YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to grab your chance and send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Shawwal 9, 1440 AH Doha today: 330 - 470 The last stand Avicii’s final songs emerge on Tim, with help from many friends. P4-5 COVER STORY INTERVIEW BACK PAGE Meera unplugged. Urdu lovers get taste of fresh poetry on Eid. Pages 8-9 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 12, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.12am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.44am Zuhr (noon) 11.35am Asr (afternoon) 2.58pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.26pm Isha (night) 7.56pm USEFUL NUMBERS Virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fi ght put on by several DIRECTION: Ashiq Abu individuals which helped to contain the epidemic. CAST: Revathy, Kunchacko Boban, Parvathy SYNOPSIS: A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 Bharat that he will keep his family together no matter what, a promise DIRECTION: Ali Abbas Zafar that he works to keep over the next 60 years of his life. CAST: Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan SYNOPSIS: An 8-year-old boy makes a vow to his father THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “Walking The Mall Cinema (1): The Secret Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): with a friend in the dark Life of Pets 2 (2D) 2:15pm; Bharat Bharat (Hindi) 2:30pm; Godzilla is better than walking alone in (Hindi) 4pm; Aladdin (2D) 7pm; II: King of the Monsters (2D) Godzilla II: King of the Monsters 5:30pm; Bharat (Hindi) 8pm; Life of Pets 2 (2D) 5:15pm; the light.” (2D) 9:15pm; Virus (Malayalam) Bharat (Hindi) 11pm. Aladdin (2D) 7pm; Godzilla 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): — Helen Keller II: King of the Monsters (2D) The Mall Cinema (2): Aladdin Virus (Malayalam) 2:15pm; The 9:15pm; Virus (Malayalam) (2D) 2pm; Virus (Malayalam) Secret Life of Pets 2 (2D) 5:15pm; 11:30pm. 4:15pm; X-Men: Dark Phoenix X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) 7pm; Landmark Cinema (2): Bharat (2D) 7pm; Bharat (Hindi) 9pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (Hindi) 3pm; X-Men: Dark Kolaigaran (Tamil) 11:45pm. (2D) 9pm; Virus (Malayalam) Phoenix (2D) 6:15pm; Bharat The Mall Cinema (3): Bharat 11:30pm. (Hindi) 8:15pm; Bharat (Hindi) (Hindi) 2pm; Aladdin (2D) 5pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Community Editor 11:15pm. John Wick 3: Parabellum (2D) Aladdin (2D) 2:30pm; Aladdin Landmark Cinema (3): Aladdin Kamran Rehmat 7:15pm; Casablanca (Arabic) (2D) 5pm; Casablanca (Arabic) (2D) 2:30pm; Aladdin (2D) 5pm; e-mail: [email protected] 9:30pm; Bharat (Hindi) 11:30pm. 7:15pm; John Wick 3: Parabellum Casablanca (Arabic) 7:15pm; John Telephone: 44466405 Landmark Cinema (1): Virus (2D) 9:15pm; K Wick 3: Parabellum (2D) 9:15pm; olaigaran (Tamil) Fax: 44350474 (Malayalam) 2:15pm; The Secret Kolaigaran (Tamil) 11:30pm. 11:30pm. Wednesday, June 12, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Indian Sports Centre under the patronage Career Guidance of Embassy of India is organising Third WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al edition of ISC Skipping Rope Open Sadd Championship - 2019 for Speed Hop and WHEN: Sunday – Thursday Speed Endurance competitions. Categories, TIME: 6pm – 8pm include Under–12 (Boys and Girls), Under–18 Career guidance for course, country, (Boys and Girls) and Adults (Men and college and entrance for students of Grade Women) - Above 18 years. Entry is free. IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Championship is open to all Indians and administered for stream preference, career students of any nationality studying in Indian test, branch preference, personality, Schools. For further details, yoga.iscdoha@ multiple intelligence and learning styles gmail.com or 55824194/55956008. and productivity. For more information, 55448835. Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier After School Activities WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Atelier TIME: 4pm – 8pm WHEN: Ongoing For more info e-mail at registration@ Music and arts activities for students atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. taking place after they fi nish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a holistic performing arts institution and a one stop solution for adults as well as children looking to explore their talents in various EVENTS art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, MF Husain: The Horses Of The Sun Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, Creative Writing Workshop Exhibition music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and WHERE: Café #999, Fire Station Gallery, WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, Wadi Al Sail, Doha Art Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, WHEN: June 20 WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 harmonium, public speaking. TIME: 6pm – 9pm TIME: 9am – 7pm Additional services include dance Sanation Education, in collaboration with The exhibition presents Hussain’s pluralist education, choreograph music videos and Samana Art Movement, brings to you, an approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of Summer Camp for Special Needs dance cover albums, choreograph dance evening of creative writing. Discover your being, articulated through the myths, symbols WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special musical projects, corporate workshops and inner writer or performer as you learn to and narratives of the world’s religions and Needs events, choreograph events for schools, write poetry for the page and for the stage. philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun WHEN: June 30 – August 1 colleges, alumni meets and corporate Explore writing in new styles, writing in bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm and choreography events. For details, call collaboration, and turning some of your personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. During this time, all therapists and 33897609. written work into performance. Find your teachers will be working together, running writing style, whether it is poetry, prose, individual, peer and group sessions within Arabic Calligraphy Workshop performance, or a combination of them! With classes. The children will continue learning WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday Gulf Time’s own weekly columnist, get one- age-appropriate concepts, work on social TIME: 6pm on-one time to display your material and gain skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. feedback from an expert. You can also bring music, and fun activities such as water play. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic any existing material you have and would like handwriting and calligraphy at Music and to work on. Fee is QR200 (includes one drink) Arts Atelier. and payable at venue. For further details, The lessons will take place every Saturday, 55164920. Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact registration@ A Choral Kaleidoscope Concert atelierqatar.com WHERE: Swiss International School WHEN: Tomorrow TIME: 7pm onwards Featuring Qatar Youth Choir and Qatar Junior Choir – their last concert of the season. Qatar Youth Choir has recently returned from workshops and concerts with the Vienna Boys Choir in Austria. Qatar India to Qatar – Symbiosis of Junior Choir will perform their concert Cultures programme in September. Tickets are WHERE: FBQ Museum available from choir members or on the door WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 for QR60. Under the context of cultural exchange, FBQ Museum brings together the treasures of the museum owned collection in order to promote mutual understanding, recognition and appreciation between Qatar and India. Composed of five main topics, including community, trade, arts, food and incense, the exhibition takes one on a journey to explore the rich and Dance and Instrument Classes diverse Indian cultures, the long historic WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times links between Qatar and India, and cultural Building similarities between Qatar and India. Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHEN: Wednesday – Monday WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb Learn the movements of dance styles in ISC Skipping Rope Open WHEN: Ongoing Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Championship TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard WHERE: Ashoka Hall, ICC The olympic sport using horizontal bar, for adults as well kids and move in the world WHEN: June 15 rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the of music. For details, contact 66523871/ TIME: 11.00am—1:30pm children from age 4 till 16. 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 12, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Remembering Tim A posthumous album from Bergling, released this week, captures some of the last ideas from a young superstar producer, expanding on his gifts for melody and genre twists, writes August Brown t the top of the Bird of Avicii’s pulled up: Al Fakir’s There’s so much Streets in West production partner Vincent Pontare; Hollywood, in front of singers Aloe Blacc and Joe Janiak; blank space that’s a Modernist mansion Neil Jacobson, the president of with gobsmacking views Geff en Records, Avicii’s label.