Overview
SAF welcomes UAE-based and international visitors from government organisations, embassies, corporate clients and employee groups, conference and trade delegations as well as local community and cultural groups.
Sharjah Art Foundation organises tailored tours, including cultural bus tours, photowalks and educational workshops. These tours can be focused on subjects such as architecture, photography, history and more.
In recent years, the Foundation has welcomed many local and international schools and universities, including New York University Abu Dhabi; Bard College, New York; Städelschule, State University of Fine Arts, Frankfurt; Yale University; and others.
During Sharjah Biennials and art exhibitions, the Foundation has also organised visits and tours for institutions, organisations and groups, including the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Riyadh; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; LUMA Arles; Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, Piraeus; and others.
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We are happy to discuss how we can help make your group visit more meaningful. To book your group visit and/or guided tour, please fill in the request form here.
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Workshops and Events
Saturday 2.03.2024
March Meeting 2024: New Visions Case Study: Art as an Act of Change and Resistance
Assembly
Nabil Anani, Sliman Mansour, Tayseer Barakat, Vera Tamari (New Visions) in conversation with Ismail Al Rifai (Consultant of Arabic Editorial and Content, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
Typography
Workshop for Children and families
The Flying Saucer
Sharjah
Souffles Magazine
Workshop for Youth and Adults
The Flying Saucer
Sharjah
March Meeting 2024: Towards Counter-Hegemonic Infrastructures
Panel
Yazan Khalili, Lara Khaldi (The Question of Funding); Joachim Hamou, Nabila Saidi (Trampoline House); Leah Gordon (Ghetto Biennale)
Moderator: Zeynep Öz (Independent curator and Sharjah Biennial 16 co-curator)
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
Stories of Cinema in the Maghreb
With Touda Bouanani (Intilak Collective)
Ages 17+
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
Friday 1.03.2024
March Meeting 2024: Not Food
Culinary performance
Shayma Hamad (Founder, Food in Law)
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
March Meeting 2024: Poems Under the Rubble
Reading
Mosab Abu Toha (poet)
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
March Meeting 2024: Constellating the Human: Politics, Creativity and a Canopy of Solidarities
Assembly
Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective)
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
March Meeting 2024: (Re)learning Indigeneity: Ecologies of Art, Sustainability and Resistance
Panel
Nida Sinnokrot, Sahar Qawasmi (Sakiya); other indias; Beatrice Catanzaro, Fatima Kaddumy (Bait al Karama)
Moderator: Alia Swastika (Director, Jogja Biennale Foundation and Sharjah Biennial 16 co-curator)
Khalid Bin Mohammed School
Writing the Truth / Invention of Imagination
With Maya Abu Al Hayyat (Palestine Writing Workshop)
Ages 18+
Khalid Bin Mohammed School