Sudanese Poetry and Music Night
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For the last few years, Sharjah Foundation’s Community Programme has been committed to engaging and growing the local creative community. Facilitated by experienced professionals as well as art and cultural enthusiasts, this programme has offered participants aged 15 and older a wide range of immersive workshops, excursions and performance activities on contemporary art within the context of Sharjah’s rich artistic heritage and dramatic landscapes.
In January 2020, the Community Programme became part of the larger Programme for Youth and Adults. The workshops, meetups, photowalks, open mics and other community-based activities can now be found in the Courses, Workshops and Excursions section of that programme.
To see the schedule for the current season and register, click here.
For more information about the Programme for Youth and Adults, please send an email to youthandadults@sharjahart.org or call (06) 568 5050.
All workshops, excursions and other activities are free and open to the public. Materials are provided by Sharjah Art Foundation.
Workshop for Youth and Adults
Al Hamriyah Studios
Al Hamriyah
Panel
Lawrence Abu Hamdan (artist), CAMP (artists; Shaina Anand in person and Ashok Sukumaran remotely), Fouad Makki (Associate Professor, Department of Global Development and Director, Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University; remotely) and Nidhi Mahajan (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz and Inaugural Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and Cultural Studies,The Africa Institute) Moderator: Surafel Wondimu Abebe (Assistant Professor, Performance Studies and Theory, The Africa Institute, Sharjah)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Panel
Muriam Haleh Davis (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz), Walter Mignolo (Distinguished William H. Wannamaker Professor, Romance Studies and Professor, Literature, Duke University; remotely) and Françoise Vergès (Professor, Cultural Studies, The Africa Institute) Moderator: Premesh Lalu (Professor, History, The Africa Institute and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Panel
Anjali Arondekar (Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and founding Co-Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz), Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor, Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University and Visiting Professor, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University) and Naminata Diabate (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University and Senior Fellow, The Africa Institute, Sharjah) Moderator: Nidhi Mahajan (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California in Santa Cruz and Inaugural Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Cultural Studies, The Africa Institute)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Keynote
Angela Davis (activist, scholar and author; remotely) and Manthia Diawara (Professor, NYU and filmmaker), Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Performance
50 minutes
The Flying Saucer
Sharjah
Panel
Meena Kandasamy (activist, poet, novelist and translator), Russell Rickford (Associate Professor, History, Cornell University; remotely), Ahmad Sikainga (Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellow, The Africa Institute, Sharjah and Professor, African History, Ohio State University), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Professor, Department of African-American Studies, Princeton University; remotely) and Suraj Yengde (Research Associate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) Moderator: Elizabeth W. Giorgis (Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Panel
David Adjaye (architect), Ngaire Blankenberg (Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Director, Program in African Studies and Professor, Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton University), Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Panel
John Akomfrah (artist), Carolina Caycedo (artist), T J Demos (writer and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History, Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz) and Hrair Sarkissian (artist) Moderator: Amy Niang (Associate Professor, Political Science, The Africa Institute)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Film Programme
Mirage City Cinema
Al Mureijah Square