All welcome. Limited slots, pre-registration required

The Assembly-led Walk-shops are a series of intimate, evening sessions running across the Youth Takeover 2026, each one anchored to a specific curatorial project within Not the Season and facilitated by the Assembly members behind it. Rather than observing the exhibition, participants enter it from the inside: through movement, writing, perception and reflection. Each session is limited to 15 participants.

What does the body learn to carry without being asked?

Assembly members Dina Barqawi, Mahasin Ismail and Rei Co lead Held, a movement and writing session that enters Dina’s curatorial provocation Dollhous(h/e) through the body rather than through observation. Participants engage in a series of simple, repetitive actions — holding, stretching, pausing — until accumulation becomes perceptible. A quiet writing session follows, inviting fragment-based responses that need not be shared.

Held was developed by Assembly member Rei Co as part of the Youth Takeover 2026.

Dina Barqawi is an architect whose practice maps narrative cartographies and the quiet dialogues of land. Through cultural memory made material, she translates design through narration, creating experimental forms and curatorial gestures that frame space as a site of encounter and reimagine how architecture might hold memory and shape possibility.

Mahasin Ismail is a curator, art writer, and MFA Producing student for Theatre and Live Performances. She works at the crossroads of visual art and performance, exploring overlooked global narratives and experimenting with new ways that technology and design can shape exhibitions and audience experiences.

Rei Co is a professional dancer and teacher who began training at age six and has performed internationally with major companies and brands. As an aspiring choreographer, she creates work exploring memory and connection and teaches contemporary dance and hip-hop to inspire audiences through movement.