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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE White
DESCRIPTION:The annual Faculty exhibition of the Academy of Visual Arts at the University of the Arts\, Sharjah. The curator is Tor Seidel\, filmmaker and lecturer in photography and video at the Academy\, and his statement includes this summary of the show: “I invited my colleagues at the academy to explore the theme of ‘white’ and to imagine it as a colour\, as light\, as a concept\, and as a memory. A sculptor works with malleable materials\, carves stone\, fires it in a kiln\, and casts it in a foundry. Each process is an immersion in colour and in the questions of line and form\, which light can express in very different ways. A printmaker will consider which colours to use and what role white plays in the tones and in accentuation. The painter faces similar questions; he can draw on chiaroscuro techniques to create a dramatic scene. Painters face similar questions; they can use chiaroscuro techniques to create a dramatic scene. Photographers\, film and video artists\, and animators are particularly dependent on light as a fundamental element of their work: if they don’t want to rely on automated processes\, they face complex issues. But these are merely technical and aesthetic issues that need to be resolved. First\, however\, the artist must fathom the mystery of white …” \nExhibiting: \nGeorgina Abood interior architect\, designer\, researcher\nMohamed Yousif sculptor\, educator\nMuatasim Alkubaisy sculptor\, educator\nAlina Erimia fashion designer\, educator\nMuhammad Asad Iqbal multimedia designer\nThaier Helal painter\nIman Ibrahim designer\, associate professor at the College of Design\nAndreea Lonhardt textile artist\, fashion designer\, lecturer\nTor Seidel artist\, curator\, lecturer\nJoshua Watts visual artist\, printmaker\nMaryam Al Qassimi visual artist
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-white/
LOCATION:XVA Gallery\, Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood\, Bur Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260521T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260521T200000
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SUMMARY:On Spectacle Interventions with 421 Resident Alumni
DESCRIPTION:“This is not a talk\, and it is not spectacle for spectacle’s sake. It is an intervention (or perhaps\, a contemplation) inviting audiences to negotiate artists and their practices more critically and dynamically\, to engage with them\, and to enter into dialogue with them” (the nearest event category we have is ‘workshop’).  Former 421 residents UT-R Studio\, Tamara Barrage\, and Moza Al Mazrouei guide participants on a journey through 421’s campus\, pausing at junctures for “interventions that blur the lines between spectator and spectacle\, performer and viewer … These encounters invite us to reconsider how we engage with art\, space\, and one another”. The evening includes a “light dinner”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/on-spectacle-interventions-with-421-resident-alumni/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260521T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260521T203000
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SUMMARY:Cerrar los ojos / Close Your Eyes: dir Víctor Erice (2023)
DESCRIPTION:The Spirit of the Beehive director’s first feature in 30 years used a film-within-a-film structure to ruminate on memory\, ageing and cinema itself. A famous Spanish actor\, Julio Arenas\, disappears while filming; although his body is never found\, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident on a cliff by the sea. Then many years later\, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV show that tries to evoke the actor\, offering unseen images of the last scenes he filmed … \nThis Spanish film shows as part of 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/cerrar-los-ojos-close-your-eyes-dir-victor-erice-2023/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260521T190000
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SUMMARY:The Taste of Freedom: dir Oleksandr Berezan (2023)
DESCRIPTION:A young cook runs away from home to pursue her dream of becoming a chef at a prestigious restaurant in the city – but when she stumbles upon a cookbook from 1929\, authored by the legendary chef Olga Franko\, her life takes an unexpected turn … \nThis Ukrainian film shows in the Foundation’s Imaging Room as part of 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/the-taste-of-freedom-dir-oleksandr-berezan-2023/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260521T200000
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SUMMARY:Nataly Aukar
DESCRIPTION:Lebanese-born NYC-based comic\, a regular at Gotham Comedy Club and Union Hall shows in Brooklyn when she’s not touring – which she does a lot. This is a new show\, touring around Europe and North America as well as this local stop. She’s a classy\, clever comedian with a self-deprecatingly confessional line in talking about her life\, her fears\, her flaws\, and “everything that makes you a better person than she is”. A magpie favourite\, even at these somewhat elevated prices …. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/nataly-aukar-3/
LOCATION:New Covent Garden Theatre\, Mall of the Emirates\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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