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  • Comedy ColABZ with Abz Ali

    Reunion DXB Signature Tower 3, Business Bay, Dubai

    Classy comedy with Abz Ali, featuring Luca Cupani and Obeid. Hosted by Roxy Yekta.

    From AED 170

  • CLOSING TODAY Global Positioning System

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    An ambitious large-scale group exhibition dedicated to mapping and navigation systems, "telling stories of fast cars and donkeys, spinning globes and street barricades, cosmic highways and broken bridges ... delves into topographies, transit lines and simulated landscapes to engage critically [... more]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Phenomenological Alphabet

    NYUAD Arts Centre Project Space

    A group exhibition for six artists – Aya Afaneh, Sarah Afaneh, Sarah Brahim, Amir Hazim, Yoonsik Chico Park, and Andrew Riad – exploring how language is formed through the body, voice, gesture, and mark making practices. Each contributes a distinct [... more]

    Free

  • Juma Alhaj: Revelation

    421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    The first institutional solo exhibition by Emirati artist Juma Alhaj is the culmination of his participation in 421 Arts Campus' Artistic Development Program. Grounded in reading, journaling, and philosophical inquiry, it explores themes of reflection, solitude, and self-discovery; the exhibition [... more]

    Free

  • Archipelago of Whispers

    421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    A group show curated by Deniz Kirkali and Elham Puriya Mehr that brings together works in video, sound installations, and performance that explore “alternative infrastructures for knowledge-making such as whispers, murmurs, hums, gossip, and storytelling”. The artists include Aliaskar Abarkas, [... more]

    Free
  • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

    Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory: dir Mel Stuart (1971)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    A beautiful restoration of this family classic for its 55th anniversary, based on the Roald Dahl book and staring Gene Wilder having a lot of fun with his role as the magical maker of scrumptious sweets. Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), [... more]

    Free

  • Music and Sound Club: Session #2 AI and Music Technology

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Sharjah Art Foundation’s Music and Sound Club is a series of fortnightly hands-on workshops and meetup sessions form anyone interested in music and sonic arts. This second workshop is a two-parter – on 4 and 18 October – that introduces [... more]

    Free, but pre-register

  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    The Club Al Mina, Abu Dhabi

    Yet another strong-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to [... more]

    AED 175

  • Comedy at the Speakeasy

    Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

    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 intimate room where sitting in the [... more]

    AED 99

  • An Evening of Mohamed Abdelwahab

    University of the Arts University City, Sharjah

    The UAENO's tribute to a pioneering composer who blended traditional Arabic melodies with Western influences comes to Sharjah with a concert that invites audiences to rediscover familiar works in a new symphonic setting.

    From AED 100

  • Same Same But Different

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    With Amin and Obaid. "Two comedians take turns on the stage, and by the end of the night you’ll still be trying to figure out how these two ended up on the same bill ..."

    From AED 160
  • My Father's Shadow

    My Father’s Shadow: dir Akinola Davies Jr (2025)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Another fine Cinema Space choice: winner of a Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes and the 2026 BAFTA award for Outstanding Debut Feature, My Father’s Shadow is a stunning debut for the British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davis Jr. Set in 1993 [... more]

    Free

  • Very Furry – Open Mic Joke Jam

    PrinBella Cafe Assel Blvd, Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai

    Mad 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!

    Free

  • Fridge Concert Series 50: PeachPuffs | The Draft

    The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    A grunge-ish evening for the opener of the Fridge Concert Series, though headliners PeachPuffs are closer to a UK-style indie band with their sharp songwriting, good melodies and stage presence. They can play, too, and they have a new single [... more]

    AED 100

  • The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger

    Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu Dhabi

    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 …

    AED 99

  • Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial

    Calligraphy Square – Sharjah Art Museum Sharjah

    This 12th edition of the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial has the theme 'Balance' and features 297 works by 145 artists from around the world. It's always an interesting visit because of the range of styles and techniques on show, covering traditional [... more]

    Free

  • Club Ocha: the Last Laughs of Summer

    Basement, HIVE Jumeriah Village Circle, Dubai

    A Comedy Kix gig with a strong bill – Imail Abdi, Valentina Danubio, Ahmad Kasidcomedy, Saeed Alnahdy and Enoud Metaweaa. Note that is a non-smoking room, and there’s no FnB – but you can bring your own booze (!) and [... more]

    AED 57

  • Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast

    NYUAD Institute Building Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    Andrew Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music at NYUAD and Head of the Music Program there, combines oral history, ethnography, and musical analysis to explore how musicians in twentieth-century Mombasa used Arab and Indian musical influences to navigate questions of identity, [... more]

    Free, but pre-register

  • Artist Talks: Moza Al Mazrouei – For Purposes Other than Intended

    NYUAD Art Gallery Reading Room أبو ظبي, أبو ظبي, United Arab Emirates

    A conversation moderated by Sarah Almehairi exploring Moza Al Mazrouei's artistic practice across sculpture, film, mixed media, writing, and curation. Moving between research and fiction, observation and participation, the discussion touches on authorship, selfhood, and the structures of power that [... more]

    Free, but pre-register

  • Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Courtyard’s popular 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 with [... more]

    Free

  • Fellow Travellers

    Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, Dubai

    An exhibition conceived and curated by Prof Omar Kholeif, featuring Sonia Balassanian, Jai Chuhan, Luísa Correia Pereira, Lalitha Lajmi, Irene Scheinmann and Omar Kholeif himself. Developed from nearly two decades of Kholeif’s research, writing and relationships with artists, the exhibition [... more]

    Free

  • Talal Moualla: The Table of Absence

    K Gallery Al Barari, Seventh Heaven, Dubai

    For more than five decades, the Syrian artist, poet, and critic Talal Moualla has approached the image not simply as representation, but (says the gallery) “as a form of thought ... Moving between painting, criticism, poetry and research, his practice [... more]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY showCACE

    Zayed University Dubai

    The projects exhibition for seniors of Zayed University's College of Arts and Creative Enterprises – usually among the best student/grad work you see in the UAE. Covers animation, graphic design, interior design and visual arts.

  • Inji Efflatoun, Dreams of the Detainee, 1961.

    From Istanbul to Cairo – A Thousand Ways of Being Modern: dir Ilana Navaro (2025)

    The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    In conjunction with the NYUAD Art Gallery's current exhibition All Manner of Experiments, the Gallery has organised a special screening of Ilana Navaro's well-regarded documentary exploring how late 19th- and 20th-century artists from the region developed alternative modernities. The film [... more]

    Free, but pre-register

  • The Amy Winehouse Band

    Dubai Opera

    It’s 20 years since Back to Black was released, so there’s a reasonable hook for this performance by “the original musicians who performed alongside Amy on stages around the world and helped shape her distinctive sound both live and in [... more]

    From AED 300

  • The Comedy Lab

    Radisson Red Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai

    Mad 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.

    AED 99
  • Ice Merchants

    Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival

    The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    The fifth edition of the Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, presented with Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, is themed Mend, or رَمِّم‎ in Arabic. In this context, the word considers environmental restoration, from habitat and species recovery to water stewardship [... more]

    AED 31.50

  • Cineolio’s Cinenights

    Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Founded by Emirati filmmaker and curator Nawaf Al Janahi in 2020, Cineolio‘s mission is focused on promoting short films and expanding their audience reach internationally. Its Cinenights screening series presents a diverse selection of short films on the big screen, [... more]

    AED 25 – AED 35

  • Pitch Them Perfect: Pitches + Confessions

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    A week of this interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival "where we laugh about your worst dates, talk relationships, and give you the chance to pitch your single friends. Help them find true love, and help yourself [... more]

    AED 125

  • Naïssam Jalal and Hazem Shaheen

    The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    A concert with flautist Naïssam Jalal and oudist Hazem Shaheen that brings together modern jazz and the classical Arabic tradition of improvised taqsim. Jalal has a storied career in collaborations across a variety of musical styles, primarily in contemporary jazz [... more]

    AED 105

  • Politically Incorrect Comedy

    Xandros Singature 1 Hotel, Barsha Heights, Dubai

    Mad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.

    AED 80

  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Radisson DAMAC Hills Hessa Street Dubailand, Dubai

    Yet another strong-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to [... more]

    AED 175

  • Heritage Symphonic Orchestra: Nagham

    Space 42 Arena Al Raha St, Abu Dhabi

    An evening of Arab music reworked with sweeping orchestral arrangements, celebrating the richness of the region’s musical heritage and blending authenticity with contemporary orchestral performance. The Yemeni Heritage Symphonic Orchestra is conducted by its founder, the Yemeni composer and conductor [... more]

    From AED 195

  • Ahmed Ahmed & Friends

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    A Dubai Comedy festival gig – Ahmed Ahmed, a co-founder of the groundbreaking Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, will be joined by Brandon Johnson, Sean Fawaz, Barney Rivera and UAE-based comedians Amr El Assal and Noha for what looks like [... more]

    From AED 125

  • Short + Sweet Comedy Junior Finale

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    The UAE’s next generation of comedians? Standups aged 12 to 18 compete for the title of Short + Sweet Comedy Junior Champion 2026.

    From AED 125

  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Jumeirah Golf Estates Dubai

    Yet another strong-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to [... more]

    AED 175

  • Pitch Them Perfect: Pitches + Confessions

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    A second run of this interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival "where we laugh about your worst dates, talk relationships, and give you the chance to pitch your single friends. Help them find true love, and help [... more]

    AED 125

  • Joke Hub

    Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef Al Seef Street, Umm Hurair 1, Dubai

    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.

    AED 99

  • UAE National Orchestra: Abu Dhabi Festival

    Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

    Led by conductor François López-Ferrer, recipient of the 2024 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, the UAE National Orchestra opens the Abu Dhabi Festival's 2026 season with what looks like a super programme. It kicks off with Franz von Suppé’s Overture [... more]

    From AED 225

  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Dukes The Palm Palm Dubai, Dubai

    The final gig for this month's Laughter Factory tour. On the bill: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club [... more]

    AED 175

  • Ahmed Ahmed & Friends

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    A second set for Ahmed Ahmed plus Brandon Johnson, Sean Fawaz, Barney Rivera and UAE-based comedians Amr El Assal and Noha. A Dubai Comedy festival gig.

    From AED 125

  • CLOSING TODAY Hamad Almuzaini: Precarious Beings

    Tashkeel Studio and Gallery Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    “What is the ultimate goal of a city?” asks architect/artist Hamad Almuzaini: “Governance and the streamlining of lived experience – an impossible task – or something more open, broken, and constantly reinvented?” The exhibition looks at placemaking within the context of [... more]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Golden Harvest, Lasting Bloom

    Andakulova Gallery Unit 18, P4 Level Damac Park Towers, DIFC , Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    An exhibition dedicated to the natural maturity, abundance, and fullness of autumn, including works by Rimma Gagloeva, Javlon Umarbekov, Timur Akhmedov, and Vera Nechaeva. Because each artist approaches the theme of autumn in their own way, discovering a personal language [... more]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Sara Masinaei: Boundaries and Breaches

    Dom Arts Projects Warehouse 40, Al Khayat Avenue, Dubai

    Sara Masinaei’s solo show explores how urban spaces shape memory, movement and lived experience: "through walking, collecting found objects and recording traces of overlooked surfaces, she treats the city’s ground as an active part of how we experience and navigate [... more]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Heritage and Horizons

    Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Reem Island, Abu Dhabi

    The AD’Art artist collective with an exhibition celebrating the Sorbonne’s 20th anniversary – new works exploring heritage, knowledge transmission, and cultural dialogue, through "diverse and personal artistic perspectives".

    Free

  • Star Wars – A New Hope: dir George Lucas (1977)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    The original, and possibly the best, of the Star Wars mega-franchise. Written and directed by George Lucas, and featuring one of the most dramatic intros ever, this unmissable adventure introduced a galaxy of cleverly drawn characters – Princess Leia (Carrie [... more]

    Free, but pre-register

  • A Little Prayer: dir Angus MacLachlan (2023)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    A sensitive portrait of an American family and an emotional drama about finding kindred spirits in unexpected places. Bill (David Strathairn, excellent) is a pillar of his Southern community: a business owner, a veteran, and the proud patriarch of an [... more]

    Free, but pre-register

  • Short + Sweet Comedy Finale

    Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, Dubai

    We must've missed the preliminaries, but here we are with what are described as "the best UAE-based comedians together for one hilarious Finale — 60 minutes of fast, fearless and seriously funny comedy". They each get five minutes to win [... more]

    From AED 150