Fíbín auditions
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
THE AWARD winning Fíbín Puppet and Performance Co is holding a casting session for this year’s programme.
This includes a four week contract for March/April with An Triail, which will play Dublin, Galway, and Cork. The summer will see the company touring with a new, devised show, and a co-production with the Abbey Theatre for the autumn.
Read more ...Freddie White – desperado on a plane to Oz
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
FREDDIE WHITE has been to the forefront of Irish folk for more than 40 years. He began playing gigs in his teens around Cork city before perfecting his unique style busking in London.
Read more ...Marc O’Reilly to launch new album in Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
IRISH FOLK-blues singer songwriter Marc O’Reilly has just released his debut album My Friend Marx. It will be launched in the Róisín Dubh nexy weekend.
Read more ...Shack Up with Graham Dolan
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
SHACK UP is a new weekly Friday night club with DJ Graham Dolan and occasional guests upstairs in Kelly’s from 11pm.
Read more ...Máirtín O’Connor and friends at The Crane
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s finest accordion players and one of Irish trad’s most creative minds, plays The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Wednesday at 9pm.
Read more ...De Dannan to play Moycullen
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
DE DANNAN will play an intimate show in The Forge, Moycullen, on Saturday February 26 at 8.30pm to promote their new album Wonderwaltz.
Read more ...Orchestral manoeuvres for children
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
THE GALWAY Youth Intermediate Orchestra will give a “lively, interactive concert” on Sunday at 2pm in the St Patrick’s Band Hall.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
THE GALWAY Arts Centre on Dominick Street will hold its next Poetry Slam on Tuesday at 7pm with poet and actor Pete Mullineaux as the MC.
Read more ...TULCA appoints new curator
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
GALWAY ARTIST Megs Morley has been appointed as the curator of the TULCA 2011 visual arts festival, which will take place from November 4 to 20.
Read more ...Galway Music Residency seeks apprentice ensembles
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
The Galway Music Residency is beginning its annual search for an apprentice ensemble for the residency programme.
Last year’s search resulted in three apprentice ensembles being selected - the Cantabile Piano Trio from Gort, SoundPost String Quartet from Galway, and the Golden String Cello Duo from Limerick.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Pottering around the kitchen inventing recipes to cook for my friends.
Cinema Review - Black Swan
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
The world of ballet will never seem the same again as Black Swan, a film which is both beautiful and disturbing, gives us Natalie Portman’s best performance yet as the perfection-seeking ballerina whose dream disintegrates along with her fragile mind.
This film, or should I say stroke of genius, from director Darren Aronofsky is certainly not for the faint-hearted. The shaky documentary style filming adds to the overall purpose of this psychological thriller which delves into the mind of New York ballet dancer Nina Sayers (Portman) who, although she has perfected her art, inflicting excruciating injuries on her body, is held back by her inability to let go, to be passionate enough to take on the performance of a lifetime.
Read more ...Sweeten up at The Eye for Valentine’s Day
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
MONDAY IS St Valentine’s Day and to mark this day of love and romance, The Eye Cinema in Wellpark has scheduled a number of special activities.
The romantic comedy Just Go with It (12A), Adam Sandler plays a man who pretends to be in an unhappy marriage to hit on girls, eventually enlisting the help of his best female friend, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her children, to land the woman of his dreams.
Read more ...Double dose of laughs at the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
MAEVE HIGGINS and Jarlath Regan, two of Ireland’s most popular comedians, are coming back to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...The Glass Menagerie; ‘a dream in the dust and a tough little play’
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
THIS YEAR is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great American playwright, Tennessee Williams, and to mark the occasion the Town Hall Theatre and TheatreCorp are presenting a new production of one of his finest plays, The Glass Menagerie.
Read more ...Ryan Sheridan: Putting the pieces together
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
RYAN SHERIDAN is a man with a very bright future ahead of him. In his mid teens he toured the US with Riverdance and subsequently settled in New York.
Read more ...The Go! Team and Cut Copy for Galway
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
THE GO! Team and Cut Copy will play the Heineken Green Spheres event in Galway next month and tickets to the events are free but you need to get them soon.
The Go! Team will play The Black Box Theatre on Thursday March 3 and on the night they will play music from their excellent new album Rolling Blackouts, which features hip hop/soul/funk mash ups, blaxploitation styled instrumental workouts, and old skool indie pop.
Read more ...A Different Animal; an absorbing play
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
A YOUNG woman receives the strangest of visitors with the blue light of dusk. A bottle of wine is opened. Awkwardness turns to passionate fluency. Dusk lingers, unnaturally. And in the growing intimacy, something darker also stirs.
Read more ...An evening of Moliere at Nuns Island
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
MOLIERE IS regarded as one of the greatest writers of comedy to have ever lived and next week Galway will be able to enjoy one act plays by the French master.
Read more ...Something for everyone at the Town Hall
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
SCOTTISH COUNTRY singer Isla Grant, Irish folk singer Johnny McEvoy, and the ever popular Lambert Puppet Theatre are all coming to the Town Hall Theatre.
Johnny McEvoy will present his show, An Evening of Song and Story, tomorrow at 8pm, featuring many of his best known songs, as well as material from his new album.
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