Win tickets to I Give It A Year
Thu, Jan 17, 2013
GIVE It A Year, the new romantic-comedy starring Bridesmaids’ Rose Byrne and One Day’s Rafe Spall will receive an advanced screening in The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Galway Film Society opening film
Thu, Jan 17, 2013
THE GALWAY Film Society’s winter/spring 2013 season opens this Sunday at 8.15pm with French film The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Read more ...Art and healing workshop
Thu, Jan 17, 2013
GALWAY ARTIST and teacher Denise Hogan and Reiki teacher Arja Sweeney are hosting a weekend workshop, entitled The Art and Reiki, on January 26 and 27 from 10am to 5.30pm.
Read more ...Comedian Dave Young @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 17, 2013
HE HAS been called “flat-out hilarious” by the Irish Independent, “thrilling to watch” by America Today, and he can count Billy Connolly among his fans.
Read more ...Ó Riada’s Mass re-imagined
Thu, Jan 17, 2013
SEÁN Ó Riada’s Mass, in a new arrangement by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, will be performed in St Nicholas Church on Friday January 25 at 8pm.
The performers for the Mass, which includes the much loved ‘Ag Críost an Síol’, will be the newly formed EQ Singers, along with Zoë Conway (violin), Siobhan Armstrong (harp), and Robbie Harris (bodhrán), and conductor Eamonn Dougan, director of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
Read more ...‘Comedians are megalomaniacs!’
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
NEIL DELAMERE, one of the biggest names on the Irish comedy scene, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre this month with his acclaimed new show, Delamere Mortal.
Read more ...Three months, ten films, and a world of cinema
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
FILM STARS Marion Cotillard and Gael Garcia Bernal; leading directors like Nadine Labaki and Jacques Audiard; settings ranging from French vineyards to Lebanese villages; and genres as diverse as thrillers and romances - all make up the new Galway Film Society season.
Read more ...Family puppet shows at An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
CLANN LIR, a re-imagining of the Irish folktale through music, puppetry, and storytelling, is in An Taibhdhearc this Saturday.
Branar Téatar do Pháistí will present Clann Lir at 11am and 1pm in what is the first of a season of monthly Saturday shows aimed at families at the theatre.
Read more ...A Vibe For Philo @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
SONGWRITER, SINGER, poet, bass player, band leader, Black Irishman, icon - Phil Lynott is all of these things and Galway will pay tribute to the late master this week.
Read more ...Des Keogh in The Love Hungry Farmer
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.
Read more ...Martin McDonagh play for Town Hall
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
MARTIN MCDONAGH is enjoying great success as a film-maker in recent years, most recently with his tour-de-force black comedy Seven Psychopaths.
However he first came to attention in the 1990s, with his series of plays The Leenane Trilogy, which also featured a motley crew of misfits and eccentrics creating and finding themselves in violent situations.
Read more ...Thurston Moore to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
FOR THE past 30 years, as a member of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has been one of the key and iconic figures in alternative rock, and next week he plays Galway.
Read more ...Uptight! is back @ Massimo
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
DJ Dave Barry will be lugging the crates of vinyl down to Massimo for his monthly outing of party funk, soul, boogaloo, Jamaican ska and more. Black music aimed at the feet is the order of the day but you could hear anything at an Uptight! night. Get there early to secure your patch on the dancefloor. Free as always and late bar.
Read more ...Objekt to DJ @ Factory
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
BERLIN DJ Objekt will be spinning the decks at the next Bap To The Future Presents in Factory at The Electric Garden, this Saturday night.
Objekt came to wide attention in 2011 with his white label 12”s and remixes for Radiohead and SBTRKT. His convergence of techno, dubstep, house, and garage conventions are seen as bold and daring, opening up new avenues for forward-looking dance music.
Read more ...Three months, ten films, and a world of cinema
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
FILM STARS Marion Cotillard and Gael Garcia Bernal; leading directors like Nadine Labaki and Jacques Audiard; settings ranging from French vineyards to Lebanese villages; and genres as diverse as thrillers and romances - all make up the new Galway Film Society season.
Read more ...Des Keogh in The Love Hungry Farmer
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.
Read more ...Public meeting on dance in Galway
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Dance Project is hosting a public forum regarding dance in the city, which will take place in the Druid Lane Theatre from 2pm to 5pm on Friday January 25.
Read more ...Thurston Moore to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
FOR THE past 30 years, as a member of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has been one of the key and iconic figures in alternative rock, and next week he plays Galway.
Read more ...And So I Watch You From Afar @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
ONE OF the finest bands to emerge from Northern Ireland in years, and one of the most intense and exciting live acts in the country is And So I Watch You From Afar.
Read more ...Jennifer Cunningham’s art classes
Thu, Jan 10, 2013
ONE OF Galway’s finest young artists, the award winning Jennifer Cunningham, is taking bookings for her new term of art classes which start on Monday January 14.
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