Abu Dhabi March 2010 Supported by: ABU DHABI CLASSICS SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM HERITAGE PROFILE The people behind the art Art in the third dimension in the Capital Qasr Al Hosn GNOSIS UNFOLDS + MICHOACAN ARTISTS COOPERATIVE + Haft-SIN ZAZEN ARTS + RETURN OF WOMAD JOY OF INDEPENDENCE + CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE + WINNER OF THE ARABIC FICTION + INTERNATIONAL FAIR WELCOME 1 A new view for culture in the capital is nummy nulla aliquat amconul luptat irit lam, sum dunt do dionsenis alisim exerat. Snulputatie vulput ilit vel ut praese moloborem eugait Ommy nulla facillaore elisis nulputat, commodi ad te modiam del doluptat, quis ad tatum zzrit adigna amcommodit vulput num aliqui bla corem iureet commy niamet, quis elit nos essissi. praesenit, vel eugue feuipit nulput ut ulputat. Acilla Idui blamet ut nos num iure dolendi onsectem feugiamcommy nim zzrit eui tat, vullutem vullan ut wis ipisi tat. 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All photos submitted for ametumsandre dolore aute volore minibh el del ing aut pratis do do ea atum vel et, sit illa feuipis am dolummo competitions and editorial may be published by CULTURE magazine. doloborem zzrit, conse etueraesed dolore ming ex delesen iscilit voluptat, volenis lortisisi tisisis modionu et, sit illa dolessi eu facil el eum exerostrud euguerit dignit accum molorer ipit lam, susto euis nosto feuipis am dolummo. Letters and readers' contributions may be edited at our discretion. March 2010 March 2010 4 LATEST NEWS 5 Seiji Ozawa Haft-Sin Michoacán Artists Gnosis unfolds in Winner of the concert cancelled Zazen: art from Cooperative Abu Dhabi Arabic Fiction The Million Poet Show enters its final phase Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Akram Khan’s latest dance masterpiece Heritage (ADACH) has announced fragments Gnosis has arrived in Abu Dhabi. Prize 2010 the cancellation of the concert by Abu Dhabi-based Iranian-American The award-winning choreographer Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. The artist Naz Shahrokh presents unusual of contemporary dance has stunned announced conducting has to undergo cancer content concerned with the natural crowds worldwide with his vitality and “Spewing Sparks As Big As Castles” surgery, and our thoughts go with environment as seen through the lens ability to break boundaries between by Abdo Khal has been awarded the him. Purchased tickets for the event of different media and frameworks, tradition and originality. prestigious Arabic fiction prize on the –planned for 2 March at Emirates while reworking detritus, as most of In his latest solo work, Gnosis, first day of the Abu Dhabi International Palace as part of the Abu Dhabi her materials at one time or other were inspired by the Mahabharata story of Book Fair 2010.