Drama workshops for teens

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

KEEP YOUR eyes open around town during the Galway Arts Festival for unexpected entertainment with pop-up theatre performances on the street.

These performances will be the result of two evening workshops which will be held at the Foróige youth café, Fairgreen, (opposite the bus station), to encourage teens to devise their own physical theatre.

Stop - a Galway produced film

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

STOP, A short film written and directed by Paul Murphy, and produced by Galwegian Mark Downes, will be shown as part of the Galway Film Fleadh.

Amy-Joyce Hastings - rising Galway actress

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

THE NEW name to watch out for in Irish cinema could well be the Oughterard born actress, writer, director, and producer, Amy-Joyce Hastings.

Theatre @ Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

THEATRE IS a major part of this year’s Galway Fringe Festival, with more than 30 productions from some of Ireland’s finest theatre practitioners.

Angels Of The Odd: Red: A night of peculiar theatre and strange cabaret is the intriguing title of a show from Angels of the Odd Productions in The Electric Garden tomorrow and Saturday.

Music on Inishbofin

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

JULIE FEENEY and The Walls are among the musicians who will be making their way to Inishbofin for the island’s summer concerts.

The concerts start on July 16 with Eleanor Shanley, who will be joined by guitarist Frankie Lane and Paul Kelly. On July 23, Steve and Joe Wall (The Walls, The Stunning), will take to the stage.

Lee Fields - the second coming of a soul man

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

AS I write, shrill shrieks and grunts James Brown would be envious of are busting out of the speakers from my 45rpm copy of ‘I’m A Man’. Indeed the artist’s old nickname ‘Little JB’ comes from his physical and vocal resemblance to Brown. However this is unmistakably Lee Fields, a very different talent.

New York indie-rock Renaissance man

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

HE GREW up in a counterculture atmosphere in New York’s Lower East Side, surrounded by music, comic books, and alternative ways of looking at the world. He is Jeffrey Lewis - singer, songwriter, lyricist, artist, storyteller, and comic book creator.

The Adventures of Shay Mouse

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

THERE ARE some big shows to look forward to in the Galway Arts Festival and in terms of cast-size alone Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre’s The Adventures of Shay Mouse is right up there.

With a cast of 32 plus a live band, the production is a new stage musical adapted from the children’s novel by Pat McCabe, first published in 1985.

Theatre shows @ NUIG

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

NUI GALWAY’S Cube Theatre will host nine plays over two weeks, from new and emerging Irish theatre voices, as part of this year’s Galway Fringe Festival.

An Tíoránach Drogallach

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

AN TAIBHDHEARC’S offering for this year’s Galway Arts Festival is An Tíoránach Drogallach, a translation as Gaeilge from Tom Murphy’s play, The Last Days Of A Reluctant Tyrant.

The story of a fighting man

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

JOHNNY KILBANE, the Irish-American boxer who remains the longest reigning World Featherweight Champion of all time, is the subject of a film to be shown at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Croí Trodach - A Fighting Heart, directed by Des Kilbane, a relative of Johnny, will be shown in the Cinemobile, outside the Town Hall Theatre, on Saturday July 13 at 6pm (as Gaeilge) and on Sunday 14 at 10am (in English).

Galway Arts Festival @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

GALWAY FANS of Irish trad as well as of singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy, will be looking forward to the Galway Arts Festival line-up in Monroe’s this month.

Gypsi Swing @ Monroe’s tonight

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

THE ENERGETIC sound of gypsy jazz will light up Monroe’s Backstage Bar tonight from 10pm when Gypsi Swing take to the stage.

Digital Chaos @ The Cellar Underground

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

IGITAL CHAOS return to the Cellar Underground this Saturday and will treat clubbers to a total experience of music and energy.

Stickies, Provos and the ‘genius’ of Sir Ian Freeland

Literature Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2013

YOU WERE always a great one for your turning points,” one of Samuel Beckett’s characters says. Northern Ireland is similarly a great place for forks in the road after which next to nothing is the same again.

A prickly beginning

Thu, Jul 04, 2013

THERE IS, in picking up a debut collection of short stories, especially when the author is unknown to you, a sense of a new beginning, a sort of tingling, not to say exciting anticipation of discovery.

It is also mixed with the fear of disappointment that this new author may have been published too early and that the stories will fail to touch any chord.

‘I mine relentlessly for truth’

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

IT HAS been five years since feted South African director Yael Farber last featured in the Galway Arts Festival. In 2008, Molora, her visceral and compelling version of Sophocles’ Oresteia was one of the high points of that year’s programme.

Creativity and innovation take to the stage for First Thought

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

ARTISTS, DANCERS, playwrights, directors, and top academics all had a dream - the need to fulfil their ability and create something that would not only impact at home, but abroad too.

Galway Fringe Festival 2013

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival returns next month for a feast of music, theatre, art, cabaret, and literature from more than 100 local, Irish, and international acts.