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Arts Centre at NYU Abu Dhabi announces diverse lineup including music, photography, theatre for its 11th season
26 June 2025 22:43
ABU DHABI (ALETIHAD)The Arts Centre at NYU Abu Dhabi has announced an intriguing lineup for its 11th season. If you're fan of music, photography, and theatre, you won't want to miss out. Tickets are now available for the following performances:
Faraj Suleiman On August 29, Faraj Suleiman plays his long-awaited debut UAE show at The Red Theater, NYU Abu Dhabi. The acclaimed Palestinian singer, pianist and composer will take the stage with a full band, delivering an engaging performance that moves between intricate, playful rhythms and deeply introspective moments. His music blends jazz, rock, classical and Arabic influences into a sound that is unmistakably his own. For this concert, he'll be performing selections from his albums, including his breakthrough album 'Better than Berlin,' and his latest release, 'Maryam.'
Benji Reid On September 19-20 at The Red Theater, photography, choreography, and theatre meet to create striking and surreal images in 'Find your Eyes' by British artist Benji with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Find Your Eyes explores how we make sense of the world through our stories and our art. Drawing from the well of his life experiences, pioneer of hip-hop theatre turned award-winning photographer Reid mixes Afro-futurist imagery with hard-hitting tales from his life and adventures in an unexpected show.
Rwanda – Sri Lanka Collaboration On September 26-27 at The Black Box, NYU Abu Dhabi, 'Dear Children, Sincerely...' explores the tragic post-colonial histories of Rwanda and Sri Lanka in a theatrical production performed by an eclectic ensemble from the Stages Theatre Group and Mashirika Performing Arts and Media by the Harshana Rambukwella, The Core Curriculum, and NYUAD LitCW Programme, 'Dear Children, Sincerely...' takes audiences back into colonial and post-colonial Rwanda and Sri Lanka, in a kaleidoscopic journey tracing the parallel histories of these two countries, set continents by acclaimed playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera, this production opened the very first Ubumuntu Arts Festival, created by Hope Azeda in Rwanda in 2015.
Artists of both countries interviewed senior citizens born in the 1930s, who had experienced colonialism and transcended it. They then turned these interviews into stories.
