A.R.M. Holding Children's Programme Kicks Off In-Classroom Workshops

Registration for schools to participate is open until 15 May 2023

Dubai, UAE; 9 May 2023

With a mission to engage and ignite the young generation’s interest in arts and culture, the A.R.M. Holding Children's Programme brings in-classroom workshops to 90 schools across the UAE. Now on its third edition, the country's most extensive cultural education programme has seen tremendous growth since its initial launch in 2021, with the number of students participating expanding from 1,800 to over 8,000.

Taking place until 15 June 2023, ‘The Flag Project’ is the third iteration of this important initiative, developed by A.R.M. Holding in partnership with Art Dubai and has been produced with leading international visual artist Jacob Dahlgren. Designed for children between the ages of 5 and 17, Swedish artist Dahlgren, who blends formal abstraction with social culture, developed the concept as an extension of his ongoing project, Signs of Abstraction, which aims to inspire creative and abstract thinking about the environment while also encouraging teamwork. Using everyday craft materials and scrap fabrics, students will use their imaginations and collaborate on collages that will be sewn together and then transformed into colourful tapestries and flags.

Registration to participate in the A.R.M. Holding Children’s Programme is open until 15 May 2023. Schools may reach out to education@artdubai.ae.