Events / Festivals
Friday 01 February
Imagine Science Film Festival
Shorts Film Program
Evolving Eyes and Revised Societies
7 Short Films
How we see the world shapes the world in turn.
Saturday 02 February
Imagine Science Film Festival
Shorts Film Program - Family Matinee
Conversations with Nature
7 Short Films
Sensations of plants! Oryxes going home! Unique human-animal bonds!
Imagine Science Film Festival
Feature Film and Awards Ceremony
The Experimental City
Preceded by the short film Seoul Machine City
The Minnesota Experimental City project was a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
Friday 08 February
UAE Debut
Autobiography - Company Wayne McGregor
Contemporary Dance + Live Electronic Music by JLin
A cycle of choreographic portraits based on McGregor’s genomic sequence, illuminated through dance + live electronic music by JLin
Thursday 14 February
UAE Debut
Mambo - Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Valentine’s Day dance
Relive the Palladium era of classic mambo with a Valentines dance starring four-time Grammy-award winner Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Wednesday 20 February
World Premiere commissioned by The Arts Center
Cuban-Khaleeji Project - Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra + guests
With guests Yazz Ahmed (Bahrain - UK) + Boom.Diwan (Kuwait) + Malika Zarra (Morocco - France) + Ali Obaid (UAE)
A musical exploration of the Arab, Moorish, and North African roots of Afro Latin and Afro Cuban music, and its links to the seafaring music of the Arabian Gulf.