Participants: Neil Andrew, Bilal Aquil, Art Dubai Crew, Masina House Design, Mona Ayyash, Bambah, Khalid Al Banna, Isak & Ismet Berbic, Ahmed Bouholaigah, Ruth Bradley, Brusselssprout, Sofia Byttebier, Chickpeas Vintage, Nada Dada, Jelena Dancetovic, discoballbreaker, Dubai Dance Academy, DUST, DXB Store, Rania Ezzat, Feline Friends, Victoria Gandit Lelandais, Shamil Haja, Jamal H. Iqbal, Rania Jishi, Minna Joseph, K9 Friends, Linzi Kan, Khulood Khoory, Larissa Kolesnikova, Melisa Le Rue, Lucy Maciejowska, Sara Naim, Farah Nasri, Manabu Ozawa, PRISM, Ragmatazz, Rebecca Rendell, Mariam de Ricaud, Sya & Bow, Sharmeen Syed, The Fridge, The Third Line Crew, The Traffic Crew, UBIK, Sinisa Vlajkovic

Over 10 days, between Apr 12 - 21, 2012, THE MARKET OF EVERYTHING at Traffic will be bringing together members of the community looking to buy, sell, trade or donate anything from furniture, books, music, art, food, clothes, toys, cars, pets, instruments and more.

'The Market of Everything' aims to promote community involvement and support social sustainability through the exchange and recycling of our belongings. It hopes to match people who have things they no longer need with people who can use them. Throughout the week a program of performance, workshops (for both kids and adults), film screenings and gaming tournaments will accompany the market. The schedule is shared below. Please feel free to spread the word, and join the Facebook event page.

All workshops are free. Please sign up on nina@viatraffic.org by stating the name of the workshop you are interested in, your name and contact number.

MARKET TIMINGS

Thursday, April 12: 10am-10pm
Friday, April 13: 10.30pm-7pm
Saturday, April 14: 10am-9pm
Sunday, April 15: 10am-7pm
Monday, April 16: 10am-9pm
Tuesday, April 17: 10am-9pm
Wednesday, April 18: 10am-7pm
Thursday, April 19: 10am-10pm
Friday, April 20: 12pm-7pm
Saturday, April 21: 12pm-9pm


PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

10:30am – 1pm
Children’s Workshop: A Space We’re In (Ages 5-11)

3pm – 5:30pm
Children’s Workshop: A Space We’re In (Ages 5-11)

Objective: Children consider their own and others’ experiences in their responses to and creation of artworks.

Children will experience the cyclical process of imaginative response and production as they explore the personal and social creative impacts of Art, exhibitions and galleries. We will begin by exploring our own experiences of being in an art gallery space through movement and relaxation, initiating the workshop’s theme of personal creativity in a social condition. Children will record their responses to exhibits through talking, drawing, using mirrors, making digital sound and film recordings, and music. Using panels of fabric attached to frames, and paint they will then create their own paintings and collaboratively arrange them as an exhibit, a mini-gallery within Traffic. Considering viewers’ responsive reflection, the children can enable others’ creative interaction with their artworks by offering multi-media recording opportunities within their new ‘gallery’. For example by making and arranging musical instruments out of recycled rubbish, digital sound and film recordings, drawing and movement spaces. This fun workshop aims that children gain direct experience of harnessing one’s own imagination as freedom from social inhibitions and restraint, a process that can lead to personal enjoyment and social cohesion via expression, consideration and collaboration.

Instructor: Lucy Maciejowska

7pm onwards
DUST vs PRISM turntable soundclash

Featuring multiple djs from www.dustdxb.com and www.weareprism.com

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

10:30am – 1pm
Children’s Workshop: Epic Histories (Ages 8-11)

3pm – 5:30pm
Children’s Workshop: Epic Histories (Ages 8-11)

Objective: Children create stories set in imaginary worlds as they engage with key artworks within Traffic.

This workshop aims for children to make links between the art of story telling, history making, and the mapping of personal and cultural identities as they create and explore new, imaginary worlds.

Setting the scene with a photograph of an empty worship room with seemingly unused prayer rugs, children will listen to the beginning of The Flying Blanket story, and make their own little magic carpets by fabric weaving and decorating. They will be encouraged to consider personally important symbols in their designs as they will be using their carpet to fly to their own make believe worlds.

The children will imagine travelling on their magic carpets to an unknown land where they will describe what could lie in their new world, prompted by a single photograph of a setting open to much interpretation. Considering personal, cultural and global identities the children will collaboratively create a collage mapping their imaginary worlds travelled to, making flags representing important themes of their invented places and positioning them together as they decide best.

Finally, the children will look into a distorting mirror to create their own characters and events that occur in their imaginative settings and stories. They can make crowns, masks and moustaches as they invent and dramatize characters’ identities, roles and images. The session will close as children share their stories, and consider how these could affect each other’s with reference to their collaged map and flags of imaginary worlds.

Closely linked with the Middle East’s Epic tradition and art of the book, this workshop will enable children to consider the construction of identities through the positioning of oneself on physical and cultural maps, generated through story telling and history making.

Instructor: Lucy Maciejowska

4:30pm–7pm
Gaming Tournament : Ping-pong, darts, foos ball

Traffic is hosting three simultaneously running tournaments; ping-pong, darts and foosball. All are welcome to participate in one or all games. If interested in taking part, please sign up with Angelle Siyang Le on angelle@viatraffic.org

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

10:30am – 1pm
Children’s Workshop: Magic Garden (Ages 5-11)

3pm – 5:30pm
Children’s Workshop: Magic Garden (Ages 5-11)

Objective: Children make their own magic garden in a recycled container, as they explore light, colour and growth.

This workshop is aimed at encouraging children to consider the power and beauty of nature, inspiring imaginative play and interaction with the planet, worthy of protection and renewal.

Guiding children to use their natural environment as artistic inspiration, they will make their own magic garden growing boxes using recycled materials, and experiment with light, our ultimate creative energy. In response to Eric Carle’s story and illustrations of The Tiny Seed, they will decorate their growing boxes using tissue paper collages, paint and reflective foil, ready to plant their magic seeds and plants. As children imagine what their seeds could grow into, they can experiment by shining torches and sunlight into coloured inks in water, cellophane colour filters, mirrors and prisms placed around their gardens. Children will then make kaleidoscopes to help them see the magic grow, and they can make recycled art sculptures to help transform outside areas at Traffic, their schools or homes.

During this workshop children will experience the reciprocally transformative powers between art and their environments as they interact with wildlife and their own magic creativity. At home the children can watch their magic gardens transform as according to Traffic’s digital light installation, ‘Everyday I wake up to find the world change while I sleep’.

Instructor: Lucy Maciejowska

7:30pm-9pm
Workshop : the creative BLOCK is a loser

A workshop by Jamal H. Iqbal & Dharam Veer Sood

This 90-minute workshop combines creative writing skill development with principles of yoga and meditation to create a synergy between the senses and the mind. Open to writers, artists, performers, actors, public speakers and to anyone that considers themselves or wishes to be one of the above.

Dharam Veer Sood is a skilled corporate trainer versed in NLP and dynamic meditation along with being an actor and triathlete. He is also a student and proponent of holistic lifestyle, yoga and all things healthy.

Jamal H. Iqbal is a creative director. When he’s not pretending to be one he prefers to call himself a poet, writer, actor, performer, comic, gourmet, gourmand and starving artiste in no particular order of (dis)belief.

MONDAY, APRIL 16

7-9pm
Workshop: The organic, pesticide-free, fresh, certified & locally grown cooking workshop with Mariam de Ricaud

“Cooking is a form of Slavery. Once a woman gets married, like generations before me, I put on the apron to please my husband and took on a lifetime commitment when my baby Henri popped out of me. Food is the most basic human instinct. It conveys love. I wanted the love I gave to my baby to be pesticide free. Going Organic in Saudi a decade ago was tricky, and when we moved to Dubai 7 years ago not easy. But I never gave up and today we are lucky to have at our disposal Fresh, Certified & Locally grown products. It is a commitment I have made to my family, and the funny thing is - it’s so easy. As it’s what I love, I’m happy to share a couple of recipes with you, and have a live cooking session to demonstrate. Come along and bring your funky aprons.” – Mariam de Ricaud

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

7:30-9pm
Future Shorts Film Festival

Traffic hosts the Future Shorts Global Pop-Up Film Festival, in conjunction with The Market of Everything. Since 2003, Future Shorts’ defining quarterly format showcases a single programme of original, award-winning short films from around the world. Currently taking place in over 50 cities and 17 countries, from London to Moscow, Melbourne to Jakarta, and beyond.

Spring 2012 Screening Schedule

"Mourir Auprès de Toi" (To Die By Your Side) – Dir: Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn
2011, France – 6 minutes

Created from 3,000 hand-cut pieces of felt, Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation takes place in an old, Parisian bookshop where at night the covers come to life. It’s the story of a felt skeleton who falls in love with a beautiful and sassy vixen. Co-directed by filmmaker Simon Cahn with designs by Olympia Le-Tan, this Cannes-selected short is sweet, sad, spooky and a bit whimsical. Jonze said, “A short is like a sketch. You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.”

"Bear" – Dir: Nash Edgerton
2011, Australia – 11 minutes

Edgerton, who wrote, directed and starred in “Bear”, the sequel to “Spider” (2007), centers around the main character Jack to unfold his tangled relationship and examines whether he’s learned his lesson or not. Described as a black comedy without social commentary, “Bear” is a follow up but also stands alone as it’s own piece. “Because I tend to play things fairly straight and never set things up like it's a drama or a comedy, the audience doesn't know what it's going to be, and something about that really works,” said Edgerton.

“L’Homme Sanse Tete” (The Man Without a Head) – Dir: Juan Solanas
2003, France – 18 minutes

Created over four years, Solanas’ short debut is the story of a man who lives alone, head-less, in a room overlooking a vast industrial space. Visually astounding and technically accomplished, this animated short reveals love and happiness and one man’s pursuit for romance amidst life without a head. "We're living in a period where cinema is a product; movies are becoming more and more commercialized. Short films are one of the last real places for artistic freedom - they're important to celebrate just for that," said Solanas

"Quadrangle" – Dir: Amy Grappell
2010, USA – 20 minutes

An examination of a four-way affair, this documentary explores the story of two “conventional” couples who swap partners and live in a group marriage in the early 1970s. Set in Long Island, New York, this domestic living experiment unravels and challenges and boundaries of social convention, marriage, monogamy and desire. “Inspired by the discovery of my father’s photographs, taken at the height of the poly-amorous affair, and in an effort to come to terms with my own past, I decided to interview my parents. The film does not propose answers and strives to remain objective. It explores two people in a certain time. It tells a story,” said Grappell.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

7:30-9:30pm
Open Mic Thursday

Traffic in collaboration with The Fridge presents a one-night only open format, laid-back live show featuring short sets by artists, poets, musicians, critics, spoken word artists, comedians, jokers and misfits, as well as audience members performing at the mic.

Open Mic Thursday is held in conjunction with The Market of Everything, where over 10 days, between Apr 12 - 21, 2012, Traffic brings together members of the community looking to buy, sell, trade or donate anything from furniture, books, music, art, food, clothes, toys, cars, pets, instruments and more. The Market of Everything aims to promote community involvement to support social sustainability through the exchange and recycling of our belongings. The space also offers an ongoing program of performances, workshops, film screenings, and gaming tournaments.

Participants (with more to come):

Abbo
Hala Ali
Beatbox Ray
Nada Dada
Rania Ezzat
Rami Farook
Gypsy Swing Project
Feras Ibrahim
Kamal Musallam
Phi Degrees
Andre Reynolds
Noura Sadaka
Wolfpakistan

Hosted by Sach Holden

Crepes by Victoria Gandit Lelandais

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

12-5pm
Children’s Workshop: ‘Bling it On’ kids recycled jewelry workshop with Mariam de Ricaud

“For those who remember, I took part in the first edition of The Market of Everything last January with the ‘Organic Bling Cake Sale’ - essentially a guerilla marketing stint to promote the Ethical Diamond Company I was working with. I brought along paper & crayons and the kids started drawing the ring of their dreams. This time we continue with the bracelet of their dreams, made with old bits and pieces of recycled stuff they love. Diamonds are for adults- kids do not link beauty to money. With me this time round, they will be creating their statement piece with recycled plastic thread.” – Mariam de Ricaud

7-9pm
Workshop: STAR TOO theatre lab

STAR TOO, the Dubai-grown experimental theatre troupe, is holding a performance-art building workshop at Traffic in conjunction with THE MARKET OF EVERYTHING. Participants will get a glimpse of their play-building process, as they share their primal approach to live creation, priming physicalization, symbolism, and self-expression. Using only sticks and cloth (and a parachute) to build anything the mind conjures, with some basic multi-media, innocent passer-by’s owning 90 minutes and comfortable clothing can immerse themselves in the unique flavor that is STAR TOO performance art.