MoU aims at promoting cultural artistic events, training courses
NCCAL, Kuwait Heritage Society ink memorandum
KUWAIT CITY, May 23, (KUNA): The National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature signed on Sunday a Memorandum of Understanding and cultural and heritage cooperation with the Kuwait Heritage Society with the aim of promoting and initiating activities that contribute to community participation, cultural artistic events and training courses.
The Secretary-General of the Council, Kamel Al-Abd Al-Jalil, said in a press statement on the occasion that this memorandum will frame many of the joint and distinguished activities that it stipulated, based on the balance of the leading and upscale artistic association inside and outside Kuwait. He added that the Kuwait Heritage Society is a pioneering association that contributes to deepening and strengthening cultural and historical relations, stressing the Council’s keenness to develop and build bilateral partnerships with the Society in every field that serves heritage and history.
He explained that the Council will activate technical, research, cultural and heritage cooperation with the association for the benefit of historical and cultural issues in Kuwaiti society in accordance with the frameworks agreed upon in the memorandum. Futhermore, he indicated that the Council granted this pioneering association a special headquarters for it and followed it with a second headquarters to carry out its museum activities, noting that work will always be made to involve it in the internal and external festivals of the Council in a manner befitting the ancient heritage of the State of Kuwait, while fully observing the copyright and neighboring rights law.
Directives
For his part, the Assistant Secretary-General for the Culture Sector and the official spokesperson for the Council, Dr Issa Al-Ansari, said in a similar statement that the signing of the memorandum of understanding comes in implementation of the directives of the Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi to strengthen the community partnership.
Al-Ansari explained that the Kuwaiti Heritage Society was established in 2017, and much depends on it in preserving the national history of the State of Kuwait, its people and its various components, in order to pass it on to current and future generations.
He added that the memorandum, which is valid for three years and is automatically renewable, stipulates many areas of cooperation, including the coordination of a joint media campaign to market all cultural events and training courses for workers agreed on through the social media sites of the two parties and according to the agreed media.
He indicated that the memorandum contributes to encouraging the establishment of cooperative relations, the exchange of scientific, research and training experiences, and scientific trips between the two parties, the exchange of books, periodicals and publications issued by them, and research programs, and the encouragement of intellectual, cultural and knowledge production aimed at developing society and the nation.
Results
He stated that the memorandum also provides for the exchange of the results of seminars, lectures, training programs, and all activities and activities related to the purposes and objectives of both parties, and to provide cooperation and exchange of experiences with regard to joint cultural and artistic workshops.
He pointed out that cooperation includes coordination and cooperation in preparing and adopting a timetable for the implementation of joint activities and events that will be held throughout the year, and participating in providing the requirements for organization and preparation, provided that it is of a high level and that the type of activity is distinct and unconventional according to what is agreed upon and achieves the objectives of the values of society.
In turn, the head of the Kuwait Heritage Society, Hani Al-Asousi, thanked, in a similar statement, Minister Al-Mutairi, SecretaryGeneral of the Council Kamel AlAbd Al-Jalil and the leaders of the Council for their great role in supporting the association and activating its activities.