In this week’s episode of Culture Bites, Enas Refaei, Farah Andrews and Maan Jalal look ahead to the 12th Quoz Arts Fest, which starts this weekend.
The cultural festival celebrates a variety of art, music, food and more, all coming together at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai’s Al Quoz district. Running alongside the event will be Reel Palestine, a Palestinian film festival. Movies being shown include Passing Dreams, about a young boy on a mission to find his missing bird, and A State of Passion, which follows the experience of Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah in emergency rooms during the war in Gaza. The hosts also reflect on how the festival has flourished over the years.
In the US, comedian Dave Chappelle's Saturday Night Live monologue has been widely shared across social media. Speaking on Saturday, he made a plea to US President Donald Trump to have empathy for displaced people, whether they're in “in the Palisades or Palestine”. The hosts take this moment to contemplate the effect of Chappelle’s message, his past controversies and the evolution of SNL as an influential platform over the past 50 years.
The first Sotheby’s auction is coming to Saudi Arabia on February 8, when works by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol will be featured alongside local and regional artists. Farah, Enas and Maan discuss some of the items expected to fetch the highest sales such as Rene Magritte’s L'Etat de veille and Man on Horse, a bronze sculpture by Fernando Botero.
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