Dubai Opera describes this as "a landmark musical event certain to leave an indelible imprint on the region's artistic tapestry". With allowances for hyperbole, the PR writer could be right; the MusicAeterna orchestra (and its associated choir) is been the primary [ ... ]
A long evening session of feel-good techno and house from the uber-hip Berlin-based South Korean DJ/producer. Why masquerave? Because you get to wear masks, from a collection inspired by the animal characters in the Louvre's current From Kalila Wa Dimna [ ... ]
A solo exhibition that presents a newly commissioned large-scale installation rooted in the instability and fragility of the human experience — more than 200 fantastical ceramic objects arranged as surreal sculptures and structures that replicate and reimagine healthcare spaces, such [ ... ]
This exhibition presents projects by 12 of the participants in 421’s Homebound Residency Program, which ran annually from spring 2020 to fall 2023; it is both a celebration of the work produced during the programme and an acknowledgement of the [ ... ]
Colombia comes to Dubai; 45 professional dancers, musicians, and actors from the country deliver a 90-minute spectacle showcasing the culture, music, and dance of Colombia. It’s all hung on a plot involving Emirati journalists who are touring Colombia, but the [ ... ]
Chopin favourites by candlelight, a recital for solo piano by Magdalena Wajdzik. These concerts are "a series of classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live candlelit music [ ... ]
A second (and final) performance for the rather special MusicAeterna orchestra with its unorthodox Greek-born Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis. He founded MusicAeterna in Russia in 2004, when he was serving as principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre [ ... ]
Chopin favourites by candlelight, a recital for solo piano by Also Dotto. These concerts are "a series of classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live candlelit music [ ... ]
The 33rd ADIBF 2024 – which runs 29 April to 5 May at ADNEC under the slogan ‘Where the World’s Tales Unfold’ – will be showing 1,350 publishers from 90 countries (12 of them represented for the first time), 375 [ ... ]
Matthew Teller’s Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (2022) gives voice to the layered tapestry of communities, each with its own story, that make up the city. His talk for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
Paintings and drawings by Manjit Bawa (1941-2008), a modernist master of 20th-century Indian figuration whose work is distinguished by expressive line and colour. The exhibition marks the inauguration of Volte Art Projects’ new Alserkal Avenue space under the name Volte [ ... ]
The Fridge Concert Series has always been A Good Thing – typically new(ish) and local(ish) artists given a decent set in a well-equipped space with a supportive audience – but for International Jazz Day the bookers have made something of [ ... ]
A summer-long exhibition of work from one of the gallery’s stalwarts, Timur D'Vatz, featuring his signature mix of stylised figures and symbolic settings that owe something to mediaeval European tapestry, something to Byzantine decoration. The title refers to the dawn [ ... ]
A solo show for the French-born LA-based street artist who started filming graffiti art and subsequently became an artist in his own right after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy. As it happens, many of the 10 works on show here [ ... ]
"We bring together animation enthusiasts, professionals, and children to celebrate the art and craft of animation." This second edition of the conference actually offers a rich programme of workshops, talks, screenings, and exhibitions which seem most suited to the industry; [ ... ]
In a dystopian present, it hasn't rained in Rome for three years: the drought has reduced water reserves to a minimum and there's an epidemic of sleeping sickness carried by cockroaches. Through a city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves [ ... ]
The acclaimed Egyptian theatre-maker Ahmed El Attar adapts and directs an Arabic version of Duncan Macmillan’s powerful, poignant play – an hour of life and humour about mental health. As her mother battles chronic depression, the child creates a list [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
This standup tour arrives at The Club in Abu Dhabi (which has been a bit starved of Laughter Factory's tours recently). Tickets are AED 150 to members, AED 160 to others; that also buys you entrance to an afterparty. The [ ... ]
The second weekend for "a truly breathtaking entertainment phenomenon", with Cirque du Soleil exploring brand-new creative territory by combining its signature acrobatics with ice-skating. So acrobats and skaters perform on the ice and in the air, seamlessly combining disciplines from [ ... ]
World Art Dubai is back for its tenth edition, with more than 4,000 artworks from 300+ galleries and individual artists who come from more than 60- different countries. WAD has grown out of its early days as a simple lo-fi [ ... ]
Second (of three) performances for this Arabic version of Duncan Macmillan’s powerful, poignant play – an hour of life and humour about mental health, adapted and directed by the acclaimed Egyptian theatre-maker Ahmed El Attar. As her mother battles chronic [ ... ]
This month's Laughter Factory standup tour winds up with three final dates in Dubai. The comics: Ron Josol a winner at the Just for Laughs festival, has toured with Kevin Hart Julian Dean "deliciously twisted ... a stream of seriously [ ... ]
The final performance for this Arabic version of Duncan Macmillan’s powerful, poignant play – an hour of life and humour about mental health, adapted and directed by the acclaimed Egyptian theatre-maker Ahmed El Attar. As her mother battles chronic depression, [ ... ]
Widely acclaimed for his inventiveness and artistry, the noted Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer is accompanied by his ensemble, Kremerata Baltica — a chamber orchestra of musicians from Baltic countries – in an elegant-looking programme. Programme: Jēkabs Jančevskis Lignum for strings, [ ... ]
The penultimate gig for this month's Laughter Factory: Ron Josol a winner at the Just for Laughs festival, has toured with Kevin Hart Julian Dean "deliciously twisted ... a stream of seriously good gags ... quick, sharply written and endlessly [ ... ]
The final gig for this month's Laughter Factory: Ron Josol a winner at the Just for Laughs festival, has toured with Kevin Hart Julian Dean "deliciously twisted ... a stream of seriously good gags ... quick, sharply written and endlessly [ ... ]
This is an English version of an award-winning French comedy from 2021, Les Gros Patinent Bien, by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan. That was a story which began with boxes: in the corner of a rehearsal room, deprived of stage [ ... ]
The Jameel's annual handover of the arts centre to a selected cohort of young visionaries starts on Saturday 4 May and runs to Monday 27 May. There will be multiple artwork and installation "interventions" across the ground floor of the [ ... ]
This exhibition spotlights new and historical works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection that present the range and possibilities of drawing and print culture. The first instalment of a four-part series, it delves into the concept of “the double, the [ ... ]
The first UAE exhibition for the NY-based artist, featuring works created in Dubai during her time at the NIKA Project Space Research and Residency programme – a group of monumental watercolour triptychs on the multifaceted narratives and histories of women [ ... ]
The New-York based artist gets her first show in the UAE, featuring works she created in Dubai during her time at the NIKA Project Space Research and Residency programme – monumental watercolour triptychs that relate to the narratives and histories [ ... ]
New and historical works by 15 intergenerational artists in the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection that explore drawing as a practice. The exhibition grew out of a two-year research project into conserving paper; it seeks to re-examine the very nature of [ ... ]
Spectacular and crowd-pleasing genre-crossing work from Moscow’s hottest contemporary dance company, created by celebrity choreographer Alla Duhova in 1986 and still led by her. There's nothing academic about their work – their styles range from ballet to break via hip-hop [ ... ]
A new VOX cinemas series of live comedy gigs kicks off with Shawn Chidiac, aka ‘My Parents are Divorced'. He's especially good at spot-on impressions but is all-round funny ...
The second performance for this hit comedy two-hander by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan, reworked from the French original for an Anglophone audience at last year’s Edinburgh Festival. There were rave reviews for a show that has an imposing Shakespearian [ ... ]
A collection of abstract figurative works on canvas, "inviting viewers into a realm of recognition and constant metamorphosis ... Each 190 x 120cm canvas serves as a conduit for Miramar's endeavour to encapsulate the essence of the natural formations of [ ... ]
Eskandari's exuberant and busy paintings intertwine myth and reality, exploring the power of storytelling – the artist's inspiration for this series comes from the Shahnameh, or the Book of Kings, an ancient Persian epic poem filled with mythical figures and [ ... ]
The final two performances for this hit comedy two-hander by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan, reworked from the French original for an Anglophone audience at last year’s Edinburgh Festival. There were rave reviews for a show that has an imposing [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
The first-ever solo exhibition for artist, architect and researcher Dima Srouji, whose work acts as a form of political commentary and as a place-making (or un-making) tool – "Interested in the ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries, and living archives, the [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
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. [ ... ]
A Reel Palestine capsule programme of six films which challenge narratives that have long marginalised Palestinian voices, advocating for an embrace and amplification of their stories. Bab El Shams (Gate of the Sun): dir Yousri Nasrallah (2004) A powerful film [ ... ]
Screenwriter Noémie (Agnès Jaoui) is invited to give a msterclass at a school that turns out to be run by the man who was her first love (Jonathan Zaccaï). She teaches Vincent and his students that the art of writing [ ... ]
A regular monthly evening of improv and stand-up hosted by Rushdi. The bar's set pretty high: "from side-splitting stand-up to mesmerising improv, the finest comedic artists from near and far come to showcase their talent."
The Fridge Concert Series gives the Dubai-based singer-songwriter an evening for her 2022 album Qisse – a musical journey of self-love and acceptance, with songs in Hindi, Tamil and English, and slick modern production values that are noticaebly rooted in [ ... ]
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