Basrah University hosted the Fine Arts Festival of Iraqi universities in cooperation with a group of private colleges in Basrah to host about (32) Iraqi universities for three days.
Regarding the atmosphere of the opening and the purpose of the festival, the President of Basrah University, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, said, “The University of Basrah is honored to host the Fine Arts Festival over the next three days, as the festival is part of the various extra-curricular student activities, which is an opportunity to achieve the reunification of the Iraqi governorates with the participation of 32 universities that represented central, southern, northern and western Iraq, and today we meet again after a long separation from organizing such festivals due to the Corona pandemic.”
Shaheen added that the festival, through its various activities and events, will provide a creative and aesthetic value represented in the competition between the participating universities’ teams in the field of calligraphy and decoration, the exhibition of student productions for fine painting, and the free drawing competition, as well as the establishment of workshops, lectures and specialized seminars in the field of fine arts. The festival competitions will reveal five winners for each of the arts, and we hope for our universities to achieve prestigious and advanced ranks.
Dr. Anis Hussein Ali, director of the Student Activities Department at the University of Babylon, expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome, describing the University of Basrah as an ancient, sponsoring university of various creative arts, saying: The University of Babylon is represented by five students from various artistic disciplines such as sculpture, ceramics, handicrafts, calligraphy, and decoration, and we hope to achieve advanced positions in all the festival competitions.
For her part, the art coach at the University of Mosul, Mrs. Inas Tawfiq Al-Bayroqdar, expressed her thanks for the opportunity provided by the University of Basrah to cross-fertilize ideas and learn about the development of the artistic and cultural movement in the present Iraqi universities, adding: I am happy to represent the universities of Mosul and Al-Hamdania today at the festival with two hard-working students, Aya Bashar and Bushra Talal, whom I count on a lot to achieve advanced positions in the competition for free drawing and individual planning, and I have carried from the city of Mosul (25) paintings with which I intend to participate in the exhibition.
