SWANA CREATIVE WORKSHOPS​
New Arab American Theater Works hosts monthly creative cultural workshops by local SWANA community culture bearers and artists on a range of artistic disciplines ​and traditional arts. We offer workshops on traditional folk arts that can't be found in mainstream arts institutions. Our offerings include SWANA visual art workshops such as tatreez (Palestinian embroidery), Lebanese wood-burning, and Arabic calligraphy; movement and folk dance workshops; cooking workshops; writing workshops; theater workshops, and more!
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Looking for a space to connect with community members and learn SWANA arts? Sign up for one of our workshops!​
2025 Workshops Listing
Past Workshops Gallery
 Palestinian Embroidery Workshop | April 2025 |  Lebanese Wood-Burning Workshop | July 2025 |  Grape Leaves Cooking Workshop | June 2024 |
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 Lebanese Wood-Burning Workshop | July 2025 |  Palestinian Movement and Dance Workshop| November 2024 |  Writing about Art Workshop | March 2024 |
 In-Progress Book Reading and Workshop | February 2024 |  Ensemble Building Workshop | January 2024 |  Writing about Joy Workshop | August 2024 |
Past Workshop Videos
Tatreez Workshop, April 2025
Grape Leaves Workshop, June 2025
2025 Workshops
"Love Letter to Lebanon" is a workshop on using movement, text, and imagery to celebrate our beautiful Lebanon. Participants will participate in activities in three mediums--movement/dance, writing, and visual arts. Then, at the end of the workshop, participants will choose one or more mediums to create their own note of appreciation for Lebanon. We'll be dancing, writing, AND creating visual art at this exciting multi-media workshop. Come express your love for the beautiful Libnan!
Come for a workshop on mapping out our families’ migration history through the art of storyboarding! We will watch a screening of an in-progress film on Andrea Shaker’s family migration story, and then practice storyboarding our own familial migration histories.