Muscat, (Oman) - The Cultural Club launched last night, through its virtual platforms, an artistic event entitled (November Brush), which aims to enhance the digital presence in the Sultanate by presenting artistic content in a digital manner that expresses the Omani heritage and environment of all kinds. The participation is open to all to present their artwork throughout the glorious month of November.
Dr. Mahmoud bin Mubarak Al-Sulaimi, Chairman of the Cultural Club, said in a speech during the inauguration that the club is proud to launch the “Arts of the Cultural Club” platform through the club's social media accounts, and as the first launch of the “November Brush” event under the supervision of the club's arts group.
The club president emphasized that this event aims to enhance the Omani electronic presence, and modern artworks that express the Omani heritage in a simple artistic style, directing young and creative artistic energies and engaging them in one epic celebrating the fiftieth glorious National Day, which is an extension of the blessed Omani renaissance whose foundations were laid by the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said and renewed under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said. This November brush will illustrate the ideas and feelings of the painters, expressing the intellectual and cultural contents that the glorious November suggests, through paintings, drawings, and representations with which their minds light up, and are formed to reflect the manifestations of the blessed renaissance, the Omani civilization in its originality, and its present with an initiative based on the giving of a constellation of young people through colour and brush, to enhance the digital presence in the Sultanate and to provide artistic content in a digital way that expresses the Omani heritage of all kinds. The invitation is open to all those wishing to submit artworks expressing the Omani heritage and environment, and to participate in artworks expressing 30 topics throughout the glorious month of November.
It is noteworthy that the inspiration for this event comes from the global idea called “Inktober challenge”, which is a global challenge launched in October of every year through social media platforms and invites artists to participate in the marking of their artistic works that express 30 topics identified by the digital event owner according to the days of the glorious month of November. Participants submit their work daily in the mentioned hashtag.
The Cultural Club emphasized that the field is open for all branches of the arts to participate with innovative creative ideas, as the challenge begins on the first of November with the initiative hashtag when publishing the works. The owners of outstanding works and participants throughout the month will be honoured in a special ceremony in the Cultural Club, and an electronic book for their artistic works will be issued.
The Cultural Club has identified the topics for which artworks will be presented throughout the month of November. These are the censer, the mandoos, the Omani cap, Omani women’s dress, and the modern Oman, Omani men's dress, the Omani table, the family gathering, Omani architecture, traditional ships, folk games, manuscripts, pictures of the future Oman, the autumn of Salalah, the season of Al Sirb, castles, forts and towers of Oman, the Omani mountains, the Arabian tiger, the Nizwa market, the Arab Oryx, the fiftieth National Day, and Omani jewellery, the Muhammadi rose, rose water, sword and katara, depictions of the city of Qalhat, Makabba, Mandoos, the season of Al-Tabsil, Omani crafts, Omani motifs, Dallah (coffee pot), pottery, folk arts (, Omani frankincense and its derivatives.