Past Workshops

Tashkeel Talk | Building Brands with Purpose

May Barber

While sustainability within our artistic practice is necessary, the idea is used all too often without the undertaking of critical questioning and research. Blending design and business, this Tashkeel...

Ethnographic Practice: The Boundaries Between Art and Anthropology

Nidhi Mahajan

This course with Nidhi Mahajan aims to introduce participants to key concepts and issues in ethnographic practice with the aim to translate ethnographic research into artistic work. It will be a pract...

One-on-one meeting with Jassim Al Awadhi

Jassim Al Awadhi

As part of the community programming for the exhibition 'From End to End', Tashkeel has invited the curator and photographer Jassim Al Awadhi - Founder and Chairman of the Akkas, the UAE Photography C...

How To Position Your Work as an Artist

Mo Reda

In this workshop, artists will explore how to position themselves and their work as they examine different strategies to expand their practice beyond its current state. How to position oneself in the ...

Tashkeel Talk: Don’t Be the Starving Artist!

Pallavi Dean

This Tashkeel Talk will reveal 5 hacks on creating and sustaining a successful business without compromising on your creative voice. Pallavi will share her personal experience on building a design bra...

The Creative & Cultural Industries: What does it all mean?

Lisa Ball-Lechgar

The term ‘creative and cultural industries’ has gained momentum since it was first coined back in the 1990s in a bid to measure the economic and social impact and spread deeper understanding about the...

Curator's Visit: Murtaza Vali

Murtaza Vali

Tashkeel has invited Murtaza Vali for a one-on-one sit down with 5 artists who wish to have a critique session at whatever stage they are with their work. Being able to present your ideas and refine t...

The image is an encounter & as such unpredictable

Walid Sadek

Rather than a semiological approach to the image as text, as a code to be decoded, as a sign to be read and consumed or as representation, this two-day course with Walid Sadek posits the image as extr...

Tashkeel Talk: Beyond Sustainability

Jonathan Ashmore

Join this Tashkeel Talk with Jonathan Ashmore, the Founder and Principal Architect of award-winning RIBA Chartered Practice ANARCHITECT, on his unique approach to design and architecture that embodies...

Pitching to Private Clients

Sneha Divias

Join this workshop by Sneha Divias to explore effective techniques of translating your ideas and services to potential clients.

Tashkeel Lecture: How can invasive species be used to create luxurious materials while improving our local biodiversity?

Irene Roca Moracia

Join this Tashkeel Lecture with Irene Roca Moracia, an architect and design researcher who has worked for firms like Dominique Perrault and LVMH. Irene will be discussing her Maison/0 graduate project...

Artist-led Exhibition Tour (12pm): Nora Zeid

Sign up for the artist-led tours of Cairo Illustrated: Stories from Heliopolis by Nora Zeid, who will take visitors on a tour through the illustrations that capture the city of Cairo and its layered l...