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This Centre, Al Hilal for every child to join and learn new forms feature products from all over the world on the camp will develop their communication WHEN: Ongoing till August 31 of art. The summer camps will include Eid. The Summer Shopping Souq has started skills through training in public speaking TIME: 8am – 12:30pm Abacus, Drawing and Painting, Calligraphy, from June 14 till August 31. Colour your summer along with hip hop dance, warm up Mamangam Performing Art Centre keyboard and dance. The camp will run for at Doha Exhibition and Conventional Centre, exercises, karate and yoga. will be holding Summer Camps in its Al 7 days a week from 8:30am – 1pm. You will West Bay during Summer Entertainment City Hilal branch for two batches of age groups be able to see the activities and schedules 2018 with over 75 activities and games, more from 4 -18 yrs. 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Choreography Lessons - Brazilian Zouk WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier near MOI Minipolis Summer Camp WHEN: Ongoing till September 15 WHERE: The Pearl-Qatar Brazilian zouk is characterised by the WHEN: Ongoing till August 31 dancers’ undulating bodies and the girls’ TIME: 9am – 5pm fl owing hair. Dancer or not, depending on the An Edutainment Entertainment summer style of Brazilian zouk, you’ll be able to choose camp is now in Qatar where kids can enjoy connection and embrace with long graceful their time by discovering the world of Mad Summer Camps steps. The fi nal performance is scheduled to be Science, and spend a good sharing time in WHERE: TCA on 15 September as a fl ashmob. making new friends while baking, enjoying WHEN: Ongoing Summer Camp for Kids their meals, watching cinema, doing TIME: 8:30am – 1pm WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier, Villa 57 Outdoor and fi ve-a-side football pitches aerobics and so much more. The TCA is holding Summer Camps in its Bin Omran WHERE: Aspire Zone WHEN: Ongoing till August 31 WHEN: Daily TIME: 7:30am – 2:30pm TIME: 7pm – 11pm Doha’s Kids Summer Camp where artists Aspire Zone’s fi ve-a-side football outdoor are made! The A to Z of kid’s summer camp pitches opposite Al Waab Street are available – from artworks, dance and music lessons every day from 7pm – 11pm. IAID Summer Workshop workshops in Qatar since 2001. IAID’s WHERE: IAID Summer Workshop features fun and exciting WHEN: July – August activities. It only means more singing, It’s time to set your kids summer activities playing and dancing for the sweet little ones today with IAID, the pioneer in conducting aged 3 years and above. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 21, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Food for thought A consortium of more than 200 scientists from 20 countries have published the first fully annotated sequence of the massive wheat genome, a feat they hope will eventually reduce the risk of food scarcity on our planet, writes Deborah Netburn For the first time, we have co-ordinates for all the genes that tell us where they are on the chromosomes —Jorge Dubcovsky, ‘ wheat geneticist SPOTLIGHT: Early wheat plants grow in a field in Clearwater, Kansas.