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The “Live Achrafieh†festival was launched back in 2010 and every edition since then has been drawing more crowds. The festival starts in the afternoon with a children’s fair, filled with multicolor folkloric parade, games, face painting, animation, and endless childrens activities. Then as the sun sets down, Sassine Square transforms into a music festival.
The good thing about this festival is that it features famous singers, Najwa Karam this year, is very well organized and is open for all to attend.
You can check out more about the festival and Achrafieh as a whole on [LiveAchrafieh.com].
how come you are so sure that it has been drawing more crowd every year? we live in sassine and the only crowd it is drawing it’s the lebanese army protecting the perimeters, because dunno why this festival is always so unorganized and dull.
1- I have friends who go each year and they’ve told me it was huge this year.
2- I’ve heard its well organized specially that it’s being held in Sassine.
As for dull, well I don’t really like Arab singers but many beg to differ. Ragheb Alame came last year If I am not mistaken. Only few would describe Ragheb’s concert as dull 🙂
Stupid political demonstrations
Last week tayyar did sport against violence (maghaweer shows and snake eating is very peaceful) and now pharaon counter attacks
Hmm this has been ongoing for 3 years now and I wasn’t aware there were political parties behind the sports against violence event. (Snake eating scene was quite the shock though)
However, as long as it is entertaining the people of Achrafieh, I don’t see any harm in it.