Past Workshops

The Process of Food Photography (Beginners)

Chef Michael Fessler, Tara Atkinson

Through the process of food photography learn how to artfully craft, style and build a story around food.

Youth x Hub: Introduction to Collage

Tamsin Wildy

What is collage? How do we read images? Can we change the way we look at everyday images and create new landscapes, adverts or even creatures? Join this workshop to create a series of images using fou...

Cyanotype Printing

Analog Photography UAE

The Cyanotype process was the first workable photographic process. It was first used by Sir John Herschel in 1842! It uses light sensitive iron compounds to make stunning blue images. Eventually it wa...

Arabic Calligraphy: Al Wissam Style

Wissam Shawkat

Delivered in four sessions, these workshops will be a combination of theoretical presentations and practical experience, providing an introduction to the newly developed modern style of Arabic calligr...

Drop in and Draw

Sarah Alfarhan

Drop in and Draw is an on-going monthly session for artists, designers, and creatives wanting to share their sketchbook pages with each other and to create a supportive community committed to drawing ...

Professional Practice: The Other Side of Art

Waqas Farid

The sessions will cover the basics from the best ways to photograph work, considerations of displaying in a gallery as well as looking at commissioning agreements and intellectual property.

Japanese Woodblock Printing (Moku Hanga)

Andrew Parry

This workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about the background and origins of Moku Hanga and some of Japan's main woodblock artists.

Introduction to the Darkroom

Mona Ayyash

This is a two–part introductory workshop in the black and white darkroom. It is designed especially for beginners to acquaint themselves with analogue film processing and photo printing.

Youth x Hub: Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy

Wissam Shawkat

Combining theory and practice, leading Arabic calligrapher Wissam Al Shawkat introduces ‘Al Wissam’, a new modern style of Arabic calligraphy.

Drop in and Draw

Sarah Alfarhan

Drop in and Draw is an on-going monthly session for artists, designers, and creatives wanting to share their sketchbook pages with each other and to create a supportive community committed to drawing ...

Introduction to Calligraphy

Ibrahim Zaki

Fundamentals of Drawing Portraits

Natalia Lasso

The aim of this workshop is to produce portrait from a photograph that demonstrates an understanding of how to incorporate proportion, composition and structure but also volume.