Elham’s third-season debut at Albareh Gallery on Tuesday 23rd September (08:00pm) features a talented cast of emerging artists traversing the creative spectrum.

- Fawaz Alolaiwat
Growing up as an adamant believer in Spider Man and Grendizer, a basketball and football player, a fan of the arts including anime, comics, Sci-Fi movies, techno music and horror novels, Fawaz considers himself a creative mind with a passion for art expression.

His work represents over 14 years of experience in electronic arts, branding, web and advertising design; photography, music, video and writing stories are his latest passions. He has worked in various advertising agencies and design firms as a senior designer. He studied at the art institute International (Pittsburgh, PA) and majored in Visual communication. Born in 1977, into a family of artists in Bahrain has helped him understand the world from a different perspective. It was at the age of 10, that he got his first sign and found his new direction in life as a graphic artist. By the age of 11, Fawaz was a certified Apple user and a year later became the first to teach Canvas 1 in the center.

He still owns his first Mac LC. (www.fawazalolaiwat.com)

- Vijesh Rajan
After completing his high schooling at The Indian School, Bahrain, Vijesh left for Mumbai to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Commerce.

But then his interest in filmmaking led him to Brisbane, Australia, where he then completed his Masters in Film & Television production at the film school in the University of Queensland.

Vijesh now works as a copywriter in advertising whilst making short films to keep his passion going. His films include ‘Fallen’, ‘The Waiting’, and ‘Woken Shell’.

- Ali Milad
Born in 1992, Ali is currently a high school senior at Modern Knowledge Schools in Bahrain. With an ear for music, he first picked up the bass guitar at the age of 12.

His music is made up mainly of the bass guitar, using it as a lead instrument, rather than a rhythm instrument. The bass is always viewed as a boring instrument, and Ali is trying to show people that bass is as good as and interesting as any other instrument.

He writes and records his own music at home, and is planning to release his first EP soon.

- Yacoub Salman Al-Slaise
Born in Awali, Yacoub’s first writings were at the age of ten, writing a detective story called “The adventures of Inspector Yak: In search of the missing Shampoodle” and “The Insect Exterminator” which was later turned into a school production.

After completing a degree in Multimedia Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University, he rediscovered his love for writing and since then has started his blog Yagoob’s Dome (http://ydome.elzeeyed.com) where topics are mostly about the little things that nobody notices in Bahraini daily life and culture.

This also is a recurring theme in his creative writings as he will be reading an as yet untitled short story especially written for the Elham session.