The Sound Of Music
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE TOWN Hall Theatre will come alive with The Sound Of Music when Sean and Brian Powers’ Twin Productions bring the much-loved musical to the venue for a five night run from August 14 to 18.
Read more ...New exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
TOMORROW AT 6pm sees the opening of two exhibitions in the Galway Arts Centre - Linda Shevlin’s Supernature and Vicky Smith’s Megga Bubble Space Burbs.
Supernature is inspired by Lyall Watson’s 1973 best-selling book Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural . Shevlin became interested in a series of 19th century botanical experiments Watson describes as being, “an exploration of the space between those things that we understand as normal occurrences and those that are completely paranormal and defy explanation.”
Read more ...Milltown to host PJ Conlon Festival
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
UACHTARÁN NA hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, will officially open the inaugural PJ Conlon Festival, in Milltown, north County Galway, this weekend.
Read more ...Summer ballet camp
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
A SUMMER ballet camp will take place from August 13 to 16 in the Presentation Primary School Hall, Newcastle Road, and is open to all students of ballet.
Read more ...Chamber Philharmonia Cologne in concert
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
ONE OF Germany's finest ensembles, the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne, will be in concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Summer Music in Galway festival
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
The Summer Music in Galway school and festival returns on Monday August 5 with classical concerts in both the city and county.
Read more ...Midlake to play Róisín Dubh in August
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, which paved the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.
Read more ...Theatre reviews: The Great Hunger, Galway Fringe Festival
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE CLAIRE Keegan-helmed Galway Fringe Festival made a distinctive splash in July with two and a half weeks of non-stop theatre, art, music, literature, dance, workshops, children’s events, and more.
The fringe has been an impressive achievement for Keegan and her colleagues, assembling a packed programme featuring hosts of artists from near and far. Though this was only the Fringe’s second year it seems well placed to build on its early promise and secure a firm place for itself in the Galway city arts calendar.
Read more ...Alan Partridge to the rescue?
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
STEVE COOGAN’S celebrated Alan Partridge character is now to star in his own movie, where the hapless radio DJ/talk show host encounters disaster at an airport.
Read more ...Free children’s art workshop on The Claddagh
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE CLADDAGH was once a vibrant fishing village of thatched cottages and its people had a distinctive form of dress.
Read more ...Foster & Allen in concert
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
FOSTER & ALLEN will be in concert at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, on Thursday August 8.
Read more ...TULCA festival open call
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE DEADLINE for artists to make submission to take part in November’s TULCA Festival of Visual Art is Monday August 5 at 12 noon.
Read more ...On-line creative writing course
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre is hosting an eight-week series of tailored creative writing courses on poetry and prose.
Read more ...The Cellar Underground party
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE CELLAR Underground will host The Session party this Bank Holiday Saturday from 9pm.
Read more ...Metal night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
PSYCHEDELIC DOOM metallers Headless Kross top the bill for a trio of metal acts who play the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8pm.
Read more ...Txütxükan - French Gypsy-folk
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
FRENCH GYPSY-folk band Txütxükan are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Friday August 9 at 10pm.
Read more ...Eddi Reader and Alan Kelly in concert
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE GREAT Scottish singer Eddi Reader will join The Alan Kelly Gang for an Irish tour which takes place in Galway this month.
Read more ...The Amazing Apples @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE AMAZING Apples return to Galway, following dates in Britain and the USA, and play Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 9pm.
Read more ...Emerging Kinvara painters
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
TEN ARTISTS, recent graduates or current students of the ACCS art and design degree in the GMIT, are exhibiting in Kinvara.
Read more ...Calling all teen film-makers
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE JUNIOR Galway Film Fleadh is calling on young and budding film-makers in the city and county to enter its Short Film Programme.
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