• Map-Making Workshop: ‘Places We Carry’ and ‘Atlas of Shared Place’

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    A free two-part workshop led by cultural practitioner and educator Nanelle Jayawardene that explores how memory and experience shape our sense of place, "inviting participants to engage in a form of map-making that foregrounds our personal encounters with a space". [... more]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Writing Gym

    Emirates Literature Foundation Dar Al Adaab, Al Shindagha, Dubai

    A nice idea from Emirates Literature Foundation – a casual two-hour hands-on session of writing sprints, creative challenges, and independent writing. Useful whether you’re blocked, halfway through a novel, starting with a blank page, or experimenting with poetry or monologues. [... more]

    AED 55
  • A Writing Practice: Visual Poetry

    421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    421's writing seminar, led by Sarah Afaneh and designed for writers at any stage of their practice, approaches the page as a spatial site for poetry – considering how typography, fragmentation, erasure, and arrangement can shape meaning. Participants will play with [... more]

    Free, but pre-register
  • The Speculative Circle: 100 Ways of Spilling the Beans

    421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Led by Viviana Checchia, this participatory studio invites participants to explore how everyday acts of gathering, cooking, and conversation can become spaces for collective thinking, exchange, and connection – and for expressing ideas, sharing experiences, and challenging established social structures. [... more]

    Free, but pre-register