The Culture and Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture discussed on Thursday the mechanism of developing the theatrical working and promoting it in a meeting with chairpersons of boards of directors, representatives of theater groups, and a representative of the Theater Affairs Center.
The meeting, held at the Ministry’s headquarters, comes within the framework of efforts to promote cultural work and the cultural economy and to discover talents, especially Qatari ones.
Director of the Culture and Arts Department at the Ministry of Culture Mariam Yassin Al Hammadi said that culture is an essential drive for development and the economy in itself, so it is necessary to invest in the cultural field in the private sector, where cultural work grows with the participation and adoption of a supportive cultural environment by everyone.
She stressed the need for participatory action by everyone by involving creators in various fields, indicating that culture should have the space and the supportive environment for its growth in all state institutions.
The Director of the Culture and Arts Department added that it is necessary to adopt culture as a lifestyle that reaches all segments of society to bring about positive effects, in addition to the importance of empowering the cultural sector by supporting small and medium projects, which contributes to the economic growth of national and local culture.
Source: Qatar News Agency