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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTSTAMP:20260927T122644Z
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SUMMARY:Bernar Venet: Sculptures\, Furniture and Works on Paper
DESCRIPTION:A survey of works by the French artist\, “one of the most restless practitioners of his generation” as the gallery has it. Since the early 1960s Venet unusually broad range of media has included tar poured on to canvas and cardboard\, a heap of industrial coal claimed as sculpture\, paintings and drawings built from mathematical equations and scientific diagrams\, sound recordings\, photography\, performance\, poetry and stage design – and\, from the 1980s onward\, the Corten steel Arcs\, Angles and Indeterminate Lines for which he is now best known. This exhibition includes examples of three of those: sculptures in steel are shown alongside Venet’s furniture\, which translates the geometry of the sculptures into functional form\, and a group of works on paper that trace the conceptual logic running beneath it all. \nTo 31 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bernar-venet-sculptures-furniture-and-works-on-paper/
LOCATION:Waddington Custot\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTSTAMP:20260913T162754Z
CREATED:20260913T162754Z
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SUMMARY:Eman Al Hashemi: The Horizon We Inherit
DESCRIPTION:Al Hashemi’s practice examines what it means to remain human within increasingly automated systems of production and consumption – especiallyy seen through urban life in the Emirates. Al Hashemi works across ceramics\, printmaking and painting\, “investigating the systems through which contemporary experience is organized: the routes that structure daily movement\, the artificial illuminations that shape public space\, and the habitual routines through which urban environments are encountered and internalised … Central to this inquiry is the sun\, which recurs throughout the exhibition as both a defining condition of life in the UAE and a means of thinking through the relationship between body\, landscape\, and the built environment”. \nRight: Eman Al Hashemi\, Shams I\, Shams II\, Shams III (2026) 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/eman-al-hashemi-the-horizon-we-inherit/
LOCATION:Iris Projects\, Studio 20\, Madar 39\, MiZa\, Port Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTSTAMP:20260813T175704Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T175704Z
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SUMMARY:Father Ted
DESCRIPTION:Two further performances for this stage adaptation of the near legendary Graham Linehan / Arthur Mathews TV series. Dubai Drama Group says “the show captures everything fans adore about the cult classic: razor-sharp dialogue\, joyfully absurd situations\, and characters who tumble headlong into chaos with divine enthusiasm …” There are shows at 3pm and 8pm.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/father-ted-2/
LOCATION:Theatre by QE2\, Queen Elizabeth 2\, Port Rashid\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Theatre
GEO:25.2621669;55.2810185
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260925T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260925T220000
DTSTAMP:20260913T162948Z
CREATED:20260913T162948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T162948Z
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SUMMARY:Politically Incorrect Comedy
DESCRIPTION:Mad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel\, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/politically-incorrect-comedy-41/
LOCATION:Xandros\, Singature 1 Hotel\, Barsha Heights\, Dubai
GEO:25.0965195;55.1738621
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260925T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260925T220000
DTSTAMP:20260922T111953Z
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SUMMARY:Father Ted
DESCRIPTION:How could this stage adaptation of the near legendary Graham Linehan / Arthur Mathews TV series not be seriously funny? Dubai Drama Group says “the show captures everything fans adore about the cult classic: razor-sharp dialogue\, joyfully absurd situations\, and characters who tumble headlong into chaos with divine enthusiasm …” \nCraggy Island is lovingly brought to life for just three performances – one tonight (Friday)\, two tomorrow (at 3pm and 8pm).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/father-ted/
LOCATION:Theatre by QE2\, Queen Elizabeth 2\, Port Rashid\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Theatre
GEO:25.2621669;55.2810185
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260925T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260925T213000
DTSTAMP:20260925T070235Z
CREATED:20260919T094129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T070235Z
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SUMMARY:Book Cellar Dubai: The Sea\, The Sea
DESCRIPTION:Iris Murdoch’s Booker winner The Sea\, The Sea (1978) is arguably her best book\, a novel of obsession\, memory\, and self-deception. Another interesting and accessible choice from what is arguably Dubai’s most interesting book club …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/book-cellar-dubai-the-sea-the-sea/
LOCATION:Le Brasserie sur le Boulevard\, Kempinski The Boulevard\, Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Book club
GEO:25.2009027;55.2762294
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260915T170112Z
CREATED:20260915T170112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T170112Z
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SUMMARY:Vantage Point Editions
DESCRIPTION:The name riffs off Vantage Point\, Sharjah Art Foundation’s biennial open-call photography exhibition; aiming to support the work of local photographers\, Vantage Point Editions offers an opportunity to see and buy work from from 20 UAE-based photographers who exhibit a range of approaches and perspectives. \nDuring the three days the Photography Gallery will also have a programme of talks\, workshops and pop-up studios. \nParticipating photographers are Abdullah Alblooshi\, Amin Idris\, Anna Jopp\, Aqib Anwar\, Babra Murenzi\, Hamzeh Zahran\, Jed Bacason\, Martin Ong Yambao\, Mivan Makia\, Mohammed Ahmed (Bebo)\, Mohamed Abdelwahab\, Moza Al Falasi\, Ola Allouz\, Preschelle Ann Bigueras\, Redha Al Hammad\, Ron John\, Saif Alzari\, Sam Allison\, Tamara Tsehai Tesfai and Zayed Ebrahim Alhaddar.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/vantage-point-editions/
LOCATION:SAF Photography Gallery\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
GEO:25.351671;55.396596
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTSTAMP:20260922T093809Z
CREATED:20260922T093431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T093809Z
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SUMMARY:Agatha Gothe-Snape: Network of Answers
DESCRIPTION:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is preparing the local audience for its 11 December opening with a series of events “for the public to engage with artists\, ideas and conversations that are shaping the new museum”. This one is an interactive artwork by the Australian Guggenheim Abu Dhabi-commissioned artist Agatha Gothe-Snape: you respond to a series of questions through a phone booth installation\, intended to gather personal reflections\, memories and perspectives to build a collective archive of voices from Abu Dhabi. It’ll be available to 22 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/agatha-gothe-snape-network-of-answers/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Participation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260925T070237Z
CREATED:20260922T092843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T070237Z
UID:10014214-1790294400-1790553599@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Art Appears: Chant Avedissian
DESCRIPTION:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is preparing the local audience for its 11 December opening with a series of events at Manarat al Saadiyat “for the public to engage with artists\, ideas and conversations that are shaping the new museum”. This one has three days on Chant Avedissian\, an artist in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection\, that will explore the influences that shaped Avedissian’s distinctive visual language which reinterpreted Egypt’s cultural icons\, histories and collective memory through a contemporary artistic lens. \nWe’re not sure of the timings\, but the programme is … \n25 Sept Talks\n26 Sept Workshops\n27 Sept Quiz \nYou’re invited to preregister for one or more of these here. \nRight: Chant Avedissian\, Hind Rostom\, from the Icons of the Nile series (c.1991)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/art-appears-chant-avedissian/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Talk,Workshop
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T220000
DTSTAMP:20260916T132725Z
CREATED:20260916T132725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T132725Z
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SUMMARY:Funny Business
DESCRIPTION:A Comedy Kix n evening “packed with stand-up comedy\, good vibes\, and plenty of laughs”. The AED 90 door price includes two drinks.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/funny-business/
LOCATION:Savant⁶\, SO/Uptown Dubai\, First Al Khail Street\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T233000
DTSTAMP:20260913T162415Z
CREATED:20260913T161945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T162415Z
UID:10014125-1790280000-1790292600@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Cocktails and Comedy
DESCRIPTION:“Dubai’s hottest comedy night” (aka the Mad Cat team) come to the moodily-lit speakeasy style bar in DIFC for what looks like a regular every-other-Thursday gig. The door price includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cocktails-and-comedy/
LOCATION:Bondz\, Unit 156 Level POD\, Emirates Financial Tower\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2085919;55.2765573
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T213000
DTSTAMP:20260913T163151Z
CREATED:20260913T163151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T163151Z
UID:10014130-1790280000-1790285400@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:PowerPointless Networking Night
DESCRIPTION:One of the most consistently funny of the Courtyard’s classic improv gigs: the speakers have to give a presentation on a slide deck they’ve never seen before\, with the topic determined at random by the Wheel of Destiny. Each presentation will be rated by a panel of judges and the winner applauded as the PowerPointless champion. Afterwards there’s a chance to mingle with the presenters and the Courtyard’s Corporate Team (and a chance to find out more about the Courtyard’s Corporate Academy). \nIt’s free\, but you need to put your name on the guestlist via the website. It’s first-come first-served\, so get there early to grab a seat.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/powerpointless-networking-night-9/
LOCATION:Courtyard Playhouse\, Street 4B\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Improv
GEO:25.177696;55.2504958
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T223000
DTSTAMP:20260913T161153Z
CREATED:20260913T161153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T161153Z
UID:10014123-1790276400-1790289000@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Cineolio’s Cinenights
DESCRIPTION: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\, celebrating cinematic togetherness and promoting intellectual and cultural exchange. \nThe screenings tonight will be followed by a discussion led by Nawaf Al Janahi. The films: \nAvalons dir Carlos Eduardo Nogueria (2011\, Brazil: 17 min) \nMedieval fantasy: the duel for the Princess’ hand leads to vengeance from beyond the grave … \nThe Beetle at the End of the Street dir Joan Vives I Lozano (2018\, Spain: 18 min – still above) \nA psychic fishmonger foresees Amadeo’s death\, so his fellow villagers decide to give him the best final seven days for which one could ask … \nBefore The Rain Fades Away dir Hassan Ammar (2023\, Egypt: 11 min) \nA father struggles between the harsh reality of his grief for his daughter and the violent visions that plague his sleep\, until he can no longer tell which world is real … \nBlind Spot dir Lotfi Achour (2021\, Tunisia/France: 13 min) \nAnimated documentary that gives a voice to Kamel Matmati\, who was tortured to death behind closed doors in 1991 under the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia\, to unveil what happened …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cineolios-cinenights-4/
LOCATION:Alliance Française Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260913T161649Z
CREATED:20260913T161649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T161649Z
UID:10014124-1790272800-1790280000@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Maktaba: Theater Solidarities with Maitha Ali
DESCRIPTION:Maktaba is 421’s monthly gathering dedicated to collective reading\, viewing\, and discussion across disciplines. This session discusses theatre-making as a practice of solidarity\, exploring how performance builds connections across geographies\, identities\, and movements. Facilitated by artist and theatre-maker Maitha Ali\, participants will explore the theoretical frameworks that position performance not only as art form but as political practice.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/maktaba-theater-solidarities-with-maitha-ali/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Theatre,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260923T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260923T233000
DTSTAMP:20260922T140227Z
CREATED:20260913T160513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T140227Z
UID:10014122-1790193600-1790206200@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Comedy Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Flamingo Live’s regular comedy club slot at the Coterie pub in Ibn Battuta Mall. The door price includes two drinks.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/comedy-lounge-6/
LOCATION:The Coterie\, Level 2\, Ibn Battuta Mall\, Jebel Ali\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260923T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260923T220000
DTSTAMP:20260913T160355Z
CREATED:20260913T160300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T160355Z
UID:10014121-1790193600-1790200800@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
DESCRIPTION: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 the lowest score is knocked out. Eventually only one remains\, to be crowned the Maestro. “Fast-paced\, unpredictable\, and hilarious” says the promo\, and you couldn’t argue with that. As with all Courtyard improv evenings it’s free\, but you need to put your name on the guestlist (via the website); and it’s first-come first-served\, so get there early to grab a seat.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/wednesday-night-impro-maestro/
LOCATION:Courtyard Playhouse\, Street 4B\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Improv
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260922T075433Z
CREATED:20260922T075433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T075433Z
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SUMMARY:Karima Al Shomely: Between a Fold and a Memory
DESCRIPTION:Karima 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 with traditional Emirati fabrics\, including Bou Tira\, Bu Glaym and Bu Teelah\, enlarging their patterns and remaking them in metal. Through photography\, sculpture\, textile and video\, she brings these materials and their histories into the present. \nTo 10 November. \nRight: Karima Al Shomely\, Bu Galim
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/karima-al-shomely-between-a-fold-and-a-memory/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260922T075615Z
CREATED:20260922T074749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T075615Z
UID:10014210-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Manish Nai: In Search of Material Within Material
DESCRIPTION:A 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 materials\, often through slow and repetitive processes. “Rather than hiding what they were originally used for\, he makes that history part of the work”. \nTo 10 November. \nRight: Manish Nai\, Untitled (2021)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/manish-nai-in-search-of-material-within-material/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260922T074032Z
CREATED:20260922T074032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T074032Z
UID:10014208-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Azza Al Qubaisi: Between Land and Sea
DESCRIPTION:A 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\, and material presence. \nTo 10 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/azza-al-qubaisi-between-land-and-sea/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260918T150223Z
CREATED:20260918T145934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T150223Z
UID:10014197-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Sharmila Samant: Loca-Cola
DESCRIPTION:Coke bottles seem identical\, but differ subtly from one country to another. These variations in taste and appearance highlight the simulacral nature of the Coca-Cola bottle – a semblance of an imagined universal ideal. The incursion of multinational brands into local markets reflects a form of neocolonisation; but despite limited technical facilities and economic constraints\, local recycling practices thrive out of necessity; local vendors\, often resourceful and inventive\, repurpose discarded branded bottles to package their own beverages. \nSharmila Samant began the Loca-Cola project in 2000; he collects glass Coca-Cola bottles from various countries and juxtaposes them with distinctly local flavours to explore the polemics of ‘local’ and ‘global’: “Is the ‘local’ inherently oppositional to the ‘global’\, or is it an intrinsic part of it?
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sharmila-samant-loca-cola/
LOCATION:1×1 Art Gallery\, Unit 10\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260918T171332Z
CREATED:20260916T103228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T171332Z
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SUMMARY:Dalal Al-Obaidi: Frogs\, Jazz & Blisters
DESCRIPTION:A new body of 15 paintings by the Kuwaiti artist that takes us into a life split between two worlds\, London and Kuwait– considering what it means to live in two places\, or “to be two Dalals” as the artist put it\, without being entirely settled in either identity. \nTo 11 November. \nRight: Dalal Al-Obaidi\, Phantom
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/dalal-al-obaidi-frogs-jazz-blisters/
LOCATION:Taymour Grahne Projects\, Warehouse 31A\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T102341Z
CREATED:20260916T102242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T102341Z
UID:10014176-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Katia Kameli: The Canticle of the Birds
DESCRIPTION:A solo presentation by the French-Algerian artist and filmmaker that reinterprets The Conference of the Birds\,a 12th-century epic poem by Farid ud-Din Attar\, in which a flock of birds search for a mighty ruler and ultimately find their strength within themselves. \nIn Kameli’s video Le Cantique des oiseaux (2022) actresses process while playing bird-shaped ceramic instruments\, an eerie procession that stands in sharp contrast to the urban environment of Paris. A follow-up film\, Le Cantique des oiseaux\, variation (2022)\, was staged in a seaside garden on the French Riviera; here\, the physical challenge of dancing while playing fragile ceramic instruments creates a visible tension between the performers’ bodies and the delicate artwork. The earthenware instruments are bird-shaped ocarinas\, created by Kameli with ceramicist Marie Picard; to bring these sculptural birds to life\, Kameli worked with composer Aurélie Sfez and choreographer Youness Anzane. \nTo 11 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/katia-kameli-the-canticle-of-the-birds/
LOCATION:Taymour Grahne Projects\, Warehouse 31A\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260918T164227Z
CREATED:20260916T100118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T164227Z
UID:10014174-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Iqra Tanveer and Faheem Abbas: The importance of staying quiet: 6. Open Forms
DESCRIPTION:The final exhibition in the series The importance of staying quiet\, “an attempt to acknowledge a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art”\, focuses on conceptual and material practices shaped by stillness and abstraction. To 30 December. \nRight: Faheem Abbas\, Untitled (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/iqra-tanveer-and-faheem-abbas-the-importance-of-staying-quiet-6-open-forms/
LOCATION:Grey Noise\, Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T094434Z
CREATED:20260916T094434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T094434Z
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SUMMARY:Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me
DESCRIPTION: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 one another. For Hashemi and Erfanian\, tending to plants\, relationships and artistic practice all share a common faith in growth. And even amid destruction\, flowers return and spring cannot be stopped:the act of tending becomes a method of resistance. \nPrimarily oil pastel on paper\, the drawings use a rough and immediate visual language. Flowers are built from loose\, gestural marks; colours bleed as figurative scenes appear almost like small windows embedded within wild fields. The process is similarly intertwined. Hashemi and Erfanian move freely across the same surface; one may begin a work and the other finish. At other times\, their marks overlap as they work simultaneously. \nTo 4 November. \nRight: Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian\, Without undressing her\, I watched her unfold\, soft as a bloom becoming itself (2024)Without undressing her\, I watched her unfold\, soft as a bloom becoming itself (2024)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/tirdad-hashemi-and-soufia-erfanian-i-bloom-where-you-hold-me/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T090433Z
CREATED:20260916T090433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T090433Z
UID:10014168-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Studio\, Wounds\, and Battles
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by seven emerging UAE-based artists\, beneficiaries of Dom Arts’ Studio Support Programme (introduced to gave artists space and time to develop their practices without requiring them to produce new work or meet predetermined outcomes). \nThe programme gave each artist space and time to explore their practice without the pressure to produce a specific outcome\, allowing for experimentation\, uncertainty\, mistakes and new directions. The show has works by Joumana Mortada\, Meher Afroz Vahid\, Rabila Kidwai\, Aisha Alhammadi (work in progress\, right)\, Divyaaunshi Purohit and Teng Miras. Rather than presenting only finished works\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the creative process by including experiments\, works in progress\, research and completed pieces developed during their time in the studios.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-studio-wounds-and-battles/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1395894;55.2290711
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T090334Z
CREATED:20260916T090334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T090334Z
UID:10014167-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Studio\, Wounds\, and Battles
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by seven emerging UAE-based artists\, beneficiaries of Dom Arts’ Studio Support Programme (introduced to gave artists space and time to develop their practices without requiring them to produce new work or meet predetermined outcomes). \nThe programme gave each artist space and time to explore their practice without the pressure to produce a specific outcome\, allowing for experimentation\, uncertainty\, mistakes and new directions. The show has works by Joumana Mortada\, Meher Afroz Vahid\, Rabila Kidwai\, Aisha Alhammadi (work in progress\, right)\, Divyaaunshi Purohit and Teng Miras. Rather than presenting only finished works\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the creative process by including experiments\, works in progress\, research and completed pieces developed during their time in the studios. \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/studio-wounds-and-battles/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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GEO:25.1395894;55.2290711
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T085752Z
CREATED:20260916T085752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T085752Z
UID:10014165-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Sara Masinaei: Boundaries and Breaches
DESCRIPTION: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 our surroundings”\, says the gallery. Her works include monoprints created by pressing canvas directly on to urban surfaces\, plus sculptural pieces that explore the tension between order and disruption. \nThis work results from Dom Arts’ Studio Support Programme\, introduced to gave artists space and time to develop their practices without requiring them to produce new work or meet predetermined outcomes. \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sara-masinaei-boundaries-and-breaches/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260915T164436Z
CREATED:20260915T164436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T164436Z
UID:10014142-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon
DESCRIPTION: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 of temporal displacement\, a process informed in part by his work as a researcher and archivist through which he has closely encountered the work of Arab modernist painters – especially the Lebanese artist Rafic Charaf (1932-2003). \nTo 4 November. \nRight: Alaa Itani\, A Momentum for the Horizon (2023)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/alaa-itani-a-momentum-for-the-horizon/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260913T155835Z
CREATED:20260913T155835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T155835Z
UID:10014119-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Private World
DESCRIPTION:A group show for Lulua Alyahya\, Rami Farook\, Sohrab Hura\, and Khaled Jarada that promises to take the viewer into “intimate\, elusive worlds … Modest in scale\, [the works] invite a form of looking that is closer and more inward\, creating encounters that feel private rather than public”. The gallery goes on: “Many of the works evoke states of solitude\, seclusion and inward attention. They seem to exist apart from the demands of the outside world\, creating spaces for reflection\, imagination and feeling. Across the exhibition\, intimacy takes different forms: through personal observation\, fragments and fleeting moments\, relationships and lived experience\, or through atmospheric and psychologically charged spaces …” \nTo 24 October. \nRight: Khaled Jarada\, The Remains Gesture (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/private-world/
LOCATION:Green Art Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260913T155407Z
CREATED:20260913T155407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T155407Z
UID:10014117-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Bénédicte Gimonnet: What We Carry Becomes the Terrain
DESCRIPTION: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 that have long informed her practice; the rainforest\, in particular\, is treated as “a site of reckoning\, where recollection\, imagination and lived experience converge … Windows\, façades and thresholds surface within dense vegetation\, setting the human impulse to define and contain against everything around it that refuses a fixed boundary”. \nThe exhibition also introduces the Gran Eco series\, with tall vertical works isolating personally significant sites from countries where Gimonnet has lived (“an echo implies distance\, delay\, memory and transformation\, a place returning altered …” \nTo 7 November 2026 \nRight: Bénédicte Gimonnet\, Grand Echo Rouge (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/benedicte-gimonnet-what-we-carry-becomes-the-terrain/
LOCATION:Aisha Alabbar Gallery\, Warehouse C19\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1196663;55.217749
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