Try your hand at collaborative drawing

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

DO YOU like drawing? Would you like to have a go even if you know you can hardly draw a crooked line?

Essay as sculpture and light @ 126

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

228 LASHES, the new exhibition at the 126 gallery on Queen Street, will be officially opened tomorrow with a reception from 7pm to 9pm.

Tuam Arts Festival

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

THE ARTS festival and the races may be over, but that does not mean Galway’s festival season has closed - far from it as next up is the Tuam Arts Festival from August 12 to 21.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Relaxing at home with my family.

Erin Brazill @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

CALIFORNIA’S ERIN Brazill will bring her mix of vintage pop, blues, indie, and jazz to Monroe’s Backstage Bar this Saturday at 9.30pm.

The Kanyu Tree release new single

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

THE KANYU Tree have just released their new single ‘Shelf Life’, the follow -up to ‘Radio’ which has enjoyed massive airplay over recent weeks.

Cinema Review - Horrible Bosses

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

Horrible Bosses, a film in which three disgruntled and abused employees take matters into their own hands by planning the murder of their bosses, is a brilliantly funny movie; however, I did expect more.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Aug 04, 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 10pm.

Scéal seeks short films as Gaeilge

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

TG4 HAS announced Sceál, a new initiative offering Irish-speaking writers/directors the chance to adapt a story from literature as Gaeilge or Irish folklore into a short film.

Computer animation course

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

AWARD WINNING Galway animator John Jennings will host the Computer Animation Introduction course in the GMIT in September and bookings are being taken now.

Ardal O’Hanlon to get Oranmore laughing

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

THE GREAT Ardal O’Hanlon is coming to County Galway to play The Comedy Club at Kudos in Oranmore on Saturday August 20.

While Ardal is best known for playing the gormless Fr Dougal on Fr Ted, it is as a stand up comedian that his star truly shines, as evidenced by his winning several awards, including a Bafta for his work on Ted and the Best Live Stand Up title at the 2007 UK comedy awards.

Win tickets to Super 8 @ Omniplex

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

IN THE summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident.

To self publish or not self publish?

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

MANY YEARS ago the late lamented publisher Steve McDonagh stated that it was something of a lottery to have a book publisher in Ireland and that too many good books never saw the light of day while too many bad ones did.

Poets from Albania and Belfast

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

NDREK GJINI began attending the University of Shkoder in his native Albania in 1984 when the country’s ageing ultra-Stalinist dictator, Enver Hoxha, was still organising lavish pageants in honour of himself.

The Honey Spike – ‘a tale of trouble and wildness’

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

THESE ARE the opening lines of Bryan McMahon’s wonderful play The Honey Spike which Mephisto Theatre Company is bringing to the Town Hall Theatre in a production featuring Galway’s finest actors and which marks the 50th anniversary of the play’s first staging at the Abbey.

Comedy hit Santa Ponsa Or Bust at Town Hall

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

DRAGON’S DEN sensation Santa Ponsa Or Bust comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week on Friday August 5 and Saturday 6 featuring the two funniest men in Cork: Frank Twomey and Pakie O’Callaghan.

The show is written and performed by O’Callaghan and Twomey, who have been writing and performing together regularly since 1998, when they both were involved in RTÉ’s Bull Island.

17th century English music to grace St Nicholas’

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

THE MYTH of Orpheus has served as an inspiration to poets, musicians, and film-makers and Galway is to be treated to a concert of 17th century English music also inspired by the Greek tale.

Reviews: Galway Arts Festival week two

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

SHAKESPEARE, DINOSAURS, hip hop and butoh dancers were among the myriad attractions on offer during week two of the Galway Arts Festival.

The Shakespeare came in the form of the double bill of Comedy of Errors and Richard III from Edward Hall’s superb all-male Propeller company and what a feast of theatrical brilliance they provided!

Review: The Comedy of Errors

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

PROPELLER BREATHED new life into Shakespeare with its production of The Comedy of Errors as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.

New play for children on St Brendan’s voyage

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

ST BRENDAN is famed throughout Europe for the legendary sea journey he took in early Mediaeval times, when he may have discovered North America – before the Vikings.

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