Abstracting Across Geographies with Dina Nazmi Khorchid
3 May 2026
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Studio Sessions
Join us for an intimate gathering that begins with a presentation and conversation led by multidisciplinary artist and designer Dina Nazmi Khorchid, where she will share her artistic practice, material samples, and research.
Tatreez Circle with Joanna Barakat
3 May 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Tatreez Circle
Join us for Tatreez Circle with Joanna Barakat, a gathering where makers come together to embroider meaningful motifs and connect through the shared practice of stitching.
Participants are asked to bring their own embroidery projects and supplies.
Basic knowledge of tatreez is required.
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Pencil In with Sarah Afaneh
7 May 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Writers’ Circle
Join us for Pencil In with Sarah Afaneh, a communal writing session designed to help writers stay focused, inspired, and connected through shared creative time.
Open to ages 18 and above.
No prior experience is required
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Maktaba: Performance Studies
14 May 2026
7:00 PM - 9:00 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+
No prior experience required.
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Postcard Poems with Balqees Alhawamdeh
16 May 2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Studio Sessions
Join us for Postcard Poems with Balqees Alhawamdeh, a playful studio session that invites you to explore poetry through writing, color, and form.
Open to ages 18 and above.
No prior experience is required
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Noor’s Heroes: Saloua Choucair & Building Blocks with Myrna Ayad & Hana El Sagini
17 May 2026
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Children’s Programming
Immerse yourself in the story of a beloved cultural figure from the Arab world through storytelling, play, and hands-on making in this family-friendly Noor’s Heroes™ storytime and studio session.
Lunch will be provided.
Can Raisins be Used to Marinate Fish and Meat? With Richi Bhatia
17 May 2026
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Studio Sessions
Join us for an assemblage-making session with multidisciplinary artist Richi Bhatia where we will get to consider mythological, cultural, and dietary frameworks of food and ecology. We’ll be in dialogue with Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant, a book that Bhatia has referred to often while making and throughout her practice, as we navigate prompts and build our own assemblages and tablescape.
Open to ages 11 and above.
No prior experience is required
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On Spectacle Interventions with 421 Resident Alumni
21 May 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Special Event
Join us for an evening ushered by spectacles. Guided by former 421 residents UT-R Studio, Tamara Barrage, and Moza Al Mazrouei, we will journey through 421’s campus, pausing at junctures for interventions that blur the lines between spectator and spectacle, performer and viewer. These encounters invite us to reconsider how we engage with art, space, and one another.
A light dinner will be provided.
Open to ages 11 and above.
No prior experience is required
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Maktaba: Archipelago of Whispers
1 June 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+
No prior experience required.
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Tatreez Circle with Joanna Barakat
14 June 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Tatreez Circle
Join us for Tatreez Circle with Joanna Barakat, a gathering where makers come together to embroider meaningful motifs and connect through the shared practice of stitching.
Open to ages 18 and above
Participants are asked to bring their own embroidery projects and supplies.
Basic knowledge of tatreez is required.
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Pencil In with Sarah Afaneh
18 June 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Writers’ Circle
Join us for Pencil In with Sarah Afaneh, a communal writing session designed to help writers stay focused, inspired, and connected through shared creative time.
Open to ages 18 and above.
No prior experience is required
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Noor’s Heroes: Mahmoud Darwish & The Art of Arabic Calligraphy with Myrna Ayad & Karim El Atrache
28 June 2026
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Children’s Programming
Immerse yourself in the story of a beloved cultural figure from the Arab world through storytelling, play, and hands-on making in this family-friendly Noor’s Heroes™ storytime and studio session.
Lunch will be provided.
Suitable for families with children of ages 6 and above
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Maktaba: Sound
28 June 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+
No prior experience required.
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