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POPULAR FRENCH actress Audrey Tautou and a classic film from Frank Capra will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.

Kick off your Sunday shoes and join the PASG cast for Footloose the Musical in the Town Hall Theatre from November 24 to 26. Packed full of energetic dancing and eighties costumes, Footloose is one for all the family.

KEVIN BACON had the moves and Kenny Loggins had the song, but Performing Arts School Galway will also “kick off the Sunday shoes” when they stage Footloose: the Musical.

What started out as a desire to work with each other for a once-off show has now become the talk of the country.

JIMMY BUCKLEY, Robert Mizzell, and Patrick Feeney are the Three Amigos, who have an interest in country music and enjoy a positive reaction wherever they go.

THE BLACK Death of 1347 killed 25 million in Europe; smallpox in the 18th century claimed even more lives with 60 million.

Entertainer and performer Aonghus McAnally performs When Jolie Met Christie, a compelling one-man cabaret-theatre show inspired by the life and music of Christie Hennessy, at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday, November 9 at 8pm.

Acorn Theatre Co make a welcome return to The Town Hall Theatre Ballinasloe with their production of Unforgiven by Leitrim based John McDwyer this November 3-5.

Like an elf picking his way across a dangerous river, all he has to do is look out for the small smooth stepping stones, ignoring the tempting delights of the seemingly innocuous rocks which carry within them potential slips that could see him splash into the water. And before each leap, he must take a look left and then right. And if he can do that, then the gates of the Phoenix Park will beckon before him, the lush grass inviting him inside, rewarding him for a lifetime of service. Yes, that is just how close Galway is to having its first ever Uachtarain na hEireann. For a county that has provided leaders in almost every other sphere apart from Taoiseach and President, it is now very likely that Michael D will go into the last few weeks of the election campaign with the prize being his to lose. Althought there is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, the manner in which the presidential debate has descended into verbal street-fighting has done a lot of the work for the Labour candidate.

The next screening of the Westport Film Club will take place in Westport Cineplex on Wednesday October 5 at 8.45pm with a screening of Beginners. From Mike Mills, the writer/director of Thumbsucker, comes a new comedy drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even in its most serious moments. Beginners unfolds through two intertwined storylines of Oliver and his father, Hal: in the present day, Oliver grudgingly attends a Halloween party where he meets Anna, an alluring French actress. But even as their budding courtship progresses, Oliver finds himself constantly dwelling upon his recently deceased father’s last years. At the age of 75, shortly after the death of his wife, Oliver’s father Hal came out of the closet.