NDUB English Club Collaboration With UNDP
Notre Dame University Bangladesh English Club (NDUBEC), in collaboration with United Nations Development Programs (UNDP). Organized a day-long creative exhibition and award ceremony entitled ‘Nizoder Anti-dandruff Shampoo presents NDUB Environment Vanguard Award 2019’ on Friday 15 November 2019 from 10 AM to 7 PM at Notre Dame University Bangladesh premises to raise public awareness on environment and climate change and to engage youth in environmental protection and development activities.
Professor Dr. Fr. Patrick Daniel Gaffney, CSC, Vice-Chancellor, NDUB, Dr. Fr. Leonard Shankar Rozario, CSC, Deputy Registrar, NDUB, Dr. Br. Leo J. Pereira, CSC, Deputy Controller of Examinations, NDUB, Ahsan Rony, Founder and President of Green Savers Association, Farzana Ahmed Julie, National Consultant, UNDP, Morshed Mishu, international cartoonist were present as special guests at the event. In this inter college-university competition, participants around the country competed in three categories: Photo-Story, Visual Poetry, and Short Film.
Prominent photographer Hasan Chandan was the jury for the Photo Story category. Bishwajit Goswami, faculty of the Department of Fine Arts, was the jury for the Visual Poetry category. Fatema Amin, faculty of the Department of Film and Television, Jagannath University was the jury for the short-film category. The event started at 11 AM with flag hoisting after which NDUB Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fr. Patrick D. Gaffney, CSC inaugurated at the event. NDUB English Club Moderator Habiba Akter welcome the participants and guests shared “there can’t alternative of the green revolution.” The next session a workshop on photo-art by Radi Shafiq, visual artist, entitled ‘Keep Creating: Standing Apart with your Photo Art’, where he elaborately discussed the process of photography and fine arts. The third session dance recital by Jannat E Nur and Athai Clara Gregory where a dance act performed on Greta Thunberg’s speeches.
Fourth Session Conducted
The fourth session conducted by renowned photo storyteller Hasan Chandan where he discussed the making of photography into stories.
The fifth session aimed at engaging the audience into nature where the session was entitled ‘Pottery-Play’. In this session, participants could paint potteries in the field to unfold their creative visions.
After the lunch and prayer break, a recital performance and talk session hold by Ahmed Tahsin Shams, Lecturer in the department of English at NDUB. Which entitled ‘Eco-conscious versus Ego-conscious approach in Liberal Arts’. In this session, Shams gave a theoretical lecture on the connection between aesthetics and ecology. He shared how ‘human voices’ oppresses ‘non-human voices’ by engaging the participants in creative writing.
After screening and exhibiting all the nominated photo stories, visual poetry, and short films. The final session an award-giving ceremony where 21 young environmental vanguards appreciated with certificates.
Champion Team Appreciated with Certificates
In the Photo Story category, Alex Romario (‘For Next Generation’), Morad Ahammad (‘Threats on the Rise’), and Tomal Samad (‘Stars without Names’) are receiving grants of USD 3000 Dollars (2.5 lac taka) as a team to complete a UNDP photo story project in the coastal belt of Bangladesh on the effect of climate change upon the inhabitants environmental.
In the Short Film Category, the Champion team of Fuaduzzaman Fuad (‘Salvation of Oxygen’) is receiving USD 3000 Dollars (2.5 lac taka) to complete a UNDP short-film project in the coastal belt of Bangladesh on the effect of climate change upon the inhabitants environmental.
Moreover, Short Film Runners-up team ‘The Makerz’ includes Alex Romario, Simonton Barua, Sayeed Bin Newaz, and Surendra Lal Tewari received BDT 20,000 cash prize money, crests and an opportunity to work with Avant-garde Productions. Visual Poetry Champion and Runners-up received BDT 10,000 and BDT 6000 respectively, crests. Opportunity to work with Ars Poetica, an international online channel of Visual Poetry.
The strategic partner of this event United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), associate partners were Paper Leaf, Green Savers, Weabers. Print media partner is Dhaka Tribune, TV Media Partner is Ekattor TV, and Radio Partner is Radio Dhoni 91.2 FM. Avant-Garde Productions was creative consultant of the program environment.