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SUMMARY:World Stage Design
DESCRIPTION:The international festival of design for performance\, held every four years\, is coming to the UAE for its 2025 edition. It features exhibitions\, performances\, workshops\, talks and panels where professionals share ideas and mingle with the consumers; read our preview piece\, including an interview with the organiser\, here. \nInternational Design Exhibition and Competition \nThis platforms individual designers from across the globe\, showing work that they have created in the previous four years (no hypothetical designs are allowed). Applications to WSD25 closed in November last year with just over a thousand submissions; an international jury of 16 members has shortlisted the top 100 to show in the exhibition and compete for the awards. \nTheatre Architecture Competition \nThe TAC explores new ideas about theatre architecture and interdisciplinary cooperation. Architects and theatre makers submit their proposals for a performance space in a given location – which this time will be the courtyard at Bait Obaid al Shamsi. Collaborations between architects and other theatre practitioners such as directors\, technicians\, performers or musicians (and/or students in those fields) are encouraged. \nTechnical Invention Prize \nThe TIP competition invites theatre technicians worldwide to share simple and smart solutions in everyday stage practice – innovative gadgets\, devices\, or any other effective solutions (often crafted using affordable materials and available resources). While some inventions may be used only in a specific theatre\, company\, touring production\, or even within a single country\, the TIP provides a platform to share them with the international community. All competition entries are published in a catalogue as a reference for industry professionals and educators. \nScenofest \nThis is the festival component of WSD\, celebrating scenography with around 60 talks\, masterclasses\, panel discussions\, themed mini-exhibitions\, and immersive installations and performances (from New Zealand\, Hungary\, the UAE\, Indonesia\, UK\, Nigeria\, “and many more”) in a very full programme running 10am to 10pm each day. \nAlso part of Scenofest is a one-day Research Symposium celebrating “global perspectives\, insights and approaches to research in theatre and performance design\, architecture\, and technology”. The full programme is here. \nSound Kitchen \nA biennial opportunity for sound designers and composers to publicly present or perform their work in a listening-friendly space. Presentations may be compositions (or extracts from longer compositions)\, sound art\, sounds from an installation\, or sound scores from theatre or live entertainment; pieces are typically 10-20 minutes with an opportunity to discuss the work afterwards. There’s more information here. \nWSD25 is being organised by Sharjah Performing Arts Academy under the theme Tomorrow’s Heritage. The main venue is SPAA; TAC and some Scenofest events will be at Sharjah Arts Foundation’s Bait Obaid Al Shamsi; and the TIP will be at Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park. \nDay passes are AED 50 and an eight-day pass is a bargain AED 250; both include all performances\, workshops\, talks\, exhibitions\, and Scenofest.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/world-stage-design/
LOCATION:[various Sharjah locations]
CATEGORIES:Awards,Design,Exhibition,Performance
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Talal Al Najjar: Mesh & Mayhem
DESCRIPTION:Talal Al Najjar’s works feel very contemporary\, not just in his use of materials and technologuy but also in his concerns and ambitions. He produces sculpture\, video\, sound\, CGI animation\, painting\, and installation\, in addition to writing and curation; his is a research-driven interdisciplinary practice that seeks to recontextualise material culture\, artefacts\, and imagery. This ‘defamiliarisation’\, overlaid with irony and seen through an absurdist lens\, prompts anthropological and material questions. Primary concerns include ideas around simulation\, postproduction\, poor images\, counter-futurisms\, and the contention of postmodern conditions. \nSays the gallery: “The exhibition confronts the way simulation infiltrates geography and biology – where the mesh becomes both structure and rupture\, at once a connective tissue and a site of collapse …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-talal-al-najjar-mesh-mayhem/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251025
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SUMMARY:Nja Mahdaoui: the Choreographer of Letters
DESCRIPTION:This focused retrospective surveys over six decades of practice by the Tunisian multimedia artist Nja Mahdaoui\, an influential figures in Arab modern art who repurposed Arabic calligraphy into a visual and abstract contemporary art form. This show\, o-curated by Michaela Watrelot\, head curator and director of exhibitions at Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, and the artist’s daughter Molka Mahdaoui\, bridges tradition and modernity to signify notions of identity and heritage. \nTo 25 January. \nRight: Nja Mahdaoui\, Untitled (from the Azimuth series\, 2012)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/nja-mahdaoui-the-choreographer-of-letters/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251025
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SUMMARY:Constructing the Orient: Fragments of a Western Dream
DESCRIPTION:Drawn from the private collection of Bassam Said Freiha plus key loans from the Ary Jan Gallery\, this exhibition of Orientalist works  unfolds across five thematic sections\, each focusing on a central motif within Orientalist visual language and examining how artists shaped their subjects into recurring archetypes. From imagined interiors and bustling marketplaces to archetypes of men and women\, the works on view invite audiences to reflect on how the ‘Orient’ was constructed through Western eyes and how these images continue to shape perceptions today. \nTo 31 May. \nRight: Jean-Léon Gérôme\, The Harem Promenade (undated)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/constructing-the-orient-fragments-of-a-western-dream/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
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