Celebrate stage and silver screen classics. Best known for her powerful vocals, Alana Barraj presents a reprise of some of her favorite moments with Abu Dhabi Choral Group (ADCG), original works, and folk & pop hits rounded off with some of her infamous banter.

Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding, in one month, he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father with delivering the wedding invitations to each guest, in hand, as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.

Saxophonist-clarinetist Emil Sein mixes music, dance, film, and interactive technology in this innovative contemporary concert, developed in collaboration with acclaimed performer/choreographer/installation artist Kiori Kawai.

Soprano Clare Lesser and pianist David Lesser are joined by guest cellist Laura Chapple for a trio recital featuring world and regional premieres of works by Previn, Rorem, Lesser, Tavener, and Wyttenbach.

Acclaimed oud player Sherine Tohamy presents her own compositions in addition to a collection of traditional Arab and international musical pieces with some of the finest musicians from Egypt and the Arab world.

A concert exploring different types of audiovisual relationships between live and pre-recorded music, and live and pre-recorded video.

An epic evening of the complete Bach concertos for two, three and four pianos performed by masters and prodigies from the esteemed Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Belgium. Part of The Abu Dhabi Festival Recital Series.

Classical bharatanatyam meets digital projection in Written in Water, which brings the Indian board game, Paramapadam (Snakes & Ladders), to vivid life. With a live score that interweaves maqam with Carnatic music, the choreography unfolds upon large-scale projections of original paintings by Chennai-based visual artist Keshav.

What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance?

Scientist-artist panelists discuss their hybrid fields of work.

Conversations between the human, animal, and technological worlds.

When doctors tell Jennifer Brea that her illness is “all in her head” she turn the camera on herself and seeks answers about the mysterious condition commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.