Acclaimed film sleep furiously to be screened on Tuesday

Thu, Jan 28, 2010

THE ACCLAIMED British film sleep furiously, set in a small farming community in Wales, will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday at 8.15pm.

Boys’ choir auditions

Thu, Jan 28, 2010

THE GALWAY Boy Singers, and director Mark Keane, are seeking new members this season and boys aged seven to 12 are eligible to apply.

In 2009 the choir received first prize in the Youth Choir Competition at the Limerick Festival of Church Music. The choir has toured Europe and won prizes in the Dublin Feis Ceoil and the Cork International Choral Festival.

Galway Youth Orchestra concert

Thu, Jan 28, 2010

THE GALWAY Youth Orchestra will give its first concert of 2010 in The Black Box Theatre on Saturday at 8pm.

The concert will feature performances by the junior, intermediate, and senior orchestras under conductors Michael Dooley, Joanne Cater, and Peter Berrill.

The journey to find the Lost Chord begins here

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

“I HAVE sought, but I seek it vainly, That one lost chord divine, Which came from the soul of the organ, And entered into mine,” so wrote Sir Arthur Sullivan in his celebrated song ‘The Lost Chord’.

Blue Raincoat stage At Swim Two Birds in Town Hall

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

SLIGO’S BLUE Raincoat Theatre Company come to the Town Hall from February 4 to 6 with A new staging of Flann O’Brien’s ebullient comic classic, At Swim Two Birds.

Go bhFeicfidh Tú Dán? Ó Direáin

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

A SERIES of drawings, inspired by the poems of Máirtín Ó Direáin and visually re-interpreting them in a modern setting forms the basis of a new exhibition in the Galway Arts Centre.

Shakespeare’s Rape Of Lucrece at the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE Company actor Gerard Logan comes to the Town Hall on Monday February 1 with his tour-de-force solo performance of William Shakespeare’s epic narrative poem The Rape Of Lucrece.

Theatre and film course extended

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

STAGECOACH THEATRE Arts and GMIT have announced an extended six week collaboration for the acting for the screen classes.

The classes are held in partnership with The Galway Film Centre. The module is now expanded and gives young film makers an opportunity to work on dialogues, monologues, and emotive response camera work with students in a safe environment.

Theatre production staff sought

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

JASANGO THEATRE is seeking production staff for its upcoming national tour with Joanna Murray Smith’s Bombshells.

For more information contact 086 - 3638758 or email [email protected]

Strange Brew - cooking up more new indie for 2010

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

TWO DOOR Cinema Club, Codes, and Wild Beasts, three bands many tip to become the major acts of 2010, will all play Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh within the next three months.

Experience the Mantrum at Campbell’s

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

A ‘MANTRUM’ is the term for when a grown man throws a tantrum when he cannot have his way. It’s also the name of an exciting jazz quintet who play Galway tomorrow.

Mantrum play Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, tomorrow at 10pm. The band are Swedish saxophonists Thomas Backman and Nils Berg, and Irish jazzers Cormac O’Brien (bass), Shane O’Donovan (drums), Shane Latimer (guitar).

Who says Italians can’t play a mean guitar?

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

The words “Italian” and “He plays a mean guitar” don’t go hand in hand naturally. After all how many Italian guitar wizards can you think of?

Wiggle to bring the digi-dub reggae to Galway

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

WIGGLE, THE Cork digi-dub reggae legends return to Galway to play The Warwick Hotel, Salthill, on Friday January 29 at 10pm.

New book delves into the lives of Irish artists

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

TEA’N’TURPS, a new book by the South African born, Irish based, artist Lynda Cookson, takes a humorous look at the lives and work of 12 contemporary Irish artists.

Have a double helping of laughs

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

GALWAY CAN treat itself to a double helping of laughs over the next week as the Róisín Dubh stages two comedy shows in Comedy Comedy and The Laughter Lounge.

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.

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