SIGHTLINES: COMMUNITY, PLACE AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE

SIGHTLINES: COMMUNITY, PLACE AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Public Symposium | 4 October 2025 | Khalifa Community Center
10:00 - 7:00 pm
This symposium gathers artists and cultural practitioners from across Africa to explore how community, place, and artistic practice collide in the making of urban life.

Together, we ask: Which communities do we work with? How do the spaces we work in—whether a studio, a building or an entire neighborhood—inform what we create? And how do both limit, challenge, or inspire our artistic practices?

Sightlines, the public symposium opens this conversation, bringing international voices from Senegal, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt into dialogue. It tries to unpack the hidden infrastructures, social ties, and everyday politics that determine how art is made and shared in the city. Through their practices, they reveal how art can negotiate boundaries, build alliances, and express new ways of belonging.

Free admission – open to all.

With insights from:

Fatima Bint Rassoul Sy Program Director, RAW Material Company (Senegal)
Rana al-Nemr Visual Artist and Co-founder ofContemporary Image Collective, Egypt)
Darlyne Komukama Sound Artist and Programs Manager, 32° East (Uganda)
Ola Hassanain (Studio Ola, Sudan-Netherlands)
Moderated by Ismail Fayed (Writer and Curator)

Program:
7:30 - 7:00 Introductions
8:30 - 7:30 Panel Discussion
9:00 - 8:30 Questions
10:00 - 9:00 Reception at al-Khalifa Heritage Park