Bhutan, the last “Shangri-La” or a Thunder Dragon kingdom in the Himalayas has diverse ethnic people, but the Nepali-speaking people from southern Bhutan along with some from East were evicted from the country in early 1990s. As a result, over a hundred thousand people became refugees and had to live in refugee camps, later set-up by United Nation-agencies in eastern part of Nepal. Since then, som
e young art-loving minds started learning and sharing arts under the shed of “Sal” trees with their own initiation in Bhutanese Refugee camp Goldhap, Jhapa, Nepal. Sketching on earth, Drawing with broken stubs of pencil and squeezed leaves as color on the outer cover of the note copies were their beginnings and various art contests awards and exhibition were their motivations for which they had to struggle for managing the basic required materials out of the same share of the daily hand to mouth needs. Finally, in 08 May, 1994 A.D INSTITUTE of FINE ART and COMMERCIAL ART – BHUTAN (IFACA BHUTAN) was established by those young artists: Pralhad Gurung, Bal Bahadur Rai and Bharat Gurung (as Ifacan Fine Artist). Since then, IFACAN FINE ARTIST started running visual and performing arts to refugees and local children through IFACA BHUTAN, vocational skill for school dropout and skill development workshop and training for entry-level construction workers and the progressive awareness project on communicating and interpreting through visual and performing arts for United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nation World Food Programme, The Lutheran World Federation, The Red Cross Society, Save the Children Fund[UK], Nepal Government, CARITAS and Association of Medical Doctors of Asia project implementation. The projects about Women Right, Child Rights, Education, Environment, Fire/Safety, HIV/AIDS, Health and Sanitation by designing flyers, posters, banners, pamphlets, boards, books illustration and awareness exhibition. In Fall 2007, the United Nation High Commission for Refugee through the International Organization for Migration started resettling the Bhutanese refugees in eight different countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States of America). This process help Ifacans connect to the world, Ifacan Fine Artist now called Ifacan International Fine Artist |IIF|.
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