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NYUAD Art Gallery Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi

NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with a characteristically interesting exhibition. In Real Time is a dynamic show – over the course of three months the curators will be adding artists, and the artists and performers [... more]

Free

Hester Street: dir Joan Micklin Silver (1975)

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

Silver’s entertaining debut was an unexpected hit, achieving instant critical acclaim after a screening at the 1975 Cannes Festival. Carol Kane is outstanding as a Jewish immigrant arriving in late 19th-century New York, to live in a tenement apartment on [... more]

Free, but pre-register

All That Perishes at the Edge of Land: dir Hira Nabi (2019)

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

Before the Ocean Master met its demise at the Gadani shipbreaking yards in Pakistan, filmmaker and artist Hira Nabi gave it a voice and staged conversations between the vessel and the labourers dismantling it. The stories exchanged between the workers [... more]

Free, but pre-register

Dubomedy’s Graduation Showcase

Paramount Hotel Midtown Al Mustaqbal Street, Business Bay, Dubai

Graduates of Dubomedy's Spring Stand-up Workshops take the stage to perform new stand-up material. It's free, though you do have to buy a drink or something to eat (but you were probably going to do one or both anyhow). You're [... more]

Free

Hotel California – the Musical

The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A final performance of this exuberant Francophone musical comedy winds up Culture Emulsion’s annual Tous en Scène festival of Francophone theatre. The action takes place on an isolated island in the titular luxury hotel; the owner, who disappeared ten years [... more]

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