Alexandria International Festival { AlexFest }

Alexandria International Festival

Alexfest October 2009

Alexandria, Egypt, 17 - 31 October 2009

The first event on the calendar of international festivals in Egypt. We hope it becomes a major feature of the Egyptian and Mediterranean calendar.

The Festival will set out to re-introduce the city of Alexandria to the world community, using the strength of its long history and its unquestioned capability led by its new world class global library and energetic city leadership to embrace the challenges of the 21 century. It will set out to attract to Alexandria foreign visitors; Egyptians possessing holiday homes on the Mediterranean coast near the city; and its citizens both young and old. The Festival will include events to attract all those communities so that all can share the experience and excitement of living in a Festival City which offers a wide range of different activities. The event will seek to be inclusive so all these groups will wish to participate in the following year.

It contains lots of activities for all of the family like… music, arts, fashion, human chess, sports, culture, history, cinema, youth activities, theater, water events.... and so on
-It's supported by "International Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina"


And we hope you join us in this important event

1-Background:

''Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.''
Since youth are the hope of the future and in a state like Egypt, every one is proud of his history. Every civilization have to take the history of it's nation as a base for it to grow up and modernize. That was our motive to start a new youth initiative for development that's we call ''history for tomorrow.''

2-Objective:

1-we must know our history to build our future.
2-to predict our future we must realize.
3-yoth tack for capacity and self awareness about their history, they have to know their history to build a better future.
4-we acquire our knowledge from our anisitors.

3-Description:
we have a show that describe history of Alexandria, this show will be in five places each place describe an era or age of the history of Alexandria:

1st The era of Ptolemy, the place: Pompey Pillar
2nd The roman era, the place: roman Amphitheatre
3rd Islamic era, the place: Qaitbay castle
4th Present era, the place: EL salamlek hotel (el montaza)
5th Future era, the place: Bibliotheca Alexandria

*In every place we have a narrator who tell us about this era and who is the founder of it and how it started and ended.

*Also, we have youth moving around in the theater and they wear clothes that show the clothes of this era.

*Also, we have a documentary film in the back ground (like cinema) that show the advantage and disadvantage of this era and the feather of this era.

4-Timeline:

First week: volunteers.
Second week: clothes.
Third week: decoration.
Forth week: narration.
on going: research.
Fifth week: training.
Sixth week: making the documentary film.
Seventh week: Preliminary show

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