Tuam Arts Festival takes place this weekend

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE 10TH Tuam Arts Festival opens tonight and runs each day up to and including Monday, with storytelling, music, theatre, and the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

Cregg Castle artists’ exhibition

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

A GROUP exhibition by the resident artists of Cregg Castle Arts Venue opens in the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 6pm.

The exhibition, entitled Between Now and Then, features work by Alan Murray, Siobhan Ross, Susan Walsh, Paddy Quigley, Martina Finn, and John O’Sullivan, who work in a variety of mixed media.

A concert fit for a king

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

CEOL DON Rí/Music Fit For A King is the title of a concert which takes place this evening at 8pm in the Nuns Island Theatre.

At the show, the Coracle trio - Siobhán Armstrong (harp), Barnaby Brown (triple and Highland pipes), and Griogair Labhruidh (vocals) - along with American harpist Ann Heymann and Scots Gaelic singer Talitha MacKenzie, will perform Gaelic music for pipe and harps, as well as song, from Scotland and Ireland. The era of music being covered runs from the medieval period to the 18th century.

Paintings of Irish life in Britain

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE EXPERIENCES of Irish people in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s haunts the Irish imagination, whether in songs, the plays of Tom Murphy, or in films such as Kings.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Aug 16, 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.

Day long animation workshop

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

A DAY long animation workshop, entitled Animation For A Change, will be hosted by the Galway One World Centre on Friday August 31.

Bernard O’Shea @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

BERNARD O’SHEA delivers “left-field imaginative, but not up its arse, lovely comedy” according to Hotpress, and it is what audiences can expect at his Róisín Dubh show next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

Aras Éanna Europe’s most westerly arts centre

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

THE SUMMER months will, as ever, see a steady stream of visitors venturing from the mainland to the Aran Islands to enjoy the spectacular scenery, the flora and fauna, and sample the distinctive character of island life.

The cream of Irish indie for Popical Island Invasion

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

POPICAL ISLAND, the exciting Irish indie label, will showcase some of its very best bands with a major night in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 16 from 8pm.

Amazing Apples to play Electric Picnic

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

ROOTS ROCK/folk-pop band The Amazing Apples will be playing the Electric Picnic festival in County Laois on September 2.

Ava Vidal - rising comedy star to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

AVA VIDAL’S route to comedy was the least predictable and most unexpected of her peers, but it has made for a thoughtful, intelligent, and often savagely funny take on contemporary life.

The Mai, and ‘a fate you can’t escape’

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

GALWAY’S MEPHISTO Theatre Company will bring their exciting new staging of Marina Carr’s powerful play, The Mai, to the Town Hall main stage next week.

Sensual, potent, and often darkly funny, the play portrays the turbulent marriage of The Mai and her wayward husband Robert, a beguiling cello composer. Around them gather The Mai’s female relatives, headed by her opium-smoking, sharp-tongued, Grandma Fraochlán, and 16-year-old daughter Millie, through whose eyes we see the story unfold.

NUIG DramSoc to celebrate centenary

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

NUI GALWAY’S DramSoc, one of Galway’s greatest student institutions, will this year celebrate the centenary of its founding, with a variety of events.

Core Theatre College courses

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

CORE THEATRE College will hold courses in the Chekhov Technique and in Lecoq Movement. Both modules start the week of September 19 and will run for 10 weeks.

Grabbers winners

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

THE WINNERS of tickets to see the new Irish comedy film Grabbers, were:

Fred Johnston’s online writing course

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

POET, WRITER, and critic Fred Johnston is opening an on-line creative writing course which will run over eight weeks.

Bluegrass session in Kilcolgan

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS will take place in Kilcolgan this weekend.

The sessions will take place in Raftery’s Rest, this Saturday and Sunday morning, with performances by the band Woodbine.

Funk, Soul & Reggae @ The Electric Garden

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

Dave Barry will be playing an eclectic mix of northern soul, Latin boogaloo, reggae, funk and ska 45s in the chilled out space of The Garden room in The Electric Garden this Saturday night from 11.

An alternative take on female singers

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

SINGERS AND artists featured on the all-female vocal compilation album Café Irlandaise will be on stage at the Róisín Dubh on Friday August 17 at 8pm.

Fred and Bob @ Citóg

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

DUBLIN ALTERNATIVE rock band Fred and Fob, are not a duo of two dudes, but a quartet of three women and one man.

The band will headline the next Citóg night in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, tonight from 9pm.

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