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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Make Your Own Short Movie takes place from 11am to 6pm this Saturday and Sunday and next Saturday and Sunday (March 8 and 9). Under the professional guidance of the Galway Film Centre’s Pete Ray, the workshop gives students a chance to work in front and behind the camera. It is suitable for those with some acting experience.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Eight contestants will battle it out to make it through to the semi finals and this is one of a number of events at the venue.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan’s lunchtime improv
Thu, Feb 27, 2014
TOMMY TIERNAN will take Galwegians on a 40 minute journey through whatever comes into his head, with the return of his improv show Open Mouth.
Read more ...Classical and opera @ The Eye
Thu, Feb 27, 2014
A RUSSIAN epic from New York’s Metropolitan Opera and a Berlin production of Bach’s St John Passion will be broadcast live via satellite to The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Exploring the Magnetic North
Thu, Feb 27, 2014
THE ARCTIC, migration, memory, and changing environments will come together in a new exhibition by Galway artist Selma Makela, which opens tomorrow.
Read more ...We All Know Someone concert for Galway Hospice
Thu, Feb 27, 2014
THE AMAZING APPLES, Don Stiffe, and the Mulkerrin Brothers are among the acts taking to the stage for a major fundraising concert for the Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Japanese and Irish poetry reading
Thu, Feb 27, 2014
AN EVENING of Japanese and Irish poetry, with Hisa Kagawa and Nicki Griffin, takes place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 8pm.
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