25 February 2020
Ta’a Al-Shabab Festival Invites Critic and Writer, Tareq Al-Khawaji, Japanese Anime Cartoons Forum discussion
Ta’a al Shabab’s Festival 11th edition’s initiative “ We All Read” organized a round table discussion forum on “ Castle of Anime” by Saudi writer, Mr. Tarek al Khawaji, on 24 February 2020, at Ta’a al Shaba’s reserved Diplomatic Area. Mr. Tarek al Khawaji is one of the most famous cinema critic in Saudi Arabia.
The forum discussion figured a number of themes related to al-Khawaji’s journey with Anime ( Japanese Cartoons), shedding lights on brainstorming, details of Anime creative pioneering writers and major works. Al-Khawaji argued that Anime is a diverse art form with distinctive production methods and techniques that have been adapted over time in response to emergent technologies. It combines graphic art, characterization, cinematography, and other forms of imaginative and individualistic techniques. Al-Khawaji said that the production of anime focuses less on the animation of movement and more on the realism of settings as well as the use of camera effects, including panning, zooming, and angle shots. Being hand-drawn, anime is separated from reality by a crucial gap of fiction that provides an ideal path for escapism that audiences can immerse themselves into with relative ease. Diverse art styles are used and character proportions and features can be quite varied, including characteristically large emotive or realistically sized eyes. Al-Khawaji also said that Ta’a al Shabab festival has become a hub, a lighthouse to the youth in Bahrain and elsewhere in the region, attracting creative young talents.
Worth to mention that Ta’a al Shabab’s Festival 11th edition is sponsored by many parties and corporations, in addition to the official sponsor, Bahrain's Labor Fund Tamkeen,: Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning, Edamah, GIPEC, Ceparco, Bahrain Airport Services, BAS, Bahrain Public Transport Company. The festival is also supported by Al- Helli Markest, Ramez, and MacDonald’s.
This year’s edition of Ta’a al Shabab festival will run until 7 March 2020. The festival organizing committee invites everyone to participate in the different activities and events, except participation in the workshops, which requires a previous registration via the festival web site. You can also follow the festival’s events and activities through its social media networks.
It is worth mentioning 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.
