Highlighting the ills of pollution through art
published : 14 Jul 2021 at 04:00
The issue of air pollution in the northern part of Thailand is highlighted through art in One Generation Plants The Trees, Another Gets The Shade , which will kick off tomorrow and run until Sept 15 at Warin Lab Contemporary.
Tree Of Life.
On exhibit will be paintings, sculptures and installation art by Thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon, a Chiang Mai-based artist who has earned a reputation for his abstract expressionism with outstanding compositions and colour applications.
Besides his remarkable abstract paintings whose distinctive rhythms of colours, lines, shapes and compositions have created spontaneity, aesthetics and freedom of expression, the artist incorporates his interest in scrap materials and repurposes them, giving a new meaning to these materials in his art creation.
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC): Until July 18
There’s still time to catch the People to People exhibition on display in the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre’s Main Gallery 9th Floor. This group exhibit presents contemporary artworks from 58 artists, all of whom got a boost early in their careers as participants in the BACC’s 2nd floor People’s Gallery, which launched in 2012. The artist’s involved represent a diversity of social groups, including professional artists, students, and art enthusiasts, all of whom constitute individual voices sharing their reactions to social phenomenon, the economy, politics and personal beliefs (or self-esteem) through the aesthetic processes. Earnings from artwork sales at this show will be donated to support the BACC activities and operation.
Reading aloud is ‘a way of making reading visible,’ says Scholastic’s Pam Allyn, founder of the internationalist LitWorld nonprofit today on its World Read Aloud Day.
Image: LitWorld.org
Pam Allyn: ‘Expanding Our Understanding’
As Scholastic again joins the nonprofit LitWorld today (February 3) in the 12th annual World Read Aloud Day.
The LitWorld program itself has an “activity hub” here with resources for World Read Aloud Day. And Scholastic’s offering, which parallels that of the LitWorld effort, has a download available (PDF) of titles recommended for reading aloud at age groups between 0 and 12 years. Scholastic also has a store set up for the event here.
Editorial
Since
mid-December, Thailand has reported over 2,000 cases linked to a new outbreak
of COVID-19 detected at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon province. The country
had previously seen a total of only around
4,300 COVID-19 cases between January and December.
Thai Prime
Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said in a statement
on December 22 that illegal migrants were responsible for the outbreak and
“have brought much grief to the country.” The prime minister’s comments, a
surge in online hate speech against migrants and a series of government
restrictions that only apply to migrants have prompted objections from migrant
advocates.
After the first confirmed cases, the government immediately shut down the market in Samut Sakhon and placed over 4,000 people in isolation. The government began testing over 40,000 people after months of almost no local transmissions. The new outbreak has spread to nearly 50 of Thailand’s 77 provinces though most cases have so far been