Life will be different - Rita Ann Higgins' Covid poems

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

ONE OF the most direct and immediate responses to the Covid crisis from any Irish artist, has come from the pen of Galway poet, Rita Ann Higgins.

48 Hour Film Challenge goes virtual for 2020

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

LITTLE CINEMA and Galway City of Film's 48 Hour Challenge is taking place again this year, but in a virtual fashion instead of a physical screening at the Town Hall Theatre.

Compassion and empathy, wrapped in shoegaze

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

IT BEGINS with a reversal of linear time - with a sunset, and sees the encroaching darkness, not as forbidding, but as a moment to take stock and be glad of what has been, and what is.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.