Platinum Ray to DJ @ Factory

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

PLATINUM RAY, aka Pauly Martin of Dublin’s Bop Gun night, will be DJing at the Epoch clubnight in Factory this Saturday.

Disconauts @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE DISCONAUTS will hold their monthly ‘Dex & Percussion Party’ in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 10.30pm.

A Band Called Wanda to headline charity gig

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE BRILLIANT Galway ‘folk’n’roll’ group A Band Called Wanda, will headline a charity concert in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow at 9pm, in aid of Galway Hospice.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014 is open for submissions in poetry and fiction from Thursday November 28.

Award winning Romanian quartet for Galway

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE ARCADIA String Quartet, winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, are coming to Galway.

‘Away with Words’/Over The Edge reading

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

AN OVER The Edge reading, in conjunction with Away with Words, the Galway based creative writing programme for people with intellectual disabilities, takes place next week.

The reading takes place on Thursday November 28 at 6.30pm in the Galway City Library. Away with Words writers will read poems and stories, along with Away With Words tutors Mary Madec, Kevin Higgins, and Susan Millar DuMars, who will also be reading. There will be an open-mic afterwards in which anyone may participate.

Last weekend of TULCA events

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THIS IS the last weekend of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway city, which means there is still time to explore the wealth of creative and imaginative exhibitions on display.

Music from another room

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

“I WILL sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision,” David Bowie declared on his 1976 single ‘Sound + Vision’, and Galway audiences are about to do the same.

Rita Oates exhibition

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

SINGING BY Itself 2013, an exhibition by Roscommon artist Rita Oates, is on show in the Providence Market Kitchen and Gallery, Saint Augustine Street.

Druid to stage The Colleen Bawn

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

DRUID THEATRE will stage Dion Boucicault’s comic melodrama The Colleen Bawn in the Black Box Theatre from December 5 to 21.

Two American songwriters over two nights

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

AMERICAN SINGER-songwriters James Low, of The James Low Western Front, and Drew Landry, of Bandryland and Drew Landry & The Dirty Cajuns, play Galway.

Silent Disco for kids

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

A SILENT Disco for children will take place this Saturday in the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, from 2pm.

The ‘Silent Disco For Kids’, presented by the Róisín Dubh, will see two DJs playing songs to hundreds of people dancing and singing along to chart hits, anthems, guilty pleasures, fun songs, and pure cheese - except no music will be heard as they will be all wearing headphones. It promises to be wonderful fun for the whole family.

Former TD to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE FORMER Fine Gael Galway West TD Pádraic McCormack will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 21 at 6.30pm.

Romantic Ireland is not dead and gone

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

IRELAND WAS an inspiration to the 19th century Romantic movement, while the Irish Literary movement would inspire the imagination of the 1916 rebels.

A Saudi girl and a bicycle

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

WAJADA, THE first full-length feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and winner of the CICAE Award at the Venice Film Festival 2012, will be shown in Galway.

St Nicholas’ Singers to perform Lux Aeterna

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

CHORAL MUSIC and poetry will join forces at a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, this Sunday at 5pm.

See The Princess Bride on Saturday

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE PRINCESS Bride, one of the best loved of all family, fantasy/adventure films, will be screnned in the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 11.30am.

Flirt FM to premiere new radio drama

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

FLIRT FM 101.3, Galway’s student and alternative station will premiere the radio drama Life Gets Tasteless on Wednesday November 20 from 9pm to 10pm.

Maureen Nestor has a near death experience while having a gastric band operation. During this experience, she looks back at her life and her relationship with food and her body. With the help of her spirit guide, A, she realises how much of her time she has spent eating, dieting, and worrying about her weight.