Cinema Review: Meet The Parents - Little Fockers
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
Thirty minutes into this third installment of the Meet The Parents franchise I was still waiting to laugh out loud but it never happened, in fact I’m pretty certain that all the good gags were used up in the trailer just to suck you in but then leave you bitterly disappointed.
Read more ...Galway Film Centre’s actors’ workshops
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
TV DIRECTOR Anne McCabe and actor/director Sarah O’Toole are coming to the Galway Film Centre this month to host a series of actors’ workshops.
Read more ...Win The King’s Speech goodie bags
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
ENGLAND’S GEORGE VI suffered from a speech impediment and found himself king after his brother had unexpectedly abdicated.
Read more ...Be Amongst Friends with Music For Galway and Barry Douglas
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
MUSIC FOR Galway presents a trusty antidote to the darkness and cold of January in the form of a heart-warming weekend of great chamber music running from Friday January 21 to Sunday 23 at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Women, men, and Cuban music - Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
FILMS CELEBRATING women, the relationships between grandfathers, fathers, and sons, the sounds, style, and cultures of Cuba, Burlesque strip-tease performers will all feature in The Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season 2011.
Read more ...A laugh from the Róisín Dubh - on your telly
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE VERY best names in Irish and international comedy - performing stand-up shows in the Róisín Dubh - will feature on your TV screens over the next few weeks.
Read more ...Keith Barry’s The Asylum returns for final run
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE ASYLUM, Keith Barry’s acclaimed live show, returns to the west of Ireland in January, as part of its final Irish run.
The Asylum is coming to the Black Box Theatre in Galway on January 14 and 15 and it promises to be Keith’s most outrageous, controversial, and funniest show to date.
Read more ...Dusty Banjos classes and sessions return
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE DUSTY BANJOS traditional music class is back this month with classes taking place upstairs in the Western Hotel, Prospect Hill, on Thursday evenings.
Read more ...Get creative in the New Year
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
BUDDING ARTISTS and people with creative urges take note, the Galway Arts Centre’s programme of winter classes starts this month.
Read more ...Learn to dance sean-nós in Áras Na nGael
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
Conradh na Gaeilge's popular sean nós dancing classes under the expert tuition of Connemara sean-nós dancer Pádraig Ó h’Oibicín, return on Monday January 17.
Read more ...The Certain Three tour comes to Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
WINDINGS, THE Ambience Affair, and We Cut Corners, will play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday January 13 at 9pm as part of The Certain Three 2011 Tour.
Read more ...Remember Phil Lynott @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
PHIL LYNOTT - Thin Lizzy leader, songwriter, black Irishman, and rock legend, passed away on January 4 1986, at the tragically young age of 36.
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Phil wrote the majority of Thin Lizzy songs - many of which are now rock classics - featured on such marvellous albums as Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, and Black Rose.
Read more ...Luka Bloom to ‘debut’ at The Crane
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
ALTHOUGH HE is no stranger to Galway, having played the city many times over the past four decades, Luka Bloom has never played The Crane Bar.
That is all set to change when the Co Kildare troubadour plays the Sea Road venue on Friday January 14 at 9pm, and as The Beatles said: “A splendid time is guaranteed for all”.
Read more ...January events @ GAC
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host two very different events in January - an exhibition from Majella Dowdican and a multi-media performance entitled DAS SPLINTER.
Read more ...126 to hold annual members show
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
OUT OF A Box is the title of this year’s 126 gallery Annual Members Show which opens on this evening at 7pm and features work by 11 artists.
Read more ...Build a fort at the Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
WOULD YOU like to have the chance to turn the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street into a fort? If so, then go along to Fort Building with the Knee Jerk collective.
Read more ...Bananas, cream, and Nina Amazing
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE SECRET Is In The Banana Cream Cheese Icing is the wonderfully titled new exhibition from the Galway artist with the equally wonderful name of Nina Amazing.
Read more ...New Year poetry workshops
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
IF YOU have been itching to put pen to paper and compose some verse, but are unsure about how to go about it, then check out the new classes at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Cinema Review
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
HOW WAS 2010 for you? Filmwise? What were the films that excelled, the films that were just a waste of time, and those which failed to live up to all the trailer hype?
To be fair I actually struggled to find flops while looking back on some of 2010’s big movies, in general it was a very good year. In January cinema lovers were treated to a great performance by Robert Downey Jnr in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes.
Read more ...The first Spaghetti Western live from New York to Galway
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
LA FANCIULLA Del West, Puccini’s 1910 opera set in the American Wild West, will be staged by The New York Metropolitan Opera and broadcast live to Galway this week.
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