Twinge Sharjah - The Sharjah Urban Arts Festival

Twinge Sharjah

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Sharjah's Urban Festival of the Arts

Saturday, 25 February until Friday, 2 March, 2011

Maraya Art Centre (1st Floor) Al Qasba Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Doors open: 6pm Show starts: 8pm

25 February - Literature Night: 

Alexander McNabb – Author of Olives

Abdulla Kassim

 Noura Noman

26 February - Fashion Night:

Eclat

Laila Akeel

27 February - Film Night:

Beno Saradzic

Shahid Azam

Faisal Hashmi

Ashraf Ghori

Haneen Kanaan

Omar Tanira

Neel Kumar

28 February - Comedy Night

Presented by Dubomedy 

Mai, Jamal (will include Urdu), Esmail, Omar S, Andre hosts and Omar Ismail will be the featured Emirati pro-comic closing the show. 3 Arabs, 1 indian, 1 American and an Iranian who speaks Arabic and Urdu

29 February 

Exclusive Publisher Night: With Jamal Al Shehhi and Kuttab Publishing, a book launch

1 March - Music Night: 

Abbo

Desert Heat

Tiny Hassan

Feras

Heba Rashid

Generation Band

4 Brownies

2 March - Poetry Night: 

Farah Chamma

Muneer Jaihoon

Haneen Assaf

Abdulla Kassim

Shamma Kabital

Mohammad

Azimuddin

 Asmaa

Afra Atiq

Display Artists: 

Catalin Marin - Photography

Noha Mourad - Painting

Deema Hatahet – Digital Art

Wafaa Amer - Painting

Salam – Jewellery

Sumaya Ibrahim – Photography

Traditional Handicraft from the UAE

Saadiyat in a limbo

'More than 130 artists have said they will boycott the Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi over what they say is exploitation of foreign workers, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.'

(click on image for full article)

This pertains to Saadiyat Island and their spin-off projects of borrowed culture & art.

I wonder if this boycott threat would make any difference?

Would it prompt the concerned bigwigs to speed-up corrective measures enabling this artificial island to be up & running at the earliest?