أﻳــﺎم اﻟﺸﻨﺪﻏــﺔ AL SHINDAGHA DAYS CULTURE RELIVED إﺣـﻴــﺎء ﺛــﻘـﺎﻓﺘُ ـﻨـــﺎ 9 - 18 ﻳــــــــﻨــــــــﺎﻳـــــــــــﺮ 9TH - 18TH JANUARY 2020 ﺣــــــــﻲ اﻟﺸـــــــــﻨـــــــــــﺪﻏـــــــــــﺔ اﻟــــــــــﺘــــــــــﺎرﻳـــــــــﺨـــــــــﻲ AL SHINDAGHA HISTORICAL NEIGHBORHOOD 2 HOW TO REACH AL SHINDAGHA DAYS BY METRO HOP ABOARD AN ABRA Catch the train to Al Ghubaiba Metro Station 1. Traditional Abra: 1 AED/Trip #ALSHINDAGHADAYS will be on your right Dubai Old Souq to Al Sabkha (24 hours) Get down to Al Sabkha and enjoy another ride to Al Ghubaiba in Petrol Heritage Abra Petrol Heritage Abra: 2 AED/ Stop Al Subkha - Al Ghubaiba BY BUS 7a.m - 10p.m from SAT to THURS Catch the Bus to Al Ghubaiba Bus Station 10a.m - 12p.m FRI #ALSHINDAGHADAYS will be on your right First Departure From Al Ghubaiba: 4:58 am Deira Old Souq- Al Fahidi - Last Departure From Al Ghubaiba: 4:00 am Al Sabkha - Al Ghubaiba 7a.m - 10p.m from SAT to THURS 10a.m - 12p.m FRI 2. Dubai Ferry: 25 AED to 75 AED / Trip (Child. Under 5yrs for free) BY CAR Marina Mall- Al Gubaiba Drive towards Al Shindagha Historical 11am, 1pm, 6:30pm and trip lasts for 1hr 40 min. Neighborhood. and Park your car in the RTA designated parking in front of Al Dubai Water Canal Station- AL Ghubaiba Shindagha historical Neighborhood 11:50 am, 1:50 pm, 7:20 pm and trip lasts 50min. Fees apply from: 8:00 am - 10:00 pm from SAT to THURS Jumeirah Beach - Al Ghubaiba & Free on Fridays 3pm & 5pm and trip lasts for 1 hr. Get Down Al Ghubaiba Station and #Alshindaghadays will be on your right BOOK WITH CAREEM Download Careem and book to enjoy 20% off up to 6 rides per user. PLAN YOUR OWN JOURNEY Use Code ALSHINDAGHADAYS Valid from 9th – 18th January 2020 VIA S’HAIL BY RTA Download S’hail - your personal travel Valid for existing and new users companion, in App Store or Google Play Maximum discount 25 AED per ride Store. Register and plan your journey to Set pickup / drop-off to ‘AL Shindagha Historical Al Shindagha Historical Neighborhood Neighborhood’. Valid from NOW and LATER bookings from wherever you are! ABOUT AL SHINDAGHA DAYS Embark on a journey of reliving our culture through “Al Shindagha Days” by Dubai Culture, taking place during Dubai Shopping Festival on the banks of Dubai Creek. Experience Al Shindagha Museum area as it comes to life with the scent of the past and pulsates with the splendor of Emirati heritage from the 9th to 18th of January 2020. Enjoy the magic of Emirati heritage from the scent of its perfumes, to the local art shows, to passing through the original doors of the old Al Shindagha. Experience heartwarming stories with Emirati youth at the Majlis, where delightful Arabic coffee will be served. We have prepared many events for you that will revive the legacy and charm of the past within a modern interactive presentation. 6 ﻣﺘﺤﻒ اﻟﺸﻨﺪﻏﺔ Al Shindagha Museum EXPERIENCE DUBAI CREEK / BIRTH OF A CITY The iconic Dubai Creek area is the home to our museum, where visitors can experience the vibrant history of Dubai. It was developed as part of an initiative to transform the creek into a living breathing museum. Al Shindagha Museum tells the universal tale of human innovation, resilience, and the desire for progress, which shaped the Dubai we know today. We invite our visitors to explore our heritage submerging them into true Emirati culture and its origins. The museum also highlights Dubai’s shared heritage with the region and wider world. “We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.” His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Al Shindagha Museum Tour Tour includes: Dubai Creek Museum + Perfume House Meeting point: Dubai Creek Museum reception Tour timing: SAT-THUR: 10am, 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm / FRI: 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm (Duration 3 h.) Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm Friday from 2:30 pm to 9 pm 9 ﺑﻴﺖ اﻟﻌﻄﻮر Perfume House VISIT THE PERFUME HOUSE - DISCOVER THE STORY BEHIND EMIRATI FRAGRANCES & INDULGE IN THE ENTICING WORLD OF EMIRATI PERFUME MAKING The Perfume House is home to a multi- sensory perfume experience that showcases traditional handmade perfume making techniques to highlight local cultural heritage. It also includes a visual timeline of perfume throughout the region, represented by objects from ancient archaeological to modern contexts. Perfume Trail Tour includes The Spice Market + Perfume House Meeting point Perfume House reception Tour timing SAT-THUR: 3pm - 6pm / 4pm - 7pm FRI: 3pm - 6pm / 4pm - 7pm (Duration 3 h.) Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm Friday from 2:30 pm to 9 pm 10 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS CENTRE SARUQ AL HADID ARCHEOLOGY MUSEUM Houses were constructed in the early forties of the twentieth century, with a total area of Housed in a historic building in the Shindagha 2650 sq.ft. The first house consists of two Historical Neighborhood of Dubai, the floors with 4 rooms on the ground floor museum tells the story of one of the most and two verandas. The upper floor consists exciting and mysterious archaeological sites of 4 rooms and a Liwan. An open courtyard yet discovered in the Emirate. centers the houses and was considered the focal point as all the 6 rooms were The museum uses state of the art technology accessed through it. The ground floor of the to explore Saruq Al-Hadid – ‘The Iron Valley’ second house has 2 Liwans, one facing the – a remote desert site that was a center main entrance and the other located at the for metalworking some three thousand southwestern end. In 2015, Dubai Municipality years ago. restored the building and rehabilitated it to be used as Dubai Documents Center. The This is the first time the objects from Saruq lower floor rooms are used to display and Al-Hadid have been on public display in a store the documents, while the upper floor museum, offering a fascinating insight into rooms are used to accommodate the staff the skill and accomplishments of the people including both the researchers and the who worked at this Iron Age ‘factory’. administrative employees. Sunday to Wednesday from 8 am to 8pm Sunday to Thursday from 7:30 am to 4pm Saturday & Thursday from 8am to 2pm 13 Four UAE National Artists will be taking the exhibited doors as inspiration and will interpret them in various mediums: PANEL 1 / PANEL 3 / SAGGAF AL HASHEMI | Painting AHLAM AL BANNAI | 3D installation @saggaf_a @ahlamalbannai Saggaf’s inspiration behind this piece was I was attracted to the idea of doors and based on the idea of painting one of our privacy, as it is the separation between our ancestors who has teleported through the personal life and what we choose to share doors of Al Shindagha as an illustration of with the outside world for several reasons their dreams becoming true and being the such as customs and traditions, people’s reason for this dream to happen. judgment or envy. For me Al Shindagha doors represent “the According to the Writer Dr. Abd al-Sattar ﻣﻌﺮض اﻷﺑﻮاب gate” that brought our ancestor’s ambitions al-Azzawi, there are some motifs, such as Doors Exhibition and efforts to search and find what’s hidden branches and decorative leaves on the door and what they wanted to secure for the new frames, that symbolize the expulsion of envy generation for them to have a better life. and the evil eye, as are some aromatic plants AL SHINDAGHA These ambitions have been achieved and whose decorations we find on some doors. we as the new generation are living it today. The idea is to translate those inscriptions DOORS EXHIBITION and decorations that were carved on the So in my painting, I’m showing those doors to a photographic work that portrays - ENTER THE DOORS meanings through various elements: some of our ancestral beliefs. OF AL SHINDAGHA The diver as a symbol of ambition who is seeking for the unknown. The unknown he found and holds is the Astronaut suit which The exhibit showcases the traditional doors PANEL 4 / describes the deep thinking and the high used previously in the old buildings of Al JUMANA AL SHEIKH | 3D installation ambitions and the long term vision to secure Shindagha. The exhibition will take place at Back in the days, people in the UAE had a what was impossible but the way the diver the festival’s main entrance in Al Shindagha perspective towards doors in terms of them holds the suits tells us that they believed under the title of “Dubai’s Traditional being open to everyone. The community that they can achieve the impossible and Doors’ Exhibition”. felt welcomed to knock doors at anytime because of them the impossible became to ask for help or spend time together to possible. This journey is the story that was The exhibition is characterized by the socialize. This artwork expresses the teleported through the doors leading to traditional architecture of Dubai, which intimate meaning of openness that the old where we are today. retained its Islamic character and decorations doors used to hold. In addition, the various that shows the Emirati craftsmen’s talent sizes of the square shapes represent doors PANEL 2 / and creativity, through dealing with raw of different social classes in a neighborhood, FATIMA ALAWADHI | 3D Installation materials such as wood, where they were able, which mostly all had the same concept of @FatimaAlawadhi despite the harsh conditions surrounding welcoming people to enter them. them, to transform the wood panels into art The Wind Knocks - The artwork is made pieces.