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Dubai Municipality celebrated the Earth Day, which falls on April 22 every year, under the slogan “Restore Our Earth,” by holding a virtual art exhibition on the Microsoft Teams platform.

This annual event aims to raise awareness on environmental issues in society and how to preserve the planet earth and natural resources in the environment. The Municipality’s participation in Earth Day highlights the UAE’s efforts and the contributions to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

Dubai Municipality, in cooperation with art4u gallery, organized the virtual art exhibition that gives visitors the opportunity to see a variety of arts that embody the environmental aspect through paintings, 3D plastic art, digital art, and photography.

The exhibition aims to encourage the public to promote ecotourism that promotes the efforts to preserve sustainability and protect the environment, as well as highlighting the Municipality’s keenness in educating society in general and the emerging generations in particular through entertaining educational initiatives that contribute to inculcating the concepts and habits of protecting and preserving the environmental heritage for future generations.

The virtual art exhibition witnessed the participation of 46 artists from various artistic fields from various countries of the world with a total of 70 artworks aimed at highlighting the importance of preserving the earth and the earth’s treasures of water, minerals and soil, as well as the importance of communicating with nature without draining it or destroying it.

A virtual panel discussion was also organized on this year’s theme of the Earth Day, “Restore Our Earth,” during which the linkage of art with the environment was highlighted and the possibility of raising the level of environmental awareness of society through various arts. The seminar witnessed the presence of a number of specialists in various artistic fields to enhance the importance of preserving natural resources surrounding us through art in a positive way, in addition to discussing some environmental solutions that individuals can adopt to protect environmental resources.