Design Middle East November 2021
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The 7th edition of Dubai Design Week will take place in November 2021
Celebrating the region’s creative talent, Dubai Design Week returns to Dubai Design District (d3), from November 8-13, 2021, with a diverse programme of outdoor installations, exhibitions and pop-ups, engaging activities and experiences, with a focus on sustainability through regenerative and circular design.
Top-tier industry guests, including architects, interior designers, specifiers, hoteliers, and developers, as well as public visitors from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and beyond, flock to Downtown Design, a main commercial feature of Dubai Design Week.
New to 2021, will be dedicated sections across the key industry sectors, each with tailor-made promotional campaigns to enhance the market profile of the participating brands. Alongside an extensive collateral programme that will include conceptual showcases by regional architects and interior designers, Downtown Design’s talks programme and onsite networking events, Connect Programme, the fair’s B2B platform will offer brands direct access to key design professionals with relevant project pipelines.
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Abu Dhabi Art Fair to take place in November 2021
Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Office, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced that this year’s edition of Abu Dhabi Art will return to Manarat Al Saadiyat in a physical format and run from November 18-21, 2021, with an opening reception on 17 November. The 2021 edition will also capitalise on the success of last year’s virtual innovations by continuing to have a strong digital presence through a number of online initiatives.
HE Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi, said: “Abu Dhabi Art is a platform for cultural connectivity, bringing together artists, galleries, institutions and arts professionals and fostering creativity by connecting them. Whilst the last year has brought up many challenges and issues for the art world, it has also brought forth opportunities to innovate. This pandemic has shown us that our way forward is through collaboration, adaptation and innovation. For any society to blossom, culture must be part of its DNA, and must be integral to its aspirations for progression and development. Abu Dhabi Art has adapted swiftly to the challenges that have faced the art ecosystem during the pandemic and will contribute to cultural growth and to the art market in the UAE with renewed vigour this year. We look forward to welcoming visitors and the community back to the fair this November.”
HE Saood Abdulaziz Al Hosani, Undersecretary of DCT Abu Dhabi, said, “Abu Dhabi is one of the safest places in the world to visit in 2021, and we are excited to announce that we will be welcoming visitors to our programme at Manarat Al Saadiyat at the end of the year, and we will be adhering to all necessary health and safety regulations. Abu Dhabi Art is now an important date on the global cultural calendar, and a key initiative that reflects Abu Dhabi as a culturally active and artistically conscious city.”
This year Abu Dhabi Art will be also showcasing several new commissioned installations at locations across the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The art-driven experiences will stretch from Liwa and Al Ain to the city centre of Abu Dhabi and is in part a natural extension of the fair’s Beyond: Artist Commissions programme, which launched in 2017 and brings site-specific works to world heritage sites in Al Ain each year. Abu Dhabi Art has been working closely with commissioned artists on their new works, as well as with DCT Abu Dhabi, to create eco-driven experiences in these unique locations.
Each year, the fair collaborates with artists to create its visual campaign and this year it will feature works by Emirati artists Ayesha Hadhir, Rawdha Khalifa Al Ketbi and Shaikha Fahad Al Ketbi, which were first created as part of Beyond: Emerging Artists in 2019. In these works they jointly explore the idea of transformation in different environments, from seascapes and the desert, to abandoned cityscapes.
Strict precautionary and hygiene measures will be enforced at Abu Dhabi Art 2021 to ensure the safety and well-being of all participants and visitors. Details of these measures will be announced in due course.
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Design Middle East November 2020
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US pavilion construction at Expo 2020 to complete in November
The construction of the US pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai will be completed in November, John Rakolta, the US Ambassador to the UAE.
“The construction of the pavilion is progressing according to our schedule. We look forward to substantial buildings’ completion sometime around 15th November,” he said during a virtual media roundtable with a select group of journalists.
The UAE has contributed US$60 million towards the construction of the US Pavilion and the remaining amount will be raised by various US organisations, Rakolta said without revealing the total cost.
“It [the expo participation] is one of the [US] embassy’s top priorities. We look forward to the very best of American participation. It gives us an opportunity to celebrate the UAE’s golden jubilee and many achievements of this nation,” Rakolta explained.
The ambassador who just returned from Washington after witnessing the signing of historic Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, said the Israeli participation in Expo 2020 Dubai will show “the inclusiveness of not only the Emirates but of the entire region as well, and how we are moving to a much more inclusive society here.”
It will bring all kinds of additional benefits, “the biggest ones, of course, in trade and investments, tourism, job opportunities, and peace,” the envoy added.
The US pavilion themed ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of the future’ will showcase a cultural programme, for which recruitment of artists and performers from across the United States has already been started, he revealed.
They will represent their territories and regions as America’s Cultural Ambassadors at the Expo, Rakolta said, adding that the cultural programmes will display “the geographic and cultural richness of the United States and its territories.”