What: With the cooler weather on the horizon it can only mean one thing... the return of Covent Garden Market Dubai! Each Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday thereafter until the end of April 2010 with a whole host of great new vendors and activities.
Where: The Walk, JBR
When: Wednesdays & Thursdays - 5pm to Midnight. Fridays & Saturdays - 10am to 9pm.
Bird of Prey Show 2009
16 October 2009 to 31 March 2010
What: The show includes flying exhibits from over 15 types of birds of prey including eagle owls, harris hawks, griffon vultures, spotted eagles, white-backed vultures, falcons, owls and more. An interactive show for the whole family. Morning shows and special timings can be arranged on request (example for schools groups).
Where: Off Airport Road near Mushrif Park, Mirdif/Khawaneej.
When: From October 16th until March. Monday to Saturdays, 4-5pm
Cost: Adults AED50, children aged 3 to 14 AED25 and 2 and under go FREE.
Al Saheel
5 November 2009 to 31 March 2010
What: The historical and timeless bonds between man and horse are celebrated in the latest Al Saheel equine-themed extravaganza, being performed at the Dubai Polo and Equestrian Club, Arabian Ranches. Mums, dads and kids will be spellbound as a series of dramatic, funny and magical tales unfold, performed by 44 specially-trained horses and 30 talented riders, ‘A Thousand And One Horse Tales’ is inspired by the Arab tradition of story-telling and takes family entertainment into a new dimension.
When: Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7.30pm. Hospitality ticket holders may enjoy a private “Behind the Scenes” tour starting at 6.45- 7.15pm.
Where: HoofbeatZ Pavilion at the Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club
Contact: 050 181 0401, www.alsaheel.com plus Time Out Tickets and Virgin Megastores (Mall of the Emirates and Deira City Centre, Dubai)
Cost: Dhs 325 Hospitality Tickets, Dhs 225 Premium Tickets – Adults, Dhs 100 Premium Tickets – Children (2 - 12 years), Children under 2 get in free.
Dubailand Events
22 November 2009 to 27 February 2010
DUBAILAND® EVENTS
DUBAILAND®, the landmark tourism, leisure and entertainment destination and part of the Dubai Properties Group, today announced it has lined up a series of top-notch events to mark the Eid Al Adha and National Day holidays at a number of its attractions including the Dubai Sports City, Dubai Autodrome, Dubai Outlet Mall and Global Village.
At Global Village, the region’s most popular cultural, entertainment and shopping venue, the 98-day season offers attractions for the entire family as well as tourists and visitors. This year’s, the destination will include over 6,000 cultural shows and performances inspired by the four elements of nature – air, water, fire, and earth.
With artistes from over 45 countries, highlights during the festivities will include acts such as the Human Cannonball and the Chinese Flying Poles Show. The Global Village Community Stage will provide a platform for students and amateur groups to present their unique talents to a truly multi-cultural crowd, while the World Culture Stage will present dance performances and cultural shows from France, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Philippines, and Hawaii.
The Dubai International Cricket Stadium at Dubai Sports City in DUBAILAND® will host two live concerts featuring top Bollywood artistes and musicians in the lead up to the UAE National Day.
During the Eid and National Day festivities, Dubai Autodrome will host a variety of car and motorcycle track evenings including the UAE National Race Day.
Traditional Arabic Cuisine Cooking Course
3 January 2010 to 31 January 2010
WHAT: Discover the art of preparing traditional Arabic cuisine with Arabic cooking classes at the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management. The three hour programme will be conducted by Executive Chef Michael Kitts, with guests preparing a variety of traditional each week. Participants can opt to attend individual sessions or all four weeks to complete the menu series.
WHEN: 3pm to 6pm, every Sunday throughout January
PRICE: AED 45O per person, per session
CONTACT: Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, 0 4 3155101, wwwemiratesacademy.edu
Burj Khalifa Observation Deck Opens
5 January 2010 to 31 January 2010
Following the inauguration of Burj Dubai on January 4, 2010 to mark the fourth anniversary of the Accession Day of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum as the Ruler of Dubai, from January 5, the public can access At The Top, Burj Khalifa, the world’s highest observation deck on Level 124 of the tower.
Note: Please confirm directly that the Observation Deck is open before visiting in case of any delays in its opening.
By day and night At The Top, Burj Dubai provides unparalleled views of Dubai. A standard visit to At The Top, Burj Dubai lasts approximately 60 minutes, allowing ample time for you to relax and enjoy the Dubai skyline at your leisure.
Special Student Admission
Special Educational Hour discounts are available for students daily from 9:00AM to 10:00AM. Advance ticket purchase required.
Tour Groups, Clubs & Organizations
At The Top offers discounted pricing to any group of 20 or more guests.
Group Ticket Info
WIthin UAE: 800-28843867 [ 800ATTHETOP] International: +9714 8888124
WHAT: Abstraction and Reality aims to raise awareness of various societal and environmental issues, and to support the creation and culture in raising consciousness and in ongoing climate changes.
The environment that we live in is not independent of social and economic ones. It is now also fraught with rising concerns: decline and degradation, loss of biodiversity, global warming, resource depletion, scarcity and water pollution, pollution and rising sea levels, migration of species, damage to the landscape, soil erosion, quality and quantity of food or energy. These are but a few of the problems facing the world currently.
In his work entitled Abstraction and Reality, Arnaud Humbert devotes himself to a subtle game, playing with what he sees through his lens and what the Nature imposes upon him. His goals are to capture the movement, the light, the pattern among other, hoping to see Reality reappearing as in a dream, and to create emotion.
The pictorial impact of his shots, taken from all over the world, is reinforced by the use of the square format and the canvas. These prints can be seen as many windows opened beyond the object, offering a new vision of Nature. Shapes become blurred, frontiers between objects dissolve, volumes appear uncertain. The landscape becomes mysterious.
This new perception modifies the understanding, the myths, the story of what connects humans to nature. The GREEN issue is today at the centre of government all over the world, and is particularly thought about within the UAE. The exhibition doesn’t portray consequences of these changes but captures what on earth remains untouched and needs to be preserved. These moments describes moment of serenity, virgin territories, but more importantly moment of harmony between nature and human being.
WHERE: Portfolio Gallery, Al Serkal Avenue, Al Quoz
WHEN: Thursday, January 7th until Saturday January 30th
CONTACT: 04 3232395, www.portfolio-uae.com
OPENING TIMES: Sat - Thurs 10am - 6pm; Fri CLOSED
Arabic Calligraphy Workshops
10 January 2010 to 21 March 2010
WHAT: This course concentrates on the elements and the language of Arabic Calligraphy through the visual elements (line, volume, texture, colour, shape). Moreover, this course also concentrates on the recognition of the different forms, Styles & Types of Arabic Calligraphy. In addition, they well learn the History of Arabic Calligraphy, Materials & Tools of the Calligraphers. For adults aged 15+
The teacher is Saleh Al Shukairi, a member of the Omani Society for Fine Arts, where he is one of the founders and active participant of the Calligraphy Club and the Youth Studio. Saleh has exhibited internationally, notably in Germany, Pakistan, South Korea, Washington DC - USA and the UAE, and the 11th Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh he received an "Honorary Award". He has participated in all calligraphy workshops in Oman since 1993, the largest painting in the world the Muscat Festival in 2000 and in Sharjah 2009 and in the Folk Festival organized by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, USA, in 2005.
WHERE: Art Sawa, Al Quoz
WHEN: Sundays 7pm-9pm. |10 Jan|17 Jan|24 Jan|31 Jan|7 Feb|14 Feb|
|Break|28 Feb|7 March|14 March|21 March|
or
Mornings: Mondays 10am to noon|11 Jan|18 Jan|25 Jan|1 Feb|8 Feb|15 Feb|
|Break|1 March|8 March|15 March|22 March|
PRICE: AED 1900 for the full cycle.
CONTACT: 04 340 8660, www.artsawa.com
Music Appreciation - Understanding Opera
11 January 2010 to 22 March 2010
WHAT: Open to everyone who would like to begin to develop or widen their knowledge of Opera, this course will explore how Opera works on stage and trace its history during the 18th and 19th centuries. The course will focus on some of the best loved works by Handel, Rameau, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Puccinni and their contemporaries. The speaker is David Lesser, an active composer, performer, lecturer and teacher who has had his own music performed in Britain and Europe. For adults aged 15+
WHEN: |11 Jan|18 Jan|25 Jan|1 Feb|8 Feb|22 Feb|1 Mar|8 Mar |15 Mar|22 Mar, Evenings: 7.30-9pm.
WHERE: Art Sawa, Al Quoz
PRICE: AED 950 for the full cycle.
CONTACT: 04 340 8660, www.artsawa.com
Wrap Me Up In You
12 January 2010 to 4 February 2010
WHAT: An exhibition of 'festive' mixed-media works by Nargess Hashemi.
This is Iranian artist Nargess Hashemi’s second solo show in Dubai and marks a departure from her previous exhibition at B21, ‘Stories From the Boudoir’. Here Hashemi focuses on the dual feelings of endearment and frustration she has for her family, something most of us can relate to.
Viewers are presented with scenes of familial galleries which Hashemi has photographed over the year and recreated in the form of black line drawings. These drawings are executed on transparent paper which is then overlayed on a background of decorative wallpaper. A sense of sentimental romance is brought to the graphic drawings, but it is also very kitsch, a tradition she feels her family and many other Iranian families are embedded in.
When these banal scenes of gatherings and engagement parties are placed in the socio-political context of the periods they are depicting – many scenes were photographed during the run up to the mass uprisings in Iran in the summer of 2009- the works take on a darker subtext. We are presented with family scenes dislocated from the world they inhabit. Hashemi offers art which documents families anaesthetized from reality by family tradition; the artist is perhaps asking us to consider whether or not we are dodging our social responsibility by immersing ourself in the placating blanket of custom.
WHERE: B21 Gallery, Al Quoz 1
WHEN: Tuesday January 12th to Thursday February 4th
CONTACT: 04 3403965, www.b21gallery.com
OPENING TIMES: Sat – Thu 10am - 7pm
Sustainable City
12 January 2010 to 30 January 2010
WHAT: A student project, created at the American University in Dubai, which aims to create a vision of how the twin challenges of a threatened environment and urbanization can be overcome. Sustainable City includes contributions from a number of seniors studying Visual Communications.
WHERE: At the Gallery of Light in the Manu Chhabria Arts Centre, DUCTAC
WHEN: Tuesday 12th – Saturday 30th January 2010
Exhibition: Colours of the Intimacy
20 January 2010 to 31 January 2010
EXHIBITION: COLORS OF THE INTIMACY
WHAT: The ten exhibited canvases offer an intimate insight into the painter’s pictorial universe. Their common denominator is an intense exploration of color as an expressive and aesthetic tool. Rondard has developed a varied and subtle palette, ranging from pastels to vibrant and saturated tones, and including variations on a single color. While drawing on every-day objects and situations, the artist’s subjects remain subjugated to his quest for purely aesthetic harmonies, which often leads him to abstraction.
WHEN: From now until Sunday 31st January
WHERE: Alliance Francais, at La Terrasse
CONTACT: www.afdubai.com or call 04 335 8712
PRICE: FREE
Hussein Madi Exhibition
20 January 2010 to 11 February 2010
What: Artspace Gallery showcases a selection of innovative works by the Lebanese artist Hussein Madi.
Hussein Madi, painter, sculptor and printmaker, is considered among the Arab world’s foremost artists. He was born in 1938 in Chebaa, Lebanon. Between 1973-1986, he divided his time between Rome and Beirut. In 1986, he decided to stay permanently in Beirut.
Madi’s art has been viewed by thousands of people around the world at venues such as the as the British Museum, the Venice Biennale and Tokyo’s Ueno Museum.
WHEN: Now until Thursday February 11th
WHERE: Opera Gallery Dubai, Gate Village Building 3 - DIFC
CONTACT: 04 323 0820, www.artspace-dubai.com
WHERE: Opera Gallery, Gate Village Bldg No. 3, DIFC. Opening times 10am-8pm Saturday to Thursday.
WHEN: Thursday, 21 Jan 2010 FOR 2 weeks
WHAT: Lita Cabellut is considered as a painter with a unique pictorial language, using a contemporary variation on the fresco-technique and a immensely enjoyable, communicative and recognizable 'Cabellut-palette'. Lita Cabellut's 'human-faced' paintings are exposed all around the globe, in New York, Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, Barcelona, London, Paris, Venice, Monaco, Seoul and many more cities.
The refreshing energy and confidence of Roc-Roussey’s works lead the viewer to appreciate them as unforgettable and re-livable moments. The instant of appreciating these classical colors and poses provides the viewer with an intense and indelible memory. Unearthing a variety of mythologies, histories and legends, pure colors and compositions painstakingly attained through his efforts are strong enough to be called ‘warfare’ after his persistent experimentation. His patience and training over the past several decades provide the background for his current creativity and liberty, exuding a sense of tension still loved by many collectors across various cultures.
CONTACT: 04 323 0909 or www.operagallery.com
Ritual Imprint
21 January 2010 to 4 March 2010
WHAT: Pouran Jinchi has her second solo show at The Third Line with ‘Ritual Imprint’. Jinchi incorporates delicately crafted drawings of patterned textures and traditional calligraphy with Islamic geometric design to form a series of new works detailing the implications of prayer and ritual.
She trained as a calligrapher in Mashad, Iran, and now incorporates the traditional elements of her culture and her uses her skill in calligraphy to investigate visual manifestations of her faith. This series of drawings pursues a specific artistic question: to imagine a form for prayer. These drawings act as maps of faith. Like the patterns and habits of everyday life, their circular and rhythmic motifs are the result of forms repeated over time.
The drawings are created by Jinchi scratching charcoal on thin paper over prayer tablets (mohr) in order to reproduce an imprint of the textured surface. She then outlines the forms with pencil and text, emphasizing the detail. Through repeating the forms, new designs begin to emerge, recreating the ornate surface of the Mohr. This series is made up of a selection of drawings comprised of geometric shapes found in Islamic art, usually circles and rectangles, structured in such a way that the same shape is used over and over again but in various sizes and angles to create a larger and more detailed work. The replicating motifs add separate layers to existing shapes resulting in a work of meditative calmness, much like the act of prayer.
WHERE: The Third Line, Al Quoz. Opening times: Saturday to Thursday 11am to 8pm
WHEN: Thursday, 21 Jan 2010 - Thursday, 4 Mar 2010
CONTACT: www.thethirdline.com, 04 341 1367
Blood Brothers
25 January 2010 to 6 February 2010
WHAT: Blood Brothers is the critically acclaimed multiple award-winning West End musical about twin boys separated at birth but reunited by fate, with tragic consequences. This is an evening of entertainment you simply cannot miss.
This stunning tale set against the backdrop of an unforgiving industrial Liverpool is one of the most unique and best-loved musicals of the last fifty years and was recently voted the Best British Musical of all time. Winner of 'Best Musical' at all the major awards, the show is now in its 21st record breaking year in London's West End, and now only behind 'Les Miserables' and 'The Phantom of the Opera' as the longest running musical ever. With its wonderfully memorable score including hits such as 'Tell Me It's Not True', 'Easy Terms' and 'Bright New Day', Blood Brothers has always evoked a strong response in all its tens of millions of spectators. With Willy Russell’s trademark comedy, mixed with epic drama this funny and moving musical provides a performance of pure theatrical perfection. An official event of Dubai Shopping Festival, the production stars a brilliant cast of West End actors and thrilling live orchestra.
'One of the best musicals ever' Sunday Times
'Devastating...A masterpiece' News of the World
Visit www.seebloodbrothers.com for the shows official website.
When: Monday January 25th to Saturday February 6th.Evening shows as well as some matinees.
PRICE: 189 Dirhams per person
CONTACT: www.madinattheatre.com or call 04 366 6546.
