Past Workshops

Sunday Funday: Shibori Dyeing

Our young artists will discover and experiment with a dyeing technique known as the 'traditional Japanese tie-dye'. They will place folded, tied and pinched fabric in a dye bath to create beautiful an...

Tashkeel Talk | Productive Withdrawals: On Photography, Loneliness, and Changing Scene

Amir Hazim

Tashkeel hosts monthly online lectures on specialised topics by internationally acclaimed experts who share their experience and knowledge. Followed by a Q&A with viewers, these live lectures are desi...

Tashkeel Lecture | Importance of Process and Multidisciplinary Work

Hector Esrawe

Tashkeel hosts monthly online lectures on specialised topics by internationally acclaimed experts who share their experience and knowledge. Followed by a Q&A with viewers, these live lectures are desi...

Sunday Funday: Painting with Bubbles

Diego Mendoza

Using a combination of soap and paint, the young artists will experiment on how to create interesting colourful surfaces with bubbles. Then, they will enrich their bubble paintings using different med...

Tashkeel Talk: Bio Digital Architecture

Inés J. Pedras

How can nature be used as a constructive feature of sustainable design? This Tashkeel Talk with architect-artist Inés J. Pedras will explore bio-digital architectures as a multi-disciplinary scientifi...

Sunday Funday: Tesselation

Diego Mendoza

A tesselation is a pattern of flat shapes covering a surface without overlaps or gaps. Participants will explore regular and semi-regular tesselations and devise different and simple ways in which the...

Rebuilding Memory: Recreating Your Lost 'Toy'

Nidanin Woodwork

What was your favourite toy as a child? This workshop with Nidanin Woodwork is an exercise in recreating long lost childhood objects that held significant meaning, whether it be to place, people or se...

Sunday Funday: Mirror Maze Design Challenge

Diego Mendoza

Participants will understand how light travels and reflects. Using this knowledge, they will design a path of mirrors with the objective of guiding a light beam through a maze to illuminate an object.

Sunday Funday: Plushy Design Challenge

Diego Mendoza

Our young sewers will learn how to bring their favorite characters to life as they learn basic sewing skills. Using felt, thread and needle, they will play with colour, texture and form, stuffing thei...

3D Structures

Inés J. Pedras

This workshop with architect-artist Inés J. Pedras will explore all the possible ways a space can be arranged. Participants will work to identify the intrinsic planes that determine the geometric opti...

Sunday Funday: Marble Run Design Challenge

Diego Mendoza

How far can a marble travel?

Tashkeel Talk: Podcasts and Creating Safe Spaces

This Tashkeel Talk with Dubai-based Kerning Cultures will focus on how to create safe spaces within the podcast world. There will be a 20 – 30 minute presentation by the KC team followed by an intimat...