Dubai, the last week of April into May, and the city is, as usual, packing too much into too little time. This week, get ready for: House of Porsche (that is where you will find The Sandy Times newspaper!), a solo exhibition that asks more questions than it answers, a Palestinian epic in cinema, a night where football and fashion share a room, and a Sunday BBQ that somehow feels like the right way to end it all. Pick one. Pick all of them!

Where? Paus Club

Porsche took one of Dubai's best wellness clubs and turned it into something between an art residency, a community garden, and a very good morning. House of Porsche runs until May 10 — and if you haven't been yet, Tuesday is a fine excuse.

The space is built around three pillars: Soul, Mind, Body. In practice: yoga nidra and sound healing in the mornings, creative workshops and art therapy through the day, live music as the evening arrives. There is a public library by Bookends, a plant corner by Plntd, and a Dessert Lab where you design your own creation. The green apple matcha has already developed a following.

One more thing worth grabbing on your way in: a printed copy of The Sandy Times. The newspaper made a limited-edition issue exclusively for House of Porsche. Inside: essays on creativity and burnout, a photographer's take on the car as a city character, reflections on art and healing, and a handful of questions scattered through the pages that tend to linger longer than expected.

Where? Aisha Alabbar Gallery

Samar Hejazi's first solo show in the UAE is one of the quietest and most precise things you can see in Dubai right now. Working across textile, printmaking, and spatial installation, she asks questions she has no intention of answering: what holds when the foundation shifts? What does a home look like when it can no longer be returned to?

Several works draw from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive — house deeds and architectural floor plans reworked through her material process into layered, unresolved compositions. These take the form of empty frames, threads extending past the edges, and an absence that speaks louder than anything filled in.

Where? Cinema Akil

All That's Left of You spans eight decades of one Palestinian family's life — from Jaffa in 1948 to the present day. Three generations. Three members of the Bakri acting family. This is not a comfortable watch, and it is not trying to be — it is about how history breaks people, and how they remain people regardless.

Where? 25hrs Hotel, Room 3

Football, fashion, and a lineup that starts before the music does. Sound Dè Favela takes over Room 3 at 25 Hours Hotel with two zones running simultaneously — The Pitch and The Dugout — and the idea that both belong in the same room.

Doors open at 5 pm, a football panel talk kicks off at 6, followed by an Off The Pitch fashion show at 6:45. Then the music takes over: Ben Palace, Jo Frrey, Shef Codes, Xinka, Caio Prince and more on one side; Cheb Moha, Karrahout, Bazzzuk on the other. Market, food, drinks throughout. Limited capacity — tickets in bio, and they mean it when they say be there early.

Where? Amongst Few Café

The last BBQ of the season at Amongst Few. In collaboration with Oakley Middle East, with sounds by Arabic by Night Radio — Wather, DJ Ranger, and DJ Crown Prince on the decks from 5 to 9pm.

Free BBQ with RSVP; no guest list, everyone is welcome.

It gets busy fast.