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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261207
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SUMMARY:Children's Biennial
DESCRIPTION:What a good idea this is: the Abu Dhabi Festival is running the first outdoor children’s art biennale in the Middle East Under the theme How the World Feels\, the Biennale will explore how children experience the world through touch\, sound\, movement and light. \nFeaturing works and workshops by UAE-based artists and an international collaboration with National Gallery Singapore\, the Biennale – curated by Dana Almazrouei – will offer family sessions\, workshops and an interactive guide Nine participating artists are Alia AlShamsi\, Aya Afaneh\, Hana El-Sagini\, Moza Almatrooshi\, Moza Almazrouei\, Meera Almazrooei\, Nada Almosa and Sarah Afaneh\, plus Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho; says the blurb\, “they will transform Umm Al Emarat Park into a space where audiences of all ages can encounter art through touch\, sound\, movement and light … Through open-ended experiences\, children are invited to experiment\, question\, collaborate\, imagine and create their own meanings”. \nSays Dana Almazrouei: “We wanted to ask the kind of questions adults often stop asking: what stories lie beneath the soil? How does sound travel through a park? Working with each artist\, we thought first about how a child would experience the piece\, and what they might carry with them afterwards … Play is how children come to understand the world. As historian Johan Huizinga observed\, play creates temporary worlds shaped by shared rules and imagination\, and that’s what we hope this park becomes. It isn’t just a way to make art accessible; it’s how children think\, discover and build their own stories\, together.”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/childrens-biennial/
LOCATION:Umm Al Emarat Park\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Family/kids
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTSTAMP:20261105T110905Z
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SUMMARY:Mahmoud Moussa: Sculpture\, Form & Memory
DESCRIPTION:The UAE’s first solo exhibition dedicated to the Egyptian sculptor. Mahmoud Moussa (1913–2003) is described by Maha Al Mansoori Art Gallery – which is responsible for this short-run Frieze-adjacent show – as one of the most important figures in Arab modernism. \nCurated by Al Mansoori\, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with Motion Gallery in Cairo. It considers how material can hold memory\, how reduction can intensify expression\, and how subjects drawn from lived experience can achieve a presence that exceeds their immediate reference; as the gallery has it\, “rather than imposing a single interpretation\, it invites sustained attention to the relationship between each work’s physical construction and its emotional register … Moussa’s sculptures offer a compelling proposition: that the significance of sculpture need not depend on scale or spectacle. It may instead reside in the precision of a contour\, the balance of a volume\, or the quiet transformation of stone into a form that remains at once familiar and enigmatic”. \nMaha Al Mansoori Art Gallery will move into a permanent space in the UAE capital early in 2027. \nImage: Mahmoud Moussa\, Untitled (1968)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/mahmoud-moussa-sculpture-form-memory/
LOCATION:Region Concept Space\, MiZA\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Sculpture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTSTAMP:20261105T094529Z
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SUMMARY:DIFC Art Nights
DESCRIPTION:Under the theme Future Forms\, DIFC Art Nights claims to feature more than 600 artworks in exhibitions\, “interactive art installations”\, creative workshops\, live artistic performances and musical entertainment. This edition also has a dedicated Emirati heritage art corner with works by Alia Bent Sultan and Kira Melnikova\, live Arabic calligraphy by Mohammad AlTamimi\, and a hands-on workshops delivered by thejamjar; and there’s an Art Connects Women showcase of works by 120 women artists.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/difc-art-nights/
LOCATION:DIFC Gate Village\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTSTAMP:20261003T112522Z
CREATED:20260928T141821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T112522Z
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SUMMARY:Down to Earth 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Jameel’s annual festival for eco-consciousness and sustainability is back for its seventh edition in the Arts Centre and across the Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park. Expect a weekend of botanical inspirations\, workshops\, performances\, tours and family-friendly activities alongside artists\, gardeners\, makers and communities. \nThe retail end is the curated Green Bazaar\, with “a thoughtful mix of plants\, sustainable homewares\, vintage treasures\, preloved fashion\, locally made products and eco-conscious finds from local and emerging businesses”; the Art Jameel Shop will also have a special edit of books\, gifts and design objects centred around sustainability\, ecology and contemporary art. \nit’s open 3pm to 10pm on Saturday\, 3-8pm on Sunday.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/down-to-earth-2026/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Environment,Family/kids
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261120
DTSTAMP:20261103T171356Z
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SUMMARY:Sharjah Architecture Triennial: opening week
DESCRIPTION:The third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial runs 14 November to to 14 April under the theme Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures. \nCurated by Vyjayanthi Rao\, with Tau Tavengwa as Associate Curator\, SAT03 brings together 35 participants working across architecture\, art\, design\, urbanism\, research and other fields. Together\, they explore how architecture can contribute to collective life and respond to the rapidly changing conditions of our world. \nThe opening week programme (14-19 November) is the busiest\, of course\, with a range of panel discussions\, workshops\, screenings\, tours and other public activations across Sharjah – full details here. It is free and open to the public. Register your attendance here.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sharjah-architecture-triennial-opening-week/
LOCATION:[various Sharjah locations]
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Urbanism
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTSTAMP:20261006T105609Z
CREATED:20261006T105518Z
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Mayer: Hannibaby and Zarafa
DESCRIPTION:Two further performances of Sebastian Mayer’s Hannibaby and Zarafa. Hannibaby manifests as a walkabout performance by a life-sized baby elephant puppet\, alongside a workshop series instructing families in the art of creating and decorating their own 3D elephant masks. It also includes family-friendly movement games and other playful puppetry activities. Zarafa retraces the journey of the first giraffe in France as a life-size giraffe puppet that conducts walkabouts for audiences and plays host to a community canvas at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. \nThere are performances at 4–6pm and again at 6–8pm. \nThis is part of the fifth edition of Perform Sharjah\, Sharjah Art Foundation’s season of curated performances that serve as an engaging space for exploring\, remembering and imagining – “treating the body as a site of artistic inquiry\, the programme shifts fluidly between intimate reflection and collective experience”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sebastian-mayer-hannibaby-and-zarafa-2/
LOCATION:Sharjah Art Foundation\, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi\, Arts Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTSTAMP:20261106T125426Z
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare for Kidz: Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:A thrilling\, child-friendly musical-thriller adaptation of Shakespeare’s play of shenanigans in the Scottish court with daggers and added witches. \nThe S4K (Shakespeare for Kidz) team has been bringing the world of Shakespeare to young people around the world for more than 25 years\, and their adaptations make for an ideal introduction. They were at the Cultural Foundation a year ago with A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and it was excellent. \nThere are performances at 11am and 3pm; it lasts about 90 minutes. \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/shakespeare-for-kidz-macbeth/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Family/kids,Theatre
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTSTAMP:20261003T151258Z
CREATED:20261003T150431Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial
DESCRIPTION:This 12th edition of the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial has the theme ‘Balance’ and features 297 works by 145 artists from around the world. It’s always an interesting visit because of the range of styles and techniques on show\, covering traditional and contemporary calligraphy as well as decorative art.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-sharjah-calligraphy-biennial/
LOCATION:Calligraphy Square – Sharjah Art Museum\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Calligraphy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
DTSTAMP:20261105T101811Z
CREATED:20261105T101705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261105T101811Z
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SUMMARY:Sliman Mansour: Promises and Scars
DESCRIPTION:A mini-retrospective for Sliman Mansour during Alserkal Art Week 2026 covering five decades of his work – “the first time since 2011 that such an extensive body of the artist’s work has been brought together in a single exhibition”\, says Fann à Porter\, which is organising it. \nThe works in this exhibition demonstrate how Mansour experimented with forms and materiality with an open eye to their politics. Mansour’s idealised landscapes and figures are celebrated for introducing a people to itself – images that promise a progressive anti-colonial romance with a guaranteed happy ending\, in which an oppressed people march confidently towards a destined freedom. \nMansour died in August. “This exhibition was originally planned to open in April in his presence; it now opens in his bitter absence.” \nImage: Sliman Mansour\, AlQuds – Metal (2003)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sliman-mansour-promises-and-scars/
LOCATION:Warehouse 46\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
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SUMMARY:History Otherwise: Women Modernists from the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Suheyla Takesh and Rémi Homs\, this exhibition features works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection\, including pieces by Inji Efflatoun\, Samia Halaby and Mona Saudi; it also has some archival exhibition posters dating from the 1940s to the 1990s\, highlighting the often-overlooked presence and influence of women artists in the region. \nThe works move across painting\, sculpture\, textiles and other media\, and the exhibition has four interconnected sections. ‘Introspecting’ examines portraiture as a way of seeing individuals and the relationships around them. ‘Documenting’ considers artistic responses to social life and political change. ‘Abstracting’ turns to experiments in form and visual language. And ‘Crafting’ places material knowledge and methods of making within the development of modern art. \nThe exhibition forms a central part of Alserkal Art Week (15 to 22 November) alongside gallery exhibitions\, guest projects and cultural programmes across the Avenue. \nImage: Meriem Meziane\, Women’s Orchestra from Rif (1969)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/history-otherwise-women-modernists-from-the-arab-world/
LOCATION:Concrete\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261115T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261115T160000
DTSTAMP:20261103T100734Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Book Club: Sense and Sensibility
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon dedicated to Jane Austen’s novel of love\, family\, heartbreak\, and societal expectations (which of course you could say about most of her novels. Maybe not Northanger Abbey …) This sort-of book club with tea and good conversation will revisit the Dashwood’s milieu to investigate whether Austen’s sharp observations about love and human nature still ring true today (and maybe whether the recent film was as good as Ang Lee’s). “Whether you’re a lifelong Austen admirer or discovering her work for the first time\, join fellow book lovers for an afternoon celebrating the enduring charm\, wit\, and wisdom of Sense and Sensibility …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/beyond-the-book-club-sense-and-sensibility/
LOCATION:Emirates Literature Foundation\, Dar Al Adaab\, Al Shindagha\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Book club,Words
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261115T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261115T213000
DTSTAMP:20261027T172935Z
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SUMMARY:Comedy at the Speakeasy
DESCRIPTION:The Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam – a great venue: quite intimate\, few distractions. Featuring surprise drop-ins\, fresh material\, and “the kind of intimate room where sitting in the front row is a decision you may come to regret”. The door price includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/comedy-at-the-speakeasy-11/
LOCATION:Moon Bar\, Mina Al Salam\, Madinat Jumeriah\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261115T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261115T220000
DTSTAMP:20261105T114417Z
CREATED:20261105T113815Z
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SUMMARY:Dubomedy's Stand-up Showcase
DESCRIPTION:An evening of stand-up with graduates of Dubomedy’s Stand-up Workshops plus special guests. Free\, but you’re recommended to pre-register because spaces are limited and go fast …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/dubomedys-stand-up-showcase/
LOCATION:La Vue\, Pullman Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Towers\, Cluster T\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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