Irrawaddy-Oct 4
Young Myanmar artists are hosting an art challenge named #Revotober this month to draw the world’s attention to Myanmar’s forgotten struggle for democracy.
Inspired by the worldwide art challenge Inktober, artists involved in Revotober, a combination of revolution and Inktober, will do daily drawings and paintings, according to a provided prompt list for the 31 days of October, and will share the artwork on various social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Campaigners said Revotober aims to raise awareness in the international community of the atrocities committed by Myanmar’s military regime. Since the February 2021 coup, the junta has killed at least 2,332 civilians including around 300 children, while detaining over 15,700 people including elected leaders, student activists, protesters, striking civil servants, politicians and journalists. In the first four days of the challenge, artists created art to show how the Myanmar military’s coup robbed them of their dreams, freedom and ordinary life, the fate of children targeted in junta’s attacks, including the recent regime airstrike on a school in Sagaing Region that killed 11 children, and the day-to-day brutality of junta forces. The challenge aims also to highlight the Myanmar people’s continuing determination to fight the military dictatorship, said the artists. International artists have also been invited to join Revotober. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/young-myanmar-artists-host-art-challenge-to-raise-awareness-of-junta-atrocities.html
