"Delma Historical Festival" .. The fragrance of heritage in the arms of charming nature
Al Dhafra, April 30 / WAM / The Dalma Historical Race Festival contributes to reviving and preserving the Emirati maritime heritage, demonstrating the richness that characterizes it, and publicizing its importance, as well as its social and economic importance, which is reflected in supporting the community and reviving the local market.
The festival, which is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler’s Representative in the Al Dhafra Region, plays a cultural and national role in preserving the national identity, preserving the Emirati heritage, and caring for and introducing its various components.
In addition to its role in reviving the Emirati marine heritage through sports activities and marine heritage crafts, the festival, organized by the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority and the Abu Dhabi Marine Sports Club, and which concludes next May 5, highlights the richness and diversity of Emirati folk arts, and the authenticity and long history of its societal traditions, as demonstrated by authentic crafts. Which is a product of the knowledge and cultural accumulation in the country, and an expression of its environmental and cultural diversity.
In this context, the festival’s activities celebrate the social, economic and entertainment aspects, through a number of exhibitions and competitions that aim to create an interactive atmosphere with heritage in all its aspects.
The “Traditional Heritage Crafts Exhibition” represents a model of live interaction between the festival’s audience and its activities, through which craftswomen present live workshops demonstrating the inherited methods of transforming raw materials into industries involved in managing daily life in multiple fields.
The most prominent of these crafts is the making of talli, which shows an aspect of the culture of adornment among Emirati women. It also shows the skill and artistic precision that they have achieved, which indicates an ancient cultural heritage from which Emirati women derived the forms and methods of manual work.
The craft exhibition also presents the craft of cutting the Emirati burqa in all its stages before the eyes of the public, and a workshop for preparing henna, its rituals, the materials used to make its paste, and how to use it for various cosmetic and therapeutic purposes.
Other workshops are held, including the Al-Sadu workshop, through which the visitor can see how to weave wool threads on a loom to make the needs of the Bedouins, such as hairdressers, rugs, camel gear, and other uses, while the wicker wicker workshop presents a presentation of the uses of palm wicker, from which various household and life tools that were needed by the community are made. Emirates in the past.
Among the exhibitions that adorn the Seventh Historic Delma Race Festival, maritime heritage enjoys a large presence, which is evident in an exhibition that combines practical and theoretical knowledge in a number of aspects of the rich maritime heritage, so that the visitor learns about the skill of making ropes, ropes, and fishing nets from various raw materials and materials, and their uses. Diving tools, oyster splitting, types of heritage bearings, their parts and features, fishing and its methods, types of fish and marine life, and other details of the rich and diverse marine life.
The Sea Heritage Exhibition represents a link between generations that works to link the theoretical and practical knowledge of modern generations, brings them closer to the legacy of their fathers and grandfathers, and strengthens their ties to it as it is part of the components of national identity and the most important elements of preserving national cohesion, and expresses the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority’s keenness to preserve knowledge. Heritage is accessible to everyone through heritage festivals and events.
The festival witnesses a large attendance of children, which is reflected in their active participation in sports competitions and daily entertainment on the stage, in addition to activities designated exclusively for them, such as drawing workshops, clay modeling, handicrafts, and recreational and sports games, which occupy a section that enjoys constant activity.
The interest in children’s activities within the festival’s programs comes to achieve a number of goals, including consolidating traditional knowledge in the hearts of new generations, and introducing them to the legacy of their fathers and grandfathers through attractive means that combine mental enjoyment and knowledge, and activities that enhance their collective spirit and motivate them to achieve in order to seed the spirit of aspiration in their souls. .
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