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SUMMARY:Sharjah Film Platform 9
DESCRIPTION:Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual celebration of indie/experimental cinema returns for its ninth edition with a 10-day lineup of films (26 of them) plus talks and artist development programmes. Screenings and events will take place at Mirage City Cinema\, SAF’s open-air theatre in Arts Square\, with some showings at VOX Cinemas at City Centre Al Zahia. \nOpening the festival is Letters (2025)\, an anthology of 17 short films by Josef Khallouf reflecting on Lebanon’s recent history. The programme also includes David Bim’s To the West\, in Zapata (2025)\, which follows a Cuban crocodile hunter’s struggle to provide for his family; Azeem Rajulawalla’s More Punk Than Punk (2025)\, a portrait of a Pakistani punk artist whose music brings together personal expression and political concerns; Minimals in a Titanic World (2025) by Philbert Aimé Mbabazi\, exploring an emerging friendship in the shadow of grief; and Hind Saeed Al Basti’s Alia & Meera (2026)\, a story of two best friends whose small lie uncovers a family secret. \nThe festival closes with Larissa Sansour’s highly rated recent feature\, An Incomplete Drowning (2026)\, a contemplation on the fragility of objects and their capacity to hold history. \nThis edition also premieres two newly completed short films supported by the Sharjah Film Platform Short Film Production Grant. In I Broke a Vase (2026)\, Asim Abdulaziz explores the haunting legacy of a former journalist; Fatima Wardy’s White Musk (2026) looks at the tensions that arise when a child is compelled to parent their own parent. \nAlways central to SFP is the Competition section\, showcasing documentary and fiction films released within the past two years. Nominated by an international committee of filmmakers and industry professionals\, all titles here are being shown in the UAE for the first time; a number of screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with the directors. \nFilms in the Competition section are eligible for the Sharjah Film Platform Awards across four categories: Documentary Feature\, Documentary Short\, Fiction Feature and Fiction Short. \nThe Director in Focus segment honours an iconic filmmaker through screenings of their landmark films. This year the accolade goes to Abderrahmane Sissako\, whose poetic films explore themes of exile and memory across Africa; a selection of his films will be screened\, among them Timbuktu (2014)\, Bamako (2006) and Black Tea (2024: still above). Sissako will share insights into his practice in a masterclass on 7 November. \nThe full programme is here; most feature tickets are a bargain AED 15\, some screenings are free.
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SUMMARY:Dubai Design Week
DESCRIPTION:Dubai Design Week goes from strength to strength as the region’s design festival and establising Dubai’s position as the design capital of the Middle East. This time there’s a very busy\, very programme around d3 includes installations\, new commissions\, exhibitions\, talks\, workshops\, a marketplace\, and the region’s leading fair for contemporary design\, Downtown Design. \nThe Middle East’s leading mainly-B2B fair for contemporary and high-quality design is full of globally acknowledged design brands\, but there’s a lot of regional design talent on show too – more than in previous years\, we felt\, which is probably a measure of the increasing confidence and the opportunities available. Downtown Design has its own website (here)\, is open to the public midday to 8pm 5 to 8 November (to 6pm on the last day)\, and unlike most DDW features has an entrance charge – AED 80 per day\, AED 150 for four days. \nElsewhere exhibitions abound. Many are experimental\, even esoteric\, but most are genuinely stimulating and several are bursting with practicality. We particualrly liked the UAE Designer Exhibition\, always a showcase of how younger designers are approaching the constraints and possibilities of applying materials to cultural identity; and Woods Bagot’s reflections on a busy 25 years in the region\, from hospitality design to urbanism. \nFive design practices have been selected for Abwab 2026\, DDW’s long-running commissioning programme – Dalia Rafeh\, Grace Shieh\, Kanaka Raghavan\, UBIK and VARUSSI\, founded by Owais Asif Khan and Samreen Junaid Wani. \nMoving away from its previous format of individual pavilion\, Abwab this time is a curated indoor group exhibition; its theme\, In Other Words\, seeks to look beyond language as speech or writing to the visual\, material and spatial systems through which knowledge\, memory and meaning are produced and exchanged. Audiences are able to move around\, between and through the works; so In Other Words considers language as something that can be inhabited\, inherited\, interrupted\, reassembled and understood differently according to where we stand. The responses to this brief are genuinely interesting – we particularly liked Dalia Rafeh’s Shhhhhhhh\, a 7m installation of red light that repeats the familiar Arabic letter ش and its association with the call for quiet. \nThe other big public-facing event is the Urban Commissions prize\, which this year went to Three Gardens and a Room from Reem Nassour’s NAO Architects studio – which “explores how the spaces around us can shape the way we feel\, move\, gather and connect”. The project reimagines the garden through interconnected environments arranged around a shared central space; it’s an exercise in deploying foliage\, colour\, shade\, thermal comfort\, materiality and filtered light to create variety for the visitor. \nAnd at the weekend (7-8 November\, ) the Marketplace will feature 80+ independent makers\, homegrown businesses and entrepreneurs\, alongside F&B and live performances. Always buzzy\, always interesting; check out the participants here. \n \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/dubai-design-week/
LOCATION:d3
CATEGORIES:Design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTSTAMP:20261104T135912Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Amir Khojasteh: May the Tree No Longer Burn When I Wake
DESCRIPTION:Amir Khojasteh’s third solo exhibition with the gallery presents the first body of work he has developed after leaving his home country\, Iran. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-amir-khojasteh-may-the-tree-no-longer-burn-when-i-wake/
LOCATION:CARBON 12\, 17th Street\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Recreating Gesture: Crafting a Gold Necklace from The Iron Age
DESCRIPTION:Following showings in Paris\, Lyon\, Seoul and Shanghai\, this exhibition – “a strategic research project for L’ÉCOLE\, at the crossroads of archaeology and the history of techniques\, and goldsmithing craftsmanship” – demonstrates the skills and techniques in reproducing a Celtic torque\, a neck collar discovered in 1843 in Montans (France) and dating from the Second Iron Age (450–25 BC). The exhibition project offers insights into the complexities behind the craftsmanship of this remarkable piece. \nAn Open House themed around the exhibition on 7 November invites the community to discover L’ÉCOLE through course demonstrations\, kids’ workshops\, guided tours and other activities. \nTo 24 April. \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/recreating-gesture-crafting-a-gold-necklace-from-the-iron-age/
LOCATION:L’ÉCOLE\, School of Jewelry Arts\, Building 10\, Dubai Design District\, Dubai
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SUMMARY:Ioannis Potamousis\, Elizabeth Han\, Yizhuo Meng\, and Stanford Yu: Fire\, Fantasy\, & Dance 
DESCRIPTION:A spectacular demonstration of musicianship: two grand pianos\, eight hands playing simultaneously\, a programme of exciting rhythms and orchestral delights reworked for the keyboard. \nThe programme: \nCharles Gounodx: Waltz from Faust\nMozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro\, K.492\nSaint-Saëns: Danse Macabre\, Op.40\,\nJS Bach: Siciliano from Flute Sonata in E-flat major\nStravinsky: Infernal Dance\, Berceuse & Finale from The Firebird\nChristos Papageorgiou: Money Mambo\nBernstein: Mambo from West Side Story\nRachmaninoff: Vocalise\, Op.34 No.14\nBizet: Carmen Fantasy \nPresented in Partnership with the NYUAD Music Program.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/ioannis-potamousis-elizabeth-han-yizhuo-meng-and-stanford-yu-fire-fantasy-dance/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
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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-23/
LOCATION:Radisson Red\, Dubai Digital Park\, Dubai Silicon Oasis\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Cocktails and Comedy
DESCRIPTION:“Dubai’s hottest comedy night” (aka the Mad Cat team) come to the moodily-lit speakeasy style bar in DIFC for a regular Thursday gig. The door price includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cocktails-and-comedy-2/
LOCATION:Bondz\, Unit 156 Level POD\, Emirates Financial Tower\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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