The Bank of Ceylon’s “Little Picasso” art competition concluded successful recently rewarding 180 National award winners at the BMICH. Similarly 600 other provincial winners were rewarded with valuable prizes thus bringing the total to 780 winners altogether. All 780 drawings were exhibited on 12th and 13th October 2018 at BMICH’s Mihilaka Medura hall. The event was organized in line with the BOC’s 79th Anniversary to open a platform for young Sri Lankan artists to showcase their talent and be rewarded as an encouragement to improve. The Bank’s Chairman President’s Counsel Mr. Ronald C. Perera, the CEO/ General Manager Mr. Senarath Bandara, Deputy General Manager Sales and Channel Management Mr. C. Amarasinghe, Members of the Corporate and the Executive Management of BOC together with other officials also participated in this event. Additional secretary to the Ministry of Education Mr. RMM Rathnayake also participated.
The Bank received an overwhelming number of nearly two hundred thousand drawings from around the country as a response to the invitation. The Art competition was conducted under six categories based on age. All were given the freedom to draw under any topic they like. From each category 1st. 2nd and 3rd National winners and 10 National merit winners were selected based on their creativity and presentation by professional judges appointed by the Ministry of Education. Apart from the National winners, three main Provincial winners and ten merit winners were selected from each category by professional judges appointed by relevant Provincial/ Zonal Departments of Education.
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