Over The Edge returns for 2011

Thu, Jan 13, 2011

THE OVER The Edge readings will begin 2011 - it’s eight year in existence - with readings from Michael Coady, Dani Gill, and Sarah Griffin, next week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The theme this year is Amongst Friends, reflecting the intimate setting for which chamber music was and is written and performed, as well as the friendships made amongst musicians as they come together to play, and last but not least the bond created through the communal experience of listening to music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Galway Arts Centre’s Winter Classes Programme starts again this January. The children’s classes begin on January 22 with the Saturday workshops. Children will get to explore and respond to the current exhibition using the medium of drawing and painting.

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.

Sean nós is an ad-hoc style of solo Irish dancing which survived the strict regulation of traditional dance in the 1930s. Over the last 15/20 years it has enjoyed a major revival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The members were asked to respond to the theme ‘Out of a Box’, a term believed to derive from a puzzle created by early 20th century British mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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