May Over The Edge reading
Thu, May 24, 2012
The May Over The Edge: Open Reading, the final such event before the summer break, takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 31 at 6.30pm.
The featured readers are Adam White, Bernie Ashe, and 2011 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition winner Eimear Ryan.
Read more ...Julian Gough makes book award shortlist
Thu, May 24, 2012
GALWAY’S JULIAN Gough has seen his most recent novel Jude In London shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
Read more ...Get ignited by GMIT exhibition
Thu, May 24, 2012
IGNITE, AN exhibition by third year students of ceramics in the GMIT’s Department of Art and Design, opens this evening.
Read more ...Stephen James to launch EP at Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 24, 2012
STEPHEN JAMES, the Sligo born, Galway based, singer-songwriter will launch his debut EP with a show in Monroe’s Live tonight at 9pm.
Read more ...Underground Sound mini-festival @ Monroe’s
Thu, May 24, 2012
THE UNDERGROUND Sound, the night for up and coming, alternative, and unsigned bands in Monroe’s, will hold a mini-festival next week.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, May 24, 2012
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.
Read more ...Vicky Langan - ‘If I’m completely honest and raw it can’t go wrong’
Thu, May 17, 2012
“THERE ARE some musicians who entertain us, fine; some who stimulate us, better; and then some who immerse us in something so powerful that primal emotions surface instantly; making us ultra-defensive, or, finally open to illumination. One of the latter is Vicky Langan.”
Read more ...Joan O’Clery; dressing DruidMurphy
Thu, May 17, 2012
ONLY A couple of weeks remain until the curtain rises on the epic DruidMurphy cycle and the company is in the thick of technical rehearsals at the Town Hall, preparing for what is sure to be a highlight of the theatrical year.
While much attention may focus on the input of playwright, director and actors, the contribution of the design team should not be underestimated. A key member of the DruidMurphy design team is costume designer Joan O’Clery, twice winner of Costume Designer of the Year in The Irish Times Theatre Awards.
Read more ...The Wedding Present return
Thu, May 17, 2012
THE WEDDING Present return to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 3 to play their acclaimed 1991 album Seamonsters.
Read more ...Galway African Film Festival
Thu, May 17, 2012
AWARD-WINNING movies from Morocco, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, South Africa, and Rwanda will be shown in the Nuns Island Arts Theatre for the fifth Galway African Film Festival.
The Galway African Film Festival will be officially launched tomorrow at 5.30pm in the NUI Galway Huston School of Film & Digital Media, across from the Galway Cathedral.
Read more ...Enjoy a film at lunchtime
Thu, May 17, 2012
JACK NICHOLSON, Peter O’Toole, Sissy Spacek, and Phillip Seymore-Hoffman will all star in a series of movies to be screened in NUI Galway as part of the Bealtaine Festival.
Read more ...Galway to hold its own fringe festival
Thu, May 17, 2012
Galway city is to get its own fringe festival this summer and the organisers are calling on local arts organisations and individuals to become involved.
Read more ...Core Theatre College auditions
Thu, May 17, 2012
CORE THEATRE College will be holding auditions for its autumn theatre training course which runs from September 18 to December 2.
Read more ...Scottish music in Aughnanure Castle
Thu, May 17, 2012
AUGHNANURE CASTLE in Oughterard will be filled with the sound of Scottish traditional music and song this weekend as part of the Galway Early Music Festival.
Read more ...A journey into Spanish sounds
Thu, May 17, 2012
ANDREW LAWRENCE-King, one of the world’s leading historical harpists, will lead a concert of Spanish music in Galway this weekend.
Read more ...Followers Of Otis @ Citóg
Thu, May 17, 2012
GALWAY FOLK-rock band The Followers Of Otis will play Citóg at The Cellar Bar tomorrow night.
Read more ...Galway Voice Studio students’ showcase
Thu, May 17, 2012
TWENTY-FOUR students from the Galway Voice Studio will perform their favourite songs live in The Quays Bar, this Sunday from 6pm.
Read more ...The Original Rudeboys @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 17, 2012
THE ORIGINAL Rudeboys, the Dublin acoustic-hip hop band, are coming to Galway and will play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday May 26 at 9pm.
Read more ...The Hope Foundation fundraising concert tonight @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 17, 2012
TONIGHT FROM 9pm, Monroe’s Live will host a major fundraising concert for The Hope Foundation, the charity which works for street children in Calcutta.
Read more ...Houseworx DJ Team @ Cellar Bar
Thu, May 17, 2012
THREE DJS, each with their own approach to music and all sharing a passion for entertaining and performing music, will be at The Cellar Bar this Saturday.
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