Art
Festival time again in RAK
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival – which opens on Friday 4 February and runs to 31 March – has come a long way in 10 years, to the point where it’s now becoming established as a solid contributor [ … ]
Film
Film
The evolution of Arab cinema: Scandar Copti in conversation
Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker and currently NYUAD’s Associate of Arts Professor of Film. He has several film projects to his name, and his debut full-length feature Ajami (2009) won several festival awards as well as a Caméra d’Or [ … ]
Award
Sharjah Film Platform awards
Sharjah Film Platform 4 has just finished, and at the closing ceremony the award winners were announced along with the big prize for the winner of SFP’s Pitching Forum. SFP4 screened more than 50 films, including those submitted for juried [ … ]
Art
RAKFAF: the unusual arts festival
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 [ … ]
Festival
Sharjah Film Platform finishes with winners
It’s a tough time to be running any kind of mass participation event, but at a time when most film festivals have postponed or cancelled Sharjah Art Foundation did pretty well with its hybrid Sharjah Film Platform 3 – a [ … ]
Architecture
Finding 50 to Follow
The magpie team is once again putting together its annual list of the 50 most exciting, innovative and stimulating people in the UAE who are making a difference to the cultural and creative life of the Emirates. And we want [ … ]
Art
Local artists on film: the quick-start option
A few weeks ago we were sent a link to a five-minute YouTube vid of a Dubai artist talking about their work, inspiration and techniques. When you come across art and artists, you don’t usually get the backstory. So we [ … ]
Art
Science and the imagination: the 5th Imagine Science Film Festival
Imagine Science is back at The Arts Center at NYUAD, a weekend film festival with an accompanying exhibition, workshops, gallery talks, discussions, and conversations. This year those conversations will include tumultuous natural histories and speculative futures, the deaths of stars [ … ]
Architecture
50 To Follow
Here it is: the 2019 edition of magpie’s 50 To Follow. Like most retrospective lists, it’s intended as a conversation piece. We fully expect you to disagree with our inclusions, and with the (admittedly pretty arbitrary) ranking that we’ve given [ … ]
Family
SICFF returns, bigger and better than ever
The sixth Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival (SICFF 2018) opens on 14 October and runs for six days. The first children’s film festival in the country (and indeed the region), it’s the biggest yet – 138 films in total, including 54 [ … ]