Khayal: Community storytime. Encourage your children to read for fun  through an engaging story time and craft with local bookstore, Early Starters.

Storytime can be enjoyed by the whole family! The session will start out with an interactive reading followed by a related and themed craft.

Find an introduction to resin art at this workshop and bring home a hand-made resin cheeseboard. 

This workshop introduces participants to acrylic pouring as a fluid art technique.

In this workshop participants will learn the process of making a pair of shoes from scratch. They will use different materials such as foam, fabric and different threads and hand sewing techniques in the process, such as ladder and blanket stitching, as well as paint their own shoes in the geometric pattern already engraved on the fabric, creating a fun and colorful design.

Cinema Akil presents Fire Walk With Her, a lineup of contemporary Arab films to be screened outdoors.

Watch "Al Sit" by Suzannah Mirghani and "Lift Like a Girl" by Mayye Zayed.

Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HXwHx2hpRsWjYJMQwU2kvw

The students of NYUAD's Curatorial Practice course will join Nada Al Mosa in a critical discussion that will look at works exhibited in So Different, So Appealing by Murtaza Vali. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication where the students have authored a reflective response to Vali's exhibition series through writings on the question of infrastructures inspired by the works at Warehouse421.

“Past, Borrowed” is an exhibition in collaboration with Gulf Photo Plus, curated around the theme of Year of the 50th and UAE National Day.

Note: This exhibition will be in Gulf Photo Plus (GPP), Dubai. 

Rohini Devasher: Contemporary Art between Nature and Culture

https://youtu.be/Czdun_lRRGs

The artist and amateur astronomer Rohini Devasher has chased solar eclipses -- literal dialectics of negative and positive. She has worked with a community of amateur astronomers in India, building a chronicle of these people whose lives have been transformed by the night sky. Most recently she spent 26 days on board the High Trust an oil tanker which spanned the Pacific Ocean. This journey reinforced the role of ‘observation’, and the ‘field’ or ‘site’ in her practice. Her films, prints, sounds, drawings, and mappings of the antagonism of time and space walk the fine line between wonder and the uncanny, foregrounding the 'strangeness' of encountering, observing and recording both environment and experience.

Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jjS1jGGvQayRV8G0ZbdDmg

Moderated by Nadine Khalil

This panel discussion with Augustine Paredes, Amina Yahya, Umber Majeed and Evar Hussayni will look at notions of the female and male gaze in relation to orientation, desire, architecture and pictorial space. As the artists navigate different spaces (private/public, personal/collective, familial/archival), visual narratives emerge that challenge dominant tropes and perspectives.

"Whistle While You Work" is a series of discussions led by Suzy Sikorski of MidEast Art, dedicated to humanizing the artist and embracing the diverse interdisciplinary activities, thoughts, and frame of minds that have been birthed or accelerated during this time in the pandemic. 

Listen here: https://anchor.fm/warehouse421

Writing the Exhibition Review is a course that peels away the layers of the piece of writing we commonly refer to as a ‘review.’ Although liberally used, it is a slippery term, indexing varying reader expectations, presenting a cascade of challenges for writers. How critical should it be? How informative? What value does the artist or curator profile add? Is there any room for institutional critique?

Interested? Sign up here: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflrLg6OjGPaltrj2E4Mr79cf1EslJ3kay1gvlx3CZD6wXRTA/viewform 

This workshop would be for beginners wanting to learn pointed pen (English) calligraphy. Students would learn about the tools, how to handle them, the basic foundational structure of letterforms, how to write the alphabet in upper and lower case, alternate letterforms for adding variety, how to connect letters, and an introduction to basic flourishing and layout design. We will also cover how to best practice at home and how to evaluate your own work.

The National Pavilion UAE – La Biennale di Venezia and its exhibition “Wetland”, curated by Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto, was awarded the Golden Lion Award for best National Participation at La Biennale Architettura 2021. The Golden Lion award is the Biennale’s top honor.

SCHEDULE

1 PM: How Will We Live Together?

2 PM: The Anatomy of Sabkhas

3 PM: Sabkhas and Food Security

This workshop will introduce participants to the natural process in which salt crystalizes in Sabkha. Through a step-by-step tutorial, participants will also learn how to produce their own micro salt crystal forms. 

For ages 6 to 12.

Be inspired by a range of crafts, foods, and more for all ages!

Prepare yourselves for a full day of free adventures at Warehouse421! A stroll through our plaza will lead you to a live Emirati cooking corner with delicious delectables, a henna zone, and a photo booth with fun props! If you are more hands-on, you can create your own screen or block printed tote! Fashion your own bedazzled pearl jewelry, or try your hand at boat model making. 

Don’t forget to show your national day spirit by wearing your favorite traditional outfit.

Please note that as per Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism regulation, a "green" status on the Al Hosn app is required for participation and attendance of any workshops, talks, and in-space events. In addition, a 96-hour negative PCR test result is required of those who are 18 and above.

"Whistle While You Work" is a series of discussions led by Suzy Sikorski of MidEast Art, dedicated to humanizing the artist and embracing the diverse interdisciplinary activities, thoughts, and frame of minds that have been birthed or accelerated during this time in the pandemic. 

Listen here: https://anchor.fm/warehouse421

Pallavi Paul: The Heart of the Heart

https://youtu.be/Y1jEudyb3GY

The questions of 'truth' and 'veracity' structure Pallavi Paul's practice. Her work stages the interventionist potential of the ‘record’ as an aesthetic question. The documentary does not appear as a simple image category, but as an ecology of materials, networks, global alliances, and systems of public thought. To assess the power of these forms, she will present a discussion around her film works that deal with the tension between countenancing the world—working with the complex transference between sensation, history, memory, and reality—and representing the world, which often presumes a positivist capture of everyday life. 

 Khayal: Community storytime. Encourage your children to read for fun  through an engaging story time and craft with local bookstore, Early Starters.

Storytime can be enjoyed by the whole family! The session will start out with an interactive reading followed by a related and themed craft.

This first set of conversations, as part of a new research collaboration between Warehouse421 and Alserkal Arts Foundation, will focus on performance practice and its multiple histories in the region, bringing together three sets of dialogues. Each conversation sets out specific positions based on practice, drawing together artists, curators, writers and researchers who share concerns around the modes in which performance and performativity is framed, received and archived. These dialogues and responses will inform our ongoing enquiry, leading to a more expansive public symposium in 2022.

Cinema Akil presents Fire Walk With Her, a lineup of contemporary Arab films to be screened outdoors.

Watch "Certified Mail" by Hisham Saqer and "Bint Werdan" by Maysaa Almumim.

The overall aim of Noura Alserkal's workshop is to delve into the world of scents. Dukhoon is a form of bakhoor made with a traditional blend of perfume-soaked wood chips mixed with various combinations of botanical ingredients for a series of uniquely luxurious fragrances. The project will provide participants with an opportunity to illustrate stories in a sensual context and have the story come to life through scent. The students will be introduced to the world of Dukhoon making, an old UAE tradition.

Raqs Media Collective: Catastrophic Anesthesia: Immunities and the Promise of Community 

https://youtu.be/d4_yImiSCw8

Raqs Media Collective turn against soothsaying by conceptualizing the infinite, the impossible as necessarily present, not as that which awaits us in some determinate, post-apocalyptic future  (The Necessity of Infinity, 2017). Raqs work on the contemporary as always-already pathological, the apocalypse as having happened, and toxicity as the structure of the present that begs dismantling (Toxicity, current).

This two-part experimental workshop is an invitation to explore image and surface making through gestures stemming from mural techniques.

Participants will investigate wall practices (frescoes, decorative painting, modern white walls) and wall-making gestures (laying mortar, priming, printing, stenciling, sanding, polishing).

Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qG_DCFv_RiG8R2ogkhiMNw 

Moderated by Nadine Khalil

Drawing from the notions of the unconstrained body in the exhibition "As We Gaze Upon Her" by Banat Collective, this panel discussion with exhibiting artists Sharifa Horaiz, Alymamah Rashid, Shamiran Istifan and Sara Brahim will engage with various modes of embodiment in material. Reimagining bodily forms in sculpture, textile, water and wax, these artists interrogate the feminine and the masculine, mythology and monstrosity.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Sound and Nothing More: Scoring the Contemporary 

https://youtu.be/DV3W2gDzxA8

What does catastrophe sound like? Can we hear the past in the present? What might it mean to score the contemporary as future perfect? 

The artist and forensic investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan has been researching and exhibiting the distinct capacity of sound to articulate presence and absence at once. 

 Khayal: Community storytime. Encourage your children to read for fun  through an engaging story time and craft with local bookstore, Early Starters.

Storytime can be enjoyed by the whole family! The session will start out with an interactive reading followed by a related and themed craft.

Departing from the desire to find different ways in which we can connect with one another, How To Love Many In Many Ways was born while experiencing different moments of on-again-and-off-again home confinement. This affected the structure of the project, as we started to look deeper into the notions of mutual care and ‘love’ in the expanded sense of the word. What, for instance, could love beyond romantic or familial relations mean? What would love beyond friendships look like? And how does love to non-human beings manifest?

To register, click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82443037328

Walid Sadek: Thinking, Making, Writing: Contemporary Art in Catastrophe

https://youtu.be/JDwc_s00EHs

The artist and writer Walid Sadek has been demanding we ‘labour the missing’ in his prose and artistic practice, confronting the regnant ideology of our contemporary -- melancholia, nostalgia -- through a careful critique of waiting for those who disappeared during Lebanon’s protracted civil war to return before politics can get started again. Sadek perceives the present as always-already holed, rendering the contemporary longing for a future (saved or damned, full or empty) meaningless. He proposes a way to

In this Tablescaping workshop, Anoud will take you on a two and a half hour journey through creating a tablescape fit for an opening night. Inspired by Warehouse421 and Mina Zayed, participants will use elements from the surrounding area and space itself to create tables that tell stories about art and design.

Cinema Akil presents Fire Walk With Her, a lineup of contemporary Arab films to be screened outdoors.

Watch "How My Grandmother Became A Chair" by Nicolas Fattouh, "Adam" by Mariam Touzani, and "The Girls Who Burned The Night".

Join us at Warehouse421 for an introduction of the exhibition As We Gaze Upon Her, the result of Warehouse421’s Curatorial Development Exhibition Programme in partnership and collaboration with the Bombay Institute of Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR), which began in April 2021.

Curated by Murtaza Vali

So Different, So Appealing examines the aesthetics, rhetorics, and rituals of the real estate industry, unpacking the strategies through which it conjures up its many seductions, aspirations, and desires. The included works use humor, parody, appropriation, and mimesis, uncovering the perverse logic of marketing speak by highlighting its banality or pushing it to the point of absurdity. Neoliberal real estate is, by definition, transnational, and works in So Different, So Appealing also track its offshore networks. As tools for attracting foreign investment, high end real estate developments frequently market themselves abroad, projecting their aspirational projections across and beyond borders. And migrant workers remit these emergent aesthetics and aspirations alongside their hard-earned wages, displacing the hegemony of older local architectural styles back home. 

Curated by Banat Collective. 

As We Gaze Upon Her comes at the end of the pilot version of Warehouse421’s Curatorial Development Exhibition program, in partnership with the Bombay Institute of Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). The exhibition attempts to expand the notion of ‘woman’, often constrained by social, cultural, and existential insecurities. 

Ala Younis: Curating Contemporary Archives 

https://youtu.be/yQBX3SmzzMU

Since the onset of modernity, ‘the archive’ has taken center stage in contemporary situations of crisis and transformation, in both private and public life. Today, as catastrophe repeats with near compulsion, archives are everywhere, across academic disciplines, art media and exhibitions, indeed archives have become the stuff of our urban built forms. What do we do with contemporary archives in modernity? And what does the ubiquity of the archive do to/for us? How might we rethink our approach to ‘curating contemporary archives’? 

Rohit Goel: Remembering, Repeating, Working Through

https://youtu.be/bHHDFaz4Ch4

Contemporary scholars, artists, curators, governments, and everyday citizens have responded to the near repetition compulsion of catastrophe in diverse ways around a single belief: human suffering recurs because we forget to remember the traumatic experience of pain. ‘Never Forget’ has become the global humanitarian mantra of our post-Cold War world. Yet catastrophe, human suffering seems to persist, indeed perdure the more we remember its supposed pastness; remembering has become an almost auto-erotic activity without goal. In this talk, we will reorient the faculty of memory – work through human suffering – by asking why catastrophe repeats, how memory has become untethered from its goal, by considering trauma outside experience in contemporary philosophy and the visual arts. 

With topics ranging from design archival practices, native crafts, and colonial legacies in architecture. Three members of our community will be releasing essays across the summer diving critically into the local and regional design and architectural practices. Contributors include Faysal Tabbarah, and Rasha Dakkak. Watch our online spaces for their release.

This is a 3-day workshop on magazine making led by independent publisher and writer Ibrahim Nehme. The objective of the workshop is to give the participants a crash course in independent publishing and get them to think about and build the case of their first magazine.

Limited discounts and fee waivers are available by application. To apply for a fee waiver or a discount, please fill this form.

This talk is part of Dukkan421 talk series, this talk is presented by Dima Srouji. 

To register to attend the Zoom talk, click here.

This talk is part of Dukkan421 talk series, this talk is presented by Studio D04.

To register to attend this Zoom talk, click here.

As part of Warehouse421 Conversations, "Whistle While You Work" is a series of discussions led by Suzy Sikorski of MidEast Art, dedicated to humanizing the artist and embracing the diverse interdisciplinary activities, thoughts, and frame of minds that have been birthed or accelerated during this time in the pandemic. 

Listen here: https://anchor.fm/warehouse421

From the Egyptian sun to the summer of Abu Dhabi, Warehouse421 and Cinema Akil, celebrating its 10th season of film present the digital film program "Makers in the Sun" an online series of Egyptian design-centric film screenings, essays, talks and Q&As brought to you in collaboration with Film My Design, the Cairo-based design-film festival.

The program will be available to access and watch from August 1st to September 16th! Warehouse421 will be hosting this film program on its website. Register here to receive the link to access all films, exclusive interviews, and Deep Dives on August 1st. 

This talk is part of Dukkan421 talk series, this talk is presented by Hala Al Ani.

To register for this Zoom talk, click here.

This program is a fun and hands-on program dedicated to children between 11-14 years of age to engage them during summer 2021 in unique design and build activities.

The workshops focus on building the participant's design capabilities as well as the ability to express their ideas through verbal communication and most importantly through translating those ideas into 2D and 3D objects. 

This program is a fun and hands-on program dedicated to children between 6-10 years of age to engage them during summer 2021 in unique design and build activities.

The workshops focus on building the participant's design capabilities as well as the ability to express their ideas through verbal communication and most importantly through translating those ideas into 2D and 3D objects. 

This two-part talk will feature an initial presentation by Rand Abdul Jabbar in which she provides an overview of the conception and development of her latest work, Every Act of Recognition Alters What Survives, which interrogates the varied and often conflicting shades of diasporic experience through a research-based participatory process involving a multi-generational group of contributors from the Iraqi and Arab community in London. She will then be joined by a small group of project participants and contributors for a discussion examining personal and collective attitudes towards remembrance, migration, and legacy.

To register for this Zoom talk, click here.

An intimate workshop, where participants network mindfully and examine the biases, assumptions, or defenses they often carry into social interactions.

This workshop takes place at Warehouse421.

This workshop aims to introduce students to the creative process of mapping. Artists, photographers, and designers have long appropriated maps as a means to document and make sense of experience and place. Traditional maps say ‘this is how the place is,’ but artists weave their narratives into subjective, personal, and equally valuable perceptions of place.

Homebound Residency Event

To Register, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ndGkgq3OSZ2K77iZSuhY-Q

Join us on Zoom for an artist talk by Mona Ayyash. She will discuss her recent video project developed during her homebound residency with Warehouse421.

Homebound Residency Event

To Register, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gwx43VtFTeScitnCNnXjrg

Join Tariff co-founders Batool Desouky and Zain Mahjoub discuss what it means to be an online publishing platforms and its particularities with three of their contributors on a panel discussion.

• Make Your Own Pinhole Camera 

  Pinhole cameras are the earliest examples of cameras. They use the principle of "camera obscura," in which light travels through a small hole in a dark box to form a picture.

Homebound Residency Event

To Register, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y2hqt1yfQGqYbPAr85X7OQ

Mahshid Rafiei and Jean-Paul Kelly will explore the effects of naming in colonial projects and the use of capitonyms to verify cultural fictions. 

• The seminar proposes an approach to curatorial practice to recognize its evolution, competencies, and current challenges. All the sessions are crossed by a crucial question: Does the curator contribute to enclosing the art system or representing the gap for opening it?

image/word/word/image is a workshop that explores the back and forth between text and image. Inspired by the works of Fatema Al Fardan in the Mina Zayed: Reflections on Past Futures exhibition, this workshop looks at how text can be interpreted differently according to the image it accompanies. 

This Happening, hosted by the Faraway Bistro will manifest itself into a collective meal in which each participant will be encouraged to interact with their tablescapes in an unconventional manner within the parameters set by the bistro at the time of the Happening. The theme of this project is the disruption of the table. This is encouraged through the use of our napkins embroidered with the words “Chew with your mouth open” to disregard social etiquette through this off-brand feast. The napkins also present a sense of community between the participants as they feast alone. 

To view the live Happening, please register on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_taGprIfERWyzTWLsWKsFgw
To register as a participant, please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/aGFwcxLk172iCSsu9

The worlds of words and symbols are brought together in a collaboration between poet Farah Chamma and artist Joanna Barakat. Inspired by ancient traditions, the poem will first serve as a tool for guidance, using the process of Divination. The words and meaning will then be turned into symbols which will be incorporated into a talisman.  This wearable reminder will be designed and made by the participants using acrylic paint markers and a leather band.

To view the live Happening, please register on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DIVdamZ8TKezBoiWRNgpow
To register as a participant, please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/aGFwcxLk172iCSsu9

To Register, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k_3pULaxTAKzcskiBvq0nw

Join us for presentations by three of the participating artists of the exhibition “Total Landscaping” curated by Murtaza Vali. Artists Layan Attari, Mohamed Khalid, and Stephanie Syjuco will present the projects on display at Warehouse421, to be discussed by landscape architect Gareth Doherty.

Participants will learn how to make their gelatin printing plate from scratch and different layering and masking techniques using household materials. 

Join artists Moza Al Matrooshi and Marwa Benhalim- founders and curators of Attempting Abla Nazira in a roundtable discussion around foods and their accompanying idioms, anecdotes and memes. By taking part in this Suhoor Happening, you will have the opportunity to join in the ceremonious preparation of a refreshment, and deep dive into critical nuances around food, its origins, and pop culture.  

To view the live Happening, please register on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TaM3XdYKR7yXbHN7gEheVw
To register as a participant, please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/aGFwcxLk172iCSsu9

To Register, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WlvrGr7lRDu-vuMTYZsubw

Absolute Egypt is a documentation of the local visual culture through the lens of graphic design. It takes the reader on a tour in the streets of Cairo by presenting a collection of its most notable vernacular graphic designs. The talk will discuss the research leading to the book and the interrelation of visual culture, design and cultural identity.

Through soap making, participants will learn to extend a significant ingredient into a form that allows for sharing with a larger group over a slower time period. Participants are encouraged to consider who does this sharing extend to, what is being shared and why it is being shared. 

To view the live Happening, please register on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRIXZJKLTMmu2k8oS8JmWA
To register as a participant, please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/aGFwcxLk172iCSsu9

Curated by Murtaza Vali, Total Landscaping investigates the ways in which plant life is commonly understood, encountered, represented and consumed in the Gulf, and within similar emergent urban formations across the global south. It focuses in on instances when the unruly vitality of flora is arrested in the service of capitalism and politics, a process that abstracts and reduces it to a color, a verb and an image. 

This workshop aims to experiment with the possibility of utilising the design principles found in Arabic-Islamicate manuscripts in contemporary graphic design and in an engaging manner. Participants’ reception and response to the idea and concomitant knowledge of reinterpreting manuscripts as posters will be investigated, along with their respective and unique approaches. Feedback and discussion are important aspects of this workshop, and each participant will share their respective process of creation and ideation with the group. This workshop is a significant aid in exploring the endless possibilities of reimagining olden manuscripts in a contemporary context.

Directed by Amin Nayfeh

2019 | Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Sweden| Drama | Arabic | 90 min

Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters apart in villages separated by the wall. One day he gets a call every parent dreads: his son has had an accident. Rushing to cross the checkpoint, Mustafa is denied on a technicality. But a father’s love won't give up and he will do anything to reach his son. A 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, as Mustafa, left with no choice, attempts to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall.

Directed by: Sherif El Bendary

2020 | Egypt | PG | Drama | Arabic | 17 min

Selfishness makes Hadeel unstoppable – even if getting what she wants is at the expense of others. Conflating fact and fiction, this is a tale of mind games and manipulation.

Films In this workshop by Zara Mahmoud,  participants will explore different media integral to drawing – and engage in observational studies that encourage them to think about proportion/sighting techniques and different perspectives of objects. They will learn composition through live demonstrations, and the role colors play in monochromatic drawings.

100/100 Hundred Best Arabic Posters is a competition that honours the best 100 Arabic posters worldwide. It aims at documenting the Arab world’s visual culture through selecting and highlighting the best Arabic posters of the region and acting as a platform that inspires, connects and educates new talents, academics and of course professionals worldwide. The talk with this rounds jury members will highlight and discuss the recognition of poster design as an important form of communication in the public space as well as sparking a discussion about its role, form, content and technical execution.

Participants of this photo-walk will receive hands-on guidance from a photography instructor and guide, offering tips on framing, natural-light photography, and better creative control over a camera. Furthermore, and as they peruse the markets in the area, participants will learn best practices for approaching strangers in public and taking candid and posed shots that constitute a sincere reflection of daily life in Abu Dhabi.

Part of the Public Program of the exhibition
FLOAT: Stephanie Comilang

Directed by: Yoon Sung-A
2019 | BELGIUM, FRANCE | PG  | TAGALOG, ILONGGO, ENGLISH | 90 min}
Online screening

In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In order to do so, they frequently leave their own children behind, before throwing themselves into the unknown. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work that can be found in the Philippines, a group of trainees are getting ready to face both homesickness and the possible abuses lying ahead. During role playing exercises, they alternatively play both the roles of the employee and that of the employers. Bordering on fiction, OVERSEAS brings to light the question of modern servitude in our globalized world, while emphasizing these women’s determination, their sisterhood, and the strategies they find to face the ordeals that awaits them in the near future.

Directed by Muzna Al Musafer

2020 | Oman| Drama | Swahili, Arabic | 15 min

In 1978, in the South of Oman, Dablan is a widower who lives with his daughter Salma and his son Amr in a traditional village on the mountains. Dablan faces a pres- sure from his tribe to kill a leopard that has threatened the village - pressure that becomes greater when he decides to not kill the animal and instead to set it free.

Born in Madinat Sultan Qaboos in Muscat, Oman. Her admiration to images started in an early age through her father, who is a painter and a photographer.

Directed by: Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan

2019 | KSA | PG | Drama | Arabic | 76 min

During a trip with Waleed, his adolescent son, a middle-aged father, Nasser, receives news of his father's serious illness. He turns in the direction of his rural hometown south of Riyadh. The relationship between father and son changes when they arrive in this isolated town, as the disappearance of a child under unknown conditions is overshadowed by Nasser's efforts to communicate with his introverted son, even if it means imposing his own will on him. Waleed rebels against this guardianship and rejects it amidst the tense atmosphere of his dying grandfather in waiting.

This workshop aims to experiment with the possibility of utilising the design principles found in Arabic-Islamicate manuscripts in contemporary graphic design and in an engaging manner. Participants’ reception and response to the idea and concomitant knowledge of reinterpreting manuscripts as posters will be investigated, along with their respective and unique approaches. Feedback and discussion are important aspects of this workshop, and each participant will share their respective process of creation and ideation with the group. This workshop is a significant aid in exploring the endless possibilities of reimagining olden manuscripts in a contemporary context.

Directed by Morad Mostafa

2020 | Egypt, Sudan | Drama | Arabic | 24 min

"Halima", a Sudanese henna painter living in Egypt. She goes to one of Giza's local areas to

prepare a bride for her wedding and her 7 years old daughter "Ward" accompanies her and

starts to wander around and discover the place.

Directed by Amjad Abualala

2019 | Sudan | 15+ | Drama | Arabic | 103 min

Sudan, province of Aljazira, nowadays - When Muzamil was born, a prophecy by the holy man

of the village predicts that he will die when he is 20 years old.

Throughout the three-day sessions, The workshops will cover the basics of computational design and 3D printing to generate some interesting geometry, which then can be transformed into physical objects using a 3D printer.

Participants of this photo-walk will receive hands-on guidance from a photography instructor and guide, offering tips on framing, natural-light photography, and better creative control over a camera. Furthermore, and as they peruse the markets in the area, participants will learn best practices for approaching strangers in public and taking candid and posed shots that constitute a sincere reflection of daily life in Abu Dhabi.

Join us on zoom for Artist Talks by four artists participating in «Mina Zayed: Reflections on Past Futures», where they discuss their projects on display and the processes that led to them.

To attend the talk, please use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/98214819664?pwd=MDM2djNGVFJncFdCSFRaUWdnY0c5Zz09

Join us for an Artist Talk by filmmaker Stephanie Comilang, where she discusses her wider practices and her works on display in «Float: Stephanie Comilang».

100/100—HUNDRED BEST ARABIC POSTERS is a biennial non-commercial official poster competition, originated at the German University in Cairo, GUC, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts, Graphic Design Department, initiated by a group of academics as a PreMaster project in the winter semester 2015. 100/100’s vision is to document the Arab world’s contemporary visual culture through selecting and highlighting the best Arabic posters, acting as a platform that inspires, connects and educates new talents, academics and professionals worldwide. To view the full list of winning entries, click here.

Float presents two recent films by Berlin-based Stephanie Comilang that narrate overseas Filipino workers’ lives, complicating together documentary forms with references to science fiction. Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) (2016), follows three domestic workers in Hong Kong on their day off, as they gather with peers in the city center to engage in rituals of self-care, leisure, and community, claiming if only temporarily, their right to a city supported by their otherwise invisible daily labor. 

Through photography, film, mixed-media installations and in a mix of documentary, poetic, and the comic, the artists invite reflection and critique of the constant conditions of change, carving out moments of pause, exploring themes of capitalism and migration, identity and being, consumption and sustainability, and the ever-changing landscape of construction and renewal in the Emirates.

In this workshop, we will be using engraved patterns on acetate sheets and folding them into geometric shapes to give a complex yet minimal vases. We will also be exploring the medium of plaster to create these vessels and mixing them with color pigments to give marbled or ombre, or colored vases.

The aim of this workshop is to learn how to build a face mask from scratch. It will teach participants how to customize the design in so many different masks with pattern and shape stencils, using coloring and embroidery techniques. The masks will have 3 layers of fabric plus one pocket for you to insert a filter.