SIFF – the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth – is a magpie favourite among highly-targeted UAE festivals, thanks partly to its openness in selection but mostly because of the unselfconscious enthusiasm of the audiences. The ninth SIFF [ … ]
It’s starting to look as though an arts festival of some kind is a must-have for the image-conscious emirate – even the smallest. Ajman Tourism Development Department is to run the Al Murabbaa Arts Festival for ten days from the [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Children’s Museum reopens on 18 June with Emotions!: The New Art Adventure, an exhibition of 10 artworks and multiple interactive stations. The aim is to familiarise children with identifying emotions – an essential milestone in a child’s [ … ]
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival is back for its ninth annual edition, running 6 February to 3 April at three RAK locations and carrying the theme of Hope. As Festival Director Suqrat bin Bisher put it: “As we [ … ]
It seems that immersive art experiences with giant projections and surround sound are too good an opportunity to miss. Following the arrival of ToDA at the Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai is now about to get another “digital immersive art centre” – [ … ]
Stung by the calculation 15 years ago that the UAE had the world’s largest per capita carbon footprint, a lot has been done at the official level to improve the country’s sustainability – but even through the country has reduced [ … ]
It’s probably a sign of the times: as we reported back in March, the traditional-style proscenium-arch plush-velvet-seats theatre in the Souk Madinat Jumeirah is being replaced by a “multi-sensory, multi-media immersive exhibition” that is due to open its doors on [ … ]
Sharjah is getting a fringe festival, with more than 600 shows – mostly (but not all) aimed at families – running in the second half of this month. You’d expect a fringe to be an add-on or ornament to an [ … ]
Scientists have always emphasised how equal humans are. But we are differentiated too – through gender and race, through religion and culture. Sometimes these factors have served to separate us and cause divisions in the human race. We are quick [ … ]
Art Dubai has named American artist Sally Curcio as the lead for the seventh edition of the Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program. The Little Artists Program, a frequently underpublicised part of Art Dubai’s public-service commitment to the cultural landscape, offers [ … ]
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