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Fujairah Children’s Book Fair

Al Bayt Mitwahid Hall Al Maktoum Road, Fujairah

The inaugural Fujairah Children's Book Fair will run 13-19 October 13 to 19 at Fujairah’s Al Bayt Mitwahid Hall. We know little about the event – it has Instagram and Facebook accounts, but right now they’re post-free and there’s no [... more]

CLOSING TODAY Sébastien Labrunie: Brèche

kanvas Dubai Unit 1, Al Khayat Art Avenue, 19th Street Al Quoz 1, Dubai

"An organic dive through matter, light and memory," says the blurb. "This hybrid narrative sculpture blurs the line between macro and micro perspectives while connecting moments and places of the past." Labrunie’s first large-scale immersive installation (first seen back in [... more]

Free

Areej Rajab: Interwoven

Mestaria Gallery Unit 35, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

New work by the Bahraini artist, based on an interplay of colours and emotions where the intricate patterns of human behaviour are delicately overlapped with the rhythms of nature: "she reveals the intricate beauty of natural forms and how they [... more]

Free

Siena Jazz Festival

Zayed Theatre, SUAD Campus Hazza Bin Zayed St, Abu Dhabi

SUAD is collaborating with the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute and Accademia Nazionale del Jazz (Siena Jazz) to host a concert "with the goal of promoting young talent and contemporary jazz music". The Academy, the only academic [... more]

Free, but pre-register

The Tunnel: dir Kim Seong-hun (2016)

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

An intricate thriller woven into a story of unthinkable disaster and one man’s fight for survival in the claustrophobic darkness of a tunnel collapse. Presented by the Korean Cultural Center; in Korean with English subtitles

Free, but pre-register

LA Dance Project: Romeo & Juliet Suite

Dubai Opera

Benjamin Millepied is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet whose raison d’etre is to make classical ballet accessible: that's the essential purpose of his dance company, LA Dance Project, and his condensed version of Shakespeare’s story is [... more]

From AED 330

Comedy @ The Palm

Riva Beach Club Dubai

Mad Cat Comedy's regular Thursday standup gig on the Palm. The cover charge of AED 99 includes one drink.

AED 99