Galway Youth Theatre open day

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre is recruiting new members, aged between 15 and 23, for its one year part time course, and will hold an open day on Sunday September 30 from 12 noon to 2pm in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

'That’s my tribe'

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

JOE HENRY, the acclaimed singer-songwriter, is in Galway next week for an intimate gig at the Black Gate Cultural Centre. Since his 1986 debut, Talk Of Heaven, he has released 14 albums, with his most recent, 2017’s Thrum, hailed by American Songwriter as "literate, lovely, and artfully created".

And now for something completely different...

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway brings some of the biggest acts in international comedy to the city, and also some of the more bizarre. That tradition continues with George Egg, a chef 'completely different’ to any you have come across.

Irish acts at 2018 Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

IRISH JAZZ musicians, channelling the sounds of Cuba and American hip hop, the ideas of Albert Camus, and others possessing voices that can croon with the best, are all coming to the 2018 Galway Jazz Festival.

Totally Wired return to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

TOTALLY WIRED, described by The Irish Times as "Ireland’s answer to Flight of the Conchords", but who describe themselves as "Ireland’s oldest and least successful boy band", are coming back to the Róisín Dubh.

Annual Amach! LGBT Galway table quiz in aid of Teach Solais

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

The fourth annual Amach! LGBT Galway table quiz in aid of the Teach Solais LGBT Resource Centre takes place next week in the Harbour Hotel, and everyone is welcome to join in the fun.

Engage Arts Studio Culture Night exhibition and fundraiser

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

ENGAGE ART Studios will present Inside the Box, an exhibition for Culture Night, which opens tomorrow at 6pm in the Cathedral Building, Middle Street.

Chekhov Technique workshops

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

A SERIES of classes using the Michael Chekhov Technique will take place during October and November, hosted by one of Galway's leading theatre directors Max Hafler.

A multimedia exhibition in Kinvara

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

PAINTING, SILVERWARE, and sculpture will make up Nine Views, a multimedia exhibition by Sam Beardon, which opens in The Courthouse, Kinvara, this Saturday at 6pm.

The Irish landscape through Finnish eyes

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

FINNISH ARTIST Arja Sweeney believes the landscape of her native North Karelia has much in common with Connemara, where she now lives. "They show similarity in its true spirit," she says. "The colours in the landscape are a painting in itself."

David Bowie - the alien has landed in the 1980s

Music Reviews Mon, Sep 17, 2018

THE WARNING signs were there, though it is only in retrospect we see and recognise them. Having dominated the 1970s as the decade's key artistic innovator and trendsetter, Bowie was prepared to admit that the following decade may not be quite so productive.

‘I was struggling with things in my life, but I was also inspired’

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

HOW DO you categorise a band like WHY? Indie-pop? Indie-rock? Alternative Hip Hop? Don’t bother trying. The band is all these things, and is also beyond the confines of those genres. It’s why WHY? matter. It’s why Alopecia remains an album worth celebrating.

The Cuban Brothers - break-dancing in skimpy swimming trunks

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

BORN INTO the Havana of the 1970s, nurtured on a diet of soulful, sexy tunes, and inspired by Cuban mythology, The Cuban Brothers are entertainment personified with their high energy shows combining music, riotous comedy, and sensational dancing.

Faith, family, and dogs - Galway Film Society's new season

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

FILMS FROM Palestine and Paraguay; stories of faith, family, and dog grooming; and an Ingmar Berman classic, will be screened by the Galway Film Society during it's new season, in it's new home of the Pálás Cinema.

An Taibhdhearc to celebrate 90th birthday

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

THIS YEAR marks the 90th birthday of An Taibhdhearc, and the National Irish Language theatre mark the occasion with performances of extracts from the theatre’s repertoire, on Friday October 26 and Saturday 27.

A play by Picasso for Culture Night

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

PICASSO WAS the greatest artist of the 20th century, but he also dabbled in literature, thanks to his interest in the Surrealists and their citing him as a major inspiration.

Galway bands join forces for the Gig Against Cancer

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

THE AMAZING Apples and Rofi James, along with iRadio's Louise Clarke, will join forces for the Gig Against Cancer to raise funds for Cancer Care West's Inis Aoibhinn facility and East Galway & Midlands Cancer Support.

Album review - The Goon Sax

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 13, 2018

DISTANCE IS usually required to process and understand an experience, but The Goon Sax - 17 when they released their marvellous debut, 19 now for their second album - are still teens writing about the adolescent experience.

A Nun too good horror

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 13, 2018

IN A church in Romania in 1952 a nun commits suicide. Sensing something sinister the Vatican sends an exorcist and a young nun to investigate. The mysteries, however, are only just beginning.

Welcome back Reginald D Hunter

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

"A CLASS system is something you use to discriminate against someone who looks like you.” Never a truer word was spoken, and Reginald D Hunter is a comedian who speaks with authority and wit on issues of class and race.

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