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Madrasat Addeera

AlUla’s first Arts and Design Centre

Building on the region’s long tradition of art, Madrasat Addera has become a beacon for the local community, where people are rediscovering the region’s traditional crafts, and reviving these once-forgotten techniques.

Community space

Originally the Old Girls’ School, it is now a thriving yet serene art and design space. During weekly workshops, you’ll find women busy stitching and embroidering cloth bags, crafting jewellery from metals like silver and gold, or weaving baskets, mats and trays from palm fronds. Elsewhere, women perch on stools sculpting pots and bowls from clay taken from AlUla’s own earth. These are then sold in AlUla’s Old Town Market, which helps support the local women and their families.

Workshops

Under the attentive supervision of specialised local and international instructors, participants can create traditional arts firsthand. Through diverse programmes, such as the children’s art club, drop-in art club, and traditional art workshops, participants learn embroidery, stone and wood carving, creating colours from AlUla’s nature, jewellery making, palm crafts, pottery, and more.

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