16 February 2025
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Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, Dubai

A group show by six African artists presenting “a captivating and thought-provoking collection of artworks that highlight the diverse landscapes and thematic intersections of African art across generations … The exhibition offers a glimpse into the complex histories, traditions, and [ ... ]

Free

Talal Al Najjar, Ziad Al Najjar: Symbiotic Hyperreal

NYUAD Project Space NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

This exhibition marks the first duo show for Emirati brothers Talal Al Najjar and Ziad Al Najjar. They each maintain a distinct individual artistic practice, but developed in close proximity to one another; and both draw upon their relationship to [ ... ]

Free

Connecting Minds Book Club: Ben Okri

Terra Auditorium Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion, Expo City, Dubai

“Books alone can’t save the world,” says the blurb for this new book club. “But passionate readers can.” At the opening event of what we’re told will be a regular LitFest-style session with “renowned authors from around the world”, the [ ... ]

AED 50

CineMAS – 19B / White Building

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

7pm 19B dir Ahmad Abdalla (2022) The richly-layered narrative centres on the elderly caretaker of an abandoned Cairo villa known as 19B. The owners have been absent for so long that no one even knows how to contact them, and the [ ... ]

AED 30

Monty Python’s Spamalot

The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

A second performance of this highly irreverent musical parody of Arthurian legend, based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail with lyrics and book by Python's Eric Idle and a score by Idle and John Du Prez. [ ... ]

AED 130

The Addams Family – A New Musical

Sunmarke School Jumeirah Village Triangle, Dubai

MTDXB (Musical Theatre Dubai) is – as far as we know – the first and only adult theatre group in Dubai to specialise in musicals. Formed in 2021, they have done four performances to date, and they tend to be [ ... ]

AED 150