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Drawn to Craft — playful open-air drawing workshops with Hermès

Join a four-day outdoor celebration of drawing at Cultural Foundation. Hermès invites people of all ages to explore line and imagination through playful creative workshops, bringing its travelling pencil-riders programme to Abu Dhabi. Drop in during the evening opening hours; the programme is free without a reservation.

Representative drawing-workshop photograph at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, France (2015). It does not depict the Hermès programme, Cultural Foundation or its participants.

Al Hosn, Abu Dhabi · Cultural Foundation, Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Al Hosn, Abu Dhabi

When to go

12–15 November 2026, daily 16:00–22:00.

Who can go

All ages · All ages · free entry · no reservation

The organiser explicitly invites passers-by of all ages to the drawing workshops and states free entry without reservation.

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What’s free & what to know

  • Free entry without reservation, as stated by the organiser. Workshop participation remains subject to space on arrival.
  • The organiser welcomes all ages; participating adults and children are included in the same free-entry programme.
  • 12–15 November 2026, 16:00–22:00 each day. This is one four-day programme, not four separate free things.
  • No product purchase or paid-service trial is stated as a condition of participation. Travel, parking and refreshments are not included.
Sources & photo credit

Last successfully checked 10 Nov 2026. Availability can change; check with the organiser before travelling.

10 November 2026: The direct Hermès request encountered a 403 challenge; no bypass was attempted. An official-page web fallback reported a crawl today and confirmed 12–15 November 2026, 16:00–22:00, Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi, all ages and free entry without reservation. Open-air drawing workshops remain advertised.

Hermès UAE — Drawn to Craft, Abu Dhabi

Cultural Foundation official address and linked venue map

Photo: PBA Lille / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and compressed to WebP, retaining the full composition; derivatives remain CC BY-SA 4.0.