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Collective Painting in SAF Urban Garden
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2015

Visitors can enjoy a variety of activities or propose their own. When the garden is in full bloom, participants can paint botanical landscapes.

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Grow Your Own Garden at Home
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2015

Participants learn how to create their own home gardens, using empty containers, found objects, cotton balls, water and seeds.

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Grow Your Own Garden at Home
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2015

Participants up-cycle and decorate water and coffee containers before planting kitchen scraps from home.

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SAF Urban Garden Inauguration
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2014

SAF Urban Garden was inaugurated on March 1, 2014 and included a market selling local foods, crafts and produce.

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SAF Urban Garden Construction
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2013

Architects, designers, garden enthusiasts and volunteers worked together to build SAF Urban Garden.

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SAF Urban Garden Design Charette
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2013

A Charette is a collaborative workshop where participants are invited to resolve a design solution. Designers, architects and volunteers contributed with several ideas for SAF Urban Garden's layout.

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About

SAF Urban Garden is a community outreach initiative that invites audiences to use the garden for social and educational events, planting and sharing produce.

Nestled between the SAF Art Spaces, the garden is tucked away and blended into the architecture. Upon entering you encounter different edibles, herbs and trees, products of the children’s gardening workshops and niches to sit in.

Currently, SAF offers workshops for garden enthusiasts to expand their knowledge and creative workshops such as botanical illustration and painting. Discussions around urbanism and sustainability also take place. As this is an open space, audiences are invited to participate by visiting the garden and proposing ideas for workshops and discussions.

  • Participate
    Overview

    As a community initiative, your ideas and participation is important to us. SAF invites you to gather your friends and family in the garden, participate in discussions, improve your gardening skills and propose any events or talks that are important to you and your community. Please visit this page as we update it with upcoming workshops and events open to all ages.

    If you would like to take part or propose an idea, please email us at community@sharjahart.org

    Entry to SAF Urban Garden is free and open to the public.

  • History
    Overview

    A series of brainstorming and planning meetings were held in 2013 to carry out research, and to plan the design and production of the garden. The production was a collective process which included architects, designers and members of the local community.

    The garden was inaugurated on March 1, 2014, with a market selling locally grown produce, artwork and crafts alongside workshops and activities organised as part of SAF’s Education Programme.

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Saturday 11.03.2023

March Meeting 2023: Art in the Age of Migration, Ecology and Environment

March Meeting 2023: Art in the Age of Migration, Ecology and Environment

Panel

Tayeba Begum Lipi (Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee of Britto Arts Trust); Heather Igloliorte (University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts, Concordia University); Sonal Khullar (W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania); and Charlene Villaseñor Black (Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA)
Moderator: Terri Geis (Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: The Archive and Art History

March Meeting 2023: The Archive and Art History

Panel

Jihan El-Tahri (Director, Big Sister Productions); John Tain (Head of Research, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong); Krista Thompson (Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art History, Northwestern University); and Simon Soon Sien Yong (Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian Art History, Universiti Malaya
Moderator: Elizabeth Harney (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Friday 10.03.2023

Resetting Birds’ Memories (2021)

Resetting Birds’ Memories (2021)

Performance

Kiluanji Kia Henda, accompanied by Kimberley Agyarko, Sahar Ali and Mohammed Rawashdeh

Music by: Satch Hoyt


Sharjah Performing Arts Academy

March Meeting 2023: Megacity: Urbanisation, Challenges and Opportunities

March Meeting 2023: Megacity: Urbanisation, Challenges and Opportunities

Panel

Nadi Abusaada (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich); Nancy Lin (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University); Pamela Nguyen Corey (Associate Professor of Art History, Fulbright University Vietnam); and AbdouMaliq Simone (Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield)
Moderator: Kamran Ali (Professor of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Global Art Cartographies and New Art Histories

March Meeting 2023: Global Art Cartographies and New Art Histories

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Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow, Art Gallery of Western Australia); Eddie Chambers (Professor of Art History and African Diaspora Art, The David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin); Mithu Sen (artist); and Nina Tonga (Curator of Contemporary Art, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand)
Moderator: Salwa Mikdadi (Professor of Practice of Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi and Director and Principle Investigator, al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

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