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Workshop: Designed for Life – Poster and Banner Making with Alaa Alsaraji & Sabba Khan
Thursday 11th January 2024 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
A poster and banner making workshop led by East London Art Prize shortlisted artist Alaa Alsaraji and collaborator Sabba Khan.
Artists Alaa Alsaraji and Sabba Khan host a workshop to develop poster and banner making using the works, activism and themes in the Designed for Life exhibition as inspiration.
Expect to be taken on a tour of the exhibition and new public spaces in London College of Fashion, UAL’s new East Bank campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where you will be invited to reflect on causes and ideals that are important to you.
Alaa and Sabba will share elements of their practice that engage with social justice causes and invite you to respond to their provocations. You then will be supported step by step to experiment with a variety of mediums such as collage, drawing, and typography to create your own striking protest banners. All creative abilities and ages welcome, materials will be provided.
The event coincides with London College of Fashion, UAL’s first major exhibition at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. Find out more about the exhibition, here.
This event will take place in the main gallery space and foyer at London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road London E20 2AQ
More about Alaa Alsaraji
Alaa is a visual artist, and creative facilitator. Through her creative practice she aims to explore themes of belonging, reimagining space and community, predominantly using the medium of digital illustration. Alaa is also the arts editor of Khidr Collective, a multidisciplinary artist collective creating platforms and spaces for young Muslim creatives through the annual Khidr Zine and online platform. www.alsarajialaa.co.uk
More about Sabba Khan
Sabba Khan is a born and bred East Londoner. Originally trained as an architect at Central Saint Martins and The University of Westminster, Sabba frames her minimal architectural comics through the lived experience of her working class, second generation immigrant upbringing.
More about London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion (UAL) have been nurturing creative talent for over a century. They offer courses in all things fashion, from business to design and fashion curation. With over 60 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and 165 short courses, their students are collaborators, and together have the ability to reinvent the fashion industry for the next 100 years.
With their philosophy of open and inclusive education, LCF encourage students to examine the past and question the present. To develop inventive, assertive ideas that challenge social and political agendas. And give them the skills, opportunities – and above all, the freedom – to put those ideas into practice.
As well as shaping the leaders of tomorrow, they’re transforming the industry from within. Through boundary-pushing research, they unite design, science, engineering and technology, to redefine fashion. Their Student Enterprise programmes, business incubator, and industry collaborations form a dynamic network to help enterprising graduates launch and grow businesses.
As they look towards their move to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in September 2023, LCF are forging partnerships, opening up opportunities, and creating connections with east London’s schools, community and industry. Part of East Bank, a new culture, education and innovation development, their single-site campus will spark collaboration, experimentation, and inspiration – all under one roof.
In doing so, LCF will continue to pioneer how we all consume and practice fashion, using fashion business, media and design to shape culture, economics, and society.
And through fashion, shape lives.
Access
The building has step free access and is wheelchair accessible. We want to make sure that our programme is welcoming and accessible. Please contact us if you would like to discuss how we can support you to attend and enjoy this event. You can contact us via email at cultural.programming@fashion.arts.ac.uk.
About the East London Art Prize Events programme
The East London Art Prize events programme is a dynamic, free public programme open to all, which builds on the Prize’s ethos of providing ongoing support, development, and networking opportunities for artists in east London and beyond.
Featuring a constellation of workshops, talks, panels, lates, socials, labs, walks, and takeovers in collaboration with our Prize partners and featuring some familiar faces from our inaugural shortlist of 12 fantastic artists, this year’s events programme celebrates and pays homage to the huge abundance of talent and creativity nestled in east London.
These events have been developed in collaboration with our Prize partners the British Council, The Line, London College of Fashion (LCF), London Legacy Development Corporation, University College London (UCL), V&A East, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Dulux.
Find out more about the wider programme here.
More about the East London Art Prize
The East London Art Prize is an all-media art prize designed to showcase the talent of artists working and living in east London, with an accompanying event programme supporting artists’ careers and opportunities. The Prize is generously funded by Minerva and Prue MacLeod. Find out more on the Prize webpage here.
Transport information
Venue address : London College of Fashion, UAL, 105 Carpenters Road, Stratford, E20 2AR.
Getting here: nearest tube stations are Stratford and Hackney Wick, parking for bicycles is available outside the building, there is street level access. Please note that Blue Badge Parking will be available from January 2024, there are 15 Blue Badge parking spaces at the London Aquatic Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
