The Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi's June Events Round Up - Community, Museums, Visual Arts, Performing Arts

 

A temporary exhibition at Al Ain Museum brings to life the history and social fabric of a once-thriving neighbourhood through oral histories, archival materials, and sensory experiences. 

 

Time: 9 :00 AM to 6:00 PM

Location: Al Ain Museum 

  

For more details, please visit: https://www.alainmuseum.ae/en/exhibitions-events

 

 

Guided tours at Louvre Abu Dhabi are available across a wide range of themes, including our Picasso, the Figure exhibition, a brand new sensorial architecture experience, and the immersive olfactory experience, Art in Scents.

 

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi

  

For more details, please visit: https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/whats-on/daily-guided-tours

 

 

Discover 'The UAE is Beautiful,' a new photography exhibition featuring lead artist Khalid Al Hammadi, the group exhibition brings together works by UAE-based photographers, inspired by the words of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan: 'The UAE is beautiful; the UAE is a role model.'

 

Time: Saturday - Thursday: 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM 

Friday: 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM 

Location: Cultural Foundation  

Entry: Free 

  

For more details, please visit: https://culturalfoundation.ae/en/event/the-uae-is-beautiful

 

 

Shezad Dawood: Skin of Dreams is the first mid-career retrospective of artist Shezad Dawood. The exhibition invites you into the richly textured universe Dawood has been shaping for over two decades. Anchored in research, his works draw on diverse references from history, literature, architecture, music, science and technology, allowing him to make fantastical connections and leaps we might otherwise miss.

 

Time: Saturday - Thursday: 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM 

Friday: 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM 

Location: Cultural Foundation  

Entry: Free 

  

For more details, please visit: https://culturalfoundation.ae/en/event/shezad-dawood-skin-of-dreams 

  

 

Experience life beyond the living — as a force that moves through materials, surfaces, and the spaces around us. In this exhibition, what often goes unnoticed begins to assert its presence, as time settles into things and meaning forms through transformation.

  

Time: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Location: Al Qattara Arts Centre

  

For more details, please visit: https://abudhabiculture.ae/en/events/the-ever-living 

 

 

Group Chat brings together eighteen artists whose murals stand side by side within a shared flow. Meaning emerges not from a single voice, but from proximity, through echo, pause, and return. What binds these works is not resemblance, but the resonance created by their adjacency, where difference gathers into a living conversation.

  

Time: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Location: Al Qattara Arts Centre

  

For more details, please visit: https://abudhabiculture.ae/en/events/al-qattara-murals 

 

 

 

The evening celebrates the legacy of Maya Plisetskaya, one of the most influential ballerinas of the 20th century, whose remarkable six-decade career left a lasting impact on ballet and world culture.

 

Time: 8:00PM

Location: Cultural Foundation

Entry: Starting from 250 AED

 

For more details, please visit: https://culturalfoundation.ae/en/event/anniversary-of-maya-plisetskaya

 

 

Jalsa with Abdulrahman Aljunaid brings together sound, memory, and storytelling in an evening shaped by Emirati music.

 

Time: 8:00PM

Location: Cultural Foundation

Entry: Starting from 100 AED

 

For more details, please visit: https://culturalfoundation.ae/en/event/abdulrahman-aljunaidin-jalsat-nights

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Al-Qomra Photography Meet Ups is a bi-weekly program at Manarat Al Saadiyat Photography Studio designed for photographers of all levels to connect, learn, and share their passion. Featuring meet-up sessions, workshops, and photo walks, the program fosters a supportive local photography community by encouraging discussions and skill sharing among enthusiasts and professionals alike. Sessions offer a platform for growth and networking within Abu Dhabi's photography scene. 

  

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM 

Location: Manarat Al Saadiyat 

  

For more details, please visit: https://manaratalsaadiyat.ae/en/photographycentre/alqomraphotographymeetups/ 

 

 

 

This production presents some of the most famous excerpts from The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty set to the magnificent music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Young viewers will be immersed in a magical story and introduced to all the beloved characters of these fairy tales in the format of classical ballet.

Time: 6:00PM

Location: Cultural Foundation

Entry: Starting from 275 AED

 

For more details, please visit: https://culturalfoundation.ae/en/event/the-magic-of-ballet-fairy-tales

 

Experience the richness of contemporary Italian cinema with Italian Film Week at Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Abu Dhabi.

 

Time: 7:00PM

Location: Cultural Foundation

Entry: Starting from 25 AED