A world of dance comes to Galway
Thu, May 05, 2011
DANCE STYLES from Argentina, India, Mexico, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, and Ireland will be performed at the second International Dance Festival Galway next month.
The festival takes place in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday May 14 at 7.30pm. It has been organised by NUIG staff and the Sisters of La Retraite and will raise funds for Special Olympics Ireland Connacht.
Read more ...One day art workshops in May
Thu, May 05, 2011
THE AWARD winning Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham will run a series of one day art workshops on Saturdays and Sundays in May running from May 7 to 21.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, May 05, 2011
DERRY CITY’S The Poetry Chicks are coming to Galway to take part in the next North Beach Poetry Nights’ Slam on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...Exhibition at Town Hall
Thu, May 05, 2011
ACUTE ANGLE, a new exhibition of work by Angela O’Brien will be opened at the Town Hall Theatre Bar this Saturday at 6pm.
Read more ...Eleanor McEvoy is coming to Moycullen
Thu, May 05, 2011
SINGER-SONGWRITER Eleanor McEvoy may be known to most for 1992’s ‘A Woman’s Heart’ but there is more to her than that.
Read more ...Cinema Reviews: One Hundred Mornings
Thu, May 05, 2011
WHAT HAPPENS when society suddenly collapses and neighbour turns against neighbour during a desperate fight for survival?
Read more ...Return of the Rubberbandits
Thu, May 05, 2011
THE MIGHTY Rubberbandits are coming back to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday May 14 at 9pm for the KC at Night Listeners Party.
Read more ...Movie Table Quiz @ Kelly’s
Thu, May 05, 2011
GALWAY MOVIE buffs will be able to put their cinematic knowledge to the test at the Movie Table Quiz in Kelly’s on Monday at 8pm.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, May 05, 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.
Read more ...Win tickets to see Hanna @ the Omniplex
Thu, May 05, 2011
IRISH ACTRESS Saoirse Ronan plays the lead role in the new film Hanna, about a young girl who is trained by her father to become an assassin.
Read more ...Foghorn Trio to bring US sounds to Monroe’s
Thu, May 05, 2011
THE FOGHORN Trio are two Americans and a Québécois who play old time American folk, Appalachian trad, and Cajun music.
Read more ...Stained glass workshop
Thu, May 05, 2011
The Painter’s Palette Gallery and Studio in Moycullen will host a one-day stained glass course with stained glass artist Deirdre Cairns.
The class will take place on Saturday May 14 from 9am to 5.30pm. Students will learn basic design, glass cutting, leading, cementing, hanging, and displaying of the work. All materials and a light lunch are included in the price of €95.
Read more ...Nothing to lose in getting dressed
Thu, May 05, 2011
I OWE the world a confession: this book came perilously close to not happening because, when Susan Lindsay joined one of the poetry workshops I facilitate at Galway Arts Centre, way back in January 2005, I almost put her off poetry for life.
Read more ...Eoghan Garvey poetry collection launch
Thu, May 05, 2011
ENTROPY, A posthumous poetry collection by Eoghan Garvey will be launched in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Saturday May 14 at 6pm.
Read more ...A brave new voice
Thu, May 05, 2011
ONE OF the more refreshing delights of bookselling and reading is when a new voice makes itself heard for the first time.
There is a natural tendency for cultural life to become stagnant, even moribund. Indeed, an essential premise for the survival of any culture is its ability to reinvent itself, to regenerate new talent, to allow new voices space to flex their muscle, and to take on board a whole new generation of creativity.
Read more ...Ryan Sheridan - when all the pieces fit
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
IN THE closing months of 2010 and the opening weeks of 2011 there was no escaping Ryan Sheridan’s debut single ‘Jigsaw’. It has made the Co Monaghan songwriter a household name but behind the song and ‘overnight success’ lay years of hard work, frustration, and a determination to succeed.
Read more ...The humours and melodies of John Grant
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
JOHN GRANT’S music, and by extension himself, is composed of many layers which only reveal themselves after several careful listens. Indeed the best songs are always like this, even those which on the surface appear very immediate.
John Grant, who plays Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday May 5 at 9pm, was born in Michigan and spent many years in Denver, where he would later form the band The Czars.
Read more ...Punk and metal charity gigs
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
GERMAN, BRITISH, Polish, and Irish punk and metal bands will be coming to Galway this weekend to play two charity concerts.
Read more ...Breándan De Gallaí – taking Irish dance to the next level with Noctú
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
THIS SATURDAY, The Black Box hosts a major new Irish dance show, Noctú, choreographed and directed by Breándan de Gallaí, the dancer who replaced Michael Flatley as the lead in Riverdance.
Read more ...Get JOLTed at the Town Hall
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
JOLT, a new theatre initiative, will see three new theatre companies present three very different, and potentially exciting new shows, at the Town Hall Theatre studio this May.
This new venture is designed to encourage a more experimental approach to theatre and will involve audience feedback and interaction with the theatre companies.
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