Campfire Tales: Crossroads of Creativity



A nocturnal adventure in Wadi AlFann led participants from performances, poetry, local music, and storytelling to a desert feast in the wilderness. Specially commissioned performances by visual artists and culinary experts from the region took participants through an immersive experience rooted in the landscape and narrative of AlUla.

Three artists were part of an ongoing programme in Wadi AlFann that juxtaposed the permanence of sculpture and landscape with the dynamism of live art.
Based between Jeddah and London, artist Ahaad Alamoudi uses photography, film, and digital technologies to summon the ghosts of traditional rituals and mythologies. She illuminates the canyons of Wadi AlFann and sets them echoing with ancient ‘mawwals’ or Arabic vocal music.
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A rising star of gastronomy, Nawal AlKhalawi is a ‘site-specific’ chef whose cuisine derives from the bounty of the local. A native of the Hijaz region she returns to the oasis of AlUla and the geological formations of the desert to create culinary magic.
Moza Almatrooshi, who lives between Sharjah and London, is an artist for whom the rituals around food are richly symbolic. These rituals serve as the poetic medium through which she weaves her enchanting tales around a campfire as night falls and the stars begin to twinkle; this is where Moza's stories come alive, warming hearts and igniting imaginations.

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