Hidden rhythms at the Galway Jazz Festival
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
THERE ARE times when people cannot be blamed for wondering if the plethora of annual Galway festivals is really of any lasting benefit to the city. Outside of the arts festival, Cúirt, the races, and the film fleadh, do any of them bring anything more tangible to Galway than a good time?
Read more ...TULCA to journey to Golden Mountain
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
THE TULCA Festival of Visual Art returns from November 8 to 24 with an array of sculpture, video, paint, photography, and performance art, under the theme ‘Golden Mountain’.
Read more ...Over The Edge at the Autumn Gathering
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
THE OVER The Edge: Open Readings will be stepping outside its usual venue of the Galway City Library to take part in this year’s Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering in Gort.
Read more ...Love/Hate team to come to Galway TV seminar
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
Actors, writers, and directors of RTÉ’s acclaimed crime drama Love/Hate come to Galway next month for a major seminar on television.
Read more ...Flying to the moon with Marie Jones
Theatre Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2013
TOWN HALL Theatre audiences should be in for a treat next week when Marie Jones’s most recent play, Fly Me To The Moon, arrives for a four night run at the venue.
Read more ...Portumna Shorelines Arts Festival starts today
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
ODAY SEES the opening of the Shorelines Arts Festival, which will be held throughout this weekend, in Portumna, selected as County Galway’s first Village of Culture.
Read more ...Norwegian punk for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
“HONNINGBARNA ARE so good they could have been genetically modified to be the voice of a modern punk generation,” according to The Fly.
Read more ...Moving statues and the rural vernacular
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE MOMENTOUS Irish summer of 1985, with its spate of religious apparitions, is revisited in Gerry Conneely’s new comedy, The Year of Moving Statues, which comes to Druid Theatre next week.
The play has already enjoyed a sell-out run in Conneely’s hometown of Kinvara, and over a weekend chat, he filled me in on its details, beginning with his recollections of 1985.
Read more ...Scottish composer to work with young Galway orchestras
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE SCOTTISH composer James Ross has been appointed the first Composer in Residence to the Galway Music Education Partnership and he will be working with youth orchestras and composers in Galway.
Read more ...From Norway to Galway
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
A POTENTIALLY fascinating play awaits theatre goers to An Taibhdhearc on Saturday September 21 at 8pm, when a Norwegian theatre company takes to the stage.
Amor Plays Piano by Meg Skjelmerud, will be performed by Oslo’s Teater Vildenvei.
Read more ...Power Performance Academy enrols for new term
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE POWER Performance Academy is taking enrolments for its new term this Saturday and those aged between four and 17 are invited to go along.
The academy teaches drama, dance, singing, and other disciplines. It also offers different class times for different age profiles. Classes are held every Saturday in Lake View School, Renmore (formerly The Holy Family School).
Read more ...New Galway film wraps up shooting
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
A Galway Film Centre/RTÉ funded short film, The Weather Report, has wrapped and post-production work on it has now begun.
Read more ...Learn to sing harmonies
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
Galwegians interested in learning to sing in harmony can check out new singing classes in Áras na Gael, Dominick Street, by Kate Duignan, a natural voice practitioner.
Read more ...Galway Gospel Choir seeks men
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
GALWAY GOSPEL Choir is looking for male singers – basses and tenors - to join the group who begin rehearsals for the new season this week.
Read more ...Martin Dyar lands place on US international writing programme
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
NUI GALWAY graduate and award winner poet Martin Dyer has been awarded a place on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Read more ...New Irish comedy film to be screened at The Eye
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE O’BRIENS Movie, a new Irish comedy film shot in Headford, will be screened this evening in The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Stay Golden with ASIWYFA
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
AND SO I Watch You From Afar are set to take over the Róisín Dubh in December where they will curate two nights of live music events.
Read more ...Preston Reed returns to Galway
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
WHEN TOTAL Guitar described Preston Reed as “the world’s most gifted guitarist” and Guitarist described his playing as “spellbinding” they were not exaggerating.
Read more ...The Latchikos release debut single today
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
GALWAY BAND The Latchikos release their debut single ‘Off to Bondi-Junction’ and play three gigs in Galway city and county this week.
Read more ...Metal night @ Monroe’s
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
GALWAY ALTERNATIVE metal band Between The Lines, formerly known as Black Tooth, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.
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