The Noor Riyadh Festival has officially come to a close which spells the end of a fantastic creative and light-filled event. This event took place in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia where together artists, creators, and visitors came from all corners of the world to demonstrate the bond between art and technology through light.
The festival, over its duration, converted Tahrir’s streets and monuments into fascinating light shows that passed as an open-air gallery. It encouraged the visitors to engage with the city in a variety of inventive manners using illuminating techniques to design participatory art. Noor Riyadh was not limited to the realm of sight of its attendees but was also a means for the cultures to exchange. Visitors got to witness diverse art views while supporting the growing interest of the Kingdom in the arts and culture. The event managed to woo a big number of people, and this only further proved what position Saudi Arabia is in the cultural limelight.
The festival also included live performances, workshops, and installations that invited audience participation. Such interventions, as Noor Riyadh articulates, enabled the attendees to relate to the art more intimately and its themes, in turn, facilitating the expression of ideas and the engagement in conversations. As the festival quietly winds down, Noor Riyadh will be seen in the minds of many. It has earned the title of the main cultural highlight of the year and will be associated with unparalleled inventiveness, scope, and spiritedness of art for ages to come. The achievement of this year’s festival is also significant within the context of the more overarching Vision 2030 of the Kingdom, which aims at enhancing the art and culture sector development.
