Al-Kowt Festival in Pictures

I know this is long overdue, but I was tres preoccupied and still am it seems.. 

Anyhow, so the Al-Kowt Festival was a delightful 2-day celebration of our rich Kuwaiti Culture in its full grandeur..

From the Bin Hussein Band that demonstrated the sea/coastal influences in a series of songs and dances that were practiced on the pearl diving ships, etc... 

All the way to the Maayouf Band that presented the Bedouin facet of Kuwaiti culture with a live sword dance and desert influenced songs..

The Kuwaiti National Museum as well as other Kuwaiti traditional craft houses were present showcasing their artifacts and work.. 

The festival also included a spectacular showcase of vintage cars, which had many people swooning over them.. 

Overall, it was an amazing eventful 2-days that were definitely successful, and will be missed.. 

We should definitely have more cultural activities taking place around town;for our culture is in dire need of preservation and promotion amidst this highly globalized one-culture all encompassing day and age in which we all wear the same clothes, speak the same lingo, and have the same ideals/generalized beliefs..

Our culture makes us distinct.

It gives us our own identity as well as helping us remember everything our ancestors went through so that we can get where we are now from long journeys for trade to laborious pearl dives and everything in between..

 

In context and for the mere chance to to re-quote my favorite saying (**i think wrote it a zillion times on my blog already), 

"اللي ما له أول ما لا تالي" (**thy who has no history has no future; an Arabic traditional saying)

Are you willing to embrace your "أول" (**history) to get to your own hopefully glorious "تالي" (**future)?

xx

Baroque 

Ps. Over is not just a spacial dimension.