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SUMMARY:Youth Takeover 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Jameel’s annual Youth Takeover is the manifestation of the Assembly\, an experimental learning programme designed to foster creative leaders aged 18 to 24 in the UAE\, “inviting the creation and curation of projects reflective of their generation’s areas of interest”. The Assembly 2024-2025 cohort comprises multimedia graphic designer Abrar Kebaili\, visual artist and designer Ayesha Fernandes\, multimedia designer and writer Desirée Barreto\, literary artist Ioanna Orphanide\, poet Jared Maxilom\, researcher and writer Manal Nadeem\, architect and researcher Omar Darwish\, exhibition designer Sanjushrree Subash\, and poet Syed Haider. \nThis year’s theme for the Youth Takeover – a physical takeover of spaces on the Jameel’s ground floor – is titled ‘Spoon Spade Shovel’. It covers experiments in how the Assembly members dig\, sift and stir through the world\, “offering a network of creative experiences as tools for excavation\, reflection and play … The exhibition presents a range of interdisciplinary works that use tools – literal and metaphorical – to question how we make and remake meaning”. These works sit uneasily beside one another\, but their differences are invitations rather than obstacles  “whether you sift or stir\, extract or excavate\, your experience will be shaped by the tool you reach for: its size\, scale\, heft and intent. You are invited to inhabit this instability and co-compose the meanings that emerge … What you take from this exhibition depends on what you bring to it”. \nThe artists are: \nAyesha Fernandes with Svabhu Kohli\nDesirée Barreto with Angie Pais and Mouza Al Hamrani\nIoanna Orphanide with Danae Orphanide and Ilya Akimov\nJared Maxilom with Halo-Halo Experiment\, Vinyl Souk and memoryall\nManal Nadeem with Khaled Esguerra and Jed Bacason\nOmar Darwish with Fatma Al Ali and Maitha Ali\nSanjushrree Subash with Danutė Vaitekūnaitė and Farheen Fatima\nSyed Haider with Hessa Lootah\, Souldier and Aqib Anwar \nBesides the commissioned artworks\, the Youth Takeover 2025 features a public programme. These are all free\, but re-registration is required: \n10 May 10 \n– Opening Preview and panel discussion with the Assembly 2024-2025 members and programme curators Abhirami Suresh and Nabeeha Sajjad\n– Musical Activation: Translating Oscillations by artist Mckie Alvarez\n– Musical Performance: ABRI \n11 May \n– Workshop: Synthesising Landscapes (Part 1) with Assembly members Ayesha Fernandes and Ioanna Orphanide \n17 May \n– Tour: Assembly-led exhibition tour\n– Workshop: Portable Beats – DIY Music with Pocket Operators. Music production workshop by artist PHO\, in collaboration with Vinyl Souk\n– Gathering: Storytelling – The Journey of Design by graphic designer Poorvaja Subramanian and Assembly member Abrar Kebaili\n– Musical Activation: Translating Oscillations by Madam Void \n18 May \n– Workshop: You may now sleep? by artist Henry Tan\n– Themed activation: me.me con by artist Fatima Raza and Assembly member Desiree Barreto \n24 May \n– Performance Tour: And the Tools Begin to Speak – Poets in Response to Spoon Spade Shovel by poets Ahmed Gihad Hamad\, Dania Dawn\, Jared Maxilom\, Malavika Suresh\, Pankaj Kanchandani\, Sarah Afaneh\, Shania Laude and Syed Haider\n– Performance: lorem ipsum 9-to-5 by Andres Ugartechea\n– Musical activation: Translating Oscillations by Joe Najm \n25 May \n– Tour: Assembly-led Youth Takeover 2025 tour\n– Workshop: Between the Gesture and the Ground by artists Aya Afaneh and Yoonsik Chico Park\n– Workshop: Dwelling in the In-between: A Workshop of Waiting\, Devotion and Movement by writer and performance artist Faraz Ali \n31 May \n– Tour and workshop: Family Saturdays at the Jameel by Assembly member Ayesha Fernandes\n– Workshop: Monuments and Enchantment – Inhabiting Urban Space by artist-researcher Maitha Ali\n– Musical activation: Translating Oscillations by PHO \n1 June  \n– Interactive performance: Synthesising Landscapes (Part 2) by artists Aakarsh Singh and Ahmed Bilal\n– Musical activation: Feedback Loops: A Sunset Sound Gathering by artists Cyrill Reaidy and Kirill Zhan of Moist Paper Party \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/youth-takeover-2025/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250516
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SUMMARY:Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits
DESCRIPTION:Now this should be one of the highlights of the UAE’s exhibition year\, not just because of the content – it’s subtitled explicitly ‘Contemporary Art from Korea\, 1960s to Today’\, and South Korea is home to some of the most interesting\, groundbreaking work of the last few decades years; and the exhibition design reflects that. \nThe exhibition is a selection of works from the Seoul Museum of Art\, curated by SeMA’s Kyung-Hwan Yeo and Maya El Khalil for the Abu Dhabi Festival\, and it aims to cover the “legacy of material and conceptual combination\, exchange\, hybridity\, and innovation” in the radical Korean contemporary art scene. The title echoes Nam June Paik’s vision of ‘open circuits’\, where connection and meaning flow beyond boundaries; so the exhibition immerses the viewer in “the fluid intersections of consciousness\, technology\, and art”\, specifically showing “how artists work with varied technologies to intervene in\, interpret and mediate different scales of experience\, from the individual\, the archival and the collective\, to the abstract and yet to become …” \nIt opens with a curatorial discussion (5-6pm) featuring Kyung-Hwan Yeo and Maya El Khalil with artists Byungjun Kwon and Choi Goen; that’s followed at 6.15pm with conversation between the co-curators and exhibition designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin from FormaFantasma. \nTo 30 June. \nAbove: Byungjun Kwon\, Dancing Ladders (2022) \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/layered-medium-we-are-in-open-circuits/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Yomeddine: dir Abu Bakr Shawky (2018)
DESCRIPTION:Beshay has been cured of leprosy but has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. On the death of his wife\, though\, he finally decides to leave in search of his roots. Joined by Obama\, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing\, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with all its sorrows\, its hardships and moments of grace\, in his quest for a family\, a place to belong\, and a little humanity … \nIn Arabic with English subtitles. This film screens as part of the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Cannes Nights series\, inviting the audience to “experience the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival” in collaboration with the Institut Français. Screenings take place in the museum’s auditorium.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/yomeddine/
LOCATION:Louvre Abu Dhabi\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:La Lezione di Teatro | The Acting Class
DESCRIPTION:This 45-minute play — first seen at the NYUAD Arts Center last autumn – is a joyful lesson in theatre and a tribute to the theatrical talent of Italians for connecting to anyone\, transcending language barriers. Set partly in English and partly in Italian (and without subtitles)\, the show ironically demolishes preconceived notions of the difficulty of theatre language and highlights how communication problems can be solved with theatrical bodywork \nThe plot is simple enough\, set in the tradition of the comedy of errors: an Italian actress (Francesca Bizzarri\, who also developed the piece) receives a student (played by Claudio Grilli) for a private drama lesson in her apartment; he is eager to learn the tricks of the trade\, she is thrilled at the idea of making him fall in love with Italian theatre. She sits him down and searches through her library\, preparing the ideal acting class for him – from Plautus to Pirandello via Dario Fo. The lesson falters on language problems\, and communication breaks down until the universal language of commedia dell’arte comes to the rescue …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/la-lezione-di-teatro-the-acting-class-2/
LOCATION:The Junction\, Unit H72\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:This month’s Laughter Factory tour has another good crop of fine up-and-coming talent. The acts: \nAaron Butler engaging Belfast-born stand-up known for his high spirited stage presence \nJustin Panks observational comic with a genius for approaching seemingly everyday subjects from extraordinary angles. \nRoxy Yekta UK-born Iranian comedian with witty crowd work and observational humour \nViswajit Dilip Dubai-based Indian comic\, a former Merchant Navy officer (container ships) whose comedy is inspired by his life at sea\, personal experiences\, and the quirks of living in Dubai \nThe rest of the bookings are … \n17 May Vintage Grand Hotel\n21 May Aura Sky Pool\n22 May The Club Abu Dhabi\n23 May Radisson DAMAC Hills\n24 May Dukes The Palm \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-40/
LOCATION:The Agenda\, Abdullah Omran Taryam St\, Media City\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Perfect Days: dir Wim Wenders (2023)
DESCRIPTION:This moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday tells the story of Hirayama\, a man who seems utterly content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside his structured daily routine\, he enjoys music\, books\, and photographing trees. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveals more about his past … Kôji Yakusho won Best Actor in Cannes for this heart-warming\, Oscar-nominated drama. something of a loveletter by Wim Wenders to the inhabitants of his beloved Tokyo. \nIn Japanese with English subtitles. This film screens as part of the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Cannes Nights series\, inviting the audience to “experience the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival” in collaboration with the Institut Français. Screenings take place in the museum’s auditorium.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/perfect-days-dir-wim-wenders-2023-2/
LOCATION:Louvre Abu Dhabi\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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