2nd Annual Children’s Art festival comes off at Efua Sutherland Park

On August 21- 22, 2014, the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park in Accra

will host thousands of children and their parents for the 2nd Annual

Children’s Art Festival aimed at inspiring creativity among children

and encouraging parents to appreciate art.

The event is a partnership between Devio Children’s Arts Centre, Reach

for Change and Tigo GhanaLlimited.

Both children and their parents will learn and have fun while tapping

into their creative minds. The park will be completely transformed

into a visual art and applied art zones to enable participants

learncalligraphy, drawing,painting, recyclingand sculpting, just to

mention a few.

Founder and award winning Tigo Change leader, Lily Kudzro, is

encouraging parents to show interest in the creative side of their

children. She wants child friendly art recreation centres to be created

across the country to encourage children to tap into their creative

side.

Other sponsors for the event include the Prudential Bank, National

Investment Bank,Department of Children (Ministry of Children, Gender

and Social Protection), Kalyppo, Street Library Ghana,andViasat1and

Next Door Beach.Resort. Other pParticipants include the Google

Developer Groupand Agripro Ghana.and Alive and Kicking Ghana.

About Devio Arts Centre

Lily Kudzrois the founder ofDevio Arts Centre,a not-for-profit

children’s art centre based in Ghana. The Centre is committed to

addressing the gap in children’s creativity, by providing recreation

activities which enable them to learn and developtheir creative minds.

The Centre also offers programmmes for vulnerable and

under-privilegedchildren to develop their analytical and critical

talentsusing special needs techniques.