The First Central Asia Cultural Festival Debuts At Katara

Last Wednesday 21st of March, Katara, the Cultural Village, announced that it will be hosting the first Central Asia Cultural Festival starting on March 23rd. The six day event will offer a variety of performances from dance groups to opera arias with tickets now available at Virgin Mega stores.

With participating countries from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Republic of Tuva (Province of Russian Republic-Siberia), the festival which will run until March 28th will feature a wide variety of events from Opera singers to Violin, fashion shows, Ballet dancing and much more. 

23 Mar - 23 Mar 2012

05:30:pm - 07:00:pm

Katara Art Center, Bldg 5

Free Admission

Do not miss the Grand Opening Today! 

Opening of the Photographic Exhibition, Traditional Fashion Show and Welcome Cocktail.

Do not miss Kambarkan Today! 

Kambarkan is fairly regarded as the most famous folk ensemble in Kyrgyzstan which is using people’s ethnic music traditions with modern music. Founded in 1988 Ensemble KAMBARKAN, it has visited many foreign countries representing cultural Kyrgyzstan and received numerous awards, including Toktogul’s State Award. Its repertoire consists of traditional Kyrgyz music with different modern covers and also fragments from famous Kyrgyz epic “Manas”

Do not miss Ofrain folk dance show Today! 

In 2004 Ofarin “became a laureate at the international festival” Summer Festival “in South Korea, the 2006 winner of the international festival” Kassalka “in Kazakhstan (Astana). The theater’s repertoire is not only the Uzbek and oriental dances, and modern dance and dances of the peoples of the world. Performers dance “Ofarin” visited on tours to Indonesia, Korea, China, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Japan and France, as well as almost all CIS countries.

Tickets for all performances can be purchased and are available @ Virgin Megastores during store operating hours (from 9:30am – 12midnight) at both Landmark and Villaggio outlets. They can also be purchased online

What a first Qatar National sport day!!!!!!

How was your first National Sport Day?

Mine was awesome, my kids had fun, I saw my friends, I did Zumba, and you?


What a great day!!! this day means "Do not forget to work for your health and share with your family" Let's keep doing it!

                                   

I'm amazed with the turnout at Aspire Park :)), we had all kind of activities and games: Basketball, Football, Zumba, Balance class, Boot camp, Kidszone and more.

My friends @Katara share this pics with me, Where did you go?

Cheers,

Dalia 

What is going on tomorrow in Qatar?

National Sport day!!!!

Well this is my first video I hope the next one will be better :) 

Take a look to Katara's sport day flyer!

So, talking about ... Cheap and Chic ... Chic? Doing Sports, being healthy, looking good... soooooo chic!! ... and cheap? Definitely priceless!

Katara the best destination in DOHA

This time I want to talk about Katara - The Cultural Village, because is doing an remarkable job, providing a platform for aspirant artists and musicians and trying to help the Qatari community to understand the important role that culture can play in peace, dialogue and tolerance between different cultures.

Katara’s mission is to help Doha to become the capital of Arab culture in line with the guidelines of the Qatar National Vision 2030; to make this happen Katara is working so hard producing the significant events to promote understanding of cultural diversity; according to Marcio Barbosa (Katara General Manager) this will help us to naturally became more patient, tolerant, ready include, talk, cooperate, negotiate and do not to fight. The changes have started, taking place in the mentality of the people, especially the youth, who has shown a lot of enthusiasm and interest to learn about the history, culture, traditions, heritage and music.

Katara's dream is to demonstrate that art is an endorsing career and can be treat it as a profession; Qatar has a huge talent and the artists don’t believe in themselves, the artists should be proud of their talent, and here is where Katara will play the master role creating a platform for all of them and also for those who are interested in learning (painting, pottery, ceramics, etc.) Interesting!!!!

Katara is doing its job very well, and we have seen the results, 2011 was a year full of developments and accomplishments:

We have had the opportunity to see very special artists with a mission, with a heart that are committed to help Mario Barbosa to achieve Qatar’s goals; like acclaimed photographers like Bryan Peterson, presenting photography exhibition and lectures to inspire local amateurs.

*  The second year of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival was a great success and completed with the premier of Black gold a film produced by Tarak Ben Ammar Chairman of Quinta Communications and co-produced by Doha Film Institute.

*  The Opera house, has a concert every 2 weeks and soon every week.

* The music academy is done! More than 100 kids are learning how to play different instruments. The academy is for all the kids living in Qatar (All nationalities). There are also plans to create and Ballet academy in the future.

* Katara started the music information process with Spain, organizing a Flamenco show; but it wasn’t just an entertaining show, was shown how Flamenco changed over the time and how Arabs influenced the Flamenco when they went and stayed in Andalucía (Andalusian Arabic)

1^st day, pure flamenco 15 century dancing by the Christian

2^nd day, Flamenco influenced by the Gypsies.

3^rd day, Flamenco influenced by the Arabs.

The Spanish invaded South America, That’s why Katara brought....

* The Latino American festival and showed the roots, similarities and differences between each Latino american nations and the influence of others cultures from Europe, Africa and Middle east.

* The grand opening of the open-air Katara Amphitheatre on the 10^th Oct, Glorious composer Vangelis delighted the audience with exquisite symphonies. The concert brought together the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow's Yurlov State Academic Choir, and the majestic presence of the most glamorous and gifted opera singer Angela Gheorghiu and her husband, "tenorissimo" Roberto Alagna.

Katara promises to have many others festivals to show what exist; to bring this knowledge to Qatar, having more of this kind of festivals like Asian, Africans, etc. Currently is planning to organize a Ballet festival in the future, including workshops with the dancers, and so many others events, stay tune for more, Katara just started!


Check out Katara's upcoming events here


So, talking about ... Cheap and Chic ... Chic? Outstanding! ... and cheap? Definitely priceless!

Do not miss it!

Dalia Piñeiro

Did you miss the first traditional Dhow Exhibition?

The first traditional Dhow Exhibition was a great success, was just amazing to see all these masterpieces and have the opportunity to learn more about Qatari culture.


A lot of traditional dance and music, the pearls exhibition, the Dhows, good food, excellent atmosphere in Katara, My family and I just loved it. Do not miss it next year!


Enjoy it!

The amphitheater 

Traditional dancing

The Dhows

Traditional Music

The pearl exhibition

With my gorgeous friend Sania

More Dhows

Local Artists

A 101 years old Dhow, amazing!