Creative writing workshops

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE FICTION writer and poet Susan Millar DuMars will host daytime classes in the Galway Arts Centre, for beginner and continuing creative writing students.

The class, which is suitable for those working in poetry or fiction, takes place on Mondays from 2.30pm to 4pm, starting May 12, and running for eight weeks.

In Their Thousands @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

IN THEIR Thousands’ music sits somewhere between the folk-rock of Mumford and Sons and Devendra Banhart and the epic indie of Alt-J and Django Django.

Album review - The Pixies

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 17, 2014

WHEN THE Pixies reformed a number of years ago and started touring again, the welcome was warm and the verdict positive.

Silent Disco Street Party

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE SILENT Disco moves out from the Róisín Dubh live venue and onto Dominick Street for a massive street party this Easter weekend.

The Silent Disco Street Party takes place this Easter Sunday, starting at 9pm, and promises to be the most fun you can have on the street with a pair of headphones. Two DJs will play songs to hundreds of people (who can switch between the two) dancing and singing along to classic hits anthems, guilty pleasures, and pure cheese - except no music will be heard as they will be all wearing headphones.

DJ Hunee @ Factory

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

GALWAY CLUB nights Alice and Epoch are joining forces this Easter Sunday to throw two parties - a boat party and after party in Factory.

Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

MOZART’S REQUIEM and three works by Handel will be performed by the Galway Baroque Singers in Galway Cathedral on Friday April 25 at 7.30pm.

TULCA announce curator for 2014 festival

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

AISLING PRIOR, a co-founder of the Galway Film Centre, has been appointed as curator of the 2014 TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which runs from November 7 to 23.

Lucite Fall and mineral processes

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

LUCITE FALL is the moment when crystal and acrylic bind. It is the name of a remote outcrop overlooking the Opinnagau River in Canada.

It is also the title of a new exhibition by Irish artist Carl Giffney, which opens at the Galway Arts Centre this evening at 6pm.

Róisín Dubh Art and Craft Market

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft Market returns this Saturday from 1pm to 6pm and will feature 24 stalls over two floors.

The market is a platform for local artists and craftspeople to showcase their talents and is devoted to handmade good quality art fashion, photography, textiles, woodcraft, jewellery, ceramics, and crafts, with 24 stalls over two floors.

Berlin Philharmonic - live @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

The Berlin Philharmonic, under conductor Sir Simon Rattle, will perform music by Elgar, Ligeti, and Wagner.

Karl Spain @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

KARL SPAIN will headline a night of leading and emerging Irish comedians at the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

‘Befriending chickens and crushing cans’

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

A STORY of love, beauty, chicken-chasing, daisy chains, cat-killing, French singing, dress-wearing, en-suite bathrooms, and the day at the pond. These are the ingredients of Pondling, written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman.

Jon Kenny in The Matchmaker

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comic talents, Jon Kenny, joins much-loved Irish actor Mary McEvoy in a new revival of Michael Scott’s iconic production of John B Keane’s The Matchmaker which comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

A night of Palestinian dance

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

YOUNG, VIBRANT, proud, and engaging, the Lajee Dabka Dancers, will bring the traditional dance styles of Palestine to Monroe’s Live next week.

Stories, songs, craic, and Cúirt

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

WILD STORIES, outrageous incidents, music, and irreverent shenanigans will take place in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday, to bring the Cúirt festival to a high spirited close.

Diarmuid de Faoite agus An Gobán Saor

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

DIARMUID DE Faoite continues his Seacht Scéal/Seven Sagas series of interactive storytelling for all ages, with another lunchtime show at An Taibhdhearc.

Theo Dorgan to launch

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

POET, NOVELIST, and broadcaster Theo Dorgan will launch Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust’s latest series of Poems for Patience.

What is that singer’s favourite book?

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

FROM THE lieder tradition in Germany to bands like Iron Maiden setting Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ to music, there has long been a connection between literature and song.

Galway short film gets festival screenings

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

THE WEATHER Report, the Galway Film Centre/RTÉ short film, received its premiere at the recent Belfast Film Festival and will be screened at the Limerick Film Festival tomorrow.

High voltage rock’n’roll

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

AC/DC TRIBUTE act Whole Lotta Voltage will bring a fearsome slice of ‘rock’n’roll damnation’ to Monroe’s Live tomorrow night from 10pm.

The band will perform a three-hour stage show, covering both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras, complete with costumes, and high voltage renditions of such AC/DC classics as ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, ‘Whole Lotta Rosie’, ‘Highway to Hell’ and ‘Thunderstruck’.

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