This month's Laughter Factory tour features two hardworking and reliable stalwarts of the British standup scene, plus Dubai's funniest Filipina: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time Out's Stand Up Comic [ ... ]
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 eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]
A new season opens for the Courtyard's regular Wednesday evening of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the ten players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest [ ... ]
Yassin 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. [ ... ]
The book designer’s job is not only to come up with the outstanding jacket of a book, but also to carefully choose the papers and the fonts, and layout them to create the unique physical book. This documentary on 75-year-old [ ... ]
Lovably impulsive oldsters Ella and John (Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren) infuriate their uptight children by heading off in their cranky old Winnebago for a last road trip in the sunset of their lives. They are cheerful, gutsy, secretly scared [ ... ]
Improvised PowerPoint presentations. The speakers face a live audience, presenting slides they’ve never seen before, on a topic determined at random by the ‘Wheel of Destiny’. Virtually guaranteed to be funny ... Afterwards there's a chance to mingle with presenters [ ... ]
Ebtekar'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, [ ... ]
Jauffer 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 [ ... ]
Berklee graduate Nikolai Mishchenko plays an hour of Beatles hits arranged for piano, complete with ToDA's signature 360° visuals. "Experience the enduring legacy of the world's most beloved band in a whole new light ..."
The penultimate stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour. It features two hardworking and reliable stalwarts of the British standup scene, plus Dubai's funniest Filipina: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and [ ... ]
Last stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time Out's Stand Up Comic of the Year in 1997. A circuit regular, and underrated author of [ ... ]
The 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 [ ... ]
A beautifully shot, beautifully acted account of the friendship between Queen Victoria and a young Indian civil servant who became a powerful and influential figure in her court. Stephen Frears explores questions of race, religion, power, and the farce of [ ... ]
1M2K returns to Dubai with the comedy game show where standups get just one minute to make you laugh – and you choose the winners too. If you're a comic and you want to perform, let them know; it's the [ ... ]
Dubai’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 [ ... ]
A comedykix standup gig promising "Dubai’s finest comedians". The door price is redeemable on F&B.
ST-Duo are pianists Sofia Sakhnova and Antonina Luzko, multiple prizewinners in Russia and recipients of a special prize from Yamaha for Best Piano Duet at the 2018 Roma International Piano Competition. They will be playing an entertaining-looking programme, mostly arrangements [ ... ]
A one-person play written and performed by Gillian Rhodes, who is really very good at this storytelling-with-performance sort of thing. This time it's a coming-of-age tale of a young boy in the late 19th century; a chance encounter with the [ ... ]
A comedykix standup gig, as usual promising "Dubai’s finest comedians". The door price is redeemable on F&B.
"A rising star from Lebanon brings the essence of Palestine to life ... showcasing the rich musical heritage of Palestine through timeless folk songs and stories" says the blurb for this ToDA gig in its Women’s Voices of the Middle [ ... ]
The brilliant young Japanese violinist (winner of the BBC Young Musician strings category in 2020) is regularly accompanied on piano by Simon Callaghan – not least on their universally applauded 2022 debut album Origins. Their programme: Debussy Violin Sonata L.140 [ ... ]
Shawn Chidiac, aka ‘My Parents are Divorced', is doing this chat-plus-comedy evening once a month at VOX Cinemas Mercato Mall until the end of the year. For the Julyedition, Shawn will be joined by Russian-Romanian content creator Denisa Alexe (known [ ... ]
The new season of the Jameel's Artists Rooms – capsule solo shows occupying a single gallery at the Jameel, with work drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection and curated in dialogue with the artist – opens with exhibiting artists [ ... ]
Top Dubai comedian Ali Al Sayed – 16 years in the business, one of the founders and mainstays of Dubomedy, many awards – is back with a new, expanded version of his heavy-hitting solo show last seen here in an [ ... ]
Works spanning the last eight years of the artist’s practice that critically engage with the socio-political contexts of architectural heritage and modernist ideologies and aesthetics. Drawing is at the centre of Amba Sayal-Bennett’s practice, expanding across works on paper, projections [ ... ]
Augustine Paredes’ artist’s room brings together his own personal histories and stories that explore his relationship to identity and family via his personal journey as a migrant, navigating constantly between time, places and identities. Gradually moving away from the camera [ ... ]
Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descended from indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa; her work navigates the complexities of migration, memory and trauma, moving between painting, video, poetry and performance to address [ ... ]
The French-Turkish couple Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti have directed several films together, and Sibel – their third feature – is a film festival favourite. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the [ ... ]
Music of from top video games from The Witcher, Skyrim, Genshin Impact and League of Legends, played by Armenian piano virtuoso Gayane Aslanyan on grand piano plus MIDI keyboard, and accompanied by ToDA's signature 360° visuals.
Classic Kurosawa, a gripping police thriller (based on an Ed McBain story) starring the ineffable Toshiro Mifune. Kidnapping goes wrong, moral dilemmas ensue, and Kurosawa uses the film noir to anatomise the inequalities in modern Japanese society. "Kurosawa's virtuoso direction [ ... ]
A comedykix standup gig promising "Dubai’s top comedians" in "an unforgettable comedy show". The door price is redeemable on F&B.
Solo exhibition for An Hoang, her debut show in the Middle East. In these new paintings, Hoang explores a delicate balance between abstraction and figuration through "expressive, colourful compositions that capture moments of immersion in nature ... With the use [ ... ]
A one-evening-only popup exhibition celebrating the second anniversary of the eponymous digital art project Project22, featuring work by two dozen generative artists including Sasha Stiles, Seohyo, and Nice Aunties. There will also be an AV performance by Digital Moss, an [ ... ]
Solo exhibition that offers "a unique perspective on the beauty of nature and the urgent need for environmental stewardship".
An exhibition of Soviet animation film by Priit Parn, Fyodor Khitruk, Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Yuri Norshtein, and Robert Sahakyants; and post-soviet video art, paintings, installations, objects and works on paper by Blue Noses, Diana Kapizova, Nikolay Koshelev, Alina Kugush, Katerina Lukina, [ ... ]
French classics by Édith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Joe Dassin and other legends, delivered by "X Factor superstar" Sébastien Agius with ToDA's 360° visuals.
Dubomedy's occasional Sunday evening gig featuring a mash-up of stand-up and improv ("a killer line-up ready for you" and "you never know who will pop in"). It's free, though you do have to pre-register to get on the list.
Rivieren's second solo show at Custot is a continuation of his previous exhibition, Natural Sublime, featuring new organic forms and new production processes On show are 14 new and existing works; "through recognisable and nostalgic organic shapes, we find ourselves [ ... ]
Six-piece Cuban band Cubache brings the hot salsa rhythms of Buena Vista Social Club, Celia Cruz, Celina Gonzales, Polo Montanes and more to ToDA, complete with signature 360º visuals.
This month's Laughter Factory tour promises a preview of the best of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. That's a bold claim, and as far as we know only one of the three acts will be performing in Scotland this August ... [ ... ]
ToDA transforms into a jazz venue for live performance accompanied by a 360° immersive show for a 90-minute set from Luisa Winck, with keyboard and drums as accompaniment. Expect a range from soulful ballads to upbeat foot-tappers ... [ ... ]
A second JBR gig for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Rory O'Hanlon The Irish comedian is a firm favourite at the Fringe, thanks to his rapid-fire delivery – "a joke every 30 seconds" calculated the Irish Times. Highly recommended. Darius [ ... ]
A showcase for the power of fables from different cultures and eras, providing “the opportunity to explore the universal themes and lessons found in these stories and understand the significance they hold in shaping our world”. It’s divided into three [ ... ]
Classic feelgood Hollywood of the 50s: a Paris-set musical with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire at their most charming, directed by the legendary Stanley Donen, gowns by de Givenchy, songs by George and Ira Gershwin ... No wonder it was [ ... ]
The excellent Liz Bains (a Dubomedy alumnus) is previewing her Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show before she heads off to Scotland. Expect "hilarious cultural observations and expat anguish", and you will never look at cucumbers the same way again ... The [ ... ]
Fadi Rifaai (vocal) is joined by Sandu (tabla) and Zahi Saba Ayon (keyboard) for an immersive sound journey through the poetry of the greatest Sufi mystics — Al-Hallaj, Ibn al-Farid, Abu-al-Hasan — supported by ToDA's signature 360º visuals.
A warm tale of life and relationships, embedded in Indian culture and Hindu rituals. Daya decides he wants to die in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Rajiv, his over-worked accountant son, struggles with anxieties about his responsibilities back home [ ... ]
An evening of poetry and spoken word performances "of all kinds" inspired by the theme 'Passages' in response to an open call (so a kind of pre-curated open mic event). It's run by Emirates Literature Foundation, organisers of LitFest. The [ ... ]
This month's Laughter Factory tour moves into midweek: Rory O'Hanlon The Irish comedian is a firm favourite at the Fringe, thanks to his rapid-fire delivery – "a joke every 30 seconds" calculated the Irish Times. Highly recommended. Darius Davies Definitely [ ... ]
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