BOC announces Little Picasso Art Competition inline with 79th anniversary

In line with the bank’s 79th anniversary celebrations, the Bank of Ceylon (BOC) is once again set to conduct the ‘Little Picasso Art Competition’ among school children and reward their talents with valuable gifts.

The bank will not only reward the child’s talent but will also reward the respective schools for nurturing those talents and this prize will be further enhanced if the respective school maintains a ‘BOC Sansada’ school banking unit. In order to maintain transparency and quality of the whole programme, the art competition is conducted jointly with the Ministry of Education and thereby Zonal education Departments.

The Little Picasso 2018 Art competition will be conducted under six categories; category one for pre-school children, category two for Grades I to 2, category three for Grades 3 to 5, category four for Grades 6 to 8, category five for Grades 9 to 11 and finally category six for Grades 12 and 13 school children.

From each category first, second and third national winners and 10 national merit winners will be selected based on their creativity and presentation by professional judges appointed by the Ministry of Education.

Apart from the National winners, three main provincial winners and ten merit winners will too be selected from each category.

These winners will be selected by professional judges appointed by relevant Provincial/ Zonal Department of Education. National first will receive Rs.100,000, a gold medal and a certificate, second place will receive Rs.75,000, a silver medal and a certificate and the national third place will receive Rs.50,000, a bronze medal and a certificate. Schools of these national place winners will receive Rs.25,000, Rs.15,000 and Rs.10,000 respectively for first, second and third places.

At the provincial level, first, second and third winners will be awarded with Rs.25,000, Rs.15,000 and Rs.10,000 respectively and each province merit award winner will receive Rs.2,500 along with a certificate.

The school of provincial first place will get Rs.12,500. If such an award winning school maintains a ‘BOC School Sansada’, the cash reward for the school will be enhanced by another Rs.10,000. The bank will exhibit talents shown by all winners during the month of October on a selected date and a venue which will be followed by the ‘Little- Picasso Award Ceremony 2018’ for the national level winners. The exhibition will be opened for public, for anyone interested in admiring the artistic talents of these budding little Picassos.

“The bank sincerely hopes that parents will encourage the talents of these budding artists by fulfilling the simple entry requirement of opening a Ran Kekulu account with any of BOC’S branches with just Rs.400 and the bank will enhance the amount by another Rs.100 as an acknowledgment for starting a secured financial partnership with the Bank of Ceylon for their precious child’s future whilst taking part in the bank’s 79th anniversary celebrations,” BOC Sales and Channel Management Deputy General Manager C. Amarasinghe said.

With the belief that children can be very creative when given the freedom of thought, children are allowed to draw under any topic that inspires them.

To make the art competition fair for everyone, the participants are requested to submit only one drawing/painting for the competition. Participants are also requested to produce their drawing/painting on a 18-inch by 14-inch white mat drawing paper without leaving a border around the paper, by using any medium (pastel/water colours/poster colours, and others) that won’t smudge or smear on touch. So as to maintain the quality of the drawing it is advised not to roll or fold your creative work. An application prepared as per the attached specimen will have to be pasted behind the drawing with the certification from the school principal and the bank official. Drawings can be handed over to the nearest Bank of Ceylon branch

on or before July 15, 2018.