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Art & culture3 Nov · 3–8 November 2026, 10:00–22:00 daily (UAE time).
Shows & events31 Oct · 31 October 2026, 16:00–21:00. Thriller flashmobs at 18:00 and 19:00.
Art & culture3 Nov · 3–8 November 2026, 10:00–22:00 daily (UAE time).
Art & culture3 Nov · 3–8 November 2026, 10:00–22:00 daily (UAE time).
100% FREE Activity photo01Turn words into visual art with designer Mira AlHalabi. Experiment with letterforms, scale, spacing and composition through analogue and digital approaches, then create a framed typographic piece during this two-hour making workshop.
3 Nov · 2026-11-03, 16:30–18:30 (Dubai time).
100% FREE Activity photo02Work with Dr Ulrike Oberlack from Central Saint Martins to turn several design ideas into a three-dimensional object. This guided, hands-on masterclass explores generative design and creative blocks, with a finished design and a process to use in future projects.
5 Nov · 2026-11-05, 16:30–18:30 (Dubai time).
100% FREE Activity photo03Select a keyboard layout, switches, keycaps, materials and sound profile, then learn to assemble a bespoke mechanical keyboard with guidance from CBS. The festival session focuses on making and design choices; a take-home keyboard is not explicitly promised.
5 Nov · 2026-11-05, 10:00–11:00 (Dubai time).
100% FREE Activity photo04Work with a local printmaking artist to turn ideas about rest, movement, connection and balance into a linocut design. Carve a lino block and produce a print that joins a collective visual manifesto about a more human-centred working life.
4 Nov · 2026-11-04, 10:00–11:00 (Dubai time).
100% FREE Activity photo05Make an original poster using bold colour, printing, newspapers, magazines, paint and stencils. Maharam’s hands-on festival workshop explores graphic compositions and everyday imagery through mixed-media making inspired by Pop Art.
6 Nov · 2026-11-06, 10:00–11:00 (Dubai time).
100% FREE Activity photo06Make your own rhythms beneath a tree-shaped musical canopy. Colourful xylophone-inspired leaves and hanging mallets turn Kart Group’s Ghaf-inspired installation into a shared instrument that visitors can touch and play.
3 Nov · 3–8 November 2026, 10:00–22:00 daily (UAE time).
100% FREE Activity photo07Discover an interactive table built around five UAE-inspired atmospheres: desert dawn, a majlis, a souk, an oasis and Ramadan evening. Co-created with People of Determination artists and university students, the layered artwork invites visitors to explore sound, scent, touch and different ways of perceiving familiar places.
3 Nov · 3–8 November 2026, 10:00–22:00 daily (UAE time).
100% FREE Activity photo08Hear Salah Elmur discuss his art, memories and Sudanese landscapes with writer Melissa Gronlund, then experience live music by Asim Eltayeb Gurashi. The evening premieres an Art Jameel sound work drawing on Sudanese folk and Sufi traditions.
31 Oct · 31 October 2026, 17:00–20:00 (Dubai time). The conversation opens the evening; the performance closes it.
100% FREE Activity photo09Step through a smoky Halloween arch into a family evening of roaming monsters, a haunted maze, games and face painting at JLT Park Amphitheatre. Catch the Thriller flashmob at 18:00 or 19:00, with costumes encouraged and younger visitors welcome to choose the gentler activities.
31 Oct · 31 October 2026, 16:00–21:00. Thriller flashmobs at 18:00 and 19:00.
100% FREE 10Discover the free Live Artistic Programme of ISEA2026, bringing more than 100 selected artworks and installations to venues across Dubai. The announced locations include Al Wasl Plaza, ARTE Museum, TODA, Kanvas and The Foundry. Register for the free artistic pass and use the organiser’s forthcoming venue schedule to choose your visit.
6 Nov · 6–15 November 2026. Individual venue dates and session times are awaiting the full live programme; check the organiser before travelling.
100% FREE Activity photo11Artist Mirna Bamieh combines narration, projected images and sound in a lecture-performance about Palestinian food traditions, memory and displacement. The event concludes with a shared offering of bread, Gazan dukka, olive oil, labneh and olives.
1 Nov · 2026-11-01, 17:30–18:30 (Dubai time). Booking required.
100% FREE Activity photo12Explore an unexpected meeting of photography and food: wash a pre-exposed cyanotype zine, use coffee to tone its prints, then assemble and personalise the finished booklet through writing, drawing and collage. A Subko coffee tasting concludes the session.
31 Oct · Saturday 31 October 2026, 3pm–6pm.
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