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.
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.
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.
Read more ...Life, music, an adventure - the Junior Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
THE AMAZING adventures of a young French woman, a tiny girl who lives under the floorboards, the lives of three young street dancers in Germany, and making sculptures from other people’s rubbish - it is all in this year’s Junior Galway Film Fleadh.
The 17th Junior Galway Film Fleadh returns from Wednesday November 17 to Saturday 19 with a host of films, documentaries, animations, and events, aimed at those aged from four to 18, taking place in the Town Hall Theatre, NUI Galway’s Huston School of Film and Digital Media, and the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...Metallers Ilenkus launch debut album
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
GALWAY METAL band Ilenkus will launch their debut album Rule By Thieves in the Róisín Dubh on Monday November 14 at 9pm.
Read more ...Adele King back with new show, Trading Faces
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
FOLLOWING THE sell-out tour of Grumpy Old Women, Adele King (aka Twink) will shortly return to the Town Hall with her all-new touring show Trading Faces (alias Who Gives A Tuck?).
Read more ...Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble returns to Town Hall
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
THE CATHY Sharpe Dance Ensemble will return to the Town Hall Theatre to perform three new dance pieces, including one by Connemara choreographer Eoin MacDonncha.
Read more ...Acclaimed songwriter for Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
ACCORDING TO Lucinda Williams, Canadian singer-singer songwriter Ana Egge is “an exceptional songwriter...the folk Nina Simone”.
Read more ...Ryan Sheridan - Róisín gig and PLAY IRISH
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
RYAN SHERIDAN, the Monaghan singer-songwriter who captured public attention with his song ‘Jigsaw’, is coming back to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Echogram @ Monroe’s
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
“THE MOST genuinely exciting and refreshing band to come out of Ireland in years” is how Q have described Cork quartet Echogram.
Larry Little, the man credited with discovering The Killers, has described them as having “a lot of potential... really turn heads everywhere”.
Read more ...Two shows from Seamus Ruttledge
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
THERE WILL be two chances to see, hear, and enjoy the songs and poems of the brilliant Tuam singer-songwriter Seamus Ruttledge in Galway this month.
Read more ...The Molly Hicks and Americana month @ Campbell’s
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
THE MOLLY Hicks will bring the sounds of Appalachian, bluegrass, country and gospel music to the Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover this Saturday at 9.30pm.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
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.
Read more ...Comics West! takes place on Saturday
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
COMICS WEST!, the Irish comic book fair organised by NUI Galway’s Comic Book Society takes place in the university on Saturday November 12.
Read more ...A visual journey into East Germany
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE Republik, the German Democratic Republic, the DDR, GDR, or more simply, East Germany, although no longer existent, continues to fascinate.
The Communist state existed from 1949 to 1990, but 21 years after it was absorbed by West Germany, its culture, politics, emblems, automobiles, ideology, its secret police, and even its kitsch constantly draw the attention of writers, academics, artistes, historians, kitsch collectors, tourists, and Germans who like to differentiate themselves from the ‘Wessis’.
Read more ...Memory and weather in new GUH exhibition
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
A NEW exhibition, Clouds as Memories and Other Stories, will be launched by sculptor John Behan tomorrow at 6pm in the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway.
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