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Kuzu-Zangpola and welcome to the Choki Traditional Art School website! Choki Traditional Art School (CTAS) is a private traditional art school established in 1999 by Dasho Choki Dorji in commemoration of His Majesty’s, the fourth King’s Silver Jubilee to help children of broken and economically disadvantaged families. The school offers free education, food and lodging. The school initially started with 5 students in a small building in Kawangjangsa, Thimphu. It is now located at Kabesa 10 kilometers north of Thimphu city. Today we have 113 students (86 boys/27 girls) and 16 members of staff. The students come from different dzongkhags (districts) of Bhutan and have varying educational backgrounds. Some are school drop outs from classes 4- 10 and some have not been to school at all. The school provides courses in Lhadri (painting), Jinzo (sculpting; currently not being taught), Pap (carving), Thag-Zo (weaving) and Tshem-Zo (embroidery). In addition, the school also teach basic english, maths and dzongkha(native language). Starting from 2011 the school started special course on computers. The course will be gradually expended to include skills in graphic design for the students. Sustaining the school is our greatest challenge. We try to finance the school through funds raised by selling artifacts made by our senior students . However, students leaving the school at the senior level before completing the full course have affected the funds. They are not sufficient to cover the expenditure of the school. We therefore depend on external support to keep the school running. The school receives support from the Himalayan_Youth_Foundation (HYF) who helped with infrastructure facilities and provided funds to fill the budgetary gaps. Since the begining of May 2010 the Fontana Foundation from Switzerland took over the role as main supporter of the school, while HYF continues to raise funds for the school. On behalf of CTAS, I take this opportunity to thank and express my heartiest appreciation to all the well wishers and supporters of CTAS for their valuable contributions to the school. This generosity and magnanimity provided by the well wishers and supporters have given new hope and life to the students at CTAS. The children will always remember their kindness and charity. With best regards, Sonam Choki CTAS NEWS UPDATE Graduation Ceremony - 2011 This year, nine students, three students from the painting section and six from the carving section, successfully graduated from the school. The graduation farewell dinner and cultural program was held on 3rd December, 2011 at the school. [ READ MORE ] A Success story : Jigme Kinley Shares his story:-: Jigme Kinley is one of the successful graduating students in the carving section.
Jigme is from a village called Mertsham from Tashigang district. His father is a farmer and his mother is a housewife. [ READ MORE ] Annual Parents Teacher Meeting On Saturday, 30th July, 2011, the annual parents and teachers meeting was held on the school campus in Kabesa. The purpose of the meeting was to share with the parents the performance of their children and discuss any problems related to the children. [ READ MORE ] International Tigers Day On Friday, 29th July 2011, coinciding with the International Tigers day in Bhutan, an art competition on the Theme “Tiger conservation” was organized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN) in Thimphu. Nine different schools from across Thimphu participated to celebrate the occasion in the Children’s park near the Changlimethang ground in Thimphu.[ READ MORE ] CTAS on National Television (BBS) The National news channel, Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) made a special program on Choki Traditional Art School which aired on the 18th August 2011. The program formed part of the news covering all the 20 districts in Bhutan. Final Year Study Tour 2011 The final year students of CTAS have just returned from their study tour around Bhutan, visiting historical sites like Dzongs, temples, souvenir production centers, contemporary art studios, national painting school and other areas of interest and significance. This is an annual program organized by the school for the final year students. [ READ MORE ] Annual School Picnic 2011 This year the annual school picnic was held on 19th November near the river side in Kabesa village. Various games and dance competitions were organized among the students and staff to make the picnic interesting and memorable. Staff and students were also divided into small groups and were asked to prepare a dish each for the lunch. [ READ MORE ] Final Year Special Skills Development Program The final year students of the wood carving section had a three day special skills development session from the specialist wood carver (mask making), Mr. Tshagay from the National Institute of Zorig Chusum. The program took place 7th – 9th November at the school. [ READ MORE ] Training on contemporary art 14 students from CTAS took part in the training on contemporary art at VAST (Modern Art Studio) in Thimphu. The training is being organized by the Department of Information and Media in collaboration with VAST studio in Thimphu from 7th – 25th November, 2011. [ READ MORE ] Blood Donation by CTAS On 5th August, the school received a letter from the Health Assistant, Basic Health Unit in Dechencholing requesting blood donations for the emergency patients in the health unit. Around 50 students and staff immediately volunteered to donate their blood. [ READ MORE ] Health advocacy program for women - 10th June 2011 The educational program on Uterus cancer for women was conducted by one of the senior Health Assistance (HA) in CTAS campus. The one hour session was attended by the girls, female staff of CTAS and few other female house wives from the neighborhood. [Read More] TRAINING OF TRAINERS (TOT) The Principal and one senior teacher of CTAS attended a two week workshop on “Training the Trainers(TOT)” From 23rd May till 4th June, 2011 in Thimphu. The workshop was organized by the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR). [Read More] CTAS RECEIVED NEW COMPUTERS The school received as a gift eight computers and one printer from Hewlett Packard and the Fontana Foundation. It has always been a wish of CTAS to have computers in the school so that our students would have the opportunity to learn basic computer skills and computer aided design (CAD). [Read More] SCHOOL FOUNDATION DAY CELEBRATION- 2011 The 11th Foundation day of CTAS was celebrated on 21st May 2011 at the school campus in Kabesa. Sonam Rinchen, The Director of Human resources, Ministry of Labour and Human Resources graced the occasion. Amont the guests were also government officials, Graduates of CTAS, local villagers and other well wishers of CTAS. [Read More] |
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