Galway Film Centre scriptwriting workshop
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE GALWAY Film Centre is running a workshop in May for scriptwriters with script editor Mark McIlrath.
Read more ...cinema reviews
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
With top stars taking on the roles of lightening smiting Zeus and feared lord of the underworld Hades, Clash of the Titans had all the ingredients to be an action-packed blockbuster but sadly with its haphazard storyline, some cringy scenes, and barely there 3D, it failed to impress.
Read more ...Lunchtime theatre @ Kelly’s
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE LUNCHTIME theatre shows at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, continue with The Spontaneous Theatre People’s staging of Órla McGovern’s A Wing And A Prayer.
Read more ...The Big Sing relaunch
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE BIG Sing Multicultural Community Choir will be relaunched on Tuesday at 7pm in St Patrick’s Band Hall as a new musical director takes over.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Night
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE POET Marcella Morgan will be reading at the next North Beach Poetry Night on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar, Sea Road.
Read more ...Art classes in Newcastle
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
GALWAY ARTIST Jennifer Cunningham, one of the city’s most talented young artists, is holding a series of art classes at her new art school in Newcastle.
Read more ...A woman’s life in classical song
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
SONGS FOR lovers, mothers, and sisters, and poems by James Joyce set to music, will be performed by Ailish Tynan and Christopher Glynn in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Tuesday at 8pm.
Read more ...Meet Willy Wonka at Central Park
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE NEW Central Park will host the themed night of Willy Wonka & the CP Factory this Saturday at 11pm.
Come meet the man himself and his Oompa Loompas. Sample the delights of their chocolate fountains and get ready to be immersed in sweet factory goodness!
Read more ...Have a party at the GPO
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE GPO on Eglinton Street is hosting parties and will organise entertainment, finger food, champagne, and decorations.
The service is free for parties of more than 15. For more information contact Trina on 087 - 0614926 or e-mail to [email protected]
Read more ...The sound of Tuam in Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
IT IS amazing to think of the wealth of musical talent that has come out of Tuam over the past 30 years from Blaze X, to The Saw Doctors, to The Ralphs.
Read more ...Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon to release debut album
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
PHANTOM DOG Beneath The Moon, the English based, Galway duo, of Aaron Hurley and Scott McLaughlin, will release their debut album next month.
Read more ...A Band Called Wanda EP launch
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
Galway ‘folk’n’roll’ group A Band Called Wanda (pictured) will launch their new EP in Bar No 8 on Sunday April 18 at 8pm. There will be free finger food as well! The band will also be upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday 16 with support from Hamlet Sweeney. See www.myspace.com/abandcalledwanda
Read more ...Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record (City Slang/Cooperative Music)
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
IT IS hard not get swept up in the moment that is a Broken Social Scene song. Before there was Arcade Fire and Stars (who contribute to this album), there was Broken Social Scene, Canadian indie at its finest.
Read more ...Port O’Brien - songs from the sea
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE INSPIRED American Indie-folk band Port O’Brien play Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm, in what will be their second show in the Dominick Street venue.
Read more ...Competition winners
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
The winners of copies of the New Moon: The Twilight Saga are: Claire Tierney, Galway city; Aneta Bytomska, Oranmore; Eimear Keaveney, Salthill; Miriam Nashat, Barna; Neena Palluccio, Knocknacarra; Samantha Nyland, Shantalla; Maija Ludzite, Galway city; Siobhán Brannelly, Turloughmore; Natalie Tuffy, Athenry; and Karen O’Donnell, An Cheathrú Rua.
Read more ...Last two performances of Hedda Gabler
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE KATS theatre group will present its final two performances of Hedda Gabler in the Town Hall on Tuesday and Thursday.
Read more ...Enjoy a French film and raise funds for Haiti
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
PARIS 36, a French film set in a working-class district in northern Paris, will be screened by the Galway Film Society on Sunday April 18 at 8.15pm.
The music hall where Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot), Milou (Clovis Cornillac), and Jacky (Kad Merad) work is to be closed down so the three friends stage one last show, hoping it will be a hit that will make enough money to allow them to buy the place.
Read more ...Three poets from across the globe come to Cúirt
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THREE POETS, all with a varied heritage who have lived in various parts of the globe will gather together in the Town Hall this month to read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
Read more ...Ulster literary giants for Cúirt
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
TWO OF Ireland’s leading contemporary writers - Michael Longley and Jennifer Johnston - will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature later this month.
Read more ...GYT to stage Irish premiere for Cúirt
Thu, Apr 08, 2010
THE IRISH premiere of Yellow Moon by award winning playwright David Greig will be staged by Galway Youth Theatre for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two teenagers on the run. Silent Leila is an introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag Lee MacAlinden is the deadest of dead-end kids in a dead-end town. They never meant to get mixed up in a murder, but now they need a place to hide.
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