Being tote-tally creative at BT BAF art jamming event

Singapore

CHILDREN and youths from The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BT BAF) took part in Citi's 12th annual Global Community Day on Saturday. They put their creative energy to use and facilitated a tote bag design workshop.

Joining them at the art jamming sessions were BT editor Wong Wei Kong, head of Asean and Citi country officer (Singapore) Amol Gupte and head of Citi Commercial Bank Singapore Lin Hsiu-Yi.

The highlight of the day for the BT BAF beneficiaries was having some of their artworks picked for Citi Commercial Bank's 2018 calendar.

This is the third consecutive year that Citi Commercial Bank is collaborating with BT BAF to showcase art by the young artists in the bank's marketing collaterals.

Launched in 2005, BT BAF has reached out to more than 14,000 financially disadvantaged children between the ages of five and 19 years through a variety of programmes comprising arts camps, workshops, signature performance events and sustained arts training at The Little Arts Academy and 10 Square@Orchard Central.

Every year, Citi celebrates its Global Community Day and this year, more than 100,000 Citi volunteers in 500 cities, spanning 91 countries and territories, engaged in service activities in their local communities.