Dubai Culture hosts a series of stamp design workshops for children and families

Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated entity for culture, arts and heritage, recently announced that it will host a series of three postal stamp design workshops for children aged 5-15 years. These workshops will be held at the Etihad Museum, which recently opened its doors to the public in the first week of January 2017.

The authority organised the first three-hour workshop for 4^th February 2017, from 2pm until 5pm, with two further workshops to be held on 15^th February and 11^th March 2017. The workshops will provide children and their families with an opportunity to use and explore the colours, designs and drawings upon various stamps. Here, they will gain understanding about the methods and tools used in stamp design, the different ways to use colours and how to apply these insights in producing their very own stamp designs.

Abdulla bin Massam Al Falasi, Director of Etihad Museum said: “We are pleased to announce our first workshop for families and their children, that teaches participants about a number of aspects related to stamp design, its history and its importance. Participants can produce their very own works of art and share them with friends and family, inspiring them to embrace a stamp collecting hobby.”

These workshops will be held on the side-lines of the Authority’s exhibition dedicated to the Emirate’s postal history – ‘Emirates to the World: Postal History from 1909 to Unification’, from 7th January until 8th April 2017.

The exhibition begins at the birth of the Emirate’s local postal services in 1909, when written letters first became a trusted and efficient mean of communication. Thanks to its breadth and comprehensive nature, Khoory’s collection captures much of this fascinating period and offers visitors a rare glimpse into an era that had not yet seen the dawn of digital communication, and which pre-dated the unification of the Emirates.