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Sikka Art and Design Festival (beforehand known as Sikka Art Festival) is now in full swing. It is again for its tenth version working till March 24 at Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood. It might be open every day from 6pm to 11pm on weekdays, 2pm to 12am on Saturday and 2pm to 11pm on Sunday.

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Arts, a number of artwork…

Essentially, throughout the pageant, Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood turns into an open-air artwork museum. Throw on these strolling footwear and discover the alleyways of Al Fahidi and immerse your self in artwork by native and regional artists and extra. There are work, graffiti, sculptures and outside artwork installations.

The leisure

In Courtyard B, you’ll discover leisure spanning Arabic indie-pop to jazz. Sit on the tables together with your family members and a chunk to eat (see under), sit again and calm down. There are additionally poetry recitals.

You also can see a film beneath the celebs

In want of a break from all that strolling? See an arthouse movie beneath the celebs in Courtyard A. The screenings span a variety of languages from Arabic, French, German and extra. A couple of of them will embody English subtitles and a few are silent shorts.

The meals

An array of culinary delights await at Sikka Art and Design Festival. Refuel on scorching grills, candy treats, espresso, and extra. You may even go to XVA Gallery’s cafe for vegetarian meals. For a fast refreshment, there’s genuine Taiwanese fruit tea from Yi Fang or cool off with ice cream from House of Pop.

The workshops

If you’re feeling artistic after strolling by the alleyways of Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, have a go at one of many workshops. There are over 60 workshops together with pottery, cleaning soap making, sketching workshops, cooking lessons and way more to select from.

Tip: Visit simply earlier than sunset should you don’t have lots of time to spend to get the very best of the pageant within the gentle and throughout the evening.

You can discover a record of what’s happening every day right here. 

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Art with that means… 

Kite Beach has simply loved a splash of color due to a brand new mural that was revealed at present on March 18.

The mural is a particular collaboration between two well-known Dubai avenue artists, Abdulla Lutfi and Maddy Butcher, in partnership with Converse. It joins a worldwide marketing campaign embraced by over 30 international locations and titled the Converse Create Next challenge, which was first launched in August 2019.

Now, this marketing campaign isn’t nearly creating fairly murals – it serves as a platform that Converse makes use of to have fun inclusivity, whereas highlighting the significance of native creatives.

The first layer of this particular artwork piece is the creation of Abdulla, or AL as he’s extra generally identified. An artist of willpower from the Emirates, AL designed the monochromatic cityscape utilizing his trademark marker pens, illustrating the long-lasting UAE buildings completely from reminiscence.

It was then expanded on by Dubai-based avenue artist Maddy Butcher who collaborated with AL to remodel his unique piece for the Converse Create Next challenge. Maddy added in color to champion the range of Dubai, and the UAE as an entire, by depicting completely different nationalities and ethnicities.

‘A lot of my paintings feature what I call ‘fluid positivity’, which inserts the theme of Converse Create Next challenge. With vivid patterns and daring strains, the items don’t fade into the background,’ explains Maddy. ‘I think that vibrancy is a good reflection of the city and the amazing creative talent we have. As we collaborate more and reach across cultural divides, we can unlock even more creativity across Dubai,’ she added.

The mural will stay on Kite Beach for the following three months, and is positioned close to the principle cluster of meals vehicles.

For extra data, take a look at @converseuae.

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Good cowl artwork makes all of the distinction

Several weeks in the past, a revised model of the ‘Add to playlist’ display screen started rolling out to some YouTube Music customers. Not solely was it extra enticing, however the look is extra per the remainder of the app — and in addition the principle YouTube app. Some buggy habits appears to have slowed the rollout, however issues seem like again on monitor as many individuals are reporting that it is hitting their units.

The revised add to playlist display screen is unquestionably an enchancment, however it pales compared to one other change that appears to have emerged across the identical time. Auto-generated playlists, usually referred to as “Mixes,” are getting a desperately wanted replace to their cowl artwork.

The new look within the ‘Mixed for you’ part is available in quite a lot of templates, every with the identify of the combination and an association of album covers set on prime of various background colours. The customary mixes function a single album cowl stretched back and forth, however extra ornate variations embrace three covers barely offset from one another or lined up in a row.

Old artwork for YouTube Music Mixes

The previous cowl artwork was styled with a gradient minimize right into a circle, probably modeled to resemble a vinyl file. While every had totally different colour variations, they regarded very misplaced on the identical display screen with detailed album artwork.

The new styling matches in a lot better with common albums and provides some much-needed selection to the look. The templates additionally carry over into the playlist screens, although generally the robotically chosen cowl artwork modifications from one display screen to the subsequent — one other bug?

Despite the rocky begin, studies on reddit would appear to recommend YouTube Music has resumed it is rollout because it reaches new folks. However, there are nonetheless some folks at AP which are nonetheless dwelling on the previous look and add to playlist display screen. This will not be unusual for staged rollouts, however now that it appears the breaking bugs might have been labored out, it most likely will not be lengthy earlier than this model is offered en masse.

Thanks, Mathus E.

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