Arts expo under attended

The week has been a busy one for crafts makers, as many of them paraded their products and attended to several buyers, at the “Petit Stade”, Remera.  Their creations included woven crafts, bead bracelets and chokers, paintings, herb medicines and a number of Kinyarwanda books by local authors.

Saturday, November 12, 2011
LOST FOR CHOICE A lady checks out some of the locally crafted jewellery. The New Times / E. Munyaneza

The week has been a busy one for crafts makers, as many of them paraded their products and attended to several buyers, at the "Petit Stade”, Remera.

Their creations included woven crafts, bead bracelets and chokers, paintings, herb medicines and a number of Kinyarwanda books by local authors.

Though the artistes’ appreciated the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s (MIJESPOC’s) effort to promote their works, they were unsatisfied on the number of visitors to the event.

"Perhaps the ministry did not publicize it enough, because there were very few visitors, and some of us sold little,” said Callixte Muvunyi, one of the painters.

They however noted that those who attended the show were amazed at their pieces of art, and many of them promised to even visit and buy from their workshops.

The culture week, which had the arts show as one of its events, run from 6th-11th November, and will be celebrated annually, according to MIJESPOC ‘s Lauren Makuza, the coordinator.

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