document "Cultural sustainability" A remarkable achievement for the Mountain Festival in its third edition
Fujairah, 1st May / WAM / The Mountain Cultural Festival, organized by the Fujairah Social and Cultural Association in cooperation with the Department of Tourism and Antiquities of the Government of Fujairah, launched the “Cultural Sustainability” document, which expresses the conviction and responsible awareness of the Emirates’ creators and intellectuals, of the challenges of the present and future in light of the accelerating global cultural changes. .
The activities of the third edition of the festival were held over two days under the slogan “Nature Talk”. The activities of the last day included, in addition to the launch of the cultural sustainability document and reading it to the audience, the launch of the “Mountain Dove”, which represents a message of peace from the Emirates to the world, as well as the planting of ghaf trees. In Poets Park to promote environmental sustainability in the UAE.
His Excellency the expert Dr. Khaled Al-Dhanhani, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fujairah Social and Cultural Society, expressed his happiness at the success of the festival, which presented to the public multiple creative activities and activities in a variety of colors and fields of culture within a heritage environment represented by the Fujairah Heritage Village hosting the festival’s activities, which strengthened the connection between the past and the present in a wonderful cultural harmony.
He stressed that the festival looked forward to the future by launching the cultural sustainability document. Pointing out that cultural sustainability plays a vital role in promoting cultural mobility and preserving cultural heritage from extinction, which contributes to building national identity and cultural excellence. In addition, cultural sustainability establishes communication between different generations and contributes to diversifying and enriching cultures.
Sustainable strategies also work to strengthen the cultural economy and create new job opportunities in multiple fields such as cultural tourism and creative industries.
The “Cultural Sustainability Document” stipulated the commitment of the participants in the Mountain Cultural Festival and all people of culture, thought, literature and art, and the cultural and creative industries, to work hard to achieve and consolidate sustainable cultural development that is consistent with the characteristics of comprehensiveness in its fields, balance in its fields, responsiveness to human needs, and expanding… His perceptions and choices, aspiring to renewal, effectiveness, and healthy interaction with the cultural other, and having a reciprocal relationship with sustainable development, economically, socially, and environmentally.
The document also represents the message of the participants in this cultural forum, which is a conscious commitment to the importance of sustainable culture, and its essential role in building and shaping the awareness of generations, motivating them to be creative and participating in achieving comprehensive and sustainable development linked to societal culture, positive engagement in diverse cultural fields and activities, and making the culture of reading Dialogue, the acquisition of knowledge, and the passion for the arts, museums, theater, literary fields, and cultural aesthetic values are deeply rooted in the souls of emerging and future generations, achieving a lot of individual and collective self-confidence, and mental, cognitive, and emotional satisfaction.
The participants stress the importance of the pioneering and effective role of culture, with its diverse vital fields, in facing challenges, and express their convictions that true sustainable development cannot be achieved in the absence of a sustainable culture, given that the sustainability and improvement of the cultural field provides human life with creative cognitive, psychological, value-based, aesthetic and behavioral energies, and national and cultural memory. Shared. The document stressed that the state’s care and support for cultural fields, and making them among the development goals and future vision plans, is a guarantee of the sustainability of culture, to be an essential part of the system of the UAE’s present and future, building citizens and citizenship, cognitively and emotionally, and creating a cohesive, safe, open and prosperous society.
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