Win What Richard Did DVDs
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THE ACCLAIMED Irish film, What Richard Did, is out on DVD and the Galway Advertiser, in association with Element Pictures, has three copies to give away.
Read more ...Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
WHO IS Afraid of The Big Bad Woods? is the intriguing title of Maev Lenaghan’s exhibition in the University Hospital Galway Arts Corridor.
Read more ...Hysteria and film in 126 exhibition
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THURSDAY’S CLINIC is a new exhibition by Breda Lynch, currently running in the 126 gallery on Queen Street.
Read more ...Duo Vocis to sing at Town Hall
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
DUO VOCIS, the popular duo of Seán Costello and Frank Naughton, will perform their show From Broadway to La Scala at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Entries sought for the Dead Good Poetry Competition
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
GALWAY POETS are encouraged to enter the Dead Good Poetry Competition run by The Galway Rape Crisis Centre and Over the Edge.
Read more ...The songs of the United Irishmen
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THE SONGS published by the United Irishmen in the late 1700s will be the subject of a public lecture in Galway next week.
Read more ...The return of TedFest
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
FATHER TED, the classic 1990s comedy series, will be celebrated this month at the annual TedFest in Galway city.
TedFest begins on Monday February 18 at 8.30pm with the Fr Ted Table Quiz in Massimo, William Street West. All questions will be Father Ted related. There will be prizes for best beard and team name. Teams are a maximum of four people. Entry is €30/25.
Read more ...The songs he writes so well
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
“I’LL TELL you something, I mightn’t be in this business at all if it wasn’t for a Galwayman, Des Kelly,” Phil Coulter tells me during our interview on Tuesday morning. “He was the leader of the Capitol Showband who were the biggest in Ireland when I was a student in Queen’s in Belfast.”
Read more ...Follow – exploring the world of the deaf
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
DUBLIN’S WILLFREDD Theatre come to the Town Hall Theatre next week with their remarkable play, Follow, written and performed by Shane O’Reilly, which explores the world of the deaf.
Read more ...Bressie to play Galway in May
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
BRESSIE HAS announced a headline tour of Ireland in May which will take in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Galway on Thursday May 9.
Bressie began his musical journey as lead singer with The Blizzards. After the band called it a day, Bressie went solo and saw his debut album, Colourblind Stereo, reached No 1 in the iTunes Album charts. His second solo studio album Rage and Romance, will be released later this month, with the Black Keys-esque ‘Show Me Love’ already out as the new single.
Read more ...Opera Theatre Company’s Così Fan Tutte
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
OPERA THEATRE Company, Ireland’s national opera company, comes to Galway next week with a sparkling new production of Mozart’s much-loved Così Fan Tutte.
Read more ...Workshops and events for theatre makers
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
A NEW series of workshops, discussions, and events for theatre makers, takes place in the Druid Lane and Town Hall theatres, presented by JOLT.
The first workshops take place this Saturday in Druid Lane, then on Saturday February 16 in the Town Hall Theatre, followed by Creative Quickies, an evening of short works in progress on Monday 18 in the Town Hall Studio.
Read more ...Young Galway actors feature in Deception
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
YOUNG GALWAY actors from the Trading Faces Film School & Casting Agency, are featured in TV3’s new Galway based TV series Deception.
Read more ...The Joy of art and poetry
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
JOY IS the title of a new exhibition and poetry reading that will take place in the Ballybane Library this Saturday at 2.30pm.
Read more ...The Three Tenors return to Galway
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
THE THREE Tenors are coming back to Galway to perform an eve of St Patrick’s Day concert Saturday March 16 at 8.30pm in the Hotel Meyrick, Eyre Square.
Read more ...Western Writers’ Centre online writing courses
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
ONLINE CREATIVE writing courses in poetry and prose are being offered by the Western Writers’ Centre.
Read more ...The Unthanks return to the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
THE UNTHANKS, the award winning English folk band, led by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, return to the Róisín Dubh on Sunday February 24 at 8pm.
Read more ...Uptight @ Massimo
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
GALWAY DJ Dave Barry’s monthly vinyl excursion into funk, northern soul, boogaloo, r’n’b, Jamaican ska, and more, returns to Massimo tomorrow night. The mix is eclectic though is generally black music from the 50s right up to the present day. The emphisis is on the dancefloor but there are plenty of snugs for a quiet drink in Massimo not to mention the smoking room.
Read more ...A festival of classical music for February
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
ARGENTINEAN GUITARIST Ariel Hernandez and Irish pianist Isabel O’Connell will perform at the Galway Music Residency’s debut festival weekend this month.
Read more ...Amelia Curran @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
FOLLOWING THE release of her new album Spectators, Canadian singer-songwriter Amelia Curran plays Monroe’s Live on Saturday February 16 at 9pm.
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