Jeddah’s Jameel Library is an arts and culture, multilingual research library featuring an extraordinary collection of print, moving image, multimedia resources and ephemera catering to all audiences, starting with artists, practitioners and researchers, but extends to the curious and meandering. Through programmes such as community-led workshops, reading groups, library circles, the Jameel Library centers community — reflecting Hayy Jameel’s spaces, Jeddah’s wider entanglements and their echoes beyond.
You can now visit the Jameel Library during soft opening hours:
Wednesday | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Thursday and Friday | 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM
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Jameel Library is an active and dynamic learning platform, home to public programmes, reading groups, curated bibliographies, symposia and interventions. Free and open to all, the Library is home to students, artists, researchers, writers, professionals and the curious.
Labs are a space for community members to come together and investigate their neighborhood, curiosities, and desires together. A lab several days long, looking at a specific question in which we invite our community to come and search for answers together.
Circles are a small set of talks, workshops, or other interventions as imagined by the facilitator. Library circles emphasize looking at research-in-progress, giving the facilitator a platform and chance to work through their research during its development.
The Jameel Library seeks to have a set rotating Art Book exhibition/display for the audience to interact with and examine the collection.
A continuation of research as exchange and lived experience — The Jameel Library is looking to shift hosts every 3 years as we’ve finished our time with Slavs & Tatars as of 2024.
The focus of the residency is to mimic the library’s interrogation of — what is a book? Although this is not necessarily outcome-based, applicants are expected to come to work on an Artist Book while using the Jameel Library as a source of study and research.
The focus of the residency is to propagate and encourage the research and documentation of exhibition histories in the Gulf region.
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