House of Talents undergoes facelift

Housed at The World Trade Centre Hall 3, the exhibition will be re-designed to create several smaller houses as opposed to the one large environment that has traditionally hosted the House of Talents exhibition. The re-design will be modern and fresh with local touches representing UAE heritage. The event will run for ten days from the 26th January to 4th February 2004 and will have several categories.

The House of Talents organized under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Hind Bint Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, wife of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister, is an event that invites women of all nationalities from all over the world to display products and skills of their own making.

Najwa Al Rahma,Research and Development Director DSF,said "Since its launch in 1999 House of Talents has become consistently more successful with a growing number of entries. The exhibition gives women an opportunity to showcase their talents to a large audience including general visitors, the public and business sectors. The new design of the exhibition will be to create several smaller houses within one large building. Each house will represent one talent and there will be many rooms in which entries will be displayed. The look and feel for the new exhibition will be modern and bright with plenty of space to incorporate the growing numbers of entries anticipated in 2004."

There will be a variety of categories, which participants can choose to enter and these are designed to incorporate a broad section of skills and crafts. These will include Interior Design, Architecture, Fine Arts, Unusual Hobbies, Photography, Handicrafts, Music, Creative Writing and Poetry, Theatre and others. To register an entry for the exhibition costs 200Dhs per person and location rental fees of between 1000Dhs-5000Dhs. Registration for 2004 has already begun and for further details or to register call Ahlan Dubai on 600545555.

The exhibition aims to offer a launch pad for new and aspiring individuals with creative flair and talent. All the pieces entered are of a high standard and it is imperative that all entries are made or created by the participant herself and have not been publicly exhibited before.