Shakespeare for Kidz: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Two final performances for Shakespeare 4 Kidz' lively, funny and accessible musical retelling of Shakespeare’s classic. There are shows at 9 – 10.30am and 11.45am – 1.15pm
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Events
- Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi
LAST CHANCE Sebastian Hosu: Transmission
Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, DubaiThe debut solo exhibition in Dubai by the German Romanian artist introduces a new body of work that captures human presence in flux figures that dissolve into their surroundings. Known for his monumental canvases and emotionally charged brushwork, Hosu invites [ ... ]
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Slava’s Snowshow
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe second week for one of the best seasonal shows around – a whimsical blur of laughter, awe, and magic that has already been seen by more than 12 million theatregoers in80 countries around the world, including a near sellout [ ... ]
From AED 200Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's most peopular 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 [ ... ]
FreeSlava’s Snowshow
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe second week for one of the best seasonal shows around – a whimsical blur of laughter, awe, and magic that has already been seen by more than 12 million theatregoers in80 countries around the world, including a near sellout [ ... ]
From AED 200
Thomas Dillon: The Raw and the Cooked
Opera Gallery DIFC, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThis is Dillon's first solo exhibition in Dubai; and it is claimed to be a milestone in the artist’s career, featuring a body of work conceived and created specifically for this show. In Claude Lévi-Strauss’s influential text of the same [ ... ]
FreePowerPointless Networking Night
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesBack for a new season, it’s 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 [ ... ]
FreeComedy Night @ Ting Irie Abu Dhabi
Ting Irie, Mamsga al Saadiyat Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Cultural District, Abu DhabiThe return of Ting Irie's standup gigs, with great Jamaican vibes and up-and-coming local comedians including Saaniya Abbas, Anand Raman, Maher Barwany and Roxy. The entrance price includes one free drink, which you were probably going to buy anyway ...
AED 95LAST CHANCE Talal Al Najjar: Mesh & Mayhem
Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, DubaiTalal Al Najjar’s works feel very contemporary, not just in his use of materials and technologuy but also in his concerns and ambitions. He produces sculpture, video, sound, CGI animation, painting, and installation, in addition to writing and curation; his [ ... ]
Slava’s Snowshow
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe second week for one of the best seasonal shows around – a whimsical blur of laughter, awe, and magic that has already been seen by more than 12 million theatregoers in80 countries around the world, including a near sellout [ ... ]
From AED 200
Nja Mahdaoui: the Choreographer of Letters
Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiThis focused retrospective surveys over six decades of practice by the Tunisian multimedia artist Nja Mahdaoui, an influential figures in Arab modern art who repurposed Arabic calligraphy into a visual and abstract contemporary art form. This show, o-curated by Michaela [ ... ]
Constructing the Orient: Fragments of a Western Dream
Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiDrawn from the private collection of Bassam Said Freiha plus key loans from the Ary Jan Gallery, this exhibition of Orientalist works unfolds across five thematic sections, each focusing on a central motif within Orientalist visual language and examining how [ ... ]
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SCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi: day one
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiAfter a successful debut in 2024, SCHLiNGEL returns to Abu Dhabi. It's an international film festival for children that has been running since 1996 in Chemnitz, Germany, showcasing the most exciting new productions for young people. The Abu Dhabi edition [ ... ]
AED 25The Ugly One
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesWhen the extent of his ugliness is revealed, Lette turns to a plastic surgeon for help – but when the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful ... Translated from the original [ ... ]
AED 130The Greatest Magic Show Ever
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesClassic Courtyard improv with a twist: the evening begins with a round of playful improv – quick-fire games and spontaneous scenework fuelled by audience suggestions but thenmagician and stand-up comedian Annanya George teams up with Courtyard regular Rushdi Rafeek to [ ... ]
FreeThe Greatest Magic Show Ever
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesOf course it is. The evening begins with a round of playful improv fuelled by audience suggestions. Then the spotlight shifts to "something truly magical" as magician and stand-up comedian Annanya George teams up with Rushdi Rafeek to blend illusion, [ ... ]
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Every Brilliant Thing
Shajar car park, Aljada SharjahAs his mother battles chronic depression, a child creates a list of every thing they can think of that makes life worth living. As the child grows, so does the list. Looking back on a life of ups and downs, [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerThe Ugly One
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesWhen the extent of his ugliness is revealed, Lette turns to a plastic surgeon for help – but when the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful ... The second day of [ ... ]
AED 130Slava’s Snowshow
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe second week for one of the best seasonal shows around – a whimsical blur of laughter, awe, and magic that has already been seen by more than 12 million theatregoers in80 countries around the world, including a near sellout [ ... ]
From AED 200
SCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi: day two
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiSCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi's return continues with a full day of films for the young, taken from the international film festival for children that has been running since 1996 in Germany. All films with dialogue have English subtitles. There are three [ ... ]
AED 25Every Brilliant Thing
Shajar car park, Aljada SharjahSecond of two performances for Ahmed El Attar's Arabic version of a touching, funny, and uplifting play originally in English.
Free, but pre-registerFloetry
One Life Kitchen & Café Building 5, d3, DubaiDubai's Poetryhood collective offers an evening of spoken word performances, mixing lyrical rappers from the hip-hop scene and mixing them with poets that bring a hip-hop flavour to the stage. The performers are Omar Awbu, Jaysus Zain and Aram Jameel.
FreeThe Ugly One
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe final day of performances (at 2.30 and 7.30pm) for Marius von Mayenburg’s very dark comedy about beauty, identity and getting ahead in life “makes its points with the lightest of touches” (The Guardian).
AED 130LAST CHANCE Nat Bowen: Chromology
Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiKnown for works of glossy, abstract resin poured on to acrylic, Bowen creates luminous, aqueous fields that transform colour into a language of emotion and presence. With this show, says the gallery, "viewers are invited into an intimate space of [ ... ]
FreeSlava’s Snowshow
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe second week for one of the best seasonal shows around – a whimsical blur of laughter, awe, and magic that has already been seen by more than 12 million theatregoers in80 countries around the world, including a near sellout [ ... ]
From AED 200Al Quoz Creative Entrepreneurship Forum: day one
Al Khayat Avenue 10 19 Street, Al Quoz, DubaiDubai Culture's two-day information and edutainment event for the cultural and creative sector, showcasing the investment and development prospects offered in particular by Al Quoz Creative Zones and aimed as always at “entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and professionals interested in the [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerLa Plus Précieuse des Marchandises | The Most Precious of Cargoes: dir Michel Hazanavicius (2024)
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThis moving animated feature was deservedly selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The story centres on a woodcutter and his family; they find a small girl in the forest who has been thrown [ ... ]
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Stitching Palestine: dir Carol Mansour (2017)
Maraya Art Centre Al Qasba, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesAs part of its current SILA: All That Is Left To You exhibition, Maraya Art Centre is hosting two film screenings that extend the exhibition's exploration of Palestinian memory, resistance, and cultural legacy. Carol Mansour's documentary features 12 Palestinian women [ ... ]
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Bedouins of the Wind: dir Danish Farhan (2024)
Etihad Museum 1 Jumeirah St, DubaiThis 49-minute documentary, shot on location in Al Dhaid, provides an intimate portrait of the world of Bedouin culture – camel racing, falconry, the unseen life rooted in the desert. The protagonist Abdulaziz Al Tunaiji trains camels for the nation’s [ ... ]
FreeTGIFunny Comedy Night
TGIFriday's at the Rove Hotel Downtown 312 Al Mustaqbal Street, DubaiDubomedy gigs are usually pretty good, especially when the price is free (with a minimum spend of AED 25 – let us know if you can find anything to buy here at that price) and a "fantastic" (their judgement) bill [ ... ]
Min spend AED 25
Faces and Voices of Malta: A Mediterranean Odyssey
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiTraditional music from Malta comes to the Cultural Foundation's outdoor amphitheatre, presented in partnership with the Embassy of Malta. The evening will showcase the art of għana, a distinctive style of Maltese folk music that probably has its roots in [ ... ]
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Laaroussa Quartet
Al Qasimiyah School Sheikh Saqr Bin Khalid Al Qasimi St, SharjahA symphony of dance, music and documentary, exploring how roots and heritage shape our lives. For one hour, four dancers, a singer and a violinist elevate the crafting of clay dolls into a living archive of memory and expression. Through [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerAl Quoz Creative Entrepreneurship Forum: day two
Al Khayat Avenue 10 19 Street, Al Quoz, DubaiThe second day of Dubai Culture's information and edutainment event for the cultural and creative sector, showcasing the investment and development prospects offered in particular by Al Quoz Creative Zones and aimed as always at “entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and professionals [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerAhmed & Sing It! feat. Andrew Gentilli
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA two-act evening of improvised spells, scenes, and songs, entirely based on audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's two Ahmeds for bilingual improv and then a full-length improvised musical extravaganza For the second half they're joined by guest performer [ ... ]
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The UAE Youth Orchestra & Choir: Bridging Worlds Through Harmony
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiFresh from a recent tour to China, the Youth Orchestra is back in Abu Dhabi with a geuinely international programme – starting with the beautiful UAE melody ‘Dar Zayed’ (soloist Rashed Al Marzooqi), the concert with feature traditional pieces from [ ... ]
AED 50Cineolio’s Cinenights
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesFounded by 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 [ ... ]
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Le royaume | The Kingdom: dir Julien Colonna (2024)
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesColonna's debut features brings an interesting angle to the mafia movie: Le royaume shows the Corsican underworld through the eyes of the 15-year-old daughter of a clan head. Caught up in a war between rival factions and on the run, [ ... ]
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Winck
The Fridge Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDubai's very own Brazilian pop star Luisa Winck launches her new album Eternity at The Fridge, a powerful blend of R&B, Brazilian soul, and cinematic vocals.
AED 70Wednesday Night Impro: Pink Maestro Charity Night
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's most popular evening of elimination improv, this time in partnership with the Al Jalila Foundation and in support of their campaign Be a Lifeline for Women with Cancer by Majlis Al Amal for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Ten [ ... ]
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Daniel Arsham: What Remains
Perrotin Gate Village Building 5, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA solo show by the American artist Daniel Arsham, known for his works of 'fictional archaeology' expressed through sculpture, architecture, drawing, and film – what he calls “future relics of the present.” Arsham will transform the gallery into a sonic [ ... ]
FreeHalloween Special – Theatresports: Battle of the Houses
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCompetitive improv: teams representing the legendary wizarding houses from Harry Potter franchise face off in a fast-paced tournament of wit, wizardry, and wild imagination. Expect magical mayhem, enchanted audience suggestions, and fierce loyalty as Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin go [ ... ]
FreeEvgeny Grinko
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiA former noise-rock indie musician and largely self-taught, Grinko's piano compositions are genuinely quite special – blending neoclassical tunes, cinematic atmosphere, and (usually) an air of delicate melancholy. With millions of fans around the world and numerous viral hits, Grinko [ ... ]
From AED 190LAST CHANCE Monif Ajaj: Shams
Fann à Porter The Workshop, Villa 45, St. 23b, off Al Wasl Road (opposite Box Park), Jumeirah 2, DubaiNew ink drawings on paper and acrylic paintings on canvas from the French-based Syrian artist that offer viewers a journey through colour, symbolism, and contemplation. These are works that "reflect on the mystical power of nature, its geometry and order, [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE Heritage, Memory & The Body
Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu DhabiA group exhibition for four distinguished Palestinian women artists – Rania Amoudi, Dina Matar, Fatima Abu Rumi, and Marwa Alnajjar – that offers a powerful counterpoint to static portrayals of femininity and nationhood. Grounded in place yet transcending borders, the [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE Banafsheh Hemmati: Body Geometry
Satellite Gallery DIFC, DubaiThe first solo exhibition in the UAE for the Tehran-based artist-designer presents a collection of the artist’s jewellery and wearable sculptures. Body Geometry is a research-based project, where the design process is presented as well as the finished pieces. As [ ... ]
FreeSearching for Love
YourSpace, Aljada SharjahA lyrical duet that weaves together music and poetry, Searching for Love transports audiences to the streets of Cairo to examine themes of love, alienation and longing. Director and writer Nanda Mohammad joins composer and violinist Mohamed Sami to offer [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerThe Wind Will Carry Us: dir Abbas Kiarostami (1999)
Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, DubaiKiarostami wrote and directed this deceptively simple but highly affecting film about a journalist posing as a city engineer who arrives in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals in anticipation of the death of an old woman. [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
Ibrahim Maalouf & the Trumpets of Michel-Ange
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiA unique cross-cultural experience by the acclaimed French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer Ibrahim Maalouf. Known for his innovative quarter-tone trumpet, Maalouf seamlessly bridges Arab traditions with jazz, classical, and contemporary influences; this concert promises a programme of well-loved works like "True [ ... ]
From AED 250Halloween Special – Theatresports: Battle of the Houses
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA second bout of competitive improv between teams representing the legendary wizarding houses from Harry Potter. The audience cheers, scores, and helps decide who will triumph ... As always at Courtyard improv events it's free, but you need to put [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE Edges of Perception
Waddington Custot Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA group show of paintings, sculptures, and photographs by a number of well-known contemporary artists that explore contrasts of material, form, and colour. The artists: Kenia Almaraz Murillo Nick Brandt Ian Davenport Hubert Le Gall Umberto Mariani Landon Metz Marc [ ... ]
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