Ashkelon to horde International Sand Sculpture Festival

The Little Mermaid, Moana, a Beauty and a Beast, Aladdin and many other Disney characters are now occupying a Bar Kochba beach in Ashkelon, to applaud a initial Ashkelon International Sand Sculpture Festival.

Montserrat Cuesta Marin and Sergio Ramírez Pérez, a span of silt sculptors, arrived from Spain to minister to a Ashkelon International Sand Sculpture Festival. They are overseeing a execution of a sculpture of Gulliver, a protagonist from Jonathan Swift’s famous novel Gulliver’s Travels. Made from 380 tons of silt and station dual meters high and 9 meters long, it is one of many famous literary characters during a festival.

Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam said, “As befits a city with a sea of ​​possibilities, we am gratified to entice all residents of Israel to come to a building Ashkelon and suffer with us a singular festival that combines travel art, culture, singular origination and a strand that impersonate a city. We are a initial to furnish this kind of ubiquitous festival, though we am certain that this is a commencement of a tradition that will safety for many some-more years.”

Jackie Bachar, a writer and artistic executive of a festival, wrote on a Ashkelon municipality website, “We are gay to move to Israel a world’s excellent silt sculpture artists in a week, where a ubiquitous open can be tender by a desirable works they combined generally for a festival and worked on for days. No cost, and a accumulation of activities that will take place along a dance in Ashkelon. “

The festival will run from Aug 18-23 between a hours of 10:00 and 22:00.

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