IWG Tunis Update
Dear Ladies,
On May 31, IWG Tunis held its first Art Fair at the Elyssa Club in Sidi Bou Said. We had really high quality of fine art works participated on the Fair, even though it was a small fair in terms of vendors. The highlight and the focus of our Art Fair was the beautiful oil paintings presented by ladies from the IWG Oil Painting Group. For most of ladies in the Painting Group (including myself), it was first time to share our studies and works with the public during our past 1 or 2 years oil painting study with our Instructor, Sandhya Sharma. Sandhya's unique teaching technique enables and encourages these ladies to explore and grasp the hard core of oil painting world within amazing short period of time. From everyone at the Oil Painting Group, we want to say: "Thank you so much, Sandhya!" Of course, behind the achievement of these beautiful oil paintings is immense effort and hardworking from everyone at the Oil Painting Group. This is fully confirmed by professional artists who visited the Art Fair and left their impression about our work at the visitors' book. Due to limited space, I am sharing with you only 2 notes here.
"I am so impressed by your works, ladies! I can say, Sandhya is a good teacher (too bad she is leaving). I wish you all a bright future in the art world. Either as professional or hobby activity, the most important is to enjoy it and be open to the world around us. Good luck to you all and we will be looking forward to you next show." Faika
"Wonderful work. You are a very talented group of ladies!" Nicole
Thanks so much to Faika and Nicole! Your kind comments as professional artists are worth a lot to each one of us at the Oil Painting Group. We know, we are on the right track to approach the fine art world. Our art journey has just started! I am also happy to share a couple of photos with you and particularly for those who missed our Art Fair.
In June, IWG will hold two events before it is closed for the summer time.
The schedule is as follows.
June 12, Thursday
IWG Closing-lunch Gathering (A Farewell Gathering for Ladies who are leaving Tunis Soon)
at La Galette in La Marsa (60M away from the train station)
25 dinars per person for a full menu
June 21, Saturday
IWG Bazaar
for supporting a project at the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi BouSaid
at the Saf Saf Cafe in La Marsa organised by Angela
Free entrance for visitors
Please check the emails which I sent before for signing up the Lunch Gathering. I will forward you some details about the IWG Bazaar once Angela has further info.
At the end of this edition newsletter, I wish to address the issue of how to deal with other member's private info. It has brought to my attention for an incident which happened in one of our IWG's activity groups recently. At this Group, every group member's email address is open on the mailing list. Instead of respecting other member's privacy, certain member(s) misused the group open mailing list circulated unwished info to everyone on the list.
I would like to specify firmly that every member's name, email address, mobile number and residential area and so on belong to each individual privacy. It is strictly forbidden to distribute, publish or share any of these private info with others inside or outside the IWG group (unless you have met agreement with each other personally). Going forward, the mailing list of each IWG's activity group will be chosen only "Bcc" by the Group Head to send out messages. If you wish to share certain info with other group members or entire IWG, please send it either to your Group Head or to "iwgtunis@hotmail.co.uk". Thank you for your attention and understanding.
Best regards,
Meng
Meng ZHANG
President, IWG Tunis
