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Youth Takeover 2025

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

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 [ ... ]

Free

LAST CHANCE Adrian Pepe: A Shroud is a Cloth 

NIKA Project Space Unit 11 Al Khayat Avenue, 19th Street Road — Al Quoz 1, Dubai

Adrian Pepe’s poetic meditation on fragmentation and renewal gets an extended run at NIKA Project Space. It uses a monumental 200m2 woollen textile piece that previously wrapped a building damaged in the 2020 Beirut Port explosion to highlight the relationship [ ... ]

Free

LAST CHANCE Laura Garcia Karras: Eidolon

Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

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). Karras’s works appear as delicate traces [ ... ]

Free

LAST CHANCE Flower Shop

Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

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 [ ... ]

Free

Zhou Song: Supernatural·Algorithm

Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

Zhou Song's solo show echoes traditional Chinese landscape painting but employs symbolic imagery to explore relationships between nature, technology, and faith. The 'anthropomorphic tree' is central, serving as a metaphor for nature’s alienation by technology – "these trees retain natural [ ... ]

Free, but book appointment slot

Music Loves Company presents Comedy Kix

Music Loves Company Sky Quarter , Mobility District, Expo City, Dubai

Comedy Kix presents some of Dubai’s top Desi stand-ups – Nitesh Chaturvedi, Emaad Siddiqui, Adil Javed, Faizan Nassan, Piyush Malhotra, and Prateek Hiranandani (the show will partially be delivered in Hind). The door price includes a free drink.

AED 85

Moon Is The Oldest TV: dir Amanda Kim (2023)

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

Kim's documentary profiles the career of Nam June Paik and his pioneering contributions to video art. A timely meditation on the contradictory ways in which technology elicits both fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding, the film charts Paik’s artistic evolution with [ ... ]

Free

Les Quatre Cents Coups | The 400 Blows: dir François Truffaut (1959)

Louvre Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Truffaut's largely autobiographical coming-of-age drama is the classic French New Wave film and utterly unmissable. In the first of many appearances with the director, Jean-Pierre Léaud is a misunderstood 13-year-old living in a small, uncomfortable Parisian apartment with his mother, [ ... ]

AED 30

The Temple

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

As part of International Jazz Month in Abu Dhabi, The Temple makes its public debut – an evening with some of the UAE’s most creative improvisers. It's curated by Ratish Chadha, who also plays in a couple of the slots. [ ... ]

AED 105

The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

Vintage Grand Hotel Al Fay Road, Dubai

This month's Laughter Factory tour. The acts: Aaron Butler engaging Belfast-born stand-up known for his high spirited stage presence Justin Panks observational comic with a genius for approaching seemingly everyday subjects from extraordinary angles. Roxy Yekta UK-born Iranian comedian with [ ... ]

AED 160