MACFEST 2024: Islamic Calligraphy Workshop

MACFESTUK is a ground-breaking, award-winning festival hosted across Greater Manchester and the North West - and across the world! We celebrate art, literature, music, history, culture, photography, cuisine, children, youth and women and the heritage of the Muslim diaspora. We offer over 70 events, most of which are free and digital, and many are hosted by schools and colleges.Muslim Arts and Culture Festival aims to bring Muslim and non-Muslim communities together, promote social inclusion and overcome barriers. This has led to MACFEST winning the 2021 Queen's Award for Voluntary service.This great initiative is led by prize-winning author, educationist and peace activist Qaisra Shahraz MBE FRSA, who features in the prestigious Power 100 List of the most influential Muslims in the UK. Qaisra has dedicated her life to women's rights, and fighting Islamophobia, racism and all forms of discrimination. She and the fantastic MACFEST team are committed to building bridges between communities in the UK and around the world.MACFEST is delighted to support a new and sister initiative: Muslim Women's Arts Foundation and Muslim Women's Arts Festival, which aim to celebrate and elevate Muslim women from around the world; the established women creatives as well as those unsung heroines, the carpet weavers and women working in the crafts industry. We are delighted to host in partnership with Muslim Women's Arts Foundation a Women's Arts Festival with 25 events in the month of March 2022.#SpreadHoneyNotHateDon't miss out on the variety of events happening through the day, book your ticket now!!

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Join our Islamic Calligraphy workshop led by the internationally renowned calligrapher Samir Malik

Join Samir Malik - a pioneer of the current revival and reinvention of Islamic Calligraphy in the west, on a fascinating journey into the touching and moving side to calligraphies. Samir’s work draws roots and inspiration from his travels across the globe and meetings with extraordinary human beings, including artists and spiritual teachers of all disciplines. He fuses different artistic traditions in his work, utilising classical and digital mediums. His calligraphies and art can be found in a number of Mosques around the London area, private collections all over the world, in periodicals and books, as well as the UK National Collection. Hosted By: Brendan Fletcher SFHEA, Subject Group Head Art &amp; Design, Programme Leader Fine Art / Senior Lecturer, University of Salford. Chief Guest: Paul Vivian, Post Compulsory Education, Senior Fellow Adv HE, Director of Art and Design, University of Salford.

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