Creative writing classes

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

GALWAY POET and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will host a creative writing class in the GMIT next month.

The course takes place on Wednesdays from 7.30pm to 9.30pm and runs for eight weeks, starting on February 10. Susan will give support, instruction, and feedback to students who are interested in writing short stories, novels, or poetry.

German award for Ken Bruen

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

THIS YEAR has got off to a good start for the internationally acclaimed Galway crime author Ken Bruen who has just won an award in Germany.

What goes on inside those buildings?

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

HOW DO the security guards in the Jeu de Paume see the museum? What is going on inside the LA library? Just how do we interact with the buildings we encounter every day?

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
To be with my entire family especially at Christmas.

To be with my entire family especially at Christmas.

Eduard Stan and Music for Galway to celebrate Schumann

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THIS YEAR is the bicentenary of Robert Schumann’s birth and Music For Galway is marking the occasion in style with Fantasies and Fairytales, a weekend of selected chamber works by Schumann, running over four concerts from January 22 to 24 at the Town Hall Theatre.

Ronan Collins reels in the showband years at Town Hall

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE SHOWBANDS were a truly unique Irish entertainment phenomenon from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s and produced such names as Brendan Bowyer, Dickie Rock, Joe Dolan, Butch Moore, Red Hurley, and Big Tom.

At the time Irish music was only at an embryonic stage of development and the only way a musician had of developing his craft was by joining a group. Among the many internationally famous international musicians who started their careers on the showband circuit were Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, Henry McCullough, Eric Bell, and Colm Wilkinson. The Beatles even played support to Irish showbands in their early days.

A trio of great comics at The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

A SCOTSMAN, an Irishman, and an American walked into a bar...that bar will be the Róisín Dubh when Geoff Boyz, Shane Mauss, and Keith Farnan play The Laughter Lounge next Wednesday.

Playing at Plays in Town Hall studio

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

YOUNG GALWAY ensemble The Company Productions kick off the New Year in appropriate fashion at the Town Hall studio next week with a new play about the trials and tribulations of putting on a play.

CoisCéim Dance to mix Superman and Nijinsky

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

COISCÉIM DANCE Theatre is celebrating 15 years of award-winning productions this year and to mark the occasion it is bringing two new dance works, As You Are and Faun, around the country.

As You Are directed by CoisCéim dancer Muirne Bloomer and Faun directed by CoisCéim artistic director David Bolger, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday January 26 at 8pm.

Reservoir Dogs at Town Hall

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

“THERE’S TWO ways you can go on this job: My way or the highway,” so says Joe, played by Lawrence Tierney in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

Pete Mullineaux acting classes

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

GALWAY BASED actor, poet, and songwriter Pete Mullineaux will host his next series of acting classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting Wednesday January 20.

Malcolm Middleton’s Long Dark Night

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

MALCOLM MIDDLETON may have announced he’s taking a break from recording solo albums for a while, but he’s not finished touring and this first rate songwriter is coming to Galway at the end of the month.

Cinema Review- Daybreakers

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

A dystopian world where vampires have taken over and the remaining humans are hunted down and farmed like animals seems like the perfect recipe for a fangtastic blockbuster, but sadly the Spierig brothers’ direction got lost in the gore, leaving just a bloody, and at times laughable, mess in its wake.

As a vampire flick fan I have been waiting with baited breath for the arrival of Daybreakers to our cinema screens. The film, which is directed and written by twin brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, began great and remained that way to some point in the middle until it just went a little crazy, losing focus and getting much too caught up in the gore - when in doubt tear off more limbs. It’s a real pity because the initial idea behind the film is excellent and very much like 28 Days Later but with vampires. Should have been a success right? Well, it wasn’t.

Athenry’s Julie Feeney wins again

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE AWARD winning Athenry born vocalist and composer Julie Feeney won the Best Styled Irish Music Video 09 award at the recent IMTV Awards in Dublin.

Over The Edge celebrates its seventh birthday

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE OVER The Edge readings will celebrate its seventh birthday on Thursday January 21 with a reading by the poet David Wheatley in the Galway City Library.

Acting workshops

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

ACTRESS AND director Sarah O’Toole will run acting workshops in the Anno Santo Hotel and The Creative Actor course in the Galway Arts Centre.

The acting workshops are for adults (both beginners and experienced) and take place in the Anno Santo Hotel on Monday and Tuesdays from 7pm to 9pm, running for eight weeks, starting January 25. The cost is €120/100. For booking contact 087 - 2373531.

Text in Action workshop

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

ARTISTS AND theatre-practitioners who want to explore what text can do in a performance context should check out a new class which begins next week.

Art Exhibitions

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

Adrien Sourdot
Madame Pompom And The Chthonians, the debut exhibition of French artist Adrien Sourdot opens in the Galway City Library tomorrow. The Madame Pompom section features oil, pastel, ink, and watercolour works of ‘accidental figures’. The Chthonians features oil, acrylic, and plaster works. The official opening is on Friday January 15 at 8pm. It then runs until January 31.