Everyone’s invited to The Big Sing birthday bash

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE BIG Sing Multicultural Community Choir will celebrate it’s first birthday at it’s First Birthday Bash at The Cottage Bar, Lower Salthill, on Friday September 18 at 8pm.

The event is to help welcome new members, celebrate the regulars and their achievements, and to thank all the people who have helped the group over the past 12 months. All are welcome.

New writing courses

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

A SERIES of new writing courses will take place this autumn facilitated by poet and short stroy writer Susan Millar DuMars and poet Kevin Higgins.

Galway Youth Theatre call for actors

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre is currently recruiting new members for its two year performance course starting at the end of September.

Pete Mullineaux acting classes

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

GALWAY BASED actor, poet, and songwriter Pete Mullineaux will teach an acting class in the Galway Arts Centre, starting Wednesday September 16.

Stagecoach Theatre Arts classes

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

STAGECOACH THEATRE Arts, the world’s largest theatre school for children and young people has a few remaining places for its autumn term.

Natural Born Artists

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

FOR THE last 12 years Galway city and county has been alive with the sight and sound of thousands of children and families attending shows, workshops and other activities during Baboró.

Traditional games at the city museum

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

EVER PLAYED Queenie-Eye-O or Five Slates? Many children have never played games familiar to their parents or grandparents.

Mary McPartlan to play The Crane

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE GREAT folk and trad singer Mary McPartlan will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Wednesday September 9 at 9pm.

The Unwanted play Campbell’s

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

FROM THE rich traditions of both sides of the Atlantic comes the source and inspiration for the music of The Unwanted.

AMP anniversary showcase

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE ACCESS Music Project 2009 students will take to the stage of The King’s Head on Tuesday September 8 at 8pm for the project’s 10th Anniversary Showcase.

AMP is an accredited one-year course for people who wish to pursue a career in music. It aims to enhance participants’ skills in order to improve their employment prospects in the music industry and/or facilitate access to higher education.

Shaskeen at the Tavern

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE WELL established traditional Irish music group Shaskeen play in Campbell’s Tavern on Saturday night.

Cinema Review - Funny People

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

The life of a comedian is not all fun and games, in fact it can be down-right depressing, especially if you’re George Simmons, who is forced, through a terminal illness, to reassess his life, and connect with lost loves and human beings in general.

Meet The Yellow Bittern director at The Eye

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

IRISH FOLKSINGER Liam Clancy, the man Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life”, is now the subject of a major documentary feature.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A good dinner, a good laugh, a good haircut, a good tan, a good performance, probably in that order too.

New exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is inviting people to the opening of two new exciting exhibitions at 6pm this evening.

Ceramics exhibition in An Spidéal

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

SLIDING ROCK Contemporary Ceramics based in An Spidéal craft centre will host an exhibition of work by Nanette Ledwith and Kathleen Standen.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

CORK POET and novelist Martina Evans will be the guest reader at the next North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday September 7 at 9pm.

September reading at Sheridan’s Wine Bar

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE POET Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan will read for Over The Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday September 11 at 8pm.

Liz is from Donegal but lives in the Canary Islands. Her work featured in the 50 Best New Poets 2007 Anthology from Meridian Press. She is also one of six winners for the Oxfam Ireland Poetry Calendar 2009.

A spinning world

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

THE TAPESTRY of Colum McCann’s novel Let The Great World Spin is so rich and deep, so varied and rewarding, that the book needs to be read several times before it can be fully appreciated.

The first reading is merely an introduction to an intricate cast of characters who are touched in one way or the other by one of those unusual events that can only happen in New York city. The second reading allows the reader to fully appreciate McCann’s mastery not only as a storyteller, but also as a word craftsman and novelist.

The unusual health of the Galway poetry scene

Thu, Sep 03, 2009

EVELYN WAUGH said you should always give positive reviews to your friends, as it is terribly rude to give a bad review to a book you have not actually read.

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