Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Mar 22, 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.

Galway Youth Orchestra to play for children

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THE GALWAY Youth Intermediate Orchestra will perform a family concert this Sunday at St Patrick’s Band Hall, near Ceannt Station, at 2pm.

Vinny Brown to talk about books

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

VINNY BROWNE of Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop will give a talk on books in Clarinbridge on Tuesday at 7pm in Claire’s Tearooms.

The Forge at Gort literary festival returns

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THE FORGE at Gort literary festival returns to the south County Galway town on Friday March 30 and Saturday 31 featuring readings, workshops, and music.

The St Matthew Passion at St Nicholas’

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

FOR THE first time in Ireland, JS Bach’s epic choral masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, will be performed and Galway’s St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church is the venue.

This Must Be The Place competition winners

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THE WINNERS of tickets to the advance screening of This Must Be The Place at The Eye Cinema this evening at 7pm are:

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

HE USED to go by the name Chloe Poems but now he is back to his birth name of Gerry Potter and he is coming to to Galway to perform his poetry.

March Over The Edge reading

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THREE WRITERS, Paul Maddern, Rejini Samuel, and Stephanie Klapp will read at the Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday March 29 at 6.30pm.

Win tickets to Mirror Mirror @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

MIRROR MIRROR, a spectacular reimagining of Snow White, opens in cinemas across the country on April 6 but there will be a special preview screening in Galway on April 1.

New Irish film @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE OTHER Side Of Sleep, a new Irish film, will be screened at The Eye Cinema from tomorrow, while the film’s director Rebecca Daly will be attending a screening next week.

Win tickets to This Must Be The Place

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THIS MUST Be The Place, the English language debut of director Paolo Sorrentino, starring Sean Penn, will screen in The Eye Cinema on Thursday March 22 at 7pm.

NUIG’s new Medical Orchestra concert

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

NUI GALWAY’S Medical Orchestra will play the university’s Bailey Allen Hall on Thursday March 22 at 8pm for the final Arts in Action 2012 concert.

Art exhibitions on The Docks

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE SHED at the Galway harbour is a major new space for art in the city and for the rest of this year it will be host to a series of exhibitions, including a Galway Arts Festival show.

Facilitated by the support of the Galway Harbour Company, The Shed is a large 4,000sq ft warehouse space located on the middle pier of the Galway Docks.

Callino Quartet to play Clifden

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE ACCLAIMED Callino Quartet, along with British clarinettist Sarah Beaty, will perform work by Haydn and others, in the Church of Ireland Clifden on Wednesday March 21 at 8pm.

Proust Questionnaire Maeve Mulrennan Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A bouncy castle full of puppies.

Life drawing classes

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

ART TEACHER Mark D Smith is bringing his life drawing class to Galway and offering Galway Advertiser readers a 20 per cent discount off their first class.

Mark will run classes on a Monday evening in the Bridgemills in Galway. Participants will draw from the naked human form under tuition. Classes are aimed at beginners and intermediate students,

Drawing and art history classes

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

LOCAL ARTIST Victoria Smith will give classes in drawing at the GTI for beginners and intermediate starting on March 20.

Galway singer-songwriter to release EP

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

FOLLOWING HIS win at Bob Geldof’s 2011 International YouBloom Music Awards last December, Rob Wade is back with a new EP.

St Patrick in his own words

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

THE FIGURE of Saint Patrick has dominated the Irish cultural landscape in a way that few other national icons, such as Uncle Sam or Saint George, ever have.

While the Harp may be the symbol of the Irish nation, Saint Patrick symbolises the essence of being Irish, an indefinable quality that the Irish, especially those living abroad, revere to the point of adoration.

Disconauts live remix at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 15, 2012

GALWAY/LONDON house collective, the Disconauts, play their first live date of 2012 at the Róisín Dubh for a St Patrick’s weekend show this Sunday from 10pm.

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