Curfew @ The Cellar

Thu, May 03, 2012

THE CURFEW DJ night will throw another massive party downstairs in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

DJs Fuz and Yoseph will be spinning a concoction of dance, disco, house, and funk. Admission is free and there will be drinks promotions.

The Dictator – advanced screenings at The Eye

Thu, May 03, 2012

SACHA BARON Cohen’s new film The Dictator will receive its world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Thursday May 10 and Galway audiences will be able to see it.

Red Bird to give a SAMPLE of youth creativity

Thu, May 03, 2012

RED BIRD, an up and coming youth-led arts organisation, will hold SAMPLE, an exhibition of its works, which opens in the Galway Arts Centre tomorrow at 6pm.

Red Bird members are aged between 15 and 22 and their interests range from fashion to creative writing, from journalism to acting, and from film to visual art. The group has been working with Galway artist Louise Manifold since September 2011, who has assisted and guided the group in its creative work.

Book launches at Over The Edge

Thu, May 03, 2012

GALWAY AUTHORS Yvonne McEvaddy and Rejini Samuel will launch their new novels at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering at The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, on Wednesday May 9 at 8pm.

Gerry Hanberry to read at The Ardilaun

Thu, May 03, 2012

GALWAY AUTHOR and poet Gerry Hanberry will next week deliver a lecture on how themes of love and laughter reoccur in the works of Irish writers and musicians.

Josh Ritter to read at Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 03, 2012

THE AMERICAN singer-songwriter Josh Ritter will make a welcome return to Galway this summer for a public reading from his debut novel.

Win tickets to American Pie: The Reunion @ Galway Omniplex

Thu, May 03, 2012

AMERICAN PIE: The Reunion, sees the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, May 03, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

World music @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, May 03, 2012

LATIN AMERICAN, Malaysian, African, and Balkan styles of music will be the order of the day at The Havana Way night in Monroe’s Live on Friday May 11 at 9pm.

Performing on the night will be Baque Soul who play Brazilian soul-funk and samba, Latin grooves, and hip-hop. They are fronted by Mexican vocalist Susana Garcia and Brazilian street poet Juliana Duraes. The intensity of their live shows has earned them a reputation as a must see band.

Sunday Service @ Massimos with a Pig-On-A-Spit

Thu, May 03, 2012

Massimos will be hosting Sunday Service as usual but with a delicious pig-on-a-spit this week for the long weekend. Come down and sample the wonderful menu and enjoy the chilled out tunes provided on vinyl by the Sunday Service DJ from around 4pm-6pm.

Moments of quiet desperation

Thu, May 03, 2012

WALTER MACKEN, probably the author most associated with Galway city, would have been 97 today. What is not generally realised is that he had strong east Galway connections, his mother hailing from Cappatagle near Ballinasloe.

The heart stopping sentences of Rejini Samuel

Thu, May 03, 2012

I FIRST became aware of Rejini Samuel’s work a couple of years ago when she began attending creative writing classes at GTI and, as a result, came along and read some poems and extracts from stories at an Over The Edge open-mic.

Romeo and Juliet

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

BALLET IRELAND, The National Ballet of Ireland, comes to the Town Hall next week with its hugely successful production of Romeo & Juliet, set to Sergei Prokofiev’s thrilling score.

Sarah Clancy: It’s poetry, Jim, but not as we know it

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

SARAH CLANCY began writing poetry just three years ago. Her first published poem, ‘Hippy Get A Job’, appeared on the Over The Edge website in August 2009.

Ray Davies to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

RAY DAVIES, one of England’s greatest songwriters and the leader of the legendary band The Kinks will play his first gig in Galway in more than a decade this summer.

John Sinclair and Howard Marks - Radical Rogues

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

JOHN SINCLAIR was manager of sixties proto-punk band The MC5 and a counter culture political activist about whom John Lennon wrote a song.

The Summit Seekers’ musical charity event

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

THREE GALWAY women, who call themselves The Summit Seekers, have organised a special charity event for Concern in the Bierhaus this Sunday at 8pm.

Cúirt theatre reviews - Perve and Breathing Corpses

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

AS PART of the Cúirt festival, the Nuns Island Theatre is hosting a theatrical double bill featuring work from two rising stars of today’s generation of playwrights - Stacy Gregg and Laura Wade.

In Gregg’s Perve, which is being staged by NUI Galway BA Connect, young film-maker Gethin (Sam Serry) is making a film on society’s behaviour toward paedophiles. He prompts his sister to start a schoolyard rumour about himself as a way of illustrating how accusations of sexual deviance can be fuelled as much by baseless hysteria as hard fact.

Marc Roberts’ John Denver tribute show

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

MARC ROBERTS will perform his acclaimed Tribute To The Music Of John Denver show in the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday May 5 at 8pm.

Pete Mullineaux acting classes

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

PETE MULLINEAUX will hold acting classes for adults in the Galway Arts Centre, every Wednesday, starting May 9.

The classes are from 1pm to 2.30pm and will run for eight weeks. This popular class, which has been running for 17 years, is open to all, and beginners are particularly welcome. No previous acting experience is necessary.

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