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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:20261114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261120
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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:20261123
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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;VALUE=DATE:20261117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261118
DTSTAMP:20261105T153416Z
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SUMMARY:The Territory Dreams Back
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition of newly commissioned and recent works by Rajni Perera\, Sancintya Mohini Simpson\, Soma Surovi Jannat\, Karan Shrestha and Rain Wu – five artists whose work offers different perspectives on our relationship with place. \nThe exhibition moves between mythology and memory\, migration and ecology\,political power and the systems through which places are mapped and organised. Says the gallery: “At its heart is the idea that places are shaped by more than their physical geography – land and water hold histories and memories; stories and beliefs influence how landscapes are understood; political decisions affect who can access and control land; and maps and infrastructure can change the environments they set out to describe”. \nTo 15 January. \nImage: Rajni Perera. Dark Matter (2025\, detail)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-territory-dreams-back-2/
LOCATION:NIKA Project Space\, Unit 11 Al Khayat Avenue\, 19th Street Road — Al Quoz 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
DESCRIPTION:Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-comedy-lab-easy-tiger-41/
LOCATION:Al Ain Palace Hotel\, Corniche Road\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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