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Visual Presentations Boast Saudi History in ‘Nabd Al Riyadh’

Nabd Al Riyadh sheds lights on the historic and cultural sides of Saudi Arabia
Nabd Al Riyadh sheds lights on the historic and cultural sides of Saudi Arabia
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Visual Presentations Boast Saudi History in ‘Nabd Al Riyadh’

Nabd Al Riyadh sheds lights on the historic and cultural sides of Saudi Arabia
Nabd Al Riyadh sheds lights on the historic and cultural sides of Saudi Arabia

As part of the largest entertainment festival in the region, Nabd Al Riyadh Zone has opened its doors to celebrate the authenticity and history of Saudi Arabia, focusing on the details of the country's unification in the Masmak Palace, which witnessed the emergence of the Kingdom.

The zone sheds lights on the historic and cultural sides of Saudi Arabia, with visual presentations and simulations projected on the palace's walls to narrate the stories of the Kingdom's different regions since its establishment.

Running until mid-January, Nabd Al-Riyadh is located in the heart of the capital, nearby the Masmak Palace. It features many displays that lure art and culture fans. The exceptional event includes many elements designed to amaze visitors like 3D presentations featuring a hawk roaming above all Saudi regions, musical performances, and decorations that symbolize each Saudi region, in addition to aesthetic designs under the theme "Nabd Al-Riyadh" seen all over the zone, and shows displaying diverse popular costumes from Saudi Arabia and the world.

Nabd Al-Riyadh hosts restaurants, cafes, and fast food kiosks, as well as folkloric shows performed by groups that represent the center, west, east, north, and south of the Kingdom. The groups have participated in 415 shows through the "Matloob" platform.

Nabd Al-Riyadh Zone is composed of small spaces such as the Safat Square, which features statues by local artists, sand painting, Rubik’s square painting, 3D street art, in addition to glitter art and theatrical and musical performances.

It also features the Safat Cafe, a historic coffee shop with a modern touch, which serves traditional drinks and sweets.

The zone offers its visitors an exceptional experience with entertaining activities that recall the country's unification scenes with an attractive content projected on the walls of the palace, where the unification journey started.

The event focuses on heritage and history, and offers its visitors the opportunity to visually explore patriotic stories that take them back to the past, introduce them to the traditions of their fathers and ancestors, narrates how King Abdulaziz recovered the city of Riyadh 100 years ago, and how the country managed to maximize its power and influence in the region and the world.

The murals in Nabd Al-Riyadh have astonished visitors with 3D presentations that shed lights on the authenticity and rooted heritage of the city. The different activities held in the zone have helped bring new creative Saudi talents to the light.

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Music Helps Children Recognize Specific Emotions at Early Age

Children are good at matching emotion faces to the 'correct' emotion music, even at age 3 (AFP/File)
Children are good at matching emotion faces to the 'correct' emotion music, even at age 3 (AFP/File)
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Music Helps Children Recognize Specific Emotions at Early Age

Children are good at matching emotion faces to the 'correct' emotion music, even at age 3 (AFP/File)
Children are good at matching emotion faces to the 'correct' emotion music, even at age 3 (AFP/File)

Studies have found that children ages 5 to 11 show increasing accuracy in recognizing specific emotions in music.

Researchers from the Department of Psychology in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences have studied how well 144 Philadelphia-area children ages 3 to 5 recognized happiness, sadness, calmness, or fear in 5-second music clips.

They find that children can identify emotions with a level of accuracy better than a random guess, with performance improving with age.

In addition, they find that children whose parents score them higher in callous-unemotional traits show poorer recognition of emotion in music overall but did not have a more difficult time recognizing fearful music. Their findings are published in Child Development magazine.

“We show that children are good at matching emotion faces to the 'correct' emotion music, even at age 3 which emphasizes how important music can be, particularly in emotion socialization and social skills teaching and for children who may still be learning ways to express their emotions verbally,” said associate professor Rebecca Waller and co-senior author of the findings.

This is the first study examining whether children with higher callous-unemotional traits have difficulty recognizing music, Waller said.

Yael Paz, a postdoctoral fellow in Waller’s EDEN Lab and co-first author with Syndey Sun, a Penn undergraduate at the time of this research, said one of the most interesting findings is differences in emotion recognition from music compared to facial expressions.

Waller noted that previous work from her lab and others shows that children with higher callous-unemotional traits have more difficulty recognizing distress from facial expressions.

The authors therefore hypothesized that children with higher callous-unemotional traits would have a harder time recognizing fearful music.

Paz said researchers were surprised to see that children higher in these traits were just as good at recognizing fear, suggesting that music may be uniquely well-suited for emotion recognition.