Karachi:Arts Council Secretary Ahmed Shah has acknowledged the plethora of talented youth in the city, which was exhibited in the recently-concluded first-ever Karachi Youth Festival.
“We have realised through the results of the festival that there is a lot of talent in Karachi. The students only require a platform on which they can showcase this talent”, said Shah.
According to Shah, the Pakistan Arts Council is planning to make a Friends of Arts society, in which youth will be inducted free of cost and this society will properly train them and arrange events of performing arts on regular basis.
Over 700 students managed to enter the final round of the festival, with the top 3 winners awarded prizes of Rs25,000, Rs15,000 and Rs1,000 respectively. Later, the Sindh governor announced an additional 10,000 rupees for all the position holder of the competition.
The prize for the best team in the theater competition went to the Ilm-o-Hunar school from Lyari, which took the participants and audience by surprise. As the competition had no entry fees and it was an open competition, a lot of other major upsets were seen in the results – one such example being Gulzar Hijri Degree Boys College bagging the first prize in the singing competition.
The top prizes in the best short film category went to M. Sayem from National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) for his film ‘Talash’, Syed Zeshan from SZABIST for his film ‘Rah-e-Rast’ and KU (Visual Studies) team’s film ‘Wohi Jagah’.
In the National Songs category, Waseem Ahmed from Govt Degree College Korangi, Tehreem Muniba from Govt Commerce College and Hamza Tahir also from Govt Commerce College won the top 3 prizes respectively.
In the speech competition Shumail Abdus Samad from KU got the first prize while Khushboo from KU and Naintara from DHA Girls College winning the second and third prizes respectively. Bait Baazi competition was won by Itrat Zehra and Fatima Ali from Fatimiya College, followed by Syed Sheeba Saleem and Ayesh Sallem from DJ College and the third prize went to independent participants Ayed Mohiuddin and Yamna Fatima.
Battle of the bands was won by Infinity, while Nuts and Bolt and Phoenix won second and third prizes respectively. Karachi School of Arts dominated the painting competition, with Uroosa Ishtiaq and Sumera Ameen achieving the first and second position. Khalifa Shujauddin from KU bagged third prize.
In photography, Narmeen Habib from KU Visual Studies received the first prize while Mazeen kamal and Mohd Danial received the second and third prize respectively. In quiz competition, NED University won the first prize, Agha Khan High School recieved second, while DA Model High School got third.
The debate competition was won by Ambreen Tabassum from Urdu University followed by Onaiza Sehar and Ramsha Kanwal. THE NEWS
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