Events
Short Film Screenings and Discussion @ 421 Arts Campus
Sunday 27 July 2025
5.15pm - 7.30pm
Collected Histories_Image courtesy of 421 Arts Campus and The Frei
- Short Film Screenings: focussed on archives, memories, and identity (line up to be announced)
- Post-screening discussion between Hind Mezaina, Jasmine Soliman with audience participation
Where do we look for ourselves? Where are we represented? The UAE is often subject to descriptors as ‘fast paced’ and ‘transient’, terms that indicate that lives lived here are elusive, not capturable. This event will explore the importance of archival self-representation, the objects we keep and why.
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Pre-register here: https://forms.gle/tsNFGduajqQhZQYY8
Workshop with Personal Objects @ 421 Arts Campus
Sunday 27 May 2025
7.30pm - 8.30pm
Collected Histories_Image courtesy of 421 Arts Campus and The Frei
The workshop will focus on personal objects and heirlooms in relation to one-another. How an object may be described differently or take on another meaning when placed alongside others and how ‘collections’ can be built and understood. We will also explore moving from personal frameworks to archival description and what categories our objects may be placed within.
We encourage both first-time attendees to bring objects as well as the return of attendees and their objects from the inaugural workshop. These could be could be family photos, letters, diaries, heirlooms...
This event is open to all (over age 16), and no prior knowledge about archival practice is required.
Pre-register here: https://forms.gle/tsNFGduajqQhZQYY8
If you may be interested in future events that further explore personal and family archives, cataloguing, privacy, and digitising and publishing, please complete this form for updates on workshops and film screenings.
Past Events
- read about our first events on The Culturist
- Short Film Screenings: focussed on archives, memories, and identity (line up to be announced)
- Post-screening discussion between Hind Mezaina, Jasmine Soliman with audience participation
Where do we look for ourselves? Where are we represented? The UAE is often subject to descriptors as ‘fast paced’ and ‘transient’, terms that indicate that lives lived here are elusive, not capturable. This event will explore the importance of archival self-representation, the objects we keep and why.
A workshop following archive and collections-focussed film screenings. Attendees signing up to stay for the workshop will be required to bring at least one item from their personal archive, it could be family photos, letters, diaries, heirlooms. The workshop will explore the importance of archival self-representation, the objects we keep and why.
This event is open to all (over age 16), and no prior knowledge about archival practice is required.
