Synergy fundraising show @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

SYNERGY’S MEMBERS range in age from 20 to 68 and their upbeat music fuses reggae rhythms with folk and rock dynamics.

Susan Millar DuMars - searching for God in the everyday

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

WHERE IS God? Who is S/He? Does such a being even exist? What happens after we die? As long as people have walked the earth there have been and will continue to be these questions.

Gort literature festival forges ahead

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE FORGE at Gort Literary Festival begins on Friday March 29 with a reception in the Gallery Café, Gort, at 5.30pm to which all are welcome.

Love Is All You Need screens tonight

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

PIERCE BROSNAN stars in Love Is All You Need, by the Oscar winning Danish director, Susanne Bier, which will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 7.30pm.

Delicious O’Grady – finding comedy in The Great Hunger

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE IRISH Famine may seem like the last subject to write a comic play about but performer Colm O’Grady has pulled off this singular feat with his acclaimed one-man show Delicious O’Grady which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on April 4 at 8pm.

A glimpse into the heart of terrorism

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE 1970S was a decade defined, in some respects, by terrorism with the emergence of the Baader Meinhof and Brigate Rosse on the continent and the IRA and UVF in Ireland.

A new play by community theatre group ALâ, Days of Darkness, takes a look at that time and inside the heart and mind of a terrorist group. The play will be staged in An Taibhdhearc on Wednesday April 3, Thursday 4, and Friday 5 at 8pm.

President Higgins celebrates Irish culture with Druid and Tom Murphy

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

DRUID THEATRE’S Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen, along with playwright Tom Murphy, were among those who joined Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin over St Patrick’s weekend.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels will be held in the Galway Technical Institute in April.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CORK BORN slam poet Fergus Costello will bring his “God awful, bog standard, horrendous abuse of the English language to a Galway house for the first time.”

Get down to northern soul and ska

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE BEST, and some of the hardest to find, singles in northern soul, early reggae, Latin Boogaloo, Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and 1960s r’n’b will be spun in Galway next weekend.

‘Midnight at the Oasis’ singer to play Galway

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

MOST SINGERS are lucky to make it beyond a handful of gigs, a few more are lucky to get something recorded. Only a handful get to sing a song that becomes a classic.

In 1974 Maria Muldaur scored a Top 10 US hit with ‘Midnight at the Oasis’. It went on to receive several Grammy nominations and has rarely been out of public earshot, featuring on the soundtracks to Lost In Translation, American Pie, Gilmore Girls, and The Wire.

Donal Dineen @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

DJ, BROADCASTER, photographer, and artist, Donal Dineen has been the renaissance man off the indie/altertnative scene in Ireland for some two decades.

Protobaby to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

PROTOBABY PLAY “clever, epic rocktronica” according to Hot Press and are “the best thing to happen to Limerick music in a long time” say State Of Affairs.

Make your own documentary

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre is seeking Galway county and city community, social and voluntary groups to take part in a project enabling them make a documentary.

The ID Film Project aims to facilitate groups to take an active part in the filmmaking process and develop and create a short documentary. The project is funded principally by The Arts Council, Galway City Council, and Galway County Council.

Gael Garcia Bernal says No

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

MEXICAN FILM star Gael Garcia Bernal takes the lead role in Chilean movie No, to be shown in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Dermot Healy - a man for all seasons

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

TURNING LEFT just after Drumcliffe Church in County Sligo, there is a long twisting road, wending its way to a rocky shore. At the end is a low lying bungalow.

Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the ConTempo Quartet will perform Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ in the Augustinian Church, Middle Street.

Choral concert in Salthill

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CHOIRS FROM Alabama and Galway gather in Christ the King church, Salthill, this Sunday at 8pm for a concert embracing all forms of song.

The University of North Alabama Chamber Choir are an elite group of 27 choristers chosen from the UNA Collegiate Singers, directed by Ian Leoppky. Their repertoire will include Rheinberger, Gjeilo, Bach, Holst, Mills, Makaroff, Leoppky, and Lennon/McCartney.

Over The Edge readings

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

TWO FICTION writers and a poet will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday March 28 at 6.30pm.

Colm Keegan has performed his poetry at the Flat Lakes Festival, Electric Picnic, and the Festival of World Cultures. He was All Ireland Slam Poetry Champion in 2010.

Ballet gala marks twenty-five years of Regina Rogers school

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet has long been a valued presence on Galway’s cultural landscape and next weekend it celebrates its silver jubilee with three gala dance performances in the Town Hall Theatre.

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