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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261207
DTSTAMP:20261105T134112Z
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SUMMARY:Children's Biennial
DESCRIPTION:What a good idea this is: the Abu Dhabi Festival is running the first outdoor children’s art biennale in the Middle East Under the theme How the World Feels\, the Biennale will explore how children experience the world through touch\, sound\, movement and light. \nFeaturing works and workshops by UAE-based artists and an international collaboration with National Gallery Singapore\, the Biennale – curated by Dana Almazrouei – will offer family sessions\, workshops and an interactive guide Nine participating artists are Alia AlShamsi\, Aya Afaneh\, Hana El-Sagini\, Moza Almatrooshi\, Moza Almazrouei\, Meera Almazrooei\, Nada Almosa and Sarah Afaneh\, plus Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho; says the blurb\, “they will transform Umm Al Emarat Park into a space where audiences of all ages can encounter art through touch\, sound\, movement and light … Through open-ended experiences\, children are invited to experiment\, question\, collaborate\, imagine and create their own meanings”. \nSays Dana Almazrouei: “We wanted to ask the kind of questions adults often stop asking: what stories lie beneath the soil? How does sound travel through a park? Working with each artist\, we thought first about how a child would experience the piece\, and what they might carry with them afterwards … Play is how children come to understand the world. As historian Johan Huizinga observed\, play creates temporary worlds shaped by shared rules and imagination\, and that’s what we hope this park becomes. It isn’t just a way to make art accessible; it’s how children think\, discover and build their own stories\, together.”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/childrens-biennial/
LOCATION:Umm Al Emarat Park\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Family/kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261201T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261201T200000
DTSTAMP:20261103T110547Z
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SUMMARY:UAE National Orchestra: Sing for the Nation
DESCRIPTION:This concert by the UAE National Orchestra and choir puts the emphasis on ‘national’ with “an evening where we come together in love for the nation\, sharing moments of pride and belonging … a space where we gather as sons and daughters of this homeland – citizens and residents alike”. \nThe programme includes melodies from the 1970s to the present that have accompanied national celebrations and defined moments in the country’s history; this time\, students from the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge’s (ADEK) Nabati Poetry initiative will join the Orchestra and Choir on stage. Nabati poetry\, the vernacular verse of the Arabian Peninsula\, has carried the history and identity of the Emirates across generations.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/uae-national-orchestra-sing-for-the-nation-5/
LOCATION:Ras Al Khaimah Cultural Center\, Al Nakheel\, Ras Al Khaimah
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261204
DTSTAMP:20261029T111910Z
CREATED:20261029T111910Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Majdi Al Kuzbari and Randa Hijazi: Talid
DESCRIPTION:A joint exhibition by two Syrian artists who explore their homeland’s living heritage through abstract painting (Hijazi) and mosaic jewellery (Al Kuzbari) – “a dialogue between memory\, tradition\, and the present … heritage as a living presence in contemporary art and design” as the gallery has it.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-majdi-al-kuzbari-and-randa-hijazi-talid/
LOCATION:K Gallery\, Al Barari\, Seventh Heaven\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261208
DTSTAMP:20261002T120806Z
CREATED:20261002T120754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T120806Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY A Way Through: Archive of Resilience
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition born out of the question: how will this time be remembered and who will tell the stories of the people who live here? It’s one of the outcomes of Kutubna’s initiative Documenting Culture in the Gulf in a Time of War\, an oral history project centring the experiences of diverse people living in the Khaleej. More than 40 artists and other contributors from different generations and cultural backgrounds are showing 70 works\, including journals\, poems\, short stories and publications\, embroidery\, crochet\, collage\, paintings\, digital works and photographs; their contributions speak of resilience\, protection\, unity\, faith\, gratitude\, and hope\, while also reflecting moments of fear and uncertainty and a deeper connection to home.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-a-way-through-archive-of-resilience/
LOCATION:Kutubna Cultural Center\, Madina Avenues 17\, Nadd Al Hamar\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261211
DTSTAMP:20261013T154754Z
CREATED:20261013T154340Z
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SUMMARY:Culture Summit Abu Dhabi
DESCRIPTION:Culture Summit Abu Dhabi this year runs 8-10 December under the theme Towards a Reimagined Commons. Bringing together cultural leaders\, artists\, policymakers and thinkers from around the world\, this year’s programme explores the role of culture in shaping shared memories\, spaces and futures – inviting participants to rethink ‘civicness’ by questioning and building spaces for imagination\, conversation\, and action. \nThe theme will be reflected across the Summit’s three-day programme\, structured around a series of sub-themes that explore different dimensions of the ‘commons’ through panels\, case studies\, creative conversations\, interactive workshops\, and outcome-led reports. \nDay one will focus on Collective Memories\, exploring how both official and unofficial histories shape our sense of identity and belonging\, and how memory can contribute to diverse forms of civic imagination. The second day will explore Collective Space\, examining the physical\, digital\, and symbolic spaces where culture takes place\, and how these can be reimagined in ways that are participatory\, inclusive\, and sustainable. The final day will examine Collective Imagination\, looking to the future and considering how culture and creativity can help us imagine and build new shared worlds\, and the tools and frameworks needed to bring these to life.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/culture-summit-abu-dhabi/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261210
DTSTAMP:20261105T150401Z
CREATED:20261105T150401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261105T150401Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Verapat Sitipol: Stream of the Forest
DESCRIPTION:The Thai painter Verapat Sitipol explores the relationship between abstraction and the natural world in this body of work; the exhibition considers how we experience nature as something in flux\, continuously shaped by movement\, memory\, and time. Sitipol’s compositions are articulated through stratified colour\, gestural inflections\, and subtle tonal modulations\, “conjuring fragments of forest\, terrain\, and light without anchoring them to a fixed geography … What emerges instead are environments that feel fluid and open – spaces shaped as much by perception and memory as by physical reality”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-verapat-sitipol-stream-of-the-forest/
LOCATION:Opera Gallery\, DIFC\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261211T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261211T190000
DTSTAMP:20261105T151151Z
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SUMMARY:BFAF Book Club: Book of the Month – The Housekeeper and the Professor
DESCRIPTION:Yoko Ogawa’s novel follows a young housekeeper and her son as they form an unlikely bond with a brilliant mathematician whose memory lasts only eighty minutes. It is a quiet\, moving story about memory and the connections that shape us. Participants are asked to read the book in advance and bring a copy if available.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bfaf-book-club-book-of-the-month-the-housekeeper-and-the-professor/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Book club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261214
DTSTAMP:20261021T102115Z
CREATED:20261021T102115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T102115Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Bodies that Make\, Bodies that Grieve
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Shafeena Yusuff Ali of the Rizq Art Initiative\, this exhibition brings together contemporary ceramics by eight women artists based in the UAE – Nujoom Alghanem\, Mirna Bamieh\, Moza Al Falasi\, Malavika\, Parneet Pahwa\, Zahra Shafie\, Laiba Sherin\, and Haseena Suresh. Their practices draw attention to knowledge developed through making and touch\, and its longstanding place in women’s work and care. As Executive Director of the NYUAD Art Gallery Maya Allison put it: “The artists use the intimate\, tactile process of working with clay to explore the body\, emotion\, and lived experience today. We hope the exhibition encourages audiences to engage with ceramics not simply as objects\, but as a way of thinking\, feeling\, and communicating”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-bodies-that-make-bodies-that-grieve/
LOCATION:NYUAD Arts Centre Project Space
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261216
DTSTAMP:20260916T092924Z
CREATED:20260916T092924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T092924Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY The sky held it\, the earth remembered
DESCRIPTION:Major works by Shahana Rajani\, the recipient of the inaugural South Asian Video Art Production Grant\, Rohini Devasher\, and Sarker Protick that examine how land\, water\, and the cosmos serve as living archives of memory and history. Through photography\, moving image\, and installation\, the exhibition proposes that the environment bears the material traces of ecological change\, preserving them across deep time.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-the-sky-held-it-the-earth-remembered/
LOCATION:Ishara Art Foundation\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261223T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261223T193000
DTSTAMP:20261030T112110Z
CREATED:20261030T112110Z
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SUMMARY:The Muppet Christmas Carol: dir Brian Henson (1992)
DESCRIPTION:A Christmas present from Cinema Space – possibly the best film version of Dickens’ novel\, and it’s free. Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine\, obviously having a lot of fun) is visited on Christmas Eve by the Ghosts of Christmas Past\, Present\, and Future. Together with kind\, humble Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog) and his family\, the Spirits open Scrooge’s eyes and his heart to the true meaning of Christmas. A heartwarming and hilarious holiday classic\, told as never before. Yule love it!
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-muppet-christmas-carol-dir-brian-henson-1992-2/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261223T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261223T214500
DTSTAMP:20261030T111916Z
CREATED:20261030T111916Z
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SUMMARY:It's a Wonderful Life: dir Frank Capra (1946)
DESCRIPTION:Capra’s classic snow-laden tearjerker (five Oscar nominations) has James Stewart as a struggling banker (!) who becomes so disillusioned with his small-town life that he contemplates suicide. Fortunately his trainee guardian angel\, Clarence (Henry Travers)\, is able to intervene and helps our hero rediscover the true value of friendship by showing how much impact he has made on his home community. Nearly 80 years later\, Capra’s life-affirming fable continues to be a heartwarming experience for family viewing at Christmas\, courtesy of Cinema Space’s free programming.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/its-a-wonderful-life-dir-frank-capra-1946-2/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261225T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261225T190000
DTSTAMP:20261105T152224Z
CREATED:20261105T152224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261105T152224Z
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SUMMARY:BFAF Book Club: If This Artwork Were a Book
DESCRIPTION:A creative session connecting visual art with storytelling: participants explore selected artworks from the Foundation and imagine that each one is the cover or opening scene of a book waiting to be written – with an invented title and a main character in a short plot and an drafted opening sentence. The group then comes together to present their imagined books \, hopefully discovering how the same artwork can inspire completely different stories depending on who is looking … A clever approach to both art and writing. Something to look forward to if Christmas Day doesn’t appeal?
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bfaf-book-club-if-this-artwork-were-a-book/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Book club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261230
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261231
DTSTAMP:20260916T100516Z
CREATED:20260916T100516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T100516Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Iqra Tanveer and Faheem Abbas: The importance of staying quiet: 6. Open Forms
DESCRIPTION:The final exhibition in the series The importance of staying quiet\, “an attempt to acknowledge a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art”\, focuses on conceptual and material practices shaped by stillness and abstraction.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-iqra-tanveer-and-faheem-abbas-the-importance-of-staying-quiet-6-open-forms/
LOCATION:Grey Noise\, Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261231
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270101
DTSTAMP:20261102T141221Z
CREATED:20261102T141221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261102T141221Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Wadeei Khaled: Nearness
DESCRIPTION:A solo show for the Palestinian artist Wadeei Khaled that considers the family as the foundation through which we understand ourselves\, our histories and our connection to place. “His paintings transform everyday gestures of love and care into a visual language of belonging\, where the home becomes a small homeland\, and the homeland an extended family …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-wadeei-khaled-nearness/
LOCATION:Artbooth Gallery\, Centro Capital Center\, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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