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SUMMARY:Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial
DESCRIPTION: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 and contemporary calligraphy as well as decorative art. To 15 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sharjah-calligraphy-biennial/
LOCATION:Calligraphy Square – Sharjah Art Museum\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Calligraphy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T170000
DTSTAMP:20261007T150222Z
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SUMMARY:Club Ocha: the Last Laughs of Summer
DESCRIPTION: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 snacks ‘n’ soft drinks are available at One Life Café on the ground floor.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/club-ocha-the-last-laughs-of-summer/
LOCATION:Basement\, HIVE\, Jumeriah Village Circle\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T193000
DTSTAMP:20260928T091737Z
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SUMMARY:Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
DESCRIPTION: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\, belonging\, and community on Kenya’s Swahili coast – how musical style became a space for expressing and negotiating what it meant to be Swahili in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. An NYUAD Institute talk.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sounds-of-other-shores-the-musical-poetics-of-identity-on-kenyas-swahili-coast/
LOCATION:NYUAD Institute Building\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T193000
DTSTAMP:20261002T150842Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talks: Moza Al Mazrouei – For Purposes Other than Intended
DESCRIPTION: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 shape how we see and understand the world. \nThis part of the NYUAD Art Gallery’s Artist Talks\, an artist-to-artist conversation series founded and curated by Sarah Almehairi. The series brings together creatives based in or affiliated with the UAE to discuss their practices\, forming part of Almehairi’s broader effort to expand cultural discourse and further connect the local art community. \nRight: Moza Al Mazrouei\, Bring Back the Queen (2024: film still)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/artist-talks-moza-al-mazrouei-for-purposes-other-than-intended/
LOCATION:NYUAD Art Gallery Reading Room\, أبو ظبي\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260913T164037Z
CREATED:20260913T164037Z
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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-2/
LOCATION:Courtyard Playhouse\, Street 4B\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Improv
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009
DTSTAMP:20260919T085648Z
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SUMMARY:Fellow Travellers
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDeveloped from nearly two decades of Kholeif’s research\, writing and relationships with artists\, the exhibition is an ambitious-sounding attempt to “re-dream the routes\, flows and counter-flows of modernity through the present”. As Kholief puts it: “Here\, the diasporic imagination is reclaimed\, illuminating the possibilities of shared movement—literal and metaphorical\, exploring how it affects artistic method. Fellow Travellers is a parcel\, a constitutive act of worlding\, of dreaming …” \nFellow Travellers brings landmark and rarely seen works from five artists into dialogue with Kholeif’s own paintings; painting is seen as a connective thread through which diasporic histories\, oral traditions\, symbolic languages and forms of ancestral knowledge can be recovered and reimagined. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a limited-edition publication featuring original poetry and a curatorial essay. \nTo 30 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/fellow-travellers/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009
DTSTAMP:20261002T141208Z
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SUMMARY:Talal Moualla: The Table of Absence
DESCRIPTION: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 asks how the visible can carry an idea\, shape consciousness\, and open new ways of understanding human existence. The Table of Absence brings this lifelong enquiry to one of its most distilled forms”. \nIn Moualla’s work\, the table is a symbolic structure\, a place where human beings recognise one another’s presence – “around it coexist memory and mourning\, intimacy and estrangement\, love and betrayal\, birth and death … Yet as the enquiry deepens\, even the table begins to disappear. It is reduced to a circle\, a plate\, a geometric sign\, a pale field\, until it approaches emptiness itself”. So “the image no longer delivers an answer; it becomes a way of thinking through the question”. \nTo 29 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/talal-moualla-the-table-of-absence/
LOCATION:K Gallery\, Al Barari\, Seventh Heaven\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009
DTSTAMP:20260929T180754Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY showCACE
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-showcace/
LOCATION:Zayed University\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T173000
DTSTAMP:20260915T173051Z
CREATED:20260915T173051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T173051Z
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SUMMARY:Music and Sound Club: Session #3: Contextualising Tape Loops and Music Technology
DESCRIPTION: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. Bridging the analogue and the digital\, this session encourages you to craft hybrid musical works by creatively synthesising vintage media with modern software environments. \nThe sessions are free\, and all materials are provided.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/music-and-sound-club-session-3-contextualising-tape-loops-and-music-technology/
LOCATION:SAF Photography Gallery\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Music,Sound art
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T190000
DTSTAMP:20261002T161930Z
CREATED:20261002T161439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T161930Z
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SUMMARY:From Istanbul to Cairo – A Thousand Ways of Being Modern: dir Ilana Navaro (2025)
DESCRIPTION: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 features contributions from key art historians – among them Nada Shabout\, curator of the exhibition\, who will be talking with Masha Kirasirova after the screening. Kirasirova is a Faculty Fellow at NYUAD\, a historian whose work approaches modern Middle Eastern history from a ‘Second World’ perspective. \nImage: Inji Efflatoun\, Dreams of the Detainee (1961)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/from-istanbul-to-cairo-a-thousand-ways-of-being-modern-dir-ilana-navaro-2025/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Art history,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T220000
DTSTAMP:20260913T163923Z
CREATED:20260913T163923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T163923Z
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SUMMARY:The Amy Winehouse Band
DESCRIPTION: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 the studio”. The show is organised by Dale Davis\, Amy Winehouse’s longtime bassist (he’s credited on some of Back to Black) and sometime musical director. We’re promised “an unforgettable celebration of Amy’s timeless songbook” with the Amy role going to “a powerful female vocalist personally selected by Dale Davis”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-amy-winehouse-band/
LOCATION:Dubai Opera
CATEGORIES:Music
GEO:25.1928528;55.2789648
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261008T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T124824Z
CREATED:20261003T124824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T124824Z
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SUMMARY:The Comedy Lab
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-comedy-lab/
LOCATION:Radisson Red\, Dubai Digital Park\, Dubai Silicon Oasis\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260929T134013Z
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SUMMARY:Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 and the transmission of ecological knowledge; the three-day festival\, curated by filmmaker\, writer\, and curator Nezar Andary\, features international documentaries and short films\, alongside discussions\, panels\, and guided ecological activities. \n\nFriday 9 October free\, but pre-register \n7pm Welcome  \n7.20pm Conservation Diaries Pt 1 and 2 The Conservation Diaries are a five-part documentary series produced by Connect with Nature\, the youth environmental movement of the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and Emirates Nature–WWF. Shot across the wadis\, coastlines\, mangrove forests and rural communities of the UAE\, each episode follows scientists\, volunteers and local custodians at work. \n7.40pm Ghost Elephants dir Werner Herzog (2025) Herzog follows conservation biologist Steve Boyes and a team of Khoisan trackers into the highlands of Angola\, in search of a herd of elephants long thought lost to decades of civil war. A National Geographic Documentary Films production that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. \nSaturday 10 October: Mushrooms and animation AED 31.50 \n2pm Fungi: Web of Life dir Gisela Kaufmann and Joseph Nizeti (2023) Narrated by Björk and led by biologist Merlin Sheldrake\, this 45-min giant-screen documentary travels into Tasmania’s ancient Tarkine rainforest in search of a rare blue mushroom – and the vast underground network that keeps the forest alive. \n2.45pm Animated shorts from France\, Mauritius\, Belgium and Czechoslovakia \nSaturday 10 October: Mending Science with Love AED 31.50 \n5pm Chuuraa dir Evgenia Arbugaeva (2026) In the Siberian Arctic\, indigenous Sakha palaeontologist Aisen Klimovskii descends into caves in the melting permafrost in search of an ancient creature. From the director of the Oscar-nominated Haulout. \n5.20pm Conservation Diaries Pt 3 and 4 Documentary series produced by Connect with Nature\, the youth environmental movement of the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and Emirates Nature–WWF. \n5.40pm Fire of Love dir Sara Dosa (2022) Katia and Maurice Krafft spent 20 years filming volcanoes from closer than anyone should\, and died together at Mount Unzen in 1991. Sara Dosa assembles their story from the extraordinary 16mm archive they left behind. An Academy Award nominated film. \nSaturday 10 October: Mending Food Systems in the UAE and the World AED 31.50 \n7pm Conversation on food\, land\, and structural repair speakers to be announced \n8pm Manthan dir Shyam Benegal (1976) A landmark of Indian parallel cinema\, financed by 500\,000 Gujarati dairy farmers contributing two rupees apiece. A veterinarian arrives in a village to organise a milk cooperative and collides with caste\, money and entrenched power. Newly restored. \nSunday 11 October: Mending the Ecology in the UAE free \n2pm Panel speakers to be announced \nSunday 11 October: From Water to Repair AED 31.50 \n5pm Seeds of Dignity dir Ali Al Sheikh (2025) 30-min documentary following Buzuruna Juzuruna\, a collective of farmers and seed activists in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley who gather\, multiply\, and distribute heirloom seeds\, reviving ancient wheat varieties and putting food back into the hands of small farmers. \n5.30pm Apple Cider Vinegar dir Sofie Benoot (2024) What connects a kidney stone\, a volcano in Cape Verde\, and an English geologist? Sofie Benoot’s playful essay follows the question outward from a single stone into quarries\, lava fields and laboratories. \nSunday 11 October: Mending with Water AED 31.50 \n7.30pm Talk: Water and the UAE Ahmed al Maazmi assistant professor of history at NYUAD. His research examines the intersections of science\, empire\, law\, and society across Arabia and the wider Indian Ocean world. \n8pm Ice Merchants dir João Gonzalez (2022\, still on right) Wordless\, hand-drawn\, and unforgettable animated short. A father and son live in a house nailed to a vertical cliff. Each day they jump\, parachuting down to the village below to sell the ice they froze overnight. \n8.20pm Time and Water dir Sara Dosa (2026\, still below) Asked to write the eulogy for the first glacier declared dead by climate change\, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his family archive into a time capsule.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/al-sidr-environmental-film-festival/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T210000
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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: \nLucia\, Before & After dir Anu Valia (2016\, USA: 14 min) \nA young woman waits out Texas’s state-mandated 24-hour period before her abortion can proceed. Winner of a Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award. \nMunchkin dir Anne Thorens (2022\, Switzerland: 20 min) \nA coming-of-age story with a difference. Two young neighbours spend their summer holiday playing together in the forest; but one day\, without any apparent reason\, the boy loses interest in the girl. Rejected\, she looks for her place in other ways. \nSarah dir Alaa Abu Farraj (2022\, Syria: 17 min) \nSarah is a young woman who came to Damascus from a small village to live a monotonous life alone in a rented apartment. But she seems to have a hidden secret … \nThe Sea Runs High\, One dir Evgeniya Korchagina (2021\, Russia: 13 min) \nA young woman who has suffered a miscarriage is asked to hold a friend’s one-year-old. The sea provides context … \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cineolios-cinenights-5/
LOCATION:Alliance Française Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T210000
DTSTAMP:20261007T141900Z
CREATED:20261007T141413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T141900Z
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SUMMARY:Pitch Them Perfect: Pitches + Confessions
DESCRIPTION: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 stop booking tables for three …” It’s in two parts – The Pitches (participants take the stage to extol the merits of a single friend; each pitch lasts approx five minutes) and The Confessions (as the audience arrives\, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards\, using the stories to spark jokes\, conversations\, and interactions with the audience). “Expect hilarious pitches\, questionable dating decisions\, and lots of laughter.”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/pitch-them-perfect/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260928T103100Z
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SUMMARY:Naïssam Jalal and Hazem Shaheen
DESCRIPTION: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 but also with rap and recently in Indian music too; Shaheen is a noted Egyptian oud player\, singer\, and composer. The pair released their album Liqaa in 2018\, and their synergy suggests we will be in for an intimate and reflective evening of musical virtuosity.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/naissam-jalal-and-hazem-shaheen/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Concert,Jazz
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T125253Z
CREATED:20261003T125253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T125253Z
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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/
LOCATION:Xandros\, Singature 1 Hotel\, Barsha Heights\, Dubai
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T220000
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SUMMARY:The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:Yet another strong-looking bill for this month’s Laughter Factory tour: \nMarlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents\, breezily confident and good at observational comedy \nGeorge Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to include scriptwriting. The Melbourne Herald called him “truly terrific” \nDenisa Alexe – Dubai-based Russian-Romanian comedian who combines cultural observation with recgnisable storytelling and experiences \nJohn Hague – Northern Englishman with a sharp wit and an eye for the absurd \nThe rest of the schedule: \n10 October Jumeirah Golf Estates 7pm\n10 October Dukes The Palm 8.30pm \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club/
LOCATION:Radisson DAMAC Hills\, Hessa Street Dubailand\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T210000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T223000
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SUMMARY:Heritage Symphonic Orchestra: Nagham
DESCRIPTION: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 Mohamed Salem Al-Ghoom. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/heritage-symphonic-orchestra-nagham/
LOCATION:Space 42 Arena\, Al Raha St\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261009T230000
DTSTAMP:20261007T100533Z
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SUMMARY:Ahmed Ahmed & Friends
DESCRIPTION: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 a very good evening of standup at a decent price.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/ahmed-ahmed-friends/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T190000
DTSTAMP:20261003T154046Z
CREATED:20261003T154020Z
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SUMMARY:Short + Sweet Comedy Junior Finale
DESCRIPTION:The UAE’s next generation of comedians? Standups aged 12 to 18 compete for the title of Short + Sweet Comedy Junior Champion 2026.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/short-sweet-comedy-junior-finale/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2194872;55.2844808
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T200000
DTSTAMP:20261003T113832Z
CREATED:20261003T113832Z
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SUMMARY:The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:Yet another strong-looking bill for this month’s Laughter Factory tour: \nMarlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents\, breezily confident and good at observational comedy \nGeorge Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to include scriptwriting. The Melbourne Herald called him “truly terrific” \nDenisa Alexe – Dubai-based Russian-Romanian comedian who combines cultural observation with recgnisable storytelling and experiences \nJohn Hague – Northern Englishman with a sharp wit and an eye for the absurd \nThe final stop is the later one today\, 8.30pm at Dukes The Palm.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-3/
LOCATION:Jumeirah Golf Estates\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2048493;55.2707828
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T210000
DTSTAMP:20261007T141837Z
CREATED:20261007T141508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T141837Z
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SUMMARY:Pitch Them Perfect: Pitches + Confessions
DESCRIPTION: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 yourself stop booking tables for three …” It’s in two parts – The Pitches (participants take the stage to extol the merits of a single friend; each pitch lasts approx five minutes) and The Confessions (as the audience arrives\, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards\, using the stories to spark jokes\, conversations\, and interactions with the audience). “Expect hilarious pitches\, questionable dating decisions\, and lots of laughter.”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/pitch-them-perfect-2/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2194872;55.2844808
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T125523Z
CREATED:20261003T125523Z
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SUMMARY:Joke Hub
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/joke-hub/
LOCATION:Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef\, Al Seef Street\, Umm Hurair 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2558677;55.310187
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T155602Z
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SUMMARY:UAE National Orchestra: Abu Dhabi Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 to Light Cavalry\, full of bracing fanfares and galloping rhythms and irresistible high spirits. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2 should be a real contrast\, with classical lyricism and brooding passion – it’s also one for the virtuoso\, and the soloist here is the much-lauded Georgian pianist David Khrikuli. And the concert culminates in Dvořák’s Symphony No.8\, lyrical\, pastoral\, tuneful and ultimately optimistic.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/75009/
LOCATION:Etihad Arena\, Yas Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T113943Z
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SUMMARY:The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:The final gig for this month’s Laughter Factory tour. On the bill: \nMarlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents\, breezily confident and good at observational comedy \nGeorge Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to include scriptwriting. The Melbourne Herald called him “truly terrific” \nDenisa Alexe – Dubai-based Russian-Romanian comedian who combines cultural observation with recgnisable storytelling and experiences \nJohn Hague – Northern Englishman with a sharp wit and an eye for the absurd
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-4/
LOCATION:Dukes The Palm\, Palm Dubai\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.1124317;55.138978
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T213000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261010T230000
DTSTAMP:20261007T110523Z
CREATED:20261007T110523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T110523Z
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SUMMARY:Ahmed Ahmed & Friends
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/ahmed-ahmed-friends-2/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260826T102228Z
CREATED:20260826T102228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T102228Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Hamad Almuzaini: Precarious Beings
DESCRIPTION:“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 Kuwait City\, considering everyday details\, overlooked objects\, and urban infrastructures that shape places to trace the subtle relationships between people\, objects\, systems\, and the built environment.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-hamad-almuzaini-precarious-beings/
LOCATION:Tashkeel Studio and Gallery\, Nad Al Sheba\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Urbanism
GEO:25.1435458;55.3475331
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260913T164618Z
CREATED:20260913T164618Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Golden Harvest\, Lasting Bloom
DESCRIPTION: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 through colour\, light\, form\, and painterly expression\, the exhibition is not simply a literal depiction of autumn – more an exploration of how the same natural motif can acquire entirely different artistic meanings.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-golden-harvest-lasting-bloom/
LOCATION:Andakulova Gallery\, Unit 18\, P4 Level Damac Park Towers\,  DIFC \, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.209528;55.278514
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260916T085923Z
CREATED:20260916T085923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T085923Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-sara-masinaei-boundaries-and-breaches/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1395894;55.2290711
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