Past Workshops

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: 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...

Winter Camp 2021: The Entire Landsape of You (8 - 11 years)

Bayan Dahdah

Plan, draw and animate! Learn simple animation skills while using your personal emotions, thoughts and aspirations as inspiration to create a 20-30 second animation. Using Animation Kit or Animation D...

Winter Camp 2021: Barjeel House (8 - 11 years)

Eman Al Madani

Make and personalise your own Barjeel house! Doodle and explore drawn textures while learning about the Barjeel, the traditional architectural structure that was used to ventilate Emirati houses. Pers...

Winter Camp 2021: From Trash to Treasure (8 - 11 years)

Hernan Torres

How do we turn plastic trash into plastic treasure? Plastic is a universal problem - a substance that is turning out to be extremely difficult to regulate or dispose of. Learn all about the different ...

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...

Winter Camp 2021: The Magic of Pigments (8 - 11 years)

Chafa Ghaddar

How do we turn pigments into paint? Learn all about the colourful world of pigments and their relation to earth, stones, plants and food, with an introduction to the history of pigment trade and chemi...

Afterschool Arts Club: Chromatography Drawings

Diego Mendoza

In the spirit of World Science Day, participants will put on their lab coats to explore the connections between Art and Science. The young artists will explore the composition of water-based pigments ...

Screenprinting - Expand Your Art Practice with Multiple Techniques

Khalid Mezaina

Join this screenprinting workshop series with artist Khalid Mezaina who will introduce printing enthusiasts to the fundamentals of the process and how one can be playful and experimental to fit one's ...

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...

Artist-led Exhibition Tour (11am): Nora Zeid and Mohammed Al Shaibani

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...

Artist-led Exhibition Tour (10am): 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...