Join Abu Dhabi foodie Zain Mustafa on a culinary tour of Mina Zayed.

Join us for an exciting journey through time and memory in this drop-in arts session! The session offers fun and creative activities for children that encourage them to think about memory in imaginative ways through storytelling, drawing, doodling, coloring, painting, and much more. 

The sessions are designed in a drop-in format so families are welcome to bring their children anytime between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm.

In this workshop, participants will explore and excavate the urban environment in Mina Zayed, collecting found objects to be cast in plaster or etched. 

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 will introduce strategies on how to find and apply for the right opportunities for your career, and best practices when it comes to application writing.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/aWfPM9Gse2ADnmwR9

Join artist Fatema Al Fardan in a one-day writing workshop, List it Out: An Experimental Writing Workshop.  Investigating list-making as part poetry, part prose, and part autobiography, this workshop explores the works of artists, writers, and creatives who have harnessed the list as a form of self-expression. 

Join us for a weekend of film screenings, panel discussions, and talks celebrating Arab cinema.

This March, the 421 Culture Bus is ready to take you on a guided journey through Art Dubai! 

Biography of a Passage is an offsite exhibition presented by 421 at the 2023 edition of Art Dubai. Curated by Dania Al Tamimi, the exhibition features the work of eight emerging artists from across the region and seeks to de-essentialize our understanding of time. 

Book your Art Dubai 2023 tickets: https://www.artdubai.ae/

Join artist, photographer, and poet Augustine Paredes in this one-day intensive workshop that invites you to explore alternative techniques of memory-making. 

Presented by 421, Alserkal Arts Foundation, and New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Stepping Forward: Performance Research and Practice, Here is a convening that brings together artists, curators, academics, and practitioners to consider critical questions around performance practice emerging from the MENASA region. 

A full public program schedule is provided here. 

Open to participants of all experience levels, this workshop is for those who are curious about how process memory and past experiences through movement. This workshop presents performance and movement as healing practices that can help us translate embedded memory into embodied expression.

The 421 Culture Bus is ready to take you on a guided journey through Sharjah Biennial 15! 

Join us for an exciting journey through time and memory in this drop-in arts session! The session offers fun and creative activities for children that encourage them to think about memory in imaginative ways through storytelling, drawing, doodling, coloring, painting, and much more. 

The sessions are designed in a drop-in format so families are welcome to bring their children anytime between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm.

Take part in Joanna Barakat’s Palestinian embroidery, or Tatreez, workshop where she introduces the history of this traditional practice. 

The opening reception will include tours, a talk and performance, as well as a live DJ set by Isaac Sullivan.

Image: Nasser Alzayani. Wardat Al Mustashar or The Advisor’s Flower, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. 

Image ID: Nasser Alzayani’s project shows a patchwork of contrasting black and white translucent images layered on a bright background.The background creates a stark contrast against the dark visuals. The images are different versions of the same pressed multi-leaf stalk and flowers.

The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you on a guided journey through Alserkal Avenue’s Quoz Arts Fest! 

Join us for an exciting journey through time and memory in this drop-in arts session! The session offers fun and creative activities for children that encourage them to think about memory in imaginative ways through storytelling, drawing, doodling, coloring, painting, and much more. 

Drop in style sessions from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Please note that this event takes place at the 421 popup in Dubai at Alserkal Avenue during Alqouz Arts Festival. 

The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you on a guided journey through Sharjah’s Maraya Arts Center and 1971 Design.

The Winter 2023 Season presents four major exhibitions and over 20 workshops, talks, and special events that interrogate contemporary modes of memory-making and how they shape our understanding of the past, present, and future. 

View the full Winter 2023 season program schedule here.