The return of SBB Ina Shuí

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

EARLY EVENING on Irish TV in the early 1980s - I remember it well. A shot of a bus rolling down a road in Connemara soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’ - SBB Ina Shuí was on.

Eighth Burren Annual ready for opening

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

The eighth Burren Annual exhibition opens on Saturday at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Co Clare. Curated by Josephine Kelliher, the event features a collaborative project from artist Marie Hanlon and composer Rhona Clarke linking the visual arts and music. The exhibition features both individual and collective pieces, prompted by and developed in response to the unique environment of the Burren.

Visual media and music are juxtaposed and balanced, each inspired by the same location. Although not all pieces are collaborative, there is a cohesion that is central to the exhibition and a strong dialogue between sound and image. A video work entitled Relic, is the result of close collaboration by both artists. The piece draws its visual material directly from the topography of the Burren. Initially sequences appear unconnected, but as the film progresses a pattern of cycles emerges: the cycle of the tides, the cycle of the seasons and ultimately the cycle of life and death. From this stark terrain a narrative is constructed, mainly through the use of detail and close-up. Images of rocks, pools and vegetation give way to rusting debris, alluding to both the passing of time and the human presence in the landscape.

Theatre classes at Galway Actors Workshop

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

Galway Actors Workshop is offering a new daytime course in creating theatre as part of its autumn course programme. It is also offering the popular introduction to acting for adults who have always wanted to give it a try, and a scene study class for those with more experience.

Theatre for Change Festival two weeks away

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

THE RENOWNED Theatre for Change Festival will take place on September 10 and 11, in Áras Éanna on Inis Oírr.

Feedback at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

FEEDBACK, A collaborative exhibition between artists David Beattie and Karl Burke and writer and curator Chris Fite-Wassilak opens in Galway Arts Centre on September 2 and runs until October 1. Feedback a multimedia exhibition uses light, movement, and sound to take a quiet look at how we relate with our surroundings and provides us with the unique opportunity to respond to what we see. Through sculpture, photographic sequences, video, and sound the artists and writer tap into our uneasy relationship with the hidden processes of the natural world, look critically at experience and search out the possibility of wider perspectives.

Tulca Arts Festival on the lookout for volunteers

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

TULCA FESTIVAL of visual arts is an annual festival taking place in Galway. Running since 2002, Tulca features dynamic and exciting work from national and international visual art practitioners.

Great local line up for Amnesty gig

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

A CHARITY music gig in aid of Amnesty International will take place tonight from 8pm upstairs in Kelly’s Bar. Performers include Mikey and the Scallywags, Mark James, and Mumblaroo.

Maria Doyle Kennedy to SING at the Crane tonight

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

TONIGHT, THE Crane Bar welcomes a special performer who will be well known to many of us for varying reasons. While Maria Doyle Kennedy has starred in some of the most popular films and television series of the past two decades, tonight this multifaceted talent will bring her musical gifts to an enthralled Galway audience. Since breaking onto our screens playing Natalie in The Commitments in 1991, Maria has gone on to feature in The General as well as prominent roles in television series such as The Tudors and Dexter, not forgetting the “great honour” of appearing in an episode of Father Ted.

Two Nights for Celia

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

THIS SATURDAY and Sunday will see two nights of indie, rock, metal, electronic alternative and punk at the Roisin Dubh. Twelve bands are giving it everything in aid of the Celia Griffin Famine Memorial.

Win tickets to One Day

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

TWENTY YEARS…two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of An Education, Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture One Day is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel of the same name. After one day together, July 15, 1988, their college graduation - Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of Across the Universe) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime.

Win a Harley at Monroes

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

Wednesday night at Monroes will see a remarkable first prize up for grabs in a raffle designed to raise funds for Haiti.

Alleviate Awards launched

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

ALLEVIATE PUBLICATIONS has launched the Alleviate Awards 2011, an opportunity for all writers, artists, and photographers in Ireland to showcase their talent in a published format to an international audience.

Art exhibition in Monivea

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

An exhibition featuring almost 50 original works by a selection of 10 local artists will take place in Cooke’s Yard, Monivea, from 12 noon to 5pm on Sunday August 28.

Over The Edge reading takes place tonight

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

THE AUGUST Over The Edge open reading takes place in Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, this evening from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Róisín Dubh Comedy presents Foil, Arms and Hog

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

Foil, Arms and Hog’s blend of bizarre, ridiculous and surreal sketches have made them one of the country’s most popular ensembles. The all-male, three piece, Dublin based, cymbal smashing sketch group are now an established act at festivals around Ireland and the UK.

Trad music concerts in St Nicholas’

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

THE FINAL Tunes In The Church gigs take place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church from 8pm to 9.30pm tomorrow, Monday, and Wednesday,

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

Forget the monkey suits from the 1970’s original, even the 2001 remake has not a patch on this newest offering which I found not just surprisingly entertaining but also emotionally touching in places. I never thought I’d say this but the Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a great watch.

From bouncing baby to perky Teddy

Thu, Aug 18, 2011

Arriving at the Town Hall theatre to meet Rod Goodall for this interview, I find him hunkered on the steps outside and feeding bits of sandwich to a hungry young gull flapping eagerly around his feet. It could easily be an image of Faith Healer’s Teddy, the cockney showbiz agent who Goodall portrays in the play, auditioning a new performer. Teddy, after all, informs the audience that his roster of talent has included a bagpipe-playing whippet and a woman who can speak to pigeons, so a sassy seagull would fit right in. And Goodall’s convivial ease with the bird mirrors the sociable warmth of Teddy’s character.

Clifden Arts Week launches on Monday

Thu, Aug 18, 2011

Clifden Community Arts Week, the west of Ireland’s most prominent and longest running community arts festival, will return this September for its 34th year of artistic celebration. Taking place from September 15 to 25, the festival boasts an impressive line up of national and international talent with a jam-packed programme that covers all spectrums of the arts from literature and music to theatre, film, and comedy, as well as inspirational talks and lectures and a dedicated schools’ programme.

This year’s highlights include readings from presidential candidate and politician Michael D Higgins and Ireland Professor of Poetry Harry Clifton with Leanne O’Sullivan. The impressive literary programme also includes poets Dermot Healy, Louis DePaor, Tom Paulin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Eilean Ní Chuilleanan and Macdara Woods, who as husband and wife are great pioneers for modern Irish poetry. Playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy will also read as will Hennessey New Irish Writer of the Year and local Clifden woman Siobhan Mannion.