Fregoli Theatre Company presents a new work-in-progress comedy play Cross Street

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Fregoli Theatre Company announces a new work-in-progress edition of its latest work Cross Street. A virtual reading of its new comedy play, offers hints of horror while exploring mental health issues and can be seen for one night only on Saturday November 28 from 7pm.

Heavy metals - new music, new restrictions, new problems

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Providing a combination of DIY indie, folk, and rock and inspired by Joshua Burnside, The Frames, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and Band of Horses, Derek Ellard and the future business model's new album, Heavy Metals, is about modern grief, a loss of personality but, evidently, a new normal for many.

Luminosa Music to perform live streamed concert from Galway Cathedral

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Luminosa Music, Galway’s own professional string orchestra, will perform a very special live streamed concert from Galway Cathedral tomorrow evening from 7.30pm.

ConTempo Quartet to celebrate female composer Dora Pejacevic in Croatia Concert

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Galway Music Residency’s From Europe with Love is back with another instalment this Friday at 1pm.

This month ConTempo Quartet visit Croatia, the home of our sister European Capital of Culture, Rijeka, to explore the music of female composer Dora Pejacevic. Though a live audience is not possible, the lunchtime concert will be broadcast from the beautiful Oughterard Courthouse and will be available to watch for free on Facebook and YouTube.

A near masterpiece of revolutionary intent

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

KARL PARKINSON is a writer many Irish men and women of letters secretly think should not exist. This is partly the snobbery of the well fed, who dominate the deciding echelons of conventional literary taste-making.

It is a mentality which believes there is no place in Irish poetry for someone who grew up in a part of Dublin where males of his generation are more likely to end up in Mountjoy than Trinity.

'Freeze Frame' - new single from Galway artist Niamh Regan

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Since the release of Niamh Regan’s debut album Hemet on September 4 this year, she has quietly and assuredly taken her position at the top table of the Irish music scene.

Enable Ireland seeks wild atlantic art

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Enable Ireland is appealing to artists to donate art pieces inspired by the wild Atlantic coast for its upcoming charity sale.

The national charity is holding an online art sale in November and is seeking donations from artists based along Ireland’s Atlantic way in the counties of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, and Donegal. Pieces created by artists based outside this area (that are related to the Atlantic coast) are also welcome.

Science on Screen Film Festival for Galway opens this week!

Tue, Nov 03, 2020

A new film festival – Science on Screen Film Festival Ireland – runs from this Thursday November 5 to Sunday November 8. The festival, hosted by CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at NUI Galway and Galway Film Centre, will show the best of science films – shorts and features - from around the world and will include a world premiere, a European premiere and lots of Irish premieres.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Craft beer in the shower.

The Opacas release second single and video

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

THE OPACAS, the virtual band featuring members from Galway and Leeds released their second single, 'She Walks Away', along with a video featuring an array of local acting talent.

Acrobatic duo chosen for first Inis Óirr arts residency

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

CIKADA CIRCUS, an acrobatic hand to hand performance company, have been chosen as the first beneficiaries of a new month long residency programme in the Aras Eanna arts centre on Inis Oírr.

Twists of L - Harlean Palfrey releases new album

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

HARLEAN PALFREY, the Galway singer-songwriter, will release her new album, Twists Of L, tomorrow, Friday October 30. "The title describes twists of life, love, and discovering light in shifting times," the singer says.

Carpe Diem - Sing and Play: Remembering Eimear begins November 1

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

Carpe Diem - Sing And Play: Remembering Eimear is a novel online performance challenge, commencing on Sunday November 1 2020 on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. It will run for two weeks and is open to all levels of proficiency.

On The Rocks

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

Rashida Jones plays Laura; she is a writer with writer's block and raising two daughters with her husband Dean. Lately she has noticed Dean is distant and not affectionate. His business is starting to take off so he is away from home a lot. When she goes to meet him at a work event she notices how friendly he is with a younger beautiful colleague which only adds to her suspicion. While having lunch with her father Felix, she tells him what has been bothering her. Instantly he assumes the worst (himself a life long womaniser). Rather than consoling Laura he takes the opportunity to bond with her on catching Dean out. They then spending the weekend stalking him around New York looking for evidence.

Livefeed returns with online performance

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

On November 7, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture youth music project, Livefeed, will host a live online event featuring young musicians and songwriters from Galway city and county. The event will be livestreamed via the Livefeed Facebook, YouTube and Twitch accounts at 7pm and available to watch after the event on YouTube. The event will also feature as part of the TRIBES Youth Arts Festival programme.

Two mercilessly honest women poets

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

OF LATE, it has been in vogue for male publishers to publish young women poets. Some people think this has something to do with feminism. However, male publishers tend to be less interested in emerging woman poets over 40 – an age when many women, having raised families, begin seriously writing poems.

Both Attracta Fahy and Mary Madec are poets who lived full lives before they began publishing poems. Fahy’s debut, Dinner In The Fields, is published by innovative UK small press Fly On The Wall, while Madec’s third collection, The Egret Lands With News From Other Parts, was brought into the world by Jessie Lendennie’s Salmon Poetry - a press which puts the rest of Irish poetry publishing to collective shame when it comes to platforming alternative voices.

Enjoy Macnas At Home - A Bram Stoker Festival commission!

Tue, Oct 27, 2020

In a year when a parade isn’t possible, Macnas has partnered once again with Bram Stoker Festival for a unique celebration to bring the magic of Macnas right into your home this Halloween.

Sebastian Barry - live online from Kenny's Bookshop

Thu, Oct 22, 2020

"OUR BOOKSHOPS are the lighthouses for every writerly boat on the ocean. Without them we cannot set sail. They are the little churches and heroic temples of our endeavours."

Mad, Bad and Dangerous - celebrating ‘difficult’ women

Thu, Oct 22, 2020

GALWAY’S MARGARETTA D’Arcy and Lelia Doolan are interviewed in a new web-series, Mad, Bad and Dangerous, celebrating trailblazing Irish women, aged over 70, who remain in the public eye.

Album review: Denise Chaila

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 22, 2020

AN ARTICULACY and a wisdom beyond her years, armed with groove filled beats and melodies that are as catchy as they are clever, Denise Chaila has truly arrived with Go Bravely.

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