NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is pleased to announce a program of artistic performances, exhibitions, and screenings at The Arts Center and The NYUAD Art Gallery. All events are open to the public throughout the month of November.
The Arts Center at NYUAD is a renowned performing arts center that offers compelling programming and presents distinguished professional artists from around the world, alongside student, faculty, and community productions. Its public events aim to enrich the cultural life of both the Abu Dhabi community and the University’s students through wider interaction with the general public.
The NYUAD Art Gallery, the University’s academic museum-gallery, presents work by internationally-established artists, curators, and scholars, to serve the intellectual and creative dialogue with students and the wider community, via topics of regional relevance and international significance. The main gallery space is a teaching museum, connecting the curriculum and the public. The Project Space, the Gallery’s auxiliary venue housed within The Arts Center, is an exhibition laboratory for community artists.
For more information about the events and to register for tickets, please visit this link.
Exhibition
Open until December 7
Location: The NYUAD Art Gallery
This exhibition takes viewers into the imagined worlds of four UAE-based artists. Through close study of their surroundings in the UAE, each of the artists here reflect on our shared futures: Areej Kaoud, Ayman Zedani, Jumairy, and Raja’a Khalid. Collectively, the artists in the exhibition explore the very concept of environment (natural, artificial, virtual). Each raises a question: how do organisms – whether human or other – create, survive, and inhabit our natural, artificial, and virtual worlds?
Exhibition
Open until November 23
Location: Project Space
This exhibition captures a moment in time — professional time, academic time — for 11 arts faculty at NYUAD. It offers a glimpse into concepts, methods, and styles NYU Abu Dhabi’s faculty artists continue to explore in larger scale projects, locally and internationally. The exhibition is curated by Associate Professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis and Program Head of the Film and New Media Department Awam Amkpa, with NYUAD Art Gallery Curatorial Fellow Tala Nassar.
(3) CinemaNA – Mafak (Screwdriver)
Screening
November 4
Location: Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi)
The drama film debut of Palestinian Director Bassam Jarbawi tackles the physical and emotional toll of one man’s return home after 15 years in an Israeli jail. The screening is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Program in collaboration with Paris – Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.
(4) DATA NOT FOUND – Kaki King
Multimedia Concert – Middle East premiere, co-commissioned by The Arts Center
November 13 – November 15
Location: The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
Guitarist, composer, and performance Artist Kaki King presents DATA NOT FOUND – an audiovisual journey that combines new music, spoken text, projection mapping, and other performative technology to explore a broad range of contemporary issues. The performance explores a broad range of contemporary issues, including “big data,” artificial intelligence, digital afterlife, and personal empowerment in the context of human history and our place in the natural world.
(5) Rooftop Rhythms
Spoken Word, Poetry, and Music
Monthly Fridays
Location: The Marketplace
The 8th Season of the Middle East’s longest-running open mic night presents leading and up-and-coming spoken word artists, poets, and musicians performing their originals. The event is co-presented by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi and Rooftop Rhythms with the official support of the US Embassy Abu Dhabi.
(6) CinemaNA – Of Fathers and Sons
Screening
November 25
Location: The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
The documentary film by Syrian Filmmaker, Talal Derki; Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival; Of Fathers and Sons is a work of unparalleled intimacy that captures the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born. As part of the CinemaNA series, the screening is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Program in collaboration with Paris – Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.
Performance
November 26
Location: The East Plaza
Presented under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development, Celebrate UAE National Day in the Year of Tolerance with a beautiful evening under the stars. The event will feature poets, spoken word artists, musicians, and storytellers celebrating the cultural diversity of the UAE.
