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About Hakaya Misk
Hakaya Misk Festival focuses on content creation driven by cultural and educational values to motivate youth to express their ideas through four creative sections. These are:




The Writing Lab offers workshops and seminars in writing styles and techniques, such as literature, screen plays, media content, and science fiction.
The Art Squares are focused on techniques for drawing characters and cartoons, and other graphic arts. The Animation Factory specializes in the creation of animation content, the art of animation, dubbing and voice acting. And finally, the Production Studio focuses on directing, photography and requirements of long and short film-making. The Festival designed these four sections in a creative way, offering workshops by a number of locally and globally accredited agencies, organizations and individuals, as well as special seminars on the platform of each section. These seminars will be presented by industry professionals and prominent figures in these fields These are accompanied by theatrical performances, Hakaya Youth, the young author’s section, the Hakaya market and the Hakaya Tech section.
Goals of Hakaya Misk
Discovering the creative talents of Saudi youth and helping develop and showcase them.
Connecting technology with meaningful interactive stories by developing storytelling tools.
Reviving and digitally reproducing spoken heritage to make it accessible across generations.
Introducing youth to investment and business opportunities in the creative fields.
Creating value-driven, meaningful entertainment content.
Showcasing local and international storytelling heritage.
Helping youth acquire skills and experience through communicating and interacting with industry professionals.
Target Group

Special Features

Individuality
Bringing together our traditional stories embodying a wealth of principles and values, with modern storytelling methods and techniques is one of the key features that is unique to Misk Tales. The Festival brings together a range of ways and techniques of presenting historical and heritage tales, starting with traditional ways such as the Rawi and the Hakawati (traditional storytellers), to the latest method in electronic and technical storytelling such audio stories and animation.
Priority
Our society has a sustained need and demand for entities specialized in teaching young people and training them in how to infuse history and social values in a practical way into animation and stories using modern media technology. The goal is to produce media content that is modern and authentic at the same time, and Misk Tales has the priority in seeking to achieve this ambition.
Specialization
Combining the values of education and training in a festival where most of the programs are entertaining and interactive is a specialized element unique to Hakaya Misk, especially since all its activities were designed by specialists with global expertise, in order to have a clear vision and goals.
Qualification
The Hakaya Misk Festival offers a number of workshops on writing, drawing comics, animation, producing and directing, with each workshop representing a specific stop along the production journey of this important industry. The Festival aims for people attending the workshops to emerge with a solid knowledge base in this area as well as key techniques enabling them to refine this knowledge through ongoing practice.
Location map
Riyadh International Conventions and Exhibitions Center
43864