The 21st edition of the workshops kicks off with “Kalila and Dimna”

“Al-Rawi Forum” returns with a new tradition and qualitative changes

• Abdulaziz Al-Muslim and Ahmed Al-Lahham during the workshop.

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• Abdulaziz Al-Muslim: “A distinctive package of programs and events that contribute to the consolidation of knowledge of the narrator and his position.”

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The Chairman of the Sharjah Institute for Heritage and Chairman of the Higher Organizing Committee of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, confirmed that the whole month of September will be a month for the narrator, as the Forum will differ in its 21st edition from the previous versions, to extend throughout all September days, adding, “This is the new tradition that We adopt it after two decades of the forum’s march, and a diverse and distinguished package of programs, events and activities were chosen that contribute to the consolidation of knowledge of the narrator and his position, and the importance of storytelling for education and literature in general.”

Last Wednesday, at the headquarters of the Center for International Organizations for Cultural Heritage, the first proactive workshops were part of the general program accompanying the 21st Sharjah International Narrator Forum, organized annually by the Sharjah Institute for Heritage. It is concerned with designing characters and drawing animal stories.

Al-Musallam added: “In this year’s edition, we have important personalities, whether in research or in the performing arts or in other arts, as well as accompanying events, programs directed at children, and exciting activities, and many things will mark a milestone in the forum, and there will be qualitative and significant changes, It is commensurate with the accumulated experiences and knowledge over the past two decades of the forum’s life and Omar Al-Rawi being present and active in it.”

Al-Musallam pointed out that the presenter of the workshop, Ahmed Manar Al-Lahham, is skilled in his tools and the information he provides, and he is trying to start with the participants from the first alphabets to draw the characters of Kalila and Dimna, and although the book is a well-known Indian work, but with its translation by Abdullah bin Al-Muqaffa, it became Arabic par excellence.

The workshop includes several topics. On the first day, I presented an introduction to character design. On the second day, work begins with designing characters and drawing animal stories. On the third day, the works produced in the workshop, which target children from 12 years of age and above, are presented.

For her part, the director of the Arab Heritage Center, affiliated with the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, and the general coordinator of the forum, Aisha Al-Hussan Al Shamsi, said: “The first proactive workshop of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, which is concerned with drawing the special characters mentioned in the book Kalila and Dimna, and how to draw miniatures in the workshop, has begun. The workshop participants learn the basics of drawing characters, how to draw them through miniatures, and then move on to drawing characters in Kalila and Dimna.

She added that "the pre-emptive workshops will last for 15 days, and are distributed among all the branches of the institute and the headquarters, and will add to the participants a great cultural and knowledge balance."

For his part, the presenter of the workshop, Ahmed Manar Al-Lahham, said: “We tried with the children a new method of drawing, which is geometric shapes and then drawing on them, and the interaction was striking and lively, and the workshop started with the attempts of each participant to draw alone, and then they cooperated and exchanged drawings, ideas and attempts, and worked as a team One job.

The book "Kalila and Dimna" includes a group of stories, translated by Abdullah bin al-Muqaffa into Arabic in the Abbasid era, in the second century AH (the eighth century AD), and formulated in his literary style, acting on the original book.

The introduction to the book mentions that the Indian philosopher and sage Bidba worked on writing the book for the King of India, Dibashlim, as the author used animals and birds as main characters in it, symbolizing human figures.

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