WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES - DAY 4
Monday 27th February 2023
LIVE COOKING
BY SMCCU
Enjoy delicious Emirati delights including Lugaimat and Reqaq with yummy toppings.
︎ Monday 27th February, 4:00PM - 10:00PM
︎ House 26
︎ Free
UNLOCKING: CREATIVITY
BY BOOK HERO
Everyone can access their creative power and voice, but how do we unlock it? Through building a process of structured practice, discipline,and technique you can harness your own story, elevate leadership,empower personal presence. You can write the script…
Through a series of structured creative recreational activities, we work together to draw from the best of contemporary theater practice by exploring communication, improvisation, vocal, listening, and participatory drama techniques to work towards achieving a more creative state, increase awareness of self-value, collaboration, ignite new ways of being and harness personal presence.
︎ Monday 27th February, 5:00AM - 7:00PM
︎House 11
︎ Free
HEART BEATS
BY ANOOD ABDULLA X MAHRA AL MULLA
It’s a three days workshop where the participants will learn how to create a musical soundtrack using drums, shakers and different kind of instruments from the beginning to the end, at the end of the workshop the soundtrack will be recorded and exported professionally and will be given to them and shared with Sikka art and design festival if its possible.
︎ Monday 27th February, 5:00PM - 6:00PM
︎ Monday 27th February, 6:45PM - 7:45PM
︎ House 11 courtyard
︎ Free
GYPSUM CARVING
BY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY
︎ Monday 27th February, 5:00PM - 10:00PM
︎ House 8
︎ Fee applies
BY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY
︎ Monday 27th February, 5:00PM - 10:00PM
︎ House 8
︎ Fee applies
FUN & PLAY IN ARABIC
BY AL JALILA
Learn Arabic through fun and play, a children's workshop faciliated by Iqraa Arabic Language Centre.
︎ Age: 3 - 12 years
︎ Monday 27th February, 6:00PM - 7:00PM
︎ Courtyard A
︎ Free
DUBAI DRUMS
BY SMCCU
Join us for a fun session to play together on the drums!
︎ Monday 27th February, 6:30PM - 7:30PM
︎ Monday 27th February, 8:30PM - 9:30PM
︎ House 47
︎ Free
AI FOR IMAGE GENERATIVE - CONTENT CREATION FROM TEXT
BY AMMAR SALEM
We are on the edge of a new era. With recent advancements in AI and Machine Learning techniques, there have been remarkable achievements in image synthesis and image manipulation to create images from simple text by describing what you imagined. This hands-on workshop introduces state-of-the-art techniques for text-to-image generation, where textual prompts guide the translation of visual imagery. Attendees will gain experience with how it works, and how to use this technology to support the creative process. Several options will be discussed to show the pros and cons of Commercial VS Open Source, such as DALL·E 2, Midjourney, Disco Diffusion, and Stable Diffusion alongside scripts and extensions. This workshop will also cover different techniques such as: Text to Images, Image to Image, Inpainting, Outpainting and editing photos using AI driven by text.
︎ Monday 27th February, 7:30PM - 9:00PM
︎ House 11
︎ Free
YOUTH'S CREATIVE WORKSHOP
BY AL JALILA
Youth's Creative Workshop: Faciliated by Project You
︎ Age: 7+
︎ Monday 27th February, 7:30PM - 8:30PM
︎ Courtyard A
︎ Free
DRAWING FACIAL FEATURES
BY AL JALILA
Learn to draw facial features with Victor Sitali, Deaf Artist.
︎ Age: 16+
︎ Monday 27th February, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
︎ Courtyard A
︎ Free
STAMP PRINTING ON FABRIC
BY KHALID MEZAINA
Participants will work towards creating 1 or 2 stamps for printing repeat patterns on a textile surface. Participants will learn how pattern designs can tell a story, and not just for aesthetic purposes only.
The workshop will begin with a short discussion and demonstration on how to create a stamp for creating a pattern design. Participants will then apply their stamp designs as a repeat pattern onto their textile surface, experimenting with various pattern layouts – grid, half drop or engineered pattern designs.
Participants in the workshop will learn a technique that can be easily replicated at home and is an inexpensive way of creating.
︎ Monday 27th February, 9:30PM - 11:00PM
︎ House 11
︎ Free