Same Same, but Different: Shawn Chidiac
A new VOX cinemas series of live comedy gigs kicks off with Shawn Chidiac, aka ‘My Parents are Divorced'. He's especially good at spot-on impressions but is all-round funny ...
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VOX Mercato Mercato Mall, Jumeirah Beach Rd, DubaiThe Ice Hole
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe second performance for this hit comedy two-hander by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan, reworked from the French original for an Anglophone audience at last year’s Edinburgh Festival. There were rave reviews for a show that has an imposing Shakespearian [ ... ]
AED 120Miramar Al Nayyar: Moving Through the Ether
Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, DubaiA collection of abstract figurative works on canvas, "inviting viewers into a realm of recognition and constant metamorphosis ... Each 190 x 120cm canvas serves as a conduit for Miramar's endeavour to encapsulate the essence of the natural formations of [ ... ]
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Leila Eskandari: Whispers of Legends
Zawyeh Gallery Warehouse 27, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiEskandari's exuberant and busy paintings intertwine myth and reality, exploring the power of storytelling – the artist's inspiration for this series comes from the Shahnameh, or the Book of Kings, an ancient Persian epic poem filled with mythical figures and [ ... ]
FreeThe Ice Hole
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe final two performances for this hit comedy two-hander by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan, reworked from the French original for an Anglophone audience at last year’s Edinburgh Festival. There were rave reviews for a show that has an imposing [ ... ]
AED 120Monday 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 stuff. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
Free but donations welcome
Ala Ebtekar: The Sky of the Seven Valleys
The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesEbtekar's exhibition is presented as "one work in seven chapters", each composed of one to four doorway-sized panels that combine multi-wavelength photographic processes with the artist's distinctive cloud-making brushstrokes. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar's Sufi poem Conference of the Birds, [ ... ]
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Khalid Jauffer: Looking, dwelling, leaving
The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesJauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. "Discarded objects and [ ... ]
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Dima Srouji: Charts for a Resurrection
Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe first-ever solo exhibition for artist, architect and researcher Dima Srouji, whose work acts as a form of political commentary and as a place-making (or un-making) tool – "Interested in the ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries, and living archives, the [ ... ]
FreeReverberations: Textile as Echo
Green Art Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe second of three exhibitions showcasing contemporary approaches to textile and fibre art curated for Green Art Gallery by Murtaza Vali. It brings together work by four contemporary artists – M’barek Bouhchichi, Sayan Chanda, Himali Singh Soin, and Swapnaa Tamhane [ ... ]
Free
Raed Yassin: Allegorical Ruins
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesYassin explores the implications of Roland Barthes' concept of "the return of the dead" in photography, playing on the tension between memory and ghostliness by utilising old black and white photographs to evoke loss and the fleeting nature of memory. [ ... ]
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Permission to Narrate
Cinema Akil Warehouse 68, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiA Reel Palestine capsule programme of six films which challenge narratives that have long marginalised Palestinian voices, advocating for an embrace and amplification of their stories. Bab El Shams (Gate of the Sun): dir Yousri Nasrallah (2004) A powerful film [ ... ]
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Le Cours de la Vie: dir Frédéric Sojcher (2023)
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesScreenwriter Noémie (Agnès Jaoui) is invited to give a msterclass at a school that turns out to be run by the man who was her first love (Jonathan Zaccaï). She teaches Vincent and his students that the art of writing [ ... ]
AED 45Rushdi’s Comedy Souk
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA regular monthly evening of improv and stand-up hosted by Rushdi. The bar's set pretty high: "from side-splitting stand-up to mesmerising improv, the finest comedic artists from near and far come to showcase their talent."
Free, but pre-register
Fridge Concert Series season 43: Gaya – A Night of Qisse
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe Fridge Concert Series gives the Dubai-based singer-songwriter an evening for her 2022 album Qisse – a musical journey of self-love and acceptance, with songs in Hindi, Tamil and English, and slick modern production values that are noticaebly rooted in [ ... ]
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Valdés
Anima Gallery 30 La Croisette, Porto Arabia, The Pearl Qatar, Doha, QatarA solo exhibition of works by Manolo Valdés, the Spanish artist known for his unique approach of drawing from art history to create his paintings, prints, and sculptures in a signature style of pared-down forms and unrefined mark-making. Through meticulous [ ... ]
FreeMeet the artist: Dima Srouji
Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiDima Srouji, whose Charts for a Resurrection show opens here the day before, is in conversation with Myrna Ayad. This should be a productive chat; Srouji is a particularly interesting artist – a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture [ ... ]
FreeWednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesTen 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 eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
Free but donations welcome
Susan Kosti: What Lies Beneath
kanvas Dubai Unit 1, Al Khayat Art Avenue, 19th Street Al Quoz 1, DubaiThe Sydney-based media artist and motion graphic designer has assembled a cutting-edge immersive 3D-projection show that translates ocean data collected by NASA into what the organisers describe as “a stunning kaleidoscope of vibrant corals and sea creatures ... What Lies [ ... ]
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Entrusted Ground
NYUAD Art Gallery Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA 40-minute dance performance conceived as part of artist Gözde İlkin’s installation in the current NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery exhibition In Real Time (which ends on 9 June). It's a collaboration between İlkin, choreographer Aslı Öztürk, musician Berke Can [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerArt, Social Space, and Public Discourse
Alserkal Arts Foundation Warehouse 50/51, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiAn artist talk by Ala Ebtekar at Alserkal Arts Foundation that draws from his recent explorations and research on art in public space. Ebtekar expands the critical framework of conversation around public art projects, exploring various tools of cultural production [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerEnnio Morricone – The Official Concert Celebration
Dubai OperaDubai Opera's short Film Music Week opens with a tribute concert for Ennio Morricone. Under the baton of his son Andrea Morricone, the Armenian Symphony Orchestra and Dubai Festival Chorus will bring to life the music from films such as [ ... ]
From AED 275Art Souk
Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children Umm Suqeim 3, DubaiArt, crafts, F&B, music and hands-on interactive workshops at a Dubai Culture weekend under the umbrella of the Sikka platform. Should be fun for all the family ... The full programme is here.
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Circa: Duck Pond
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe world’s most romantic ballet reimagined as "a family-friendly acrobatic spectacular"? Australia's Circa Contemporary Circus is one of the globe’s leading performance companies, pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving performances and drawing rave reviews and standing ovations [ ... ]
AED 155Soiree Stand-Up Parisien
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesTop Francophone comedy with Nassim Mellah, Benito, and Malcolm & Syphax. There's drinks and nibbles at 8pm, the show starts at 8.30pm. AF members pay AED 100, the rest of us AED 125.
AED 125Ennio Morricone – The Official Concert Celebration
Dubai OperaA second tribute concert for Ennio Morricone in Dubai Opera's Film Week. Under the baton of his son Andrea Morricone, the Armenian Symphony Orchestra and Dubai Festival Chorus plays music from films such as The Good, the Bad and the [ ... ]
From AED 275
The Gracefulness of Daily Life
Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery 796 Jumeirah Street, DubaiA group show for Saudi artists associated with Gharem Studio, Riyadh (including its founder and the co-owner). Works on display include photography, printmaking, video, installation and sculpture; "in this show you will discover that studios are places through which you [ ... ]
Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert
Dubai OperaThe second (of four) presentations in Dubai Opera's Film Music Week features a screening of the first Star Wars movie from 1977 (feeling old yet?), featuring one of John Williams' most stirring scores. It's accompanied live by the Armenian State [ ... ]
From AED 275Entrusted Ground
NYUAD Art Gallery Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe final performances of this 40-minute dance performance, conceived as part of artist Gözde İlkin’s installation in the current NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery exhibition In Real Time (which ends on 9 June). It's a collaboration between İlkin, choreographer Aslı [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerWriting Workshop | Object Lessons: Bad Diaspora Poems
Alserkal Arts Foundation Warehouse 50/51, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiLed by poet and researcher Momtaza Mehri, this writing workshop traces what diaspora means as a space of both collectivity and tension. Paryicipants are invited to "write around, and through, objects that represent the inward facing, closely-held relationship we have [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
Circa: Duck Pond
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA second performance (of three) for this exuberant take on Swan Lake (with a hint of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling) that mixes the enchantment of the ballet with the thrill of the circus. Australia's Circa Contemporary Circus is [ ... ]
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Alserkal Community Lane Takeover
Alserkal Avenue Al Quoz 1, DubaiAlserkal Avenue is being taken over for this weekend's evenings by a food festival involving the Avenue's own F&B outlets and a mass of invited incomers. Should be good – and the highlight of the first evening will probably be [ ... ]
FreeArtist Talks | Sheher, Prakriti, Devi
Alserkal Arts Foundation Warehouse 50/51, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiIshara Art Foundation presents talks by Gauri Gill, Shefalee Jain and Mariam Suhail with their first public presentations in the UAE – the ongoing exhibition Sheher, Prakriti, Devi, which Gauri Gill has curated. Moderated by media and culture theorist Rashmi [ ... ]
FreeSoiree Stand-Up Parisien
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA second evening of top Francophone comedy with Nassim Mellah, Benito, and Malcolm & Syphax. There's drinks and nibbles at 6.30pm, the show starts at 7pm. AF members pay AED 100, the rest of us AED 125.
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Natalie Perez and Ina Charuashvili
Dubai Opera Studio Downtown Dubai, DubaiThe elegant French mezzo-soprano is joined on piano by Ina Charuashvili for the latest in this series of recitals for the Global Notes series, a programme curated by Amira Fouad that features young stars from around the world with a [ ... ]
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Aurie Styla: The Aurator Tour
Theatre by QE2 Queen Elizabeth 2, Port Rashid, DubaiAward-winning comedian, actor and writer from London with a load of style, a Spirit of the (Edinburgh) Fringe Award for 2022, a distinctive voice (he's the worldwide voice of Pintrest, among others), and a neat line in wit for tech [ ... ]
From AED 125
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Live in Concert
Dubai OperaDubai Opera's Film Music Week continues with a screening of the first instalment of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, accompanied by live music from the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Dubai Festival Chorus, conducted by Anthony Gabriele. Hans Zimmer's [ ... ]
From AED 275Rana AlMutawa: Everyday Life in the Spectacular City
Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, DubaiDubai’s newest independent bookstore and cultural centre, Kutubna Cultural Center, is opening with Dr Rana AlMutawa’s first solo exhibition in Dubai – an exhibition of images from her book Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making home in Dubai. It’s [ ... ]
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Circa: Duck Pond
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe final Abu Dhabi performance for this exuberant take on Swan Lake (with a hint of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling) that mixes the enchantment of the ballet with the thrill of the circus. Australia's Circa Contemporary Circus is [ ... ]
AED 155Alserkal Community Lane Takeover
Alserkal Avenue Al Quoz 1, DubaiThe second evening of Alserkal Avenue's pop up food festival involving the Avenue's own F&B outlets and a mass of invited incomers. Should be fun, with DJ music including The Flip Side’s Shadi Megallaa.
FreeDubai Bibliophiles Book Club – Toni Morrison’s Beloved
21grams Urban Balkan Bistro Meyan Mall, Al Thanyah St, Umm Suqeim 2, DubaiThe book group discusses what is arguably Morrison's finest literary work, a multi-layered attempt to give voice to the collective memory of African Americans that also explores notions of family, trauma, the repression of memory, and of course the restoration [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerSoiree Stand-Up Parisien
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThird evening (of three) for this top gig of Francophone comedy with Nassim Mellah, Benito, and Malcolm & Syphax. There's drinks and nibbles at 6.30pm, the show starts at 7pm. AF members pay AED 100, the rest of us AED [ ... ]
AED 125Maysoon Zayid: Bint Balad
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiThe distinctive stand-up style of America's first Muslim female comedian (probably) and (definitely) the funniest. Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid delivers a humorous and heartwarming tale of beating the odds in so many ways ... [ ... ]
From AED 125Monday 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 stuff. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
Free but donations welcomeCharlie Chaplin’s The Kid live in Concert
Dubai OperaA celebration of Charlie Chaplin's Day today in the form of a live cine-concert, the last in Dubai Opera's Film Week series: Chaplin's silent movie classic from 1921 is accompanied by the full Armenian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Timothy Brock. [ ... ]
From AED 275Fridge Concert Series season 43: TalkinToys | Sreeja Chakra
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe Fridge Concert Series has always been A Good Thing – typically new(ish) and local(ish) artists given a decent set in a well-equipped space with a supportive audience. Here's pop and indie band Talkintoys, formed in 2018 in the UAE [ ... ]
AED 80LAST CHANCE Salomé Chatriot: If That Glass Breaks Humanity is Doomed
Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, DubaiA solo exhibition show for a magpie favourite. Salomé Chatriot's work merges technology with organic elements to suggest a harmony between human and machine, advocating for a future where technology and humanity coexist. There's no pessimism about technological progress, just [ ... ]
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NYU Keys for Two
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThis should be an impressive performance in The Arts Center's Red Theater: two virtuosos of the piano – Eteri Andjaparidze (Professor of Piano at NYUNY) and Ioannis Potamousis (NYUAD Professor of Piano) – come together for recital programme featuring solo [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerWednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesTen 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 eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
Free but donations welcomeLAST CHANCE Elena Butko and Jasbir Saggu
ME Dubai The Opus by Omniyat, Al Amal Street, Business Bay, DubaiThe chance to exhibit in an undeniable architectural icon designed by a starchitect (and priced to attract HNIs) doesn't come along every day. ME Dubai's Cultural Connections programme for the spring features vivid abstracts by Elena Butko and "multidimensional landscapes [ ... ]
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