Workshop
23 November 2023
Silent Objects
An Interactive Storytelling Session by Shereen Saif
Part of Alserkal Art Week - November
Ishara Art Foundation presents an interactive storytelling session with multi-disciplinary artist, Shereen Saif
Taking as its point of departure a folktale that inspired Sudarshan Shetty’s artwork ‘A Song A Story’, the workshop invites participants to uncover stories layered in everyday objects, touching on history, memory and silences.
The programme is a companion to the exhibition Only Life, Myriad Places: Sudarshan Shetty, currently on view at the Ishara Art Foundation.
Pre-registration is mandatory due to limited seats. More details about the workshop will be shared with the registered participants.
The programme will be conducted in English.
About the Artist:
Shereen Saif is an Indian-born UAE-bred multi-disciplinary artist with a practice that spans dance, theatre, storytelling and conceptual art.
She is an Indian Classical dancer conversant in Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, and Kathak and her craft as an actor draws from her training in India at Natanakairali and Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research. An alumna of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF, 2021-22), Shereen is a founding member of Star Too—Dubai’s first experimental theatre project, and was an artist collaborator in Trance-Forms, an initiative of the Emirati-French Cultural Programme: Dialogue with the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Date: November 23, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Venue: Ishara Art Foundation – Mezzanine
Register: Write to asavari@ishara.org