Any colour you like

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

CATHERINE FLEMING may only be 18 years old, but already she has had three exhibitions, and her fourth, currently running in the Providence Market Kitchen on St Augustine Street, reveals her increasingly bold use of colour and abstraction.

A ‘technicolour phantasmagoria’

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

PAT MCCABE’S rollercoaster new play, The Bridge Below The Town, set in 1950s small-town Ireland, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre and promises audiences a swirling drama of life, love, Butlins, and nuns who make márla men, set to a classic soundtrack.

Staged by Livin’ Dred Theatre Company, in association with NASC Theatre Network, the play centres on housewife Golly Murray who, despite being almost broken by life’s struggles, ultimately discovers the gratifying truth that love can triumph over adversity.

ConTempo and O’Connor - when trad meets classical

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

TRAD TITANS Máirtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain and Cathal Hayden are joining forces with the mighty ConTempo Quartet for a concert in Galway next month.

Putting Portrait Of The Artist on stage

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

JAMES JOYCE’S A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man comes in the Town Hall Theatre in an imaginative staging from Dublin’s New Theatre.

First published in 1916, the novel charts the young Joyce’s intellectual and artistic awakening through the persona of his fictional alter-ego, Stephen Dedalus.

Life among the Dorset Street Toys

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

A CHILD prophet is taken from a basket sent drifting down the Liffey. A young girl clutching a dolly is taken from her home.

Frank McGuinness’s Electra @ NUIG

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

FRANK MCGUINNESS’S adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra will be staged as part of the inaugural NUI Galway Theatre Season.

David Mamet’s Oleanna comes to Galway

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

DAVID MAMET’S Oleanna divided audiences upon its original production in 1992 and still divides audiences today.

Coole Music Orchestra Festival

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE SEVENTH annual Coole Music Orchestra Festival takes place in the Gort Community Centre this Saturday, starting at 1pm.

Damien Dempsey @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

Leading Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey is coming to the Róisín Dubh this evening at 8pm as part of his tour promoting his new album The Essential Damien Dempsey. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, the Ticket Desk at OMG Zhivago, Shop Street, and The Róisín Dubh.

The Legend of Luke Kelly

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE LEGEND Of Luke Kelly, a celebration of the music and voice of possibly the greatest of all Irish folk singers, is coming to the Town Hall.

The Chekhov Technique for comedy

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE CHEKHOV technique for actors is often associated with performing tragedy and intense situations, but it can be used for comedies as well.

Make your own short movie

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

GALWEGIANS WHO would like to star in their own short movie or gain experience in filmmaking, should check out a new course from the Galway Actors Workshop.

Baile an Salsa - town and country

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

BAILE AN Salsa, the exciting Galway based Irish trad/Latin music fusion band, play two shows across Galway city and county over the coming week.

Hawk to swoop down on Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

HAWK, THE band led by Galway born singer-songwriter Julie Hawk, have been sending critics into paroxysms of praise filled purple prose.

“A bit on the Bjork side of brilliant bonkers,” says Artrocker; “Hawk may be the big breeze inside London right now, but with this music, one predicts the country will soon be under their spell,” declared Ringmaster; “It is like a battle for supremacy between light and dark,” mused Americana UK.

Metal EP launch at The Cellar

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

NO MAN’S Land, the Limerick doom metal band, will launch their EP The Last Monolith in The Cellar underground tomorrow at 9pm.

Formed in 2012 by two musicians looking to bring a doomier, Black Sabbathesque sound into metal in the west of Ireland, the band has won attention from metal fans for their gigging across the country and appearances at several Siege Of Limerick festivals.

County music at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

MAX T BARNES, the country and western singer-songwriter and writer of numerous hit singles, will play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm.

Coyote Factor quarter final

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE LAST quarter final of Coyote Factor competition take place in The Stock Exchange Bar, Shop Street, this weekend.

A cinema-disco for kids

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

GALWAY CHILDREN can experience all the fun of a disco at the Kidisco - Dance Party For Kids in Leisureland, Salthill, this Sunday from 1.30pm.

Have a laugh for PREDA

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

MAEVE HIGGINS and Gearoid Farrelly will be taking to the stage of the Róisín Dubh this Saturday for Fun For Freedom, a night of stand-up comedy to raise funds for PREDA.

World cinema screenings

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

A JAPANESE film and a Turkish film will both be screened by the Galway Film Society over the coming week.

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