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UAE Culture Ministry Holds 1st Meeting of 'Creative Careers Program'

UAE Culture Ministry Holds 1st Meeting of 'Creative Careers Program'
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UAE Culture Ministry Holds 1st Meeting of 'Creative Careers Program'

UAE Culture Ministry Holds 1st Meeting of 'Creative Careers Program'

The UAE Ministry of Culture has held the first meeting of the Creative Careers Program, in collaboration with the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council "Nafis" at the Ajman Cultural Center – Al Jurf.

Tuesday’s meeting is considered a first step towards achieving the objectives of the Creative Careers Program, which aims to upskill Emiratis in the creative, cultural, and artistic fields, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.

The program aims to contribute to developing a highly skilled workforce that meets the needs of the private sector, it said.

This event, attended by Major General Shaikh Sultan bin Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Commander-in-Chief of Ajman Police, and Mubarak Al Nakhi, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, who were briefed on the event that brings together approximately 66 federal and local entities, including 20 private companies, five free zones, recruitment firms, and 22 universities and colleges.

“The Ministry is committed to translating the leadership’s vision of investing in young talents of both genders, empowering them, and harnessing their skills within the cultural and creative industries,” said Al Nakhi.

“This sector is a vital contributor to the national economy, offering diverse opportunities that align with the aspirations of youth and their desire to work in the private sector, particularly in culture and the arts. By fostering this talent, the Ministry not only supports the dreams of the nation's youth but also strengthens the cultural and economic landscape of the nation.”

"The Creative Careers Program offers a platform for young national talents to play a key role in the rapidly growing cultural and creative sector, both locally and regionally and globally,” he added.

The Creative Careers Program offers participation opportunities for many local and federal entities, private companies, free zones, universities, and recruitment companies. These include 20 private companies, five free zones, recruitment firms, and 22 universities and colleges.

The program will provide job seekers of both genders with diverse options to engage in the labor market within the cultural and creative industries sector.

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Thousands Greet the Winter Solstice at the Ancient Stonehenge Monument

A person holds up a smart phone as they wait for sunrise during the winter Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Upton)
A person holds up a smart phone as they wait for sunrise during the winter Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Upton)
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Thousands Greet the Winter Solstice at the Ancient Stonehenge Monument

A person holds up a smart phone as they wait for sunrise during the winter Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Upton)
A person holds up a smart phone as they wait for sunrise during the winter Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Upton)

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year at the ancient Stonehenge monument on Saturday.

Revelers cheered and beat drums as the sun rose at 8:09 a.m. (0809 GMT) over the giant standing stones on the winter solstice — the shortest day and the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. No one could see the sun through the low winter cloud, but that did not deter a flurry of drumming, chanting and singing as dawn broke.

There will be less than eight hours of daylight in England on Saturday — but after that, the days get longer until the summer solstice in June.

The solstices are the only occasions when visitors can go right up to the stones at Stonehenge, and thousands are willing to rise before dawn to soak up the atmosphere.

The stone circle, whose giant pillars each took 1,000 people to move, was erected starting about 5,000 years ago by a sun-worshiping Neolithic culture, according to The AP. Its full purpose is still debated: Was it a temple, a solar calculator, a cemetery, or some combination of all three?

In a paper published in the journal Archaeology International, researchers from University College London and Aberystwyth University said the site on Salisbury Plain, about 128 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of London, may have had political as well as spiritual significance.

That follows from the recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones — the unique stone lying flat at the center of the monument, dubbed the “altar stone” — originated in Scotland, hundreds of miles north of the site. Some of the other stones were brought from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales, nearly 240 kilometers (150 miles) to the west,

Lead author Mike Parker Pearson from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology said the geographical diversity suggests Stonehenge may have served as a “monument of unification for the peoples of Britain, celebrating their eternal links with their ancestors and the cosmos.”