Nitin Sawhney, the musicians and Ambassdor for the project, said: "Children need to challenge their imaginations and a formal education in the arts instils children with confidence and an ability to learn through intuition as well as intellect.
Without this perplexing mismatch between the periodicity of the sun and the moon to challenge their imaginations, observations and calculations, our ancestors might never have developed advanced mathematics and the astronomical sciences.
"We hope that this Festival will help children to grow in their music talent, knowledge, and skills, so as to bring joy and satisfaction to their lives, challenge their minds, stimulate their imaginations, and lift their spirits", added Mr.Samphe Lhalungpa.
And certainly one should ask what is gained by encouraging students to rehearse and perform empty music rather than what is best and most suited to them -- what will engage and challenge their musical ability, technique and imagination.
"It's people challenging through their imaginations.
In the spirit of Theron's role as the Evil Queen, the cheftestant's were given the challenge of using their imagination to come up with a meal fit for her character -- and the results were incredible.
Convent culture presented the especially competent not only with constant exposure to some of the best religious literature and music, but also with challenges that encouraged their imagination and inventiveness: positions such as prioress, sub-prioress, bursar, novice mistress, and choir mistress.
The contest challenges students to use their imagination in an illustration, story, essay, poem or letter.
Instead of comforting us with their familiarity, such places challenge our imagination to conjure other times and connect with past cultures in ways that we ordinarily do not.
