What to look forward to this month.
SNCI
Promoting Knowledge SNCI is a collaborative knowledge exchange platform to help people develop, exercise and celebrate their creative potential through a series of capacity building activities that include workshops, consultancy sessions and talks. It is designed to transform Saudi Arabia into a knowledge-based economy.
The initiative holds a creative season every year, where it invites over 40 international experts in 12 various creative sectors for workshops and consultancy sessions. SNCI’s first creative season was launched March 2, and has already executed six successful weeks in the field of Creative Initiatives, Social Innovation, Architecture, Application and Gaming, Media and Advertising, and Craftsmanship and Artisans.
Check the workshop schedules and register through the website snci-ksa.com
Other creative sectors that will be explored this month are: Tourism Design & Development
This week aims to provide an overview of the scope of the travel/tourism industry. The workshops will examine components of tourism industry through topics in cultural context, heritage and technology.
Beauty & Fashion
Beauty & Fashion covers the advancement in the makeup artistry industry exploited by innovative techniques for editorial makeup. It also covers fashion trends and styling, while combining an overview of fashion business workings.
Press & Publication
This week provides an intensive introduction to all aspects of book and magazine publishing as well as digital media, from online journalism, content development to 10 DESTINATION RIYADH MAY 2016
translation/creative writing editorial techniques.
Culinary Art
The Culinary art week’s global experts brings unique learning from developing conceptual approaches in gastronomy experience, to new insights of food presentation and styling in the publishing world.
Jewelry Design & Accessories
This week aims to provide an insight from industry specialists on Jewelry Design, from how to run a jewelry business to learning the conceptual making of jewelry design from innovation and original outlook.
Visual Art
The Visual Art week is primarily focus on artists who create the cultural resources of our future. The workshops in this week aim to offer a practicebased approach to technical, conceptual, historical and critical contexts of Visual Arts.