A desktop documentary that critically engages with the historical and digital traces of extremist propaganda, questioning how images of violence circulate, mutate, and persist. The film moves between virtual investigations and real-world encounters with artists, activists, and researchers who seek [ ... ]
Iconic rock anthems delivered with raw energy and emotional intensity by powerhouse vocalist Rina Olis and her band – with the backdrop of ToDA’s immersive 360o background visuals.
Animated feature with a story that has a surprising and affecting emotional depth. Four-year-old Kun becomes jealous of his new baby sister Mirai; one day, he storms off into the garden, where he encounters people from the past and future [ ... ]
British pianist Ryan Gibb with "an intimate evening of iconic movie love songs, bringing Hollywood's most memorable soundtracks to life through voice and piano” and ToDA’s dramatic 360o background visuals.
Classical strings meet the rhythms of Latin America – tango, bossa nova, Cuban and Spanish-inspired favourites – with the backdrop of ToDA’s immersive 360o background visuals.
Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi's Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks ...
Reflective, slightly elegiac documentary on rural French farming life via three visits over 50 years to a family farm in Haute-Savoie. In 1972, the Bertrand dairy farm — run by three brothers and home to a hundred animals — is [ ... ]
Developed in relation to the UAE Modern Architectural Heritage Grant, AFTER THE IMAGE transforms a gallery presentation and a room of the XVA Art Hotel into an immersive archive of Dubai’s modern architectural heritage. Through photography, sculpture, textiles, and garments, [ ... ]
Soul, R&B and jazz classics, reimagined by multi-instrumentalist AJAY and his band, supported by ToDA’s immersive 360o visuals.
Mad Cat Comedy's regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
Subtitled 'An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson, this 1997 memoir by the award-winning sports columnist Mitch Albom is based on a series of Tuesday visits he made to his former sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz [ ... ]
This Soviet-era silent film was one of the earliest to represent a realistic spaceflight, including weightlessness. It's pitched in the year 1946, with Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first crewed exploration to the Moon, denounced by a [ ... ]
Another really interesting pick by Book Cellar. The authors – software engineer and writer Kevin Simler and economics professor Robin Hanson – start from the premise that we are often unaware of the real reasons for our behaviours: they go [ ... ]
A great idea from Foundry Downtown – a group exhibition featuring artists based in the UAE who are not (currently) represented by galleries. The organisers describe it as “for the first time, a selling exhibition structured around accessibility, discovery, and [ ... ]
Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi's Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks ...
In this exhibition of a new body of work, curated by Cima Azzam, Noor Al Suwaidi approaches colour as a field of sensation where form appears and dissolves within shifting tonalities – "figures hover at the edge of abstraction; colour [ ... ]
Rooted in her surroundings, the work of Salmah Al Mansoori, an Emirati artist from Abu Dhabi, begins with acts of noticing: fragments, residues, and overlooked materials drawn from everyday life. These are reworked into new forms that carry both personal [ ... ]
“A journey of ancient tradition and modern innovation” delivered by oud maestro and composer Hooman Shirali, tabla master Sandu, and Kadir on saxophone – with the backdrop of ToDA’s immersive 360o background visuals.
Mad Cat Comedy's regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
Stanislav Fedyuk plays a 60-minute programme of classical piano favourites by the gentle glow of candlelight. The programme: Mozart: Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K 331 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, [ ... ]
A love letter to Beirut in the form of a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory – 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the collective Lebanese psyche and marked by joy and intimacy, destruction [ ... ]
An Egyptian space travel adventure-comedy, complete with dance numbers, drinking games, and a cardboard robot called Otto. In Cairo, eccentric German scientist Mr Sharfin is about to launch the first rocket to the moon. Astronomer Ahmed Rushdy is on site [ ... ]
Back by popular demand, this theatrical, humorous, and wildly romantic tango concert stars powerhouse vocalist LaRudche with live piano and violin accompaniment, plus dancers who blur the lines between elegance and fire – with the backdrop of ToDA’s immersive 360o [ ... ]
Centred on the concept of 'interoception', the body’s ability to sense and process its internal state, this exhibition examines how moments of crisis are internalised and transformed into material expression. Developed in response to the first missile attacks reported in [ ... ]
Mad Cat Comedy's only open mic night: comedians test brand new jokes, new performers take the stage, and dog lovers come along for a fun evening. Only 20 seats available. Free entry!
A good selection of standups from the ComedyKix clan – six of them serve up "an evening packed with stand-up comedy, good vibes, and plenty of laughs ..." The door price includes one drink.
... not when you have three comedians on the stage, eager and willing to hear your problems and turn them into funny scenes and stories on the fly. Fully improvised, totally interactive. Stars Basel Yafi, Ahmed Al Fadil, Ahmed Achrafi [ ... ]
Mad Cat Comedy's regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
Another good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw – British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he's a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of [ ... ]
The latest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation's open-call photography exhibition examines the evolving possibilities of documentary photography through newly commissioned works by six artists – Luisa Dörr, Latifa AlBokhari, Sathish Kumar, Adam Rouhana, Guanyu Xu and Maheder Haileselassie. The principle [ ... ]
Castelino has spent nearly three decades in Dubai with an extensive career at Christie’s and senior positions within leading contemporary galleries, working with some of the most celebrated contemporary artists of our time and gaining a rare perspective on artistic [ ... ]
Two interconnected exhibitions, both curated by Mo Reda and supported by the Department of Painting and Printmaking at VCUarts Qatar. Together, The Ongoing Performance of Melancholia and Songs in Solitude mark the culmination of a two-month residency at Bayt AlMamzar; [ ... ]
A talented rat called Remy teams up with a young kitchen worker in Paris to secretly create extraordinary dishes. Screens at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Auditorium in LouvreAD's Art in Motion programme of films inspired by artworks from the gallery’s [ ... ]
A regular Mad Cat Comedy night – "Dubai's wildest comedy show on Saturday" at "the first purpose built comedy room in the country". The cover charge of AED 99 includes two F&B coupons.
Another good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw – British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he's a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of [ ... ]
Kubrick redefined sci-fi movies with 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential ever made. It wasn't just the scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight and the pioneering special effects, or even the [ ... ]
The Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam – a great venue: quite intimate, few distractions. Featuring surprise drop-ins, fresh material, and "the kind of moments that only happen in [ ... ]
Another good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw – British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he's a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of [ ... ]
Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi's Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks ...
As part of its ongoing institutional programming, Sharjah Architecture Triennial presents what it terms a “new chapter” in a long-term research initiative dedicated to architectural archives in the Arab world. Building on the inaugural 2023 exhibition, which focused on Beirut, [ ... ]
Maktaba is 421's monthly gathering dedicated to collective reading, viewing, and discussion across disciplines. For this session, the focus is on Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957). A foundational work of postcolonial thought, the book examines how the [ ... ]
Mad Cat Comedy's only open mic night: comedians test brand new jokes, new performers take the stage, and dog lovers come along for a fun evening. Only 20 seats available. Free entry!
Another good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw – British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he's a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of [ ... ]
Mad Cat Comedy's regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
Another good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw – British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he's a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of [ ... ]
Disney's classic coming-of-age animated drama tells the story of a young deer who loses his mother to a hunter and learns to survive in the forest with his friends. Screens at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Auditorium in LouvreAD's Art in [ ... ]
In pre-1952 Luxor, newly graduated agricultural engineer Ahmed helps his village upgrade their crops. That threatens the interests of their feudalist landlord, Taher Pasha; seeking revenge, Pasha and his conniving nephew, Riad, devise a plan to flood the peasants’ fields, [ ... ]
Final stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw – British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he's a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of living [ ... ]
A regular Mad Cat Comedy night – "Dubai's wildest comedy show on Saturday" at "the first purpose built comedy room in the country". The cover charge of AED 99 includes two F&B coupons.
A drama about the 1975 Lebanese Civil War: high schooler Tarek treats the conflict like an adventure, filming Super 8 movies and navigating dangerous borders as a game. Amid rising family tensions, Tarek spends time with May an orphaned Christian [ ... ]
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