The tenth anniversary of the Emirates Community Symphony Orchestra is being celebrated with a programme of crowdpleasers. Jonathan Grover conducts, the piano soloist for the Chopin is Jelena Matveyshaja. Entrance is free, just email ecsosymphony@gmail.com with the number of tickets [ ... ]
Three nights of exuberant musical theatre to wind up Culture Emulsion’s annual Tous en Scène festival of Francophone theatre. The action takes place on an isolated island in the titular luxury hotel; the owner, who disappeared ten years ago, has [ ... ]
A solo exhibition of works by Manolo Valdés, the Spanish artist known for his unique approach of drawing from art history to create his paintings, prints, and sculptures in a signature style of pared-down forms and unrefined mark-making. Through meticulous [ ... ]
Last day of this weekend of films for children and the young, presented by the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region as a taster version of the well established SCHLiNGEL International Film Festival held in Chemnitz, Germany. The Abu Dhabi version runs over [ ... ]
Last chance to catch Deloris Van Cartier seeking refuge in a convent after witnessing a crime, where her vibrant personality and musical prowess injects the convent’s choir with infectious energy and harmony. It's based of course on the Whoopi Goldberg [ ... ]
An exhibition of Soviet animation film by Priit Parn, Fyodor Khitruk, Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Yuri Norshtein, and Robert Sahakyants; and post-soviet video art, paintings, installations, objects and works on paper by Blue Noses, Diana Kapizova, Nikolay Koshelev, Alina Kugush, Katerina Lukina, [ ... ]
A second performance of this exuberant Francophone musical comedy to wind up Culture Emulsion’s annual Tous en Scène festival of Francophone theatre. The action takes place on an isolated island in the titular luxury hotel; the owner, who disappeared ten [ ... ]
Another standup evening for Dubai, this one promising "a hilarious evening of unfiltered laughter". Free entry, but there's a minimum spend of AED 75
NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with a characteristically interesting exhibition. In Real Time is a dynamic show – over the course of three months the curators will be adding artists, and the artists and performers [ ... ]
Silver’s entertaining debut was an unexpected hit, achieving instant critical acclaim after a screening at the 1975 Cannes Festival. Carol Kane is outstanding as a Jewish immigrant arriving in late 19th-century New York, to live in a tenement apartment on [ ... ]
Before the Ocean Master met its demise at the Gadani shipbreaking yards in Pakistan, filmmaker and artist Hira Nabi gave it a voice and staged conversations between the vessel and the labourers dismantling it. The stories exchanged between the workers [ ... ]
Graduates of Dubomedy's Spring Stand-up Workshops take the stage to perform new stand-up material. It's free, though you do have to buy a drink or something to eat (but you were probably going to do one or both anyhow). You're [ ... ]
A final performance of this exuberant Francophone musical comedy winds up Culture Emulsion’s annual Tous en Scène festival of Francophone theatre. The action takes place on an isolated island in the titular luxury hotel; the owner, who disappeared ten years [ ... ]
On the occasion of International Archives Week (when "all around the world, archival community professionals join together to explain to the world at large why supporting archives and the profession is so important") NYUAD's al Mawrid Arab Center for the [ ... ]
A second evening for graduates of Dubomedy's Spring Stand-up Workshops to take the stage to perform new stand-up material. It's free, though you do have to buy a drink or something to eat (but you were probably going to do [ ... ]
An incredible, emotional and inspiring true story, one that resonates in our time as we grapple with war, refugee crises, and growing hatred around the world. Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who helped rescue more than [ ... ]
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 plus guests. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
For the sixth in the new NYUAD Art Gallery Curators Talk series, Munira Al Sayegh will explore the role of a curator as "sociopolitical ambassador". Delving into the various complexities of representing cultures and nations outside their usual contexts, Al [ ... ]
A family concert by Abu Dhabi's Youth Orchestra. And that's as much as we know, except to note that the standard of the orchestra is commendably high and the playing is impressively reliable ...
Just how did a group of humble factory workers become a phenomenal sports success story and the pride of an entire nation? Julien Faraut's technically innovative and visually stunning documentary tells the tale of the Japanese women's volleyball team's journey [ ... ]
The second of three exhibitions showcasing contemporary approaches to textile and fibre art curated for Green Art Gallery by Murtaza Vali. It brings together work by four contemporary artists – M’barek Bouhchichi, Sayan Chanda, Himali Singh Soin, and Swapnaa Tamhane [ ... ]
studio salasil has curated this group show of six artists "who engage in risk and interruption within their practices", structuring the exhibition around the effective concept of the backbone – "a central, internal structure of strength that binds and connects [ ... ]
A documentary about the impacts of climate change on the Republic of the Marshall Islands and its people. The Marshall Islands comprises more than a thousand individual islands and islets, most of them less than 5.9 feet above sea level. [ ... ]
The classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed by Julia Ripple, with Adam [ ... ]
The UK-based Lebanese-American comedian won plenty of 'best newcomer' awards when she started gigging five years ago, and Man'oushe – her second full-length solo show, first seen at Edinburgh in 2023 and now touring – has been winning lots more [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
The intelligent networking session for creative peers is back after a lengthy hiatus ("we have been busy with the ongoing application to become an official non-profit social club ... We are thrilled to finally be making progress, and we hope [ ... ]
Second performance for the classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed for MTDXB [ ... ]
Kencut's first solo show in the Middle East explores personal challenge and transformation, described by the gallery as "a pivotal moment in Kencut's artistic journey— a deliberate pivot from external inspirations to an introspective examination of the struggles that define [ ... ]
A programme of music by film composer Ludovico Einaudi, performed by the Kazakh chamber ensemble Tynda.Music.
A third night for the classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed for [ ... ]
The final performances of this classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed for [ ... ]
Solo exhibition for An Hoang, her debut show in the Middle East. In these new paintings, Hoang explores a delicate balance between abstraction and figuration through "expressive, colourful compositions that capture moments of immersion in nature ... With the use [ ... ]
The Global Notes series of recitals from Encore Performing Arts, Dubai Opera and the Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai continues with the international acclaimed (and still very young) South Korean pianist, known for captivating performances that bring audiences to their [ ... ]
Vikram Divecha’s exhibition covers the Dubai-based artist’s practice since 2013, showcasing his playful and poetic site-specific works, public art, installations, videos, photography and drawings. In particular, Divecha has long had an in-depth interest in the invisible structures of planning, construction, [ ... ]
Sharjah Art Foundation presents the first major museum exhibition of works of the Casablanca Art School, whose revolutionary approach following Morocco’s independence in 1956 proposed a bold new visual culture. This landmark exhibition, first seen at Tate St Ives, brings [ ... ]
With more than 100 works, many on view for the first time, this exhibition is the largest solo presentation by telsem artist Henok Melkamzer. Traditionally termed a healing or talisman art, telsem is a distinctive Ethiopian art form that incorporates [ ... ]
The first major survey of the late artist, feminist organiser and pedagogue Lala Rukh brings together more than 50 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and animation works from across her three-decade practice. The artist captured the diverse rhythms of lunar movements, [ ... ]
Alessandra Toni plays works by Zimmer, Chryssomallis, Einaudi and more, plus her own original repertoire, all accompanied by ToDA's 360° visuals.
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 plus guests. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
As the New York Post put it, “Once in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in broadway. Matilda the Musical is that show”. The multi-award-winning musical (it has won more than 99 international awards) [ ... ]
Lucy Kirkwood's feminist twist on Twelve Angry Men, with the courtroom made up of bickering, bantering women who must decide the outcome of a heinous crime in rural Suffolk in 1759. Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for murder but [ ... ]
This month's Laughter Factory tour looks a good mix – two hardworking and reliable stalwarts of the British standup scene, plus Dubai's funniest Filipina: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time [ ... ]
A group show by five artists from Sierra Leone – Hawa-Jane Bangura, Hickmatu Leigh, Julius Parker, Felix Rhodes, Zahra Fakih Zato.
A collaboration with the historic Czech glassmaking firm Moser that promises "a stunning fusion of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art, celebrating over 160 years of Moser's unparalleled expertise". On show will be a limited edition of glass works featuring Salmah [ ... ]
A second performance (of three) for Lucy Kirkwood's feminist twist on Twelve Angry Men, with the courtroom made up of bickering, bantering women who must decide the outcome of a heinous crime in rural Suffolk in 1759. Sally Poppy is [ ... ]
ToDA transforms into a jazz venue for live performance accompanied by a 360° immersive show: this time it's Lady J & her trio in a 90-minute set. "Expect a sparkling arrangement of the Grooviest Classics together with jazzed-up Radio Hits [ ... ]
A second night at the Mövenpick JBR for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time Out's Stand Up Comic of the Year in 1997. A circuit [ ... ]
Last chance to see this performance of Lucy Kirkwood's feminist twist on Twelve Angry Men, with the courtroom made up of bickering, bantering women who must decide the outcome of a heinous crime in rural Suffolk in 1759. Sally Poppy [ ... ]
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