Wednesday July 22 2026, 6:30pm

Swift Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Join us at the Swift Lecture Theatre for a special screening of The Tentmakers of Cairo – Sunnaa’ al-Kheyam fi al-Qahira by Kim Beamish, produced by Non’D’Script in 2015.

Offering a deeper insight into the practice of those who collaborated with Nour Jaouda for our current exhibition Matters of time, this film offers unprecedented access to a small community of talented craftsmen, known as tentmakers, who practice the uniquely Egyptian art of Khayamiya, or hand stitched appliqué. In a small covered market, in the heart of Old Islamic Cairo, four tentmakers expertly stitch ornate Islamic designs, as their centuries-old craft collides with a 21st-century revolution.