke about the paintings of her exhibition, in which she painted cosmic natural phenomena in a magical manner. She explained the meaning of some of them and left some to be understood by visiters.

The young artist, Judy Abdelalem, presented two popular songs, Judy, at the age of 10, who learned to sing by herself and aspires to be a scholar when she grows up.

The sixth talented painter Yusuf Barout, at the age of eleven, presented several paintings that spoke about the meanings and expressions, and he participated in the past events and art exhibitions.

In the end, Iyad Al-Barout and Janine Al-Hakimi thanked the participants and their families for their support. Basement Cultural Foundation opens its next program of activities, where a special event will be dedicated to children each month, where young people will present their creations in various artistic, literary and scientific fields. Children who want to participate to display their work without hesitation, as does not require the institution to participate in these events a high level of professionalism, but embraces the first steps of the young, to express their feelings and their view of life freely.

Basement Cultural Foundation aims to create a free artistic space and open participation for all without conditions through its various activities  such as the Knowledge Exchange Forum where artistic and literary performances such as this one are held every Thursday morning, Ideas offering free training courses in various fields for young and old, space activities, discussion sessions, Lumière cinema and others.

The event ended with another guitarist, Elias Amiri. The audience then went to see the paintings of the participating artists’ exhibition, “The Glare of Childhood.”