Celebrating art and culture: Dubai’s Quoz Arts Fest

The Quoz Arts Fest just lately returned to Dubai for its ninth version. The free competition at Alserkal Avenue is a mixture of dwell music performances, exhibitions, meals vans, interactive artwork and wellness practises.

The action-packed schedule kicked off with yoga within the yard, the place yogis had been in a position to get pleasure from their morning observe within the open air.

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This is a chance for them and us to share this ardour with others and create a stronger and greater neighborhood.

Simona Stanton, founder & Proprietor of Shimis Yoga Studio stated Alserkal is all about completely different ideas of companies and the passions of the founders

“That is what we love about Quoz Arts Fest, as a result of it brings collectively so many individuals that may not have heard about yoga simply but. And this is a chance for them and us to share this ardour with others and create a stronger and greater neighborhood,” she instructed Euronews.

‘Waking Desires’

This years’ version was held underneath the theme ‘Waking Desires’. The organisers invited guests to sleepwalk via daytime dreamscapes, turning the inventive hub into an area suspended in time. One of many standout sights was Gaia, a touring paintings by UK artist Luke Jerram. Measuring seven metres in diameter it options detailed NASA imagery of the Earth's floor, performing as a mirror to main occasions in society.

The inventive neighborhood inside Alserkal Avenue and Al Quoz, together with Courtyard, Occasions Sq., The Smash Room and Akka Challenge got here collectively for the weekend competition. It's a celebration of arts and tradition from the area.

There was additionally a variety of native unbiased companies from meals vans, to garments and jewelry distributors. Alongside non permanent stalls, most of the everlasting residents of Alserkal provided one thing completely different for the occasion.

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…issues like this carry individuals collectively…

At inventive house and low store Kave, they held a ‘market of misfits’ showcasing a spread of sustainable and inventive objects.

Zaina Kanaan, the Co-Founder at Kave, stated the extra visitors from the occasion had been nice as a result of it had enabled individuals to come back in and be curious and see what they do.

“For us, it is all about spreading the phrase about what we do and having extra individuals type of be a part of locally. So issues like this carry individuals collectively, and it type of permits us as a platform to carry forth what we do and to current it to the world in a extra sustainable format.”

Film marathon

One other full-time tenant of Alserkal is Cinema Akil, an art-house cinema screening unbiased movies. They held an intensive programme of occasions together with a film marathon in the course of the competition.

The advertising and Enterprise Growth Supervisor at Cinema Akil, Khalid Al-Sabi stated it’s a singular place like no different within the UAE.

“It was the primary arthouse cinema within the area, and we carry movies that aren't normally filmed in or screened in multiplex cinemas. So it is a platform to actually help and push filmmakers and administrators upcoming ones from across the globe or regionally, or regionally. And we, , we're proud to be a house for these actions.”

With over 45,000 individuals in attendance, this was the biggest competition up to now.