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Thursday (March 5) The ninth edition of the Al Ain Classics Festival will be held from today (March 5) until March 20. The Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra will perform at the Al Jahili Fort at 8pm playing Beethoven's Egmont overture, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, Mendelssohn's Herbrides Overture and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The conductor will be Zbigniew Graca with soloists Jan Lewtak and Marek Marczyk.

Friday sees Mozart's fully staged opera The Marriage of Figaro sung in Arabic and on Saturday there is a Gala Concert with opera highlights from Mozart, Donizetti, Gounod and Bizet featuring UAE pianist Arsha Kaviani. For details visit www.timeoutabudhabi.com.

French artist Catherine Protsenko will end her exhibition today at the Casa dell'Arte gallery in Zinj. Catherine studied drawing and painting at the Atelier Martin-Talboutier in France and at one of Paris' art schools and the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. She has created tapestries inspired by the paintings of artists Rouan, Dewasne and Latapie and paints in a variety of styles. For more details contact Ammar on 39967666.

The work of seven artists being exhibited at Albareh Art CafŽ, Adliya will end today. The Fifty-Fifty exhibition displays the works of artists including Bahrainis Ebrahim bu Saad and Jaffar Al Oraibi, Iraqis Ahmed Albahrani and Mahmoud Al Obidi, Qataris Ali Hassan and Salman A Malek and Egyptian Mahmoud Al Maghrabi. For details contact 17717707.

Friday (March 6)

Center Stage Management, Dubai will host the Desert Rock Festival for its sixth edition to be held at Dubai Festival City.

Six international heavy metal bands will dominate the stage with seven hours of live music, supported by two lucky bands chosen from competitions currently running across the globe.

This year's festival will feature Motorhead, Arch Enemy, Opeth, ChimaIra, August Burns Red and Nervecell aside from the two winning bands.

The event also marks Motorhead's first ever performance in the Middle East since the beginning of their career in 1975.

Tickets are priced at Dh250 on sale from www.timeouttickets.com or contact 0097143390550.

Saturday (March 7)

Mothercare is running a Kids Coloring in Competition in Marina Mall, Manama until March 27. Children aged four and above can win three prizes weekly.

Sunday (March 8)

The Bahrain Meditation Centre in Adliya will conduct a foundation course titled 'An Introduction to Meditation' from 7pm to 9pm which will continue every Sunday and Tuesday evenings for three weeks.

For details contact 17712545.

Tuesday (March 10)

The Art House in Budaiya is holding a Mixed Media Mobiles workshop for children from five to 12 years. They will have the chance to make small ceramic shapes or objects to glaze. Once their shapes have been fired in the studio kiln, the children will be able to hang them on their mobiles, along with other things such as beads, jewels and coloured feathers. These sessions are held every Tuesday and Wednesday for the whole of March and costs BD45. There are two sessions each day from 2.30pm to 4.15pm and 4.30pm to 6.15pm. For details contact 39987802.