06 February 2019
10th Ta’s al Shabab Festival Initiative’s “We all Read”, Organizes its first event “ Together we Listen”
Ta’a al Shabab 10th edition initiative, “ We all read”, organized its first event last Monday at al Ahlia University, which was themed “ We all Listen”, during which members of the reading team made a public reading of extracts and publications by Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities. This initiative will run until 10 February 2019.
Commenting on this initiative, Ms. Fatima Al Ghareeb, vice-president of “ We All Read” initiative said “ The main objective of our public readings is to attract the greatest number of audience regardless of age and categories and promote reading culture, placing it on top, its birth natural place, where everything else started their journey”. Al-Ghareeb added saying “ Placing back the reading compass to choosing the right useful books, we targeted BACA’s Transfer of Knowledge project’ publications”.
The 10th edition of Ta’a al Shabab’ Festival came under the slogan (Tashyeed ( Erect), Takhleed ( Commemorate) Tajdeed ( Renovate). Running until 16 February, The 10th edition of Ta’a al Shabab’ Festival includes Seven initiatives; namely“ We all Read”, which aims at raising awareness about the importance of reading, “Darayesh” initiative which reflects the cultural architecture mechanisms, “Tashkeel” initiative highlights edition the importance of visual and plastic arts. “Technique “initiative embraces technology latest developments and increasing changing nature of it, while “ Harmony” initiative focusses on how to develop the culture of refined music gifts among youth and society and uplift the local cultural scene. “Adwar” initiative is concerned with theatre arts, while “ Premiere” concentrates on the 7th art and all cinema affairs.
It is worth mentioning that " We All Read” initiative was launched in 2009 as part of Ta’a al Shabab other events, before turning into an offial accredited association in 2012. It is also worth to mention that Ta’a al Shabab’", is a cultural project that was founded by the late Mohammed Al-Banki, who believed and adopted new creative young dynamic cultural activities and events merging and mixing cultural, literary and artistic projects together under one umbrella, that is “ Ta’a la Shabab” . Later these projects were carried out and materialized by Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities, led by H.E Shaikha Mai Bint Mohammad Al Khalifa.
