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Cairo Weekend Guide: Valentine’s Day, Cirque Le Soir & More!

Cairo Weekend Guide: Valentine’s Day, Cirque Le Soir & More!
written by
Jessica Noble

Hello Cairo!

With Valentine’s Day upon us, Cairo’s bars, clubs and restaurants are going all out to celebrate the most nauseating of all non-occasions. Despite that, though, there are still plenty of  parties and gigs that aren’t drowning in a sea of pink and red.

Thursday sees live music at Cairo Jazz Club come courtesy of soulful acoustic musician, Shady Ahmed, who’ll be followed by local Beatles cover band,Glass Onion. Elsewhere, Alchemy’s Molten Amber celebrates all things whiskey.

Downtown bar/art-space, VENT, welcomes Dubai-based underground DJ and producer, Shadi Megallaa spin a few tunes, while Zamalek’s Sufi welcomes up-and-coming metal band, Scorched Legacy, perform.

Maadi’s ACE Club welcome one and all for a spot of karaoke and there’s more hip-gyrating fun at  Almaz’s weekly night, Bells & Cymbals, while Giza club, Phenomena, welcomes local blues band, Beat, for this week’s edition of Glamour Night.

Elsewhere, Falaki Theatre hosts a performance of Hanan Haj Ali’s play, ‘Lost and Found’ and Darwish Abul Gheit bring their zar and Sufi sounds to El Dammah Theater, while Gezirah Art Centre screens Yemeni documentary, Dignity Has No Walls, and Cultural centre, Beirut, screens Egyptian film,Chaos and Disorder.

Brace yourself for Friday as the city turns into a mushy pile of puppy love and cheap flowers. There’s plenty of Valentine’s Day ‘fun’ across Cairo – all of which you can find here. But if you want to avoid it all together, fear not; indie/shoegaze act, PanSTARRS, is back at VENT by popular demand and local indie band, the 3 Jams, perform at Photopia in Heliopolis, while Cairo Jazz Club turns its back on love with DJ Mohasseb leading the charge at the Hunter S. Thompson-inspired Love & Loathing in CJC.

Things regain some sort of normality on Saturday, with one of the biggest events of the month taking place at the Temple in Giza, as Cairo gets a little taste of London’s infamous nightclub, Cirque Le Soir.

Live music is plentiful, with unique singer, Aya Metwalli, performing at Balcon Lounge, local rap collective, Arabian Knightz, taking to stage at Falaki Theatre and comic duo, Like Jelly, performing at Darb 1718.

Cairo Jazz Club welcomes saxophonist, Nour Ashour, and Arabic rock fusion band, Sahara, while Alchemy holds another edition of weekly art-and-brunch event, There’s Something Bloody About Mary.

Galleries across Cairo are heaving as always, with several new exhibitions having opened this week, including the second annual edition of theContemporary Photography Festival at Gezirah Art Center, ‘Ten Thousan Wiles & a Hundred Thousand Tricks’ at CIC and Mahmoud Hamed’s ‘Epigraphy’ at Gallery Misr.

This is just a few of the events across Cairo this weekend; check out the Cairo 360 events calendar for more.

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