Past Workshops

Tashkeel Lecture: Fleeting Stains

Nahla Tabbaa

Watch the Fleeting Stains lecture online at your leisure (sent as a private link after registration), then join artist Nahla Tabbaa for the Q&A session where you lead the discussion.

Youth Hubx: Artist Talk with Khalid Mezaina

Khalid Mezaina

Khalid Mezaina’s explores illustration and surface-based design and art through personal interests that include daily findings from around the city he calls home. He will talk about the subcultures of...

Exploring your practice: Painting with Stitch

Katie Venner-Woodbridge

Working on an existing artwork (or copy) we will explore how stitch can add to your practice, bring textures and different dimensions using cutwork, fabric layering and different embroidery techniques...

Dubai Design Week 2019: Make a Bookend

Using concrete to make a pair of bookends, learn about design, materials and aesthetics. Open to a parent with a child (6 years+) as well as adults.

Dubai Design Week 2019: Make a Candleholder

Make a candleholder, considering design and aesthetics and reflecting on human anatomy to guide the process. Open to a parent with a child (6 years+) as well as adults.

Dubai Design Week 2019: Make a Concrete Planter

Learn about design, materials and aesthetics as you make your own concrete planter. Open to a parent with a child (6 years+) as well as adults.

Dubai Design Week 2019: Make a Table Lamp

Learn to create, design and make a table lamp from scratch using concrete. Open to a parent with a child (6 years+) as well as adults.

The House of Failure: Construct & Create

Salim Ahmed

Drop in and build your very own playbox with Salim Ahmed. Take a flatpack kit of pre-cut cardboard and assemble. Then dive into the lucky dip of signs and symbols and let your imagination run wild. Ch...

The House of Failure: Kintsugi

Hessa Al Ajmani

Kintsugi is the age-old Japanese art form of repairing broken ceramics in a way that is often considered more beautiful than when it was when whole. Join Hessa Al Ajmani to piece back together with br...

Telling Tales: Garden Sails

Debjani Bhardwaj

What does it mean to be in a place, to look through and into something, to remove the frame from a picture? ‘Telling Tales’ artist Debjani Bhardwaj guides you in constructing drawings that act as a re...

Telling Tales: Shadow Play

Debjani Bhardwaj

Shadow play is an ancient form of storytelling, which uses cut-out figures that are held between a light source and a translucent screen. Working in small groups, join ‘Telling Tales’ artist Debjani B...

Telling Tales: Tinderbox

Debjani Bhardwaj

Using the art of silhouette, paper cuts and handmade books, work with Telling Tales artist Debjani Bhardwaj to build your very own Tinderbox story that you can take home and share with loved ones. Su...