September is here, and Dubai is slowly waking up again. This week, there is a new place to train (and recover afterwards), an exhibition you can see without leaving your sofa, some very good vintage furniture, Scorsese on the big screen, a reason to drive to Abu Dhabi, and a Sunday spent with your hands in clay. Here is what we are doing this week.

Where? ARKHE, Silverene Tower, Dubai Marina

If September has suddenly made you want to become the kind of person who trains at 6:30 in the morning, well, ARKHE is giving you the opportunity.

The new performance and wellness club officially opens its doors on Tuesday after a soft launch over the summer. For opening day, it is running two complimentary HYROX sessions: Sunrise at 6:30 am and Sunset at 6:30 pm.

And if HYROX sounds a little too ambitious for the first day of September, you can simply come by for a tour or a trial session. The club combines a performance gym and Reformer Pilates with a rather serious recovery setup — cold plunge, saunas, compression boots, red-light therapy and more.

Where? Online, via The Third Line

A gallery visit that requires absolutely no commute.

Manifold Gestures, The Third Line’s online group exhibition, looks at something artists have been depicting for thousands of years: hands. From prehistoric handprints and the Hamsa to the raised fist, the hand has carried all sorts of meanings across different cultures — protection, labour, power, connection and memory.

The exhibition digs into The Third Line’s archive, bringing together works by Farah Al Qasimi, Fouad Elkoury, Huda Lutfi, Pouran Jinchi, Sara Naim, Slavs and Tatars and Youssef Nabil.

It is only online until September 5, so this is the week to open that tab.

Where? Beit Prod HQ, Dubai, Al Quoz 1

If you have been following Beit Prod (and its founder, Prod Antzoulis) online, you can now finally step inside its world.

After years of collecting and sourcing objects, Beit Prod has opened its first physical showroom, bringing together furniture and design pieces from across decades — with plenty of mid-century and Space Age finds in the mix.

The point here isn't really to walk in knowing exactly what you need. Quite the opposite. Everything has been individually found and chosen, so come for a browse, look closely and ideally leave obsessed with an object you had absolutely no intention of buying.

Where? Cinema Akil, Alserkal Avenue

Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster classic is back at Cinema Akil as part of its Summer of Classics programme. Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, organised crime, terrible decisions — you know the drill.

The screening starts at 4 pm, which also gives you plenty of time to wander around Alserkal afterwards. Friday sorted.

Where? NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

Technically, we are leaving Dubai for this one. But All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is worth the detour.

Curated by Nada Shabout, the exhibition looks at the Baghdad Modern Art Group, founded in 1951 by Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said. At a moment when Iraq was negotiating modernity, nationhood and its own cultural history, the group was asking a huge question: what could modern Iraqi art actually look like?

The exhibition brings together the artists around the group as well as later generations influenced by its ideas, tracing a version of modernism that developed from Baghdad rather than simply looking towards Europe.

Where? Tashkeel Makerspace, Warehouse 89, Alserkal Avenue

Sunday plan: phone away, hands in clay.

Tashkeel is starting a new intermediate wheel-throwing series, designed for anyone who already knows their way around a pottery wheel and wants to get better at it. Across the sessions, you will work on centring, pulling, shaping, trimming and generally getting clay to do what you actually want it to do.

Just note that this isn't a one-Sunday experiment. The course runs every Sunday from September 6 until October 25, from 11 am to 1 pm, so there is some commitment involved. Registration closes on September 5.

By the end, though, you should have both better wheel skills and a small collection of things you made yourself — which feels like a pretty good way to spend eight Sundays. Registraion is open here.