The Forge at Gort literary festival returns

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THE FORGE at Gort literary festival returns to the south County Galway town on Friday March 30 and Saturday 31 featuring readings, workshops, and music.

The St Matthew Passion at St Nicholas’

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

FOR THE first time in Ireland, JS Bach’s epic choral masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, will be performed and Galway’s St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church is the venue.

This Must Be The Place competition winners

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THE WINNERS of tickets to the advance screening of This Must Be The Place at The Eye Cinema this evening at 7pm are:

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

HE USED to go by the name Chloe Poems but now he is back to his birth name of Gerry Potter and he is coming to to Galway to perform his poetry.

March Over The Edge reading

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THREE WRITERS, Paul Maddern, Rejini Samuel, and Stephanie Klapp will read at the Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday March 29 at 6.30pm.

Win tickets to Mirror Mirror @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

MIRROR MIRROR, a spectacular reimagining of Snow White, opens in cinemas across the country on April 6 but there will be a special preview screening in Galway on April 1.

New Irish film @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE OTHER Side Of Sleep, a new Irish film, will be screened at The Eye Cinema from tomorrow, while the film’s director Rebecca Daly will be attending a screening next week.

The Other Side of Sleep is a dark psychological drama and the first feature film by Athlone born Rebecca Daly who won the Best Short award at the Galway Film Fleadh with Joyriders.

Win tickets to This Must Be The Place

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THIS MUST Be The Place, the English language debut of director Paolo Sorrentino, starring Sean Penn, will screen in The Eye Cinema on Thursday March 22 at 7pm.

NUIG’s new Medical Orchestra concert

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

NUI GALWAY’S Medical Orchestra will play the university’s Bailey Allen Hall on Thursday March 22 at 8pm for the final Arts in Action 2012 concert.

Art exhibitions on The Docks

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE SHED at the Galway harbour is a major new space for art in the city and for the rest of this year it will be host to a series of exhibitions, including a Galway Arts Festival show.

Facilitated by the support of the Galway Harbour Company, The Shed is a large 4,000sq ft warehouse space located on the middle pier of the Galway Docks.

Callino Quartet to play Clifden

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE ACCLAIMED Callino Quartet, along with British clarinettist Sarah Beaty, will perform work by Haydn and others, in the Church of Ireland Clifden on Wednesday March 21 at 8pm.

Proust Questionnaire Maeve Mulrennan Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A bouncy castle full of puppies.

Life drawing classes

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

ART TEACHER Mark D Smith is bringing his life drawing class to Galway and offering Galway Advertiser readers a 20 per cent discount off their first class.

Drawing and art history classes

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

LOCAL ARTIST Victoria Smith will give classes in drawing at the GTI for beginners and intermediate starting on March 20.

Galway singer-songwriter to release EP

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

FOLLOWING HIS win at Bob Geldof’s 2011 International YouBloom Music Awards last December, Rob Wade is back with a new EP.

St Patrick in his own words

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE FIGURE of Saint Patrick has dominated the Irish cultural landscape in a way that few other national icons, such as Uncle Sam or Saint George, ever have.

Disconauts live remix at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

GALWAY/LONDON house collective, the Disconauts, play their first live date of 2012 at the Róisín Dubh for a St Patrick’s weekend show this Sunday from 10pm.

The Sea Sessions is coming to Galway

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE SEA Sessions Festival takes place in Donegal each year but such is its growing popularity that 2012 finds it coming to Galway, Belfast, Kinsale, and Lahinch.

The festival is undertaking a tour of Ireland’s surf spots for April/May and the tour begins in the Róisín Dubh with a show from Crazy P, the house, techno, disco, and funk band.

Ka-Tet @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

WEST OF Ireland trio Ka-Tet play The Underground Sound night in Monroe’s BackStage Bar next Wednesday at 11pm.

Preston Reed returns to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

WHEN TOTAL Guitar described Preston Reed as “the world’s most gifted guitarist” and Guitarist described his playing as “spellbinding” they were not exaggerating.

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