Today in Bahrain

WALKING TOUR OF MUHURRAQ - PEARL TRAIL 

Time : 9 am – 11am 

Venue : Muharraq- Muharraq 

Explore Bahrain’s Pearling Trail in Muharraq (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and follow in the footsteps of Bahrain’s pearl divers during much of Bahrain’s history until the early 1930s. For part one, our journey starts at Siyadi House and ends at the House of Coffee. 

LECTURE: PRESERVING CULTURAL HERITAGE DURING TIMES OF 

CRISIS IN THE ARAB WORLD 

Time : 6.30pm 

Venue: Bahrain National Museum –Auditorium 

During periods of crisis, physical structures and administrative mechanisms in place to safeguard cultural heritage are often dismantled or destroyed. Due to declining State authority, archaeological, historic and artistic treasures are threatened by direct damage, looting, abandonment and neglect. Such detrimental conditions affecting cultural heritage are heightened and challenge preservation initiatives needed to administer critical first aid measures. 

The preservation of cultural heritage during times of ongoing conflict may seem superfluous, even inappropriate, amidst heavy death tolls. However, its use in post-crisis recovery is globally regarded as valuable assets that can and should be utilised for long-term cultural, social and economic development. 

FILM: KING CORN 

Time : 7pm 

Venue: Bahrain Cinema Club ,Juffair 

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. 

 BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL GARDEN SHOW 

Date: February 22, and will be open to the public from the 23rd to the 26th of February 2017 

Venue: Bahrain International Convention & Exhibition Centre 

This year’s Bahrain International Garden Show will feature the latest agricultural innovations in utilizing limited resources to create small gardens or green spaces in order to achieve agricultural development and sustainability. To achieve this goal, the theme of the show is “Compact Gardens”, with the University of Bahrain designing a special display, demonstrating unique ideas in utilizing limited spaces to easily create compact gardens. A section in the exhibition has been allocated to showcase pictures of local homes and buildings with creative ways to introduce different plants and flowers that are suited to limited spaces and our climate. Another section has been allocated to showcase practical ideas and solutions for designing small spaces in residential areas such as balconies, roofs, and exteriors, focusing on the positive impacts of limiting pollution, beautifying residences, and providing fresh produce for the owners’ needs, said National Initiative for Agricultural Development (NIAD) Secretary-General Shaikha Maram bint Isa AlKhalifa.