Galway Cartoon Festival 2020
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
AN EXHIBITION featuring more than 100 cartoons, taking in every aspect and angle of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be the centrepiece of the 2020 Galway Cartoon Festival.
Read more ...‘We are determined and we will continue to work’
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
IT IS, as Stephen Fry noted at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, “a very dark time for the performing arts”, and just as venues re-opened and shows were taking place once more - albeit on a small scale - Galway stands on the brink of a county wide lockdown.
Read more ...Virtual Galway band release debut single
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
A BAND, whose members have never met, are about to release their debut single. It would sound implausible were it not taking place during these strange times of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...Baboró 2020 starts on Monday
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
Monday October 5 marks the start of the Baboró International Arts Festival For Children, two weeks of creative, theatrical, musical and artistic events for children to share with families, friends, and classmates.
Read more ...Tom O'Mahony to headline the Comedy KARLnival
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
TOM O'MAHONY, described by the late, very grate Rik Mayall as "psychotically funny", and Jo Caulfield, “one of the finest female comics at work” according to The Observer, play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Studio@5 - Where Creative Minds Collide!
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
Located in Claregalway Corporate Park, Cue One Ireland's new studio and rehearsal space Studio@5 is where - Creative Minds Collide. Offering the ideal creativity incubator and work space for Artists, Musicians, Creators, Producers, and Technicians; Studio@5 is a multi-performance, show tech/build, co-working space & training facility designed for developing and finalising touring theatre, TV, Film, Radio & Music productions. Studio@5 is equipped with fibre broadband so you can stream any live events from the studio to the highest standard and resolution without interruption. Recent projects taken place at this new studio facility include the build of this years' Galway International Arts Festival's ''Mirror Pavilion'', Galway Simon Community Virtual Sleep Out and Druid's fantastic theatre set for Cherry Orchard was constructed in the studio.
Read more ...Rocks - a realistic look at adolescence and poverty, that's also fun
Films Reviews Tue, Sep 29, 2020
SOMETHING A bit different this week - a movie in the cinemas that is not available via streaming. If you want to see this, and you should, you are going to have to go to a cinema.
Read more ...Tickets still available for Junior Brother
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
JUNIOR BROTHER, the County Kerry folk singer-songwriter, who has won acclaim for his debut album Pull The Right Rope, released via Strange Brew, plays the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 1.
Read more ...Joe Geoghan - a retrospective at Art In Mind
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
JOE GEOGHAN, one of Galway's most respected photographers, will be marking a career spanning five decades, when a retrospective on his work goes on display in Art In Mind.
Read more ...Padraig Jack - new album, Róisín Dubh show
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
MAKING SAND, the debut album from Aran Island singer-songwriter Padraig Jack is released tomorrow, Friday September 25, and comes ahead of two gigs in Galway.
Read more ...A global environmental exhibition in Kinvara
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
WHAT WOULD happen if there was a call for artists from around the globe to make a work about creativity and environmental crisis, and the only rule was that the artwork had to be the size of a postcard and mailed to Kinvara?
Read more ...The sound of silver - Flirt FM to mark 25 years on air
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
On Monday September 28, at 12 noon, it will be exactly 25 years since Flirt FM, the award winning campus, community and alternative radio station, located at NUI Galway, went live on air.
Read more ...Album review: Pillow Queens
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE OPENING lines of opening track, 'Holy Show', present a picture of physical intimacy between two women, which is surprising for both its frankness, but also its tenderness.
Read more ...Maisie's story - ‘sincerity, humour, a celebration of a life’
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
"AGE CONFERS wisdom" goes the old adage, and there is a value in listening to the experiences of those who have lived through trying times in the past, which can in turn "enrich our understanding of the present".
Read more ...Chris Haze - live on stage
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, has announced his first socially distanced live show of 2020, taking place in the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 30.
Read more ...Gilgamesh is coming...
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
A BEARDED man with wild, unkempt hair, pulling a cart behind him, was spotted on the streets of Galway this week, the same man whose face adorns a mural that appeared on the corner of Bridge Street and Dominick Street.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
M: Laughter and peace of mind.
HOST releases new single - 'Borderline'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
SYNTH-POP artist HOST will release her new song and video, ‘Borderline’ tomorrow, Friday September 25. The song was inspired by "the ugly, but totally normal stages of a breakup".
Read more ...Covid pandemic forces cancellation of 2020 Vodafone Comedy Carnival
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway, one of the major events of the Galway, and indeed Irish festival calendar, has had to be cancelled this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...The Devil All The Time - too much misery and too much dirt for 2020
Films Reviews Tue, Sep 22, 2020
THE DEVIL All The Time is adapted from a 2011 best seller which Netflix bought last year for distribution. It has released it for streaming but apparently has a big campaign ready to go when awards season kicks off.
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