Business & Money | Saturday 24 December, 2016 11:12 am |

Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s MiSK Foundation launched Wednesday the third edition of the “Hakaya MiSK” Festival at Dhahran Exhibition Center in the Eastern Province, an event that will witness many activities through which the foundation seeks to disseminate knowledge and encourage creativity.
The event will last through Saturday.
The activities include educational and cultural workshops, performances and video production.
Yusuf Al-Hamadi, head of the MiSK Foundation media committee, said that the festival is one of MiSK Foundation’s initiatives that seeks to disseminate knowledge and encourage creativity by creating interactive platforms that adopt young, talented youth and enable them to give free rein to their creativity, having a positive impact on visitors to the festival.
“The secret of the success of the festival lies in the fact that it is a quality initiative that provides a broad platform to accommodate the creations of the young people in the areas of writing, drawing, animation, narrative arts and visual production, in addition to the use of modern technologies in the field of knowledge and cultural production, and offer all this in an innovative way that has the maximum impact especially on youth and children,” Al-Hamadi said.
He said more than 150 public schools and three universities are participating in the events.
The events include the budding author section, which would culturally and cognitively inspire children through the use of applications that help them write a story, from the idea through to its publication; Hakaya Market, which includes stories, novels, drawing tools, animation techniques, photographs and paintings available for display and selling; Hakaya Tech, which presents the latest digital technology in writing stories.
About 100 participants, including talented individuals in the fields of education, culture and information, are taking part in the activities of “Hakaya Market” Festival.
In parallel with these events, Hakaya festival hosts daily a media figure who covers the events on the southern border of the Kingdom and who talks about his experience and about the sacrifices of the soldiers stationed there.
The festival includes a studio production section that is attended by about 14 visual production companies and professional trainers who hold workshops and present ideas in direction, production and photography.
At the same time, 11 short films and three plays are being shown, delivering meaningful and valued messages, and Hakaya Market will give young participants the opportunity to develop their business by presenting books, technology and crafts that help creativity in the fields of writing, drawing, animation or production.
Three entities are taking part in the Hakaya Tech section, which is a gallery of the latest digital technologies and modern appliances in the areas of displaying and making stories.
The exhibition includes everything relevant to devices, digital solutions and electronic applications that help make or develop stories and presents them in a modern shape.