Category: Events

When JACC first told me Herbie Hancock was coming to Kuwait, the name sounded familiar but it didn’t ring a bell until I was going through some of his songs and came across Cantaloupe Island and Rock It. That’s when I realized, I already knew his songs, I just never knew they were his!

Herbie Hancock is considered a jazz legend whos been making music since the early 60s. He’s won 14 Grammy Awards including album of the year as well as winning an Academy Award for original soundtrack. Next weekend, Herbie Hancock will be performing live over two nights, Friday October 5th and Saturday October 6th at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre. Tickets start at KD35 for the bronze and go up to KD75 for the VIP seats. Once again I’ve teamed up with JACC to giveaway 4 platinum seat tickets worth KD265 to two of my blog readers. So there will be two winners for this giveaway and each one will get two platinum tickets for the Saturday evening show!

To win tickets for this giveaway I’m trying something new this time. The previous method of leaving a comment was driving me insane because I’d get an email for every comment left here. So imagine getting over 400 emails in under a day, it made me hate holding giveaways. So for this one, I’m trying something new so check it out below.

[gleam url=”https://gleam.io/oZLw2/herbie-test”]Win Platinum Tickets to Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock![/gleam]

As usual, please make sure you use a working email since that’s how I will be contacting the winners. If a winner doesn’t respond within 24 hours, another winner will be randomly chosen. Good luck!

For more information on the concert, click [Here]

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, I just passed by the Outdoor Sports & Safari Expo and thought it was great. It was super packed but there was so much to see. If you’re into cars, RV’s, guns, camping, bikes, boats, fishing, and other manly things, you’re gonna love it. For more info, click [Here]

The Staged in Kuwait IMPROV comedy night is back again and will take place at the end of this month. They’re my favorite local comedy show and if you’ve never been to any of their shows you definitely should. I actually wasn’t going to post about the show until next week, but I just noticed most of the tickets are already sold. So if yo want to check them out, you should probably hurry up and get your tickets today. For more information, click [Here]

As you probably noticed I haven’t been posting the weekend events list for the past couple of months and thats because everything stops during the summer. But, now that the weather is starting to cool down, things are starting to happen again.

I just added a bunch of events to the event page and will keep adding more as I find out about them so check them out. [Link]

If you’re looking for something to do this Eid, iLuminate are going to be in Kuwait to perform at JACC from August 22nd to the 25th. Tickets are reasonably priced starting from KD15 a person so it should be pretty accessible to a lot of people.

For more info, click [Here]

Loads of things to do this weekend so check out the full list below. As usual, if I’ve forgotten to add anything, let me know in the comments.

Thursday
President’s Medals Awards Exhibition
Exhibition: Connections
Exhibition: Handala
Exhibition: The Forty Maqamat of Love
Exhibition: Hanadi Hammoud
Twilling Tweeds and Sadu Heritage: Textiles in Dialogue
Ramadan and Eid Exhibition
Concrete Jungle
Jazz at Home Cabaret Night

Friday
Concrete Jungle
Ramadan and Eid Exhibition
Exhibition: Hanadi Hammoud
Good Game: Magic – The Gathering
Extreme Challenge
Forward: Poetry Music Art Food

Saturday
Concrete Jungle
Ramadan and Eid Exhibition
Exhibition: Hanadi Hammoud
EAU Pop-Up
Chess, Backgammon and Scrabble
Ultimate Frisbee

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Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.

Below is this weekends list of events. As usual, if I’ve forgotten to add anything, let me know in the comments.

Thursday
Exhibition: Form – Perspectives in Kuwaiti Art
Exhibition: Connections
Exhibition: Handala
President’s Medals Awards Exhibition
Exhibition: The Forty Maqamat of Love
Twilling Tweeds and Sadu Heritage: Textiles in Dialogue
Burnout Hunger 2018
Al Hamra Orphan Kids Exhibition

Friday
Burnout Hunger 2018
Al Hamra Orphan Kids Exhibition
Music Gala
Coffee Night Out

Saturday
Burnout Hunger 2018
Al Hamra Orphan Kids Exhibition
Exhibition: Hanadi Hammoud
Mindfulness Session at the Park
Underground in Ramadan
Women’s Circle

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Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.

Below is this weekends list of events. As usual, if I’ve forgotten to add anything, let me know in the comments.

Thursday
Nothing to Write Home About
Music Festival 2018

Friday
Nothing to Write Home About
Kuwait Yoga Meet 2018
Friday Run
Practice Of Silence

Saturday
Nothing to Write Home About
Guided Tour: Grand Mosque
Kuwait Music Academy Annual Concert
Sunset Yoga with Honey

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For a full list of upcoming events click [Here]

Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.

Art exhibits in Kuwait are common, they usually take place at a gallery, the work goes up for some time and then it’s done. So when I found about the exhibit “Nothing to Write Home About” I was intrigued. Firstly they didn’t call it an exhibit, instead, they called it an intervention.

“Nothing to Write Home About” treats art as a consumerist activity. They intervened into the KIPCO mall space with a collection of works from a private collection that were previously stored in Kuwait. The works are visible from the storefront… but you can’t enter the store. This is to force you to think about other things related to the work, and not the work itself. There is a booklet for this intervention with notes, but even the notes aren’t about the works, but about the subjects the works bring up.

It’s a visually interesting display so if you’re interested in dropping by, check out the event page for more info [Here]

We do cooking classes and collaborations once in a while at PantryBee because well, they’re fun. It’s a nice way for us to learn from local chefs as well as being a great way to interact with our customers.

With Ramadan coming up we thought it would be fun to put together a Middle East inspired cooking class. So, we teamed up with Ayyame’s head Chef Ali Mahmoud Bitar at their newest AlShaheed Park II location to create a “Flavors of the Middle East” cooking class and dinner.

It’s a 2.5 hour event where you learn how to make green dough for their traditional fried bread, fattet badinjan, borek, lamb chops and more. Class ends with you enjoying your creations at a sit-down dinner accompanied by some of our favorite Ayyame sides and desserts.

If you’re interested in taking part, the event is this coming Tuesday at 6:30PM. For more details and to register, click [Here]

We’ve got limited seats for the event but for those that cant make it, here’s a fun little recipe to try out for yourselves at home that makes for a good appetizer all Ramadan long!

Fattet Hummus
2 chickpea cans- drained
3 Pita breads- cut into small rectangles
Olive oil
1/2 cup Pine nuts
1 cup yogurt
Fresh mint – small bunch
Pinch of Paprika
2 Garlic cloves – minced
3 Tbsp unsalted butter – melted
Pinch sumac

Heat oven to 400°. Toss pita rectangles with olive oil, salt and pepper to taste then lay on a baking sheet evenly and bake till golden around 10 mins. Toss with chickpeas and place in final serving dish. Heat 1 tsp olive oil in a pan on medium-high and brown pine nuts 3-4 mins. Stir yogurt, mint, paprika, garlic, salt, and pepper in a bowl; drizzle over pita mixture. Top with pine nuts and drizzle with butter and finish with sumac.

Post by Hind
CoFounder of PantryBee where home cooking is made easy.

Below is this weekends list of events. As usual, if I’ve forgotten to add anything, let me know in the comments.

Thursday
Russian Film Week in Kuwait
ABBA Sing-Along Concert
Raclette & 3 Short Films
Movie Night: The Ballad of Narayama
FUSE X MOO MILKBAR Pop-Up
Piano Recital: Maria Angela Capello

Friday
Russian Film Week in Kuwait
ABBA Sing-Along Concert
Q8 Run Club Scavenger Hunt

Saturday
Musical: On Broadway
Scottish Dance
The Liverary Sessions

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Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.

Lots of events taking place this weekend! Tonight is the last night of the Palestinian Cultural Exhibition and they’re having a bake sale. Friday you have the Kuwait Rising Music Festival which features Grammy award-winning artist Joss Stone among others. Finally, on Saturday you have a full day of activities taking place during Soul Fest. Check out the list below for all the events taking place this weekend:

Thursday
FUSE X COMMONS Pop-Up
Raclette & 3 Short Films
Cinemagics Rooftop Movie: Monsoon Wedding
48th Palestinian Cultural Exhibition

Friday
Kuwait Rising Music Festival

Saturday
Peak Vertical Marathon
Soul Fest
Yoga with Cats
Market Space
8th Annual CELL Conference
Perspectives in Kuwaiti Art
Cinemagics Rooftop Movie: Buena Vista Social Club

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For a full list of upcoming events click [Here]

Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.

I went to this exhibition last year and I’m heading there again this year. There will be handicraft, embroidery, artwork, books, jewelry, and food for sale. Here is a bit more information on the Palestinian Culture Center:

The Palestinian Culture Center aims to support needy families and preserve the rich and vibrant culture of Palestine. It does this by encouraging ladies to continue a beautiful handicraft, embroidery, which has been in Palestine for hundreds of years and ensuring that the tradition is carried on to the younger generation.

The Center has been in operation since the early 1970’s in Kuwait and then moved to Jordan after 1990. Today, the PCC, has over 450 women from the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan working on these beautiful pieces. For these women, the payment they receive is a great support for their families. The PCC also aims at supporting education and helps various schools and education programs in Palestine as well as needy families.

As a charity organization we use a simple rule in all our pricing. Thirty-three percent of the sale cost of an item is given to the woman that produces the work, thirty-three percent goes towards covering the cost of the item, and the remaining amount is distributed to schools, orphanages and needy families mostly in Palestine.

For more information on this event including location and timings, click [Here]

Lots of events taking place this weekend, most of which are live musical performances. Check out the full list below and if let me know if I missed anything:

Thursday
Exhibition: Abolish Article 153
Play: The Love for Three Oranges
Cinemagics Rooftop Movie: Lady Bird
Concert: TYGA
Live Music: Yousif Yaseen

Friday
Play: The Love for Three Oranges
The Games Crossfit Competition: Student Edition
Kanika Kapoor Live in Concert
Sal Houdini Concert
The Kuwait Jazz Collective

Saturday
Exhibition: Abolish Article 153
Play: The Love for Three Oranges
Cinemagics Rooftop Movie: Dancer in the Dark
Summer Jammin’
What Makes You Happy?

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Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.

A bunch of musical events taking place this weekend, check them out below. If I missed anything post it in the comments below:

Thursday
Live Music: Caracal Eyes
The Divan’s Movie Night: Human
Cinemagics Rooftop Movie: Lady Bird
Music: Yousif Yaseen
Theater: The Tempest
Concert: Autostrad

Friday
Rise Up: and Make a Difference
Reach The Beach

Saturday
Guided Tour: The Grand Mosque
Cinemagics Rooftop Movie: Your Name

Sunday
The Zaid Nasser Jazz Quartet

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For a full list of upcoming events click [Here]

Sometimes events get canceled or have details changed so always double check with the organizers.