programme - Sharjah Art Foundation

Designed as a collective space, the garden is a social, learning and creative site for local communities.

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Garden Activities

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.

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.

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.

SAF Urban Garden Construction
Bait Hamdan Bin Mousa
2013

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

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.

Workshops and Events

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Thursday 9.03.2023

Still We Rise (2022)

Sharjah Biennial 15 Film Programme

9 March 2023
8:30 pm–9:30 pm

Mirage City Cinema
Al Mureijah Square

March Meeting 2023: States of Exception and States of Emergency: Art and Visual Culture since the 1970s

Panel

Patrick Flores (Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines); Anthony Gardner (Professor of Contemporary Art History, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford); Atreyee Gupta (Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art; Modern and Contemporary South and Southeast Asian Art, Berkeley); and Anissa Rahadiningtyas (Assistant Curator, National Gallery of Singapore)
Moderator: Iftikhar Dadi (John H. Burris Professor in History of Art, Cornell University)

9 March 2023
3:00 pm–5:00 pm

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Revisiting the Global 1960s

Panel

Mahvish Ahmad (Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, London School of Economics); Zeina Maasri (Senior Lecturer, History of Art, University of Bristol); Jelena Vesić (Independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer); and Zoé Whitley (Director and Curator, Chisenhale Gallery)
Moderator: Christopher J. Lee (Professor of African History, The Africa Institute)

9 March 2023
11:00 am–1:00 pm

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Renewing African Art Discourse within the Postcolonial Constellation

Keynote

Terry Smith (Professor, European Graduate School; Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney and University of Pittsburgh)

9 March 2023
10:15 am–11:00 am

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Welcome remarks by Hoor Al Qasimi at March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960

Welcome remarks

Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation)

9 March 2023
10:00 am–10:15 am

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Wednesday 8.03.2023

IBA Stage: Sharjah Biennial 15

Talk

Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation); Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts, Art AS | Vanderbilt University); and Octavio Zaya (Art critic and curator)
Moderator: Christian Oxenius (Writer and curator)

8 March 2023
3:30 pm–4:30 pm

Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area