Creative writing classes at GAC
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
GALWAY WRITERS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will hold creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre next month.
Susan will host a creative writing class for beginners and continuing creative writing students in poetry or fiction. Students will spend their week responding to writing exercises designed to inspire, rather than inhibit. The classes start on Monday September 20 at 2pm.
Read more ...Knight and Day
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
Allright so it is a leave the brain at the door type of movie but what do you expect from an action rom-com starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, however, I enjoyed every minute of it as the pace is unrelenting and there are plenty of laughs.
Read more ...Neil Hamburger @ The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
IF YOU are in any way prudish or easily offended then US comic Neil Hamburger may not be your kind of thing.
Read more ...Animation workshops at City Museum
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
THE AWARD WINNING Galway animator John Jennings will host two new Manga workshops in the Galway City Museum next month.
Manga is the distinctive style of Japanese comic book art and animation, examples of which include the TV show Pokémon, the films The Girl Who Slipped Through Time and Whisper Of The Heart, as well as comics such as Gunsmith Cats.
Read more ...A guide to surviving school and rediscovering Ireland with the Heathers
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
DURING THE last winter Ireland experienced some of the harshest weather in living memory. Last November excessive flooding devastated the west and southwest of the country. Galway, Clare and Cork were among the worst affected areas.
Read more ...Fight Like Apes - the adventure continues
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
FIGHT LIKE Apes have always specialised in outrageous album and EP titles, but with The Body of Christ and The Legs of Tina Turner they might just have surpassed even their own talent for brilliantly ridiculous monikers.
Read more ...Girls deliver dynamic and original rock sound
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
THE GIRLS admit that a diverse array of sound has influenced their musical repertoire. Born into the Children of God cult, band member Christopher Owens says he spent his childhood travelling the globe, attending prayer sessions and busking in the street.
Read more ...Elliot Davis; Creating the music for Silver Tassie
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
MUSIC IS a major element in Druid’s forthcoming production of The Silver Tassie and the man entrusted with devising the score is noted British composer Elliot Davis. Davis started his musical career with the great Lionel Bart, creator of Oliver, and has worked on such West End musicals as Miss Saigon, Les Miserables and Blood Brothers.
During an afternoon break in rehearsals, Davis outlined his approach to O’Casey’s powerful play but first he began by describing his time with Lionel Bart. “I wrote to him while I was at university because I had a choice of being a lawyer or doing music and I thought ‘I just don’t want to be a lawyer’,” Davis recalls. “So, I wrote to him and peculiarly enough he wrote back and told me to give him a call, which I did, and I met him for lunch and we really got on. He used to sing into a dictaphone, then he’d give me the tapes and I’d write them all out and write the chords and he’d say, ‘No not that chord, this chord’ and then we’d work it out together. I remember he was staying for a period in a flat in Baker Street and there was this lovely London skyline and I remember him looking out the window over this London scene and singing a tune that had all the notes of the scale in it but it sounded completely original and so Lionel Bart. Working with him was a wonderful introduction to music, he taught me a lot about song writing and how to structure things.”
Read more ...Galway Culture Night 2010
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
GALWAY’S CULTURE Night will take place throughout Galway city on Friday September 24th, 2010 when more than 30 cultural groups and organisations will come together to invite over 20,000 people to explore, experience and enjoy Galway’s unique cultural and creative vibrancy for a night of free artistic and cultural offering.
Read more ...Auditions at An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
An Taibhdhearc are holding auditions for their next production Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn, the Irish language version of Jimmy Murphy’s The Kings of Kilburn Highroad which has been translated by Micheál Ó Conghaile and will be directed by the talented Lara Campbell.
Read more ...More soul in the office
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
Back by popular demand is Soul In The Office. A lot to live up to after the last one but with the line up it’s doable and then some, with some of the best soul DJs in the country playing rare soul, original R&B and 7ts all on lovely vinyl! Tax a mere €5 doors early at 8pm. See you on the dancefloor! Find us on Facebook: Search for Soul In The Office.
Read more ...Joint exhibition by talented Irish artists at GUH Arts Trust
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
THE GUH Arts Trust is very proud to present a joint exhibition by artists John Lee and Triona Mac Giolla Rí which opens at University Hospital Galway on Friday August 27th at 6.00pm. The exhibition will be officially launched by Dr Dom Colbert.
John Lee is an Irish born artist. Coming from a strong medical background, figurative painting was something very important to him. John says, “My paintings are in many ways classical and in some ways Kitsch in style, using the theory that the person is the indirect form of an icon. A singular figure is typical of my paintings, as is strong use of light from dark”.
Read more ...Down Home Blues
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
SUPERB FOLKSINGER Chad Dughi returns to Galway for a much anticipated show at The Crane Bar on Thursday August 26th at 9pm.
Read more ...Catch the Kane Sisters and Edel Fox @ Kellys
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
THE KANE sisters hailing from North Connemara and comprising Liz and Yvonne Kane, are highly respected musicians and entertainers. The duo were taught music by their grandfather, local fiddle player Jimmy Mullen, and Mary Finn, a Co.Sligo musician and teacher.
Read more ...Southern Tenant Folk Union
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
SOON TO be released album The New Farming Scene from Edinburgh band Southern Tenant Folk Union creates the first true crossover of the modern folk tradition with its not-so-distantly related bluegrass sound.
Read more ...Havana Party @ Kings Head
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
THE KINGS Head is putting on a fiesta of Latin rythms to include salsa, bachata, reggaeton, cumbia, and merengue to follow on from the tremendous sucess of the Latin Quarter Havana Club weekender on the June Bank Holiday.
Read more ...Over The Edge Open Reading
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
THE AUGUST Over The Edge Open Reading session takes place in Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday August 26 from 6.30pm until 8pm.
Read more ...Sligo Live Sessions 2010
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
ACCLAIMED IRISH group Republic of Loose have just been confirmed for the Sligo Live Sessions which takes place over the October Bank Holiday weekend.
Read more ...Hilarious black comedy Kick-Ass takes the superhero genre into uncharted waters
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
KICK-ASS has just been released on DVD and the controversial comic book film packs a powerful punch with fast paced action scenes, a thoroughly entertaining script, and lots of laugh out loud moments.
Read more ...Loose Lips @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
EVERYONE HAS a story, and Loose Lips offer a stage and a microphone to members of the audience who can tell their story, provided it is true, unscripted and doesn’t take longer than five minutes.
The event is hosted by Mags Treanor and special guests, and each month’s session is inspired by a different theme. The story slam takes place every last Wednesday of the month, this month that date is August 25, and the slam is limited to 10 stories.
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