Brunei To Host Asean Youth Camp Of Creative Arts
By Grace Jiu & Azaraimy HH

Bandar Seri Begawan - Around 55 Asean talents in the fields of music, dance, visual arts, creative writing and photography will converge_ in Brunei Darussalam to participate in the Asean Youth Camp.

Brunei will be represented by 10 participants and the other nine Asean countries will each send five youth participants to the camp. It will take place next year from January 10 to 22 carrying the theme `Adhesion: Water and The Arts'.

Water is taken as an artistic element as the emergence of most civilisations and cultures could be boiled down to water, where settlements were first established at river banks and the like. Participants' sources of inspiration in their creative works will include Bruneian landmarks such as 'Kampong Ayer' or the Water Village, and the Oil and Gas Discovery Centre in Seria. The public can look forward to the showcase of the Asean Youth Camp's creative output during the Camp Bazaar to be held at The Mall.

The objectives of the Asean Youth Camp are to foster a wider exchange of ideas among the youth of Asean countries and thereby attain greater understanding and friendship. It is also to strengthen artistic and personal ties among young artists from different disciplines of art and to promote effective sharing networking and understanding ofthe local culture of each Asean country that will help evolve a consciousness of the Asean culture.

It is also aimed at holding a cultural camp in art, music, writing, and media among the Asean youth that would encourage artistic creativity and expression using indigenous themes and natural materials found in the environment.

Apart from that, it also aims to encourage interaction, discussion, exchange and express ideas among the youth with topics related to the arts and its connection to nature and the environment and to establish a network among the youth in the Asean region.

This is to enhance their role as an artist, musician, writer and as well as future cultural leader in the preservation and promotion of their environment through art in their own country and the whole Asean region.

A working committee consultative meeting for the Asean Youth Camp on logistics, clarification of roles and duties of officers was held yesterday morning at the conference room of the Department of Co-Curriculum Education, Ministry of Education chaired by Mohd Abdoh bin Hj Awg Damit, the Camp Director.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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