Doha: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced a variety of summer educational workshops that will be held for four days from June 20-29, aimed at 8-13 years old children.
These workshops will include multiple artistic fields. The first workshop will be on the art of puppet making, teaching how to make hand and tread puppets, as well as teaching dramatic games, motor expression, and verbal and facial expressions. It will be held from June 20-23. The second workshop specializes in teaching Arabic calligraphy from June 26-29.
The Thuraya Dome will organize art workshops to teach drawing to children, which will last for a month. It will deal with several topics including facial expressions, space princess, my journey into space and the little astronaut....etc. It will be held from June 20 to July 20 in the Planetarium Building.
All workshops are held from 4pm to 6pm under the supervision of specialists in the fields of puppet art design, Arabic calligraphy, and drawing. Certificates are awarded to the participants at the end of each session.
The specialized workshops that Katara launches during the summer vacation are very popular with school students from different academic levels. By organizing these workshops, Katara seeks to nurture the artistic and manual skills of children, discover artistic talents from an early age, and present the care necessary to ensure their progress.