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  • Joke Jam

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

    The Pepp's regular early-evening showcase of Dubai’s local comedy talent, always with four standups on stage.

    From AED 125

  • The Big Wooden Whoopsie

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    "Comedy is just tragedy plus time. It's been 3,000 years. We're legally allowed to be hilarious." This original comedy – written and co-directed by top Dubai photo/videographer Ovidiu Dugulan – surveys the final stretch of a ten-year siege of Troy, [... more]

    AED 120

  • Fouad Boussouf and CCN du Havre Normandie: Näss (People)

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

    The UAE premiere of Näss (People) by Moroccan choreographer Fouad Boussouf and his company Le Phare – CCN du Havre Normandie is an encounter between the raw energy of 1970s Moroccan music and the physical intensity of contemporary hip-hop. Inspired [... 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

  • Laughter Lounge by 3albaraka: Pew! Pew!

    New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, Dubai

    Improv "where anything can happen and the audience becomes part of the show". Which is sort of how improv is defined, though in this case the title suggests there may be an extra element of gun-fingers ... The 3albaraka guys [... more]

    AED 80

  • CLOSING TODAY Stephan Kaluza: From Dust to Bloom

    JD Malat Gallery ACT 2 Tower, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A ,Downtown Dubai, Dubai

    Stephan 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]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Oussama Diab: Reimagined

    Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi

    A 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]

    Free

  • Salah Elmur: Just as the Heart of a Mango is a Stone

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition offers an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world, "one where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time" as the Jameel puts it. Through paintings that [... more]

    Free

  • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: dir Nick Park & Steve Box (2005)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Full-length Wallace & Gromit action that won Aardman an Oscar for animation. Our plasticine heroes' latest business venture is a humane pest-control outfit called Anti-Pesto, but a mysterious superbunny-shaped beast is decimating the town’s vegetable plots and threatens Lady Tottington’s [... more]

    Free

  • Joke Jam

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

    The Pepp's regular early-evening showcase of Dubai’s local comedy talent, always with four standups on stage.

    From AED 125

  • The Big Wooden Whoopsie

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Second performance (of three) 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 ...

    AED 120

  • Bait Al Oud Strings Orchestra

    Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu Dhabi

    Bait Al Oud Abu Dhabi presents the third edition of its Strings Orchestra Concert, an evening that features outstanding students and graduates, professional musicians, and guest artists: "experience melodies and voices coming together as the energy of young talent meets [... more]

    AED 75

  • 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

  • Halloween Special: Theatresports – Battle of the Houses

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

    Competitive 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]

    Free

  • Laughter Lounge Halloween Special: Crypt of Comedy

    New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, Dubai

    The 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]

    AED 120

  • Maria Hassabi: Us

    Cultural Palace Cutlural Square, Al Riqa Suburb, Sharjah

    A 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]

    Free, but pre-register

  • Valentina Danubio: I Love Them, But …

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

    An 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.

    From AED 160

  • Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

    Al Majlis Mina A'Salam Hotel, Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

    One 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]

    From AED 150

  • CLOSING TODAY Artists’ Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shahdin

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    A 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]

    Free

  • Salah Elmur

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing 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]

    Free

  • 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

  • The Big Wooden Whoopsie

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The 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 ...

    AED 120

  • Dubai Design Week

    d3

    Dubai 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]

    Free (mostly)

  • Promis le Ciel | Promised Sky: dir Erige Sehiri (2025)

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

    Sehiri’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]

    AED 31.50

  • 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

  • Wafa Al Falahi: Feathers in the Reeds, Milk in the Mud

    Hunna Art Warehouse 49A, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    The 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]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A 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]

    Free

  • CLOSING TODAY Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Collaborative 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]

    Free

  • 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

  • Recreating Gesture: Crafting a Gold Necklace from The Iron Age

    L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts Building 10, Dubai Design District, Dubai

    Following 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]

    Free

  • Ioannis Potamousis, Elizabeth Han, Yizhuo Meng, and Stanford Yu: Fire, Fantasy, & Dance 

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

    A 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]

    SOLD OUT but there may be returns

  • 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

  • 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.

    AED 99

  • 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]

    Free

  • Yasemin Tekgürler: Journey Home

    Hotel Indigo Dubai Downtown Marasi Drive, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A 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]

    Free

  • Tatiana Chalhoub: The Trees Now Stand Unpruned and Wild

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Bringing 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]

    Free

  • Children’s Biennial

    Umm Al Emarat Park Abu Dhabi

    What a good idea this is: the Abu Dhabi Festival is running the first outdoor children’s art biennale in the Middle East Under the theme How the World Feels, the Biennale will explore how children experience the world through touch, [... more]

    Standard park entry AED 10

  • 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 Emirates

    This 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]

    Free, but pre-register

  • The Ugly One

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    When 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]

    AED 130

  • 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

    Grand Millennium Barsha Heights Sheikh Zayed Road - Exit 36, Barsha Heights, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Another 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]

    AED 175

  • The Ugly One

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Two 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]

    AED 130

  • CLOSING TODAY Bénédicte Gimonnet: What We Carry Becomes the Terrain

    Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Aisha 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]

    Free

  • Water as a Common Ground: Notes from a Majlis

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Day 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]

    Free, but pre-register

  • Map-Making Workshop: ‘Places We Carry’ and ‘Atlas of Shared Place’

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    A 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]

    Free, but pre-register

  • SAF Book Club Meetup: Social Class and Cultural Capital in Literature

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    SAF'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]

    Free, but pre-register