Yemen: The Culture Office Inaugurates the Advisory Board and Honors a Selection of Theater Professionals

Arabian Sea Newspaper - Special

Arab Sea - Follow-ups: The Culture Office in the capital, Aden, organized a ceremony to announce the Advisory Board for Theatrical Arts, honor a selection of theater artists, and launch the Aden Theater event with a theatrical performance. The ceremony, which was held in the Culture Hall in the Hafoon neighborhood of Al-Mualla District, began with a speech by the Deputy Governor of the capital, Aden, and Secretary-General of the Local Council, Badr Muawen, in which he affirmed his support for all cultural activities and the return of cultural brilliance to the city of Aden, the city of culture, art, and creativity. He congratulated and blessed the theater artists who enriched the theater with their wonderful artistic and creative works and supplied the culture in the capital, Aden, with immortal works that will remain in the memory of history, telling future generations about what that constellation of theater artists presented, such as the late Abdullah Al-Musaybili, Ali Ahmed Yafei, Qassem Abdo, Fouad Huwaidi, Ahmed Abdullah Hussein, Muhammad Al-Rakham, Abdulsalam Amer, Fatima Abdul-Qawi, and others of the creators who had wide participation and participated in various national events and festivals in Arab and foreign countries, and the capital, Aden, was the first to introduce cinema, theater, and television before neighboring countries. He added that the announcement of the Advisory Board for Theatrical Arts will represent an important incentive for all theater artists to present new things in the field of cultural, awareness-raising, and purposeful theatrical art in the capital, Aden. Muawen announced the local authority's leadership's determination to build a model cultural center for the capital, Aden, in which all cultural activities will be held and which will contain cinema and theater halls, acting halls, and exhibition halls for various arts, and will represent a cultural and civilizational facade for the capital, Aden. The ceremony witnessed a speech by Osama Al-Mahwari, Deputy Director-General of the Culture Office, in which he reviewed the office's plan to activate various cultural activities, foremost of which is theatrical art, and pointed to the importance of announcing the Board of Advisors for Theatrical Art. The ceremony witnessed the honoring of a constellation of veteran and young theater artists, and the Aden Theater events were launched with a theatrical performance entitled "Diary of a Director," which won the admiration of the attendees due to its awareness-raising and purposeful message about an important issue that concerns everyone, which is the need to combat administrative corruption.