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Family Event: Reimagining Sudan Through Collage with Ahmed
13:00 - 14:00
Audience: This is an intergenerational workshop, suitable for all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome.
This workshop introduces the concept of reimaging past and future living landscapes and cultures in Sudan. Join Ahmed Akasha and explore the power of building, layering and shaping through collage to create new visual definitions of place.
This one-off workshop accompanies UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes exhibition Sudan Living Cultures, a collaborative project between the Petrie Museum and three independent artists, showcasing the power of transgenerational knowledge through material heritage and artistic practice.
This workshop is part of UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes 2024-25 series Architecting Futures, bringing together culture, collections and research towards common hopeful futures.
About the artist
Ahmed Akasha is a multimedia artist whose artistic expression has taken many forms, including poetry, photography, sound, film, and illustration. His creative practice revolves around themes of identity, power and paradigms. He is the founder and Art Director at D237, a design and branding agency based in London.
Audience
This is an intergenerational workshop, suitable for all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome.
Booking
This event runs from 13:00-14:00 and is drop-in only, no booking is required.
Access
Access to the museum, and all public areas within it, is step-free. Further information can be found on the Planning your visit page.
Finding us
The Museum is located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop 3-5 minutes away on Euston Road.
Here's the location on Google to help you find your preferred route.
This workshop introduces the concept of reimaging past and future living landscapes and cultures in Sudan. Join Ahmed Akasha and explore the power of building, layering and shaping through collage to create new visual definitions of place.
This one-off workshop accompanies UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes exhibition Sudan Living Cultures, a collaborative project between the Petrie Museum and three independent artists, showcasing the power of transgenerational knowledge through material heritage and artistic practice.
This workshop is part of UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes 2024-25 series Architecting Futures, bringing together culture, collections and research towards common hopeful futures.
About the artist
Ahmed Akasha is a multimedia artist whose artistic expression has taken many forms, including poetry, photography, sound, film, and illustration. His creative practice revolves around themes of identity, power and paradigms. He is the founder and Art Director at D237, a design and branding agency based in London.
Audience
This is an intergenerational workshop, suitable for all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome.
Booking
This event runs from 13:00-14:00 and is drop-in only, no booking is required.
Access
Access to the museum, and all public areas within it, is step-free. Further information can be found on the Planning your visit page.
Finding us
The Museum is located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop 3-5 minutes away on Euston Road.
Here's the location on Google to help you find your preferred route.
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