Katara Traditional Dhow Festival
About the place
- Country : Qatar , Doha
- Address : Katara Beach, Doha, Qatar
- Category : Other Places
Katara Traditional Dhow Festival
Overview:
The 8th Katara Traditional Dhow Festival will be held at Katara Beach in December, during which you will live in a distinctive heritage atmosphere inspired by the lives of your ancestors.
The Katara Traditional Dhow Festival includes many competitions and a variety of activities and cultural events that represent a lively heritage painting that presents the heritage of fathers and grandfathers and highlights the details of their lives, with the aim of reviving and preserving the cultural stock and folklore.
The activities of the Katara Traditional Dhow Festival also include exhibitions of marine heritage holdings of the participating countries, special pavilions for traditional handicrafts, shipbuilding workshops and ancient marine artifacts, in addition to heritage marine competitions.
The arts were also strongly present at the Katara Traditional Dhow Festival, starting with the folk bands that presented their artistic shows touring the entire festival, in addition to the presence of a number of visual artists drawing on murals scenes inspired by the festival environment.
The Katara Traditional Dhow Festival has turned into a cultural act that has transcended its local dimension, to achieve its goals at the regional and global levels as well, due to its diverse activities that combine the authentic Qatari maritime heritage with various fields of arts, as well as reviving traditional marine sports through various inspired competitions from the heritage of the ancestors, and their dealings with the sea in order to seek livelihood for many decades.
Organizing the Katara Traditional Dhow Festival proves that the Cultural Village Foundation “Katara” is strongly present in supporting the country’s great efforts in organizing major international events in the field of sports and others, and confirms that culture is the true reflection of the success of every project that believes in the human being and is based on building bridges of communication between different peoples and cultures.
One of the important issues, which is one of the main objectives of the Katara Traditional Dhow Festival, is the keenness to connect the new generations with the Qatari heritage and the history of their ancestors, in addition to introducing the culture of the people of the sea in Qatar and the Gulf region in the past.
The Katara Traditional Dhow Festival is held annually on Katara Beach. In its previous sessions, it achieved brilliance for its content of heritage activities, competitions and artistic and cultural events, highlighting the richness of marine heritage and showing the culture of the people of the sea in its true form and its realistic landmarks. The festival also established its position as a prominent destination for heritage, culture and tourism. Reinforcing its role in preserving the authentic marine heritage and preserving the customs and traditions of the fathers and grandfathers.
Among the conditions of the competition at the Katara Traditional Dhow Festival, participation in it is allowed for citizens and residents of both sexes from inside and outside the State of Qatar, and the submitted painting must express the participant’s artistic vision of the competition topic, and that the theme of the painting is inspired by the site of the eleventh Katara Traditional Dhow Festival.
Resources:
Al Jazeera website
