DOHA: The Qatar Pavilion Committee is holding cultural events at Milano Expo 2015 in Italy.
The events continue for five days to introduce Qatari culture to international visitors and form a cultural bridge with other people.
Qatari artists enthralled visitors with songs and musical programmes. Popular Qatari bands entertained audience with traditional songs, giving them chance to get closer to Qatari culture.
During a programme, ‘Hena Night’ an artist explained how hena is applied to the bride a night before her wedding. It also threw light on traditional Qatari weddings.
Several handicrafts and other traditional items are on display highlighting Qatari culture.
The pavilion is also displaying ongoing projects in the renewable energy sector, recycling of materials and environment protection.
Expo Milano 2015 began on May 1 and run for six months up until October-end, under the theme ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’.
Qatar is participating in Universal Exposition – Milano Expo 2015 under the emblem ‘Seeding Sustainability. Innovative Solutions for Food Security’.
The theme is in line with the main theme of the exposition ‘Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life’, also highlighted by the design concept of Qatar Pavilion that occupies 2,451 square metres of the exhibition area.
Strategically located next to the main entrance of the expo, Qatar Pavilion is designed to reflect the state’s present and past, showing the great harmony between modernity and genuineness.
The pavilion concept was inspired by the past, when the desert environment urged Qatari men to be up to challenge in solving such interconnections.
Accordingly, the message being highlighted by Qatar Pavilion is that despite the huge arid lands and problems of agricultural lands and production in Qatar, there are solutions and models to face them not only for Qatar, but also for the world.
Qatar Pavilion’s eye-catching design was inspired by Al Jefeer, the traditional food basket made of palm leaves. Al Jefeer constitutes a primary part of the Qatari food history, as it was used to keep food and at the times of drought, used to store foodstuff. It is also a symbol of trading and bartering.
The expo, with over 145 participating countries and international organisations, is expected to attract around 24 million visitors. The Qatar Pavilion Committee – Expo 2015 has provided links to stay up to date with the pavilion’s news on social media networks, on Twitter at Qatarpavilion, and Instagram at Qatarpavilion.
The Peninsula
