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Finally a great excuse to watch Sky 1’s dance show Got To Dance — Young solo dancer Siobhan Phelan whose father Regan Phelan is from The Butts in Kilkenny is the only solo Irish dancer in the competition and at just nine years old is in the final 28 out of 30,000 applicants.

Internationally respected pioneer in healthcare and best-selling author, Michael O’Doherty will speak at a seminar in the Clayton Hotel next week. Entitled Learn to Heal Your Own Body, this seminar, organised by Plexus Bio-Energy, will motivate and empower people to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

TULCA, GALWAY’S Festival of Visual Arts 2010, returns from November 6 to 21 and will present work by more than 40 national and international artists across eight venues and public spaces in Galway city.

THE VERY best of Galway’s Irish music and dance talent comes out in force on Saturday to support The Haven Partnerships Haiti ‘Build It Week’.

Blindfolded and bound, a foot massage or dancing the night away with a professional dancer and his mother, it’s all a part of the extraordinarily varied theatre strand of this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival.

CHARLIE MCGETTIGAN, one of Ireland’s best known songwriters, will play The Crane Bar on Thursday June 10 at 9pm in a fundraising gig for the earthquake devastated island of Haiti.

Dancers from Mayo helped to break a new Guinness World Record last weekend when the longest ever Riverdance line-up of 392 dancers performed together. The charity event raised £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and will go towards training volunteer lifeboat crews in Ireland. The world record stood at 312 but 392 dancers lined the banks of the River Foyle in Derry to dance together for five minutes and smash the world record on Sunday last, it is now hoped the new record will be officially confirmed in the next few weeks.

Singing sensation Olywn Murray will join the rising stars of theatre, song and dance in a variety show style performance in the TF Royal, Castlebar April 30. Murray has joined forces with five nationally and internationally acclaimed local performing arts companies to stage the concert to help raise funds for Ballina’s new Art Centre and Theatre to showcase the amazing young talent emerging from the west. The evening will include Irish dance, hip hop, traditional music, songs from the musicals, and swing performed by members of the Sylvan Kelly School of Dance, Áine Egan’s Danceworld, and The All Star Academy under the direction of Lavinia Gilmartin, Michael Slater and Patrick Lacken, The Bofield Céilí Band, and Cheryl Nolan and the Lambe Academy.

What do Snow White, Cinderella, and Belle all have in common? Apart from being princesses in three of Disney’s classic fairy tales that have warmed the hearts of generations, this month their stories will be brought to life on stage in the Royal Theatre for six magical shows. Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales is about to touch down in Castlebar for the first time, having taken the globe by storm, Castlebar will soon be enchanted by these tales.

CÚIRT IS a festival which celebrates prose, poetry, writers, and publications, but writing is not confined solely to novelists and poets, it can also include lyricists, wordsmiths, and songwriters.