Win The Woman In Black goodie bags

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

THE CLASSIC gothic horror tale The Woman In Black is coming to cinemas tomorrow and we have three film tie-in goodie bags to give away.

Paul Roe and Contempo in concert

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

PAUL ROE, the distinguished clarinettist, will join the ConTempo Quartet for a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday February 17 at 8pm.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

THE COMPETITION is intense, the array of talent spectacular, and the pints are flowing. It has to be the next heat of the hugely popular Show Me The Funny.

Renzo Café art exhibition

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

ANNAGHDOWN BASED artists Susanna Lambeck and Colm MacSuibhne are currently holding an exhibition of paintings in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Here come the girls

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

DESCRIBED AS a cross between Mamma Mia and Desperate Housewives, the smash-hit show Girls Night: The Musical is coming to the Black Box from Monday February 13 to Saturday 18.

Zeitgeist - looking afresh at the Holocaust

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

LAST WEEKEND saw worldwide ceremonies observing International Holocaust Memorial Day, including a commemoration at Dublin’s Mansion House, attended by President Michael D Higgins.

The Memorial Day was officially designated in 2005 by the United Nations and marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, on January 27 1945, by soldiers of the Red Army.

A sixties take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, fairy folk playing pranks, romance, and mischief, and on this occasion, hippies and free love, all combine in Shakespeare’s wonderful A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Galway to host Irish premier of A Tale of Two Cities

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TO MARK the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Galway Musical Society will present the Irish premiere of the Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities.

The Irish premiere night will be Wednesday March 21 at 8pm and there will be a wine and food reception from 7pm. The play will run until Saturday March 24.

SBB Ina Shuí is back

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

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

Cut from the opening credits to the studio and there was Sean Bán Breathnach with a shock of electrified sandy hair - looking like a skinny Mick Hucknall - sitting among the audience, ag caint as Gaelige about what would be coming up on his show that evening, and, if he could get away with it, throwing in the odd risqué - for the time - joke as well.

Duo Vocis - Naughton and Costello are back

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

DUO VOCIS, the popular vocal team of Seán Costello and Frank Naughton, bring their show, From Broadway to La Scala, back to the Town Hall Theatre for one night only.

Patrician Musical Society reaches the big sixty

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE PATRICIAN Musical Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year with a staging of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s much loved Showboat.

New Irish film The Pier to be screened @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE PIER, a new Irish film, which has already won praise at film festivals in the Czech Republic, Israel, Greece, and Georgia, will be shown at The Eye this week.

Movie table quiz @ Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

GALWAY MOVIE buffs take note - Kelly’s Official Movie Table Quiz takes place next Monday at 8pm.

Curfew @ The Cellar

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

CURFEW, THE new DJ night in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, returns this Saturday with DJs Yoseph and Fuz on the decks.

Gemma Hayes to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TIPPERARY SINGER-songwriter Gemma Hayes is coming to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday at 8pm as part of her Acoustic Tour of Ireland.

Squarehead for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

WHEN DUBLIN trio Squarehead released their debut album Yeah Nothing on Richter Collective last autumn, it was the announcement that something special had arrived.

Earlier slot An Taobh Tuathail

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

AN TAOBH Tuathail, the underground music programme presented by Cian Ó Ciobháin on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, has moved to a new earlier time slot of 9pm.

Cork indie @ Citóg

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TWO CORK bands, Daphne In The Attic and Agitate The Gravel, and Galway’s Trampoline Scene will take to the stage at Citóg in The Cellar Bar tomorrow from 10pm.

Screen acting course for adults

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

The acting for film and television course returns to Galway and will take place in The Harbour Hotel from Tuesday February 15 to Thursday 17 from 7pm to 11pm.

The course will teach participants how to correctly slate to camera, match continuity between shots, cold-read for films, audition for commercials, be your own agent, use 10 x 8 headshots, network with casting directors, and compile a show reel.

A touch of Debussy in the night

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THIS YEAR marks the 150th birthday of the marvellous French composer Claude Debussy and two of his works will be on the programme for the next Music For Galway concert.

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