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The current edition of the Sheikh Zayed Festival is welcoming a huge turnout of visitors who are enjoying a myriad of amazing cultural performers, artists, pop shows, and folkloric groups from around the world. A range of heritage shows and entertainment attractions are featured throughout the Festival’s run, which are specially curated for its guests and visitors. The mega event reflects the UAE’s noble values of inclusivity, humanity, generosity and tolerance in a joyful family-friendly atmosphere, a perfect platform for artistic and cultural exchange among civilizations. The Higher Organizing Committee of the Festival planned an array of competitions and draws for this year with prizes that include cars, gifts, and other various prizes. Winners will be announced starting the third week of December until the last week of the Festival. The Sheikh Zayed Festival in Al Wathba, currently running until 18 March of 2023, features various competitions and raffle draws for visitors to win more than 15 cars and many other valuable prizes. The first raffle draw will be on the third and fourth week of December for cars and other valuable prizes. A continuous schedule for the draws will run through the months of January, February and March 2023. Upon purchasing AED 50 worth from Festivals shops, restaurants and the Fun Fair City, visitors will receive a coupon for the Festival’s raffle draw and another coupon for the H.H. Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Racing Festival draw. Each visitor can participate in the draws by filling out their information on the voucher and inserting it in the drop box. Participating visitors are encouraged to follow the Festival’s social media accounts for more information about the draw dates for …

The Higher Organizing Committee of the Sheikh Zayed Festival revealed the schedule of events and activities for the Festival’s 51st National Day of the UAE celebrations, which include drone shows, a huge fireworks display, the Union Parade (on December 3rd), the Global Civilization Parade, the Emirates Fountain Shows and many other cultural and heritage festivities. As part of the country’s 51st National Day celebrations, the Festival has prepared a line-up of events beginning at 2 pm (instead of the usual 4 pm) until 1:00 am over the course of three days, starting December 1st until the 3rd. The program combines several cultural and heritage entertainment attractions held in a joyful family-friendly environment that is meant to bring the celebratory spirit into the hearts of the Festival’s visitors coming from different parts of the country, including tourists from around the world who will take part in the 51st National Day of the UAE program. On December 2nd and 3rd, under the theme “Together for the Future”, the Festival skies will light up with state-of-the-art drones that will showcase spectacular art formations, fireworks displays, in addition to the impressive Emirates Fountain and Laser Shows that will illuminate the Al Wathba skies with the colors of the Emirati flag to tunes of Emirati traditional songs. Visitors of the Festival will have an opportunity to watch the live broadcast of the official UAE 51st National Day celebration on various screens set up around the Festival premises. On December 4, the Ministry of Interior will hold a military show to celebrate the joyous occasion at the Festival with the mounted team, the motorcycle team, bicycles, sand bikes, police dogs and the GTR patrol. The Festival …

Under the auspices of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE, and the insightful guidance of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, Sheikh Zayed Festival 2022-2023 will be launched on November the 18th at Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi. The Higher Organizing Committee of the Sheikh Zayed Festival announced that the Festival, in its new edition, will include over 4,000 events in addition to 750 major public performances and activities over 120 days of filled with joy, entertainment and culture. The Festival will conclude its events on the 18th of March 2023, and is being held this year under the slogan “UAE: Uniting Civilizations”. The Committee explained that in its current round, the Festival will continue to focus on expressing its main messages of preserving UAE national heritage, affirming the depth of the Emirati civilization and carrying it through to future generations, as well as boosting its role in promoting Abu Dhabi’s status as a leading touristic and cultural destination in the region and the whole world. The new edition of the Festival brings a rich list of major entertainment events, shows and performances that vary from heritage conservation and education to entertainment. The Festival will include the Union Parade, National Day celebrations, New Year’s celebrations, as well as Global Parade, Al Wathba Custom Show and other events that are sure to please all family members. Since its inception, the Sheikh Zayed Festival has been keen to pass on the intellectual and cultural heritage of the UAE, demonstrate the richness of its traditions and highlight its diversity by organizing a world-class cultural event capable of …