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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
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SUMMARY:Short+Sweet Dubai: weekend two
DESCRIPTION:Second day of the second weekend of the festival of 10-minute plays – 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. \nUpcoming times\, dates\, prices: \n3.00-5.00pm 26 April AED 100\n7.30-9.30pm 26 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-weekend-two-2/
LOCATION:New Covent Garden Theatre\, Mall of the Emirates\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE Rays\, Ripples\, Residue
DESCRIPTION:This major exhibition marks the ten-year anniversary of 421 Arts Campus and offers a chance to reflect on emergent artistic practices in the UAE\, their possibilities\, and challenges for the future. Featuring video\, performance\, installation\, and multimedia works\, it invites conversations around what it means to produce art in the UAE today from the vantage point of emerging artists\, collectives\, and grassroots initiatives\, to the influential role of cultural institutions that have supported and platformed these practices. \nIt’s realised through three curatorial perspectives\, all with time as a central theme: \nMunira Al Sayegh’s Leading to the Middle draws on the nature of expansion found within a ripple effect\, tracing the influence of key actors whose contributions have created lasting reverberations. Featured artists include Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim\, Tarek Al-Ghoussein\, Bait15\, Adele Bea Cipste\, Khaled Esguerra\, Lamya Gargash\, and Auguste Nomeiakaite. \nIn Ghosts of Arrival\, Nadine Khalil meditates on the layered experience of arriving after a time of artistic ferment\, risk-taking\, and a now-mythologized energy that shaped cultural production in the UAE from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. Rather than restaging or romanticizing the past\, Khalil proposes that the memory of risk itself becomes a material\, informing art-making and exhibition-building in the present. Featured artists include Tarek Al-Ghoussein\, Mona Ayyash and Nadine Ghandour\, Lucinda Childs\, Maria Daher\, Sarah Daher\, Cristalina Parra\, Bait Juma\, Hashel Lamki\, Sara Naim\, and Isaac Sullivan. \nMurtaza Vali’s SUN gathers artworks created and exhibited since 2015 that revolve around the idea and experience of the sun. Her section presents a nuanced view of the sun as a mediated and commodified presence – at once image\, data\, brand\, vibe\, and produc\, revealing the contradictions embedded in narratives of modernity and progress. Featured artists include Charbel-joseph H. Boutros\, Khalid Jauffer\, Raja’a Khalid\, Nima Nabavi\, Pratchaya Phinthong\, Sa Tahanan Co. (Jandri Angelo Aguilor\, Farah Fawzi Ali\, Preschelle Ann Bigueras\, Anna Bernice delos Reyes\, Alexandra Chaves\, Niño Consorte\, John Gatapia\, Balaram Ochangco\, Augustine Paredes\, Nicolas Roa)\, Shazia Salam\, and Lantian Xie. \nWhile all distinct in approach\, each section has a shared focus on the minor pivots rather than major inflection points. A look at overlooked gestures that accumulated over time\, Rays\, Ripples\, Residue illustrates the impact of subtle shifts that have shaped the past decade of art-making and exhibition building. It also sets the tone for the next decade of 421 and the UAE’s growing arts ecosystem\, asking what ideas will still carry forward into the next decade?
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-rays-ripples-residue/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20251028T102213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T115536Z
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE Image Keepers
DESCRIPTION:For its inaugural exhibition\, SAF’s Photography Gallery presents a panorama of artistic experimentation and engagement drawn from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection of photography. Says the Foundation: “the works navigate the sociopolitical terrain of the last six decades against a backdrop of the compressed\, and often fissured\, processes of modernisation and decolonisation”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-image-keepers/
LOCATION:Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20260223T133718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T112946Z
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE Memoryscape: Contemporary Visions Across the Arab Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:A group show for six contemporary artists of Arab descent: Gilbert Halaby\, Hanibal Srouji\, Hussein Baalbaki\, Richard Hearns\, Sarah Alagroobi\, and Soraya Abu Naba’a. Says the gallery: “At the heart of Memoryscape lies a shared inquiry into how our surroundings shape\, hold\, and recall our histories. For these artists\, the landscape is more than scenery\, it is an archive of experience\, a repository of emotion\, and a mirror of identity …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/memoryscape-contemporary-visions-across-the-arab-diaspora-2/
LOCATION:Artbooth Gallery\, Centro Capital Center\, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.4176064;54.4408235
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20260421T112154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T112240Z
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SUMMARY:Noor Al Suwaidi: The Sky Forgets\, the Heart Remembers
DESCRIPTION:In this exhibition of a new body of work\, curated by Cima Azzam\, Noor Al Suwaidi approaches colour as a field of sensation where form appears and dissolves within shifting tonalities – “figures hover at the edge of abstraction; colour gathers\, disperses\, and returns again … allowing forms to surface briefly before receding again\, like a feeling remembered but never fully named”. Alongside the paintings\, monochrome marble-like sculptures introduce a contrasting presence with absence of colour to offer a quiet counterpoint to the chromatic intensity of the canvases. And the gallery itself has been tuned to suit: “deep maroon walls hold the paintings in a state of quiet intensity … the architecture of the space has been softened. Surfaces are sanded and corners eased into gentle curves. The room no longer insists on edges. Instead\, it moves with a quieter rhythm that echoes the sensibility of the works themselves …” \nTo 30 July.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/noor-al-suwaidi-the-sky-forgets-the-heart-remembers/
LOCATION:Maraya Art Centre\, Al Qasba\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20260421T112821Z
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SUMMARY:Salmah Al Mansoori: Who I Become
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Cima Azzam and featuring artworks loaned by Firetti Contemporary\, this exhibition reflects an ongoing exploration of memory\, material\, and place by Salmah Al Mansoori\, an Emirati artist from Abu Dhabi. Her practice begins with acts of noticing: fragments\, residues\, and overlooked materials drawn from everyday life. These are reworked into new forms that carry both personal and collective memory; handmade paper\, infused with desert grasses\, palm fibres\, and natural pigments\, holds traces of landscape and labour\, while extending the life of what might otherwise disappear. Documentation gives way to transformation; what begins as an act of collecting becomes a process of reconfiguration\, where materials shift\, forms evolve\, and associations remain open. \nTo 30 July.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/salmah-al-mansoori-who-i-become/
LOCATION:Maraya Art Centre\, Al Qasba\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.322311;55.3762336
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260426T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20260422T091803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T091803Z
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SUMMARY:Salman ZQ and Friends
DESCRIPTION:A Mad Cat Comedy Sunday night regular\, featuring the group’s main man and mates in “a night of ridiculous stand up comedy” at one of Al Quoz’s hidden gems (no alcohol\, but good mocktails and t brilliant shots). The cover charge of AED 99 includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/salman-zq-and-friends/
LOCATION:Bocasu Specialty Coffee\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2048493;55.2707828
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260426T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260426T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20260414T181837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T181852Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Night Comedy Prom
DESCRIPTION:Dubomedy’s highly successful Sunday gig at Hushh in Social Distrikt gets a bit of a makeover to celebrate its 18 years of comic activity in Dubai. We’re promised “a night of laughs\, fits\, and unforgettable vibes” with Stand-Up Comedy Game Show (the audience choose who wins AED 1\,000) plus celebrations\, prizes\, a DJ and after-party dancing\, and “Prom Photo Moments” … Sounds fun!
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sunday-night-comedy-prom/
LOCATION:Social Distrikt\, The Pointe\, Palm Jumeirah\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.1268007;55.1219323
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260426T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260426T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T013843
CREATED:20260414T151819Z
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SUMMARY:X Fest DXB: weekend 2
DESCRIPTION:The second weekend for the Junction’s short play festival: 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. \nUpcoming times\, dates\, prices: \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-weekend-2-2/
LOCATION:The Junction\, Unit H72\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Theatre
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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