BAHRAIN MEDIA KIT 2015 TARGET AUDIENCE the Local and Expat Community with a Thirst for Knowledge and Information About Cultural Happenings in the City
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BAHRAIN MEDIA KIT 2015 TARGET AUDIENCE The local and expat community with a thirst for knowledge and information about cultural happenings in the city. Our readers are well-educated, quirky, active and tech-savvy. They are culturally-curious with creative jobs and hobbies, and like dining out at recommended restaurants, bars and cafes. Their disposable income is spent on keeping up with the latest fashion trends and gadgets, and their free time is spent with friends, on the island. Dare to be diferent Dare to be diferent FEBRUARY 2014. VOL 7 ISSUE 6 . BD1 | SR10 MARCH 2014. VOL 7 ISSUE 7. BD1 | SR10 M V H OUR MISSION OUR VISION REGIONAL FACT Bahrain carries a bold, FACT Bahrain provides in-depth HERITAGE energetic and intelligent, yet neutral, coverage of the island’s local talent, FACT has already established itself voice. We value our reader loyalty and arts and cultural activities. We put as the monthly magazine of choice interaction, which is enhanced on our great emphasis on covering the in Bahrain, with sister titles in Qatar, social media platforms. We are smart, hospitality and dining scene, hidden Kuwait, and Abu Dhabi. FACT is one daring, and inspirational; we like to hotspots, and events happening of the most widely distributed and take risks and please our readers, as in Bahrain. We aim to highlight popular titles in the Kingdom. We well as promoting fun for the people and support local exhibitions and strive to bring international standards of Bahrain. community initiatives too, that will and edgy editorial voice to Bahrain. benefit our readers. READERSHIP PROFILE FACT Magazine is designed and edited to specifically target the urban, well- educated local and expatriate community in Bahrain that makes a large part of the mass consumer market. Our research shows that our readers are: MONTHLY INCOME GENDER DISTRIBUTION READERS’ INTERESTS BD 2,000 + 55% 45% 25% Female Male Art & Culture CIRCULATION AGE DISTRIBUTION 27% 10,000 Hospitality (copies per month) 10% & Dining Under 20 yrs READERSHIP 25% 45% Motoring 90,000 20 – 30 yrs & Technology TARGET AUDIENCE 35% 30 – 40 yrs 23% 47% 53% Fashion LOCAL EXPATRIATE 10% 40+ yrs EDITORIAL FACT Bahrain Edition is the country’s first metropolitan culture magazine boasting international standards of design, as well as unparalleled editorial integrity. A fiercely local publication with a sophisticated edge, the magazine has in-depth coverage of Bahrain’s arts, fashion, culture, motoring, and dining, alongside all the best events, delivering probing features and up-to-date news from the island. Combined with a discerning review system by our team of experts, readers will never need to look elsewhere for all their lifestyle, retail and entertainment needs. CULTURE CULTURE MASH UP FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND MAYBE YOU’LL BE twitter HERE NEXT MONTH! @FACTbahrain SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A DISORDERLY WORLD Five Hundred 5th March 8pm Years of Islamic Shaikh Ebrahim Center For Culture and Research Dr. Shaikh Mohammed Sabah Calligraphy Al-Salem Al Subah will deliver a Current - 13th April lecture on sustainable development 8am - 8pm as an alternative strategy to Bahrain National Museum address economic, environmental The exhibition is a breathtaking and human trajectories issues. 3,310 showcase of the ‘Art of the Book’ ZMirza Fact Jules from Ottoman era Turkey. Held in @FACT @RATALAL @Z_MIRZA collaboration with the Sakıp Sabancı RAMSEY LEWIS @FACTBahrain Museum in Istanbul, the exhibition JAPANESE MAKIE & PHILIP BAILEY Here are the tweets that caught our Never be afraid to @Esagashi Just One time this guy blocked features intricate examples from the EXHIBITION museum’s collection. It displays rare 2nd March - 6th April 5th March spend a little extra on looking at that a two way road because Korans, prayer books, calligraphy, 8am - 8pm 8:30pm attention this month. Follow us on landscapes, and illuminated Arad Fort he parked on the road & Bahrain National Performer, composer, pianist & 2 things... a bed and sundae gave me manuscripts by leading artists working Museum under the patronage of Ottoman sultans. This exhibition showcases a Grammy winner Ramsey Lewis joins twitter and check back next issue to shoes. If you’re not diabetes. went to the atm-how do traditional craft technique, featuring soul, gospel, singer, songwriter & you even have money lacquer objects sprinkled with gold percussionist Philip Bailey for an see if your tweet made the page! in one, you’re in the and silver powder to form decorative evening of jazz and R&B classics. other. with that brain #bahrain images that are distinctly Japanese. GHALIA BIN ALI José Carreras 3rd March 8pm Shaikh Ebrahim Center THE LEGENDARY For Culture BAB Market and Research 27th February – 1st March Talented Ghalia will perform Arabic TENOR 27th – 29th March folk & jazz traditions to contemporary Muharraqi: Father Tursday & Friday: 5pm - 9pm chillout and Indian classical music. and Son The Child and the Saturday : 10am - 9pm 4th March - 3rd April Magic Spells 6th March, 8pm world’s leading opera houses and chart- Akhtar Ali Alzadjali The sara Munya Sabkar Bilal Bushra ALWAN 338 topping albums over an illustrious solo career, Bab Al Bahrain & Manama Souq 7pm 7th – 9th March Bahrain National Teatre Following last year’s success , this 3rd March – 19th April Bin Mattar House Opera legend José Carreras’ golden voice will including his work with the ‘Three Tenors’. @M1ZAN1N @HAIRBALLX @YOITSMEMEJAY @BILALMOHDR @ARSHUB_J contemporary outdoor festival features This joint exhibition offers a unique transgenerational Friday: 4pm, Saturday: All day 11am & 4pm, Sunday: have audiences mesmerised in a night of pure local designers, creative participants selling Al Riwaq Art Space, insight through the works of acclaimed Bahraini operatic enchantment. He is considered one of That moment when No, I don’t want to When people who And why in the Why does lemon- products and taking part in interactive artist Abdullah Al-Muharraqi and his son Khalid Al- 11am Block 338 and Research C ultural Hall the most important opera singers in the latter you are strangling import my friends, don’t even know world am I still flavored tea always events. Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Al Riwaq Art Space presents Muharraqi. The first-ever collaboration between the Tale of an exciting journey of how a half of the 20th century. The Spanish tenor located in the heart of Manama, Bab Al its annual public arts festival father-son duo, it presents a wide range of their latest naughty child who never listened to has been performing his moving renditions of Bahrain, the event will showcase the island’s focusing on the neighbourhood artworks, tracing the evolution of art from generation with your pants and Twitter. Can you export The Scorpions awake watching bird taste like pesticide? his mother became a caring person. timeless masterpieces on the stages of the heritage and entrepreneurs. of Adliya. to generation. a msg gets sent to them? pretend like they do. documentaries and 30. fact magazine someone you don’t #BahrainisBeLike #F1 sharing my life stories 32. fact magazine want to talk to. with you guy’s? LISTEN UP CULTURE FACT FINDS, SOCIAL MEDIA, LOCAL NEWS, THEMED ISSUES, LOCAL TALENT, TRAVEL, SCOOP, EVENTS CALENDAR, DIARY DATES GLOBETROTTER, INVESTIGATIVE FEATURES CITY RIDES ARTS ARTS Silkscreen Pop Art Workshop An exciting workshop where you will learn the techniques commonly used by Andy Warhol, that are involved in preparing template layouts, as well as photographic processes, to achieve silkscreen prints. Intaglio Printmaking Workshop Tis is the ideal for art professionals, curators, collectors, teachers and enthusiasts who are looking for a hands-on experience in printmaking through the traditional techniques used in Intaglio printmaking. Fabric Art Collage Workshop Te focus here is on the process; you’ll learn a multitude of creative techniques for combining collage and painting, emphasising staying present with the work as it develops, rather than focusing on the outcome. Aside from the above there are also the following: Screen Printing Posters Workshop, Silkscreen Weekend Workshop, Drypoint & Chine Colle Weekend Workshop, Linocut Printing Weekend Workshop, Mono Print Workshop, and Creative Monoprinting Weekend Workshop - plenty to choose from! PORSCHE HAVE GONE TO GREAT LENGTHS TO PRESENT THE MACAN AS ‘A GROWN UP 911’ RATHER THAN A ‘BABY CAYENNE’. SO, Art Attack HOW SUCCESSFUL HAVE THEY BEEN IN THE DELIVERY? FACT HEADS OFF TO SCENIC RAS No solid experience is required for you at Albareh to participate – just a creative willingness AL KHAIMAH IN THE UAE TO FIND OUT… and a curious attitude for art will help you If art is a hobby or passion then you to enjoy what’s on ofer, as you’ll be in the might want to take note of the great safe hands of creative director, printmaker FROM THE OUTSIDE, there’s no mistaking at your fngertips. It features the same large, and painter Ahmed Emam. where the Macan gets its DNA from, however raised centre console as the Cayenne and workshops and classes taking place at Porsche try to present it. From a distance, Panamera that makes you feel like you’re Albareh Art Gallery. FACT learns Ahmed Emam many would mistake it for the Cayenne, and sitting in the cockpit of a jet, with all the even up close they’re very similar. While the Sport, Sport Plus and suspension settings more about what’s on ofer… Ahmed leads the workshops at Albareh. Macan is visibly smaller when the two are conveniently featured. Born in Cairo he has a BA in Fine Arts, parked next to each other, the main tell is Te Macan is currently being ofered in just Albareh has grown to become one of and is a well-experienced lecturer and the one-piece ‘clam shell’ bonnet the Macan two specifcations, the Macan S, with a 340hp the most cutting-edge galleries in town, GO: Workshops are to be resident of several technical graphic features.