IMC Galway to screen Cobain: Montage Of Heck

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the new film on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will be screened in the IMC Cinema, Headford Road on Friday April 10 at 8.30pm.

Stand-up comedy about the quality of our food

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COMEDIAN TOMIE James used to eat whatever he wanted and laughed at people on diets. Then he was diagnosed with a food allergy.

HamsandwicH - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

HAMSANDWICH RELEASE their third album, Stories From The Surface, on Friday April 17, and before that play the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 10 at 9pm.

Exhibition inspired by Marconi’s transmitter

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

A FIELD trip to the Marconi radio station in Derrigimlagh, Clifden, has inspired a new exhibition, You Are Here, which opens this evening [Thursday April 2] in the Galway Arts Centre.

Naomi Shihab Nye: Palestine and poetry meet at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NAOMI SHIHAB Nye has had both the good fortune, and the bad luck, to have lived in interesting times and places. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother; she grew up in (the now notorious) St Louis suburb of Ferguson, in Jerusalem, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides.

Album review: The Go! Team

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 02, 2015

LAST TIME out on 2010’s Rolling Blackouts, Brighton collective The Go! Team delivered a set of full on funk, soul, blaxploitation, and samapdelic urban.

'I absolutely hated going to school. Every day I went there I was nervous'

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

MEET PAKIE, an orphan, storyteller, adventurer, and survivor. He may not be the sharpest tool in the box, but he does know the history of his native town, from vicious Vikings to less-than Christian Brothers.

SBB Ina Shuí sa Town Hall

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

EVENING TIME on Irish TV in the early 1980s. A psychedelic animation of red lips against a green background, all soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’. SBB Ina Shuí was starting.

Sean Keane to play Croí charity concert

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

THE GREAT Seán Keane will play Heartbreak Hotel, a charity concert in aid of Croí, in Monroe’s Live on Thursday April 16, which will also feature performances form a host of well known Galway and Irish performers.

Dr Sketchy’s - Gotham bad girls are back

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

GOTHAM CITY’S bad girls, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman, will be the subjects and inspirations for Dr Sketchy’s, very alternative life drawing class.

Back Alleys on the Arts Corridor

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

THE ARTS Corridor at University Hospital Galway is currently full of Back Alleys, giving glimpses into childhood freedoms and childhood environments that are rapidly disappearing.

On being autistic: a personal witness

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 02, 2015

IN HIS extraordinary book, The Reason I Jump - One Boy’s Voice From The Silence Of Autism, Naoki Higashida, an autistic boy aged 13, writes: “We are misunderstood and we’d give anything if only we could be understood properly...Please, understand what we really are, and what we’re going through.”

Noël Coward’s Private Lives in Oranmore

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NOËL COWARD’S now classic 1930 comedy of manners, Private Lives, is being staged by Bualadh Bos - Oranmore Music & Drama Group next week.

Interskalactic return to The Loft

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, hailed as “the future of ska in Ireland” by The Late Late Show’s Ryan Tubridy, return to Galway with their old-school Jamaican style ska.

Denise Hogan art classes

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

AWARD-WINNING Galway artist and teacher Denise Hogan is taking bookings for her weekly art classes and upcoming art workshops.

Grindcore gig from FEAST

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

BRITISH GRINDCORE bands Human Cull and This Ends Here play the next FEAST night upstairs in the Róisín Dubh at 9pm on Thursday April 9.

Jennifer Cunningham art classes

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

ONE OF Galway’s leading artists, Jennifer Cunningham, holds her popular painting and drawing classes this month and in May.

International conference on intercultural theatre and performance

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NUI Galway will host a major international conference on ‘Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?’ from 10-11 April. The conference will feature leading scholars in intercultural theatre and performance studies from Australia, Canada, the United States, the UK and Turkey.

DJ night to support Yes vote in Marriage Equality referendum

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

LEADING LOCAL, national, and international DJs will be spinning the decks at Electric tomorrow night for Confetti, an event supporting the Yes campaign for the Marriage Equality referendum.