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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240220
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SUMMARY:Xposure International Photography Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:The ninth edition of the region’s largest\, broadest and generally most impressive festival of photography. It is based around a the exhibitions\, solo and group\, but importantly incudes a very full programme of authoritative talks and useful workshops; portfolio reviews and focus group sessions; film screenings\, guided tours\, and book signings; an accompanying trade show; the Xposure Awards; the Xposure Market Area\, selling festival merchandise\, prints\, and accessories; and\, new for this year\, the Conservation Summit – “a dedicated platform for addressing critical environmental issues through the lens of visual storytelling” that brings together conservationists\, photographers\, and filmmakers to discuss and promote sustainability and environmental awareness. \nFor this year\, Xposure moves to the Aljada development near the airport and the universities. This would seem to be a much cooler\, more dynamic and creatively inspiring destination\, much more open and less form than the Expo Centre (and it helps that Ajjada’s developer ARADA is the festival’s official partner: “ARADA’s visionary development provides an elevated experience\, setting the stage for a transformative celebration of photography and the visual arts”\, says the press bumf). \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/xposure-international-photography-festival-2025/
LOCATION:Aljada\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Festival,Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240223
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240304
DTSTAMP:20240220T180637Z
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SUMMARY:Sikka Art and Design Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:The 12th edition of Sikka runs from 23 February to 3 March 2024 at the Al Shindagha Historic Neighbourhood (it’s moved from Al Fahidi to simplify access and increase the range and number of exhibits and event spaces – all part of sprucing up the festival and making it generally more Official). There’s a lot going on – lots of murals and outdoor installations\, lots of art and photography exhibitions\, live performances\, film screenings\, poetry evenings\, workshops\, “homegrown F&B concepts”\, and a programme of panel talks by our friends at Karama Arts Club. \nBut if you’d like to find out exactly what’s happening when and where\, don’t bother with the website at sikkartandesign.com – it seems to be inactive. There’s no Twitter/X or Facebook presence with the promised @sikkaplatform account. And Sikka’s Instagram is enthusiastic and busy but skimpy in terms of hard information. \nThat leaves the Dubai Culture page for the Sikka festival. It looks good but in fact it’s full of lorem ipsums and placeholder images\, which is frankly a bit shoddy. If you persevere with clicks on ‘Your Guide to Sikka 24’ you will get to a page from where you might think you can download the full programme … but no. You can in fact download a PDF for day one but the other links are all dead or barely sentient (try the ‘Sikka Houses’ page\, but prepare to be disappointed quite quickly). Don’t bother clicking on ‘Download the full programme here’\, or ‘Register’\, or ‘Download your Sikka map here’; they don’t go anywhere. (And the map lower down the page shows the old Al Fahidi location by default\, but at least you can drag it over to Al Shindagha.) \nSeveral events are capacity-limited\, though\, so registration will definitely be required for those. Since preregistration doesn’t seem to be available\, perhaps there’s an onsite facility for personal visitors. \nThe lack of information and the duff website are really disappointing. Sikka has always had a cool\, open-access\, let’s-do-it-here vibe\, and even if that’s being organised away the festival is bound to be a fun visit. Still\, it would be better if we knew some more about the timed events or those that do need prebooking. \nThe festival is free to enter. It’s open from 4pm and closes at midnight on weekends\, 11pm weekdays. Access is best via Metro (the Al Ghubaiba stop) or cab (book online with code SIKKA50 to get your Hala Taxi trip at half price).
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/sikka-art-and-design-festival/
LOCATION:Al Shindagha\, Dubai Creek\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240223T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240225T233000
DTSTAMP:20240221T210156Z
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SUMMARY:All the Wild Things
DESCRIPTION:A weekend of regional films that explore the climate crisis\, cureated for 421 by Cinema Akil. As well as . This expansive program includes film screenings\, talks\, workshops\, activations\, and family-friendly screenings too. The mini festival includes screening of feature-length and short films across narrative\, documentary\, and experimental genres; there will also be panel discussions and Q&As on topics inspired by the films screened. \nFor adults the films are screened outside; for kids the screenings take place indoors (and include snacks and drinks). \n\nThe films: \n23 Feb 4pm Children of the Sea (dir Ayumu Watanabe\, 2019) Manga animation sold out \n23 Feb 7pm The Golden Wings of Watercocks (dir Muhammad Quayum\, 2022) Trapped in poverty by social exploitation and climate injustice\, the rice farmers of the marshland regions of Bangladesh struggle to survive \n23 Feb 9.45pm Wild Relatives (dir Jumana Manna\, 2018) Fascinating documentary on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault\, which stores seeds deep beneath the Arctic permafrost as a backup should disaster strike \n24 Feb 4pm Ainbo (dir Richard Claus & Jose Zelada\, 2021) Animated story of the epic journey of a young hero and her Spirit Guides\, a cute armadillo and a goofy oversized tapir\, on a quest to save their home in the Amazon rainforest \n24 Feb 6pm Short Film Program: Earth Presses against Us \n24 Feb 7pm Costa Brava\, Lebanon (dir Mounia Akl\, 2021) A family leave the polluted environment of Beirut\, hoping to build a utopian existence in the mountains \n24 Feb 9.15pm Honey\, Rain and Dust (dir Nujoom Alghanem\, 2016) The Emirati director’s much-lauded study of honey-harvesting traditions in the mountains of the UAE \n25 Feb 6pm Short Film Program: Earth Presses against Us \n25 Feb 7pm Aya (dir Simon Coulibaly Gillard\, 2021) Documentary-style study of a young woman’s love for her birthplace\, a fictional island off the Ivory Coast \n25 Feb 9.15pm Taming the Garden (dir Salomé Jashi\, 2021) Documentary following trees transported from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to a politician’s private garde at great expense and inconvenience
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/all-the-wild-things/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Environment,Film
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240226
DTSTAMP:20240226T150733Z
CREATED:20240221T102000Z
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SUMMARY:Nalini Malani: Can You Hear Me?
DESCRIPTION:This show looks like something of a coup for Alerkal Avenue. Widely considered the pioneer of video art in India\, and embodying the role of the artist as social activist\, Malani has a 50-year multimedia practice that includes photography\, painting\, performance\, and theatre as well as film\, video and animation.; her visual stories tyically take the form of immersive\, multi-layered installations that explore themes of feminism and politics\, racial tensions and post-colonial legacies. \nIn Can You Hear Me?\, which first impressed us at the Whitechapel Gallery a couple of years ago\, a large-scale\, nine-channel video installation of over 88 iPad-drawn animations made between 2018 and 2020 is projected on to the space’s walls; text and visual quotations\, annotations and snippets of sound and music — what the artist calls ‘thought bubbles’— come together\, intersect\, and are taken apart in Malani’s ‘Animation Chamber’. \nOne of the starting points was the abduction\, rape and brutal murder of an eight-year-old girl in India in 2018\, but that launches a flow of images and ideas which transcend national trauma to address global issues of feminism and social injustice. In Malani’s universe the voiceless share the stage with mythic characters\, intellectuals and poets; moral outrage combines with satire and absurdity. \nIt’s a powerful piece\, and it should suit this space very well (“the work inhabits the architectural expanse of the OMA-designed Concrete with unprecedented theatrical impact\,” says the blurb). The exhibition will be open 10am to midnight up to 3 March. \nIt will be accompanied by special outdoor screenings of an adapted version of the artist’s seminal work\, Ballad of a Woman\, a five-minute single channel stop-motion animation hand-drawn on an iPad. Screenings take place on 25 February at 7pm\, 27 February at 7.45pm\, and 2 March at 7pm. \n \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/nalini-malani-can-you-hear-me/
LOCATION:Concrete
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240226
DTSTAMP:20240227T144352Z
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SUMMARY:Aref Montazeri: Immortal Mirror
DESCRIPTION:Montazeri’s solo show emphasises the mirror’s role as a time capsule\, capturing time layer by layer – “with a single gaze\, time halts\, letting the audience see themselves in the present\, amid past moments and a myriad of images within the mirror’s layers … Montazeri uses what the gallery terms an innovative chemical oxidation process\, “mimicking the effects of time”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/aref-montazeri-immortal-mirror/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240226
DTSTAMP:20240227T145158Z
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SUMMARY:Carpets of Eden\, Gardens of Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition of carpets designed by artists and curated by Behrang Samadzadegan is described by the gallery as “a territory where artists navigate unbridled fantasies … Like architects of dreams\, they go beyond the surface\, delving into the unseen\, weaving layers of imagination that transcend the tangible. Here\, carpets cease to be mere floor coverings; they metamorphose into canvases\, hosting a symphony of dreams where fantasy begets more fantasy”. \nThe artists: Etel Adnan\, Faig Ahmed\, Maryam Al-Homaid\, Ayman Baalbaki\, Melis Buyruk (above)\, Josefina Concha\, Ali Cha’aban\, Mohammad Ehsaei\, Bijan Ghaseminejad\, Shoeib Gorgani\, Marcos Grigorian\, Shahzad Hassan Ghazi\, Areen Hassan\, Mona Hatoum\, Debbie Lawson\, Aref Montazeri\, Soheil Rad\, Farid Rasulov\, Marwan Sahmarani\, Antonio Santin\, Parviz Tanavoli\, Shaheer Zazai. \nTo 20 September. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/carpets-of-eden-gardens-of-fantasy/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Design,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240226
DTSTAMP:20240227T160121Z
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SUMMARY:Eco(ed) Visions
DESCRIPTION:A group show\, curated by Sanaz Askari\, that brings together artists whose works explore nature’s sanctuary amidst the urban sprawl\, forging an intimate connection. The starting point is Mark Foster Gage’s proposal that urbanisation has transformed architectural edifices into the primary backdrop of our reality.; nature’s role is diminished to that of a leisurely destination. And as the relentless tide of urbanisation swells\, a palpable reliance on art to fill the void left by nature becomes a necessary consequence … \nSays the gallery: “the works in the exhibition echo an invitation for the re-imagining of futures that intertwine nature and human life over their constructed boundaries. Can we manifest new realities by widening our awareness of the relationship between the urban and the natural? What do we find when we seek sanctuary in nature against the backdrop of uncertainty and existential crises? How do we hold on to the visions of a new spring\, waiting to be born again?” \nThe artists: Abbas Akhavan\, Ali Akbar Sadeghi\, Claire Cical Quassine\, Dana Dawud\, Farideh Lashai\, Fereydoun Ave\, Hadieh Shafie\, Hashel Al Lamki\, Negar Farajiani\, Salé Sharifi\, Sasan Abri. \nTo 3 March. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/ecoed-visions/
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240304
DTSTAMP:20240221T213451Z
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SUMMARY:Alserkal Art Week
DESCRIPTION:The always enjoyable Alserkal Art Week\, a taster for Art Dubai that has become established in the own right\, runs this time from 25 February to 3 March. All the Alserkal Avenue galleries seem to be committed\, along with guest exhibits at pop-ups and design houses; there should be more than two dozen exhibitions on show. \nHighlights include Can You Hear Me?\, a major show in Concrete by the pioneering video artist Nalini Malani – more about that here. Alserkal Arts Foundation’s public art projects return with This is Not Your Grave\, a new commission by Dima Srouji. There’s a Majlis Talks programme on 27 February; and that will be followed by Alserkal Lates\, with most of the Avenue’s galleries\, stores and F&B outlets staying open till 10pm. \nExhibitions already open: \n\nCarbon 12 André Butzer Becoming Matisse\nCustot Gallery Landon Metz Being Infinite\nFiretti Contemporary Laura Lappi  Metamorphosis\nGulf Photo Plus Maen Hammad Landing\nIshara Art Foundation Sheher\, Prakriti\, Devi group show\nIwan Maktabi Noor Al Suwaidi The Eye of the Beholder\nLawrie Shabibi Mandy El-Sayegh A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose\nLeila Heller Gallery Aref Montazeri Immortal Mirror\nLeila Heller Gallery Carpets of Eden\, Gardens of Fantasy\nLeila Heller Gallery Dale Chihuly solo show\nTashkeel Ji-Hye Kim Summits of Solitude: Narratives in Nature\nVolte Art Projects Rashid Rana It Lies Beyond\nZawyeh Art Gallery Posters for Gaza group show\n\nExhibitions opening on 27 February for Alserkal Lates: \n\n1×1 Art Gallery Graciela Magnoni Watan\n1×1 Art Gallery Owais Husai For Every Horizon That You Leave Behind\nAyyam Gallery Faisal Samra Immortal Moment\, Coping with the Shock\n\nCustot Gallery Kenia Almaraz Murillo Invitation to a Mystical Dreamland\nElmarsa Gallery Rachid Koraichi An Ode to Intertwined Histories\nFiretti Contemporary The Fifth Wife group exhibition\nGallery Isabelle Mohammed Kazem and Vikram Divecha Rest\nGreen Art Gallery Ana Mazzei How to disappear\nGrey Noise Iqra Tanveer Lament of a Tree\nMestaria Gallery Charmaine Chanakira Taking L’s\nThe Third Line Farah Al Qasimi Toy World\nVolte Art Projects Manjit Bawa I Was Born a Poet\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/alserkal-art-week-3/
LOCATION:Alserkal Avenue\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240225T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240225T180000
DTSTAMP:20240219T094800Z
CREATED:20240219T094800Z
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SUMMARY:Gone With the Wind: dir Victor Fleming (1939)
DESCRIPTION:Clark Gable\, Vivien Leigh\, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel star in one of the classic American movies. It won 10 Academy Awards\, including Best Picture. A genuine bucket-list movie\, another good pick by the inestimable Cinema Space\, and good value for a run time of nearly four hours … \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/gone-with-the-wind-dir-victor-fleming-1939-2/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240225T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240225T210000
DTSTAMP:20240115T150755Z
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Brownlee
DESCRIPTION:For this Abu Dhabi Festival appearance the American bel canto tenor will sing operatic selections from Rossini to Verdi\, to the piano accompaniment of Fabio Centanni.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/lawrence-brownlee/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Recital
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240222T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240222T230000
DTSTAMP:20240306T125128Z
CREATED:20240206T154305Z
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SUMMARY:The Phantom of the Opera
DESCRIPTION:Continuing its policy of attracting established blue-chip touring performances\, Dubai Opera is running Broadway Entertainment Group’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s critically acclaimed musical for a three-week run. \nThe story is based on Gaston Leroux’s classic novel of a musical genius known only as ‘The Phantom’ who haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House in the 19th century. Mesmerised by the talent and beauty of the young soprano Christine\, the Phantom grooms her as his protégé – but that doesn’t go too well\, and his obsession sets the scene for a dramatic collision of jealousy\, madness and passion. \nThe show\, which celebrated 37 years last October\, has won over 70 major theatre awards – it’s Lloyd-Webber’s most successful – and reportedly has been seen by more than 160 million people worldwide; now it’s our turn … There are performances between 22 February and 10 March (not Mondays)\, with shows at 8pm on weekdays and 2pm and 8pm on Saturdays\, 2pm and 7.30pm on the Sundays. Tickets look a tad pricey\, but this is a lavish production with a big cast and a 2h45m run time that could well justify the cost. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/the-phantom-of-the-opera-2/
LOCATION:Dubai Opera
CATEGORIES:Musical
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