Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has ended its willingness to launch its creative summer camps in public libraries «Our Summer is Culture and Arts», which includes the virtual version, in addition to the actual summer camps inside public libraries, between July 22 and August 27 next year, and in its sleeve A package of specialized and innovative training courses, to take children from six to 12 years on an expedition filled with sciences, arts, literature and fun, through five camps full of purposeful and diversified activities, allowing children to spend enjoyable and beneficial times from their homes, under the current circumstances, and it will be taken into account that The number of participants for the camps set up in libraries is limited, with an emphasis on preventive measures and social distancing.
The Department of Public Libraries in "Dubai Culture" has prepared for its summer camps this year a number of distinguished programs and innovative educational and educational workshops, which aim to enhance the child's scientific, literary, technical, environmental, heritage and artistic culture. In addition to the various workshops and reading activities, narration of puppet stories, and interactive stories, the young participants in the camp can benefit from distinguished activities, carefully prepared by specialized educators.
The activities of these camps also focus on developing the various artistic skills of children, from Arabic calligraphy, art of photography, and the teaching of the basics of painting, to workshops for making characters and dolls, and many other technical workshops that would contribute to unleashing children's creativity, so they can fly to worlds Art in all its forms. As for future activities and technology, it provides children with an educational experience full of suspense through IT awareness workshops, exploring smart applications and programming robots.
The director of the public libraries department in "Dubai Culture", Dr. Hessa bin Masoud, pointed out that the step of setting up the summer camp aims to make room for the largest possible number of young people to benefit while they are in their homes, from targeted activities full of fun and benefit, focused on enhancing their mental and creative capabilities, During their summer school vacation, she said: “In view of the existing conditions during which it is not possible to establish the summer camp in libraries, (Dubai Culture) was keen to prepare a virtual and realistic version of this summer's camp that provides a welcome space, spread over five camps at morning and evening periods that suit everyone. ».
She added, “We look forward to attracting distinguished scientific, literary and artistic talents, to help them to continuously develop and contribute to their refinement, through a variety of activities in a knowledge, educational and entertainment environment at the same time. In addition to the role of these various activities in motivating children to practice reading, as it is a well-established habit in their daily lives, it will also contribute to developing their skills in scientific research, writing, drawing, design, technology and environmental preservation, in addition to other life skills, such as self-expression, logical thinking and problem solving » .
Hessa bin Masoud:
"We look forward to attracting scientific, literary and artistic talents, to help them to develop continuously."
Five camps allow children to spend useful times in their homes, under the current circumstances.
- The limited number will be taken into consideration in the camps set up in libraries.