The Three Sopranos’ Summer Gala

Thu, May 23, 2013

THREE OF Ireland’s finest sopranos - Celine Byrne, Regina Nathan and Cara O’Sullivan - have joined forces for The Three Sopranos Summer Gala national tour.

Inspired by the FIAT 127...

Thu, May 23, 2013

THE BEATLES sang ‘Let It Be’ but the artist collective Angry Hammers instead say Let There Be which is also the title of their new exhibition.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, May 23, 2013

OVER THE Edge at the Galway City Library on Thursday May 30 at 6.30pm will feature Thomas McCarthy, Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin, and Seán Kenny.

Doire Press poetry competition

Thu, May 23, 2013

GALWAY PUBLISHING company Doire Press is holding its International Poetry Chapbook Competition 2013 and the entry deadline is May 29.

Karan Casey to play An Taibhdhearc

Thu, May 23, 2013

KARAN CASEY and John Doyle, former members of Irish-American folk-trad band Solas, and now solo artists, play An Taibhdhearc tonight.

Lionesses among The Factory Girls

Thu, May 16, 2013

FACED WITH the threat of redundancy, five women stage a lock-in at a shirt factory in County Donegal. Ellen, Una, Vera, Rosemary and Rebecca unite against a common enemy and stand up to ‘the man’ and the union, in an effort to save their jobs.

Voice and acting classes from Max Hafler and Core

Thu, May 16, 2013

NOTED THEATRE director and teacher Max Hafler, of Core Theatre College, is giving a weekend course of voice training on Saturday June 15 and Sunday 16, entitled The Imaginative Voice.

The course is to help participants develop their vocal skills with exercises in breath, diction, and pitch and to explore their voice using exercises based on the Michael Chekhov technique. The exercises aim to enrich the tone and ‘colour’ of a participant’s voice.

Three shows from Tumbling Bones

Thu, May 16, 2013

DOWN-HOME, old-fashioned American folk music, but played with a contemporary twist and verve is the stuff of US trio Tumbling Bones.

Galway African Film Festival

Thu, May 16, 2013

THE RICH diversity of African films, animations, shorts, and documentaries, offering both entertainment and a fresh perspective on life in the continent, will be on show in Galway.

ThereisBear! and the man who wrote Lincoln

Thu, May 16, 2013

NEW GALWAY theatre company ThereisBear! will stage the Pulitzer prize winning play Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, who also wrote the screenplay of Lincoln.

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes will be staged in the Town Hall Studio at 8.30pm from Tuesday May 28 to Saturday June 1

Tara Breathnach plays Anne Boleyn on the BBC

Thu, May 16, 2013

Anne Boleyn, English queen, advocate of the Protestant Reformation, and a victim of the court of her husband Henry VIII, is to be portrayed on TV by a Galwegian.

Galway actress Tara Breathnach will play Anne Boleyn in the upcoming BBC2 production The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, which be broadcast on Thursday May 23 at 9pm. Filming took place on location in London and Kent in February.

Trad on the Prom

Thu, May 16, 2013

TRAD ON The Prom, ranked as Galway top attraction on Tripadvisor, is back for its ninth season in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill.

Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer

Thu, May 16, 2013

TOM CREAN - Antarctic Explorer, the award winning, critically acclaimed, stage show on the life of the Irishman who served with Scott and Shackleton, returns to Galway.

Film and TV exhib-ition

Thu, May 16, 2013

TODAY SEES the opening of an exhibition of observational documentaries made by film and TV students of VTOS adult Education Centre Galway.

Win Pilgrim Hill on DVD

Thu, May 16, 2013

PILGRIM HILL, the new Irish film directed by Gerard Barrett, winner of the Rising Star awards at this year’s IFTA, will be released on DVD in On Demand this week.

Blue Teapot fundraising table quiz

Thu, May 16, 2013

BLUE TEAPOT Theatre Company will hold its Ultimate Table Quiz in Lohan’s Bar, Salthill, on Friday May 24 at 8pm.

Tables are €40 for a team of four and can be pre-bought through 091 - 520977, as well as being available on the night.

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse reporting for duty

Thu, May 16, 2013

TODD TERJE, the Norwegian cosmic-disco maestro DJ and producer, plays Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday May 23 at 9pm.

The Bahh Band - a world of sound

Thu, May 16, 2013

HAVING JUST returned from a successful tour of India, Galway world music fusion group The Bahh Band, play Druid Theatre this weekend.

The Bahh Band play Druid Theatre this Saturday as part of the Galway Dance Days festival which takes place today, tomorrow, and Saturday. The show starts at 8pm and will also feature a performance from the Irish dance artists Fitzgerald & Stapleton.