Make and Be - a creative family workshop programme at Hugh Lane Gallery

From Friday 31 January and for 6 weeks, we are inviting families to come and work with artist Taim Haimet in our creative family workshop series ‘Make and Be’ for parents and children and children aged 6-12. Arabic speaking families are especially welcome.

Each workshop will be fun and creative. Families will explore and creatively respond to work by middle eastern artists. We will work creatively together and every adult and child will have the opportunity to work with various types of materials, explore different ideas about art and connect with each other.

This programme will take place at the Hugh Lane Gallery (Education Space), Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

To join us for this exciting project, booking is essential, please book here. **Please book a space for each member of your family that will attend the workshops, parents included.* Participation is free of charge. Space is limited. All materials are included.

This project will run every Friday from 3-4.30pm on the following dates:

31 January
7 February
14 February
21 February
28 February
7 March

Taim Haimet is a multidisciplinary artist based in Galway.

Born in France of Syrian parents, her work explores the inheritance of a Middle Eastern identity deeply intertwined with a history of colonialism, continuous wars and loss. The question of where we place the notion ‘Sacred’ on what is lost, or on what is left _individually or collectively_ is at the heart of her research.

Drawing from Arab folklore, poetry and mysticism, she imagines ‘sacred spaces’ where these narratives can be honoured symbolically and resonate within the contemporary Western World.

Coming from a theatre background, her practice borrows its codes in the staging of space and spoken narrative, and an importance given to the human voice as a medium in and of itself. Her questioning is often conveyed in narrative-based installations expressed through sculpture, video and sound.

She completed an MA in Creative practice in 2024, at the ATU Galway.

Her awards include the 126 Gallery artist residency award 2023, the 2023 RDS Taylor Price Award, and the Galway Arts Centre Residency Award 2024.

Host or Publisher Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane