Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the emirate’s dedicated entity for culture, arts, heritage, and literature, dedicated the first month of the ‘Live Our Heritage Festival’ (October 30 to November 30) which is held under the theme ‘Treasures of Emirati Cultural Heritage,’ to the Bedouin environment.

 

Visitors will discover how Bedouins made use of the scarce resources and their means of identifying various types of survivor tools and life essentials. 

 

The Bedouins managed to adapt to the harsh nature of the desert environment; they built houses in the form of tents made from camels’ fur; and managed to provide their necessary supplies from the natural resources available in their environment. Among the crafts and creations that spread to the Bedouin environment that the festival will focus on are: Carding Cotton, Spinning (textiles), Al-Sadu (weaving) and Qahwa (Emirati coffee-making).

 

Fatima Lootah, director of cultural and heritage programs department, and head of Live Our Heritage committee at Dubai Culture, said: "We are happy to receive visitors at Global Village to familiarise them with our different environments, habits, and traditions as part of our eagerness to promote and preserve our heritage. The previous editions of the festival achieved their pre-set goals, and highlighting all the UAE’s environments will help us introduce our heritage in an easy and simplified manner, presenting it in the best light throughout the festival."

 

The festival's activities will continue until April 6, 2019. The organising committee divided the festival’s programme this year according to the different environments of the UAE: Bedouin, mountainous, agricultural and marine. The festival welcomes visitors to Global Village every day from 5 pm to 10 pm, giving them the opportunity to enjoy the rich programme and what it offers in workshops and events that focus mainly on handicraft education from each of the environments.

 

Dubai Heritage Development Centres play an active role in this festival, organising for visitors a host of popular traditional games that utilise simple tools. - TradeArabia News Service