A drawing lesson by art lecturer Luu Vu Minh (Photo: nhandan.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Online art teaching has spawnedin many localities due to prolonged social distancing caused by COVID-19, withnon-profit classrooms on digital platform offering healthy entertainment choiceand skills to learners at home.
With a PC or a smart phone connecting with the Internet, everyonecould join online art courses at home.
Art lecturer Luu Minh Vu often livestreams drawing lessons,one topic each time, in the evening on his Facebook fanpage with nearly 14,000subscribers.
Meanwhile, painter Nguyen Hai Kim from Ho Chi Minh City offersfree teaching on weekend on Zoom app. Learners are instructed how to draw ondifferent materials, most of them are women in different ages and vocations.
Several fine art groups and forums also provide free drawingcourses from basic to advanced levels, making it easier for those interested toaccess.
Florists Nguyen Thanh Hien from Hanoi and Ta Thanh Kim fromAustralia maintain Ikebana teaching sessions with materials easily being foundin Vietnam. They also raise funds in support of frontline medical staff andthose in disadvantaged situation in several COVID-19 treatment hospitals in HoChi Minh City.
Movie lovers or filmmakers also have chances to engage withwell-known directors and producers from the US, Vietnam, the Republic of Korea,India and Singapore in the Master Class programme, which has been held by the Asian Academy Creative Awards' (AAA) Academy Campus and BHD Vietnam company sinceJuly. They are also able to learn script-writing, filming, music and acting fromleading experts in the region and the world.
Notonly bringing happiness or improving living skills, online courses also blurgeographical distance and help learners integrate into the community./.
