LOUVRE ABU DHABI What’s it like
Check out this important, new exhibition Picasso – The Figure at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. A global effort featuring over 130 artworks. From Jan – May 2026
AL SERKAI AVENUE DUBAI
Al Serkal Avenue Dubai is a cool hub for arts, media and and cultural activity. It’s an all pedestrian zone that encompasses an art house cinema, cafes, art galleries, a theatre and even an artisanal chocolate factory! Read on to find out exactly where Al Serkal Avenue Dubai is located and what to expect when you get there.. What is Al Serkal Avenue Dubai There are no high rise buildings or shiny shopping malls anywhere in Al Serkal Avenue Dubai. Think of a largely pedestrian zone with smaller independent units that you can pop in and out of very easily.
ART DUBAI 2015
What is Art Dubai? Welcome to Art Dubai 2015. This important event, now in it’s 9th year is a permanent fixture on the Dubai International Events Calendar. Welcome also to corporate entertainment, parties, glamorous locations and the chance to meet some very arty people from all over the world. Read on, take a closer look. Where was Art Dubai held this year? This year as in previous years, Art Dubai was held mainly at Madinat Jumeirah and the Mina A Salam hotel, part of the same complex. Design Days Dubai, also part of Art Week was held in the Downtown
QUEEN BOLLYWOOD MOVIE IN DUBAI
LIVING: Queen Bollywood Movie in Dubai. A feisty and independent heroine Kangana Ranaut (of Tanu Weds Manu) reminded me of Judy Garland’s Dorothy with her thick braided hair and innocent smile, but she’s in Rajori a suburb of Delhi, not Kansas. We can’t get enough of the Big Fat Indian Wedding on celluloid, this time, done “Middle Class” (read average income family) Punjabi style in a simple but loving household, with aunties, old grannies and podgy kid brother who becomes more endearing as the film progresses, I loved his tough, hand gesture at Rani’s smug fiancé, an equivalent of kicking
METRO MANILA – URBAN THRILLER BY SEAN ELLIS
LIVING: The Scene FIlm club of Dubai (click to see the trailer) showed the urban thriller Metro Manila yesterday at it’s conference centre in Knowledge Village. The Scene club is of the few places that show full length feature films without any cuts, so if you walked out of Wolves of Wall Street for that reason you may want to become a member here. Metro Manila was directed and produced by Sean Ellis, a British film director but was made entirely on location in the Philipines and stars Philipino actors and is completely in Tagalog with English subtitles. It is
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DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013
LIVING: What will you Watch? UPDATED 8TH DECEMBER This year is the 10th anniversary of the highly prestigious and now well established Dubai Internationl Film Festival 2013 held at the Madinat Jumeirah. Make some time to catch some incredible films that you won’t get to see ordinarily at cinemas in Dubai through the year. Two of them are based on fabulous books… How will you decide what to watch ? Here’s DoinDubai’s choice. Firstly for my younger subscribers (or those who are young at heart!) I recommend: How I Live Now by award winning director Kevin Macdonald, based on the book by