Lahore hosts Literature festival for kids

Lahore will host a literature festival for kids on Friday at Children’s Library Complex in order to promote the literary intellect among the kids.

The two day festival is a great initiative of Idara-i-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) and Oxford University Press (OUP) in partnership with Foundation Open Society Institute, Pakistan, United States Consulate, Lahore, and Children’s Library Complex.                     

Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif will be visiting the festival where many other country’s authors, including Dr Arifa Sayeda Zehra, Dr Marilyn Wyatt, Nadia Jamil, Adeel Hashmi, Anita Ghulam Ali, Anil Sethi, Amra Raza, Nafisa Shah, Sania Saeed, and Zubeida
Jalal are also scheduled to visit.

Arifa Syeda Zehra, who is an educationist and narrate stories to kids in different schools said regarding the importance of learning, books and these kinds of festivals. She said, “This festival will open a gate that will thrust light, fragrance and freshness
upon the participants and visitors”.

C.S. Lewis, a British scholar and novelist, who has rightly said in the past, “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the
deserts that our lives have already become.”

A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is already very low, this kind of literature festival certainly will enhance bringing masses together on the importance of education especially for children.        

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Posted by Umair Hassan on Nov 24 2011. Filed under Education. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry