AlphaMax Academy students and staff did
extremely well in the national Tagore Art Competition winning twelve awards.
The competition, which was launched in May 2011
by the Suriname Tagore Celebrations Committee, attracted more than 135 entries
from students and adults in Suriname. Judges for the national competitions
included members of the Schrijvers Group'77, Art Vibes United, and the
University of Suriname. There were more than 75 creative writing and art
entries from students attending schools in Paramaribo, Wanica, and Commewijne.
The
prestigious Tagore Art Competition was launched to mark the 150`"
Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European and person of
color to win a Nobel Prize (1912). Born in 1861, Tagore was a prolific writer,
dramatist, poet, artist, philosopher, and international humanist. Across the
world, national and international competitions are being held to uphold values
in creative excellence in celebration of Tagore.
Ivan
A. Khayiat (a pseudonym for one of our teachers) won the first prize in the
adult section for Poetry. With his poem “Msiba, My Love” Mahnaz Kohinory (Biology
Teacher) won the adult first prize for prose with her short story-“Jane Could
Dance”
First
prize student winners were; Claire Patandin –English Prose Senior –for “my
Encounter with Tagore’; Reann Kersenhout—English Prose Junior –for “To Us”;
English Poetry Junior—Kristina Taylor –for “Reflections” and Shafeek Nazir –Art
12 +.
Other
prizewinners were: Timothy Naarendorp, second prize in the Senior Prose division;
Jonathan Lui, third prize in the Senior Prose division; Brienne Renfurm second
in the Junior Prose division; Jason Hoppie third prize second in the Junior Prose
division; Xiomara Getrouw second prize in the Poetry Division and Jason Jones
third prize in the poetry division.
