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SUMMARY:Big Bad Wolf Book Sale
DESCRIPTION: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 on RRP. Should be something for everyone …
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/big-bad-wolf-book-sale/
LOCATION:Dubai Studio City\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Words
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SUMMARY:The Female Gaze – Women in the Middle Eastern Art Scene
DESCRIPTION:A conversation in the recently inaugurated Bassam Freiha Art Foundation‘s Art Dialogues series\, featuring four Emirati artists – Najat Makki\, Latifa Saeed\, Sumayyah Al Suwaidi and Azza Al Qubaisi – and led by BFAF’s Curator\, Michaela Watrelot. Coinciding with International Women’s Day\, the discussion will consider the role of gender in art and honour the significant contributions of women to the Middle Eastern art scene.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/the-female-gaze-women-in-the-middle-eastern-art-scene/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Panel discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240306T193000
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SUMMARY:The City and the Writer
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of multicultural\, multilingual authorship; a diverse lineup of award-winning writers come together to celebrate and share their writing. The evening is inspired by the column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine\, the most important international literature magazine in the United States\, noted for its ruminations on urban life and the imagination\, literature and language\, translation and transitions. This kind of loosely structured format and the range and quality of the contributors should make for a really interesting evening. \nThe curator is NYU Abu Dhabi’s Nathalie Handal (USA-France)\, award-winning poet and author of ten books. \nThe contributors: \nAlain Mabanckou (Congo-France-USA) Novelist\, poet\, essayist\, and a professor at UCLA. He is a recipient of the Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire. \nAmanda Michalopoulo (Greece) Author of eight novels\, three short story collections\, a play and a novella. Her awards include the Academy of Athens Prize. \nCarlo Lucarelli (Italy) Best-selling novelist (more than 20 titles to his name)\, scriptwriter and television presenter \nAngie Cruz (Dominica-USA) Novelist and editor\, recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies\, winner of the Gold Medal Latino Book Award\, and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. \nRana Kazkaz (Syria-USA) Award-winning filmmaker with a focus on Syrian stories. Associate Professor at Northwestern University Qatar. \nDavid Henry Hwang (USA) Tony Award winning playwright\, TV producer and showrunner. He also co-wrote ‘Solo” with Prince. \nIsabella Hammad (UK) Novelist – last year she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list of the most significant British writers under 40. She has taught literature and creative writing at NYU\, Brown and Al Quds Bard College. \nFernanda Trías (Uruguay) Novelist\, whose most recent book received Uruguay’s National Literature and Bartolomé Hidalgo prizes and Mexico’s international Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize. \nShahad Al-Rawi (Iraq) Novelist and anthropologist. Her first novel was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction\, and won the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award; her second was nominated for the Sheikh Zayed Award. \nWole Soyinka (Nigeria) A towering figure in world literature: Nobel Prize Laureate\, artist-dramatist\, poet\, essayist\, musician\, philosopher\, academic\, teacher\, human rights activist\, global artist\, and scholar. \nRachel Holmes (UK) Award-winning biographer\, editor\, academic\, UK Chair of the Iraq Literature Festival in Erbil\, and Visiting Literary Fellow at Mansfield College\, Oxford. \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/the-city-and-the-writer/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Words
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240306T200000
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
DESCRIPTION:Ten actors converge for a night of scenes\, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5\, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only one remains\, to be crowned the Maestro. “Fast-paced\, unpredictable\, and hilarious” says the promo\, and you couldn’t argue with that. As with all Courtyard improv evenings it’s free\, but you need to put your name on the guestlist (via the website); and it’s first-come first-served\, so get there early enough to grab a seat. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/wednesday-night-impro-maestro-19/
LOCATION:Courtyard Playhouse\, Street 4B\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Improv
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240222T200000
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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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