Events lisrting

The Young Goans Club, Bahrain is hosting The Bandra Fair at the Baan Saeng Thai Restaurant, Adliya, from noon on Friday. The day-long celebrations will include a dancing competition, a fashion show and a tribute to Goan singer Alfred Rose.
  
Entry is free and open to all.

Call 39659539 for more information.

Head down to the Royal Golf Club for its Links Friday Carvery Brunch which includes a range of starters, live cooking stations, traditional carved meats, desserts and more. There’s also a special section for children including a ‘create your own cupcake’ station. The brunch, from noon to 4pm, costs BD18 net for adults, including unlimited selected soft drinks, and BD27 net for adults, with unlimited selected house beverages. It’s BD9.500 net for children under-12 and children aged four and under can eat for free.

For details, call 17751262.

The Soie Restaurant, Sheraton Hotel Bahrain in Manama, is staging cooking classes every Friday until October 3 from 10am to Midday. Classes cost BD 12.500++ per person.

You can book a seat online at www.soiebahrain.com/cookingclass or call 17533533.

An exhibition by amateur photographer Kanwal Hameed at Al Riwaq Art Space in Adliya opening on Monday at 7pm takes a playful approach to serious questions about culture, identity, society and political engagement. The questions are located in the world inherited by a materially privileged generation of Gulf society, he says. Taking inspiration from the influential ‘End of History’ essay by political theorist Francis Fukuyama, the photographs recreate iconic images from events marking major historic shifts in popular consciousness during the 20th and 21st Century.

The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre presents The Nutcracker, one of the most famous plays of all-time at the Bahrain National Theatre on September 18-19. The show is headlined by the talented ballet duo Anastasia Matvienko in the role of the kind-hearted young girl Marie, and Denis Matvienko in the role of her awkward wooden nutcracker doll, whom she can sense hides a special secret.

The show features the famous score by legendary Pyotr Tchaikovsky who composed it specifically for this play when it debuted in 1892.

The music is perfectly complemented by the delicate choreography designed by Vasily Vainonen, staging by Natalia Spitsina as well as set and costume designs by Vaycheslav Okunev.

Tickets are available from Virgin Mega Store, prices vary.

For more information visit
www.moc.gov.bh/en/theevents/CurrentEvents/Name,11569,en.html#.VA3FPfmSwXE

The Palm Association is hosting the Great Gatsby Charity Ball at the Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel & Spa on September 25. It will be a night of glamour as you are taken back to the 1920s, complete with music and cuisine.

Tickets cost BD50.

To make a reservation, contact palmballcoordinator@thepalmassociation.com

The BSPCA will run an ‘Amazing Auction’ at Upstairs Downstairs, Adliya, on September 27. The restaurant is offering a four-course buffet brunch plus red, white and sparkly refreshments for BD20 (inclusive). Doors open at 11.30am, the buffet will be served from noon and popular South African singer Paul ‘Toddy’ Adams will entertain until 2pm, prior to the auction.

To reserve a table, call the restaurant on 17713093. If any businesses or individuals would like to donate an item to auction, contact bspca@batelco.com.bh or via the BSPCA official page on Facebook.

Footballing legends Graeme Souness and Gordon Banks will be coming to Bahrain on September 25 at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel, Residence & Spa. TV pundit and former Scotland international Souness played with Liverpool, Rangers and Sampdoria, winning three European Cups, nine league titles and a plethora of British domestic trophies. Goalkeeper Banks was an instrumental part of England’s 1966 World Cup winning side. The duo will share soccer stories from 8pm.

Tickets cost BD30.

For details, call 34516445, email tickets@sportsspeakermena.com or sportsspeaker@outlook.com

There will be a Women’s Professional Network (WPN) Career Planning Business Talk in Capital Club Bahrain, Bahrain Financial Harbour, on Sunday. The event will run from 6.30pm until 8.30pm. It will involve discussions on youth innovations, personal empowerment, children’s education and self-esteem programmes.

Contact info@wpnbahrain.org or call 17514881.