MARK YOUR CALENDAR-

Join Cairo Jazz Club’s night of melodic fusions today with jazz duo Earlobe, Hadi Birajakli’s Arabic indie and progressive rock set, and multi-instrumentalist artist Maya Ma’s dynamic fusion of alt-rock, pop and electronic sounds. Doors open at 8pm, and you can grab your tickets from the CJC website.

HAPPENING THIS WEEK-

Join Zahwa Art Gallery’s opening night of veteran plastic artist Ali Ashour’s Faces Of TheMargin exhibition in Downtown tonight at 6pm. The gallery will be open daily from 11am to 8pm, except on Fridays, until 30 April. Entrance is open to the public.

Channel your inner performer at the Open Mic night tonight at 8pm at Room Art Space at their New Cairo and Garden City branches. You can make reservations through Easy Kash.

Dress up for an Opera night: Make your way out tonight at 8pm to the Cairo Opera House and watch the musical ensemble Blue Nile Orchestra, led by conductor Samy Ibrahim performing classical and contemporary repertoires. Book your tickets through Tazkarti.

Today is the third day of multidisciplinary artist Hossam Abou Elela’s More Than Just AWord exhibition at Nout Gallery in Zamalek. The exhibit will be open daily to the public until Wednesday, 30 April, from 12pm to 7pm. Entrance to the gallery is unpaid.

Celebrate Palestinian heritage and art this week at The French Institute of Egypt. The institute has joined hands with music platform and cultural initiative Palestine Music Expo and the UK-based collective Network for Palestine to present Ici la Palestine (Here is Palestine). The event will take place from Tuesday, 9 April until Saturday, 12 April at the institute’s Mounira branch, and from Sunday 13 April to Monday, 14 April at the Alexandria branch. It will include film screenings, art exhibitions, concerts, workshops, and Palestinian handcrafts. Entrance to the event is unpaid, and open to the public.

Two days to go until Marwan Pablo hits the stage. The scene-setting rapper will be in concert at the American University in Cairo’s Tahrir Campus for the first time to perform El Moftah, a setlist that follows his journey in life and music. The concert will be held on Thursday, April 10 at 8pm. Tickets are available on TicketsMarche.

Don’t miss the second edition of the AUC Tahrir CultureFest this weekend: Set to take place from April 10 to April 12 in the Tahrir Square campus, this year’s edition of the festival celebrates Cairo as a global city, and all the cultures from the different parts of the world it brings together, along with food, exhibitions, a book fair, panel talks, and a bazaar. You can request an invitation on the AUC website.