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Africa Stone Symposium Participants to Be Chosen On Friday

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Published on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 19:42

PARTICIPANTS for the Africa Stones Talk Sculpture Symposium 2011 to be held at Tabaka in Kisii will be selected on Friday. The selection panel headed by symposium chairman Elkanah Ong'esa and coordinator Gerard Motondi will on Friday meet at Kisii University College to select the participants. Only five international artists will be selected out of 25 who have applied, Motondi told the Star in a telephone interview.

He said only five local artists have applied to participate in the UNESCO sponsored symposium but five more will be selected from those who had shown intention to participate."Only five local artists had applied by April 29 deadline. However, we are going to select five more local participants," he added.

Motondi, an award winning sculptor, said renowned scholars have also applied to participate in the three day pre-symposium conference to be held at Kisii University College starting August 1 to 3. "We are expecting the chairman from Hong Kong today (yesterday) so all is set for the selection process," said Motondi. The symposium will be held at Tabaka in Gucha South from August 4 to 30.

Sculptors from China, Turkey, New Zealand, USA, Slovenia, Iran, Egypt, Belgium, Italy, Zimbabwe and Rwanda have applied to participate.

Internationally renowned women sculptors Renate Verbrugge from New Zealand, Li Donglian from China, John Barlo and Carol Lambert both from the US are among the applicants. UNESCO through the International Fund for Diversity (IFCD) will sponsor the symposium.

The funding will help Design Power Consultants (DEPCONS), a community based creative arts consultancy bring together internationally renowned artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds for the exchange of cultural expressions with local carvers.