Past Workshops

Spring Camp 2022: RISOllage Bookcover

Diego Mendoza

Discover the Tashkeel's RISO printer and use it to make your very own notebook cover!

Spring Camp 2022: Full Week (8 - 11 years)

Join a week full of creative activities for 8 - 11 and 12 - 16 year olds with our Tashkeel Spring Camp! Exploring the theme of story-telling, the participants are going to explore how to weave stories...

Young Creatives Club: Carpet Making

Diego Mendoza

Join us in making your own carpet! Using the basic principles of weaving, the participants will use a mini-loom to create a mini-carpet. With lots of colourful yarn to play around with, we will explor...

Young Creatives Club: Doodle Marathon

Diego Mendoza

Let's celebrate the women in our lives! Inspired by International Women's Day, we'll be encouraging participants to respond and reflect on the importance of women to our culture and society while intr...

Telling Stories: Arabic script and the Risograph

Ibrahim Zaki

Join this introductory course as Ibraheem Khamayseh introduces you to both Arabic calligraphy and Risograph printing.

Young Creatives Club: Photomap exploration

Diego Mendoza

Embark on a photography advernture in the Tashkeel garden armed with your creativity and cameras! The young explorers will take inspiration from the Tashkeel exhibition 'From End to End' and discover ...

Young Creatives Club: Carving Colour

Diego Mendoza

Create colourful and unique postcards using only wax crayons and black ink! With the 'wax crayon etching method', our young artists will first draw using crayons on paper, then cover it with black ink...

Fruitful Prints

Azim Al Ghussein

This workshop with artist Azim Al Ghussein will explore the makings of a 4-colour print using Tashkeel’s Risograph.

Commercial Illustration

Nora Zeid

Join Nora Zeid in this workshop on illustrating for commercial projects. Nora will explore the basics of creating designs for clients: from when the client contacts the designer to when the work is de...

Afterschool Arts Club: Sound Illustration

Diego Mendoza

Attention! Art challenge! Attention! Participants will think about how to illustrate sound and how to translate sounds to visual language. They will explore the sounds of a city and how those sounds c...

Digital Illustration

Nora Zeid

Join this digital illustration workshop led by artist Nora Zeid, who will go over the basics of digital illustration: from layout and rough sketching to creating line art and adding colour. Participan...

Drop in & Draw: Ephemera

Khalid Mezaina

In this session, Khalid Mezaina will focus on filling the pages of participants' sketchbooks with drawings, writings and ephemera that relate to memories, observations, and stories about people, place...