New exhibition at Norman Villa
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
GALWAY BASED artists Ruth McHugh and Lisa Sweeney will hold a joint exhibition in the Norman Villa Gallery which opens tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...Martina Flaherty @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
SINGER-SONGWRITER Martina Flaherty, whose music encompasses folk, blues, rock, soul, and funk plays Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Award winning Danish songwriter for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
AGNES OBEL, the acclaimed Danish singer-songwriter, is coming to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...The Followers Of Otis @ Citóg
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
THE FOLLOWERS Of Otis will headline a night of folk-rock music at Citóg in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, tomorrow night.
Read more ...Scroobius Pip solo show in Galway
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
RAPPER AND spoken word artist Scroobius Pip will be performing in the Róisín Dubh on Sunday November 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Belgian hardcore band @ The Cellar
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
BELGIAN HARDCORE band Link will play downstairs at The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, this Sunday night.
Read more ...Cathal McConnell and Gerry O’Connor @ The Crane
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
THE CRANE Bar will host the launch of 123 Songs, a DVD and CD archive collection of Irish song, tomorrow from 9pm.
Read more ...Vox Merus - classical brass
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
VOX MERUS, Ireland’s new professional brass chamber group, will celebrate and perform classical music for brass instruments at their Galway concert next week.
Read more ...Challenging notions of creation
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
IF YOU have ever made a meal or even a mess, then you are a creator. This is the idea behind Void:Volume, the new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Meet the artists at TULCA open day
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
THE TULCA festival of visual art ends on Sunday, but before then there are plenty of events taking place over the weekend to explore.
On Saturday, TULCA will hold an Open Studio Day, where local art studios Engage and Artspace will open their doors to the public and the artists will be in their studios to discuss their artistic practice between 12 noon and 5pm.
Read more ...New poetry from Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
NUALA NÍ Chonchúir will launch her third poetry collection at the inaugural Ballinasloe Literary Day in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, this Saturday at 2pm.
Read more ...November Over The Edge
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
WRITERS ERIN Buttner, Stephen Byrne, and Donna Potts will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday November 24 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Druid’s Big Maggie completely sold out
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
THIS WEEK’S run of Druid’s production of John B Keane’s Big Maggie sold-out before the actors even took to the stage for the first performance last Friday night.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan @ The King’s Head
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
TOMMY TIERNAN will perform a series of lunchtime gigs in The Ruby Room, The Kings Head, from Friday November 25 to Wednesday Novmber 30.
At the shows the multi award winning comic will hone and refine his latest project, Tommy Tiernan - The Táin, Ireland’s Greatest Epic Retold.
Read more ...Bolshoi Ballet @ The Eye
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty will be transmitted live in HD by satellite from Moscow to Galway.
Read more ...Louder Than a Bomb - teen slam poetry on screen
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
EVERY YEAR, more than 600 teenagers from more than 60 Chicago schools gather for the world’s largest youth poetry slam - Louder Than a Bomb.
Read more ...Santa seeks an apprentice
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
SANTA’S APPRENTICE, an animation for children aged between two and nine, will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 12 noon.
Read more ...Win Twilight Breaking Dawn travel bag
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
THEY MET in Twilight, parted in New Moon, fought together in Eclipse, and now in Breaking Dawn Part 1, the penultimate film in the saga, they become husband and wife.
Read more ...Win tickets to Breaking Dawn Part One @ Omniplex
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
BREAKING DAWN Part One, the latest instalment in the Twilight saga, opens in the Galway Omniplex tomorrow.
Now married to vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) gives birth to a daughter, but the birth sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle.
Read more ...Frankie fares forth
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
VOTED ONE of the top 10 plays of the last decade in the Sunday Times Critics Choice, Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer is a blackly funny, moving and spooky drama. Nomad Theatre Network and Decadent Theatre Company have now mounted a new production of this award-winning play which is coming soon to the Town Hall Theatre as part of a national tour.
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