Workshops for actors, directors, and musicians
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
A WEEKEND workshop in the Michael Chekhov technique and Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints takes place in the Anno Santo Hotel on Saturday July 3 and Sunday 4 from 10am to 5pm.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
THE LITTLE Cinema Short Film Club will hold its second event upstairs in Kelly’s Bar on Tuesday and is accepting submissions for screening.
Read more ...Disco Outcasts to go Deeper
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
MANCHESTER’S SLEAZIEST disco duo, the Disco Outcasts, will be spinning the decks at Deeper in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, on Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Book launch at Charlie Byrne’s
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
POETS FEATURED in the new book, Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets, will read at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...Galway Baroque Singers on Lyric FM
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra show, which took place recently in Leisureland, can be heard again on the Lyric FM website.
The singers, under director Audrey Corbett, and the orchestra, under conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn, performed Ravel’s ‘Le Tombeau de Couperin’, Duruflé’s Requiem Op 9, and Puccini’s Preludio Sinfonico and ‘Messa di Gloria’. To listen go to www.rte.ie/lyricfm
Read more ...Fuaim Chonamara - sean-nós dance show at Monroe’s
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
SEAN NÓS dancing - the original, oldest, and best form of Irish traditional dance - will be given an exuberant display throughout the summer at Monroe’s, as Fuaim Chonamara takes to the stage.
Read more ...Super8 Shots to display the best of 8mm film making
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
SUPER8 SHOTS, the independent film festival celebrating 8mm film and film-making takes place in Galway throughout this weekend.
Super-8 was invented by Kodak in the 1960s and gave birth to millions of film makers, until the advent of video. There has been a resurgence of interest in Super-8 due to its cinematic look and its vivid colours.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
As much cake as we can eat.
Niall Connolly to launch new album in Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
NIALL CONNOLLY, hailed by New York’s Death and Taxes as “being at the head of a new breed of politically engaged eloquent singer-songwriters” is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Disconnect 4 to release new single
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
DISCONNECT 4 will release their new single ‘Turn On The Lights’ on Sunday.
Read more ...David Holmes - leading DJ @ Kelly’s
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
THE MAN behind the Ocean’s 11 soundtrack and possibly the finest DJ and film composer that has ever come out of Ireland, will be DJing in Kelly’s.
Read more ...Streetdance 3D winners
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
THE WINNERS of the soundtrack albums to Streetdance 3D were: Trevor Clohessy, Moycullen; Carmel Creaven, Belclare; Hillard Faherty, Bohermore; Emma Barron, Salthill; and Lorna McCabe, Tuam.
Read more ...Nigerian/Galway thriller to be screened next week
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
RAPT IN Eire, a film made by the Nigerian film maker Akibor Emihian in Galway and featuring a Galway cast, will be shown at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday July 1.
Read more ...More places at Core Theatre College
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
TWO MORE spaces are available for Core Theatre College’s 10 week professional theatre training course, which starts in September.
The course involves classes on voice, acting technique, movement, theatre history, and theatre production.
Read more ...Michael Jackson tribute concert at Town Hall
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
THE MICHAEL Jackson Tribute Concert makes its Galway debut at the Town Hall Theatre on Friday July 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Meeting The Grippe Girls with Electric Bridget
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
ELECTRIC BRIDGET make a welcome return to the Galway Arts Festival with the premiere of Eileen Gibbons’ new play, The Grippe Girls.
Read more ...Prolific songwriter Ari Hest for arts festival
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
THE WEDDING Present released a single every month back in 1992 while Sufjan Stevens has toyed with the idea of recording an album inspired by each of state in the USA.
American singer-songwriter Ari Heist did something similar in 2008 when he embarked on his ambitious ‘52’ project, when he spent that year immersed in an effort to write, record, produce, and release one new song per week for 52 weeks in a row.
Read more ...Corn Exchange bring award-winning Freefall to arts festival
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
DUBLIN ENSEMBLE Corn Exchange are among the notable Irish acts in this year’s Galway Arts Festival. The company will perform its acclaimed staging of Freefall, which was accorded the laurels of Best New Play and Best Director - for Annie Ryan - at the 2009 Irish Theatre Awards.
Read more ...Bening, Boosh, and Gazza’s tears - a feast of films at the Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
EIGHT WORLD premieres, 53 Irish premieres, 100 feature films and documentaries, and 115 short films will be screened at the 22nd Galway Film Fleadh which takes place from Tuesday July 6 to Sunday 11.
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