Month: October 2024

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Comment: 24 October 2024

24 October 2024
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest Spoiled for choice As usual there’s a lot going on this weekend, but we’ll be making time for The Ice Hole (best play of the year so far?) and Mute on stage, Kes and Dancing Pina on screen, and Rand Abdul JabbarandFariba [ … ]
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Comment: 17 October 2024

17 October 2024
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest Give for Lebanon The UAE public raised AED 110 million in the first week of the aid-for-Lebanon campaign, says The National. You can still do your bit via this link.  Urban gems DCT Abu [ … ]
Creative economy

City culture come to Dubai

16 October 2024
The 13th World Cities Culture Summit is being held in Dubai at the end of the month, from 30 October to 1 November. WCCS is basically a meeting of civic administrators from more than 40 cities around the world, people who believe [ … ]
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Comment: 10 October 2024

10 October 2024
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest Give for Lebanon The official ‘UAE stands with Lebanon’ campaign has launched. There are lots of opportunities to contribute, but perhaps the simplest is a donation to the Emirates Red Crescent via this link.  [ … ]
Performance

Sound and vision: Odeya Nini at NYUAD

7 October 2024
“Today I call myself an interdisciplinary artist”, Odeya Nini told magpie. “My practice is one that is an experience of the aural, visual, mental and physical.” She’s bringing that experience to The Arts Center at NYUAD on 9 October, and [ … ]