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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

Workspace Dubai 2025

Dubai World Trade Centre Dubai

Index Dubai sprawls around the Dubai World Trade Centre, with its best and most focused element being this 'workplace solutions' tradeshow-within-a-show. More than 100 designers and brands will be promoting their workplace furniture, technology and equipment; the accompanying Workspace Summit [ ... ]

Free, but pre-register

Bruno Sfeir: The Return to Essence

Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi

A solo exhibition for the Lebanese-Uruguayan painter. We're promised "a profound journey through imagination, memory, and abstraction ... With this poetic metaphor, the artist gestures toward a body of work that resists confinement. His paintings, like the river he evokes, [ ... ]

Free

A Tale of Two Sisters: dir Kim Jee-woon (2003)

Mohammed Bin Rashid Library Al Jaddaf, Dubai

After a stint in a mental hospital, Korean teen Su-mi reunites with her beloved sister Su-yeon and they return to live at their family home. The girls' father has remarried, and the siblings are immediately resentful of his new wife. [ ... ]

Free

The Host: dir Bong Junho (2006)

Mohammed Bin Rashid Library Al Jaddaf, Dubai

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste had been dumped in it, The victim's loving family is thrust into battle with the creature to rescue her .. [ ... ]

Free

Pencil In

421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi

A writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]

Free

Bring Your Boss Corporate Academy Training Session

Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai

A free taster session for the Courtyard's corporate training courses aimed at "business leaders, HR professionals, and curious teams to experience" for them to expeirence "how we use improvisation to build real-world workplace skills like collaboration, communication, and leadership". It’s [ ... ]

Free, but pre-register

For the Love of the Levant

RAW Coffee Company 7A Street, Al Quoz, Dubai

"A heartfelt evening of art and advocacy" organised by Dubomedy and RAW Coffee in collaboration with the Palestinian Business Council. Ali Al Sayed hosts a bill that includes comedy from him and Mina Liccione, plus Charles Hbeiliny, Isra Abu Zayed, [ ... ]

Free, but donagtions welcome

Shrek the Musical

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

The always excellent Abu Dhabi Choral Group, the city's best-established and best-regarded community theatre company, offers this "hilarious and heartwarming" adaptation of the popular film, a successful Broadway and West End musical (music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by [ ... ]

AED 105

PowerPointless Networking Night

Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai

One of the most consistently funny of the Courtyard's classic improv gigs is back after a couple of months' hiatus: the speakers have to give a presentation on a slide deck they’ve never seen before, with the topic determined at [ ... ]

Free

Echoes of Earth – Nature Voices in Motion, Sound and Light

Zayed Theatre, SUAD Campus Hazza Bin Zayed St, Abu Dhabi

An "immersive performance" that blends classical music, theatrical narrative and video projections "to awaken the senses and inspire environmental consciousness ... in a powerful celebration of the natural world and a moving reflection on the collective responsibility to protect it". [ ... ]

AED 75

Just Being Koy

Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

The ever popular Jo Koy's brings his current tour to the big stage at Etihad Arena as part of Abu Dhabi Comedy Week. Expect an evening of Filipino culture-centric anecdotes drawn from a colourful family and a load of life [ ... ]

From AED 180

Stand-up Comedy Night

Bay Club DoubleTree by Hilton, Business Bay, Dubai

"Dubai’s funniest comics" gig in Business Bay, courtesy of the comedykix  crowd.

Free