National Museum holds Creative Imagination Program

The Learning Centre at the National Museum concluded the Creative Imagination Program, presented by Dr Nasser Planji, an associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Scientific College of Design, Muscat.

The aim of the program was to document Oman’s historical and heritage images and patterns, by integrating elements, patterns and lines to create contemporary artworks related to the collections presented in the National Museum.  And to enchance the participants’ understanding of the composition of colours, the effects of light, shapes and shadow, while introducing the methods of creative imagination and to enabled participants to learn about creative imagination methods using collage techniques, integrating images of Omani archaeological collections that revive heritage and history anew.

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Omani Student Gathering at Waikato University – New Zealand (video)

The Omani Student Association in New Zealand (OSA-NZ) held their 5th annual gathering on 9 – 11 of April, 2010 in Hamilton at the University of Waikato. Find out how you can study at Waikato Universityhttp://www.waikato.ac.nz/international/

Part of the event were two indoor soccer and volleyball tournaments and an opening ceremony, in which the General Consul, Hamed Al-Hajri, of Oman in Australia and Vallery Farmer, the Honoured Consul of Oman in New Zealand, met and talked to Omani students.