Gala For Life

Join the PCRF on the 5th of May at The Address Hotel Dubai Marina, 8pm, for a fundraising dinner celebrating the lives of the children that have been treated through the tremendous efforts of the PCRF, where all proceeds go towards building a much needed Pediatric Cancer Ward in Al Hussein Hospital Beit Jala, Palestine.

The night will include entertainment by the incredibly talented pianist Malika Omar, an inspirational photography exhibition and an auction with all sorts of goodies, such as air tickets, paintings, jewelry and lots more. Give a child hope, give wisely!

For more information, visit PCRF

Soo Yoo Lym

Can you believe this is a painting? So Yoon Lym‘s collection of paintings called The Dreamtime features the unique art of hair braiding. 


The Dreamtime is a reference to the pre-colonial Aboriginal Australian understanding of life and the particular viewpoints as understood by the dreamtime.  This could be regarded as a form of spirituality.  The dreamtime was an understanding of time and the creation of all things as told by myths about the continuum of past, present and future.  The aborigines believed in what the European coined, the dreamtime, which to the aborigines was an interconnected way of living on an earth that they believed was inhabited by the spirits of shared ancestors.

For more information, visit http://www.soyoonlym.com

Tweet Tweet

Twitter fans, you've gotta find a TweetingSeat for your next Tweet.  TweetingSeat was created by Product Designer Chris McNicholl and is an original interactive park bench. The concept aims at connecting the digital world with the physical seating-in-the-park experience. The bench logs its usage by uploading images of its users and environment to a live Twitter feed, allowing people to interact with it both in person and virtually.

Each time someone sits down, TweetingSeat uploads an image from two cameras to the Twitterfeed. One camera is located on the bench looking at the surrounding space, and another is located nearby looking at the people who use it.

For more information, visit http://www.notcot.org

It's all in your hands

Attention! Creative minds of the UAE. If you have busy hands, a robust visual vocabulary, a tendency to imagine yourself in a vivid parallel universe or just the hankering to make funny shapes in shadow before turning out the lights at night, then you've got to join Movement UAE - a rare hybrid of performance arts piecing together its visual department, and opening its doors to Video Jockeys, editors, artists, filmmakers, sculptors, photographers, lomographers, and creative ideators in the UAE. 

Not creative yet still want to lend a hand? Try Being Instrumental - with some out-of-the-box instruments being built for the choir, they're looking for everything from old unusable things like broken furniture, old toys, cycle wheels, static-y transistors, rat traps, old luggage, clocks, tumblers, empty paint cans...basically anything that makes interesting sounds, be it percussive or melodic that are collecting dust in your garage or on the top shelf of that cupboard. With a few nuts and bolts, your little contributions can help create substance out of scrap. So bring out those step ladders, rummage those closets and bring us the seemingly unusable. 

Join the Movement. April 13, 2011 - 19:30 to 21:30.

For more information, visit The Jam Jar Dubai

Taki Wall

Putting stickers on your home walls was a no-go when you were a kid, but today, you're all grown up and know how to dress up your walls using stylish stickers that would make your home look even more unique and trendy.

Taki Wall provides you with all kinds of wall decor stickers from calligraphy to animal designs, famous artists, abstract, kids decor and even add stickers to your swimming pool.  Better yet, you can also submit your own design for them to create a wall sticker for you. 

Get your walls talking. Start sticking.

For more information, visit Taki Wall

The Veeceepreneur

If you are an entrepreneur that is looking for venture capital funding in the MENA region, then you just might want to download a copy of "The Veeceepreneur"; actually, you definitely should!

Why? Because this definitive report is your cheat sheet- packed with notes and tips from the VCs themselves. It covers everything from stages of funding to the investment process, questions entrepreneurs need to examine, how to find firms that MENA VC's want to fund and much more.

Read it, learn it, and most importantly, use it. 

For more information, visit The Veeceepreneur

How, What, Where, Why?

Why?

Why is the sky blue? Do animals dream? Why are lemons sour? who made words? What is a caboose? 

Tired of your kids always asking why and not knowing all the answers? Try Whyzz - the definitive resource for parents and caregivers with curious young children. Satisfy your kid's (and your) thirst for knowledge with read-aloud answers on endless topics and foster their imagination while explaining the complex facts of the world.

For more information, visit http://www.whyzz.com

What?

Ever really wanted to know what your life consisted of on a daily basis?

Document a year of your life by taking a daily photo of the day to day things that make your life special and unique and create your 365 project. 

All you need is a camera, so start snapping.

For more information, visit http://365project.org

How?

What if you knew you could read all the articles you wanted to in as little time as you had? 

Topicmarks - a web service that creates smart, interactive synopses from electronic documents - lets you do just that! How does it work? By cutting up the full text into sentences, attaching meaning like synonyms and antonyms to each work in the sentence, and then identifying triplets that are basic facts expressed in the text. Genius!

Stop reading, start summarizing! 

For more information, visit http://topicmarks.com 

Where?

Are you a busy multi-tasking parent who would love to go to a 'one stop shop' for all mother and baby services available in Dubai?

Mumcierge - the recently launched Concierge Club for mums may well be the answer to your prayers. Providing you with solutions to your child-related requests, no matter how large or small, simple or complicated.    

For more information, visit http://www.mumcierge.ae