3-day Art and Fashion Festival begins at GIK today

PESHAWAR: The three-day All Pakistan Art and Fashion Festival is beginning at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Swabi today (Saturday).

Organised by the Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP), the event will have various programmes and activities to entertain the visitors and hone different skills of the students. These will include theatre dramas, art exhibition, paintings competition, fashion show and a lot of more.

According to the programme, theatre dramas will be presented on the first day of the event besides paintings competitions by the participants.

Fashion show will be held on the second day. Models featuring different cultural and traditional dresses will hold a cat walk on the ramp.

Fine arts competitions are also part of the festival in which students of various institutions from across the country will participate.

A competition of paintings of the scenic Beer Gali located in Swabi district will be the last segment of the event where the students will showcase its different aspects of beauty and sereneness through their paintings. In-charge Marketing and Events, Hassina Shaukat hoped the festival would prove to be the best opportunity for the students and visitors from across the country to interact with each other.

She said the participants would learn a lot about the culture, traditions, scenic places and other aspects of life of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the province as well.

The official said the event would help increase the knowledge of students and broaden their vision about culture and various characteristics of the life of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.