The Ministry of Culture monitored the services it provided and the activities it carried out in the year 2021, including participating in the "Decent Life" initiative and presenting many activities in Egyptian villages and hamlets.
The ministry said in an official statement, that the Ministry of Culture recovered during 2021 and continued to implement the axes of its work strategy to continue spreading the colors of creativity among the masses of Egyptians in different parts of the country in order to achieve and extend the mandate of the Minister of Culture of Egypt as president of the Arab Music Complex until 2025 and hand over the presidency of the Conference of Ministers Responsible for Cultural Affairs In the Arab world to the UAE and the registration of Arabic calligraphy on the lists of urgent safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage at UNESCO and the opening of the first phase of the project to revive the village of Hassan Fathi in Luxor for cultural justice and stability returned to the intellectual and artistic programs organized by its sectors after the state’s success in controlling the Corona pandemic and a rise in awareness The community and its awareness of the need to adhere to the precautionary measures to prevent the virus, and the civilizational leadership at the international level was confirmed through the glow of the colors of local culture and arts in important and multiple global forums, and with tireless effort, new and other facilities that were redeveloped and raised their efficiency joined the cultural work system to contribute to combating intellectual extremism and building The human being is a reinforcement of positive values, and a series of discovering and nurturing people has continued Hubin, brilliant and innovators, as well as endeavors to develop cultural industries and protect and promote cultural heritage.
Ministry of Culture
13 cultural beacons join the cultural work system in various parts of Egypt
The year 2021 witnessed the accession of 13 cultural centers at the level of the Republic, which is the “first phase of the development of the Ismailia Culture Palace, Port Said Cinema after development and the Book Authority outlet in Port Fouad, Mahmoud Khalil Museum and its campus after development, Arish Culture Palace after 10 years of closure, development of Maidan The station in Tanta, the opening of the Egyptian Public Library in Ezbet El-Borg in Damietta, the two homes of Abraq and Haderba culture in the Red Sea, the theater of Dr. Nihad Saliha and the new building of the Higher Institute of Cinema at the Academy of Arts in Giza, the Tami El-Amid Cultural Palace in Dakahlia, and the Hay Al-Salam Cultural Library in the service complex in the urgent accommodation area in Aswan.
Egyptian International Creative Communication
And the year 2021 witnessed the largest Egyptian move in the field of cultural diplomacy for a long time, despite the restrictions imposed by the Corona virus on the movement of cultural exchange between different countries of the world “which is represented in the return of Egyptian soft power in international forums, where the artist, Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, handed the Minister of Culture the presidency of The Conference of Ministers Responsible for Cultural Affairs in the Arab World heads to the UAE to launch the 22nd session and discuss the topic of “Reviewing the Comprehensive Plan for Arab Culture” in conjunction with the Dubai Expo 2020, and the term of the Minister of Culture of Egypt as president of the Arab Music Academy has been extended for four years until 2025 unanimously by the members The ministry also succeeded in renewing the cultural protocols concluded between Egypt and the countries of the world, paving the way for the future movement on the international scene, as a memorandum of understanding was signed between Egypt and Burundi in the cultural field in Cairo on the sidelines of the meeting of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his Burundian counterpart, "Evarist Ndayishimi" at the Federal Palace Ehab Fahmy, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Russian Federation, and Olga Yarblova, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, signed on behalf of The governments of the two countries declared intent to inaugurate the year 2021/2022, the year of the Egyptian-Russian humanitarian exchange, according to which a number of joint activities were established between the two countries. In the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs of the Republic of Sierra Leone, and on the sidelines of the Egyptian Minister of Culture’s visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to participate in the celebration of the centenary of the Kingdom’s founding, signed the executive program for cultural cooperation between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt for the years 2021/2023, signing a memorandum of understanding for cooperation The cultural agreement between the Ministry of Culture in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Ministry of Culture and Sports in the Kingdom of Spain, during the visit of the Spanish Prime Minister to Egypt, the agreement between His Excellency President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and His Excellency President Qais Saeed to choose the year 2021/2022 as the year of Egyptian culture. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture in its various sectors, in cooperation with its Tunisian counterpart, Organizing a number of events that reflect images of cultural rapprochement and communication between the two countries, and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture has donated its publications to a large number of major foreign libraries in the world with the aim of introducing Egyptian culture, including “Shanghai University for International Studies, Museum of the History of Writing and Printing in China, Chinese-Arab Studies Center For Reform and Development, the National Library of the State of Djibouti, the Public Library of the Red Sea State in Port Sudan, donating a large number of the Ministry’s publications to the State of South Sudan to be the basis for the establishment of a national library and the Saint Lazarus Library in Portugal.
In the field of international activity also, the Ministry of Culture prepared the Egyptian pavilion at the Venice Biennale to participate in the Venice International Biennale of Architecture in its seventeenth session for the year 2021, and through the Egyptian Academy of Arts, the first “Speak Arabic” lessons were implemented under the auspices of the President of the Republic and within the initiative of the Ministry of Immigration and Egyptian Affairs Abroad, in order to enhance the identity of the Egyptian community, and organized a number of handicraft workshops that express the Egyptian heritage in cooperation with the Cultural Development Fund, in addition to announcing the launch of a series under the title “Museums and Palaces in Egypt” for all museums affiliated with the Ministry of Culture as well as museums affiliated with The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in order to promote and shed light on the distinctive cultural and civilizational aspects in Egypt, and the launch of a series of masterpieces of Islamic architecture entitled “Mosques and Mosques in Egypt”, the launch of a new series of videos prepared by the Academy entitled “The Discovery of Masterpieces of Egyptian Art in the World”, the closing ceremony of the cultural season For the Academy 2020/2021, it included a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Opera Aida, which was attended by nearly a thousand spectators from the Italian public and the Egyptian, Arab and foreign communities in Rome. - It included an exhibition of historical documents related to the founding of Port Said and the Suez Canal in cooperation with the National Library and Documentation House. The Academy also received the new batch of the "Artistic Excellence Award" for the first students from the seven art institutes at the Academy of Arts in Cairo, for a period of 20 days, as part of the implementation of the government's program on " Intensifying efforts to care for young people and unleashing their energies in proportion to the human wealth owned by Egypt, as the Egyptian Opera House succeeded In hosting a number of visiting foreign bands, they are the Cairo Steps Troupe (Egypt / Germany), St Petersburg Theater Ensemble (Russia), Indian Dances (India), Trio Alba (Austria), Flamenco de Madrid (Spain).
Intense activity for opera and state theaters
The state’s theaters witnessed intense activity during the year 2021, as the Egyptian Opera House presented in its various theaters in Cairo, Alexandria and Damanhour 926 various artistic and cultural activities. And qualitative experiments at the level of the Republic. The Artistic House of Folk and Performing Arts presented 343 nights of performances. The National Circus in Agouza, Gamasa, May 15 and various venues presented 500 nights of performances. The Reda and Nationalism groups for folk and national arts presented folk music and youth tunes for 573 nights of performances.
• Preserving identity and protecting heritage:
Within the framework of the Ministry of Culture’s strategy to preserve identity and protect heritage, Egypt, in coordination with the countries of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia, succeeded in registering Arabic calligraphy on UNESCO’s urgent safeguarding lists of the intangible cultural heritage, through the efforts of the Ministries of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Egypt’s delegation to UNESCO, which is the sixth file that was completed It was recorded after (The Crescent Biography, Al-Tahtib, Al-Arajouz, practices related to palm trees and hand-weaving in Upper Egypt) within the meetings of the Intergovernmental Committee and in the presence of all member states. This includes Tahrir Square and the real estate overlooking it, Talaat Harb Square, Mustafa Kamel Square, and Qasr El Nile Street, in addition to developing an integrated vision for the development of heritage real estate within the scope of the project, including removing all infringements on the facades of heritage buildings, as well as developing the storefronts to be in line with their presence in A heritage area, and the agency, representing the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with UNESCO, supervised a development and restoration project The village of Hassan Fathi “New Qurna” in Luxor and the completion of the first phase of it, funded by UNESCO, and the implementation of an Egyptian company specialized in the restoration of environmental buildings, which included the first phase of a project to restore and revive the mosque, theater and khan. The agency also signed a protocol for cooperation with Matrouh Governorate for an improvement project The visual image of the Shali Citadel in Siwa, where the device, through the cooperation protocol, initiates the development of the Great Mosque Square and the area surrounding the Shali Citadel in Siwa to preserve the visual vision and the distinguished urban urban character of Siwa Oasis and a protocol for cooperation with the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University to preserve the identity of Egyptian cities in accordance with the requirements of the Building Law The unified by implementing and preparing a guide to support the urban and visual identity. This stage aims to develop design considerations for facades in the various regions of Egypt (Greater Cairo - Alexandria Matrouh - Oasis and the New Valley - Delta - Suez Canal Region - North and South Sinai - North and Central Upper Egypt - South Valley) as initiated The device is in the project of documenting heritage gardens that date back to the 19th century, such as the fish garden and others In addition to continuing to develop a number of Egyptian squares such as Al-Mahatta Square, El-Sayed El-Badawy Street and Square in Tanta, El-Galaa Square in Giza, El-Sayeda Zeinab Square, in addition to the continuation of my project Live Here and A Story of a Street and the launch of the Heritage Tours Initiative, which is the fourth project of the Memory of the City series and was the first heritage tour of Zamalek Island when This neighborhood has a unique heritage value, in addition to the revival of the village of Hassan Fathy in the village of Qurna in Al-Aqdar after 70 years of its establishment by the founder of the School of Architecture for the Poor in Egypt and the world and the opening of the first phase of the development project to return the village as a source of artistic and creative radiation and a center for cultural tourism
Publishing and exhibitions field
Within the strategy of the Ministry of Culture to publish the book among the people of Egypt to contribute to building collective awareness, the publishing sectors of the ministry, represented by the Egyptian General Book Authority, the General Authority for Culture Palaces, the National Center for Translation, the Supreme Council for Culture, and the management of books and national documents, issued 550 new titles between author and translator from foreign languages, as well as Organizing 130 book fairs in Cairo and the governorates, the most prominent of which was the holding of the 52nd session of the Cairo International Book Fair, after postponing 6 months from its original date due to the Corona pandemic, with the participation of all sectors of the ministry, in addition to participating in 8 foreign book fairs, which are Frankfurt, Azerbaijan, South Arqa, Tunisia, Abu Dhabi, Jordan, Riyadh, Sudan.
Culture participates in the presidential initiative A decent life
As part of the Ministry of Culture’s participation in the presidential initiative, A Dignified Life, the Ministry, through the General Authority for Culture Palaces, presented 1,000 artistic, intellectual and creative activities in 52 villages, hamlets and their dependencies in 3 governorates: Assiut, Qena, and Fayoum, benefiting “one million” citizens, where artistic performances of folk arts and Arabic music were presented. In addition to literary, artistic and training workshops for the people of villages, in addition to discovering and supporting talents in the fields of literature and arts, the Cultural Development Fund sector provided 59 school libraries in different age stages with a total number of publications of 11,341 books within the plan to participate in the initiative, and the Minister of Culture inaugurated the first model of Your book booth in the Opera House Square, of which 333 units are being implemented as part of the ministry’s participation in the presidential initiative, a decent life in the villages and hamlets of Egypt, in cooperation with the Council of Ministers, the Decent Life Foundation and the Ministry of Local Development, which is agreed upon to determine the locations and number of kiosks in each village according to the population density as well as the ministries The Ministry of the Interior, Defense, Youth and Sports, Social Solidarity, Transportation and a number of civil society institutions. It was implemented by the Egyptian General Book Authority. It aims to To provide the publications of the Ministry of Culture and the publications of private publishing houses after being selected by the authority in cooperation with the Egyptian Publishers Union for the people of the villages at reduced prices.
400 nights show for confrontation and roaming
The theater of confrontation and roaming represented an effective way to achieve cultural justice and access to the cultural and artistic product to all parts of Egypt, especially villages, hamlets, border areas, the most needy and villages for a decent life, where 400 night shows were presented in 280 villages and hamlets in 14 governorates: “Beheira, Gharbia, Port Said, Ismailia, Qena.” , Sohag, Assiut, Minya, Luxor, Marsa Matrouh, Beni Suef, Red Sea, Kafr El-Sheikh, Fayoum", which included 9 theatrical performances produced by 7 groups in the artistic house of the theater, two of them directed to children, with the cooperation and support of many bodies and civil society institutions in the governorates. The performances included “The Optimist” produced by the National Theater Troupe, “The Al-Fakari Family” produced by the Comedy Theater Troupe, “Wlad Al-Balad” produced by the Modern Theater Troupe, “Happy Journey” produced by the Modern Theater Troupe, and “Recycling” produced by the National Theater Troupe. The Vanguard Theater Troupe, “As If You See It” produced by the Vanguard Theater Troupe, “Jana Hana” produced by Al-Ghad Theater Troupe, “Misr Station” produced by the Cairo Puppet Theater Troupe, “Hekayat Al-Aragoz” produced by the National Children’s Theater Company.
The People of Egypt Project
The Ministry of Culture has adopted the People of Egypt project since 2018 to spread services among the people of the country, especially in the border areas, and to integrate them with the people of Cairo for the age group from 18 to 35 years. It was divided into three forums:
First: the weeks of cultural integration
17 weeks of integration were organized for the benefit of 1,890 young men and women, including 565 from Cairo and 1,325 from Halayeb, Shalateen, New Valley, Aswan, North Sinai, South Sinai. 161 tourist tours are organized to archaeological and heritage sites, as well as more than 850 art and training workshops on painting, artifacts Handicrafts, Khayamiya, copper, ornaments and other training workshops that help to teach crafts.
Second: The Seventh Cultural Forum for the Young People of Egypt in Aswan
And 87 young men and women participated in it, during which a number of societal issues were discussed to create a conscious generation capable of understanding the current challenges.
Third: Women's Culture and Arts Forums
Which sheds light on the most important women's issues and a number of workshops to provide them with the necessary skills. During the year, the ninth forum in Aswan Governorate and the tenth forum in Port Said were organized, with the participation of more than 210 girls and women.
mobile theaters
Within the mobile theaters project, the Ministry of Culture organized 347 activities in 41 villages from 9 governorates: Minya, Fayoum, Beheira, Dakahlia, Sharkia, Luxor, Red Sea, Qena and Aswan, which included plastic arts and traditional crafts workshops - talent discovery - art shows - book fairs - Educational lectures The various sectors of the ministry participated in its program, including the Artistic House of Theatre, the Egyptian Opera House, the House of National Books and Documents, and the National Center for Child Culture, benefiting 35,000 citizens.
• Egypt's industrial initiative
The initiative aims to train young people from the age of 18 to 45 in handicrafts and heritage to contribute to the preservation of traditional crafts and create a new generation of skilled craftsmen. 670 young men and women from 12 governorates: Fayoum, Beni Suef, Qalyubia, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sharkia, Daqaleya, Suez, Ismailia, North Sinai, Minya, Qena and Beheira.
*International and local festivals
The Ministry of Culture organized a number of international and national festivals during the year 21, including the 30th session of the Arab Music Festival and Conference, the 29th Salah El-Din Citadel International Festival for Music and Singing, the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival, the 14th National Egyptian Theater Festival, Cairo International Festival For the 28th Experimental Theatre, the Al-Tahtib Festival in its 11th edition, in addition to the celebrations for choosing Port Said as the capital.
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