RIYADH: The third annual Athar Festival began the first of its two days in Riyadh on Tuesday at the Diriyah Biennale Foundation’s headquarters in the Jax District.
The festival’s chairman Ian Fairservice spoke to Arab News, which is the event’s media partner, to discuss the improvements over previous years, the significance of its workshop and panel lineup, and what people can get out of visiting.
Fairservice said: “We’re occupying three times the area that we previously occupied, and we have 46 activations, and five different stages, from the relatively small to enormous.
“We have just under 3,000 delegates, and we have a very, very busy program with over 200 speakers providing 100 hours of content.
“This is similar to the size that Dubai Lynx achieved in about (18) years. We've achieved this here in the Kingdom in just the third year.”
