Noor Riyadh 2025

Community Engagement Activities

Explore light, creativity, and imagination through interactive workshops, artistic experiences, and family-friendly activities across Riyadh.

Stamped Stories: A Collage of Prints Family activities
Stamped Stories: A Collage of Prints

This drop-in activity invites children to explore stamping as a playful way to create layered collages, experimenting with color, texture, and composition. As shapes and patterns accumulate on the page, each artwork becomes a unique expression of imagination and personal storytelling.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
Qasr Al Hokm District
Light Up Masmak Fort Family activities
Light Up Masmak Fort

In this collaborative activity, children reimagine Al Masmak Fortress using light, color, and modular building. As glowing structures emerge, teams work together to co-create a luminous skyline, exploring architectural forms while expressing their own creativity.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
Qasr Al Hokm District
Dancing Strings: Painting with Movement Family activities
Dancing Strings: Painting with Movement

This playful activity encourages children to explore symmetry, chance, and abstraction as they create unique mirrored forms. With each fold and reveal, unexpected patterns emerge, inspiring curiosity, imagination, and experimentation.

20th November – 6th December
7PM and 9PM
Qasr Al Hokm District
Stories in Shadows: Shadow Theatre Family activities
Stories in Shadows: Shadow Theatre

This performance-based activity invites children to explore light and shadow as storytelling tools. Through movement, perspective, and playful experimentation, simple silhouettes transform into expressive narratives that reflect imagination and personal expression.

21st November – 5th December
7PM and 9PM
Qasr Al Hokm District
Draw in the Air: 3D Pen Creations Family activities
Draw in the Air: 3D Pen Creations

This experiential activity invites participants to explore the intersection of art and technology using 3D pens to create glowing, sculptural forms. As gestures and motion interact with light, shapes bloom in space, transforming simple movements into luminous creations.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
stc Metro Station
Ink Art: Painting the Universe and Galaxies Family activities
Ink Art: Painting the Universe and Galaxies

This teen-focused activity invites participants to explore abstraction by creating their own ‘cosmic explosions.’ As unpredictable marks unfold into radiant, galaxy-like patterns, accidents turn into discoveries, highlighting the beauty of experimentation and the poetry of randomness.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
stc Metro Station
Memory in Light: Sculpting with Clay Family activities
Memory in Light: Sculpting with Clay

This teen-focused activity invites participants to transform personal memories into glowing sculptural forms for a collective display. As individual stories take shape in light, intimate recollections become tangible, exploring the poetic interplay between memory and material.

20th November – 6th December
7PM and 9PM
stc Metro Station
Cosmic Prints: Light and Shadow Family activities
Cosmic Prints: Light and Shadow

This teen-focused activity invites participants to explore light as both energy and artistic medium, creating cosmic-inspired prints through experimental processes. As abstract shapes accumulate on a shared ‘cosmic wall,’ science and creativity merge.

21st November – 5th December
7PM and 9PM
stc Metro Station
Color your Oasis Family activities
Color your Oasis

This family-friendly workshop invites children to design and decorate their own luminous palm trees, inspired by Muhannad Shono’s Amidst the thirsty wilderness. Using color, glitter, and imagination, each child personalizes a palm template.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Glow Mural: Light Up Your Night Sky Family activities
Glow Mural: Light Up Your Night Sky

This family-friendly activity invites visitors to contribute to a large night-sky mural, adding stars, constellations, planets, and personal messages. As each mark is made, the wall slowly transforms into a shared, glowing skyline.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Stories in Sand: Drawing with Light Family activities
Stories in Sand: Drawing with Light

This drop-in activity invites children to draw with light, creating scenes, symbols, and patterns on illuminated surfaces. Each gesture leaves a glowing trace that can be erased and reimagined, encouraging tactile play, storytelling, and iterative creativity.

20th November – 6th December
18:00:00
King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Windows of Light Family activities
Windows of Light

This family-friendly workshop invites participants to create vibrant light-collage windows that come alive on a large scale. Exploring color mixing, transparency, shadow, abstraction, and scale, families and children experiment with playful combinations.

21st November – 5th December
7PM and 9PM
King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Silk in Motion Family activities
Silk in Motion

This family-friendly workshop invites children to explore soft, flowing air patterns on silk, watching color gently diffuse and blend. As water moves through the fabric, hues drift and merge, revealing the beauty of movement and material transformation.

20th November – 6th December
7PM and 9PM
King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Choreography Workshop with Bilal Allaf Creative Experience
Choreography Workshop with Bilal Allaf

This creative experience invites adults to explore movement as a form of storytelling, emotion, and spatial awareness. Through guided improvisation and tasks that respond to light, sound, and surrounding artworks, participants collaboratively compose short sequences.

21st and 29th November
19:00:00
stc Metro Station
MythOS: A Manual for Imagined Worlds Creative Experience
MythOS: A Manual for Imagined Worlds

This creative experience invites small groups to co-design imagined worlds through collaborative play. Participants develop environments, cultures, and characters, translating ideas into simple maps, objects, or models.

5th December
19:00:00
Riyadh Art Hub, JAX District
Painting with Time: Long-Exposure Photography Masterclass Artist-Led Workshop
Painting with Time: Long-Exposure Photography Masterclass

This artist-led masterclass by Artur Weber invites participants to transform motion, light, and atmosphere into expressive images using mobile long-exposure techniques. Through guided outdoor shoots and hands-on exploration.

22nd and 29th November
19:00:00
King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Script and Form: Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy Design Artist-Led Workshop
Script and Form: Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy Design

This artist-led masterclass led by Nasser Al Salem invites participants to explore Arabic calligraphy as a living design language. Through hands-on lettering and digital refinement, classical scripts are transformed into contemporary forms.

28th November
19:00:00
Riyadh Art Hub, JAX District
Space and Light: Experiments in Architecture Artist-Led Workshop
Space and Light: Experiments in Architecture

Abdulrahman Gazzaz, co-founder of Bricklab, will lead a workshop that considers space and light, leading participants through practical, tactile exercises that focus on the act of viewing in the built environment.

6th December
19:00:00
Riyadh Art Hub, JAX District
Space and Light: Experiments in Architecture Professional Workshop
Colour Academy for Professionals

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the expressive language of colour, exploring how shades, tones, and harmonies influence design and communication. Guided by Jotun’s colour experts, attendees will experiment with mood boards, learn practical colour-reading techniques, and discover new ways to draw creative inspiration from the world around them.

4th December
7PM – 9PM
Riyadh Art Hub, JAX District
Space and Light: Experiments in Architecture Creative Experience
Colour Academy for the Public

A vibrant and accessible introduction to how colour shapes the spaces we live in and the emotions we feel. Through playful, guided activities, participants will explore cultural meanings, perception, and the science of colour—while creating expressive works inspired by their surroundings. The workshop is offered twice on the same evening to allow more visitors to join.

5th December
7PM–8PM and 9PM–10PM
King Abdulaziz Historical Center

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