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SUMMARY:Candlelight: From Mozart to Chopin
DESCRIPTION:Aldo Dotti plays a 65 minute programme of piano favourites\, outdoors at the Jumeriah Al Qasr’s Céleste poolside restuarant. The programme: \nMozart: Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major\, K 331\nMozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major\, K.332 – I. Allegro\nMozart: “Queen of the Night” Aria (Der Hölle Rache) from The Magic Flute\, K.620\nBeethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor\, Op.67 – I. Allegro con brio\nBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor\, Op.27 No.2 (“Moonlight Sonata”) – I. Adagio sostenuto\nBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor\, Op.13 (“Pathétique”) – III. Rondo: Allegro\nLiszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat Major\, S.541\nChopin: Nocturne in E-flat Major\, Op.9 No.2\nChopin: Waltz in C-sharp Minor\, Op.64 No.2\nChopin: Scherzo in B-flat Minor\, Op.31 No.2 \nThe ticket includes a 20% discount on several of the hotel’s bars and restaurants on the same day; and for AED 530 you can include a three-course dinner at Pierchic too\, which itself is a pretty romantic location …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/candlelight-from-mozart-to-chopin-2/
LOCATION:Jumeirah Al Qasr\, Madinat Jumeirah\, Umm Suqeim\, Dubai
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
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SUMMARY:Bluewaters Art Festival
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural Bluewaters Art Festival runs 4pm to midnight from 12 to 20 April\, featuring a theme (“Re:Connect”) and “designed to transform the island into a vibrant open-air gallery”. Expect murals\,  installations\, large-scale inflatable art\, outdoor sculptures\, and indoor exhibits via collaborations with Firetti Gallery\, Studio 13 and Kanvas Room\, plus live music\, art talks and hands-on workshops (mainlky for kids). \nThere’s a schedule on the website\, but for real-time info follow @BluewatersDubai on Instagram.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bluewaters-art-festival/
LOCATION:Bluewaters\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTSTAMP:20260427T072859
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SUMMARY:World Art Dubai 2025
DESCRIPTION:World Art Dubai is back for its eleventh edition\, with more than 10\,000 artworks from 400+ galleries and individual artists who come from more than 65 different countries. WAD has grown out of its early days as a simple lo-fi affordable art fair into a bustling\, buzzy four days. It still majors on the affordable art of the title (prices from $100\, we’re told); and since there’s no jury to oversee applications\, it’s likely to be variable in quality. But then that’s all part of the vibe …  There’s a full schedule of extras like live painting\, talks\, demos\, workshops\, and more: check out the programme here. \nWAD is open 1pm to 9pm. As well as the one-day one-adult ticket at AED 30 and a four-day pass for AED 50\, there’s reduced-price entry for kids aged 12-18 and family tickets at AED 60 (two adults one child) and AED 70 (two adults\, two children). All of these represent a modest but noticeable increase on 2024 prices …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/world-art-dubai-2025/
LOCATION:Dubai World Trade Centre\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
DTSTAMP:20260427T072859
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SUMMARY:Laura Garcia Karras: Eidolon
DESCRIPTION:A solo exhibition by that French artist that explores “the spectral space between presence and absence\, giving form to what lingers just beyond perception” (the ancient Greek word ‘eidolon’ means phantom\, double\, or apparition). \nKarras’s works appear as delicate traces of something once vivid\, now fading\, like the echo of a body or the glimmer of a vanishing dream; the exhibition becomes a meditation on memory\, loss\, and the persistence of desire. As Karras writes: “We live surrounded by ghosts. Bodies fade\, but leave imprints. Desire wanes\, yet its echo remains. Artifice dazzles\, but beneath its glow\, matter disintegrates”. \nTo 17 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/laura-garcia-karras-eidolon/
LOCATION:Volery Gallery\, Maze Tower - 5201\, Dubai International Financial Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
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SUMMARY:Flower Shop
DESCRIPTION:A group show – with Maria Andrievskaya\, Almendra Bertoni\, Katie Hector\, Jen Hitchings\, and John Denniston II– that invites us to think of colour not just as a visual element but as a language of its own. “Colour is what makes the world visible\, yet its perception is deeply personal. Does a vibrant burst of red or the delicate fade of blue appear the same to everyone? Or does each of us experience a slightly different reality?” The five artists “push the boundaries of how we see and feel colour”; the show’s title “was born from a fleeting yet vivid moment—passing by a florist and being struck by the explosion of hues\, an everyday spectacle that suddenly revealed itself as something more …” \nTo 17 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/flower-shop/
LOCATION:Volery Gallery\, Maze Tower - 5201\, Dubai International Financial Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
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SUMMARY:April Acts 2025: to carry new formations
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural edition of April Acts\, a weekend initiative expanding on the curatorial framework of Sharjah Biennial 16 and held across various  SB16 venues\, has the title to carry new formations – an extesion of SB16’s theme\, to carry. The April Acts programme “endeavours to build constellations of gathering and dialogue across multiple positions\, societal experiences and ongoing transitions … How can we reimagine and critically investigate our current situations or positions to construct and manifest new approaches to resistance\, reciprocity\, communal networks and life-enabling systems and structures?” \nThrough guided walks\, panel discussions\, artist talks\, participatory workshops\, film screenings and live music\, April Acts aims to create “a polyphonous space that invites multiple perspectives to co-exist and thrive”. Among the offerings are a listening session with Singing Wells; self-publishing workshops using several printing techniques such as Risograph\, including one led by Bhumika Saraswati and Siddhesh Gautam (founders of the magazine All That Blue); discussions with artists such as Brian Martin\, Yhonnie Scarce and Megan Cope; and a screening of First Horse (2024) by Awanui Simich-Pene. \nBaşak Günak\, Berke Can Özcan\, Sandy Chamun and Hauptmeier I Recker will collaborate in a performance based on their sound installation in the Biennial; Koleka Putuma will offer a performance titled WATER (reprise); and there will also be a series of performances based on the SB16 work He Kōrero Pūrākau mō te Awanui o te Motu: Story of a New Zealand river (2011). \nIt’s free\, but pre-register via this link. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/april-acts-2025-to-carry-new-formations/
LOCATION:vrs SB16 locations\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Biennial,Performance,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
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SUMMARY:Art Dubai 2025
DESCRIPTION:Art Dubai’s core gallery programme will feature over 120 participants across four sections as befire: Contemporary\, Modern\, Bawwaba (featuring exclusively new work) and Art Dubai Digital. Works on sale are included in the excellent online catalogue for browsing. \n\n\n\nAway from the commercial side the programme includes a series of site-specific works and interventions\, including performances at the fair by Mexican artist Héctor Zamora and an installation by New York-based artist Ania Soliman plus an ambitious new digital installation by Mohammed Kazem\, commissioned by Julius Baer. Alia Zaal Lootah  has curated a selection of Dubai Collection works under the title ‘Encounters’. \nThere’s the always-excellent Global Art Forum (the theme this year is ‘The New New Normal’) and the second edition of Art Dubai Digital’s Digital Summit. The Art Dubai Modern Talks programme is back too\, a series supporting “Art Dubai’s commitment to scholarship and unexplored art histories” that usually delivers some good isnights; also worth catching will be the Conversations with Artists strand of generally informal chats. \nAnd at the end of each day there’s music and dancing at The Art Bar on Fort Island – under the label Art Dubai After Dark\, we’re prmised “some of the best up-and-coming DJs from around the world and locally\, delivering great vibes throughout the night”. \nArt Dubai takes place at Madinat Jumeirah from 18 to 20 April\, 2-9 pm (midday to 6pm on 20 March). There are also invitation-only previews on 16 and 17 April. A one-day ticket is AED 100\, a three-day pass is AED 200; you can buy tickets at the site\, but it makes sense to pre-purchase via the Art Dubai app or Platinumlist.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/art-dubai-2025/
LOCATION:Madinat Jumeirah\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250418T170000
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SUMMARY:Curators Talk: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
DESCRIPTION:The latest in the NYUAD Art Gallery’s series of conversations with curators features Shabbir Hussain Mustafa\, Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi In this conversation with the Art Gallery’s curator Duygu Demir\, he will discuss some his curatorial projects and reflect on the exhibition as “a field of struggle: where forms of storytelling\, archival dissonance\, and epistemic tension gather …” \nHe may also face audience questions about when exactly the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will – which may be later this year\, nearly 20 years after plans were unveiled and 14 years after construction began: there again\, it may be delayed again …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/curators-talk-shabbir-hussain-mustafa/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250418T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250418T213000
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CREATED:20250403T151237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T151617Z
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SUMMARY:Korean National University of Arts Symphony Orchestra: Jaewon Wee and Sang Hyeok Park
DESCRIPTION:The KNUA Symphony Orchestra have their Arab World Premiere with this Abu Dhabi Festival performance under the baton of Chung Chi-Yong\, one of the country’s most celebrated conductors. For this evening\, KNUA Symphony Orchestra the soloists the award-winning violinist Jaewon Wee and cellist Sang Hyeok Park. They will be performing a programme of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky\, preceded by an extract from the ballet Princess Bari by Korean composer Geon-yong Lee.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/korean-national-university-of-arts-symphony-orchestra-jaewon-wee-and-sang-hyeok-park/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250418T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250418T220000
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SUMMARY:Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:April’s Laughter Factory tour features Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival favourite Eman El Husseini\, about-to-be-big US standup Maher Matta\, and top local talent Valentina Danubio\, 2023 winner of Survival of the Funniest. Here are the other upcoming gigs: \n19 Apr Vintage Grand Hotel\n24 Apr The Club\, Abu DHabi\n25 Apr Radisson Hotel DAMAC Hills\n26 Apr Dukes The Palm \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-6/
LOCATION:The Agenda\, Abdullah Omran Taryam St\, Media City\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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