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Al Nour Mosque in Sharjah Light Festival Comes the third session of the Sharjah Light Festival with a new one, to be completed by t...



Sharjah Light Festival
Al Nour Mosque in Sharjah Light Festival
Comes the third session of the Sharjah Light Festival with a new one, to be completed by the two previous sessions as a festival of visual dazzle and promote tourism and give the emirate's economic momentum and its satellite cities.

And paints the festival this year through 14 different locations, patterns of optical stunning and tell stories of Date homeland and culture of people in an attempt to entertain the younger generations of their heritage and to highlight through a unique art on the details of Islamic architecture.
This moved harmony between faces and habits of famed Sharjah emirates for many years. Prominent among these paintings features marine life and the lives of aquatic organisms from fish color, and veins coral and jellyfish, with scenes of ancient profession like pearling and diving, as well as the comics are for heritage emirate, with decorations and artistic dances that turn between details. Heritage is meticulously and was the beholders have read in the book does not get tired of read.

And there are other review boards that give the attributes of radiant civilization of past and present Emirates using the latest technologies in this field. Central Market, one of the most prominent sites out of fourteen locations is covered by the festival what distinguishes a distinct Islamic architecture and ancient heritage, which is one of the most important markets in the emirate and meant everyone who is keen to buy souvenirs. 

You can dive into the market to get the bottom of the sea, to paint them, paintings and introducing lights and music to gloss pearl and swim between the types of different fish, and aesthetics of the bottom and mastery and wealth, to the huge marine equipments of Port Khalid showing how their contribution over the years to achieve the development of the emirate, through video scenes documenting marine life.

The large commercial container turned screens displays the Troy trips of pearl diving, fishing and shipbuilding industry and trade. And saw this extending session of optical Festival offers extends to the central and eastern part of the Emirate of Sharjah, in addition to the sights and cultural center of the city, adorned in which thousands of optic points colored with reflective dimensions about the aesthetic features that are influential of the Emirates Heritage and cultural heritage and its modern history.

The main sites of Sharjah Light Festival are following:

  • Qasba
  • Heritage internal and external
  • The Sharjah Fort
  • Al-Nour mosque
  • The Palace of Culture
  • The Khalid Lagoon and walls of mosque near them
  • The shores of Lake Khalid
  • Domes of Courthouse
  • Central Market
  • The field of Kuwait round about
  • Sharjah International Airport
  • The Mosque of Omar bin al-Khattab in Khor Fakkan
  • The branch of the University of Sharjah in the city of Kalba

And reflected lights on these sites through a smart mechanism, so pick up the points of light, reflected in sophisticated ways which there is no wastage of electrical energy, and statistics indicate that the festival is to provide approximately 50% of the total energy consumed in these places.

Message, which started Lights Festival Sharjah in its third edition, 2013 encouraged Abdullah Qayed (48 years) to get out of the house, accompanied by his sons with emerging desire to hunt some of the ancient details about the history of their country and heritage of their parents and grandparents. 

Despite the availability of information everywhere, and young NHL and youth in their school curriculum, says Qayed. Unique and attractive way that tells amazing heritage festival fascinates the young eyes, lest they become more follow-up and focused on what they are seeing.

Tariq Naqbi, who was standing in front of Fort Sharjah with his family, described the offers as well as new events included in this year's festival creative means to revive the ancient heritage. He adds: As long as I had a belief that there is a lost between the efforts of institutions to connect youth issues of heritage and history, and the means used to achieve this goal, because most of these institutions do not address youth means their favorite, does not recognize the ways favorite them to elicit information.

And refers Naqbi that the festival created a vicious lost through video presentations and interactive games default on the entire wall of Sharjah Hisn and controlled by the audience using smart phones or tablet devices, which prompted young people to pay attention to messages heritage, and this ideal opportunity for them and emerging to introduce them to heritage.

According Ibraham Mirahley, did not have to know that Emirati traders traveled across the sea centuries ago and went to the capitals of the world to share outstanding knowledge with neighboring countries on the heritage of the emirate, particularly about pearl trade. Not for the new method, which came out of the festival, tells tales of past laser lights and music.

And confirms the festival, according to Mohammed Saeed Al Khari, a researcher at the folklore, it is not just a decoration and lights to give aesthetic on the landmarks of the emirate, he mocks modern techniques and sophisticated mechanisms to express the past, heritage and cultural history of the people, which it plays a role in creating awareness of the people of the UAE about how great is the history and bloodline of old people old and their present booming SMS culture.

Some of the palaces of Sharjah, museums, fortifications and their markets, everything it stands for Engineering Islamic exquisite and reflected domes and arches and columns of majestic civilization and beauty associated.

Musical Sadh express the scene and re-drafted to highlight peak multiple of our culture and our rich heritage with popular Muruthatna that we cherish and we are proud of. And indicates that intelligence who organized the festival to pay everyone to come and watch the direct live, instead of monitoring through screens that do not meet the traditional purpose.

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