23 August 2020
The 4th Last Week of Bahrain Summer Festival 2020, A multitude of artistic, Literary and cultural events
The 4th last week of 12th edition Bahrain Summer Festival events have started on 23 August 2020, offering a bouquet of art, literature and diversified cultural activities. Stay tuned and follow the festival’s daily events on social media channels on @Nakhoolbah, as well as login on to Bahrain Summer Festival’s program for more details about events and dates on www.bahrainsummer.com
Bahrain Summer Festival’s lovely little ones will have a treat on this fourth week; on 24 August, children will certainly enjoy “String Print on Butterfly” workshop, and learn how to make artworks using paint covered strings throughout this workshop, presented by the Bahrain National Museum. The same day there will be another workshop titled “Magnet Making”, whereby the little ones will assemble magnets using personal pictures and residual seeds to decorate their houses’ fridges under the guidance of Noor Hasan.
On 25 August, Bahrain Summer Festival presents two workshops; “Paper Restoration” workshop organized by the Bahrain National Museum, offering the chance to learn paper restoration techniques, emphasizing the importance of preserving beautiful and/or valuable papers throughout this workshop. The second workshop titled “First Aid to Artifacts” will help participants discover how to aid artifacts from decay and protect them from their surrounding environmental conditions.
On 26 August, Bahrain Summer Festival invites you to participate in “Fluid Art-Acrylic Pouring” workshop, held in collaboration with Meraki Art Space, and also “Leaf Printing on T-Shirt”, presented by the Bahrain National Museum, teaching participants an easy way to update their basic clothing through leaf printing on fabric. On 27 August, “Puzzle Making” under the guidance of Noor Hasan, will teach the children how to make educational games that teach numbers and letters using homely ice-cream sticks and cans.
On 28 August the festival presents story-telling events, starting with “I Want my Hat” by the storyteller Eman Alghawas, and “The City of Stones” by the story teller Jumana Al-Gassab. Super Soccer Academy will also show the littles ones the different techniques and basics of football playing.
The Festival’s last cooking arts activities will be held on 29 August with Chef Waddah Swar, founder of Badawi Lebanese Restaurant, will cook an array of healthy dishes inspired by flavors of the Levant. Perfect for the entire family, the dishes can be completed using the simplest of ingredients.
The Remote online virtual tours planned by Bahrain Summer Festival will come to an end with a visit to Bahrain Post Office, guided by the most cherished festival’s characters, “Nakhool & Nakhoola”, showing viewers the different components and corners of Bab-al Bahrain Post Office, a venue that hosts a museum documenting the history of postal services throughout the different modern times.
Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities takes this opportunity to express its gratitude to the 2020 Bahrain Summer Festival sponsors, starting with the Ministry of Interior, represented in this festival by Bahrain Music Police Band and Watani magazine, Ministry of Information Affairs and the National Institution for Human Rights.
In addition, Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities would like would like also to take this opportunity to thank the following embassies for their generous and valuable support and contribution to Bahrain Summer Festival events’ success ; the French embassy, Italian embassy, Kuwaiti embassy, Malaysian embassy, Indonesian embassy, Palestinian embassy, embassy of United States, Japanese embassy, Chinese embassy, Russian embassy, Jordanian embassy, Turkish embassy, Moroccan embassy, Brunei Dar al Salam and Philippine embassies. Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities would like also to extend its gratitude and thanks to the festival sponsors; Maestro Sound & Light Company, mii2 Production Company and G-Clef Production Company. Thanks and gratitude are also extended to all those who have contributed to the success of Bahrain Summer Festival this year, namely BACA’s seniors and employees, and supervisors and chief organizers of workshops and activities, such as artists and talented creative minds.
