Joke Hub
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.
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Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef Al Seef Street, Umm Hurair 1, Dubai
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Halloween Special: Theatresports – Battle of the Houses
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCompetitive improv – four teams teams representing the Hogwarts wizarding houses face off in a fast-paced tournament of wit, wild imagination, and wizardry. As ever, the audience decides who will win the coveted House Cup of Improv Glory. And if [... more]
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Laughter Lounge Halloween Special: Crypt of Comedy
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe Callback Comedy crew with "Dubai's only variety comedy show ... coming back from the grave for one frightfully funny night ... Hosted by sinister Sunny and the nightmarish Noha 911, featuring wickedly good improv from the Off Script crew [... more]
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Maria Hassabi: Us
Cultural Palace Cutlural Square, Al Riqa Suburb, SharjahA 6m bench along the front edge of the stage compresses the space into a narrow, linear runway. Five dancers trace this boundary through a sequence of calculated tableaus, their bodies caught between rest and anticipation. The bench acts as [... more]
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Valentina Danubio: I Love Them, But …
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiAn hour of new material from the always excellent Valentina, this time on the people we love, the things they do that drive us crazy, and all those moments that make relationships so complicated.
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Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Al Majlis Mina A'Salam Hotel, Madinat Jumeriah, DubaiOne of the Candlelight favourites. Vivaldi wrote the original as concerti for violin and orchestra, but it's often arranged for a quartet – as here, performed by the Gulf String Quartet. The ambiance is (non-flammable) candlelight, of course. The performance [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Artists’ Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shahdin
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiA monumental one-room installation that restages the Bangladeshi artist's The River Remembers. Originally commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation and created in 2023, this large-scale textile work has handcrafted threads mapping the colour of the water of the Teesta and [... more]
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Salah Elmur
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiBringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition promises an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world – "where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time", exploring the artist’s shifting sense of belonging and [... more]
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Comedy at the Speakeasy
Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, DubaiThe 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]
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The Big Wooden Whoopsie
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe final performance for this original comedy. Written and co-directed by top Dubai photo/videographer Ovidiu Dugulan, it surveys the final stretch of a ten-year siege of Troy, a job that should've taken three days ...
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Dubai Design Week
d3Dubai Design Week goes from strength to strength as the region's design festival and establishing Dubai's position as the design capital of the Middle East. This time there's a very busy, very programme around d3 includes installations, new commissions, exhibitions, [... more]
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Promis le Ciel | Promised Sky: dir Erige Sehiri (2025)
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSehiri’s intimate drama follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. We're dropped into the lives of Marie (Aïssa Maïga), Naney (Debora Lobe Naney) and Jolie [... 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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Wafa Al Falahi: Feathers in the Reeds, Milk in the Mud
Hunna Art Warehouse 49A, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe Emirati artist's first solo exhibition features an imaginary bestiary on paintings, works on paper and ceramic sculptures. Al Falahi’s creatures each carry a feeling, a memory or a premonition, says the gallery: "Pieced together from what has stayed with the [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA visual meditation on the horizon as both boundary and promise, a visible line that remains perpetually distant. Alaa Itani's solo show brings together reverse glass paintings of horizons, blurred landscapes, and moving cloud formations; he explores landscape as acts [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCollaborative works from Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian’s ongoing Flower series, unfolding across gallery walls covered with hand-drawn graffiti; rooted in the artists’ shared and individual experiences, the works consider what it means to care for, sustain and grow alongside [... more]
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Cineolio’s Cinenights
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFounded 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]
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CLOSING TODAY Amir Khojasteh: May the Tree No Longer Burn When I Wake
CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAmir Khojasteh's third solo exhibition with the gallery presents the first body of work he has developed after leaving his home country, Iran.
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Recreating Gesture: Crafting a Gold Necklace from The Iron Age
L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts Building 10, Dubai Design District, DubaiFollowing showings in Paris, Lyon, Seoul and Shanghai, this exhibition – "a strategic research project for L'ÉCOLE, at the crossroads of archaeology and the history of techniques, and goldsmithing craftsmanship" – demonstrates the skills and techniques in reproducing a Celtic [... more]
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Ioannis Potamousis, Elizabeth Han, Yizhuo Meng, and Stanford Yu: Fire, Fantasy, & Dance
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA spectacular demonstration of musicianship: two grand pianos, eight hands playing simultaneously, a programme of exciting rhythms and orchestral delights reworked for the keyboard. The programme: Charles Gounodx: Waltz from Faust Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 Saint-Saëns: [... more]
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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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Cocktails and Comedy
Bondz Unit 156 Level POD, Emirates Financial Tower, DIFC, Dubai“Dubai’s hottest comedy night” (aka the Mad Cat team) come to the moodily-lit speakeasy style bar in DIFC for a regular Thursday gig. The door price includes one drink.
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Reem Al Mubarak: What We Left in the Sandbox
Rizq Art Initiative Leaf Tower, Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi"In this exhibition, memory becomes material: what stays, what fades, and what changes with time ... Through play and experimentation, Reem returns to lived experiences, reimagining them through the distance of memory and blurring the line between what is real [... more]
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Yasemin Tekgürler: Journey Home
Hotel Indigo Dubai Downtown Marasi Drive, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA pop-up exhibition by the New York-based Turkish artist in the hotel's lobby exploring migration, memory, identity and the meaning of belonging – "for me, home is not necessarily a place we return to, but something we carry, recreate, and [... more]
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Tatiana Chalhoub: The Trees Now Stand Unpruned and Wild
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesBringing together personal histories and material experimentation, this exhibition – the first in the UAE by the Brazilian artist – reflects on growth, rupture and renewal, revealing how fragments of the past can take root in unexpected ways. With new [... more]
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Sirocco et le Royaume des courants d’air: dir Benoît Chieux (2023)
Zayed Theatre, SUAD Campus Hazza Bin Zayed St, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThis slightly trippy animation features two intrepid sisters, four-year-old Juliette and eight-year-old Carmen, who discover a passage into the extraordinary world of their favourite book, Kingdom of the Air Streams. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, the girls [... more]
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The Ugly One
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesWhen the extent of his ugliness is revealed, Lette turns to a plastic surgeon for help – but when the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful ... As appearances take centre [... more]
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Politically Incorrect Comedy
Xandros Singature 1 Hotel, Barsha Heights, DubaiMad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
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The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Grand Millennium Barsha Heights Sheikh Zayed Road - Exit 36, Barsha Heights, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAnother good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with some ace local comics joining the international imports: John Fothergill Nicole Drinkwater Valentina Danubio Ahmed Kasid The rest of the schedule: 7 November Studio One Hotel 8.30pm 8 November The [... more]
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The Ugly One
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesTwo further performances of Marius von Mayenburg’s very dark comedy about beauty, identity and getting ahead in life;when the plastic surgery bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful ... The Junction did [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Bénédicte Gimonnet: What We Carry Becomes the Terrain
Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiAisha Alabbar Gallery’s newly renovated space reopens with a solo exhibition by the UAE-based French artist that features paintings, screen prints, drawings and textile works. The theme is a pivotal journey to Peru and a renewed engagement with the roots [... more]
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Artist’s Garden: Amphibious Timelapse by the Rice Brewing Sisters Club
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiAmphibious Timelapse by South Korean collective the Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC) is the 2026-2028 Artist’s Garden commission at the Jameel – the Artist’s Garden being a space for artists to create, cultivate and experiment with the conceptual limits of [... more]
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Water as a Common Ground: Notes from a Majlis
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiDay one of a weekend symposium on water – "two days of conversations, presentations and artistic exchange exploring ecological, social, mythological and poetic dimensions of water, bringing together artists, scientists, legal thinkers and researchers". This symposium explores climate-affected water systems, [... more]
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Map-Making Workshop: ‘Places We Carry’ and ‘Atlas of Shared Place’
Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, DubaiA free two-part workshop led by cultural practitioner and educator Nanelle Jayawardene that explores how memory and experience shape our sense of place, "inviting participants to engage in a form of map-making that foregrounds our personal encounters with a space". [... more]
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SAF Book Club Meetup: Social Class and Cultural Capital in Literature
SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, SharjahSAF's November book club meetup asks what literature can teach us about how social class and cultural capital dictate and uphold hierarchies, examining depictions of social strata and elite cultural spaces in books such as Babel by RF Kuang, Erasure [... more]
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UAE National Orchestra: Sing for the Nation
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThis concert by the UAE National Orchestra and choir puts the emphasis on 'national' with "an evening where we come together in love for the nation, sharing moments of pride and belonging ... a space where we gather as sons [... more]
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Joke Hub
Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef Al Seef Street, Umm Hurair 1, DubaiA 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.
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The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Studio One Hotel Dubai Studio City, DubaiAnother good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with some ace local comics joining the international imports: John Fothergill Nicole Drinkwater Valentina Danubio Ahmed Kasid The rest of the schedule: 8 November The Club, Abu Dhabi 7pm 13 November [... more]
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The Ugly One
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesTwo final performances of Marius von Mayenburg’s very dark comedy about beauty, identity and getting ahead in life;when the plastic surgery bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful ... The Junction did [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Bashar Khalaf: The Field of Dreams
Zawyeh Gallery Warehouse 27, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiTwo series of works, Junk Garden and Protective Shield, from the Ramallah-born artist. “The Field of Dreams is an exploration of formations of ‘steel’ in the public space from the perspective of the relationship between the self, the object, and [... more]
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Waterlands, Elemental Dreams
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiDay two of a weekend symposium on water – "two days of conversations, presentations and artistic exchange exploring ecological, social, mythological and poetic dimensions of water, bringing together artists, scientists, legal thinkers and researchers". Extending Jumana Emil Abboud’s ongoing exhibition [... more]
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Woven Memories: Tradition, Identity, and Artistic Transformation
Leila Heller Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA panel discussion exploring the intersections of cultural heritage, personal identity, and contemporary artistic practice through the work of Karima Al Shomely. The guest speaker is Nina Heydemann, Director of Maraya Art Centre; Nadia Al Hassani, Director of the Academy [... more]
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Music and Sound Club: Session #3: Contextualising Tape Loops and Music Technology
SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, SharjahSharjah 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. Bridging the analogue and the digital, this session encourages you to craft hybrid musical works [... more]
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The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiAnother good-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour, with some ace local comics joining the international imports: John Fothergill Nicole Drinkwater Valentina Danubio Ahmed Kasid The rest of the schedule: 13 November Radisson DAMAC Hills 8.30pm 14 November Studio [... more]
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Salman ZQ Improvised
Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, DubaiA Mad Cat Comedy special featuring the group's main man at one of Dubai's coolest bars. The cover charge of AED 99 includes one drink.
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CLOSING TODAY Rana Begum: Taking Form
The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesRana Begum brings her textile works to The Third Line for the first time. Her fifth solo exhibition at the gallery features a new body of large-scale wool tapestries presented alongside works on linen, paper and MDF, all reflecting the [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Azza Al Qubaisi: Between Land and Sea
Leila Heller Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA mid-career exhibition dedicated to the work of the Emirati multidisciplinary artist, curated by Aysha Al Hemeiri. Ranging from intimate jewellery pieces to large-scale public works, Al Qubaisi's practice invites audiences to encounter the UAE's natural resources through space, structure, [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Manish Nai: In Search of Material Within Material
Leila Heller Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA solo exhibition by the Mumbai-based artist; much of his work comes from what he has seen and handled there. Nai works with jute, newspaper, cardboard, used clothing, mosquito mesh and corrugated metal; he cuts, folds, compresses and layers these [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Karima Al Shomely: Between a Fold and a Memory
Leila Heller Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesKarima Al Shomely's work draws from the clothing, textiles and adornments of Emirati women. The burqa is a recurring subject, appearing in works that look at how it was made, worn and passed down through generations; Al Shomely also works [... more]
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Artist Talks: Wafa Al Falahi – Texture of a Dream
NYUAD Art Gallery Reading Room Abu DhabiA conversation moderated by Sarah Almehairi that explores Wafa Al Falahi’s practice across painting, sculpture, and drawing, "where instinctive encounters with material give form to the subconscious". The discussion traces how memory and dream take shape through the creatures and [... more]
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