Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival returns on May 1 for exciting 12-day creative feast

 Sharjah Kids’s Studying Competition (SCRF), the most important celebration of data, creativity, artwork and innovation of its form within the area, is returning for its fifteenth version on Could 1. The extremely anticipated occasion will happen in Expo Centre Sharjah till Could 12.
The competition organiser, Sharjah E-book Authority (SBA), has confirmed that the 12-day competition goes to be fully motion packed for younger readers, artists and creatives in addition to their households. Whereas hundreds of thousands of books together with newest releases in kids’s and Younger Grownup (YA) literature from throughout the globe shall be on the coronary heart of SCRF 2024, the occasion will supply the area’s largest platform for cultural and inventive appreciation with theatrical performances, culinary demonstrations, workshops in STEM, social media, music, and several other different areas of curiosity, thrilling competitions, actions, animation occasions and extra.
The literary programme of SCRF 2024 will characteristic discussions between Arab and worldwide authors, publishers, sports activities and media personalities and others, e book signing occasions, storytelling periods, studying actions for kids and different literary workshops.
SCRF may even proceed to supply its world-class networking platform to publishers, booksellers, literary brokers, authors, illustrators, artists, librarians, cultural and literary entities in addition to governments from world wide to attach, discover collaborations and look into methods to spice up the native and regional panorama for publishing and different artistic industries.
The winners of present editions of the distinguished accolades that SBA has designed to help the youngsters’s literature business, specifically, the Sharjah Kids’s E-book Award, Books for Visually Impaired Kids Award, and the Sharjah Audio E-book Award, shall be introduced.
Ahmed bin Rakkad Al Ameri, CEO of SBA, mentioned: “The competition displays the imaginative and prescient of H.H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and H.H. Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Household Affairs (SCFA), furthering our unwavering dedication to human improvement and the development of mental and inventive capacities, which function foundational components of sustainable progress right here within the UAE”.
He added: “SCRF assumes a pivotal function in Sharjah’s dedication to nurturing educated and aware generations. Aligned with our management’s dedication to figuring out and nurturing kids’s abilities, the competition serves as a vibrant platform conducive to studying, leisure and an appreciation for the humanities, whereas additionally facilitating an setting for professionals in kids’s and younger grownup literature to change finest practices and insights,” he added.
For her half, Khawla Al Mujaini, Common Coordinator of SCRF, emphasised the competition’s numerous and wealthy agenda, saying, “this yr’s version is poised to make vital contributions to the mental and inventive improvement of the youthful technology. Via a various array of cultural, leisure, and inventive actions, our intention is to domesticate their expertise, unearth their abilities throughout varied domains, and foster collaborative endeavours amongst writers, illustrators, and publishers, thereby elevating the youngsters’s literature business.”

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