Summer 2026 Program

Summer 2026 is a season of making and knowing. Across the artist’s studio, the writer’s page, the creator’s table, we gather curious minds around a common idea: that making is a form of thinking, and that knowledge accumulates slowly, through exchange and sustained practice.

The Dinner Plate: Paper Pulping with Maha Arafat & Nagham Elbaz

19 September 2026 - 26 September 2026
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Day 1 - September 19, 2026

Day 2 - September 26, 2026

Studio Seminars 

This two-day studio seminar invites participants into the world of paper pulp as a medium for making, memory, and storytelling. At its center is a single object: the dinner set, a collection of vessels that carries personal significance beyond its form.

60 AED

Open to ages 11 and above.

No prior experience is required

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The Shared Table: A Two Odd Experience

20 September 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Special Events

Designed and built by Akshita Garud from Two Odd, The Shared Table is a community dining experience where spatial design, food, and collective presence come together into a single, living installation. Continuing from the studio seminar on 19 September, the evening opens beyond the studio and into the community the work is ultimately made for.

Open to ages 18 and above.

No prior experience is required

60 AED

Participants from 'Too Odd to Translate: Food Styling & Storytelling with Two Odd' attend free of charge.

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Maktaba: Theater Solidarities with Maitha Ali

24 September 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Cornerstone Programming

Maktaba: A Speculative Thought Circle is a monthly gathering dedicated to collective reading, viewing, and discussion across disciplines. Rooted in the Arabic word for "library," Maktaba takes the form of an open and horizontal learning environment where participants gather around a roundtable to reflect on texts and artistic practices, from exhibitions, books, film, and image to performance and sound, considering the ways they speak to one another and what we might speculate from them.

Open to ages 18 and above.

No prior experience is required

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Juma Alhaj: Revelation

4 October 2026 - 10 January 2027

Revelation is an immersive installation by Juma Alhaj that unfolds through distinct spatial conditions, forming a gradual journey toward Hijr, a secluded environment for pause and reflection. Shaped through light, material, and inscription, the exhibition brings together a series of spatial conditions that shift the viewer’s attention from outward observation toward a more inward, sustained awareness.

Archipelago of Whispers

4 October 2026 - 10 January 2027

Archipelago of Whispers, curated by Deniz Kirkali and Elham Puriya Mehr, explores alternative infrastructures for knowledge-making such as whispers, murmurs, hums, gossip, and storytelling: a constellation of islands connected through the sea, where speech and silence, the felt and the known, the self and the other continuously flow into one another.