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سعادة هدى إبراهيم الخميس، مؤسس مجموعة أبوظبي للثقافة والفنون، وسعادة د. علي بن تميم، رئيس مركز أبوظبي للغة العربية

الندوة الحوارية الأولى: "لغتنا الأم: استقراء الماضي واستشراف المستقبل:

تتناول الندوة الحوارية واقع اللغة العربية كلغة أم من خلال وجهات نظر المشاركين العاملين على رأس جهات حكومية وأكاديمية من المؤسسات الفاعلة في الحفاظ على التراث واللغة العربية وترسيخ مكانتها من خلال تسليط الضوء على روائع موروثها الثقافي وكنوزها المعرفية واستشراف مستقبلها، ويشارك فيها كل من سعادة الدكتور عبد العزيز المسلم (مدير معهد الشارقة للتراث)، وأ. د. هنادا طه، مديرة مركز زاي لبحوث اللغة العربية بجامعة زايد، والدكتورة عائشة الشامسي (رئيس قسم اللغة العربية وآدابها بجامعة محمد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانية)، ويديرها الكاتب والناقد علي العبدان.

الجلسة الشعرية:

أمسية شعرية تستشفُّ جماليات لغتنا العربية الأم، وتكشف عن إبداع لهجاتنا اللصيقة بنا، والمعبّرة عنّا، ويشارك في إحيائها كل من الشعراء شيخة الجابري (عضو مجلس إدارة اتحاد كتّاب وأدباء الإمارات)، والشاعرة ميرة القاسم، والشاعر وليد علاء الدين.

With the aim of empowering young designers, an exclusive award that will cover several design categories will be launched and will provide winners with an internship programme at Dolce&Gabbana headquarter in Italy

The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) and luxury Italian fashion brand Dolce&Gabbana have announced their collaboration on the new ADMAF x Dolce&Gabbana Award that aims to nurture the talents of emerging Emirati fashion designers while paying tribute to their heritage through design.

Open to current and recently graduated university students from the UAE, the new award will potentially cover clothing, jewellery, fragrance, and home decor design aspects and will give finalists the opportunity to gain the necessary skills to develop and realise their finished products through a trained internship in Italy before being showcased to the public next year during Abu Dhabi Festival 2024.

The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation is committed to recognising achievements in culture and arts and sustaining cultural development by embracing creativity and launching a wide array of initiatives and societal programs to attract various audiences, in addition to cultivating creative talents in the UAE and abroad in cooperation with major local and international cultural institutions.

With the aim of empowering young designers, an exclusive award that will cover several design categories will be launched and will provide winners with an internship programme at Dolce&Gabbana headquarter in Italy

The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) and luxury Italian fashion brand Dolce&Gabbana have announced their collaboration on the new ADMAF x Dolce&Gabbana Award that aims to nurture the talents of emerging Emirati fashion designers while paying tribute to their heritage through design.

Open to current and recently graduated university students from the UAE, the new award will potentially cover clothing, jewellery, fragrance, and home decor design aspects and will give finalists the opportunity to gain the necessary skills to develop and realise their finished products through a trained internship in Italy before being showcased to the public next year during Abu Dhabi Festival 2024.

The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation is committed to recognising achievements in culture and arts and sustaining cultural development by embracing creativity and launching a wide array of initiatives and societal programs to attract various audiences, in addition to cultivating creative talents in the UAE and abroad in cooperation with major local and international cultural institutions.

Established in 2007, Young Media Leaders is a career development initiative by the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) that provides ambitious Emirati university students and graduates with knowledge, experience, insight and understanding of the local, regional and global media industry. Through in-depth workshops and encounters with leading academics and professionals in the field, the initiative works to sustain the region’s media industry by equipping students with the tools and confidence required to become the media leaders of tomorrow.

Urban Fabric is a series of four sculptures resembling pieces of thread, conceptualized and built by NYUAD sophomore undergraduate students Roudhah Al Mazrouei, an Emirati national, Gerald Jason Cruz from the Philippines, and Jennifer Tsai from Taiwan. These forms are intertwined and interlaced into the ground, turning the physical environment around the art piece into a canvas that the thread is woven into, linking each piece together.
In attendance at the unveiling were the UAE Minister of Culture and Youth HE Noura Al Kaabi, France’s Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, Chairman of Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) Abu Dhabi HE Mohamed Al Mubarak, His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the UAE Patrick Moody, Spanish Ambassador to the UAE Iñigo de Palacio, Founder of ADMAF HE Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo, NYUAD Vice Chancellor Mariët Westermann, Director of the Award Emily Doherty, Christo’s Director of Operations and nephew Vladimir Yavachef, Executive Director of Culture at DCT Abu Dhabi Rita Aoun-Abdo, Abu Dhabi Art Director Dyala Nusseibeh, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery and the University’s Chief Curator Maya Allison, and along with the winning artists, among others.

Following the success of the first edition of ‘Forever Is Now’, the international art exhibition held at the Pyramids of Giza which welcomed over 500,000 visitors, Art D’Egypte’s second edition returns to the historic site with the support of Abu Dhabi Festival.
Forever Is Now II showcases contemporary art installations by a dozen international artists from eleven countries including Emirati conceptual artist Zeinab Al Hashemi, Saudi artist Mohammed Al Faraj, international award-winning French-Tunisian eL Seed, accomplished Egyptian sculptor Ahmed Karaly, JR the internationally acclaimed French street artist best known for his epic art installations, Spanish artist SpY famous for transforming public spaces into full-blown experiences, classically trained British-American sculptor Natalie Clark, Therese Antoine Louis, Italian artist Emilio Ferro, Cameroonian Pascale Marthine Tayou, and Syrian-born and Swedish-raised visual artist Jwan Yosef.

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ADMAF’s booth at the pavilion hosted panel discussions that feature the winners of their grants and fellowships and offered guided tours for university and school students visiting the fair on November 16 and 17. The event also highlights ADMAF’s annual awards, initiatives and programmes and visitors were able to purchase copies of the Foundation’s latest historic publications documenting the visual art scene in the UAE: Portrait of a Nation II and Art of the Emirates II.
ADMAF’s booth also hosted a Q&A session with Emily Doherty, director of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award, to introduce the award, which has been held annually since 2012 in partnership with NYU Abu Dhabi.

As part of its mission to support the talents and ambitions of promising Emirati artists, the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) is supporting the upcoming solo art exhibition by Maitha Abdalla, the first Emirati artist to participate in the An Effort Art Residency programme in London. The exhibition, titled ‘INT. The Body – Sunrise’, took place between 11-16 October 2022 at Cromwell Place, London.
The exhibition marks the culmination of Abdalla’s three-month An Effort residency in London’s Soho district, supported by ADMAF. An Effort supports artists who, either through their messaging or their process, seek to connect and engage with their audience and wider community in a unique way.

A 4-day inspiring event, Creative Nation 961 began with a concert by the Lebanese Symphony Orchestra at the Emirates Palace Auditorium, conducted by Maestro Harout Fazilian, with the participation of 80 musicians and a special appearance by Lebanese singer-songwriter Mayssa Karaa.
The remaining programme took place at the Bab Al Qasr Hotel, Al Dana Ballroom in Abu Dhabi, which includes exhibtions by well-established Lebanese artists and innovators like the ‘Meshwar Exhibition’ by the Fouad & May Tomb Foundation for the Arts and ‘Pierre Sadek…Picturing History’, an exhibition featuring the works of the pioneering Lebanese caricaturist by the Pierre Sadek Foundation.

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