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Falconry festival in UAE
Abu Dhabi, Aug 22, 2011 (WAM) - The third International Festival of Falconry (IFF) will take place for the first time in the UAE, in Al Ain, between December 10 and 18. The Emirates Falconers’ Club will welcome individual falconers and falconry clubs from about 50 countries. They will display their skills with traditional hunting birds.
The festival will be enriched with traditional music and folklore, arts and crafts and a culinary experience and plenty of falcons flying about, as well as a display of Emirati heritage, which will start with falconry and move on to other traditional forms of hunting, with saluki dogs, and the rather forgotten Bedouin-style living. All public activities will take place in and around Al Jahili Fort between December 15 and 18, where an arena will be set for all kinds of falconry-related shows.
The festival will start with a three-day conference, where professional falconers will share knowledge of falconry and hawking. A desert camp will also be set some 40 minutes drive into the desert from Al Ain. Falconers will spend their time with their birds and with each other. Manning the falcons around campfires will be a pleasure and hence, spending the nights in the desert is highly recommended. Dozens of large tents and basic amenities will be provided for this purpose. Lady falconers will be welcome, too.
The desert camp will also include saluki training, as well as camel and horse rides, which will later be presented in Al Jahili arena shows.
A 13-category falconry photography competition will also take place during the festival. The same goes for the arts and crafts competition, which will include two and three dimensional fine arts, calligraphy, falconry equipment and falconry jewellery and costume.
Held once every two years, the IFF was the idea of a few English falconers, who wanted to offer a gathering of falconers a show with a difference, The first festival, in July 2007 in England, attracted the largest number of worldwide falconers in history, and the crowd only grew bigger during the second IFF, in 2009. After Abu Dhabi initiated the file to inscribe falconry on UNESCO’s list for safeguarding intangible heritage, 11 other nations joined and the effort proved successful. As a result, Abu Dhabi received the honour of hosting the third IFF. – Khaleej Times
The festival will be enriched with traditional music and folklore, arts and crafts and a culinary experience and plenty of falcons flying about, as well as a display of Emirati heritage, which will start with falconry and move on to other traditional forms of hunting, with saluki dogs, and the rather forgotten Bedouin-style living. All public activities will take place in and around Al Jahili Fort between December 15 and 18, where an arena will be set for all kinds of falconry-related shows.
The festival will start with a three-day conference, where professional falconers will share knowledge of falconry and hawking. A desert camp will also be set some 40 minutes drive into the desert from Al Ain. Falconers will spend their time with their birds and with each other. Manning the falcons around campfires will be a pleasure and hence, spending the nights in the desert is highly recommended. Dozens of large tents and basic amenities will be provided for this purpose. Lady falconers will be welcome, too.
The desert camp will also include saluki training, as well as camel and horse rides, which will later be presented in Al Jahili arena shows.
A 13-category falconry photography competition will also take place during the festival. The same goes for the arts and crafts competition, which will include two and three dimensional fine arts, calligraphy, falconry equipment and falconry jewellery and costume.
Held once every two years, the IFF was the idea of a few English falconers, who wanted to offer a gathering of falconers a show with a difference, The first festival, in July 2007 in England, attracted the largest number of worldwide falconers in history, and the crowd only grew bigger during the second IFF, in 2009. After Abu Dhabi initiated the file to inscribe falconry on UNESCO’s list for safeguarding intangible heritage, 11 other nations joined and the effort proved successful. As a result, Abu Dhabi received the honour of hosting the third IFF. – Khaleej Times
