Bringing audiences into the Heart of the crime
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
The darkness is drawing in. The evenings are getting longer. Halloween is approaching. There is no better month than October to stage a story by the genius of horror writers - Edgar Allan Poe.
Read more ...Three new books from Galway publisher
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
THE GALWAY based publisher Wordonthestreet, is getting set to launch its three latest publications - two poetry collections and a book of short stories.
Read more ...NIE: Delving into Europe’s history at Baboró
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
AMONG THE many outstanding companies gathering in Galway for Baboró are the multi-national New International Encounter who are bringing a trilogy of plays inspired by the seismic upheavals of European history over the past century.
Read more ...Baboró’s favourite songwriter Tom Chapin returns to the Black Box
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
GRAMMY AWARD winning artist Tom Chapin has been described as “the pied piper of children’s music”. His recordings aimed at four to 11-year-olds and their families have brought him worldwide acclaim.
Read more ...The Comedy Club gets set to move to Fridays
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
THE COMEDY Club in Cuba* is a Galway institution and is synonymous with Sunday nights in the city, but nothing stays the same forever and a change is on the way as the club is about to move to a new slot on Fridays.
Paddy Courtney (Paddywhackery, Prison Break, and the little purple guy in the Lotto ads) plays the Comedy Club this Sunday at 8.30pm and has the distinction of being the last comic to play at the Sunday night slot.
Read more ...Via Dolorosa returns to the Nuns Island Theatre
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
MUST OUR lives in the West necessarily be shallower than those of people for whom the stakes are so much higher?”
Read more ...Acting classes and workshops
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
SARAH O’TOOLE, a former member of Galway Youth Theatre and a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting, will be giving acting classes for adults in Galway starting next week.
The introduction to acting classes start on October 15 and will be held on Wednesdays from 6.30pm to 9.30pm for six weeks in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill. There are 12/14 places available. Classes cost €120/100. The classes are open to all levels of ability.
Read more ...Baboró gets sheepish with Schaf!
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
IN KEEPING with its enviable record for introducing children to the full gamut of the arts, Baboró this year features an opera specially written for young audiences.
Read more ...Jinx Lennon returns
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
CO LOUTH agit-folk troubadour Jinx Lennon, will bring his mix of singer-songwriter, social commentator, satire, humour, and rage to the Róisín Dubh on Monday at 9pm.
On the night, Jinx will be joined on-stage by vocalist Miss Paula Flynn and they will be singing songs from Jinx’s forthcoming album.
Read more ...No half measures from Halfset when it comes to the music
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
IT HAS been three years since Halfset - the Dublin band whose sound combines indie-rock, mood music, electronica, atmospheric instrumentals, and songs - released their debut album Drammanalog.
Read more ...Let Damien Dempsey teach you something at Campbell’s
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
IT IS not only fans of great songwriting and Irish folk who will be looking forward to this weekend’s activities in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, but also those who aspire to write songs and sing.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting in a restaurant on the harbour front of Loggos, a village on the Greek island of Paxos. Family and friends around me
Songwriter Johnny Duhan to launch autobiography
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
SINGER-SONGWRITER Johnny Duhan, best know for his songs ‘The Voyage’ and ‘Don’t Give Up ‘Till It’s Over’, will launch his autobiography To The Light in Galway next week.
Read more ...Charlie Byrne’s Literary Table Quiz
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
THE SIXTH annual Charlie Byrne’s Literary Table Quiz takes place in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill on Wednesday at 8pm.
This year’s quiz is supporting Des Kenny in the Dublin City Marathon. Des will be raising money for both Galway Simon Community and Galway Rape Crisis Centre.
Read more ...Harry & His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
HARRY COULD not have timed his discovery better, as five years old is exactly the right age to discover dinosaurs!
Harry and Granny were exploring the attic. Harry shone his torch inside a dusty old box, that must have lain untouched for years, and there staring back at him were his six new best friends - six toy dinosaurs!!!
Read more ...How to lose respect and alienate viewers
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
A funny thing happens in the moments before the opening credits to a film adapted from one of your favourite books. You get this brief reality check, push-and-pull where you want the film to be even better than the book but know in the very back of your mind that the chances it will are very slim. How To Lose Friends and Alienate People is unfortunately no different.
Read more ...Pacino returns in preposterous psychological thriller
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
FOLLOWING last week’s Righteous Kill, Al Pacino returns to cinema screens this week in 88 Minutes. This furiously paced thriller stars Pacino as an academic psychiatrist, Dr Jack Gramm, who is renowned both for his abilities and decadent lifestyle.
Read more ...Two NUIG students win documentary award
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
TWO NUI, Galway students - Richard Walsh and Julian Ulrichs - have won the Best Short Documentary prize at the Radharc Awards in Dublin for their short documentary FGM – No Way Home.
Read more ...Galway teens asked for film script ideas
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
TEENAGERS WITH a story to tell and who think it might make a good script for a film, the basis for a novel, or idea for a video game are asked to get writing.
Read more ...Fight Like Apes and the imminent conquest of Britain
Thu, Oct 02, 2008
IT IS a manic time for Dublin indie-pop mavericks Fight Like Apes. “We have worked our asses off. We have not been home for even a week in months,” declares singer MayKay of the whirlwind circuit that has seen them play Oxegen, Glastonbury, Reading, and Castle-palooza, before supporting the Ting Tings British tour this month.
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