Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

ICCR Organizes Art Competition Entitled “United against Corona"


Mon 06 Apr 2020 | 11:36 AM
Ahmad El-Assasy

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is organizing a Global Art competition to capture these emotions calling on professional and amateur artists from India and the world over to express themselves and their feelings – through a competition entitled “United against Corona- Express through Art.”

The competition will commence on 2nd April 2020 and the deadline for entry will be 1st May 2020. All details, including guidelines related to the competition, are available on ICCR’s website.

The COVID-19 Pandemic around the world has taken the world by storm and people are experiencing the best and worst of human emotions – empathy, sympathy, kindness, concern, anger, frustration, social cohesiveness and bravery among others.

For aeons, emotions of this nature has driven creative thought across the world, with people coming out with innovative ideas and ways to deal with these turbulent times. People use myriad methods, including spirituality, self-introspection, exercise and especially Art to express these emotions.

It is worth mentioning that, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease COVID-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran.

People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.

Transmission of virus between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.

It can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose or eyes.