ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020

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ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020

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A group photo from the event

Event promotes ‘limit single use plastic to save environment’

ASSP Kuwait organizes ‘family fun day 2020’ for a causeKUWAIT CITY, Feb 15: American Society of Safety Professional-Kuwait Chapter organized Family Fun Day on Jan 24 at Wafra Chalet to bring in

members and their families.This was the consecutive fourth

year of the event and this time it was organized with a theme “Funday With Limiting Single-Use Plastic – Save Environment”. Around 250 members along with their family members enthusiastically participated and had great fun on the day.

ASSP Kuwait Chapter has adopted 3R’s i.e. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle method to limit the single-use plastic at the fun day.

Members and families were in-structed not to bring any kind of single used plastic at the venue.

Paper plates, glass and wooden spoon were used in place of single use plastic plates, glass and spoon.

Reliance Worldwide Catering Company also brought their crockery for serving and eating food.

Instead of single use water bot-tle, a dispenser and water cans were provided. These water cans were sent back to manufacturing company for reuse.

bags and bio degradable bags were used.

The event banner was made up of

While selecting the gifts, plastic items were avoided and gifts were warped using paper.

The fun day out was kicked off with the inaugural speech by ASSP Kuwait Chapter President Sunil Sadanandan, who briefed on the fun day out Theme and its necessity. He said that these type of outdoor events generates huge amount of single use plastics usage and it is quite alarming as some of them are not properly disposed and pose a threat to the environment. The event was a message to all in Kuwait on how such social gathering event can be done by limiting single use plastics.

with sporting events like football, fun games such as lemon spoon race, running for kids, ladies, and games for couples etc. For entertaining kids’ air

balloon twisting by clown and magic show was arranged.

Reliance Worldwide who is promi-nent service provider in oil sector and supporter of Chapter activities provided the catering services for the entire day with live kitchen stations.

The post lunch session comprised

females and ASSP members. The members and families were well enter-tained by melodious songs with music

throughout the event.During the concluding ceremony

Mazarudhin Shaikh Secretary, thanked -

special thanks to Eng Fadhel Al Ali, Chairman ASSP Kuwait Chapter for his inspiration, encouragement and consist-ent support for bringing the outdoor

members and consequent success of the Kuwait Chapter.

The funday 2020 was organised by the outreach committee lead by Bal-vant Singh, head, outreach committee,

of Outreach Committee. The arrange-

the theme of the event.The concluding ceremony featured

the cake cutting ceremony, lucky draw prizes and gifts for the winners and participants. The core committee members of ASSP Kuwait Chapter distributed the prizes and the gifts.

The day was concluded with vote of thanks delivered by Jahid Thakor, vice-president of ASSP Kuwait Chapter. He specially thanked all families of ASSP members for allowing members to volunteer their service to the society by

The program concluded with a special gift to all members by ASSP Kuwait Chapter. For more details visit kuwait.assp.org

‘Athleisure’ is everywhere

National Forum Kuwait conducts Kudumbasangamam-2020

New exhibit at FIT examines ballet’s lasting influence on fashion

National Forum (NAFO) Kuwait conducted ‘Kudumba-sangamam’ on Feb 7, at “Chef Noushad’s Signature Restauarant”, in Farwaniya. The event was blessed with presence of large number of NAFO family mem-bers. The day started with rendering of National An-thems of both Kuwait and India and lighting of tradi-tional lamp by NAFO ladies wing senior members. NAFO Advisory Board member Vijayan Nair paid homage to legendary leader Mannathu Padmanab-han. Hon. President of NAFO, Vijayakrishnan presid-ed the function and General Secretary Murali S. Nair welcomed the gathering. Promising young singer and NAFO family member Master Rohit Shyam rendered a devotional song invoking divine blessing. Advisory Board member Dr Prasad Nair made a thought-pro-

voking speech highlighting NAFO’s origin, objectives charter members. Along with he delivered a motiva-tional speech for outgoing NAFO students.

Ten students of NAFO family who completed their

with these students NAFO honored one Xth Student who is leaving Kuwait for further studies and two other

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to Master Rohit Shyam who bagged several awards -

tivities recently. Kumari Adaita Unnikrishnan and Mas-ter Ananth Milan were selected for encouragement

NAFO Ladies Wing presented a skit “Add-Medley” which reproduced old TV advertisements of famous Indian and International brands and more than thir-ty talented NAFO kids made life to this skit. NAFO Ladies Wing has staged thrilling group song which was tribute to famous districts of South Indian State Keralam. Thereafter, NAFO kids staged awesome ensemble of semi classical and contemporary dance forms.

-emony of NAFO Anniversary program titled “NAFO

bearers, “OnCost” COO, Shri T. A. Ramesh and rep-

two hours power-packed audio visual treat conceived, designed and directed by legendary “Soorya Krishna-moorthy” and to be performed by a group of celebri-ties from South India. The meeting also unanimously consolidated the activity improvisation action plan for NAFO’s future goals.

NAFO Kudumbasangamam witnessed a few of oth-er functions such as FAS (Family Assurance Scheme)

-tion etc. NAFO presented a beautiful memento to de-parting NAFO member Shri Prabhatkar and his wife Geetha Prabhatkar.

Organizing Secretary Vinayan Mangalasseri de-livered vote of thanks and the meeting dispersed for sumptuous dinner.

By Jocelyn Noveck

A at the Fashion Institute of Technol-ogy is a feathered white tutu. It may look, to the untrained eye, like any ballet costume. It is, however, anything but.

Worn by the iconic Russian bal-lerina Anna Pavlova in her most famous role, the Dying Swan, the tutu contains 1,537 feathers. Cura-tors at the Museum at FIT know this because the feathers had to be counted to get the tutu through the permit process to arrive in the United States, from Britain. At FIT, the tutu resides in its own alarmed case with 37 screws keeping it safe and secure.

The launch this week of “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse” was timed to coincide with New York Fashion Week, taking advantage of all the editors in town. But the connection is

fashion both high-end and casual, start-ing in the early 20th century and up to the present time.

including ballet costumes, couture gowns and athletic wear, or what we today call “athleisure.” Ballgowns or party dresses from top labels like Dior, Chanel and Lanvin are displayed along with the ballet costumes that inspired them.

To Patricia Mears, curator of the

“everywhere.”“So (if) you’re looking at a formal

gown made out of silk tulle that is covered with spangles and has a satin bodice, immediately you think of a ballerina’s tutu,” Mears says. ”If you

of women wear that kind of shoe today. And then the leotard, the leggings ... all these things have found their way into fashion. It’s ubiquitous.”

While ballet’s popularity dipped somewhat at the end of the 20th centu-ry, Mears feels it’s gained considerable ground over the past decade, partly due to the popularity of “Black Swan,” the

Oscar, and partly due to the use of so-cial media by dancers to connect with audiences. Some dancers have become

And fashion has played a role in the phenomenon, argues Mears: “The col-laboration between high-end designers and ballet companies has been a really important force in making this change

New York City Ballet, which has con-

including the late costume designer Karinska’s famous tutus from “Jewels” by George Balanchine, and a 2012 cos-tume for “Symphony in C” by current NYCB costume director Marc Happel. The company’s annual fall fashion gala brings in noted designers to create

costumes for new ballets every year.Also on loan from NYCB: the lovely

long pink tutu worn by the Sugarplum Fairy in “The Nutcracker” – a character that is “every little girl’s dream,” says Happel. “She has two costumes – she’s one of the only characters that does. This one is made of a very beautiful satin bodice and several layers of tulle, which are different colors. That can be very subtle, but it creates more depth in the classical tutu.”

Echoes of that tutu, in fact, can be seen in a very modern item Happel has

dress he designed for Sara Mearns, NYCB’s star ballerina and a good friend, for her 2018 marriage, a stun-ning pink dress with spaghetti straps

from the European high fashion ele-ments – the Lanvin, the Chanel, the Dior fashions inspired by ballet – to look a particularly American phenom-enon of the 20th century: activewear.

“I think one of the most surprising

elements,” says Mears, “the leotards, the leggings. Today, ‘athleisure’ is everywhere. But actually the phenom-

a whole group of American women de-signers like Claire McCardell to thank for that. They were actually looking at dancers as a source of inspiration.”

bit runs through April 18. (AP)

Photos from the event.