Quoz Arts Fest

Quoz Arts Fest returns for its 11th edition, filling Alserkal Avenue with music, food and family-friendly fun for two days.

The Quoz Encore stage for emerging musicians of all ages and backgrounds is back, and in total there are more than 200 live performances and other “cultural activations” by artists from the region (including crowd favourite Big Hass and magpie favourite Noon) and beyond – like the Sudanese fusion duo MarSimba and RUST (aka Hani Manna and Petra Hawi) from Lebanon; the Tanzanian-born performance artist Dipesh Pandya will have a live performance and installation transforming a car into a sonic sculpture via spoken word specifically written in response to the Al Quoz neighbourhood; and there’s a participatory interactive sound environment at Concrete by the London-based Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki.

You want some intellectual underpinning too? “Quoz Arts Fest hopes to tap into the inherent relativity of time with a unique and layered experience for every single visitor by creating unexpected stories, producing different rhythms, and curating playful displays.”

Quoz Arts Fest also includes a series of all-day markets, installations, and workshops; and there will be plenty of F&B there to ease your day. For kids there are art workshops, a pop-up DJ school, and other activities and performances.

The two-day Weekend Pass is a modest enough AED 63 (over 60s and under 18s go free) and we think you can get a one-day pass for half of that. Highlights from the programme include …

Day 1 music headliners:

• Marsimba
• Stick No Bills
• Big Hass
• Usha Jey
• Amina Bensouda
• Maxi Zee /  Tayeb Santo

Day 2 music headliners:

• Usha Jey
• DJ Patchoulee
• Chameleo
• Big Hass
• RUST
• Noon

Art:

• Yuri Suzuki in Concrete
• Mural by eL Seed
• The Disappearing Art Show by Gulf Photo Plus
• Installations by Carbon 12
• Performance and sound installation by Dipesh Pandya
• Film screenings by Cinema Akili