28Kreativ helping Youths with Integral Human Development skills

14 youths from Alotau were part of a 7week Model Search Program who received Contemporary Arts training around the field of Creative Dance, Music and Fine Arts through the 28Kreativ Contemporary Arts Association.

The program started on the 3rd of October and ended with a crowning night held during the Kenu & Kundu Festival celebrations in Alotau last Month.

20 year old Rachael Manimua was crowned the overall winner of the Model Search event and will be featured on the Cover of Lilly Magazine’s December Edition.

According to the Co-Founder of the Association Mrs Roselyn Koisen, the youngsters were excited with what they have learnt from the program and will now be actively involve with the Association using their experience to help many more youths in Milne Bay.

“We gave them a variety of training not just in terms of make-up and catwalk training. We also did alot of art training with them just to help them develop themselves and find who they are as people in their communities. It was all about their personal Development,” says Mrs Koisen.

The Associations main purpose is about Integral Human Development. Taking kids from the streets of Alotau who have nothing better to do and just giving them their variety of skills and training in Arts and help them develop in better people.

Mrs Koisen adds, “The youths really are looking for things to do. So what we are trying to do is really create the things that can give the youths a way to express themselves in a positive manner.”

Moving forward into 2016 the association will continue with its Fine Arts program doing Art Galleries and also introducing their Youth Theatre Program that will involve Primary Schools in Alotau that will be running a Feature Theatre Production called Ulena and the Seven Shorties, a Milne Bay version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.