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Design Me a Sticker

This might well be the most innovative design competition from this part of the world in a long time. The kind of stuff that would get design experts from Copenhagen to Tokyo excited.

Enter the Mulsaq project. Launched last summer, as an open competition for young Middle Eastern designers part of the Khatt Foundation network, Mulsaq, aims at creating the most innovative sticker designs in the region. The one condition: the designs must have an oriental twist.

Art Paris- Abu Dhabi

It might be the credit crunch but Abu Dhabi is still having its dance music festival and more importantly...Art Paris - Abu Dhabi, the biggest art event in the emirate.
We've even heard Canvas magazine is flying 100 people first class to the UAE, in order not to miss it.

Launched last year by a series of Paris galleries, curious to explore new markets, the fair has expanded this year to new heights, with no less than 57 galleries from 22 countries. There's also a series of side happenings, truly worth checking out, which we've listed for you.

Head over Heals in Saudi Arabia

Date: 
11/23/2008 - 11/25/2008
Location: 
Effat College Hall

If you're in Jeddah, we highly recommend going to see the play "Head over Heals in Saudi Arabia" showing for two nights only at Effat College. 

Vahid Sharifian at XVA

Date: 
11/15/2008
Location: 
XVA, Dubai Creek - Bastakiya
Young Iranian artist Vahid Sharifian shows at the XVA his quirky art work.

Contemporary Indian Art - Canvas Education Seminar

Date: 
11/18/2008
Location: 
Emirates Palace
Canvas magazine came up with two new interesting seminars during Art Paris Abu Dhabi: the first on contemporary Chinese art, the second on Indian art. Pity they're so expensive though - 1 day seminar $ 800 two day - $1500! Subscribers do get a 50 % discount though...

For more info:  www.canvas-magazine.com

Contemporary Chinese Art Seminar - Canvas Education

Date: 
11/17/2008
Location: 
Emirates Palace Hotel

Canvas Education came up with two new interesting seminars during Art Paris Abu Dhabi: the first on contemporary Chinese art, the second on Indian art. Pity they're so expensive though - 1 day seminar $ 800 two day - $1500! Subscribers do get a %50 discount though...

For more info:  www.canvas-magazine.com

Khosrow Hassanzadeh show at B21

Date: 
11/11/2008
Location: 
B21 Gallery, Al Quoz 3

Khosrow Hassanzadeh's new exhibition 'Ready to Order' starts today at B21 gallery.

In his three dimensional large-scale boxes – ‘Ready to Order’, individuals both famous and unknown are immortalized in a flurry of flashing lights, plastic vegetation, and symbolic ‘found’ objects. In ‘Ya Ali Madadi’, whose title is taken from the prayers of pahlavan wrestlers before a match, the artist expands on his fascination with the Qajar-period heroes, here executed with highly-charged acrylic colors and silkscreen on canvas.

Art, Talk and Sensation

Date: 
11/18/2008
Location: 
Grand Theatre, Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation

In the midst of Artparis Abu Dhabi don't miss this talk, should be really interesting, as it's moderated by the  prominent French curator, who is in charge of Chanel's mobile art installation. He's also the editor in chief of French magazine Beaux-Arts.

Middle East Dance Festival

Date: 
11/14/2008 - 11/15/2008
Location: 
Al Maya Island

For those who are into dance music and techno, this should be fun. A whole lot of DJs who we've never herd of (than again, we really aren't experts) will play for 16 hour straight.

Doors open at 11am - show starts at 3pm and goes on until...7am the next morning!

For more info www.comafestival.com

Eco-Heritage Architecture

Do you think that culture and sustainability can’t mix? Well think again, as Dia Diwan's The Polyglot reveals how Bahrain is re-fashioning its architectural heritage in the 21st century…
Much of the Gulf’s architectural heritage was destroyed during the building boom years of the 70’s and 80’s, as traditional buildings were torn down to make way for gleaming skyscrapers and highways. But on the tiny island Kingdom of Bahrain a revolution has been taking place to not only restore what’s left of its architectural heritage, but also to place it firmly into the 21st century.
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