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SUMMARY:Cirque Du Liban: Fontana
DESCRIPTION:Cirque du Liban comes to Yas with “the first travelling water circus in the Middle East … live entertainment\, breathtaking artistic performances in a tailor-made aqua theatre\, waterfalls cascading\, artists diving and performing mind-blowing Aquatic experience”. The previews look great\, and the watery additions do add to the circus skills on show. Thierry Antonios\, founder and Managing Partner at Cirque Du Liban\, described Fontana as “a perfect blend of creativity and strategic partnership\, enhancing the vibrant cultural tapestry of Abu Dhabi … we are excited to share this extraordinary experience with the audiences of Yas Island”. \nIt all happens in a purpose-built big top circus tent near twofour54. There are shows from 7 April to 26 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/cirque-du-liban-fontana/
LOCATION:Yas Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Circus
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240528
DTSTAMP:20240426T110228Z
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SUMMARY:Youth Takeover 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Jameel’s annual handover of the arts centre to a selected cohort of young visionaries starts on Saturday 4 May and runs to Monday 27 May. There will be multiple artwork and installation “interventions” across the ground floor of the building\, both indoors and outdoors\, with a public programme of talks\, performances and more on the four weekends. \nThe Assembly is an annual experimental learning programme designed to foster creative leaders aged 18 to 24 in the UAE\, inviting the creation and curation of projects reflective of their generation’s areas of interest. This year’s learning programme was designed\, curated and facilitated by Abhirami Suresh\, Library and Youth Coordinator at Art Jameel\, in collaboration with Osemudiamen Ekore\, alumnus of The Assembly 2022-2023. The 2023-24 Assembly cohort members are … \nKarim el Atrache artist and philosopher-to-be\nMalavika Suresh spoken word poet and interdisciplinary researcher\nMariam Shamma interdisciplinary designer\nMarwan Ali architect\nNabeeha Sajjad multimedia designer\nRedha Al Hammad photographer\nSami Al Soloh artist\nToga Al Tahir interdisciplinary researcher \n  \nThe exhibition – (un)cooked:\nThe 11 original commissions by young artists represents a variety of “romantic and magnified versions of seemingly mundane experiences” that “challenge you to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and embark on a journey in discovering that the mundane is real\, raw and relevant in its simplicity”. The theme (un)cooked “expands on the portrayal of various interpretations of memories\, realities and fantasies”. The artists: \nKarim el Atrache and Klythm\nMalavika Suresh and Alysia Knowles\nMariam Shamma\nMarwan Ali and Nour Elbery\nNabeeha Sajjad and Ala Kheir\, Jawad Al Bdiwi\, Makki Rashid and Sarwa Abdul\nRedha Al Hammad and Dalia Mustafa\nSami Al Soloh\nToga Tahir\, Abdallah Abbas and Adiga Music Band \n  \nThe schedule:\nAll events are free\, but you’re advised to preregister via the links. \n4 May \n– discussion: (un)cooked panel with the Assembly 2023-2024 and programme curators Abhirami Suresh and Osemudiamen Ekore 6–7pm Lobby\n– performance: (Self)Serving by artist Assi Abogado 7.15–7.45pm\, Lobby\n– music: Filipino dream pop duo WYWY 7.45–8.30pm\, Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park \n5 May  \n– interactive lecture: Stoicism by Dr Kurt Mertel\, Prof of Philosophy at AUS 5–6.30pm Lobby \n11 May \n– family tour and workshop: A Time-Capsule Exchange by Sami Al Soloh and Sarah Al Soloh 11am–2.30pm Lobby\n– poetry workshop day two: Self-Portrait in Verse two-day intensive poetry writing workshop with Danabelle Gutierrez and Malavika Suresh 11am–2.30pm Lobby \n12 May \n– poetry workshop day two: Self-Portrait in Verse two-day intensive poetry writing workshop with Danabelle Gutierrez and Malavika Suresh 11am–2.30pm Lobby \n18 May \n– exhibition: (un)cooked tour led by Youth Takeover Assembly members 3–4pm Lobby\n– supper club: let them eat cake by artist Farah AlZeer 4–6pm Sahaab\n– film screening + talk: And I Must Go with director/artist Nabeeha Sajjad\, photographer Ala Kheir\, filmmaker Makki Rashid\, creative producer Sarwa Abdul; moderated by Sophie Ziai 6–.730pm Lobby \n19 May \n– talk: Hudhud with artist Enas Al Faranjiya\, writer Nayla Tozin\, designer Rana Kassem\, artist Shaikha Al Salman; moderated by Bootleg Griot 4–5.30pm Lobby \n25 May \n– exhibition: (un)cooked tour led by Youth Takeover Assembly members 5–6pm Lobby\n– poetry: Self-Portrait in Verse – showcase and open mic by Malavika Suresh \n26 May \n– film screening + gathering: Magila by Toga Al Tahir 3–4pm Lobby \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/youth-takeover-2024/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTSTAMP:20240422T140403Z
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SUMMARY:Ala Ebtekar: The Sky of the Seven Valleys
DESCRIPTION:Ebtekar’s exhibition is presented as “one work in seven chapters”\, each composed of one to four doorway-sized panels that combine multi-wavelength photographic processes with the artist’s distinctive cloud-making brushstrokes. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar’s Sufi poem Conference of the Birds\, Ebtekar’s series follows the journeys of 30 birds through seven valleys of enlightenment: Quest\, Love\, Knowledge\, Detachment\, Unity\, Wonderment\, Poverty\, and Annihilation. Says the gallery: “As spectators confront these larger-than-life prints\, they find themselves immersed in a landscape where the atmosphere itself becomes the canvas of the cosmos\, blurring the boundaries between observer and the observed”. \nTo 28 June.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/ala-ebtekar-the-sky-of-the-seven-valleys/
LOCATION:The Third Line\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTSTAMP:20240422T140436Z
CREATED:20240412T082456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T140436Z
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SUMMARY:Khalid Jauffer: Looking\, dwelling\, leaving
DESCRIPTION:Jauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects\, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial\, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. “Discarded objects and broken things are legible to a bypasser primarily as ends\, trash\, the leftovers of a story that’s done being told; it is through a process of care and attention that Khalid transforms found ends into beginnings\, unravelling tightly wound threads of human fragility encased in unremarkable shells … The simple act of looking is a necessary precursor to finding\, it is crucially differentiated from ‘seeking’ in that it is open-ended: it doesn’t prescribe its outcome …” \nTo 28 June.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/khalid-jauffer-looking-dwelling-leaving/
LOCATION:The Third Line\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTSTAMP:20240422T140529Z
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SUMMARY:Dima Srouji: Charts for a Resurrection
DESCRIPTION:The first-ever solo exhibition for artist\, architect and researcher Dima Srouji\, whose work acts as a form of political commentary and as a place-making (or un-making) tool – “Interested in the ground\, objects\, displacement\, restitution\, forgeries\, and living archives\, the artist looks for potential ruptures in the ground where imaginary liberation is possible.” Srouji collaborates closely with archaeologists\, anthropologists\, glass blowers and sound designers to develop her architectural projects\, installations\, product designs\, and writing. Working across a diverse range of media including glass\, text\, archival materials\, maps\, and film\, Srouji questions ideas of identity and globalisation through historic strata and space\, in connection to the spirit of a place and displacement. \nThe exhibition is conceived as two distinct spaces\, the larger terrain and the more intimate chapel\, comprising installations and archival prints that intertwine historical artefacts with imaginary archaeological sites. To 25 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/dima-srouji-charts-for-a-resurrection/
LOCATION:Lawrie Shabibi\, Unit 21\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTSTAMP:20240422T151016Z
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SUMMARY:Reverberations: Textile as Echo
DESCRIPTION:The second of three exhibitions showcasing contemporary approaches to textile and fibre art curated for Green Art Gallery by Murtaza Vali. It brings together work by four contemporary artists – M’barek Bouhchichi\, Sayan Chanda\, Himali Singh Soin\, and Swapnaa Tamhane – that references the rich and diverse history and practice of textile arts across South and West Asia and North Africa. \nOften made in collaboration with master artisans\, the included artworks use a variety of traditional dyeing and weaving techniques and materials: wool cloth made in southeastern Morocco and then stained with henna; a handwoven tapestry and a patchwork abstraction that incorporate deconstructed vintage quilts and scarves from Bengal; Ikat fabric dyed and woven in Andhra Pradesh; and industrially made cotton embellished by hand with wood block printing and mirror embroidery in the desert region of Kutch\, Gujarat. “Countering colonial and modernist discourses that devalued such Indigenous textile traditions as mere craft\, these works reclaim their vitality as a mode of contemporary expression. Complicating modernist notions of autonomy and authorship through collaboration\, they blur commonly held distinctions between object and process\, form and ornament\, past and future\, and the handmade and the digital. And much like the traditional techniques and processes they invoke\, these artworks remind us that textile is always a multisensory medium\, resonating across visual\, sonic\, and bodily registers …” \nTo 12 June.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/reverberations-textile-as-echo/
LOCATION:Green Art Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240508
DTSTAMP:20240422T151855Z
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SUMMARY:Raed Yassin: Allegorical Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Yassin explores the implications of Roland Barthes’ concept of “the return of the dead” in photography\, playing on the tension between memory and ghostliness by utilising old black and white photographs to evoke loss and the fleeting nature of memory. Yassin’s work also encompasses themes of urban decay and political upheaval\, with a particular focus on Beirut; but despite the mantle of loss and ruin\, Yassin infuses his art with moments of hope\, prompting viewers to reflect on memory’s complexities and consider the possibility of renewal amidst the remnants of the past. To 27 June. \nRight: Raed Yassin\, The company of silver spectres (2021)
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/raed-yassin-allegorical-ruins/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T170000
DTSTAMP:20240507T160549Z
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SUMMARY:Permission to Narrate
DESCRIPTION:A Reel Palestine capsule programme of six films which challenge narratives that have long marginalised Palestinian voices\, advocating for an embrace and amplification of their stories. \nBab El Shams (Gate of the Sun): dir Yousri Nasrallah (2004)\nA powerful film that spans 50 years of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict\, based around a group of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from Galilee in 1948 (above).\n15 May 7pm \nDivine Intervention: dir Elia Suleiman (2002)\nA romantic comedy with a twist: separated by a checkpoint\, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah have to arrange clandestine meetings.\n17 May 7pm | 18 May 5pm \nTomorrow’s Freedom – Marwan Barghouti: dir Georgia Scott & Sophia Scott (2022)\nFor five years\, Georgia and Sophia Scott followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti\, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison.\n17 May 9pm | 19 May 7pm \nThe Tower: dir Mats Grorud (2018)\nAn animated tale of 11-year-old Wardi\, a Palestinian girl who lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. She learns about her family’s history through stories told to her by three generations of refugees.\n18 May 3pm | 19 May 3.30pm \nRana’s Wedding: dir Hany Abu-Assad (2002)\nRana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men\, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem\, she sneaks out of her father’s house at daybreak to find her forbidden love.\n18 May 7pm | 19 May 9.15pm \nJenin\, Jenin: dir Mohammad Bakri (2002)\nDocumentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.\n18 May 9pm | 19 May 5.30pm
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/permission-to-narrate/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T213000
DTSTAMP:20240430T151516Z
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SUMMARY:Le Cours de la Vie: dir Frédéric Sojcher (2023)
DESCRIPTION:Screenwriter Noémie (Agnès Jaoui) is invited to give a msterclass at a school that turns out to be run by the man who was her first love (Jonathan Zaccaï). She teaches Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is also the art of living passionately … In French with English subtitles. (AF members pay AED 35\, the rest of us AED 45.)
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/le-cours-de-la-vie/
LOCATION:Alliance Française Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T220000
DTSTAMP:20240408T161452Z
CREATED:20240206T115657Z
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SUMMARY:Rushdi’s Comedy Souk
DESCRIPTION:A regular monthly evening of improv and stand-up hosted by Rushdi. The bar’s set pretty high: “from side-splitting stand-up to mesmerising improv\, the finest comedic artists from near and far come to showcase their talent.” \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/rushdis-comedy-souk-5-2/
LOCATION:Courtyard Playhouse\, Street 4B\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Improv
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240507T220000
DTSTAMP:20240426T141656Z
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SUMMARY:Fridge Concert Series season 43: Gaya – A Night of Qisse
DESCRIPTION:The Fridge Concert Series gives the Dubai-based singer-songwriter an evening for her 2022 album Qisse – a musical journey of self-love and acceptance\, with songs in Hindi\, Tamil and English\, and slick modern production values that are noticaebly rooted in Indian classical music. It’s a good album and should make a good show.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/fridge-concert-series-season-43-gaya-a-night-of-qisse/
LOCATION:The Fridge Warehouse\, Warehouse 5\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Gig
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