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Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series The Pursuit Sat 19th: Souq Waqif. Register your team of three for a Mathaf-inspired scavenger hunt. After meeting at a home base to receive instructions, teams will seek locations featuring tokens and using Smartphones to snap and upload photos through Twitter. The first team to correctly catalogue the photos claims a prize! From 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information and to register your team, email mathaf_education@qma.org.qa. Deadline for registration is Nov. 15.
Wed 16th: The Atrium at VCUQ. Speaker Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. He teaches Internet studies and science fiction at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and has been the instigator of three projects, ‘The Dead Media Project,’ ‘The Viridian Design Movement’ and ‘Embrace the Decay.’ He won the Hugo Awards for his novelettes Bicycle Repairman and Taklamakan and has also won Clarke and Campbell Awards. This event is free and begins at 6:00 p.m. For more information, visit www.qatar.vcu.edu or call 4402-0555.
DIYAFA 2011 Tues 22nd – Thurs 24th: Doha Exhibition Center. DIYAFA is the sole hospitality trade show taking place in Qatar. It exclusively caters to showcasing everything that falls under the hospitality umbrella in the country. DIYAFA prides itself on demonstrating the best and latest of what is happening in the hospitality industry, both locally and on an international scale. For more information, visit www.diyafaqatar.com
AWA Holiday Bazaar Sat 19th: Grand Hyatt Doha. Come buy all your holiday goodies at the annual American Women’s Association Holiday Bazaar. Explore dozens of booths featuring holiday decorations, handmade crafts, jewelry, baked goods, artwork, gifts, local businesses and so much more! Advance tickets are QR 10; at the door, tickets are QR 20. From 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. For more information, email president@awaqatar.com.
Children of Gaza Wed 2nd – Thurs 3rd: The VCU Gallery, VCUQ. Featuring the work of artists Giuseppe Aquili, Jim McFarlane, Anthony Dawton and Dia Azzawi for the benefit of the Save the Children Fund. Curated by Anthony Dawton and Dia Azzawi. The event is free and opens at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.qatar.vcu. edu or call 4402-0555. 39