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RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Culture has announced the opening of electronic registration for a cultural ideas contest offering prizes of up to SR300,000 ($80,000).
Participants are being asked to put forward proposals for creative and innovative activities at festivals and events being staged in the Kingdom. Cash awards will be made to entrants judged to have come up with the three best ideas and e-registration for the competition is open at https://engage.moc.gov.sa/ideathon.
The country’s first Cultural Ideas Marathon is part of the Quality of Life Program that seeks to achieve the targets of the Vision 2030 reform plan and marks the launch of the activities of the ministry’s Cultural Ideas Center.
Saudi culture ministry signs deal to preserve Yemen s cultural heritage Saudi Gazette
RIYADH The Saudi Ministry of Culture has signed a memorandum of joint cooperation with the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen in response to the Yemeni government s request to help preserve the country s cultural heritage, support cultural efforts in Yemen, and protect its vulnerable monuments.
As part of the agreement, the Saudi government will work in collaboration with relevant organizations and in coordination with the Yemeni government and the local authority to support and preserve Yemeni heritage and monuments. This is in addition to rehabilitating and developing Yemeni capabilities in the cultural field to advance the cultural, economic, and social movements in Yemen.
Arabic calligraphy will soon fill the city of Jeddah through murals and street paintings.
Following the United Nations Arabic Language Day last week, the Jeddah municipality announced its initiative to install 50 Arabic calligraphy murals across the city as a way to enhance its public spaces. The artwork will cover main roads, sidewalks, flyovers, buildings and squares in the Saudi Arabian city.
Some of the works will be more than 70 metres long and 3 metres high.
Jeddah’s mayor Saleh Al-Turki stated that the move also goes hand-in-hand with the Saudi Ministry of Culture’s establishment of 2020 as the Year of Arabic Calligraphy and is in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
December 24, 2020
The agreement was signed virtually on Monday by Prince Badr Bin Abdullah Bin Farhan, Minister of Culture, and Ambassador Mohammed bin Saeed Al-Jaber, general supervisor of the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY).
RIYADH The Saudi Ministry of Culture has signed a memorandum of joint cooperation with the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen in response to the Yemeni government s request to help preserve the country s cultural heritage, support cultural efforts in Yemen, and protect its vulnerable monuments.
As part of the agreement, the Saudi government will work in collaboration with relevant organizations and in coordination with the Yemeni government and the local authority to support and preserve Yemeni heritage and monuments. This is in addition to rehabilitating and developing Yemeni capabilities in the cultural field to advance the cultural, economic, and social movements in Yemen.