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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261028
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SUMMARY:𝗔𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗜 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗮𝗵
DESCRIPTION:ATypI is the Association Typographique International\, the nonprofit global forum for type and typography. It was established in 1957 to unite European type manufacturers at a time of technological change and to promote typography education and awareness in general. Its annual conference has taken place every year since its foundation\, but this is its first time in the Middle East. \nThe programme has four packed days of keynote lectures\, talks\, workshops\, exhibitions\, and “cultural experiences” celebrating typography across languages\, cultures\, and disciplines. The theme is Between — Tradition | Transition | Transformation\, “exploring how typography moves across scripts\, disciplines\, tools\, cultures\, and time”. In fact the sessions look rather less staid and academic than this implies. \nThe member price is $650 for the four days\, and there’s a $300 rate for students.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/%f0%9d%97%94%f0%9d%97%a7%f0%9d%98%86%f0%9d%97%bd%f0%9d%97%9c-%f0%9d%9f%ae%f0%9d%9f%ac%f0%9d%9f%ae%f0%9d%9f%b2-%f0%9d%97%a6%f0%9d%97%b5%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%bf%f0%9d%97%b7%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%b5/
LOCATION:University of the Arts\, University City\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Typography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
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SUMMARY:MAWASIM: 20 Years of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art
DESCRIPTION:Christie’s first live auction of fine art in Abu Dhabi takes place on 1 November\, preceded by two viewing days open to all. There will be more than 70 works from six decades of museum-quality art that traces the evolution of artistic practices across the Middle East and North Africa. \nHighlights include … \nPaul Guiragossian\, Noces (1958-59) A vibrant wedding scene that reflects Guiragossian’s enduring themes of home\, community and human connection; the work was exhibited at his first major exhibition in Lebanon in 1959. Estimate: $300\,000-500\,000 \nSamia Halaby\, Yesterday (1978) An important work from Samia Halaby’s 1970s\, when the Palestinian-American artist forged her distinctive language of geometric abstraction. Estimate: $200\,000-300\,000 \nMohamed Melehi\, A30 (1962: right) From Mohamed Melehi’s seminal 1960–62 series of ‘black works’\, reflecting his experimentation with the bianco e nero technique and his engagement with Zen and Sufi. Estimate:$100\,000-150\,000 \nNadia Saikali\, Mandala Bleu Nuit (1982) From an important mature phase of Saikali’s work\, characterised by its meditative and spiritual abstraction. Four other works from the Barjeel Art Foundation are also offered in the sale.  Estimate: $30\,000-50\,000 \nMarwan Kassab-Bachi\, Kopf (Head) (1987) A pivotal moment in the evolution of Marwan’s portraiture\, moving from the horizontally stretched facial landscapes of the 1970s towards the vertical\, frontal heads that became a defining motif of his mature practice. Estimate: $200\,000-300\,000 \nInji Efflatoun\, Untitled (1987) One of Inji Efflatoun’s last works\, representing the culmination of the Egyptian modernist’s practice\, characterised by a lyrical synthesis of nature and the built environment through expressive colour and line. One of eight works from the Dalloul Collection offered in the auction. Estimate: $40\,000-60\,000 \nThe auction will be accompanied by a programme of previews\, talks and educational events; details to be announced “in due course”\, but signing up for Christie’s mailers will presumably get you advance information.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/mawasim-20-years-of-modern-and-contemporary-middle-eastern-art/
LOCATION:The Abu Dhabi Edition\, Al Bateen Marina\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Auction,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261030
DTSTAMP:20261002T145238Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Talal Moualla: The Table of Absence
DESCRIPTION:For more than five decades\, the Syrian artist\, poet\, and critic Talal Moualla has approached the image not simply as representation\, but (says the gallery) “as a form of thought … Moving between painting\, criticism\, poetry and research\, his practice asks how the visible can carry an idea\, shape consciousness\, and open new ways of understanding human existence. The Table of Absence brings this lifelong enquiry to one of its most distilled forms”. \nIn Moualla’s work\, the table is a symbolic structure\, a place where human beings recognise one another’s presence – “around it coexist memory and mourning\, intimacy and estrangement\, love and betrayal\, birth and death … Yet as the enquiry deepens\, even the table begins to disappear. It is reduced to a circle\, a plate\, a geometric sign\, a pale field\, until it approaches emptiness itself”. So “the image no longer delivers an answer; it becomes a way of thinking through the question”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-talal-moualla-the-table-of-absence/
LOCATION:K Gallery\, Al Barari\, Seventh Heaven\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T123000
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SUMMARY:Story of Art II: The Great Obsessions – Standing Together\, Paul Guiragossian
DESCRIPTION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation’s monthly lecture series\, led by Dr Michaela Watrelot\, BFAF Curator and Director of Exhibitions\, returns with a second series – this one on individual artists rather than art movements. Nine monthly lectures\, running to next June\, will each look closely at a single artist whose work was shaped by a figure\, a place\, a face or an artistic problem to which they kept returning. \nThis opener considers Paul Guiragossian\, subject of a current exhibition at BFAF. Guiragossian made the human figure the core of his visual language; the lecture traces the figure from intimate portraits of his mother and family to increasingly distilled compositions in which individual bodies merge into a collective human presence. Even as the figure dissolves into upright passages of colour and gesture\, humanity never disappears. \nImage: Paul Guiragossian\, L’Echarpe (1990)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/story-of-art-ii-the-great-obsessions-standing-together-paul-guiragossian/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T170000
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SUMMARY:First Chapter Launch
DESCRIPTION:The launch event for the sixth cycle of ELF’s First Chapter\, the only global-standard professional development scheme in the region for writers. Meet this year’s mentors\, discover what’s in store for the new cohort\, and celebrate the release of The Squatters\, the debut novel from former First Chapter fellow Saba Brelvi.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/first-chapter-launch/
LOCATION:Fiker Institute\, 42 17th St\, Al Quoz\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Words
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T200000
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SUMMARY:Joke Jam
DESCRIPTION:The Pepp’s regular early-evening showcase of Dubai’s local comedy talent\, always with four standups on stage.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/joke-jam-3/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261029T220000
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SUMMARY:The Comedy Lab
DESCRIPTION:Mad Cat Comedy’s regular Thursday stop in Silicon Oasis promises “insane laughs every week”.  The door price of AED 99 includes one drink and popcorn.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-comedy-lab-2/
LOCATION:Radisson Red\, Dubai Digital Park\, Dubai Silicon Oasis\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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