Unitiy in Diversity

 HEARTLAND LEARNA CENTER – UNITY IN DIVERSITY

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Let us Celebrate Unity in Diversity with children and spark their creative power. This is the Motto of Unity in Diversity Arts Competition.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY – The events has been created to celebrate the essence of life and that is ‘UNITY IN DIVERSITY Children’s Art Competition‘. Competition. Hopefully we will have this event every year.

All of us have a rainbow of attributes within ourselves and this colourful rainbow unites us in our personalities to create that one shining flame of everlasting sunshine, one spirit that we all seek. That is how we want to see a blossoming Canada under the one sunshine of Unity in Diversity, always celebrating the light and the rainbow at the same time and with the same spirit.

This event has come up with the support of many. Mississauga Arts Council. Art Unit of City of Mississauga has been behind us and encouraged us at every step. Learna Education Inc. as our main sponsor helped us in organising this event. We received a lot of support and congratulatory messages from many including community leaders, our sponsors and volunteers. I extend my thanks to everybody.

About Meena Chopra – A multi faceted person, painter and poet, Meena Chopra now settled in Mississauga, Canada, for 5 years after migrating from New Delhi India, hails from Nainital, a hill resort in India. She has had several art exhibitions in many countries, which includes India, Canada, England. An avid reader of prose and poetry, she writes both in English and her native language Hindi. Her first collection of poems, „Ignited Lines“ was published in 1996 was released in London, England the same year. At the moment she is working on two collections of poems one in Hindi and one is translations from English to Hindi. These are to be released by the end of this year(2009). Her poems have been published in many national and inter-national journals. They have also been translated into German by Carla Kraus, a well known Austrian author.

She represented Canada in New Delhi India in 7th Inter-national Hindi Celebration Meet in December 2008 organized by Akshram in association with ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations). She has also represented India in the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Artists Meet, New Delhi in December 2002. She received Honourable Mention at Poetry Writing Contest 2003 held by the Mississauga Library System Canada when she landed in Canada.

Her paintings are with many Corporates, Government Bodies, Embassies, Hotels and Private Collections in India, Canada, Australia, England, Switzerland, Dubai and many other countries

She qualified as a textile and fashion designer and worked in this industry for for six years, then got into advertising.

She has had an intense career in advertising for twenty years and was heading an advertising agency in New Delhi, India. Now she runs an Entertainment & Life Style news weekly called „STARBUZZ“ along with her husband in GTA, Canada and also runs an after school learning centre in Mississauga.

Meena is also passionately involved in community arts and has directed many art events and curated many art exhibitions. Most of these have been done under the aegis of ‚CROSS CURRENTS – Indo Canadian International Arts‘ which has a mission of embracing diverse cultures and origins and bringing them on a common platform through arts there by ‘taking arts beyond boundaries’. The organization has had several successful art events in past. This includes an art exhibition „Confluence“, which was taken to India, “ „Children’s Art Competition, Unity In Diversity“ and „Beyond Boundaries International Arts Festival“.

She is also a qualified art educator (Learning Through the Arts) from The Royal Conservatory School (The RCM) Ontario, which means to implement an arts-infused approaches in developing the potential of every child and adult.

Meena Chopra, President

CROSS CURRENTS Indo Canadian International Arts

(Also Director Learna Education Centre, Heartland, Mississauga)

Email: crosscurrents.ca@gmail.com