Join us for a special edition of Family Saturdays at Jameel Arts Centre, featuring a guided tour of the Youth Takeover 2026 – and a series of hands-on art making activities for all ages.

This edition offers a unique chance to gain an in-depth exploration of several works from Not the Season, an exhibition curated and developed by the 2025-2026 cohort of the Youth Assembly.

The tour, led by Assembly members Poorvaja Subramanian and Vaishnavi Pramodh, takes an in-depth look at the exhibition throughout the ground floor of the Centre, delving into the Takeover themes and exhibited works, the Assembly members and the learning experience of the programme. Following the tour, families are invited to participate in a series of immersive self-led activities inspired by the Assembly members’ practices including map-making, transformation and change.

The activities are free to attend and run all day to encourage and support creativity and imagination. Jameel Arts Centre strives to provide space for children to share stories, and to foster cultural awareness through artistic exploration that supports healthy child-development and growth.

Family Sundays at the Jameel is free to attend and suitable for all ages. All materials and step by step guides will be provided.

This special edition occurs in conjunction with The Telephone at the Edge of the World workshop for children and families. The storytelling and making workshop explores the telephone as an object that holds memory and voices across distances. Participants will listen to an original fairytale, then work side-by-side to create paper-cup telephones and draw responses to shared questions. The workshop concludes by pinning these memories onto a collective world map, transforming individual stories of “home” into a shared atlas of connection.

Poorvaja Subramanian is a graphic designer whose work spans brand identities, visual systems, exhibition identity and publications. Through narrative and storytelling, she explores the essence of each project, exploring how personal and collective histories take shape through time, often using play and experimentation as her primary tool.

Vaishnavi Pramodh is an Indian-born, UAE-raised filmmaker and art director, whose works use humour and irony to explore the complex and transient nature of immigrant life. Influenced by her background in the visual arts, she uses surreal narratives and satirised visual motifs to explore identity, fear and loss of the self under rigid societal frameworks.