Creative writing classes @ GTI

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

BEGINNERS AND intermediate creative writing classes will be held in the Galway Technical Institute in September and bookings are now being taken.

Poetry classes in GAC

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

THE POET Stephen Murray will hold poetry master classes for adults and children at the Galway Arts Centre this month.

Brendan Grace - laughter in Salthill

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

BRENDAN GRACE returns to Galway to play The Salthill Hotel on Thursday August 15.

GAP cinema screening

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

THE BRILLIANT Despicable Me 2 will be the next screening in the Galway Autism Partnership’s sensory movie for families affected by autism series.

Extras sought for film

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

EXTRAS FOR a period drama will be cast tomorrow at 10am in Arus na nGael in Dominick Street.

Alabama 3 - unplugged in Galway

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

ALABAMA 3 have been called many things - pop band, punk rock, blues and country, a techno situationist crypto-Marxist-Leninist electro band.

Paddy Casey @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

PADDY CASEY began his musical career busking on Galway’s streets, but since that apprenticeship he has become one of Ireland’s best established singer-songwriters.

Casey plays Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm where he will perform songs from his four albums - Amen (So Be It), Living, Addicted To Company, and The Secret Life Of. Doubtless the set will include such audience favourites as ‘Saints and Sinners’, ‘Bend Down Low’, ‘Everybody Wants’, and ‘The Lucky One’.

Bluegrass master Tim O’Brien to play Galway

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

TIM O’BRIEN, one of America’s leading folk, bluegrass, and country musicians, is coming to Galway to play Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover.

The Hive party @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

110TH STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.30pm.

Gold Diggers @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

KANYE WEST’S ruminations on gold diggers has become part of the popular conscience, but the phrase is also the name of an Athenry folk quintet.

Japanese butoh in The Shed

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

BUTOH IS many things. It can be dance, performance, or movement. It involves grotesque imagery and taboo topics, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup.

Launch of new crime fiction book

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

THE NEW York based Irish writer Seamus Scanlon launches his new collection of crime fiction stories in Galway this evening.

Recalling Kinvara in the fifties

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

PAINTINGS INSPIRED by photographs taken of Kinvara in the 1950s will be on show at Murphystore on the Quay, Kinvara, from this weekend.

Dialysis patients celebrate creativity

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

A SWALLOW'S Tale In A Thousand Skies, is an exhibition of “pictures, words and messin’” from dialysis patients and staff in Merlin Park University Hospital.

The exhibition opens in the Galway Arts Centre this Saturday at 2pm and will also feature the launch of the book The Magician and the Swallow’s Tale.

Jerry Marjoram to exhibit in Kenny’s

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

MARJORAM, A collection of new and retrospective paintings by Jerry Marjoram opens in The Kenny Gallery, tomorrow at 6pm.

The Sound Of Music

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will come alive with The Sound Of Music when Sean and Brian Powers’ Twin Productions bring the much-loved musical to the venue for a five night run from August 14 to 18.

New exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

TOMORROW AT 6pm sees the opening of two exhibitions in the Galway Arts Centre - Linda Shevlin’s Supernature and Vicky Smith’s Megga Bubble Space Burbs.

Milltown to host PJ Conlon Festival

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

UACHTARÁN NA hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, will officially open the inaugural PJ Conlon Festival, in Milltown, north County Galway, this weekend.

Summer ballet camp

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

A SUMMER ballet camp will take place from August 13 to 16 in the Presentation Primary School Hall, Newcastle Road, and is open to all students of ballet.

Chamber Philharmonia Cologne in concert

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

ONE OF Germany's finest ensembles, the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne, will be in concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church.

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