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Culture Ministry Launches Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year

This cultural year marks a significant step in enhancing bilateral cultural exchange
This cultural year marks a significant step in enhancing bilateral cultural exchange
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Culture Ministry Launches Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year

This cultural year marks a significant step in enhancing bilateral cultural exchange
This cultural year marks a significant step in enhancing bilateral cultural exchange

The Saudi Ministry of Culture has announced the launch of the Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year 2025 in China, highlighting the strong, decades-long friendship and cooperation between the two nations.
This cultural year marks a significant step in enhancing bilateral cultural exchange, featuring a series of events designed to enrich the cultural landscapes of both Saudi Arabia and China, and to deepen the historical ties between their peoples.
Last month, the Ministry of Culture, in partnership with the Saudi Embassy, organized a Founding Day celebration in Beijing. The event showcased Saudi heritage through artisan demonstrations of traditional handicrafts and displays of Arabic calligraphy.
In celebration of the Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year, the Ministry of Culture's Visual Arts Commission, in partnership with UCCA, is hosting an exhibition of renowned Saudi contemporary artist Ahmed Mater. Taking place from March 8 to July 8, 2025, at the UCCA Edge in Shanghai, the exhibition titled Antenna marks the artist’s first major solo show in China.
Featuring over a hundred artworks that represent Mater’s artistic practice and cultural reflections, the show traces the artist’s creative journey and offers a comprehensive view of his oeuvre.
Mater is one of the most celebrated Saudi artists who has contributed significantly to the Kingdom’s contemporary art scene and visual arts eco-system. His work has been presented in many notable museums and institutions, including Christie’s in London in July 2024.

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Jazan Crafts Market Heritage Pavilion Revives Traditional Life and Culture

The Crafts Market offers an interactive cultural experience that blends storytelling and education - SPA
The Crafts Market offers an interactive cultural experience that blends storytelling and education - SPA
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Jazan Crafts Market Heritage Pavilion Revives Traditional Life and Culture

The Crafts Market offers an interactive cultural experience that blends storytelling and education - SPA
The Crafts Market offers an interactive cultural experience that blends storytelling and education - SPA

The Crafts Market in Jazan features an interactive heritage pavilion that narrates aspects of traditional life in the region, allowing visitors to experience folk customs, old games, women's traditional adornments, and cuisine that have preserved the community's identity across generations, according to SPA.

The Crafts Market, organized by the Alrowad Youth Association in Jazan and the Cultural House as part of the Year of Handicrafts 2025, offers an interactive cultural experience that blends storytelling and education.

It aims to connect new generations to the memory of place and time through dialogue and direct participation, attracting a large number of visitors who immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the village and old houses.

The experience fosters a space of joy, learning, and human connection.

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King Saud University to Host Event on Saudi-Chinese Cultural Communication

King Saud University to Host Event on Saudi-Chinese Cultural Communication
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King Saud University to Host Event on Saudi-Chinese Cultural Communication

King Saud University to Host Event on Saudi-Chinese Cultural Communication

The King Saud University's Media Department is organizing a scholarly and cultural event on Tuesday focused on the future perspective of cultural communication between the Kingdom and China, SPA reported.

The event will address key areas, including the importance of cultural communication in the contemporary world, the established frameworks and experiences of the Saudi-Chinese cultural relationship, and future areas of integration and cooperation between the two countries.

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Riyadh Hosts Final Session of Film Criticism Conference

The conference's three-day cultural program includes dialogue sessions, presentations, masterclasses, and film screenings - SPA
The conference's three-day cultural program includes dialogue sessions, presentations, masterclasses, and film screenings - SPA
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Riyadh Hosts Final Session of Film Criticism Conference

The conference's three-day cultural program includes dialogue sessions, presentations, masterclasses, and film screenings - SPA
The conference's three-day cultural program includes dialogue sessions, presentations, masterclasses, and film screenings - SPA

The final session of the Film Criticism Conference, organized by the Film Commission, kicked off Friday evening in Riyadh, bringing together a distinguished group of critics, academics, and filmmakers from the Kingdom and abroad to continue enriching the critical landscape and fostering cinematic dialogue in Saudi Arabia.

This Riyadh event is the third in a series organized across the Kingdom, following successful gatherings in Aseer and Al-Qatif.

The third edition focuses on the vital relationship between cinema and place, recognizing location as an essential element of visual storytelling and cultural identity, SPA reported.

The conference's three-day cultural program includes dialogue sessions, presentations, masterclasses, and film screenings.

It features more than 30 speakers and film experts from around the world, who will explore the presence of place in cinema as a visual and cultural space reflecting identity, memory, and social transformations.