Galway Arts Centre to hold ‘Prom’ night

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will be holding its first ‘Prom’ this Saturday, and yes, you will be expected to dress for the occasion.

Galway Actors’ Workshop new classes

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE GALWAY Actors’ Workshop will hold beginners and specialised acting classes for the autumn in the Anno Santo Hotel, Threadneedle Road, Salthill.

Pete Mullineaux’s acting classes

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

PETE MULLINEAUX, the actor, poet, and songwriter, celebrates 20 years of teaching his popular acting classes and the next series of classes start this month.

Tungsten Theatre Company auditions

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

TUNGSTEN THEATRE COMPANY will hold auditions for its production of Brian Friel’s Lovers tomorrow.

Jogging - new album and Galway gig

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

JOGGING, the Dublin trio who fuse hardcore, post-rock, and indie, have just released a new album and will play the Róisín Dubh next week.

Bell X1 play Galway in November

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

BELL X1 HAVE announced the dates for their upcoming Acoustic Tour, which includes Galway, and tickets go on sale tomorrow.

Bell X1 - Dave Geraghty, Paul Noonan, and Dominic Phillips - will play the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday November 10 at 8pm

A Very Special tribute to The Specials

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE SPECIALS lit up the British charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s with their furious mix of ska and socialism, and those days can be relived at HALO tomorrow.

The Scenes at Monroe’s

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE SCENES, who recently released their debut single ‘Get Set Go’, play Monroe’s Backstage Bar tomorrow at 11pm.

Two shows from Jon Conover

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE ILLINOIS singer-songwriter Jon Conover will play two shows in Galway city next week, followed by a performance at the Clarinbridge Oyster Festival later in the month.

Funk, Soul and more @ The Electric Garden this Sunday

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

Dave Barry will be bringing along a selection of vinyl for a new night called Uptight! this Sunday night at The Electric Garden. Expect to hear floor fillers from many different genres including funk, northern soul, latin boogaloo, Jamaican ska and early reggae.

Get ready for Clifden Arts Festival

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE SAW Doctors, DruidMurphy, The Waterboys’ Mike Scott, paintings by Jack B Yeats, and the presence of Uachtarán na hÉireann, will be part and parcel of the 35th Annual Clifden Arts Festival.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

ALEX SKOVRON, the Polish-born, Australian based poet and author, is among the featured readers at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, tomorrow at 8pm.

New Philip Jenkinson exhibition

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

FLOWING BETWEEN Ireland, Spain, and the Channel Islands, and combining ancient artist forms, with modern styles, this is the new exhibition by Philip Jenkinson.

One man and his puppet

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

AUSTRALIAN COMIC Sammy J and his erstwhile sidekick, the purple puppet Randy, are coming to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday at 8.30pm.

The Sweeney in Galway cinemas next week

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

“THE SWEENEY’S doin’ ninety, ‘coz they got the word to go, they get a gang of villains by the shed down at Heathrow.”

Impressions ‘12 opens next week

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

IMPRESSIONS, IRELAND’S longest running open submission print exhibition opens in the Galway Arts Centre on Friday September 14.

American poets to launch new books in Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THE AMERICAN poets Thomas Lynch and Michael Heffernan will launch their new poetry collections this Saturday at 6.30pm in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop.

When Galway lost its mind

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

THERE HAS of late been a dramatic growth in the number of self-published novels hitting the literary marketplace. It is not just about numbers of books published. Clever use of available technology can now ensure they look nearly as good as anything from Picador or Jonathan Cape.

Guerilla Days in Ireland brings Tom Barry’s story to the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 30, 2012

FOLLOWING ITS world premiere production last year, the smash hit sell-out show Guerilla Days in Ireland is now coming to the Town Hall Theatre. It tells the gripping story of Tom Barry, legendary commander of the IRA’s West Cork Flying Column in the War of Independence. The play is adapted by Neil Pearson from Barry’s classic memoir, Guerilla Days in Ireland, published in 1949 and one of the finest first-hand accounts of this momentous period in Irish history.

The Mother’s Arms returns to the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 30, 2012

NEXT WEEK sees the Town Hall host a welcome return visit from Little John Nee’s current touring show, The Mother’s Arms, last seen at the venue in January, which offers up a comic, musical helter-skelter ride through a surreal but frighteningly believable rural gothic landscape.

The action unfolds somewhere in the wild hills of Donegal, where sits a dilapidated two storey building surrounded by tumbling sheds; dry stone, rusty tin, rotting timber and tar-paper, the yard surrendered to weeds. This is The Mother’s Arms Singing Lounge, a quiet place where lonely farmers and weary travellers gather to while away the empty hours.

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