The fifth edition of Spring Festival will open on 19 April and will continue until 16 May in Egypt extending to Beirut and Tripoli and incorporating many renowned Arab and international artists; Ahram Online among media sponsors
The fifth edition of Spring Festival is organised by Al Mawred Al Thakafy (Culture Resource) in collaboration with The Cultural Cooperative Association for Youth in Theatre, Cinema SHAMS, and with the support of the Delegation of the European Union in Egypt, Doen Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, Aga Khan Music Initiative, the Netherlands Embassy, Goethe Institute, and the British Council.
The spring festival, which is organised every second year, started eight years ago as a dynamic initiative limited to Egyptian stages, preliminarily in Cairo and Alexandria, and slowly reached out to new governorates.
Both the first Spring Festival, held in 2004, titled “Sounds, colors, ideas and images from the Mashreq, the Maghreb and the South,” and the 2006 Spring Festival, which concentrated on Music and Poetry, took place in Cairo and Alexandria.
Soon afterward, the Festival ventured beyond Egypt into other Arab countries.
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