Chhaya School of Art's Celebrates It's Founders Day

 

By 1 2 1 News Reporter

Chandigarh 10^th November: -- Chhaya School of Art celebrated its Founders day today at Tagore Theatre. As many as 700 students  from grades -- Pre Nursery to Class  XI of CSA participated in the Annual Function by performing various dance forms like classical,semi-classical, western, folk, contemporary etc along with a thought provoking play. The play highlighted the importance of women in our World. CSA students also paid a tribute to singing legend Manna Dey who passed away recently, by singing some of his enchanting songs. Sumit Goyal, the Producer of Punjabi movie Jatt Airways was the Chief Guest while Mrs. Shail Sachdev, Director Careutility Products was the Guest of Honour at the Annual Day.

 

The function saw a prize distribution ceremony in which 4 CSA Topper Awards were given to 2 girls and 2 boys and 6 Shining Star Awards were handed out to 6 children who were selected for the award based on their performances. Ms. Praveen Sinha, Director, CSA said that CSA has been rigorously fulfilling its social responsibility. Today, 3 CSA Asha Awards to underprivileged children who showed promise in Arts were also given. We at Chhaya regularly take students to places like Slum Areas, Old Age Homes, where the children can share their knowledge and spread the meaning of Art with those deprived of so many things in life. Our students have also been performing Street Plays to portray current Social issues. 

 

According to Kaushik Sinha, Chairman, CSA, that training in Chhaya School of Art includes Classical Music -- Both Vocal & Instrumental, Classical dances, Fine Arts, folk Music & Dances etc. Three painting competitions are held in a year --in April, July & October. At the end of the year, we conduct an Annual Function cum Founder's Day wherein we give prizes to all the students who participated in the 3 competitions.