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Participants from 'Too Odd to Translate: Food Styling & Storytelling with Two Odd' attend free of charge. The experience is also open to the wider public at a ticketed cost.

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Designed and built by Akshita Garud from Two Odd, The Shared Table is a community dining experience where spatial design, food, and collective presence come together into a single, living installation. Continuing from the studio seminar on 19 September, the evening opens beyond the studio and into the community the work is ultimately made for.

The tablescape draws its visual and culinary language directly from Mina Zayed, and its rhythms and exchanges become both the material and the meaning of the table set before guests

The food is sourced from and in conversation with Mina Zayed, translated through Two Odd's lens into a sensory experience that asks what it means to sit down together, share from the same surface, and find the stories within.

Guests arrive at a fully realized tablescape and are encouraged to experience the installation before sitting down. Akshita then sets the context for the evening, connecting the tablescape back to Mina Zayed, to the day's inquiry, and to Two Odd's broader practice of using the table as a site of storytelling and connection. After that, conversation, connection, and the unhurried act of eating together is the program.

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Fee of 60 AED 

Participants from 'Too Odd to Translate: Food Styling & Storytelling with Two Odd' attend free of charge. The experience is also open to the wider public at a ticketed cost.

About the Instructor

Two Odd is made by Akshita Garud and Sabah Shaikh. Both work in art direction for editorial content driven by storytelling, curating experiences through tablescapes, spatial design, and installation. As a creative studio and online magazine, Two Odd platforms narratives that need more visibility, challenging rigid societal norms through work that is as purposeful as it is visually compelling.