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Activities (2015-2016 Academic Year)

Silly Style at 37 waterfall

Free Relax at waterfall

With Karenni Beautiful Girl

On the boat at waterfall late

Explaining about mine game

 Silly styles with Irrawaddys' students at Forgotten Birthday Party In Irrawaddy School.

The Last day of English Class

The last day of Financial Literacy Training

Implementation girl bathroom at Hsa Mu Htaw School

The first day of financial literacy training

Wide Horizons Alumni  Video (short) 

Watch! the latest of Wide Horizons Students' Video

Restoration of Mandalay’s Famed Teak Monastery to Resume After Setbacks

The US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation is working with Burma’s Ministry of Culture to preserve the centuries-old monastery. (Photo: Tay Za Hlaing / The Irrawaddy)

MANDALAY — An ambitious restoration of Mandalay’s Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung Monastery looks set to resume in February, following lengthy delays in the supply of teak pillars needed to repair the building’s terrace.
The project, which was initially supposed to take two years to complete, began in February 2014 as a collaboration between Burma’s Ministry of Culture, the US Embassy and US-based NGO World Monuments Fund (WMF).
Jeff Allen, a program director at WMF told The Irrawaddy that the estimated 30 teak logs have been “made available,” and the group will retrieve them from Loikaw, in Karenni State, this weekend. The delays will have a minor impact on the project timeline, he added.
Allen said the full extent of the work has yet to be fully assessed, making a completion date difficult to estimate. Some parts of the structure will need to be replaced completely, while others simply need repair.
“We don’t know exactly how many pillars have decayed yet,” he said.”Moreover, most of the staircases are full of termites and we still don’t know if they will need to be replaced.”
Allen said a team has already begun working on pest control, improving the drainage system and reinforcing masonry on the stairwells of the ancient monastery.
The Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung Monastery, also known as the Golden Palace Monastery, was originally a royal chamber of Burma’s King Mindon and was first located inside the Mandalay Palace compound. It was originally covered with gold leaf, inside and out, with glass mosaics inside. Wood carvings illustrating Buddhist myths stretched from ceiling to floor.
After King Mindon passed away, his son, King Thibaw, moved it out of the palace compound to become a monastery. It is the only apartment of the royal palace to survive the aerial bombardment of Mandalay during World War II, when most of the historic buildings of Mandalay Palace were razed to the ground.

Artist APK: ‘Cartoons in State-run Newspapers Aren’t Real Cartoons’

APK, one of Burma’s most revered cartoonists, in Rangoon, 2016. (Photo: Kyaw Hsu Mon / The Irrawaddy)

Prior to the second annual Nobel-Myanmar Literary Festival, held from Jan. 16-18 at Rangoon’s Event Park, The Irrawaddy sat down with cartoonist APK to discuss the value of comics and the theme of this year’s festival: children’s literature.
Comics are declining in popularity in Burma, and it seems like only cartoons are doing well. Why is this happening?
The fact that the number of dailies and weeklies has increased has contributed to a rise in the popularity of cartoons. Still, even though cartoons are strong in terms of quantity, in terms of quality, they have a long way to go—especially online ones. Cartoonists today can post their work online, such as on Facebook, anytime, anywhere. Social media, generally, is a contributing factor to the rise of cartoons. But the workmanship and ideas are very weak. Many trees will bear flowers, but it takes time for beautiful flowers to grow, so to speak.
Though there are more cartoons out now, it seems like most of them fall short in some way. For example, cartoons in government-run newspapers often lack humor, and cartoons in private publications are often biased toward the opposition. What’s your take on this?
Cartoons in state-run newspapers aren’t real cartoons, at least they shouldn’t be called cartoons. The workmanship is poor, not to mention the ideas. When I met government officials, I told them that their cartoons are of poor quality and the money paid for them small. It seems that people at state-run newspapers extend the offer to draw cartoons only to those who are close to them. These cartoons don’t have any standards.
As for cartoons in private dailies and journals, it depends on the editors. There are some editors who fail to look carefully at cartoons before publication—fail to check spelling or don’t know which pages to put cartoons on, for example—and some editors who are responsible for some of the good cartoons that have come out. And sometimes cartoonists don’t think seriously enough about their cartoon’s idea, and the pay that they receive is chicken feed.
These are a few reasons why cartoons are how they are now. But we shouldn’t be disappointed. We should be optimistic about the number of cartoons being created, because as the quantity increases, those who can make quality cartoons will also emerge. I welcome them all.
The Nobel-Myanmar Literary Festival this year will place an emphasis on children’s literature because recently there have been fewer children’s books. What do you think is necessary to boost the amount of literature we’re seeing?
Change primarily hinges on the economy. If a country is poor and its economy declining, there will be a similar slump in other areas. If people were able to fulfill their basic needs, there would be people to create quality things, and there would be greater consumer support. At the moment, however, cartoonists must work quickly, without regard to quality, just to satisfy their stomachs, and publishers only care about filling blank pages in their publications.
If this is the case, then does getting the industry to pick up depend solely on businessmen? Who else is responsible?
Businessmen buy football teams, but those football teams can still lose. We can’t work like that. If everyone gets rich, more people will create and read things of good quality. Again, this mainly depends on the economy. If the economy is strong, the comics industry will also be strong—if businessmen are willing to make big investments, the industry will surely develop. Still, none of this can be done alone, and things will need to be developed step by step.
Do cartoonists plan to establish a cartoon museum, one that will feature the profiles and works of cartoonists from previous eras?
In our country, even the national library isn’t functioning properly. What can we do? But perhaps with collaborative efforts we’ll see something like this.

Amazing Training at Wide Horizons

Using Computer Skills With Video Training

the first day of video training

The video training is one of essential training for Wide horizons students to perform their skill in their organization. In November, from 23 to 27, we learned video shooting training from DVB Youth Voice journalist Nyan Soe. Firstly, he trained us how to shoot photo and video in a professional ways. We went outside to shoot videos as practice. Then, we created a short video by divided group of 4 based on the project team. Moreover, we continued to create our videos pitch for our proposal with different projects. This video training helps us to apply video pitch to build trust with donors. Furthermore, this training is very useful for us to help our mother organizations for writing proposal and video pitch, when we return. Furthermore, Wide Horizons students can transform the news from community as a public journalist.

Writing By

Zoaw htaw & J. Ah Dau

Joyful Photography

Taking photographs with your emotion or feeling can produce a meaningful quality of photo for the audience. In Wide Horizons, students gained photography training from the photographer, Rebecca Robybs who came from Child Dream. She provided the training for 3 hours, and she also explained about how a good photo is useful and important to show someone’s feeling or something’s connotation.

Firstly, we started the training when she arrived in class. Next, she started to explain about the training which concerned with the taking photographs in different views. In her explanation, in photography, people have different views and perspectives based on their emotion and their feeling to create their own pictures. Different photos have different various meanings depended on the photographers. So pictures can change people’s views and it can also give too much knowledge to the audience. Moreover, she explained more about following the photography’s instruction is the best way to receive a nice, meaningful picture for the audience.

Secondly, she divided all students by a group of 4 to take the photos with their own feeling to produce a good quality of photos. After dividing groups, she let the students to take photos around the school’s compound and outside of the school for one hour and half. Furthermore, she followed and helped some students during taking photographs. Students took many different photos based on their emotion and their feeling to create a good quality of photo for the audience. Additionally, they also gave each other suggestions to create the best picture for their group by taking plenty of pictures.

Finally, all students gathered together with the teacher at 11:00 am in the class. Next, every group shows the pictures which they took from outside or in school compound. After that, the teacher let them to choose top 5 pictures for representing their group. She told them to choose the best picture among 5 pictures which could give a good story for the picture. So, after they chose the pictures, each group showed the best picture and described the interesting story about the pictures.

All in all, the things that we learned in this training would help us to create the pictures as we wish. It also gave us to spread out massages and knowledge to the target community for our organization. In addition, it also helps us in photography skill to get the best quality of picture. 

Written By: John

Graphic Designing 

Students' Icon

Nowadays, there are many ways to share and advertise information to the world. Before the end of second trimester in December, we also have a week long training to advertise our information by info sheet (A4 sheet) and poster. This training provided by one teacher named Farmi who comes from Malaysia. He had done many experiences about design poster during living in Malaysia.

Firstly, he shared his experiences how did he learn how to design and how he participated in his community by helping design poster. Also, he shared his design info sheet and poster with a short presentation. The first day of our training, he let us to decide what we would prefer to learn from him. Then, he introduced the basic of design such as line, shape and circle, etc. Furthermore, he taught us how to design info sheet and poster for sharing our mother organization’s information. In many case, we practiced in class. He brought some article with picture and logo for us and he let us design in class by divided four groups. Firstly, we couldn’t design but he showed how to design and how is important to design correctly to get more persuasion from audiences.  

The last day of our training, we designed one movie poster by ourselves and he gave suggestion for our designing. We were happy that we had a chance to learn how to arrange the information and logo or pictures in info sheet and poster. When he trained us that everyone was motivated in that training. Moreover, it was useful for us and it was the best to distribute our information to the community by using info sheet and poster. Not only that but also it is important for us when we went back to our own organization by designing to distribute the organization information.

Over all, we all have learned happily and finished our design training successfully with him in a whole week. On behalf of Wide Horizons’ students, I would like to say thanks to him for giving us design training. 

Written By: Than Maung