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Sultan Al Qasimi sets up Sharjah Performing Arts Academy

His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has announced the establishment of the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy, the Academy will provide training for theatre fans so they can convey the theaters human message to their societies.

This came during a speech delivered by His Highness at the closing ceremony of the 27th session of Sharjah Theatrical Days  at the Cultural Palace in Sharjah.

His Highness congratulated the winners of Sharjah Theatrical Days on its 27th session and praised the role played by the Arab theaters and their contributed to enriching and developing theatrical movement, saying: "I always repeat that we are not stay forever but the theater will remain as long as life, This is not just a words , but we say it to remember those who participated here in the UAE for many years and passed away as  late Saqr Rushd, Fouad Shatti, Al-Mansif Al-Suwaisi and many others. I wish each of us to leave a footprint in the theater so we can  remember him when he pass away .

His Highness wished that the tender will be on a larger level and  the number of participating teams to be  increase in the coming theater days.

His Highness Ruler of Sharjah praised the efforts of the media in covering  the events of Sharjah Theatrical Days, specially Sharjah TV for its  transferring all the events to the  witnessed by an excellent and effective ways .

His Highness Ruler of Sharjah  pointed  the importance of the intellectual forum associated with theatrical days, saying: "Alongside this demonstration is an intellectual forum, which is one of our Arab brothers who have sold in the theater and they have made very important recommendations for me myself, because I am very active in the  theater, and I will take what they wrote to guide me  in any  decision I take in the future regarding the theater. His Highness added the  facts spent over the days of Sharjah Theater must be documented to benefit from  it  not only in the UAE, but in the  Gulf and the Arab world. 

His Highness Ruler of Sharjah pointed out that the  recommendations took by committee  focused  on youth theater, and theater in schools, saying that there are many  obstacles facing the theater in schools, His Highness mentioned the excellent experience  theater  of school in the Republic of Mauritania .

His Highness Sheikh Sultan mentioned that the emirate of Sharjah  has adopted a number of initiatives including children's theater ,youth theater and university theater, wishing theaters to be  exist in all Arab countries .

After that the Ruler of Sharjah hounded the winners of the 27th Sharjah Theatrical Days .