

Season Program
Fall 2023: Earthly Joys
24 September 2023 - 21 December 2023
The Fall 2023 program promises a diverse range of interactive environmentally-conscious workshops, guided nature walks, insightful talks and discussions with environmental experts, craft-based experiments that explore local materials, a film festival focused on climate-related works, home-cooking sessions, and other special events designed to preserve and celebrate our planet.
Running in tandem with the Fall 2023 program are two major exhibitions featuring the work of emerging and established artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. The exhibitions, Asma Belhamar: Solid Void and Nine Nodes for Non-Being, curated by Ritika Biswas, focus on the environment from two different perspectives: the history of the UAE’s built environment and philosophical approaches to ways of existing more equitably within the ongoing crisis.
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Workshops
Performance Co/Lab
8 October 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Performance Co/Lab is an open invitation to all performing artists, creatives, and curious individuals looking to explore movement practices. Through a sustained program, participants will explore performance exercises such as contact improvisation, breath work, acting warm-ups, games, and techniques.
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Workshops
Colorful Leaps with Early Starters
14 October 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Colorful Leaps is back! Join us for an exciting adventure where we learn about the stories of UAE-based artists.
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Workshops
Jamming Session: Sudanese Flavors with Sarrah & Amat
14 October 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Jamming Sessions: Homecooking Series is a series of workshops led by UAE’s home chefs! Join us as family duos teach participants their traditional recipes as handed down through their relatives. Each session will be accompanied by a playlist that sets the scene of a home kitchen.
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Exhibitions
Asma Belhamar: Solid Void
22 October 2023 - 31 December 2023
In this new solo exhibition, artist Asma Belhamar presents works inspired by the UAE’s architectural history. The structure captures the tensions between shifting natural geographies and dynamic urban environments, resulting in a sensitive technical approach to the fusion of form. The exhibition is footnoted by the artist’s reflections on culture and national identity in flux.
Belhamar is a participant in the 2023 cycle of the 421 Artistic Development Program. The program is organized in partnership with The Institute for Emerging Art.
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Exhibitions
Nine Nodes of Non-Being
22 October 2023 - 31 December 2023
Nine Nodes of Non-Being is a group exhibition presenting works by nine emerging and established artists, thinkers, filmmakers, and researchers from East, South, Southeast Asia, the MENA region and South America. It conceives of climate-related extinction through various states of negation and excess emerging from each of the nine artistic nodes to examine ways of existing more equitably within our ongoing crises.
Nine Nodes of Non-Being is curated by Ritika Biswas and emerged from a year-long journey as part of the 421 Curatorial Development Exhibition Program in collaboration with The Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR).
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Workshops
Jamming Session: Ice Cream Alchemy with Anant & Rihab
28 October 2023
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
‘Jamming Sessions’ is a workshop series led by UAE’s home chefs. Each session features a duo who teach participants their traditional recipes as handed down through their relatives. The sessions are accompanied by a playlist that sets the scene of a home kitchen.
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Workshops
Colorful Leaps with Early Starters
28 October 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Colorful Leaps is back! Join us for an exciting adventure where we learn about the stories of UAE-based artists.
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Workshops
Performance Co/Lab
29 October 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Performance Co/Lab is an open invitation to all performing artists, creatives, and curious individuals looking to explore movement practices. Through a sustained program, participants will explore performance exercises such as contact improvisation, breath work, acting warm-ups, games, and techniques.
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Film Screenings
Film Festival Weekend with Cinema Akil
3 November 2023 - 5 November 2023
5:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Join us for a weekend celebrating regional films that explore the climate crisis. This expansive program includes film screenings, talks, workshops, activations, and family-friendly screenings too.
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Workshops
Cli-Fi Short Films: Crafting your own Climatic Reality
3 November 2023
4:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Join us for a workshop guided by Greener Screens instructors, Bassam Alassad and Abeer Bayazidi. Let your creative juices flow as you're invited to develop your own cli-fi masterpiece, created only with your trusty smartphone and the environment around you.
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Culture Buses
Culture Bus: Dubai Design Week & Downtown Design
11 November 2023
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Our Culture Bus trips are back!
We are ready to take you to the Ninth Edition of Dubai Design Week.
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Workshops
Foraging the Mina with Shereen Saif
11 November 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join performance artist Shereen Saif on a public walk and performance that explores Mina Zayed’s biodiverse ecosystem.
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Workshops
Colorful Leaps with Early Starters
11 November 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Colorful Leaps is back! Join us for an exciting adventure where we learn about the stories of UAE-based artists.
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Workshops
Performance Co/Lab
11 November 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Performance Co/Lab is an open invitation to all performing artists, creatives, and curious individuals looking to explore movement practices. Through a sustained program, participants will explore performance exercises such as contact improvisation, breath work, acting warm-ups, games, and techniques.
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Culture Buses
Culture Bus: Sharjah Architecture Triennial
12 November 2023
12:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you on a guided journey through Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023!
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Special Events
The Material Library: Alternative Perspectives on Ecological Engagement
18 November 2023
The Material Library is a one-day event that brings together UAE-based thinkers, creative practitioners, academics, and designers to present research around alternative and new ecological practices.
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Designers’ Soirée: Autumn Hues
19 November 2023
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join us at 421’s first-ever Designers’ Soiree!
Designer and curator Ghassan Salameh will be leading this event, which is dedicated to designers working across various disciplines to learn from each other and connect over food, music and art.
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Culture Buses
Culture Bus: Al Qattara Neighborhood
19 November 2023
12 PM - 8:30 PM
The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you to Al Ain on a guided journey through Al Qattara neighborhood just in time for The Traditional Handicrafts Festival!
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Culture Buses
Culture Bus: Down to Earth & Focal Point
26 November 2023
12:00 PM - 8:45 PM
The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you on a guided journey to Art Jameel for ‘Down to Earth’, UAE’s annual festival celebrating all things green and 'Focal Point' art book fair at Sharjah Art Foundation.
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Workshops
Performance Co/Lab
3 December 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Performance Co/Lab is an open invitation to all performing artists, creatives, and curious individuals looking to explore movement practices. Through a sustained program, participants will explore performance exercises such as contact improvisation, breath work, acting warm-ups, games, and techniques.
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Short Courses
The Artist Toolkit: Strategies for Applying to Open Calls
8 December 2023 - 10 December 2023
This in-person three-day course addresses the challenges artists and creative practitioners face when applying for open calls, grants, and other career opportunities. In the session, instructor Jolaine Frizzell introduces strategies on how to find and apply for the right opportunities for your career, and best practices when it comes to application writing.
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Crafting Connections: An Artisanal Majlis
9 December 2023
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for a day of workshops celebrating artisanal and traditional crafts. Organized in collaboration with UAE-based entities championing heritage crafts, this program features workshops that delve into creative practices deeply rooted in the UAE.
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Workshops
Colorful Leaps with Early Starters
9 December 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Colorful Leaps is back! Join us for an exciting adventure where we learn about the stories of UAE-based artists.
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Workshops
Fragments of Mina: An Assemblage Workshop
10 December 2023
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us as we breathe new life into found objects at the Mina!
This two-phase workshop first explores the urban spaces of Mina Zayed through guided walks that talk about preserving the area around us while collecting found objects. It then takes you back to the drawing board to create mixed media artworks.
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Workshops
Performance Co/Lab
17 December 2023
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Performance Co/Lab is an open invitation to all performing artists, creatives, and curious individuals looking to explore movement practices. Through a sustained program, participants will explore performance exercises such as contact improvisation, breath work, acting warm-ups, games, and techniques.
See moreRegistration will open on: 11/26/2023