DUBAI: Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, launched the grand opening of the Dubai Art Expo, a new event organised as part of the UAE’s Golden Jubilee celebrations, which will bring together more than 500 artists and performers from more than 170 countries to present their works in Dubai. The […]
DUBAI: Otherworldly glowing creature installations, the Luminéoles, have flown into Expo 2020 Dubai, as part of popular outdoor nighttime light festival Kaleidoscope. Magnificent seven-metre creatures, which perform lively dances to music, are bringing the Expo 2020 Dubai site to life and providing visitors with a magical immersive experience, as they travel between the concourse at […]
DUBAI: More than 5.8 million people – including farmers, traders, students, teachers, doctors, patients, and people of determination – have benefitted from the work of 140 social entrepreneurs supported under Expo 2020 Dubai’s global innovation and partnership programme Expo Live. The Expo Live grantees – named ‘Global Innovators’ – have committed themselves to making their […]
DUBAI: It took 16-year-old Fazil Ummer just three days to visit 192 country pavilions at Expo 2020. The Saudi Arabian-born teenager, who is of Indian descent, has visited Dubai with his family but came to Expo on his own. It is believed he is the first Indian person to have collected stamps on his special passport from all […]
DUBAI: Global Village, the UAE and wider region’s leading multicultural family destination for culture, shopping, attractions, and entertainment, begins its month-long UAE National Day celebrations on the 50th Flag Day of our Nation. Partnering with Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), Global Village launches the 50 Years of Togetherness photography contest. The […]
DUBAI: Twelve drones will fly autonomously to a pre-set choreography, sometimes taking human form, in a duet between human consciousness and technology in ‘Airman,’ a show by the Netherlands-based dance troupe, Another Kind of Blue. The troupe won worldwide admiration, with spots in the finals of both America and Britain’s Got Talent and now, they will […]
DUBAI: The pride of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan shone down on Expo 2020 visitors as the Zaraha Zayed (Arabic for ‘Zayed visited’) show saw beautiful images and video footage of the UAE’s Founding Father adorn the dome of Al Wasl Plaza, the beating heart of the Expo 2020 site, on the 17th anniversary of […]
DUBAI: With a vision of making Dubai the best city in the world to live in, its urban planning and transport authorities have a new focus: providing more green spaces, increasing the number of cycle routes, and expanding the road and public transportation network. Speaking about the future of transport during a Cities on the Move session, a […]
DUBAI: Having sustained indigenous communities for centuries, ancestral teachings and practices have a unique role in preserving Mother Earth today, believes Grandmother Mona Polacca, a senior tribal leader and a founding member of a worldwide coalition of indigenous women. “The council is deeply concerned about the destruction of Mother Earth,” Polacca, who is Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa elder and Chair […]
DUBAI: The AC Milan football team is hosting a ‘From Milan to Many: Watch Party’ at the Expo 2020 Dubai for its Champions League game tomorrow against FC Porto. To help generate excitement and support for the Rossoneri – so-called because of their iconic red-and-black shirts – and with help from the Principal Partner Emirates, former […]
DUBAI: Launching on World Cities Day, Expo’s Urban and Rural Development Week will explore how we must transform the way we move, build, consume and live in the habitats of the future. Expo 2020 Dubai was built with a new city in mind – and District 2020, which will retain and repurpose 80 percent of […]
