50 events found.
Events
Way of the Forest
421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThis travelling edition of the Colomboscope arts festival features work by 19 artists from South Asia and Africa. Taking over Galleries 1 and 2 inside 421 Arts Campus, it focuses on interdependence, custodianship, and restorative practices across rainforests, wilderness, mountain [ ... ]
Free
Mary Poppins: dir Robert Stevenson (1964)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA newly restored print of the multiple Academy Award winner, starring Julie Andrews as the magical nanny and Dick Van Dyke as a most unlikely chimney sweep. Fantastical adventures follow as the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game [ ... ]
FreeGo Back for Murder
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe final performance for this Agatha Christie play. There's an unusual twist on the traditional murder mystery , the action moving from past to present and illuminating the danger of relying on personal testimony warped by time, prejudice and perception. [ ... ]
AED 120
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Dubai OperaIt's 200 years since Betthoven's Ninth premiered, and this performance by the Polish National Opera Orchestra with the Dubai Festival Choir under the baton of Patrick Fournillier should provide a suitable tribute to what is undoubtedly a masterpiece of Western [ ... ]
From AED 260Comedy Mix-Tape
Melrose Paramount Midtown, Al Mustaqbal Street, DubaiDubomedy's improv evening is back with "a hilarious mash-up of stand-up and improv ... You never know who will pop in". It's free but fills up fast, so RSVP to get a seat.
Free, but pre-registerComedy Mix-Tape
Paramount Hotel Midtown Al Mustaqbal Street, Business Bay, DubaiDubomedy's improv evening is back with graduates of Dubomedy's workshops plus special guests in "a hilarious mash-up of stand-up and improv". This is a double-header, with shows at 6pm and 8.30pm; they're free (with a minimum spend of one drink [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
Armageddon Time: dir James Gray (2022)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesJames Gray’s deeply personal coming-of-age tale, set in 1980s New York, boasts fine performances from Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong as the parents and Anthony Hopkins dispensing twinkly grandfatherly wisdom – and, as a sixth-grader making his way through school [ ... ]
FreeMonday Night Comedy: This Is Impro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesExactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers plus guests. Classic Courtyard improv. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
Free but donations welcome
Ökozid | Ecocide: dir Andres Veiel (2020)
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesIt is the year 2034: drought and flooding are destroying the livelihoods of millions of people. The International Court of Justice has had to evacuate from The Hague to Berlin, where the climate catastrophe becomes the subject of legal proceedings. [ ... ]
FreeComedy Night @ Ting Irie
Ting Irie, Mamsga al Saadiyat Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Cultural District, Abu Dhabi"UAE’s top established and new comedians light up the stage with laughter" at Ting Irie Abu Dhabi every other Tuesday (best to check their Instagram account @tingirieauh just to be sure). This time there's a Fineral Home theme ("die laughing"); [ ... ]
AED 95Narratives of Belonging
Al Safa Art & Design Library Al Safa Park, Jumeriah 3, DubaiThe second edition of this open-call Dubai Culture exhibition for Emirati creatives “explores what it means to belong – whether to a place, an object, a practice, or something beyond the physical, like a memory ... By exploring the fluid [ ... ]
Free
Putting the Record Straight: The Lost Women of Art History
Society Dubai Jumeirah Street, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe second in this seven-part lecture series by art historian Rose Balston on female artists from the 16th through to the 18th century – “women who have not only been side-lined, but literally (and shockingly) blocked out of history”, mainly [ ... ]
AED 250Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's regular 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 [ ... ]
Free but donations welcome
Candice Lin: Night Stone
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiThe LA-based artist’s first solo exhibition in West Asia. In Night Stone, a large one-room installation, Candice Lin uses ceramic sculptures, textile works and a site-specific mural to connect the contemporary trade of manganese between Australia and China with the [ ... ]
Free
Magnus Gjoen: The Future of The Past
Mestaria Gallery Unit 35, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiGjoen invites the viewer to explore the delicate balance between history and modernity, as envisioned through a distinctive style that fuses street art influences with pop culture and fine art – symbols and themes from the Renaissance and Baroque are [ ... ]
From Abu Dhabi to Paris: A Symphony of Voices and Keys
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Reem Island, Abu DhabiThe noted Emirati mezzosoprano Fatima Alhashmi is accompanied by the French pianist Marie Sontag for a programme of French arias.
FreeThe Fridge Open Mic
The Fridge Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Fridge's Open Mic night was open to singers, musicians, bands, instrumentalists and performers, bands as well as solo performers. Always a chance to discover some hot new talent ...
Free (we think)The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiThis month's Laughter Factory tour moves on to its now-regular Abu Dhabi stop. On the stage: Kate Barron a return to the UAE for the award-winning Canadian comic, sharp, witty and unfiltered Farhan Solo a Gulf debut for the "eccentric [ ... ]
AED 160PowerPointless Networking Night
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesOne of the most consistently funny of the Courtyard's classic improv gigs is back after a couple of months' hiatus: the speakers have to give a presentation on a slide deck they’ve never seen before, with the topic determined at [ ... ]
Free, but donations welcomeLAST CHANCE Pascal Navarro: From the winter nights of Oslo to the golden lights of Dubai
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAn exhibition of Navarro's abstract paintings. The artist says he considers himself primarily a colourist, and the sun of Dubai has led him towards a palette of golden colours, with light shades, infused with the energy and movement that characterise [ ... ]
FreeThe Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Radisson DAMAC Hills Hessa Street Dubailand, DubaiThe penultimate date for this month's Laughter Factory tour. The acts: Kate Barron a return to the UAE for the award-winning Canadian comic, sharp, witty and unfiltered Farhan Solo a Gulf debut for the "eccentric millennial Muslim" (he was good [ ... ]
AED 160
Antonio Dias: The Search for an Open Enigma
Sharjah Art Foundation – Bait Al Serkal Arts Square, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesWork by Antonio Dias (1944–2018), an artist who relentlessly transgressed material and conceptual boundaries, tackling complex sociopolitical issues across diverse mediums. Drawing upon Hélio Oiticica’s 1969 analysis of Dias’ practice, the title embraces the versatile, ever-changing and subversive nature of [ ... ]
Free
Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS 12)
Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi Arts Square, SharjahSharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography exhibition returns for its 12 edition. Under the theme 'If I Were Another' (derived from a Mahmoud Darwish poem), this year’s exhibition addresses intimate individual experiences and the weight of collective memory, proposing empathy as [ ... ]
Free
William Kentridge: A Shadow of a Shadow
Sharjah Art Foundation – Bait Al Serkal Arts Square, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesKentridge’s first major solo exhibition in the region features a survey of 17 performances by the artist, spanning a period from the late 1980s to the present and showcasing a wide range of his work. They include his interpretations of [ ... ]
Free
Improv Party 2
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Junction's experiment with improv gets another outing; last time out the "unscripted and unexpected live improvised theatrical show" was pretty good, by all accounts. Individual tickets are AED 100, but you can buy two for AED 160 ...
AED 100The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Dukes The Palm Palm Dubai, DubaiLast gig for this month's Laughter Factory tour. The acts: Kate Barron a return to the UAE for the award-winning Canadian comic, sharp, witty and unfiltered Farhan Solo a Gulf debut for the "eccentric millennial Muslim" (he was good on [ ... ]
AED 160LAST CHANCE At the Edge of Land
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiThis group exhibition, curated by Lucas Morin, highlights unexpectedly interconnected geographies, resources and commodities, moving between land and sea to tell stories of conflict, erosion and extraction; it's based on works from the Art Jameel Collection plus loans and new [ ... ]
Free
Nabil Anani: The Land and I
Zawyeh Gallery Warehouse 27, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiNabil Anani has been focussed on painting landscapes for over two decades. His work demonstrates how the land is central to his identity and existence, and how it is also integral to its people; in The Land and I, Anani [ ... ]
A Hard Day’s Night: dir Richard Lester (1964)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe Beatles before they became a studio-only band and got fed up with fame, fortune and each other: Richard Lester's anything-goes direction and a decent lots-of-laughs script plus some good acting from British stalwarts of the time (like Wilfrid Brambell [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
Sotheby’s Middle Eastern art week preview
Sotheby’s Dubai DIFC Gate Village Building No3, Unit 01, Level B2, DubaiAhead of Sotheby’s bi-annual London auctions of Middle Eastern art (Modern & Contemporary Middle East on 22 October; Arts of the Islamic World & India on 23 October) some examples of work to be sold are being shown in Dubai [ ... ]
Free
Broker: dir Hirokazu Kore-eda (2022)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesOne rainy night, Moon So-young (Lee ‘IU’ Ji-eun) leaves her baby Woo-sung outside a ‘baby box’ in Busan, a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. But instead, he’s stolen by Sang-hyun (Song [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerMonday Night Comedy: This Is Impro & Ahmed
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesOne of the Coutryard's two-act evenings of spontaneous scenes and stories based on audience suggestions. First up is the regular Monday evening mix of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation from some of the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers plus [ ... ]
Free but donations welcome
Dalma: dir Humaid Alsuwaidi (2023)
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDana moves to Dalma island when she inherits a house, renovates the property, and starts renting it out to tourists. An innocuous lunch at the only restaurant she finds sets her on a path of collision with many of the [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerThe Fridge Concert Series Season 44: David Sagamon
The Fridge Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Fridge gig series kicks off with the totally brilliant David Sagamon, aka SD Drum Show. He sometimes plays with a small band, sometimes alone with a rhythm box; he's great at just about all musical styles, but exceptional at [ ... ]
AED 80The Fascinating Colours of Diamonds
L'ÉCOLE Middle East, School of Jewelry Arts Building 10, Dubai Design District, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesWhat is the origin of the colour of diamonds? Can it be measured, quantified and appraised? Is rarity the only aspect to explain their appeal? This talk in L'ÉCOLE Middle East's regular evening series, presented by gemologists Chandra Horn and [ ... ]
AED 50
Preserving the Past, Embracing Change, Honoring Traditions
NYUAD Campus, Conference Centre NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesManaging the tensions between traditions and progress (whatever that means) is a particularly acute issue for the Gulf states, awash with money and keen to welcome the world but concerned to maintain a culture rooted in the last. Zaki Aslan, [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerWednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's regular 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 [ ... ]
Free but donations welcome
Zineb Sedira: A way of surviving, a way of life …
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiSedira's films represent a profound archival exploration of identity, and cultural activism. Born in 1963 to Algerian parents, her work is deeply rooted in her self-narration but also sheds light on broader, interconnected global anxieties surrounding cultural emancipation and diaspora. [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE Sotheby’s Middle Eastern art week preview
Sotheby’s Dubai DIFC Gate Village Building No3, Unit 01, Level B2, DubaiAhead of Sotheby’s bi-annual London auctions of Middle Eastern art (Modern & Contemporary Middle East on 22 October; Arts of the Islamic World & India on 23 October) some examples of work to be sold are being shown in Dubai. [ ... ]
Free
Roudaina Fardon: Whispers of Nature
Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery 796 Jumeirah Street, DubaiRoudaina Fardon's first solo exhibition in Dubai: "mosaic-inspired landscapes that highlight the beauty of nature", painted in acrylics with the precise application of different geometric shapes with a small brush. "Whispers of Nature is my way of sharing the quiet [ ... ]
Free
Claude Cozens Trio feat. Ghazi Al-Mulaifi and Tonatiut Zardoìn
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe multi-faceted jazz-fusion Claude Cozens Trio from Cape Town performs in the UAE for the first time. The trio (Cozens on drums, Kyle Shepherd on piano and keyboards, Benjamin Jephta on acoustic and electric bass) is joined by new friends [ ... ]
SOLD OUT but there may be returnsLAST CHANCE Mohamed Yousif and Maggie Otieno: Solace in Soil
Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, DubaiA duo exhibition for Emirati artist Mohamed Yousif and Kenyan sculptor Maggie Otieno that "celebrates the grounded connections between the practices of the two artists and the cross-cultural exchange between the Middle East and Africa". Or as curator Shamma Al [ ... ]
Free
Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth (SIFF)
Vox Cinema, City Center Al Zahia University Road, Al Zahia, SharjahSIFF is back for its eleventh edition with an expanded official selection of 98 films (last year had just over 80) selected from 1,834 submissions from 73 countries. Zimbabwe takes part for the first time; Palestine’s selection as Guest of [ ... ]
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The Wizard of Oz: dir Victor Fleming (1939)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA newly restored version of the classic fantasy road-trip movie. The Guardian's summary says it all: "Victor Fleming has made ... the most delightful film of its kind since Disney's Snow White. The blend of old-fashioned, classic storytelling with cutting-edge [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerPorous Paradigms: Arab Art in Global Context
Fiker Institute 42 17th St, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesPart of a series of events organised by Dubai Culture and Fiker Institute to “exchange expertise, empower creative talent, and support Dubai’s cultural and creative industries”. This one features a panel of Emirati artists and creatives, including cultural researcher and [ ... ]
Politically Incorrect Comedy #Creekside
The Coperhead Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesMad Cat Comedy, "the city’s leading collective for politically incorrect and unfiltered humour", makes its debut at this new standup venue (the Marquis's Creekside pub) on 6 October – and on alternate Sundays thereafter, so the next one is 20 [ ... ]
AED 85
Estas Tonne
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiThis is the Dubai stop on Eastas Tonne's current international tour, with one concert in each city – Yerevan, Tbilisi, Athens, Istanbul, Limassol, and Dubai. Born in Ukraine, he does not identify himself with any particular nation; he says that [ ... ]
From AED 200Didi: dir Sean Wang (2024)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesFor his feature debut, winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Sean Wang has crafted a poignant and humorous narrative that captures the essence of adolescence in California circa 2008. Thirteen-year-old Chris navigates the treacherous waters of teenage [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
Young Frankenstein: dir Mel Brooks (1974)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe cast and director are obviously having great fun in this affectionate tribute to the classic Hollywood monster movies of the 1930s and 40s. Gene Wilder is the titular inheritor of his grandfather's Transylvanian castle, where he attempts to recreate [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
