Innovative new drama from THEATREclub
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
“SO THEATRE is a safe, middle-class thing, and young people think it's boring? THEATREclub beg to disagree. They’re taking conventional notions of theatre and shoving them back in our faces.
Read more ...Digital Chaos @ The Cellar
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
DIGITAL CHAOS returns to the Cellar Underground this Saturday for another night of techno grooves.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
CORKONIAN BILLY Ramsell will be performing his poetry at the next North Beach Poetry Nights this Monday in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Pete Mullineaux’s acting classes
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
THE ACTOR, poet, and singer-songwriter Pete Mullineaux will host his popular acting classes for adults at Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Birds Of Chicago - US folk duo to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
“TAKE SOME melodies, arrange them in interesting ways (soul, folk, country, doo wop, samba, gospel) and the crowning glory – put two of the best voices in popular music over the top.”
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre’s GAC(h) Duine music festival
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
GAC(h) DUINE, the Galway Arts Centre’s first music festival, runs from this evening until Saturday at the centre on 47 Dominick Street.
Read more ...Low Mountain @ Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
A STRIPPED down, nowhere-to-hide acoustic set with a strong emphasis on vocals and subtle instrumentation is the approiach of LOWmountain.
Read more ...Kevin McAleer @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
SINCE HIS appearances on Nighthawks in the early 1990s, Kevin McAleer has enjoyed the status of a founding father of modern Irish stand-up and a a much loved comic.
Read more ...Noise rock night @ The Cellar
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
ABRASIVE NOISE-ROCK, alternative rock, and punk will be the order of the night at a show in the Cellar Underground this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...110th Street’s Hive Party @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
110THE STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.15pm.
Read more ...Hear Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
GEORGE GERSCHWIN’S ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, one of the great orchestral works of the 20th century, fusing jazz and classical, will be performed in Galway.
Read more ...Hear the songs of Schubert
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
THE SONGS of Franz Schubert, one of the leading composers of the Romantic era, will bring the curtain down on Music for Galway’s 32nd International Concert Season.
The ‘Softly Shall You Sleep...’ concert takes place in the ballroom of the Hotel Meyrick on Tuesday at 8pm, with bass-baritone Conor Biggs, pianist Michel Stas, and the ConTempo Quartet.
Read more ...Cúirt events and exhibition
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
READINGS, ART exhibitions, tree planting, and a plaque unveiling will all take place as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature from April 23 to 28.
Read more ...Choral concert in St Nicholas’
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
VOCI NUOVE, a new young choir from Cork will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, and Arvö Part in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Stuart Neville - spies, Nazis, and Charles J Haughey
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
FORMER NAZIS and Nazi collaborators resident in Ireland are being taken out one by one by an enigmatic hit squad, but this is a only a warning to the man they are really after - SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny.
Read more ...Fíbín returns with award-winning Sétanta
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
FÍBÍN MAKES a welcome return to An Taibhdhearc next week where it begins a national tour of its award-winning play Sétanta, written and directed by Paul Mercier.
Sétanta breathes new life into the ancient story of Sétanta and Ferdia, delivering a stylised tale of greed, power, envy, and love. The play tells how these two young warriors become sworn enemies under the reign of the all-powerful Medb. Fíbín makes exciting use of multimedia including explosive visuals, music specially composed by Mel Mercier, and almost 50 hand-made highly expressive masks by Matthew Guinnane.
Read more ...Chinese State Circus to defy gravity in Yin Yang
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
THE FAMOUS Chinese philosophical symbol Yin Yang describes how seemingly opposite forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world.
Read more ...Trio of plays at Cúirt
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature, in association with the Galway Arts Centre, presents three exciting new theatre shows in conjunction with Galway Community Theatre and NUI Galway’s BA connect with theatre and performance class.
All three shows – Pineapple, Medea Redux, and Carshow - are directed by Andrew Flynn, and offer Cúirt audiences a chance to see fine contemporary theatre staged by Galway performers.
Read more ...Galway Actors Workshop
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
GALWEGIANS INTERESTED in acting and performing on stage at the Galway Fringe Festival in July might like to check out new courses from the Galway Actors Workshop.
Classes are in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, with levels two and three culminating in a performance at the Galway Fringe Festival.
Read more ...Japanese Film Festival 2013
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
THE 2013 Japanese Film Festival returns to Galway this month and will be taking place from Sunday April 21 to Wednesday 24. The films will be screened The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.
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