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 [... more]
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 [... more]
The eighth and biggest edition of what is arguably the world’s largest in-person photography festival (20,000+ visitors last year) runs 28 February to 5 March in Expo Centre Sharjah. More than 400 photographers from over 50 nations will be showing [... more]
Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening of artists, curators, scholars and arts practitioners from around the world to discuss issues in contemporary art focuses this time on collectives whose practice intertwines artmaking and community building in various forms of collaboration that [... more]
The self-styled "World’s Biggest Book Sale” is returning to Sound Stages, Dubai Studio City, from 1-10 March, open daily 10am to midnight with something like two million titles in various genres on sale at discounts of up to 75 percent [... more]
Boogie Box has scheduled another of its superlative back-to-the-best-of-yesterday nights – yep, a six-hour warehouse rave in an actual warehouse. It’s another of the Box’s leftfield venue finds, this one The Hangar at JA The Resort, which is actually an [... more]
The Global Notes series – the sponsored replacement for Amira Fouad's long-running Opera Studio recital programme, and now presented by Dubai Opera with Encore Performing Arts and Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai – continues with the National Youth Orchestra in [... more]
Samora Pinderhughes and his ensemble are in Abu Dhabi for a concert this weekend. In this session for local musicians and songwriters, Samora will discuss his approach to composing and creating music and lyrics, and then work with participants on [... more]
Dina El Wedidi shares a bill at The Arts Center this weekend with Samora Pinderhughes, but is also leading this workshop which aims to explore the relationship between music, self, common struggles, and more. Working with the idea that music [... more]
A round trip to the Sikka Art and Design Festival for Abu Dhabi residents. You'll get three hours on site: 3.30pm: Depart from 421 5.30pm: Arrive at Sikka 8.30pm: Depart 10.30pm: Arrive at 421 Get there 10 minutes before departure [... more]
A programme of four shorts in this season of free Francophone films at Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, showing in the Sorbonne's rather nice outdoor garden: A Broken Fan dir Assaad Khoueiry (2021) 13 min Somewhere In Between dir Dahlia Nemlich (2023) [... more]
The groundbreaking vision of the iconic Tunisian artist is spotlighted in a performance ranging from folk music to electronica via straight-up rock. Mathlouthi is a songwriter, composer, guitarist, and singer with an otherworldly voice that sounds equally at home in [... more]
The last gig in the inaugural three-month series at Abu Dhabi's new open-air venue Saadiyat Nights sees the uber-smooth multi Grammy award winner John Legend on the stage.
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. The story is based on Gaston Leroux's classic novel of a musical [... more]
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