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 18.03.2023
Understand Strength through Mould Casting
Workshop for Children and Families
Al Hamriyah Studios
Al Hamriyah
Paint Live
Workshop for Children and Families
Kalba Ice Factory
Sharjah East Coast
Friday 17.03.2023
Boubacar Traoré: Live In Sharjah
Sharjah Biennial 15 Music Programme
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Sunday 12.03.2023
Abdullah Ibrahim: Live In Sharjah
Sharjah Biennial 15 Music Programme
Sharjah Performing Arts Academy
Reading Session
Library Programme
Dibba Al Hisn Art Centre
March Meeting 2023: The Return of stolen First Nation people and culture
Panel
John Harvey (Writer, Brown Cabs); Matthew Lutton (Artistic Director, Malthouse Theatre); and Jason Tamiru (Director and Cultural Custodian, Malthouse Theatre)
Moderator: Surafel Abebe (Assistant Professor, Performance Studies and Theory, The Africa Institute)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
March Meeting 2023: Reparations and Repatriation: New Developments and Discourses
Panel
Esra Akcan (The Michael A. McCarthy Professor, Cornell University); Manthia Diawara (Distinguished University Professor, New York University); Suha Hasan (Architect, Researcher and Founder, ASH); and Salamishah Tillet (Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies, Rutgers University)
Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Cyanotype Prints
Workshop for Children and Families
Kalba Art Centre
March Meeting 2023: Black Radicalism and the Archive: Inventories of Fire
Keynote
Brent Hayes Edwards (Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Saturday 11.03.2023
Windows of Displacement
Performance
Akeim Toussaint Buck
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi
Arts Square