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 [ ... ]
The Farjam Foundation isn’t a particularly activity gallery, but it does have access to an excellent private collection that spans early Islam to present-day artistic practice across regional geographies and beyond. So when it puts on a show of selected [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
A solo show for the artist’s recent work − which aims to depict “the unseen, the felt, and the omnipresent”. Akil creates his compositions through dozens of thin layers, creating depth while avoiding impasto; “the drying process presents and provokes [ ... ]
The regular Alliance Française ciné-apéro evening (a glass of wine and canapés before the screening) this month features a drama of restorative justice with a strong storyline and a good cast. Victims of violent crime and perpetrators meet up on [ ... ]
This month's Laughter Factory tour features 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 Out's Stand Up Comic [ ... ]
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 new season opens for the Courtyard's regular Wednesday evening of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the ten players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest [ ... ]
Yassin explores the implications of Roland Barthes' concept of "the return of the dead" in photography, playing on the tension between memory and ghostliness by utilising old black and white photographs to evoke loss and the fleeting nature of memory. [ ... ]
The book designer’s job is not only to come up with the outstanding jacket of a book, but also to carefully choose the papers and the fonts, and layout them to create the unique physical book. This documentary on 75-year-old [ ... ]
Lovably impulsive oldsters Ella and John (Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren) infuriate their uptight children by heading off in their cranky old Winnebago for a last road trip in the sunset of their lives. They are cheerful, gutsy, secretly scared [ ... ]
Improvised PowerPoint presentations. The speakers face a live audience, presenting slides they’ve never seen before, on a topic determined at random by the ‘Wheel of Destiny’. Virtually guaranteed to be funny ... Afterwards there's a chance to mingle with presenters [ ... ]
Ebtekar's exhibition, is presented as "one work in seven chapters", each composed of one to four doorway-sized panels that combine multi-wavelength photographic processes with the artist's distinctive cloud-making brushstrokes. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar's Sufi poem Conference of the Birds, [ ... ]
Jauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. "Discarded objects and [ ... ]
Berklee graduate Nikolai Mishchenko plays an hour of Beatles hits arranged for piano, complete with ToDA's signature 360° visuals. "Experience the enduring legacy of the world's most beloved band in a whole new light ..."
The penultimate stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour. It features 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 [ ... ]
Last stop 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 regular, and underrated author of [ ... ]
The Sydney-based media artist and motion graphic designer has assembled a cutting-edge immersive 3D-projection show that translates ocean data collected by NASA into what the organisers describe as “a stunning kaleidoscope of vibrant corals and sea creatures ... What Lies [ ... ]
A beautifully shot, beautifully acted account of the friendship between Queen Victoria and a young Indian civil servant who became a powerful and influential figure in her court. Stephen Frears explores questions of race, religion, power, and the farce of [ ... ]
1M2K returns to Dubai with the comedy game show where standups get just one minute to make you laugh – and you choose the winners too. If you're a comic and you want to perform, let them know; it's the [ ... ]
Dubai’s newest independent bookstore and cultural centre, Kutubna Cultural Center, is opening with Dr Rana AlMutawa’s first solo exhibition in Dubai – an exhibition of images from her book Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making home in Dubai. It’s [ ... ]
A comedykix standup gig promising "Dubai’s finest comedians". The door price is redeemable on F&B.
ST-Duo are pianists Sofia Sakhnova and Antonina Luzko, multiple prizewinners in Russia and recipients of a special prize from Yamaha for Best Piano Duet at the 2018 Roma International Piano Competition. They will be playing an entertaining-looking programme, mostly arrangements [ ... ]
A one-person play written and performed by Gillian Rhodes, who is really very good at this storytelling-with-performance sort of thing. This time it's a coming-of-age tale of a young boy in the late 19th century; a chance encounter with the [ ... ]
A comedykix standup gig, as usual promising "Dubai’s finest comedians". The door price is redeemable on F&B.
"A rising star from Lebanon brings the essence of Palestine to life ... showcasing the rich musical heritage of Palestine through timeless folk songs and stories" says the blurb for this ToDA gig in its Women’s Voices of the Middle [ ... ]
The brilliant young Japanese violinist (winner of the BBC Young Musician strings category in 2020) is regularly accompanied on piano by Simon Callaghan – not least on their universally applauded 2022 debut album Origins. Their programme: Debussy Violin Sonata L.140 [ ... ]
Shawn Chidiac, aka ‘My Parents are Divorced', is doing this chat-plus-comedy evening once a month at VOX Cinemas Mercato Mall until the end of the year. For the Julyedition, Shawn will be joined by Russian-Romanian content creator Denisa Alexe (known [ ... ]
The new season of the Jameel's Artists Rooms – capsule solo shows occupying a single gallery at the Jameel, with work drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection and curated in dialogue with the artist – opens with exhibiting artists [ ... ]
Top Dubai comedian Ali Al Sayed – 16 years in the business, one of the founders and mainstays of Dubomedy, many awards – is back with a new, expanded version of his heavy-hitting solo show last seen here in an [ ... ]
Works spanning the last eight years of the artist’s practice that critically engage with the socio-political contexts of architectural heritage and modernist ideologies and aesthetics. Drawing is at the centre of Amba Sayal-Bennett’s practice, expanding across works on paper, projections [ ... ]
Augustine Paredes’ artist’s room brings together his own personal histories and stories that explore his relationship to identity and family via his personal journey as a migrant, navigating constantly between time, places and identities. Gradually moving away from the camera [ ... ]
Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descended from indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa; her work navigates the complexities of migration, memory and trauma, moving between painting, video, poetry and performance to address [ ... ]
The French-Turkish couple Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti have directed several films together, and Sibel – their third feature – is a film festival favourite. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the [ ... ]
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