Art
Festival time in RAK
Ras Al Khaimah Art, the new incarnation of the Ras Al Khaimah Fine Art Festival, opens to the public at 9pm on Friday 2 February. As ever, it’s at the Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village, which has increasingly been [ … ]
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Indie in Sharjah: SFP6 returns
The sixth edition of Sharjah Arts Foundation’s annual film festival, which runs from 8 to 17 December, features more than 50 films from around the world – a range of independent cinema and experimental filmmaking that “foregrounds the transformative role [ … ]
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From Fine Art to RAK Art: Ras Al Khaimah Art Festival evolves
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival always seemed a misnomer. Fine art as a concept surely promotes aesthetic and intellectual purposes over (say) practical utility and/or handcrafted quality. Fine art implies hushed exhibition rooms, single-minded artists often working in [ … ]
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LitFest promises more
The 16th edition of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature – which is now billing itself “the region’s largest celebration of stories and ideas”, presumably in a bid to escape the confines of the printed page – will be returning [ … ]
Design
Coming soon: Dubai Design Week, bigger, better, and more sustainable?
Dubai Design Week (8-12 November) is back for its ninth edition, promising its most diverse programme yet of events and activities. There are still several gaps in the published programme on the website, but already it looks a very strong [ … ]
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10 to watch: our pick of nonfiction sessions at LitFest 2023
Every time the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature comes around we browse the list of authors and sessions to see what piques the interest and to find some recommendations for readers. This time we’re looking for sessions with nonfiction authors, [ … ]
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10 to watch: our pick of fiction sessions at LitFest 2023
As usual, we’ve been trawling the list of authors appearing at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature to pick out some recommendations for you. This time: fiction sessions, why we like them, and where you can see them. Up next: [ … ]
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15 years of LitFest: Isobel Abulhoul on the life of books
This is the 15th year for the Emirates Festival of Literature. There will be around 250 authors and other session participants in town; that’s a far cry from the 65 or so who were at the inaugural edition in 2009, [ … ]
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Coming to Quoz: a weekend of festival fun
Quoz Arts Fest – described as “the only festival in Dubai where art, food, live music, performance and educational activations converge” – has now been running annually since 2012, usually during the last weekend of January. This year’s tenth QAF [ … ]
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Anticipating LitFest
We’ve been browsing the newly released schedule for the upcoming Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature, and as always there are some major attractions. First impressions: the Arabic programme looks great, broader than in past years. There’s a lot of accessible [ … ]