Forde brothers to represent Galway @ IYMAs

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GALWAY ROCK duo Keagan & Evan Forde will represent Galway in the Irish Youth Music Awards final in the Aviva Stadium on April 12.

Cover bands @ The Stock Exchange

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

COVERS BAND Badly Stocked Jukebox take to the stage of The Stock Exchange tomorrow night, followed by Kensey 3 for the Sunday session.

Máirtín O'Connor Band to play An Spidéal

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE MÁIRTÍN O’Connor Band, featuring the titan talents of Cathal Hayden, Seamie O’Dowd, and Jim Higgins, and the great man himself, play the Éigse an Spidéil festival this weekend.

The beauty in forgotten places

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GERAGH IN County Cork is the only ancient post glacial alluvial forest in Western Europe and the subject of a new photographic exhibition, entitled Lost.

Lost, by photographer Seamie Gallagher is currently running in the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway and is inspired by an alluvial forest - a hardwood forest found on low levees, ridges and terraces with a high level of underground water within the floodplains of streams - near Seamie’s hometown of Macroom.

Calling Galway schools for poetry slam

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE BRAVE New Words Schools Poetry Slam comes to the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday April 8 and could eventually see young Galway poets performing on HBO.

Brave New Words, which has featured on RTÉ TwoTube and Nationwide, is aimed at transition year students and below. It aims to improve literacy, encourage creativity and performance, and help young people make themselves heard.

Poetry made of dark material

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

WHILE STILL a teenager, Caoilinn Hughes was a featured reader at the first Over The Edge Open Readings in the Galway City Library.

The storytelling revival

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IN IRELAND, there is an extremely strong tradition of storytelling. However, in recent years this rich aspect of our indigenous inheritance is disappearing.

Thankfully these wonderful stories have not totally disappeared, as is evident from the new series, the first volume of which has recently been published by the History Press.

Any colour you like

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

CATHERINE FLEMING may only be 18 years old, but already she has had three exhibitions, and her fourth, currently running in the Providence Market Kitchen on St Augustine Street, reveals her increasingly bold use of colour and abstraction.

A ‘technicolour phantasmagoria’

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

PAT MCCABE’S rollercoaster new play, The Bridge Below The Town, set in 1950s small-town Ireland, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre and promises audiences a swirling drama of life, love, Butlins, and nuns who make márla men, set to a classic soundtrack.

Staged by Livin’ Dred Theatre Company, in association with NASC Theatre Network, the play centres on housewife Golly Murray who, despite being almost broken by life’s struggles, ultimately discovers the gratifying truth that love can triumph over adversity.

ConTempo and O’Connor - when trad meets classical

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

TRAD TITANS Máirtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain and Cathal Hayden are joining forces with the mighty ConTempo Quartet for a concert in Galway next month.

Putting Portrait Of The Artist on stage

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

JAMES JOYCE’S A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man comes in the Town Hall Theatre in an imaginative staging from Dublin’s New Theatre.

Life among the Dorset Street Toys

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

A CHILD prophet is taken from a basket sent drifting down the Liffey. A young girl clutching a dolly is taken from her home.

Frank McGuinness’s Electra @ NUIG

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

FRANK MCGUINNESS’S adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra will be staged as part of the inaugural NUI Galway Theatre Season.

David Mamet’s Oleanna comes to Galway

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

DAVID MAMET’S Oleanna divided audiences upon its original production in 1992 and still divides audiences today.

Coole Music Orchestra Festival

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE SEVENTH annual Coole Music Orchestra Festival takes place in the Gort Community Centre this Saturday, starting at 1pm.

Damien Dempsey @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

Leading Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey is coming to the Róisín Dubh this evening at 8pm as part of his tour promoting his new album The Essential Damien Dempsey. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, the Ticket Desk at OMG Zhivago, Shop Street, and The Róisín Dubh.

The Legend of Luke Kelly

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE LEGEND Of Luke Kelly, a celebration of the music and voice of possibly the greatest of all Irish folk singers, is coming to the Town Hall.

The Chekhov Technique for comedy

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

THE CHEKHOV technique for actors is often associated with performing tragedy and intense situations, but it can be used for comedies as well.

Make your own short movie

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

GALWEGIANS WHO would like to star in their own short movie or gain experience in filmmaking, should check out a new course from the Galway Actors Workshop.

Make Your Own Short Movie takes place from 11am to 6pm this Saturday and Sunday and next Saturday and Sunday (March 8 and 9). Under the professional guidance of the Galway Film Centre’s Pete Ray, the workshop gives students a chance to work in front and behind the camera. It is suitable for those with some acting experience.