Hay Festival Abu Dhabi launches outreach programmes for schools and universities – The National

Hay Festival Abu Dhabi launches outreach programmes for schools and universities – The National

Hay Festival Abu Dhabi launches outreach programmes for schools and universities. The festival will also provide free tickets for students in higher education and visitors under 25. Hay Festival Abu Dhabi has teamed up with a variety of organisations across the capital to deliver a new school and university outreach programme.. Supported by the Ministry of Tolerance, the UAE's iteration of the event has now announced it has teamed up with literary organisations, education entities, universities and schools across Abu Dhabi to deliver a new schools and university outreach university programmes.. It would also be offering free tickets to the festival for students in higher education and under 25s.. In Latin America, the festival has run the Growing Up Reading Programmes, Hay Festivalitoand Hay Para Leer, which promote children's social inclusion, for 14 years.. In its homeland of Wales, the festival runs its interactive Scribblers tour for young creative writers.. The event is intended to "inspire and entertain thousands of local students" across three days during the festival.. Speakers include Emirati teenage science prodigy Dana Alblooshi, who will host sessions about her new book 13 Amazing Arab Women.. The sessions will run across university campuses in the capital from