{"id":69797,"date":"2026-06-05T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69797"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:52:35","slug":"respiriting-the-water-diviners","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/respiriting-the-water-diviners\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiriting: The Water Diviners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free public performance, presented in conjunction with Jumana Emil Abboud\u2019s solo exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/jumana-emil-abboud-the-storyteller-and-the-obedient-tide\/\"><strong>The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide<\/strong><\/a> (on show to 28 June), that continues the Jameel&#8217;s exploration of water, folklore and collective storytelling with a new iteration of artist the artist\u2019s ongoing Water Diviners practice. This spoken word performance is the culmination of Respiriting the Water Diviners, a workshop series bringing together UAE-based participants to locate stories of spirited water sources across the region and beyond in the form of a collectively authored work weaving personal stories and endangered knowledge into myth-made, water-worked tales of resilience and renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Participants of the workshops:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dima Abou Zannad<br \/>\nFatema Alafaliq<br \/>\nMaha Alasaker<br \/>\nAzim Al Ghussein<br \/>\nHala El Abora<br \/>\nAnna Escobar<br \/>\nAroma Joshi<br \/>\nAndrew Riad<br \/>\nTooba Shaikh<br \/>\nDivya Walia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A free public performance, presented in conjunction with Jumana Emil Abboud\u2019s solo exhibition The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide (on show to 28 June), that continues the Jameel&#8217;s exploration of water, folklore and collective storytelling with a new iteration of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/respiriting-the-water-diviners\/\" title=\"Respiriting: The Water Diviners\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69798,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,51],"class_list":["post-69797","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-performance","cat_art","cat_performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69797"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=69797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}