Shappi Khorsandi - laughing at an unconventional life

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.

ROCKtoberfest - a weekend of music at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

ROCKTOBERFEST, GALWAY’S new ‘indoor music festival’ will see Monroe’s Live play host to 22 up-and-coming Irish bands, across a wide range of genres, starting today and running throughout the weekend.

TULCA to go Neutral for 2014

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

NEUTRALITY IS a much discussed, often thorny political and historical subject in Ireland, but being ‘neutral’ and the ideas it implies is the subject of TULCA 2014.

Public lecture on Oscar Wilde’s father

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

SIR WILLIAM WILDE, the father of Oscar Wilde, will be the subject of a public lecture in the Galway City Museum next week.

Films from opposite ends of the Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

MOHAMAD MALAS’S first film in almost a decade and a French film about an actor coming out of retirement will be screened in Galway this weekend.

The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

SCOTTISH PUPPETEER and ‘object-theatre’ artist Shona Reppe makes her fifth visit to Baboró with a show that promises to be a festival highlight, The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean.

Acts announced for Comedy Club 4 Kids

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

WHY SHOULD adults have all the fun? Why can’t the children get in on the laughs as well? They can - as long as they are over the age of six - at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Foróige drama returns tomorrow

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

FORÓIGE’S WEEKLY drama group returns for its new term tomorrow at the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, opposite the coach station.

Art at UHG

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

EXCURSION, AN exhibition of paintings by Pat Byrne is currently on show in the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway.

Take a Lecherous Gaze at ‘rock-punk heavy jams’

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

LECHEROUS GAZE’S music fits somewhere between garage and stoner rock, but they prefer to describe themselves as playing “psycho-delic shred-tastic ultra-hyphened rock-punk heavy jams.”

Fiction Slam - read your story aloud

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE ANNUAL Fiction Slam returns for it’s six year in The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum on Friday October 17 at 8pm.

Macbeth - opera at The Eye

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GIUSEPPI VERDI’S operatic version of Shakespeare’s dark drama of murder, violence, and lust for power, Macbeth, will be screened at The Eye.

From fishing boats to Shakespeare

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

JAMES DE Vita was a young fisherman searching for a new career and then he discovered the greatest playwright of all time - William Shakespeare.

Bulletproof Ideas - creative writing for teens

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

BULLETPROOF IDEAS is a creative writing course for young people aged between 14-and 17, which starts next month.

Naomi Berrill - jazz album launch in Galway

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

“NAOMI BERRILL is leading a generation of new cello players that re-invent the approach to the instrument in order to show its many possibilities.”

Galway teens sought for classical music competition

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

YOUNG GALWAY musicians are tuning up to win a €3,000 prize to develop their musical talent as the Fr Frank Maher Classical Music Awards seeks entries for 2014.

Major Irish singer-songwriters in concert for Gaza

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

DECLAN O’ROURKE, Paddy Casey, and Brian Kennedy play the Kinvara Community Centre in a special concert to raise funds the children of Gaza.

A night of Bach’s cantatas and arias

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GERMAN SOPRANO Anja Pöche-Lipfert and the internationally acclaimed baroque ensemble Camerata Kilkenny are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.

Galway Percy French Society journal launch

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE GALWAY Percy French Society will launch its journal To The West, featuring prose, poetry, local history, folklore, traditions, reflections, and humour.