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Art With Disabilities: From Frida Kahlo to Stevie Wonder – 11 Amazing Stories of People Who Changed the World

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

An exhibition created by the Bulgarian immersive-experience specialists Poliforma, using surround-sound and surround-visuals to celebrate "stories of people who have overcome, adapted, or ignored their limitations" through "captivating video inserts, stunning 3D projections, and four interactive installations". Apparently it's "a [... more]

AED 99

CLOSING TODAY Vian Sora: House of Pearls

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Third Line's first solo exhibition with Louisville-based artist Vian Sora features new paintings and works on paper that explore pearls as "a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate". Sora draws on [... more]

Free

CLOSING TODAY Vian Sora: House of Pearls

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

New paintings and works on paper from the Louisville-based artist that explore pearls as "a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate". Drawing on her experiences as a war survivor and immigrant (Iraqi-born, [... more]

Free
Ongoing

Candlelight: From Mozart to Chopin

Jumeirah Al Qasr Madinat Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim, Dubai

Aldo Dotti plays a 65 minute programme of piano favourites, outdoors at the Jumeriah Al Qasr's Céleste poolside restuarant. The programme: Mozart: Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K 331 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 [... more]

From AED 180

Curators Talk: Salwa Mikdadi

NYUAD Art Gallery Reading Room أبو ظبي

The first in the Curators Talk talk series of the 2024-2025 academic year features art historian and curator Salwa Mikdadi, Professor of Practice in Art History at NYUAD and Founding Director and Principal Investigator of the Al Mawrid Arab Center [... more]

Free

Day 1 | Forest Cinema

421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi

Dharamshala International Film Festival has a peripatetic and constantly changing programme called DIFF On the Road, part of the festival’s mandate to build networks of cinematic solidarity and to extend the space for discourse around independent cinema. In keeping with [... more]

Free

Surf House Unplugged: Volume 1

Byron Bathers Club 4, Dubai

An unplugged line-up including Jedd Perlata, Ana Silva and Doza for this laid-back beach club on Palm Jumeirah. The AED 50 tickets include one drink.

AED 50

On the Brink! A Celebration of Afro-Arab Identity

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

The AlMultaqa Harmonic Orchestra blends African rhythms, Arabian melodies, and Sudanese pentatonic notes; this celebration of Afro-Arab culture and identity is realised through On the Brink, described as a "groundbreaking" composition that forges "a brave new path in orchestral music [... more]

Free

Singin’ in the Rain

Dubai Opera

The highly successful stage adaptation of the iconic MGM film about silent film actors who face their share of struggles over the gradual transition to talkies. The plot isn't what matters, of course; it's the songs – classics like Good [... more]

AED 450