Silent Disco for kids
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
A SILENT Disco for children will take place this Saturday in the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, from 2pm.
The ‘Silent Disco For Kids’, presented by the Róisín Dubh, will see two DJs playing songs to hundreds of people dancing and singing along to chart hits, anthems, guilty pleasures, fun songs, and pure cheese - except no music will be heard as they will be all wearing headphones. It promises to be wonderful fun for the whole family.
Read more ...Former TD to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE FORMER Fine Gael Galway West TD Pádraic McCormack will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 21 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Romantic Ireland is not dead and gone
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
IRELAND WAS an inspiration to the 19th century Romantic movement, while the Irish Literary movement would inspire the imagination of the 1916 rebels.
Read more ...A Saudi girl and a bicycle
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
WAJADA, THE first full-length feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and winner of the CICAE Award at the Venice Film Festival 2012, will be shown in Galway.
Read more ...St Nicholas’ Singers to perform Lux Aeterna
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
CHORAL MUSIC and poetry will join forces at a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, this Sunday at 5pm.
Read more ...See The Princess Bride on Saturday
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE PRINCESS Bride, one of the best loved of all family, fantasy/adventure films, will be screnned in the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 11.30am.
Read more ...Flirt FM to premiere new radio drama
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
FLIRT FM 101.3, Galway’s student and alternative station will premiere the radio drama Life Gets Tasteless on Wednesday November 20 from 9pm to 10pm.
Read more ...Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE WHY Not? Adventure Film Festival is taking place in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street, on Saturday November 30 from 7pm to 10pm.
Read more ...Fugitive Papers @ TULCA
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
FUGITIVE PAPERS, an artistic research project to explore ideas about art, writing, criticism, and public reaction in Ireland, is coming to TULCA.
Read more ...New bi-lingual children’s book
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
A NEW children’s book as Gaeilge agus as Bearla, Greene’s Shoes Saves Christmas/Shabháil Bróga Greene An Nollaig, is to be launched with proceeds going to the Galway Simon Community.
Read more ...iRocks band competition @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE FIRST heat of the €10,000 iRadio iRocks band competition takes place in Monroe’s Live tonight from 10pm.
Over the past month, bands across the country uploaded their video to the iRocks Facebook page, and the best entries have been picked by the public, with one wild card entry to be announced.
Read more ...A sultry jazz night with Jaime Nanci
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
JAIME NANCI & The Blue Boys will bring their cool, smooth, jazz vibe to the Róisín Dubh, for a seated show, on Friday November 22 at 8pm.
Read more ...Django Unchained musician to play Galway
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
BROTHER DEGE (AKA Dege Legg), whose song ‘Too Old To Die Young’ was hand picked by Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained, will play County Galway this month.
Read more ...Boundary pushing trad at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
“IF COLDPLAY decided to replace Chris Martin with a concertina” is the strange, if fascinating, manner in which Notify have been described.
Notify, the new trad-crossover project from Pádraig Rynne (Guidewires, Triad), play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Adrian Crowley plays Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
BORN IN Malta, raised in Galway, based in Dublin, and winner of the Choice Music Prize, singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley plays the Róisín Dubh tomorrow.
Read more ...Upcoming Gigs @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE ORIGINAL Rudeboys, O Emperor, and Kíla’s Rónán Ó Snodaigh will be playing Monroe’s Live over the coming weeks.
Read more ...The Hive @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE HIVE clubnight, with 110th St DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11pm.
The Hive focuses on club classics from various eras rather than focus on the fresh four-to-the-floor produce. As a result, Cian and Cyril will run riot through their record collections to spin disco, house, hip-hop, Italo, post-punk, new wave, lost classics, and current anthems. Expect to hear Animal Collective, Ikonika, Green Velvet, Cerrone, Late Nite Tuff Guy, and The Fall.
Read more ...Two book launches in Galway
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
TWO WORKS, one a historical account of reactions to the Famine, another a historical novel set in Mayo, are to be launched in Galway.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre seeks artists
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE GALWAY Arts Centre is seeking professional visual artists, curators, and practitioners in all media to submit material for the centre’s 2013/14 visual art gallery programme.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Nov 14, 2013
THE NORTH Beach Poetry Nights will host the Connacht Heat of the All-Ireland Slam on Monday in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, at 7pm.
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