Arts for the common people

When a number of concerned youths saw the realities of various issues arising in their neighborhoods, the idea of nurturing artistic talent popped up, in the belief that art can be a representation and abstraction of reality.

So they started encouraging local children, instructing them in the several skills and arts such as music, photography, engraving, screen printing, painting free of charge and etc.

Fully undertaken on a self help basis, today the activity has become their Saturday and Sunday agenda, With the children learning and practicing together, followed by a modest lunch of plain food. Simplicity and togetherness mark the atmosphere  they have maintained to date.

This is KOMPAS ( komunitas ipa satu ), the name of their community in the senior high school, Helvetia Medan, set up  in 2010. As time goes by, they continue to introduces the arts to communities on the outskirts of Medan  so as to promote the ethos and morals of the younger generation in the city’s marginal areas.

What they aspire to achieve is simple yet noble : art as a guardian of morality.