{"id":3177,"date":"2018-02-22T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:32:55","slug":"storytellers-musicians-visual-artists-and-dancers-from-7-countries-to-feature-in-sharjahs-international-storytelling-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/storytellers-musicians-visual-artists-and-dancers-from-7-countries-to-feature-in-sharjahs-international-storytelling-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytellers, Musicians, visual Artists And Dancers From 7 Countries To Feature In Sharjah\u2019s International Storytelling Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the theme \u2018Roots and Roads\u2019, the second edition of Tales on the Island \u2013 The International Storytelling Festival will be thrilling audiences from today, 23rd\u00a0 February \u2013 17th March, every Friday and Saturday at Al Noor Island, one of the Emirate\u2019s most popular tourist and recreational destinations, with a highly interactive mix of\u00a0 tradition, mystery, magic, music and dance.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival &#8211; unique in its kind throughout the GCC countries &#8211; represents a rare opportunity to re-connect the contemporary audience with the oral tradition and the rich heritage of traditional stories. From this idea comes the theme \u201cRoots and Roads\u201d for 2018: ancient stories represent the roots of people, their culture and identity, but at the same time stories have always travelled across the world, thus encouraging cultural exchange and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>The programme bear once more the signature of Paola Balbi and Davide Bardi, worldwide famous storytellers and artistic directors of renowned Storytelling Festivals in several countries, committed to bring to the audience in the U.A.E the ultimate storytelling experience with a lineup of incredibly talented professionals from the international scene, alongside locally grown talents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3178 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4845\" height=\"3287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-25.jpg 4845w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-25-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-25-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-25-1024x695.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4845px) 100vw, 4845px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the theme \u2018Roots and Roads\u2019, the second edition of Tales on the Island \u2013 The International Storytelling Festival will be thrilling audiences from today, 23rd\u00a0 February \u2013 17th March, every Friday and Saturday at Al Noor Island, one of the Emirate\u2019s most popular tourist and recreational destinations, with a highly interactive mix of\u00a0 tradition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}