

Workshops
Sajjadah 01 by Rasha Dakkak
19 March 2023
15:00 - 18:00

Workshops
Hollow Forms by Dima Srouji
19 March 2023
15:00 - 18:00
Workshops
Neighbourhood Food Tour: Mina Zayed
Join Abu Dhabi foodie Zain Mustafa on a culinary tour of Mina Zayed.
19 March 2023
15:00 - 18:00
Workshops
Memory Makers with Early Starters
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.
18 March 2023 - 19 March 2023
17:00 - 20:00

Workshops
Excavating 421: Archiving the Present
In this workshop, participants will explore and excavate the urban environment in Mina Zayed, collecting found objects to be cast in plaster or etched.
18 March 2023
16:30 - 18:00

Short Courses
The Artist Toolkit: Strategies for Applying to Open Calls
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
17 March 2023 - 19 March 2023

Workshops
List it Out: An Experimental Writing Workshop
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.
12 March 2023
15:00 - 17:00

Special Events
Film Weekend with Cinema Akil
Join us for a weekend of film screenings, panel discussions, and talks celebrating Arab cinema.
10 March 2023 - 12 March 2023
17:00 - 22:00
Culture Buses
Culture Bus: Art Dubai
This March, the 421 Culture Bus is ready to take you on a guided journey through Art Dubai!
5 March 2023
12:30 - 7:30
Exhibitions
Biography of a Passage
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/
3 March 2023 - 5 March 2023
10:00 - 21:00

Workshops
Remember to Forget to Remember
Join artist, photographer, and poet Augustine Paredes in this one-day intensive workshop that invites you to explore alternative techniques of memory-making.
25 February 2023
13:00 - 17:00

Workshops
On Foraging Publication Online Purchase
23 February 2023 - 24 February 2023
15:00 - 18:00

Special Events
Stepping Forward: Performance Research and Practice, Here
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.
18 February 2023 - 19 February 2023
Workshops
Internal Landscapes: A Movement Workshop
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.
15 February 2023
18:00 - 20:00
Culture Buses
Culture Bus: Sharjah Biennial 15
The 421 Culture Bus is ready to take you on a guided journey through Sharjah Biennial 15!
12 February 2023
13:00 - 22:00
Workshops
Memory Makers with Early Starters
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.
11 February 2023 - 12 February 2023
17:00 - 20:00

Workshops
Introduction to Palestinian Tatreez
Take part in Joanna Barakat’s Palestinian embroidery, or Tatreez, workshop where she introduces the history of this traditional practice.
11 February 2023
18:00 - 20:00

Special Events
Winter 2023 Exhibitions Opening Reception
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.
5 February 2023
16:00 - 21:00

Special Events
Culture Bus: Quoz Arts Fest
The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you on a guided journey through Alserkal Avenue’s Quoz Arts Fest!
29 January 2023
14:00 - 21:00
Workshops
Memory Makers with Early Starters
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.
28 January 2023 - 29 January 2023
10:00 - 17:00
Special Events
Culture Bus: Maraya Arts Center & 1971 Design
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.
15 January 2023
12:30 - 18:30

Season Program
Winter 2023: RE/COLLECT THIS
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.
15 January 2023 - 21 March 2023

Workshops
Products Purchase Munira
5 January 2023
15:00 - 18:00

Sajjadah 01 by Rasha Dakkak
19 March 2023
15:00 - 18:00

Hollow Forms by Dima Srouji
19 March 2023
15:00 - 18:00
Neighbourhood Food Tour: Mina Zayed
Join Abu Dhabi foodie Zain Mustafa on a culinary tour of Mina Zayed.
19 March 2023
15:00 - 18:00
Memory Makers with Early Starters
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.
18 March 2023 - 19 March 2023
17:00 - 20:00

Excavating 421: Archiving the Present
In this workshop, participants will explore and excavate the urban environment in Mina Zayed, collecting found objects to be cast in plaster or etched.
18 March 2023
16:30 - 18:00

The Artist Toolkit: Strategies for Applying to Open Calls
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
17 March 2023 - 19 March 2023

List it Out: An Experimental Writing Workshop
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.
12 March 2023
15:00 - 17:00

Film Weekend with Cinema Akil
Join us for a weekend of film screenings, panel discussions, and talks celebrating Arab cinema.
10 March 2023 - 12 March 2023
17:00 - 22:00
Culture Bus: Art Dubai
This March, the 421 Culture Bus is ready to take you on a guided journey through Art Dubai!
5 March 2023
12:30 - 7:30
Biography of a Passage
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/
3 March 2023 - 5 March 2023
10:00 - 21:00

Remember to Forget to Remember
Join artist, photographer, and poet Augustine Paredes in this one-day intensive workshop that invites you to explore alternative techniques of memory-making.
25 February 2023
13:00 - 17:00

On Foraging Publication Online Purchase
23 February 2023 - 24 February 2023
15:00 - 18:00

Stepping Forward: Performance Research and Practice, Here
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.
18 February 2023 - 19 February 2023
Internal Landscapes: A Movement Workshop
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.
15 February 2023
18:00 - 20:00
Culture Bus: Sharjah Biennial 15
The 421 Culture Bus is ready to take you on a guided journey through Sharjah Biennial 15!
12 February 2023
13:00 - 22:00
Memory Makers with Early Starters
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.
11 February 2023 - 12 February 2023
17:00 - 20:00

Introduction to Palestinian Tatreez
Take part in Joanna Barakat’s Palestinian embroidery, or Tatreez, workshop where she introduces the history of this traditional practice.
11 February 2023
18:00 - 20:00

Winter 2023 Exhibitions Opening Reception
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.
5 February 2023
16:00 - 21:00

Culture Bus: Quoz Arts Fest
The 421 Culture Bus is back and we are ready to take you on a guided journey through Alserkal Avenue’s Quoz Arts Fest!
29 January 2023
14:00 - 21:00
Memory Makers with Early Starters
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.
28 January 2023 - 29 January 2023
10:00 - 17:00
Culture Bus: Maraya Arts Center & 1971 Design
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.
15 January 2023
12:30 - 18:30

Winter 2023: RE/COLLECT THIS
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.
15 January 2023 - 21 March 2023

Products Purchase Munira
5 January 2023
15:00 - 18:00