Summer Camp 2018: Week 2

This summer, Tashkeel is on another mission to deliver the most exciting and inventive set of workshops that will encourage young artists to new levels of creating and making.

Following the successful summer workshops offered last year, this year's camp will explore a wide range of workshops covering a variety of different techniques, skills and explorations.
Over a period of ten days, Tashkeel and its wonderful instructors will deliver ten different workshops. Focusing on areas such as pinhole photography, sculpture, screen-printing t-shirts as well as sign painting, casting with silver, papermaking and much more

Join and learn new things, make new friends and create good memories!

15 July - Pin-hole Photography
with Tamsin Wildy
Learn how an analogue camera works with Tamsin Wildy. Build your own pinhole camera from start to finish. Once you’ve taken photos, delve into the Tashkeel dark room to develop your shots.

16 July - Paper Garments
with Engy Mahdy
Explore the world of fashion with Engy Mahdy and find your style. Get inspiration from the world around us. Find great themes and transform paper into cool and crazy shorts, shirts and skirts

17 July - Silver Casting with Cuttlefish

with Azza Al Qubaisi
Join acclaimed Emirati artist Azza Al Qubaisi to design and cast jewellery and small sculptures in silver using the ancient technique of cuttlefish bone moulds.

18 July - One-sheet comics
with Azim Al Ghussein
How do people make comics? Join Azim Al Ghussein to explore different ways to create, tell and share your own stories through the magical world of comic art.

19 July - Cut-out animation
with Azim Al Ghussein
Join Azim Al Ghussein to transform characters from still to moving by turning them into puppets for animation that you can capture on your smart or android phones