100% FREESikka Art & Design Festival — free creative festival
Explore Dubai Culture’s fifteenth Sikka festival across Al Shindagha Historic District, with emerging Emirati and GCC artists transforming its historic alleys into a creative setting. The official calendar confirms free festival access for adults and children on 15–24 January 2027; the detailed programme is still to be announced.
Historical Sikka Art and Design Festival installation photographed in 2025 by روتانا (Rotana); not the announced 2027 artworks or programme.
Al Shindagha, Dubai · Al Shindagha Historic District, Dubai Creek area, Dubai
Follow organiser directions for the exact entrance.
When to go
15–24 January 2027. The official calendar lists 16:00 on opening day, 15 January; remaining daily times and closing times are not yet published. Check the final programme before travelling.
Who can go
Children and adults welcome · Free festival access for adults and children · detailed 2027 programme forthcoming
The current official Visit Dubai festival page explicitly describes the free festival as welcoming children and adults. It does not publish age conditions for individual 2027 activities.
Check age guidanceWhat’s free & what to know
- Free festival access is announced for adults and children. Individual 2027 activities, workshop places, film screenings and performances have not yet been scheduled; this listing does not promise any particular activity or free workshop booking.
- The official page currently offers an event reminder rather than ticket registration. Entry and individual-activity booking arrangements have not yet been published; check the final organiser programme before travelling.
- Only the opening-day start of 16:00 is currently stated. Other daily opening times and all closing times remain unconfirmed.
- The map pin marks Al Shindagha Museum within the historic district, using the organiser’s district-location link; it is not a confirmed 2027 festival entrance or a promise of free museum admission.
- Food, drinks, purchases, transport and independently ticketed attractions are not included. No purchase or paid accompanying-adult requirement is stated for festival entry.
- This is one whole festival listing covering 15–24 January 2027, not separate listings for its dates or as-yet-unannounced activities.
Sources & photo credit
Last successfully checked 6 Nov 2026. Availability can change; check with the organiser before travelling.
6 November 2026: full current Visit Dubai page inspected live in Chrome. It names the fifteenth edition on15–24January2027 atAlShindaghaHistoricDistrict, lists15January16:00, expressly calls it a free festival welcoming children and adults, and says the detailed2027programme is forthcoming. The linked Dubai Culture page is explicitly the earlier2026edition and was used only to corroborate organiser and district map, not to reuse its dates or times. No booking, sold-out or cancellation notice appears on the current2027page. Current catalogue and acquisition-history searches show no Sikka record.
Visit Dubai — official current 2027 Sikka festival calendarDubai Culture: earlier 2026 edition and same district location only
Photo: روتانا (Rotana) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized proportionally to 1200 and 640 pixels wide and compressed to WebP; original composition retained.