Rural Damascus - Sana
Diversity in literary, musical and artistic activities is the feature that distinguished the Yabroud Cultural Festival in its third session, to form a diversified cultural and artistic space that enriches the aesthetic taste of the people of the region and emphasizes the role of cultural movement in the stage of building and raising awareness, especially among the youth group.
The festival included a variety of artistic, cultural, literary, and musical synthesis that began with an introductory film about the festival in its first and second sessions, and a musical and lyrical presentation by the Arab Cultural Theater Troupe in Yabroud.
Yabroud Ensemble presented musical, lyrical, patriotic, emotional and lyrical performances for 43 musicians and choirs of children and young adults led by the maestro, the creative artist Samer Orabi.
Shehadeh El-Sayed Ahmed, the festival's director, told SANA, "The festival witnessed a great interaction from the people of the city, who were keen to attend its activities, to reflect its importance in increasing the cultural awareness of the community and informing the youth of the cultural and literary diversity of poetry, stories, arts and music."
According to its director, the festival presented an image of this diversity through the book fair, which presented to the public various publications from the Ministry of Culture and the Arab Writers Union, in addition to an exhibition of drawing and photography by artists (Samer Abdel Ghani - Mahmoud Salem - Maysoon Haddad - Youssef Al-Haswani - Hammam Jabbour - Munira Haddad). - Rasha Andrews - and Lama Bara).
Music also had a presence at the festival through an evening entitled “Quintessential Music from the Spirit of the East” led by Maestro Adnan Fathallah.
The theater was not absent from the festival’s activities, as it was shown, in cooperation with the Directorate of Theaters and Music, a monodrama (The Night of Honor), written by Joan Jean, directed by Ali Abdel Hamid Tahour and represented by Basil Alo, and a film entitled (The Journey 17) was shown in cooperation with the General Film Organization directed by Ali Al-Maghout.
He attended criticism and poetry through a critical symposium and poetry readings entitled sentimental hymns in which the poets (Muhammad Hassan Al-Ali - Jamal Al-Masry - Linda Ibrahim and Intisar Suleiman) participated.
Mays Al Ani