The inaugural Hatta Used-Book Fair is being held as part of the Dubai Public Library (DPL) summer camp, which begins tomorrow and runs through August 28. Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is organising the event.
The summer camp will take kids between the ages of five and fifteen on an incredible voyage of creativity and fun as part of this year’s programme thanks to a variety of cutting-edge activities. The “Painting and Creativity” workshop with Emirati artist Aisha Alhamrani is one of these events, as is the “Travel through Art” workshop, which will take participants on a tour of famous works of art like the “Temple of Dendur,” “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” and the “Maman” sculpture, among other outstanding examples of modern art. Several engaging interactive reading events with authors like Badriya Al Shamsi, Noura Khoury, Nadia Al Najjar, Wafa Al Shamsi and Afra Mahmoud will also be held.
The programme also includes creative workshops where kids can learn how to write, weave cloth into carpets for decoration, build a table out of wood, arrange flowers, make candles, soap, and other household items, decorate cakes, create terrazzo moulds, and engage in a variety of other activities that will let them use their imaginations, hone their skills, and spread happiness.
The first iteration of the “Hatta Used-Book Fair,” which offers a wide selection of used books at affordable prices ranging between Dh2 and Dh10, will run concurrently with the camp’s activities. This event will help spread culture and knowledge, foster an interest in reading among society members of all ages so that it becomes a way of life and results in the creation of a reader’s community. A charitable organisation in Dubai that will get funding from the fair’s sales is helping to organise the exhibition.
A total of 2,588 books for both adults and children will be on display at the book fair, including children’s books, Arabic novels, religious texts, and works on law, poetry, medicine, education, technology, finance, history, and other subjects.