The Mai, and ‘a fate you can’t escape’
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
GALWAY’S MEPHISTO Theatre Company will bring their exciting new staging of Marina Carr’s powerful play, The Mai, to the Town Hall main stage next week.
Read more ...NUIG DramSoc to celebrate centenary
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
NUI GALWAY’S DramSoc, one of Galway’s greatest student institutions, will this year celebrate the centenary of its founding, with a variety of events.
Read more ...Core Theatre College courses
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
CORE THEATRE College will hold courses in the Chekhov Technique and in Lecoq Movement. Both modules start the week of September 19 and will run for 10 weeks.
Read more ...Grabbers winners
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
THE WINNERS of tickets to see the new Irish comedy film Grabbers, were:
Read more ...Fred Johnston’s online writing course
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
POET, WRITER, and critic Fred Johnston is opening an on-line creative writing course which will run over eight weeks.
Read more ...Bluegrass session in Kilcolgan
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
BLUEGRASS SESSIONS will take place in Kilcolgan this weekend.
Read more ...Funk, Soul & Reggae @ The Electric Garden
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
Dave Barry will be playing an eclectic mix of northern soul, Latin boogaloo, reggae, funk and ska 45s in the chilled out space of The Garden room in The Electric Garden this Saturday night from 11.
Read more ...An alternative take on female singers
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
SINGERS AND artists featured on the all-female vocal compilation album Café Irlandaise will be on stage at the Róisín Dubh on Friday August 17 at 8pm.
Read more ...Fred and Bob @ Citóg
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
DUBLIN ALTERNATIVE rock band Fred and Fob, are not a duo of two dudes, but a quartet of three women and one man.
The band will headline the next Citóg night in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, tonight from 9pm.
Read more ...Soul man Buck Taylor @ HALO
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
AMERICAN SOUL singer Buck Taylor and his band Taylor Made, will take to the stage at Upstairs @ HALO tomorrow night from 11pm.
Read more ...The perfect mix @ The Electric Garden
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
Galway’s newest nightclub has a wide variety of entertainment to suit most tastes. Here is a run down of the vairious rooms and some of acts on this weekend.
Read more ...Seánie Vaughan @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 09, 2012
CONNEMARA BORN, Dublin based, singer-songwriter Seánie Vaughan will play upstairs at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...The Mai - into a world of 'naysayers' and 'strong females'
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
MARINA CARR’S powerful play The Mai is coming to the Town Hall Theatre in a new staging from Galway’s Mephisto Theatre Company which is sure to be a definite highlight of the venue’s August programme.
First staged in 1994, at the Abbey, The Mai is a play about love - the kind that chews you up and spits you out. It focuses on four generations of women from one family who struggle to come to terms with the destructive effects their love affairs have on themselves, and those around them.
Read more ...Ancient Resonance – Sharon O’Malley retrospective at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
TOMORROW EVENING sees the opening of Ancient Resonance, a major retrospective celebrating the work of Galway artist Sharon O’Malley, at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Skratch Bastid to DJ @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
SKRATCH BASTID, one of Canada’s most in-demand DJs and respected producers, will be spinning the decks at the Róisín Dubh this Saturday.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus returns to The Cellar
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
A NIGHT of burlesque dancing, cabaret entertainment, and decadent glamour awaits Galwegians when The Dirty Circus returns to The Cellar Bar this Sunday.
Read more ...PLAY IRISH for August
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
THROUGHOUT AUGUST, a number of Irish singers and musicians will be featured on Jon Richard’s Galway Bay FM show, as part of the PLAY IRISH initiative.
Read more ...Cló Iar-Chonnacht writing competition
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
COUNTY GALWAY based publishing company Cló Iar-Chonnacht is seeking entries for its Irish-language Fiction Competition 2012.
The competition is open to new unpublished creative prose as Gaeilge in every genre, from novels to novellas and collections of short stories. Both writing for adults and for younger readers is eligible for entry. The closing date for entries is Monday September 3.
Read more ...Keith Kenny @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
NEW JERSEY guitarist Keith Kenny may be just one man with a guitar, but when he starts playing, he sounds like a full band.
Read more ...Art and theatre @ Áras Éanna
Thu, Aug 02, 2012
AN EXHIBITION of illustrations and a play about a woman in prison for stabbing her husband, take place at the Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oírr.
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