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Makers Days

Concrete Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Dubai Culture’s Makers Days initiative is back – two days intended to promote creative manufacturing in Dubai by bringing together makers, designers, artists, creative entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and fabricators with a view to promoting new opportunities for SMEs (both manufacturers and [... more]

Free (we assume)

Spider’s Web

The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The final performances for H72 Productions' treatment of the Agatha Christie play – a country-house thriller-comedy with clues aplenty and a good helping of plot contrivances (including a most convenient hidden door in the study that of course leads to [... more]

AED 120

The Marriage of Figaro Ballet

Dubai Opera

The final performances of the Ukrainian National Ballet's danced version of The Marriage of Figaro. The story is broadly retained, the major dances and duets deploy the classical ballet vocabulary, and the production uses lavish eighteenth-century costumes and palace settings; [... more]

From AED 250

CLOSING TODAY Shezad Dawood: Skin of Dreams

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

Shezad Dawood’s 25-year career spans painting, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, film, performance and digital media. Fascinated by ecologies and architecture, his work connects art, science, music, environmentalism and technology to explore both alternative histories and futures, through a process of continuous [... more]

Free

CLOSING TODAY Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar: Body Quotidian

Al Mureijah Square Sharjah

Recent works by Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar that explore the human body and its presence in contemporary life through metaphor and symbolism. In Majid’s practice, sculptural and photographic works unfold through slow revelation; Zafar’s practice explores themes of death and [... more]

Free

Dance of the Emerald Isle

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

A second and final chance to catch this "breathtaking" show that brings dancers, musicians, and singers together to capture "the magic of Ireland ... Prepare to be enchanted".

From AED 180

Comedy at the Speakeasy

Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

The Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam – a great venue: quite intimate, few distractions. Featuring surprise drop-ins, fresh material, and “the kind of moments that only happen in [... more]

AED 99

Spirit of the East: The Art of Oriental Fusion

Theatre of Digital Arts Souk Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

“A journey of ancient tradition and modern innovation” Spirit of the East is a contemporary musical collaboration built around the original compositions of oud maestro and composer Hooman Shirali, bringing together the colors of Eastern music with contemporary sounds, improvisation, [... more]

FromAED 180

UAENO: To This Land, We Belong

Dubai Opera

Ahmed Farag conducts the full UAE National Orchestra and Choir for the start of its second season, a concert programme of three new Emirati compositions that offer a musical journey through the UAE from its founding story and landscapes to [... more]

From AED 200