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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
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SUMMARY:Short+Sweet Dubai
DESCRIPTION:One of two 10-minute play festivals running concurrently in Dubai on six successive weekends with a basically similar format. This one is probably the more familiar name; it’s been running in Dubai for some years\, latterly as a franchise but now under direct control from the Short +Sweet organisation (the principle of a festival of 10-minute plays is common enough\, but S+S has put a lot of effort and experience into the format\, the rules\, the judging criteria\, and everything else you need for a successful event). Each of the S+S Dubai weekends (9-10 May is a break) features afternoon and evening sessions for 10 plays\, meaning you could see something around 80 microplays if you attended all weekend performances up to 16-17 May – the best return to compete for the top prizes on the Gala Weekend\, 23-24 May. \nTimes\, dates\, prices: \n3.00-5.00pm 18 April AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 18 April AED 120\n3.00-5.00pm 19 April AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 19 April AED 120\n3.00-5.00pm 25 April AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 25 April AED 120\n3.00-5.00pm 26 April AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 25 April AED 120\n3.00-5.00pm 2 May AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 2 May AED 120\n3.00-5.00pm 3 May AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 3 May AED 120\n3.00-5.00pm 16 May AED 150 People’s Choice Semi-Final 1\n7.30-9.30pm 16 May AED 150 People’s Choice Semi-Final 2\n3.00-5.00pm 17 May AED 150 Judge’s Choice Semi-Final 1\n7.30-9.30pm 17 May AED 150 Judge’s Choice Semi-Final 2\n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/shortsweet-dubai/
LOCATION:New Covent Garden Theatre\, Mall of the Emirates\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
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SUMMARY:Anthony Akinbola: Get Well Soon
DESCRIPTION:Durags are stretchable fabrics worn over the head to shape and protect the hair; in Akinbola’s practice\, they are both culturally loaded objects and a material he can reconfigure. For this solo show\, Akinbola assembles durags into compositions that are drawn from the structure of classical floral still-life paintings. Translating this genre into fabric allows the image to form through construction; petals emerge through stitching\, density\, and layering. The flower is not painted; it is built. \nAlongside the floral arrangements\, Akinbola works through another motif: bricks. Says the gallery: “The brick pattern … introduces a different register: a wall\, a structure\, a longing. It gestures toward the search for something that lasts\, and toward the idea of home as legacy … The title Get Well Soon operates as both a cue and a condition\, an everyday phrase that carries hope and uncertainty at once”. \nThe exhibition also includes two installations that mark real time – a bouquet of helium balloons that deflate slowly over the course of the exhibition\, and a diffuser that releases a fragrance created by Akinbola to fill the space temporarily and then dissipate. \nTo 24 May. \nAbove: Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola\, Arrangements #001 (Montgomery) (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/anthony-akinbola-get-well-soon/
LOCATION:CARBON 12\, 17th Street\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTSTAMP:20260418T032849
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SUMMARY:Unfixed ground
DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition that approaches ‘ground’ as “something continuously produced: fractured\, inscribed\, and held in tension between erasure and persistence …” \nThe first of two spaces has works by Mandy El Sayegh\, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim\, Omar El Gurg\, and Rand Abdul Jabbar – painting\, sculpture\, and material assemblage that make visible the processes of layering\, repetition\, and transformation: Says the gallery: “Grids loosen into dense surfaces where language and gesture intersect\, while symbolic forms develop through accumulation and return. Elsewhere\, sculptural bodies appear suspended between terrain and figure\, suggesting ground as something both physical and imagined … Rather than resolving into fixed meanings\, these works hold multiple temporalities at once … The space becomes one of ongoing construction\, where meaning is contingent and continuously negotiated …” \nThe second space is quieter and more contemplative\, featuring works by Asad Faulwell and Dima Srouji where cycles of repetition and rupture unfold through painting and material fragments. Faulwell’s works have recurring gestures and figures\, “tracing forms of endurance that move between ritual and resistance”; Srouji’s practice introduces light and fragility through fractured elements without restoring them to wholeness. \nAcross both spaces\, “Unfixed Ground … reflects on how ground—whether material\, political\, or symbolic—is continually made and remade. In this context\, instability becomes generative: a condition through which forms are shaped\, undone\, and sustained”. \nTo 9 May. \nAbove: Rand Abdul Jabbar\, Earthly Wonders\, Celestial Beings (2019 – ongoing)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/unfixed-ground/
LOCATION:Lawrie Shabibi\, Unit 21\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTSTAMP:20260418T032849
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T180840Z
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SUMMARY:Samar Hejazi: In Circulation
DESCRIPTION:For her first solo exhibition in the UAE\, curated by Nadine Khoury\, Samar Hejazi presents a body of work that explores how forms shift\, unravel\, and reassemble over time. Working across textile\, printmaking\, and spatial intervention\, her practice suggests that meaning is something continuously in flux; the exhibition unfolds through a series of open-ended questions around stability\, resilience\, and transformation. “Hejazi’s works carry traces of memory and labour\, where making becomes inseparable from thinking\, and material itself operates as a system of knowledge …” \nTo 30 June.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/samar-hejazi-in-circulation/
LOCATION:Aisha Alabbar Gallery\, Warehouse C19\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
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SUMMARY:All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset
DESCRIPTION:“All the lands from sunrise to sunset”\, a phrase attributed to the Mesopotamian king Sargon of Akkad\, graphically invoked his claim to total dominion. Taking this assertion as both point of departure and provocation\, this exhibition includes works by Alla Abdunabi\, Fatma Al Ali\, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck (whose series of the same name provides the exhibition’s title) and Michael Rakowitz. Together they consider the persistence of imperialism through language\, image\, material\, and myth. \nSays the gallery: “Rather than presenting empire as a concluded historical form\, the exhibition treats it as an ongoing condition – one that mutates\, rebrands\, and embeds itself in contemporary visual culture … Across these practices\, the exhibition resists singular narratives. Instead\, it stages overlapping temporalities in which ancient empires\, colonial enterprises\, and contemporary geopolitical formations mirror and refract one another … Rather than offering resolution\, the exhibition invites sustained attention to the ways power endures\, adapts\, and continues to structure how the world is seen\, remembered\, and lived.” \nTo 1 June. \nAbove: Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck\, #FosilFuel (2018\, detail. From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/all-the-lands-from-sunrise-to-sunset/
LOCATION:Green Art Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTSTAMP:20260418T032849
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SUMMARY:Alserkal Art Month: weekend 1
DESCRIPTION:Alserkal Avenue’s Art Month (18 April to 19 May) includes a raft of individual events\, mostly at the weekends\, alongside the usual gallery opening hours – most of those we have listed separately in the Agenda. Here’s the schedule for the first Saturday: \n2-8pm The Yard WORKSHOP Wear Your Words\nLive screen printing throughout the afternoon and evening – bring a T-shirt or tote bag to be printed with a text by Shilpa Gupta\, directly referencing her light-text sculpture Still A Sky We Hold\, also located in The Yard and launching for the opening of Alserkal Art Month \n4pm Common Room CONVERSATION Subtle Sites of Power\nKevin Jones talks with Green Art Gallery artists Alla Abdunabi and Fatma Al Ali\, illuminating both their engagement with material and their taste for dismantling the logic of empire \n6pm The Yard PERFORMANCE ADIGA Music Band\nDubai-based Sudanese three-piece group that brings traditional Sudanese rhythms into the modern era \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/alserkal-art-month-weekend-1/
LOCATION:Alserkal Avenue\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T032849
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SUMMARY:Final Draft
DESCRIPTION:This interesting-looking event by the Ripple Collective\, a group of multidisciplinary designers and design-led retailers based in Abu Dhabi\, has been running for four years now with little fanfare. It offers a day of “the things we love most: good people\, good design\, good ideas and the potential impact of putting them all together”. So it’s not your usual design festival\, either in scale or content; but it does look like a good chance to meet and share. It’s free (preregister here) and it will be a small group – which should be for the better\, providing opportunities to interact and engage. \nThere are a couple of concurrent sessions to chose from; note that some sessions have limited spaces and so need preregistration – we’ve indicated those. The schedule: \n12.00 – 12.50pm Slash Sessions: The Impossible Spaghetti\nA “fun and informative workshop” that “will work towards the impossible”: defining something that is simultaneously true and untrue … Slash\, incidentally\, is the strategic design studio at the heart of the Ripple Collective. RSVP here  \n1.00 – 1.50pm Base Session: Adventures in AI\nRipple folk talk about their design approach to AI and what happens when it goes wrong. A live build session will put it to the test. \n1.00 – 1.50pm Fount Workshop: Doll Lab\nA “messy but manageable creative session” inspired by Alexander Girard’s Vitra dolls\, scrap wood and colour to excite your inner child (and your actual child too if you want). Fount is a “curated concept store” that’s part of Ripple … RSVP here  \n1.00 – 2.50pm Sadu Workshop: Craft in Action\nAn introductory to traditional Emirati/Bedouin Sadu hand-weaving. RSVP here  \n2.00 – 2.50pm Talk: Shaikha Al Ketbi – Common Grounds\nVisual artist Al Ketbi unpacks her four years in Japan – how it inspired her art\, her work on the UAE Pavilion at the Osaka Expo\, what cross-cultural creativity means in practice \n3.00 – 3.50pm UncleNado’s Listening Lounge\nA session for your ears and your eyes: the connection between good music and good album cover design \n3.00 – 3.50pm Slash Sessions: Spill the Chai\nBrewing karak has more to say about who we are than you’d think. This workshop is a space to listen\, to brew\, and to leave with something that stays longer than the taste … RSVP here  \n4.00 – 4.50pm Talk: Mohamed Dardiri – The Design/Making Battle \nBringing design to life – the link between designing something and then actually making it \n4.00 – 4.50pm Fabrica Workshop: Block Printing with Muge\nMake prints\, print prints\, admire your prints (Fabrica is the industrial design and craftsmanship studio in the Ripple orbit). RSVP here  \n5.00 – 5.50pm Talk: Music meets Design with Pho & Teenage Engineering\nBehind the sound and design of Teenage Engineering\, “one of the world’s coolest audio brands” \n5.00 – 5.50pm Fabrica Workshop: Block Printing with Muge\nAnother session as above. RSVP here  \n6.00 – 6.30pm break \n6.30 – 7.15pm Talk: Is This Emirati? with Saleh (La Petite)\nA conversation on contemporary Emirati design\, the culture that inspires it\, the expression it takes and the magic needed to bring it to life \n7.20-8.00pm Main Talk: The Long Way Home with Nuno Abreu\nA talk from the main man of Slash\, the design studio at the heart of Ripple\, on building a contemporary design scene through scarcity\, beauty\, and the perspective gained from distance
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/final-draft/
LOCATION:ERTH\, Khor Al Maqta Al Khaleej Al Arabi Road\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Design,Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T213000
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SUMMARY:X Fest DXB
DESCRIPTION:One of two 10-minute play festivals running concurrently in Dubai on six successive weekends with a basically similar format. This one is the Junction’s: each weekend features 10 to 11 original 10-minute plays\, meaning audiences will get the chance to see a diverse lineup of stories\, styles and performances in a single evening. Essentially you could see something up to 70 original microplays if you attended all weekend performances up to 16-17 May; the strongest return to the stage to compete for the top honours of the festival on the Finals Weekend\, 22-24 May. \nTimes\, dates\, prices: \n7.30pm 18 April AED 120\n7.30pm 19 April AED 120\n7.30pm 25 April AED 120\n7.30pm 26 April AED 120\n7.30pm 2 May AED 120\n7.30pm 3 May AED 120\n7.30pm 9 May AED 150\n7.30pm 10 May AED 150\n7.30pm 16 May AED 120\n7.30pm 17 May AED 120\n7.30pm 22 May tbc\n7.30pm 23 May tbc\n7.30pm 24 May tbc\n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/x-fest-dxb/
LOCATION:The Junction\, Unit H72\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T210000
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CREATED:20260402T090321Z
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SUMMARY:Opera Under the Dome by Firdaus Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Opera Under the Dome returns to Al Wasl Plaza\, with the Firdaus Orchestra introducing a fresh repertoire that we’re promised “captures the depth\, passion and drama of opera”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/opera-under-the-dome-by-firdaus-orchestra/
LOCATION:Al Wasl Plaza\, Expo City\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Concert,Opera
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T220000
DTSTAMP:20260418T032849
CREATED:20260401T114035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T114035Z
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SUMMARY:UAENO: From Screen to Stage
DESCRIPTION:The UAE National Orchestra plays orchestral arrangements of the music that accompanies several Emirati film productions – including Ishhafan\, Khalil Fi Mahab Al Reeh\, Freej\, Khiyanat Watan\, and Al Kameen.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/uaeno-from-screen-to-stage-2/
LOCATION:Ras Al Khaimah Cultural Center\, Al Nakheel\, Ras Al Khaimah
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260418T220000
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SUMMARY:The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:The final stop the Laughter Factory’s April tour. On the bill: \nRobby Collins winner of multiple Comics Choice Awards. Expect razor-sharp storytelling and laid-back swagger from the South African standup\nValentina Danubio Dubai favourite\, mines her real world experience of motherhood and post-baby body battles to the quirks of Dubai life and job hunting for comedy (and music)\nJohn Hague grounded\, relatable\, high-energy Laughter Factory debut for the English funnyman\nViswajit Dilip poet/storyteller
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-94/
LOCATION:Dukes The Palm\, Palm Dubai\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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