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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
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SUMMARY:Art Seeding Festival: Al Khayat Chapter
DESCRIPTION:An interesting concept: “art can be ‘seeded’ into the urban environment\, where it evolves over time through interaction with people\, space\, and context … Rather than presenting finished works within gallery walls\, the festival invites artists to engage directly with the city — through murals\, installations\, and site-specific interventions. These works are encountered\, lived with\, and gradually absorbed into the identity of the place …” \nSo Art Seeding is essentially a street art festival. More specifically\, it’s a festival that references Al Khayat Avenue as an emerging cultural district — “extending the creative ecosystem of Dubai beyond established hubs and into new\, formative urban spaces”  via a festival “that moves beyond the traditional exhibition model and into the fabric of the city itself”. In practice this means artists from a range of countries and cultural backgrounds\, selected from an open call earlier this year and supplemented by around 100 students from Beyond Architecture Studio (one of the festival’s founders\, Sofia Tkach\, is also founder of B.A.S)\, will be creating works for the Festival including murals\, large-scale installations\, and studio-based projects (in Warehouse 33); in most cases this will be happening live\, so visitors can observe the artistic process in real time and engage directly with artists. \nThe programme also includes: \n\nPublic talks and panel discussions exploring art\, architecture\, and urban development\nHands-on workshops led by participating artists\nA live performance and public gathering on 19 May (the festival is being presented as a complement to Art Dubai)\n\nSofia Tkach is Director and Head Curator of the festival. The other two founders are Dmitry Melnikov\, the gallerist behind Reinvention Art Gallery (R/A/G); and Maria Kuznetsova\, producer. Between them they bridge architecture\, education\, curatorial practice\, and gallery-driven experimentation – all of which sounds like a decent basis for a placemaking artistic endeavour. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/art-seeding-festival-al-khayat-chapter/
LOCATION:Al Khayat Avenue\, 10 19 Street\, Al Quoz\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Street art
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SUMMARY:Gloria! dir Margherita Vicario (2024)
DESCRIPTION:Set in a Venetian boarding school for orphaned girls at the end of the 18th century\, Gloria! tells the story of a group of talented young musicians who are determined to make music. There’s a mischievous musical anachronism at the film’s heart\, and the young female cast that delivers it has real chemistry It’s the directorial debut of actor-musician Margherita Vicario\, who knows what she’s talking about … \nThis Italian film is the opener for the European Film Festival\, organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the UAE in partnership with the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah Art. Through a curated selection of titles ranging from award-winning productions to emerging voices in European cinema\, and with impressively discounted ticket prices\, the Festival aims to highlight the richness and diversity of Europe’s film landscape.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/gloria-dir-margherita-vicario-2024-2/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260518T191500
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SUMMARY:The Art of Standup / Find the Funny
DESCRIPTION:Dubai comedy heavyweight Miqdaad Dohadwala (main man at Mad Cat Comedy) explores stand-up as a serious creative craft\, has some practical advice to would-be comics\, and offers thoughts about why Dubai’s comedy scene is so strong right now. This chat is followed by a practical demonstration in the form of a AED 200 comedy workshop with Miqdaad at 8.15pm. \nThese are among several events being run under the Rooted label\, a collaborative project involving five organisations who successfully applied for one of Alserkal Avenue’s free four-week community-oriented warehouse initiatives – “bringing together artists\, writers\, musicians\, makers and fashion creators to explore ideas of identity\, place\, and belonging in Dubai”. Rooted has events running to 13 June. Most are paid-for workshops\, and none the worse for that; we prefer not to list commercial workshop activities and classes\, however. The full calendar is here.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-art-of-standup-find-the-funny/
LOCATION:Warehouse 34\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Talk,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260518T200000
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SUMMARY:Carmen in Concert
DESCRIPTION:An evening of the best-known arias and orchestral moments from Bizet’s evergreen opera: “the concert brings to life the spirit\, passion\, and dramatic intensity that have made [Carmen] one of the most beloved operas in the world … Performed as a symphonic concert\, the programme places the focus entirely on the richness of Bizet’s music\, the beauty of the vocal performances\, and the vivid character of the orchestral score … ” The UAE National Orchestra (conducted by Ahmed Farag) performs with the Dubai Singers & The Stage House Choir (choirmaster Howard Wong); soloists are Laeticia Goepfert (Carmen)\, George Wanis (Don José)\, Fernando Araujo (Escamillo) and Luisa Mordel (Micaëla). \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/carmen-in-concert/
LOCATION:Dubai Opera
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