Gulf Shorts – Past and Present A program of short films from the Gulf region by filmmakers looking at the past through personal and cultural histories. 3pm Clouds dir Muzna Alumusafer (2020) 15 mins A journey inside a tribal society [ ... ]
3pm Love Is Not An Orange dir Otilia Babara (2022) In the early 1990s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large [ ... ]
Exactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your name on [ ... ]
The celebrated cellist is accompanied on piano by his long-time friend and collaborator Kathryn Stott. We don’t know what the programme will be, but their pandemic album Songs of Comfort and Hope had 21 tracks ranging across modern arrangements of [ ... ]
Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
Founded in 2009, the Jameel Prize is a collaboration between the V&A and Art Jameel; it is the world’s leading award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. This sixth edition, the first to have a focus on [ ... ]
Co-commissioned with the Lyon Biennale, this filmic installation by Sara Sadik uses video games, science fiction, everyday life and French rap music to write coming-of-age stories. Accompanying it is a continuously-running programme of French-language cinema titled Le nez de ma [ ... ]
Top trumpet player and very fine singer of jazz and blues (Baker's voice draws comparison with Al Jarreau's) performs with the regular resident jazz band, the Alexey Cheremizov Quartet. Should be a good night. Doors open at 7pm, Baker is [ ... ]
Turning Pointe Youth Ballet – a dance school that consistently delivers very good showcases – presents its adaptation of the well-loved fairy tale of a young girl bewitched at birth but rescued by the fairies and brought up in the [ ... ]
Two nights of fun music (10 and 11 June) from the best of Abu Dhabi's musical talent: a cappella groups Blue Fever and Voices of Harmony (both well established, both excellent) with two local big bands, the British School al [ ... ]
An exhilarating musical and dance extravaganza by the Slovak Dance Theatre with the Gypsy Devils orchestra, created by noted Slovak director and choreographer Ján Ďurovčík. Packed with wild virtuoso dancing and thrilling gypsy songs, the show is based on a [ ... ]
The International Nature Namur Festival (FINN) claims to be "the must-attend event for nature and beautiful image enthusiasts", attracting over 35,000 spectators and visitors to the Belgian city each year for its three international image competitions – photos, amateur films, [ ... ]
As part of the programme for Press Print!, the gallery's current show, Aisha Alabar is hosting a session with Suzy Sikorski of Mid East Art, "a digital storytelling platform of art and culture of the Middle East region that focuses [ ... ]
A Gala Performance with the National Youth Orchestra to celebrate its five-year anniversary. The largest and most prestigious youth orchestra in the region, the NYO currently has more than 120 young musicians aged 5-18; this concert features the NYO Concerto [ ... ]
A second night of fun music from the best of Abu Dhabi's musical talent: a cappella groups Blue Fever and Voices of Harmony (both well established, both excellent) with two local big bands, the British School al Khubairat Jazz Band [ ... ]
Exactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your name on [ ... ]
As part of the programme for Press Print!, the gallery's current show, Brian Gonzales – printmaker, art collector, lecturer at the University of Sharjah and one of the participating artists – explores cultural influences and the power of print to [ ... ]
Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
A solo exhibition for the respected Uzbek artist with new works alongside some that have already been seen. Akhmedov's style is a surreal symbolism that is almost fairytale-like and frequently depicts the artist (and others) as characters in a story, [ ... ]
Talented soul and R&B singer, originally from Indianapolis but with a style honed in France. He performs with the regular resident jazz band, the Alexey Cheremizov Quartet. Should be another good night for this end-of-season gig. Doors open at 7pm, [ ... ]
The Middle East’s best (and longest-running) poetry and performance open mic night winds up its 11th season with original material from spoken word artists, poets, and musicians. Rooftop Rhythms is hosted by founder Dorian Paul Rogers, with opening and closing [ ... ]
One of the most successful production in the Candlelight Concerts series – "classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live music candlelit performances". The Vivaldi favourite was written [ ... ]
Fever brings its candlelight classical music recitals to Abu Dhabi for the first time – "a series of classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live candlelit music [ ... ]
Fête de la Musique is an annual global celebration of music, organised in France by the Ministry of Culture and in more than 1,000 cities around the world by Alliance Françaises. It's a day where free, live music would be [ ... ]
Celebrating his 15th anniversary in comedy (and, as it happoens, his birthday), Ali Al Sayed's new English-language standup gig is pitched as his most daring and honest solo show yet – "Ali comedically highlights the Arab and Muslim perspective through [ ... ]
The 421 Culture Bus is taking a stargazing trip to the observatory on the outskirts of the city to observe the cosmos using traditional and smart telescopes. We're promised a unique experience using traditional and smart telescopes; included in the [ ... ]
You can’t deny the ambition of the Musical Theatre and Production Arts students of Sharjah Performing Arts Academy – they’re doing the Tony award winner Urinetown, a satirical musical that attacks corporate greed, rampant exploitation and unsustainable lifestyles. There’s a [ ... ]
Exactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your name on [ ... ]
In the seventh instalment of Meem's ongoing series of exhibitions focused on printmaking in the Arab world, the gallery is showing 15 etchings by Lebanese-Armenian artist Assadour. His artworks reflect his own heritage and tumultuous upbringing, seamlessly blended into a [ ... ]
A second performance for this satirical musical by SPAA students; the story is set in a dystopian future, where a chronic water shortage means that public loos have been extravagantly privatised. The plot hinges on a rebellion led by a [ ... ]
An exhibition for the outcome of the first cohort of the MAS Spectrum Photography Residency. We're promised "a broad range of ideas, subjects, and techniques that span a spectrum of human experiences". To 4 September.
A continuation of the interesting Useless Palace exhibition, a specific group show by ten artists staged in the desert by popup gallery InLoco (who are due to move into a permanent Al Quoz location this autumn) in the desert last [ ... ]
Final performance for this satirical musical by SPAA students; the story is set in a dystopian future, where a chronic water shortage means that public loos have been extravagantly privatised. The plot hinges on a rebellion led by a cleaner [ ... ]
Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
H72 Productions has found another interesting play for its current season. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a comedy by the American writer Christopher Durang, has been praised as a humorous adaptation of Chekhovian themes that doesn't require any [ ... ]
A group exhibition with a seasonal theme: "summer is when all positive feelings surface allowing for a better appreciation of everything we do,” says the curatorial statement. “A Summer Allegory aims to encompass this summer’s glamour through a selection of [ ... ]
A second performance (of three) for this bittersweet comedy by H72 Productions. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a play by the American writer Christopher Durang, has been praised as a humorous adaptation of Chekhovian themes that doesn't require [ ... ]
The third and final performance of this bittersweet comedy by the American writer Christopher Durang. Praised as a humorous adaptation of Chekhovian themes that doesn't require any familiarity with Chekhov, its story revolves around the relationships of three middle-aged single [ ... ]
Exactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your name on [ ... ]
Karama Arts Club winds up what sounds like a successful first year with "a Summer Soirée that's hotter than the middle of August" – a chance to network with the cream of Dubai’s creatives over a few a drink with [ ... ]
Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist whose wife Rinko (Miki Nakatani)) unexpectedly becomes prime minister – making him the first gentleman of the country. Unexpected circumstances complicate things in this romantic comedy. This is part of Japan Film Week, co-hosted [ ... ]
Cat ninja action – the adventures of a rogue ninja and a fat cat who he believes is the feline form of his legendary but long-disappeared and ninja father ... This is part of Japan Film Week, co-hosted by the [ ... ]
Romantic drama based on the collected short stories of Kotaro Isaka that follows the lives of 27-year-olds Sato and Minako and those around them – friends, colleagues, children – over a 10 year period, showing how love, hope and friendship [ ... ]
Fantasy animated adventure – a young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sea life around the world, in which two boys are somehow involved. This is part of Japan Film Week, co-hosted by the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al [ ... ]
As part of the programme for Press Print!, the gallery's current show, four of the participating artists talk about their creative process, inspiration, and the stories behind their works in the exhibition. (The other four artists in the exhibition are [ ... ]
As part of the programme for Press Print!, the gallery's current show, four more of the participating artists talk about their creative process, inspiration, and the stories behind their works in the exhibition.
Chopin favourites by Candlelight, a recital for solo piano by Aldo Dotto. These concerts are "a series of classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live candlelit music [ ... ]
Van Gogh’s love for Japanese art ran deep: he admired the way Japanese artists lived in harmony with nature and the complete focus on their work, and he aspired to do the same. Although he only discovered Japan in the [ ... ]
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