Hamra Festival We Got Talent

A Celebration of Talent, Art,Culture & Music on Hamra Main Hamra street , Beirut - شارع الحمرا ، بيروت
Ahla Fawda Hamra Festival June 1- a showcase of exceptional talent from all over Lebanon. Come join in the creativity and fun. Paint on walls or watch artists paint. Enjoy a large selection of art and book on display, or perhaps enjoy a story being read out to you. A whole day of fun entertainment , street performers, and suprises.

The festival will include:

• Flower market
• Book exhibition plus reading and storytelling areas
• Art exhibitions and workshops plus live artists at work
• Traditional old souk with traditional music, poetry, and all day specialized entertainment programme to suit the mood and atmosphere of that zone.
• Modern music production, live bands and performers, comedy act, fashion show,

sport activities and many more surprises

• Kiosks showcasing variety productions by creative minds from across Lebanon
• A complete zone dedicated to kids including their favorite foods

It is about spreading joy and the celebration of life, and a whole zone (Zone B), will be dedicated to do just that, with a stage set up right in the center for live entertainment and performances, including some famous surprises. and the other stage for all day sport activities and dance. The programme will also include a kids show by kids and for kids. 

Zone A, The Old Way; Zone B: the New Way; and Zone C: The Kids Way

also includes a stage with all day workshops, performances and entertainment.

Every detail is going into the planning and decoration of this event, to capture the imagination of the visitors and make them feel as if they are in one big open air art gallery throughout all the zones, or as if they have stepped back in time to the golden days and sounds of Wadih Al Safi or Farid Al Atrash in Zone A, or perhaps sitting in an old type café to play a game of backgammon with the live Oud performer playing in the background; or maybe a quiet corner to read a book from the vast collection on display, or to being inspired by the smell of flowers all around and the live Arabic entertainment programme of music performers of old classics, to poetry recitals, and finally ending the day in Zone B, with thousands of fellow Lebanese to the lifting sounds of live bands and performances on stage.