The 35th edition of the book fair is its most festival-looking yet, with more than 1,400 events in total and six stages for sessions alongside 1,350 exhibitors from 95 countries. The programme also brings together winners of this year’s major [... more]
Ayyam Gallery's summer collective exhibition focuses on the colour orange: "occupying a unique space between intensity and comfort, orange embodies both vitality and reflection. Associated with sunlight, fire, ripened fruit, and shifting horizons, the colour carries a rich spectrum of [... more]
You don’t see enough ceramic art outside the interiors business, and then it just tends to be bowls; so this show by Double J Collective (“the first project based in Dubai exclusively dedicated to exhibit, promote and sell fine craft [... more]
Through the doors of Al Sha'biya, the traditional neighbourhoods that emerged in the 1970s, this exhibition tells the stories of generations of Emirati families, revealing the quiet ways people leave their mark on the places they call home. Organised by [... more]
A three-day discussion-based practical seminar (evenings, 6-9pm) investigating photography’s seeming constraint – its 'short shadow', edging in on what already exists – and how that makes it a radical driver of modern art and thought. The seminar leader is Rohit [... more]
Agatha Christie's second most successful play (The Mousetrap is probably uncatchable) is a country-house thriller-comedy with clues aplenty and a good helping of plot contrivances – including a most convenient hidden door in the study that of course leads to [... more]
“The music quiz that refuses to take itself seriously.” The Courtyard promises “a night of big tunes, tricky questions and questionable musical knowledge … Grab your team, pick a name and get ready to battle it out for the top [... more]
The Ukrainian National Ballet brings its version of The Marriage of Figaro to Dubai as a two-act comic ballet with a libretto by Yaremenko and Yuri Stanishevsky, choreography and staging by Viktor Yaremenko, and musical adaptation and additional composition by [... more]
Mad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
The UAE National Orchestra kicks off its second season with the World Premiere of three new Emirati compositions in a concert programme that invites audiences into a musical journey through the UAE from its founding story and landscapes to the [... more]
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