The Joke Jam
The Pepp promises "45 minutes of piping-hot laughs with four surprise comedians serving punchlines, saucy jokes, and a generous topping of fun".
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Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai
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The Joke Jam
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiSecond time this week for the Pepp's "45 minutes of non-stop laughs from four surprise comedians serving up a full-flavoured feast of funny", this one with an early start (7pm not 9pm).
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CLOSING TODAY The Two Walks: Works on Paper selected by Judy Karkour
CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA group show of new and archival works on paper selected by Judy Karkour that brings together 14 artists with distinct material and artistic backgrounds – Sarah Almehairi, Faris Alshafar, Olaf Breuning, Bernhard Buhmann, André Butzer, Nadine Ghandour, Monika Grabuschnigg, [... more]
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Nothing Worth Mentioning
Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, DubaiAn exhibition featuring more than 40 works by 16 photographers (of different nationalities, but all based in the UAE) that seek to find beauty and meaning in the small moments of everyday life, personal rituals, routines, brief encounters, simple gestures [... more]
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Candlelight: A Tribute to Edith Piaf
Al Nojoom Ballroom, Shangri-La Dubai Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Gulf String Quartet present an hour of arrangements of Piaf favourites – by candlelight, of course. Ticket holders can get 5% off à la carte menus (including drinks) at Shangri-La Dubai's bars and dining venues, before or after the [... more]
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Canaanite Inscriptions
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiA chance to hear the Canadian Arabic Orchestra, an ensemble that fuses the traditions of Western and Arabic music. This programme promises "a soul-stirring journey through the vibrant crossroads of culture and innovation" that honours the rich heritage of Palestinian [... more]
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Fanfaraï
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA terrific start to the new season at The Arts Center – a high-octane double bill featuring two bands, both making their Gulf debuts, who really know how to deliver. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (above) is the pioneering group [... more]
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Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Al Nojoom Ballroom, Shangri-La Dubai Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Vivaldi favourite was written as concerti for violin and orchestra, but it's often arranged for a quartet and this is what we'll be getting here, performed by the Gulf String Quartet. The ambiance is (non-flammable) candlelight, of course. The [... more]
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The Joke Jam
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThird time this week for the Pepp's "45 minutes of non-stop laughs from four surprise comedians serving up a full-flavoured feast of funny".
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The Dating Show by Noha & Denise
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiComedy from two very sharp standups who work really well together. From first dates to ghosting, situationships to heartbreak stories, Noha Bashir and Denise Alexe address the struggles of dating life via sharp humour, relatable stories, and a brilliant chemistry [... more]
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Amna AlMemari, Lubnah Ansari, MG, Andrew Riad: Infrared
NIKA Project Space Unit 11 Al Khayat Avenue, 19th Street Road — Al Quoz 1, DubaiThis group show is the culmination of the second edition of NIKA Project Space's Open Studio programme: four artists based in the UAE were invited to develop new bodies of work in dialogue with the space, one another, and the [... more]
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The Village Next To Paradise: dir Mo Harawe (2024)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe first Somali film to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival (in 2024), The Village Next to Paradise tells the story of Mamargrade who is struggling to raise his son Cigaal in their rural Somali village amidst conflict, natural [... more]
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The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesAward-winning contemporary dance from Aotearoa/New Zealand, one of the hits of Edinburgh 2025. Created by Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer and inspired by the energy and emotion of rave culture, it's a spectacle of stamina, sweat, and [... more]
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Karak After Dark Vol 3
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesIt looks like this night of improvisational comedy has been so successful that progenitors Tall Tales Productions and The Junction will be running it regularly. As before, it's a show created on the fly from audience suggestions; it's inspired by [... more]
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Ismail Abdi: Visa Required
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA stand-up show that delves into "life, travel, identity, and the everyday struggles we all face". Abdi is definitely an engaging storyteller, so this should be a good night ...
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Bassem Youssef: Testing Stuff
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiFirst of half a dozen Pepp shows where the Egyptian-American standup, actor, TV host, and former cardiothoracic surgeon tries out new material. He's been a comedy success for 15 years, so he knows how to do comedy; it will be [... more]
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The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSecond of three performances for this award-winning contemporary dance from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Created by Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer and inspired by the energy and emotion of rave culture, it's a spectacle of stamina, sweat, and sheer [... more]
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Bassem Youssef: Testing Stuff
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiSecond of half a dozen Pepp shows where the Egyptian-American standup, actor, TV host, and former cardiothoracic surgeon tries out new material. He's on at 7 and 9pm on 12 and 13 September.
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The Jury Experience: The Deadly Boat Ride
Dubai Knowledge Park Conference Centre Auditorium Block 2B, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street, DubaiThe audience for this show has been called for jury duty. As the story proceeds you hear the testimony, analyse the evidence, and ultimately decide whether the accused is guilty or not ... It's a courtroom drama where you get [... more]
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Bassem Youssef: Testing Stuff
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThird of half a dozen Pepp shows where the Egyptian-American standup, actor, TV host, and former cardiothoracic surgeon tries out new material. He's on again at 9pm and at 7 and 9pm on 13 September.
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The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe final performance of this award-winning contemporary dance from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Created by Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer and inspired by the energy and emotion of rave culture, it's a spectacle of stamina, sweat, and sheer willpower [... more]
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Dubai Opera 10th Anniversary Gala
Dubai OperaDubai Opera marks its 10th birthday with a black-tie gala featuring soprano Fatma Said, performing with the UAE National Orchestra under the baton of Ahmed Farag and the Festival Chorus. We're promised "a curated gala of operatic and orchestral works [... more]
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Bassem Youssef: Testing Stuff
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThe Egyptian-American standup, actor, TV host, and former cardiothoracic surgeon tries out new material. He's on again at 7 and 9pm on 13 September.
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CLOSING TODAY Time That Grows Slowly
Dom Art Projects Al Khayat Avenue, DubaiA group exhibition based around site-specific installations and considering ecological, feminist, philosophical, and postcolonial concerns. The core inspiration however is “philosophical reflections of time as growth rather than movement ... Time, as humans experience it, is inseparable from the vegetal. [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Petr Kirusha: Every moment is a fresh beginning
Dom Art Projects Al Khayat Avenue, DubaiA solo show featuring works that Petr Kirusha developed during his residency at Dom Art Projects. At a time of heightened geopolitical tension between the US and Iran, Kirusha documented the landscapes of Al Quoz and the rapidly changing cityscape [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Rana Begum: Boundless Geometry
Farjam Foundation Gate Avenue 3, GF-97, DIFC, DubaiSelected works from the Farjam Collection. Through a refined language of Minimalist abstraction, the London-based artist blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture – "bringing together works that explore light, colour, perception, and spatial experience, the exhibition reflects Rana [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Ahmad AlAttar: Human in the Loop
421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesHuman in the Loop is a sound-based interactive installation that takes the form of a game of hide-and-seek between visitors and an unseen algorithm. Hanging ropes are suspended from the ceiling and visitors are invited to pull on them; each [... more]
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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
ADNEC Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe 35th edition of the book fair is its most festival-looking yet, with more than 1,400 events in total and six stages for sessions alongside 1,350 exhibitors from 95 countries. The programme also brings together winners of this year’s major [... more]
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Bassem Youssef: Testing Stuff
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiFirst of two final shows where the Egyptian-American standup, actor, TV host, and former cardiothoracic surgeon tries out new material. He's on again at 9pm.
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Blind Symphony
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiA concert with a difference – venue is absolutely dark, and each audience member dons a light-blocking mask. The idea of course is that without visual perception your full attention is on the sound: "the most subtle musical nuances, delicate [... more]
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Bassem Youssef: Testing Stuff
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiLast of a run of six shows with the Egyptian-American standup, actor, TV host, and former cardiothoracic surgeon trying out new material – he'll probably have honed it by now, so this is probably the one to catch.
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BASE39 Creative Accelerator Gallery Showcase
Base39 Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SPARK), SharjahA grad show for Base39’s first accelerator cohort of designers. An evening of celebration, connection, and emerging design talent is promised. RSVP through this link.
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Monday Night Comedy: This Is Impro & Sing It!
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA two-act evening of improvised spells, scenes, and songs, entirely based on audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse’s most experienced improv performers plus guest performer and improv instructor Andrew Gentilli from the UK. After warming up with some games [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY The Glitch: Fragmented Becoming
Al Shindagha Museum - House 353 DubaiA Diarbid show for 35 artists "who explore identity as fluid, layered, and continuously evolving. Through fragmented, distorted, duplicated, and incomplete forms, the works examine how the self is shaped by memory, displacement, shifting environments, and the uncertainties of contemporary [... more]
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Stephan Kaluza: From Dust to Bloom
JD Malat Gallery ACT 2 Tower, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A ,Downtown Dubai, DubaiStephan Kaluza’s practice is fundamentally concerned with depictions of nature, either as hyper-realistic oils or near-abstract renderings. These two modes of painting should be seen as different stages of the same subject in a process of transformation: disruptions creep in, and [... more]
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The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu DhabiMad 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.
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CLOSING TODAY Kevork Mourad: The Echoes of Silent Bells
Leila Heller Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors and raised in Syria, Mourad approaches his work with a profound sense of responsibility to preserve culture and history; his practice aims to give voice to places that no longer exist, offering an interpretation [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Sultan Bin Fahad: Blue Note
Leila Heller Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThis exhibition by the Saudi artist embraces the experimentation of jazz, commemorating its role as an audiovisual gathering for culture to flourish from and exact its designs on the world as it moved from older models of audiovisual art – [... more]
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Library Circles: Rend Beiruti
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiRend Beiruti’s research display, sharing insights into her investigation of the baqala neighbourhood grocery store as a vital urban entity in Dubai, exploring its history, its influence on urban development, and its role as a cultural signal. Through photographs, mapping, [... more]
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House to House: Articulating a Poetics of Translucence
NYUAD Institute Building Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiShamma Al Bastaki – poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist and NYUAD alumna – discusses her latest poetry collection, House to House. Drawing on memories spanning the 1940s to the 1980s, Shamma traces the infra-ordinary details of daily life along the Dubai [... more]
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Essence of Egypt
Fann à Porter The Workshop, Villa 45, St. 23b, off Al Wasl Road (opposite Box Park), Jumeirah 2, DubaiA presentation of Palestinian artistic journeys shaped in Egypt and inspired by its art and culture, featuring works by Nabil Anani, Samira Badran, Tayseer Barakat, Mostafa Al Hallaj, Kamel Al Moghani and Abdul Rahman Al Muzayyen that range from the [... more]
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Oussama Diab: Reimagined
Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu DhabiA solo show for the Palestinian-Syrian-Dutch artist that reinterprets celebrated masterpieces from Western art. Diab revisits iconic works by artists including Picasso, van Gogh, Michelangelo and van Dyck, applying his own distinctive visual language to allow the images to speak [... more]
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The Marriage of Figaro Ballet
Dubai OperaThe Ukrainian National Ballet brings its version of The Marriage of Figaro to Dubai as a two-act comic ballet with a libretto by Yaremenko and Yuri Stanishevsky, choreography and staging by Viktor Yaremenko, and musical adaptation and additional composition by [... more]
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Very Furry – Open Mic Joke Jam
PrinBella Cafe Assel Blvd, Jumeirah Village Circle, DubaiMad Cat Comedy’s only open mic night: comedians test new jokes, new performers take the stage, and dog lovers are welcome to come along for a fun evening in JVC. Only 20 seats available. Free entry!
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The Comedy Lab
Radisson Red Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, DubaiMad Cat Comedy's regular Thursday stop in Silicon Oasis promises "insane laughs every week". The door price of AED 99 includes one drink and popcorn.
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CLOSING TODAY Tangerine Dreams
Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAyyam Gallery's summer collective exhibition focuses on the colour orange: "occupying a unique space between intensity and comfort, orange embodies both vitality and reflection. Associated with sunlight, fire, ripened fruit, and shifting horizons, the colour carries a rich spectrum of [... more]
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MONOCHROMA 2
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesYou don’t see enough ceramic art outside the interiors business, and then it just tends to be bowls; so this show by Double J Collective (“the first project based in Dubai exclusively dedicated to exhibit, promote and sell fine craft [... more]
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Doors of (Al Sha’biya)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThrough the doors of Al Sha'biya, the traditional neighbourhoods that emerged in the 1970s, this exhibition tells the stories of generations of Emirati families, revealing the quiet ways people leave their mark on the places they call home. Organised by [... more]
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On Photography: The Shortest Shadow
Sharjah Art Foundation, Flying Saucer Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesA three-day discussion-based practical seminar (evenings, 6-9pm) investigating photography’s seeming constraint – its 'short shadow', edging in on what already exists – and how that makes it a radical driver of modern art and thought. The seminar leader is Rohit [... more]
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Spider’s Web
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAgatha Christie's second most successful play (The Mousetrap is probably uncatchable) is a country-house thriller-comedy with clues aplenty and a good helping of plot contrivances – including a most convenient hidden door in the study that of course leads to [... more]
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