Saaniya Abbas: Hellarious
The razor-sharp Dubai-based comedian previews her Edinburgh Fringe gig, a show that "dives deep into the absurdities of divorce, internet fame, and identity, wrapped in Saaniya’s signature wit and bite".
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- The Club Al Mina, Abu Dhabi
Hans Zimmer Live
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiHans Zimmer is probably best known for some of the most listened-to soundtracks in the history of cinema – The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Dune - but his live show is also pretty special. [ ... ]
From AED299Music Loves Company presents Comedy Kix
Music Loves Company Sky Quarter , Mobility District, Expo City, DubaiAnother good-looking Comedy Kix night in Expo City, with some of Dubai’s most interesting up-and-coming stand-ups – seven of them: Saeed El Nahdy, Moncif Boumaza, Ehsan Fahmi, Andrea Brooks, Rebecca How, Jed Dawson and Tanveer Khan. The door price includes [ ... ]
AED 85Sharmila Dance Extravaganza 2025
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiThe final day of performances for this annual show by Sharmila Dance Center, one of the UAE's longest-established dance schools. Currently in its 24th year, this is a show for aspiring performers of all ages – from 7-year-olds to professional [ ... ]
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time heals, just not quick enough
Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, DubaiThe second exhibition in Efie Gallery’s new Alserkal Avenue location, this group show of film and photography features works by contemporary artists across generations – Samuel Fosso (b.1962), Aïda Muluneh (b.1974), Kelani Abass (b.1978), Abeer Sultan (b.1999) and Sumayah Fallatah [ ... ]
Kutubna Community Day
Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, DubaiThe first-ever Kutubna Community Day – "a full day of creativity and connection" at the bookstore and cultural centre in Nadd Al Hamar. There are a lot of kids' activities, including storytime for children (in multiple languages) and art workshops [ ... ]
Pay what you canShrek the Musical
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe final performance of the Abu Dhabi Choral Group’s Summer Revue. This "hilarious and heartwarming" adaptation of the popular film, a successful Broadway and West End musical (music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire) is based on [ ... ]
AED 105Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Bik Van der Pol’s The poem that jumps the fence
Abu Dhabi Beach Al Hisn Street, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesArtist duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol) engage in collaborative projects on how art constructs public spaces for speculative thought and collective creativity. The poem that jumps the fence features weekly performances on Abu [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerHans Zimmer Live
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiA second show for Hans Zimmer, on stage with his orchestra and choir performing arrangements from the Oscar-winning composer’s stellar back catalogue. Recommended.
From AED299Monday Night Comedy: This Is Impro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesExactly 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 improv. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
Free
Béchir Boussandel: Tenté par d’autres soleils (Tempted by Other Suns)
Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, DubaiThe Dubai iteration of this show, which is presented in collaboration with Kamel Lazaar Foundation and has previously been shown at B7L9 Art Centre in Tunis, introduces a new body of work in blown glass – a departure from Béchir’s [ ... ]
FreeThe Fridge Concert Series Season 48: Hadi X | Ma2am
The Fridge Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Fridge's showcase gig series continues with Hadi X and a completely new show that moves between EDM drops and quiet indie songwriting. Support comes from Ma2am, "reshaping how Arabic music sounds today ... through deep rhythm, raw emotion, and reworked rap [ ... ]
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Dahomey: dir Mati Diop (2024),
A timely documentary by French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress Mati Diop which won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. The film follows the return of 26 royal treasures from France to the Republic of Benin, tracing the [ ... ]
LAST CHANCE Hassan Sharif: The Storyteller
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCurated by Murtaza Vali, this exhibition revisits Hassan Sharif’s 'objects', works which expand the definition of 'craft' beyond notions of skill, precision and medium-specific mastery and towards "an experimental, experiential and embodied practice of learning, understanding, and knowing through making". [ ... ]
FreeCandlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Mina A’Salam Hotel Jumeirah Road, DubaiOne of the most successful productions 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 [ ... ]
From AED150Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Bik Van der Pol’s The poem that jumps the fence
Abu Dhabi Beach Al Hisn Street, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesArtist duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol) engage in collaborative projects on how art constructs public spaces for speculative thought and collective creativity. The poem that jumps the fence features weekly performances on Abu [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerMonday Night Comedy: This Is Impro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesExactly 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 improv. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
FreeSummer Cinema: Cities, Cinema and People
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiJameel’s Summer Cinema, organised in collaboration with The Culturist Film Club and curated by Hind Mezaina, ia a season of free-to-attend films about cities, archives, and the ways we live and remember together – plus a special evening celebrating David [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerStand Up Off Record
Off Record Al Qana, Al Khor St, Rabdan, Abu DhabiA stand-up night promising "fresh voices and sharp material" from. Maher Barwany, Roxy, Rula Korban, and Amin Soltani.
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Gloria! dir Margherita Vicario (2024)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSet in a Venetian boarding school for orphaned girls at the end of the 18th century, Gloria! tells the story of a group of talented young musicians who are dteermined to make music. There's a mischievous musical anachronism at the [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerWednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's most peopular evening of elimination improv. 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 [ ... ]
FreeTracing the Unseen: Landscapes of Memory and Metaphor
Foundry Downtown Boulevard Crescent, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, DubaiThis exhibition brings together four artists from the Atassi Foundation collection – Walid El-Masri, Farouq Kondakji, Rida Hus Hus, and Omar Hamdi – whose work reimagines the landscape not as a fixed geography, but as a space of memory, metaphor, [ ... ]
Free
Evgeny Khmara: Piano in Motion
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe noted Ukrainian double pianist makes classical music accessible without losing its depth, "blending familiar influences with a modern touch" as the promoter puts it. For this performance he will play both a baby grand and a Roland electric piano, [ ... ]
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Mami Wata: dir CJ Obasi (2023)
Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, DubaiMuch-awarded black-and-white fantasy thriller, based on Nigerian folklore. Said the LA Times: "That balance between light and dark is how Obasi most potently underscores all his themes: faith and proof, tradition versus modernity, the otherworldly alongside the human, and of [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerBlue Fever at the Movies
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiTop a capella action from Abu Dhabi's long-standing (since 2008) and always excellent singing group, noted for dynamic performances on a wide range of material. This time the show features "iconic songs from the silver screen" with "delicious movie theatre [ ... ]
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Jesse Cook
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiA chance to see the noted Canadian master guitarist, composer, and producer performing live. He's accompanied by Fethi Nadjem (violin, mandole), Dan Minchom (bass), Matt Sellick (guitar), and either Matais Recharte or Marito Marques (drums, cajón, percussion) – and there's [ ... ]
From AED 150Politically Incorrect Comedy
The Clavichord Signature Hotel, Barsha Heights, DubaiMad Cat Comedy returns to the Clavichord in TECOM with "Dubai's wildest comedy night ... raw, unfiltered, hilarious". The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
AED 80The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
The Agenda Abdullah Omran Taryam St, Media City, DubaiThis month's Laughter Factory tour has another good crop of stand-ups. The acts: Marlon Davis effortlessly confident stand-up who began performing on the UK’s black comedy circuit and quickly graduated to a wider audience, including several Edinburgh Festival Fringes, the [ ... ]
AED 160LAST CHANCE Reynier Llanes: Reverie
Firetti Contemporary Unit 29, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiAn exhibition inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s comment on 'reverie' – "Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul", a space where imagination and memory intertwine [ ... ]
LAST CHANCE Thomas Lélu: Calm Down It’s Just Art
Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery 796 Jumeirah Street, DubaiThomas Lélu’s practice interweaves photography, installation art, and textual elements, frequently featuring the appropriation and recontextualisation of imagery from popular culture and media to interrogate themes of contemporary society, consumerism, and media representation. His methodology of exploration, archiving, and contextualization [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE Ahmad Kasha: Offerings – The War Series
Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAhmad Kasha’s complete War Series (2018–2025) is presented here for the first time in association with Fann à Porter. Influenced by various traditions of war art, the series reflects on the psychological toll of violence on people, animals, nature, and [ ... ]
Artist Led Sessions with Chafa Ghaddar: Trace, Fragment, Ecosystem
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiA two-day masterclass with Chafa Ghaddar on the fresco technique. Through a blend of theoretical discussion and practical hands-on exercises, this two-part programme invites you to examine how bodies and elements are held within and around surfaces, and to experiment [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerLayered Dialogues: Society as Medium
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSubtitled 'Objects as Anchors: Material, Narrative, and Memory', this panel discussion riffs on the recently-opened Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits exhibition at this venue (runs to 30 June and is well worth seeing). As the blurb puts it: [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerThe Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiThe second weekend for this month's Laughter Factory tour starts in Abu Dhabi. The acts: Marlon Davis effortlessly confident stand-up who began performing on the UK’s black comedy circuit and quickly graduated to a wider audience, including several Edinburgh Festival [ ... ]
AED 160Jesse Cook
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiA second UAE date for the noted guitarist, accompanied by Fethi Nadjem (violin, mandole), Dan Minchom (bass), Matt Sellick (guitar), and either Matais Recharte or Marito Marques (drums, cajón, percussion) – and there's a special guest star, top oud soloist [ ... ]
From AED 150Joke Hub
Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef Al Seef Street, Umm Hurair 1, DubaiAnother Mad Cat Comedy night – "Dubai's wildest comedy show on Saturday" (sic). The cover charge of AED 99 includes two drinks.
AED 99The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Studio One Hotel Dubai Studio City, DubaiThe second stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour has another good crop of stand-ups. The acts: Marlon Davis effortlessly confident stand-up who began performing on the UK’s black comedy circuit and quickly graduated to a wider audience, including several [ ... ]
AED 160LAST CHANCE Mohamed Al Astad: Rust & Waves
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Reem Island, Abu DhabiAn exhibition showcasing the artistic journey of the Emirati artist known for his ability to capture maritime heritage and coastal landscapes through the interplay between nature and time; he characteristically incorporates elements of rust, waves, and the textures of the [ ... ]
Free
Nima Nabavi: Sunrise at the Vortex
The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe second solo exhibition by Nima Nabavi at the gallery features new works that mark a significant evolution in the artist's practice, reflecting a deepened commitment to introspection, geometry, and modes of making that embrace technology alongside traditional tools. Created [ ... ]
FreeRichi Bhatia: Antevasin – the one who sits at the border of two worlds
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe first solo exhibition at Gallery Isabelle for the UAE-based Indian artist. Her practice spans drawing, performance, object-making, food interventions, and assemblage; says the gallery, "inviting us to engage with liminality, her work challenges the normative categories that shape our [ ... ]
FreePublic Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Bik Van der Pol’s The poem that jumps the fence
Abu Dhabi Beach Al Hisn Street, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesArtist duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol) engage in collaborative projects on how art constructs public spaces for speculative thought and collective creativity. The poem that jumps the fence features weekly performances on Abu [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerBlue Fever at the Movies
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiSecond and last of two shows by Abu Dhabi's long-standing (since 2008) and always excellent a capella group. This time the show features "iconic songs from the silver screen" with "delicious movie theatre dishes" on offer too. Note the early [ ... ]
AED 150M.O.R.O.N.S
Blacksmith Bar The First Collection Business Bay, Al A'amal Street, DubaiA Mad Cat Comedy night, which usually means a good one, in a new venue. The cover charge of AED 99 includes one drink.
AED 99Unfiltered
Courtyard by Marriott Al Barsha Road, Al Barsha 1, DubaiA comedykix standup gig, as usual promising "Dubai’s finest comedians" – and "don’t forget to come with an open mind". The door price is redeemable on F&B.
AED 65LAST CHANCE Zhou Song: Supernatural·Algorithm
Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, DubaiZhou Song's solo show echoes traditional Chinese landscape painting but employs symbolic imagery to explore relationships between nature, technology, and faith. The 'anthropomorphic tree' is central, serving as a metaphor for nature’s alienation by technology – "these trees retain natural [ ... ]
Free, but book appointment slot
Une affaire d’honneur | The Edge of the Blade: dir Vincent Perez (2023)
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe fourth film from veteran actor Vincent Perez is set in 1887 Paris, when illegal duals were common practice. The drama follows the blood feud that slowly develops between fencing master Clément Lacaze (Roschdy Zem), desperate to dissuade his nephew [ ... ]
AED 351 Minute to Krushit – Live in Abu Dhabi
Black Tap Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Abu DhabiSuperfast comedy – comics get one minute at the mic, the audience votes, one winner takes it all. Fast, raw, unpredictable: what more could you want from a Tuesday evening in Abu Dhabi?
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Summer Collective: Wavering Hope
Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAyyam Gallery’s summer group show celebrates and questions the current siutation in Syria with works by Kais Salman, Khaled Takreti, Tammam Azzam, Abdalla Al Omari, Othman Moussa, Safwan Dahoul, Thaier Helal, Elias Izoli, Abdul-Karim Majd Al-Beik, Mohannad Orabi, Nihad Al-Turk, [ ... ]
FreeWednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's most peopular evening of elimination improv. 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 [ ... ]
Free
Pencil In
421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA writers’ group intended for writers to practice their craft without the pressures of producing a final outcome, designed to provide a supportive environment for writers to write alone yet in a group. You're invited to polish your writing skills [ ... ]
Free
