The first lesson of the Children’s Art School has taken place in the Kiev-Caves Lavra. The class contains kids from ages 5 to 12 and is held in the icon-painting workshop.

In the first lesson, the first part was devoted to painting on the topic “Me in this World”. During the second part, the kids worked in two groups to make images using stamping techniques. Theodora, the nun who runs the workshop, reported afterwards that “there was joyful and warm atmosphere throughout the lesson”.

In the preceding week, the restoration of the rooms for the school, showroom and workshops was completed with consecration by the Vicegerent of the Lavra metropolitan of Vyshgorod and Chornobyl Pavel. 

He expressed his wishes for the workshop staff “May God grant you all with His Divine help, so you can paint icons with a sense of awe and respect (blagogovenie) for the Divinely favoured work of icon painting, which is called a theology in colors by the holy fathers”

Lessons in the children’s school take place twice a week on Saturdays and Sundays.

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