The 13th World Cities Culture Summit is being held in Dubai at the end of the month, from 30 October to 1 November. WCCS is basically a meeting of civic administrators from more than 40 cities around the world, people who believe [ … ]
The sixth edition of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, organised as usual by DCT Abu Dhabi as a three-day event at Manarat Al Saadiyat, takes place this year from 29 to 31 October. The theme is A Matter of Time, and [ … ]
AEA Consulting’s Cultural Infrastructure Index is always an interesting read. Established back in 2016, it aims to provide an overview of investment in big cultural sector projects, specifically those a budget of $10 million or more that were publicly announced [ … ]
UNESCO’s ever-expanding ‘Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ has acquired three new entries from the UAE at its last meeting, in Rabat at the end of November. Noura Al Kaabi, UAE Minister of Culture, said she was [ … ]
Alongside its more prosaic role as a landlord for the 70 or so warehouse-style units in Al Quoz that are so well suited to contemporary art galleries and associated businesses, Alserkal Avenue sees itself as having something of a mission [ … ]
In October the UAE happens to be playing host to some blue-sky thinking – in the capital a stellar line-up of speakers at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi muses about the future of culture, in Dubai the reportedly very successful Dubai [ … ]
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