The activities of the Al-Ahsa Manufactured Dates Marketing Festival (How Sweeter Dates 2023) continue, which is organized by the Al-Ahsa Municipality in cooperation with its partners at the Heritage Castle, amid a remarkable turnout of visitors, in light of the registration of innovative date products witnessed by the festival, including (Dates candy for children) with different flavors and natural ingredients. It contains dates, water and vegetable pectin, and the “dried dates” product received great demand from visitors due to its multiple uses as a natural snack, as well as its addition to sweets and some foods. While the interactive kitchen at the festival presented more than 30 dishes whose production is related to dates, including (porridge, date cake, croissants and date cookies, mamrous, date arika, date saqo, and date vermicelli dish). In addition, a delegation from Saudi Aramco visited: Senior Vice President for Human Resources, Eng. Faisal Al-Hajji, Vice President for Gas Works in the Southern Region, Eng. Wael Al-Jaafari, Vice President for Government Affairs, Muhammad Al-Thumairi, Director of Government Relations Affairs in the Eastern Region, Jamal Al-Khudair, Director of South Ghawar Laboratories. For the production, Eng. Sherif Al-Thuwaini, Director of the Al-Hawiyah Gas Plant, Eng. Rashid Al-Dosari, attended the festival, and the Secretary of Al-Ahsa, Eng., was at the forefront of their reception. Essam Al-Mulla. In the traditional Fareej, the visitor must stop and contemplate what the craftsman Habib Bu Khader, 56 years old, is doing in his weaving of the “Ahsa’i Bisht” and the minute details in the way it is manufactured, with a craft that represents the identity of Al-Ahsa that has been passed down through generations for thousands of years and has continued to this day. Boukhdar mentioned that he learned the craft when he was five years old, as his family became famous for this craft and that it was passed down from father to grandfather, noting that the bisht has multiple designs that distinguish it, including (royal, wide, square, square, triangle), in addition to the diversity of colors such as (black, white, (Oudi, blonde) and their prices vary, especially since there are those who use it on different occasions and seasons. The visual displays on the screens of the festival site caught the attention of visitors because of the scenes it contained that talked about Al-Ahsa being the source of heritage through the narration of craft professions and folk arts through characters presenting the roles of the owners of those crafts: “pottery making, wicker production, baker, folk artist.” While the audience in the events theater interacted with the presentation of the first performance of the play (Lifetime Guarantee), as the theatrical performance tells the reality of some real estate dealers who work randomly, so that some members of society fall into the trap of a merchant who does not have sufficient experience to build a sound house, so the events of the play continue with what individuals are exposed to. The family faces construction problems in their home due to poor construction quality and the father’s mistake in not going to licensed and accredited companies to construct buildings. The Abeer Al-Ahsa Fine Arts Exhibition witnessed the holding of the training workshop (Waste Recycling), presented by Dr. Hussein Shahat, Professor of Popular Works and Folk Heritage in the Department of Art Education at the College of Education at King Faisal University, with the participation of about 100 trainees. Dr. said. Al-Shahat: We were keen to choose cardboard for this workshop due to its abundance at the festival and the great use of it in the date tent, in order to adapt the large quantities of cardboard with experimental thinking that generates in the youth group a kind of innovations and ideas, which constitutes a kind of intellectual fluency in addition to knowledge of the characteristics of... Material and gaining visual fluency.