Drawing classes at GTI

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

GALWEGIANS WHOSE New Year resolutions include learning how to draw, or improving their drawing techniques, should check out the three different classes starting next week in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road.

Ad Hoc choir voice workshops

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

AD HOC choir will host a series of voice workshops, entitled Free Your Voice, with classes taking place in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road, and in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

Duke Special to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

DUKE SPECIAL is an artist who is forever restless, forever on the move. "I don't want to be sounding like I sounded 10 years ago," he has said. "I want to keep adding to what I've learned, keep developing."

The High Kings play Seapoint next week

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE HIGH KINGS are coming back to Galway to play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert at the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Saturday January 16 at 8pm as part of their Four Friends Live national tour.

Led Zeppelin tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway based Led Zeppelin tribute act, fronted by the brilliant and flamboyant Steven Sharpe, play Monroe’s Live on Friday January 15 at 10pm.

Bagatelle - last chance to see them live

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

BAGATELLE, BEST known from the song ‘Summer In Dublin’, will begin 2016 with a first and last concert at Monroe's Live on Saturday January 16 at 8pm, as part of their Final Year national tour.

A Sacrilegious Lesbian and Homosexual Parade

Tue, Jan 05, 2016

A SACRILEGIOUS Lesbian and Homosexual Parade, Brian Fleming's acclaimed one-man show, described as “original, fun and different" by The Irish Times, will be performed in the Gallery Café, Gort, this Sunday, January 10, at 8.30pm.

'I always knew I was going to write this'

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

THE KENNY Bookshop and Art Gallery recently hosted the launch of Galway artist Vicki Crowley’s absorbing memoir, Beyond the Ghibli, which traces her life from her earliest days in WW2 Malta, via many years in Africa, to settling down in Barna with her Irish husband Don and children.

What's happening at Galway Arts Centre in 2016

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

AS 2015 draws to a close, the Galway Arts Centre is gearing up for another year of exhibitions, education programmes, and events, with the current exhibition, Unbounded, running until January 16, featuring sculptural work by Ruth E Lyons and Angela Fulcher.

Remember Phil Lynott at Monroe's Live

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

2016 MARKS the 30th anniversary of the death of the man who remains the most iconic Irish rock musicians of them all - Phil Lynott - and his life and music is to be celebrated in Monroe's live.

Town Hall 2016 highlights

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

AS 2015 exits stage left, 2016 awaits it cue and the year ahead in the Town Hall has much for theatre-goers to look forward to. First out of the blocks, on January 15th and 16th, is local company No Ropes with The Open Couple, Dario Fo and France Rama’s sharp marital comedy, which enjoyed a sell-out run earlier this year.

The Dirty Circus - a saucy start to 2016

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

IF YOU want to get 2016 off to the kind of start that would make Kenneth Williams' go 'Oooh Matron!' and make Frankie Howerd just go 'Oh-oooh!', then Galway's much loved burlesque and cabaret night The Dirty Circus is the place to be.

Brendan Grace celebrates forty-three years of comedy

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

The greatest family comedian of our generation has spent 43 years in the comedy business and most of this time at the very top of his profession.

Brendan Grace’s latest show features the best and most requested pieces from his vast repertoire over the last 43 years. His sense of timing and ability to read an audience is without equal. A brilliant character actor, his ‘Bottler’ character is legendary and his interpretation of the Irish wedding will forever remain a masterpiece.

Giant Sand and Jason Lytle to play Róisín Dubh

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

IT HAS been a decade since Giant Sand, the alt.rock/Americana band led by Howe Gelb, have played Galway, but 2016 sees them return, as part of a co-headline tour with Jason Lytle.

Noelie McDonnell @ Monroe's Live

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

ONE OF the west of Ireland's finest songwriters, Noelie McDonnell, has resumed solo duties and will play Monroe’s Live, along with his band, on Thursday January 7 at 8.30pm.

Thrash Hat - ASIWYFA man goes electro

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

AND SO I Watch You From Afar have, through the albums All Hail Bright Futures and Heirs, rewritten the rule book on post-rock, kicking the genre out of the clichéd straight-jacket it had fallen into, and thrusting it towards new possibilities.

In a change of pace and direction, ASIWYFA leader Rory Friers has begun to explore other interests and musical approaches through his solo side project Trash Hat. Thrash Hat is a collection of songs, photographs and artwork by Rory, featuring recorded and sampled audio, together with electronic syntheses, created in the artist's studio on the north coast of Antrim and while travelling in a van on tour with ASIWYFA. The first fruits of this were heard in August via the track 'Pandaface'.

Captive - Music For Galway's multimedia festival

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

A MULTIMEDIA festival of music, film, and discussion will make up Captive, Music For Galway's mid-winter festival, which features music written by inmates of WWI Concentration and POW camps.

ROPES journal to raise funds for Simon

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

ROPES, THE literary journal produced by the students of NUI Galway's MA in literature and publishing, is seeking donations to cover the costs of its upcoming 24th volume.

The theme of the 2016 journal, which will be out in the spring, is 'Independence'. It will feature essays, poetry, prose, and artwork about exploring, gaining, losing, rejecting, and sustaining independence.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

PEOPLE WHOSE New Year resolutions include finally getting around to writing that novel or those poems that have been in their head for ages, should check out upcoming classes at the Galway Arts Centre.

The poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will teach a creative writing class, suitable for both beginning and continuing students, working in either poetry or fiction. Students will spend their weeks responding to writing exercises and receive feedback. The class runs for 10 weeks on Mondays from 2.30pm to 4pm, starting January 25.

Being Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk

Wed, Dec 23, 2015

THERE IS now less than a week to go to the opening performance of this year’s Renmore Panto, Jack and the Beanstalk, and excitement is building among all involved, none moreso than Richard Brown, who plays the lead role of Jack.

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