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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240921
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/last-chance-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:20240919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240920
DTSTAMP:20240627T104321Z
CREATED:20240627T104104Z
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SUMMARY:Chicago
DESCRIPTION:The second weekend of performances for “the most exciting musical of its generation” (The Times). \nFirst seen in 1975 and still an all-round stunner\, it is based on a 1926 play by one-time reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins and is built around actual crimes on which she reported; the book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse paints a tantalising tale of passion\, murder\, greed\, betrayal\, and redemption through the journey of two fiercely competitive women – aspiring jazz performer Roxie Hart and former vaudevillian (and double-murderess) Velma Kelly. John Kander and Fred Ebb were responsible for the score\, with each song modelled on a traditional vaudeville number or a vaudeville performer – a format that helped to make explicit the show’s comparison between justice\, showbiz\, and contemporary society. \nPerformances: \n19 September 7pm\n20 September 7pm\n21 September 1pm\n21 September 7pm\n22 September 1pm\n22 September 6pm \nThere are the door-open times; we’d guess the actual performances start an hour later. Ticket prices are higher for weekend shows
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/chicago-2/
LOCATION:Etihad Arena\, Yas Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Musical
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240921
DTSTAMP:20240916T110926Z
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SUMMARY:Art Here 2024
DESCRIPTION:Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2024\, now in its fourth edition\, has rapidly become a significant entry in the Middle East’s art exhibition calendar – a regional competition for 3D work that benefits from sponsorship by luxe watchmaker Richard Mille to the extent that at the end of the exhibition one of the five artists shown will get a not insignificant $60\,000 cash award as part of the Richard Mille Art Prize. \nThis year\, Louvre Abu Dhabi and guest curator Simon Njami invited responses to the theme ‘Awakenings’; the selected artists are tasked with translating the concept of openness into visual forms via sculptures or audiovisual installations “that address questions of today and the near future”. The resulting artworks will be shown at the museum from 20 September to 15 December. \nThere were 230 submissions in total\, and five have been selected for the exhibition. The competition this year has been expanded to include North Africa alongside the GCC\, and three of the shortlist came from outside the Gulf. Franco-Tunisian artist Férielle Doulain-Zouari explores the coexistence of natural and artificial worlds via installations\, sculptures\, and weaving. Moataz Nasr from Egypt investigates the geopolitics and social development of Egypt and Africa\, testing the notion of identity and belonging in a world of globalisation. And Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia) uses video to capture the slow transformation of people and things\, revealing intimate places and bodies and uncovering the buried truths of her heritage. \nThe other two on the shortlist will probably be more familiar to local arty audiences – Lamya Gargash (Dubai) and Sarah Almehairi (Abu Dhabi). Gargash usually works in film and photography to document the essence of inhabited and abandoned spaces\, delving into cultural heritage amidst rapid modernisation\, and capturing the beauty of human trace and the value of the mundane – “my desire for seclusion\, and my grieving for our inevitable fate\, has led me to find beauty in ordinary things and bring to life these reticent moments in time …” She’s a Third Line artist and has had several shows there\, including one of our favourites. \nSarah Almehairi has worked in various media – sculpture\, painting\, book art\, fibre art\, photography\, poetry – to explore themes of identity\, language\, materiality and memory. Now signed with Carbon 12\, she was part of the 2019 Youth Takeover at Jameel Arts Centre\, was one of Abu Dhabi Art’s 2022 Beyond: Emerging Artists (a group which also went to Cromwell Place the following year)\, and was commissioned for Alserkal Avenue’s public art projects in 2022 for Alserkal Art Week – she transformed the passages alongside Concrete into a rather good visual poem with her work don’t overlook the weather (as your thoughts collect)\, asking visitors to linger and observe both the earth and the sky as they passed through. \nThe Art Here 2024 exhibition take place under Louvre Abu Dhabi’s iconic dome\, including the courtyard with the Damascene fountain and extending via a passageway towards a meditative shallow pool and the Jenny Holzer wall installation. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/art-here-2024/
LOCATION:Louvre Abu Dhabi\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:3D,Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T080000
DTSTAMP:20240625T131237Z
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SUMMARY:Giselle
DESCRIPTION:A third performance for the Polish National Ballet and Orchestra’s take on the ultimate tragic/romantic ballet – beautiful young peasant girl fall in loves with a disguised nobleman but goes mad and dies of heartbreak when his true identity is revealed by a rival; she then becomes a ghost\, one of a vengeful sisterhood of unmarried women who died after being betrayed by their lovers and take revenge in the night by dancing men to death by exhaustion. Powerful stuff. \nThere are further performance at 2pm and 7pm on 21 September.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/giselle-4/
LOCATION:Dubai Opera
CATEGORIES:Ballet
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T220000
DTSTAMP:20240916T105957Z
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SUMMARY:Andy Warhol\, The Glam Factory
DESCRIPTION:A collection of more than 100 of Warhol’s works\, curated by Nada Ghandour\, which aims to trace Warhol’s rise from his modest beginnings in commercial illustration to his status as the Pope of Pop Art via screenprints\, photos\, and magazines from the 1960s to the 1980s. (The good news: seems there are none of his films.) \nThe exhibition is organized into two sections\, one for the man himself and the other to The Factory. Andy Warhol: From Shadows to Light covers the significant milestones of his career and his aesthetic evolution\, from his advertising drawings to the Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Glam Factory: Art Meets Business / The Business Man Artist focuses on his signature painted portraits (Marilyn Monroe\, Elizabeth Taylor\, Mao Zedong) and includes commissions and collaborations (Edward Kennedy\, Paloma Picasso\, Keith Haring). Additionally\, it features stars who shared Warhol’s extravagant social life and sometimes collaborated artistically with him (Calvin Klein\, Giorgio Armani\, Mick Jagger). \nDesigned by NYC-based architect Ibrahim Kombarji\, the exhibition has two recreated spaces for the environment that Warhol frequented – The Silver Factory\, a multidisciplinary creation space designed by Warhol for himself and collaborators: and Studio 54\, the near-legendary nightclub in Midtown Manhattan famous where the glitterati came to be seen. \nTo 31 October
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/andy-warhol-the-glam-factory/
LOCATION:Foundry Downtown\, Boulevard Crescent\, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T200000
DTSTAMP:20240914T151145Z
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SUMMARY:Cineolio's Cinenights
DESCRIPTION:An evening of five short films\, all subtitled in both Arabic and English: \n12 Drawings a Day: dir Denis Chapon (Denmark\, 2011: 5 mins) Experimental animation created on the reverse of used A4 sheets. Each day for three years drew 12 animations to make one second of film … \nLiter of Gas: dir Ibrahim Ramy (Egypt\, 2022: 17 mins) Facing a nationwide hike in oil prices\, an unemployed man goes on a journey searching for petrol for his car – only to find himself instead exploring the socio-economic injustices that put him in this situation in the first place. \nLong Trip: dir Ali Kadhum (Iraq/Belgium\, 2021: 13 mins) Following the death of his father\, Dries has to decide on cremation locally or burial – which custom requires be in the country of his broth. \nMid-Way: dir Rola Shamas (Lebanon\, 2022: 10 mins – top) The trains have arrived. But\, in the midst of this rush to nowhere\, are we listening to birds? To rivers? To ourselves? \nMigration: dir Fluorescent Hill\, aka Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie (Canada\, 2014: 6 mins) A creative animation\, infused with a nostalgic haze that looks like found footage\, about large\, graceless creatures lumbering towards their destiny as they follow their instincts to get back home …
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/cineolios-cinenights/
LOCATION:Mohammed Bin Rashid Library\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T210000
DTSTAMP:20240916T134350Z
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SUMMARY:Go Back for Murder
DESCRIPTION:Agatha Christie wrote more than a dozen plays as well as the novels that made her name\, and this is one — written in 1960\, an adaptation of her story Five Little Pigs with Hercule Poirot removed from the story. \nIt’s a murder mystery with an unusual twist\, the action moving from past to present and illuminating the danger of relying on personal testimony warped by time\, prejudice and perception. Carla Crale’s mother died in prison\, serving a sentence for her father’s murder. A posthumous letter from her convinces Carla that her mother was wrongfully convicted: with the help of family solicitor Justin Fogg\, Carla persuades all those who were present on the day of her father’s death to return to the scene of the crime and ‘go back’ 15 years to recount their version of events. By studying each suspect’s testimony and the various inconsistencies between them\, the drama arrives at a disturbing and terrible truth … \nLovely stuff. The reliable Sarah Potter directs. \nThere are further performances on 21 and 22 September. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/go-back-for-murder/
LOCATION:The Junction\, Unit H72\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T213000
DTSTAMP:20240828T131228Z
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SUMMARY:TootArd | Gaye Su Akyol
DESCRIPTION:A second evening of the End of Summer Dance Party in the Black Box theatre – a genre-defying concert that puts two very different kinds of artist in each half. From Gaye Su Akyol you get an innovative mix of Turkish psychedelia and folk song\, surf music and 90s Western rock; TootArd\, a genre-fluid duo comprising brothers Hasan and Rami Nakhleh\, presents a fusion of global pop hooks and quarter-tone melodic lines to deliver a distinctive blend of disco and dance music that draws inspiration from the rich musical traditions of SWANA (SouthWest Asia\, North Africa) and beyond. \nThere are two performances: on 19 September Gaye Su Akyol went on first\, for 20 September it’s TootArd.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/tootard-gaye-su-akyol/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240920T220000
DTSTAMP:20240916T132308Z
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SUMMARY:The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
DESCRIPTION:This month’s Laughter Factory tour kicks off at the Mövenpick as usual. The acts: \nKate Barron a return to the UAE for the award-winning Canadian comic\, sharp\, witty and unfiltered \nFarhan Solo a Gulf debut for the “eccentric millennial Muslim” (he was good on Channel 4’s digital comedy show Jokes Only a Muslim Can Tell) \nMaher Barwany a hit from the Dubai Comedy Festival\, Maher’s infectious energy and ability to connect with diverse audiences makes him a very watchable standup \nThe rest of the bookings are … \n21 Sept 7pm Al Habtoor Polo Resort\n21 Sept 8.30pm Mövenpick JBR\n26 Sept 8pm The Club Abu Dhabi 8PM\n27 Sept 8.30pm Radisson DAMAC Hills\n28 Sept 8.30pm Dukes The Palm \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-23/
LOCATION:Mövenpick Hotel JBR\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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