Galway Arts Festival readings

Thu, Jul 23, 2009

STEVEN GALLOWAY, author of the profoundly moving, The Cellist Of Sarajevo, will read in the Radisson SAS Hotel this Friday at 6pm and not in the Hotel Meyrick as previously advertised.

Wiggle to launch debut album with Cuba* show

Thu, Jul 23, 2009

WIGGLE, THE Cork electro-dub band, will play Cuba*, Eyre Square, tomorrow at 10pm to launch their debut album Brighten The World.

Best of music and fun makes its way to Inishbofin

Thu, Jul 23, 2009

If ever a reason was needed to visit the wonderful island of Inishbofin off the Galway coast, a forthcoming series of concerts has got to be it. The Inishbofin Concerts will present a series of the very best in Irish traditional and contemporary music and comedy during July and August, and these intimate concerts will take place in what has to be one of the most gloriously located venues in Ireland — the Dolphin Hotel.

Enjoy racing action in Roscommon

Thu, Jul 23, 2009

Roscommon Racecourse will host two evening race meetings in August. On Tuesday August 4 the first race is at 5.50pm. This is a mixed card with both flat and national hunt racing and features a very high class flat handicap for fillies only. This race is over 1.5 miles and will have runners from all the top yards in the country.

5 Rhythms Dance/Movement Meditation

Thu, Jul 23, 2009

Imagine a word in which we could all dance, just let ourselves go, swinging, moving, gliding, and enjoying ourselves like a child in a playground. That’s a bit like what 5 Rhythms is all about. It’s a form of dance, or movement meditation, that is designed primarily to put a smile on your face. It’s about having fun, moving the body to music, following where it wants to go and how it wants to feel.

Galway Gay Pride — 20 years a-growing

Thu, Jul 23, 2009

Brod Ireland West (Galway Gay Pride) Festival celebrates its 20th birthday in style this year with a Mardi Gras style parade from City Hall on Saturday August 22 at 2pm.

Nigeria’s Femi Kuti to bring the positive force to Galway

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

THE FEDERAL Republic of Nigeria was established in 1963 after gaining its independence from Britain. As with many countries under colonial rule it had been divided with no due consideration for linguistic, religious, or ethnic differences and thus a bloody civil war dominated much of the post-colonial period.

The sounds of Spanish Harlem

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

SPANISH HARLEM, also known as El Barrio, is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the borough of Manhattan and home to one of the largest predominantly Latino communities in New York City.

Sean Tyrrell’s message of Sean Tyrrell’s message of

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

“I DID history to BA level and I never heard of John Boyle O’Reilly until I played at a club named after him in Springfield, Massachusetts. I’d love to know why he’s been written out of Irish history.”

Fleas please at the arts festival ‘Mini Top’

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

THE GALWAY ARTS Festival does not just have a Big Top. It also has a Mini Top, a specially constructed venue, located inside the Town Hall and carefully chosen to house an astounding act.

Exclusive to Galway this summer, and in a first for the Galway Arts Festival, Pignut Productions in association with Electric Bridget presents Flea Circus.

See Lloyd Webber’s first musical in Loughrea

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

WHILE EVERYONE knows such classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musicals like Phantom Of The Opera, few have heard of The Likes Of Us.

Harry Potter at the Eye Cinema

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

THE EYE Cinema in Wellpark will celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with a fun-filled weekend for all the family.

Come to wild and raucous life with O’Death

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

“I DON’T think of our band as a folk band. I think we’re a punk rock band. We know how to have a good time on stage and off,” so declares O’Death bassist Jesse Newman.

Explore the outer limits of music

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

THE FLOWER-Corsano Duo, featuring drummer Chris Corsano, who has worked with Sonic Youth and Björk, will play DeBurgo’s on Monday at 8pm.

Get out and dance at the Block Party

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

FROM GIGANTIC toy blocks, six dancers will emerge, and through their movements they will construct and restructure the blocks in a riot of dance, movement, mystery, and imagination.

Mark Thomas’ manifesto for

Thu, Jul 16, 2009

OVER THE past two decades Londoner Mark Thomas has been a comedian, television presenter, writer, social-commentator, political activist, and self-confessed pain in the arse. He currently holds the Guinness World Record for most political demonstrations in 24 hours.

Michael Fassbender

Thu, Jul 09, 2009

AS AN actor, Michael Fassbender has been living a soldier’s life these past 10 years. Since appearing in Band Of Brothers, the Kerryman has gone on to star as a Greek warrior in 300, as IRA MP and hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger, and in August we will see him back on the big screen as a British army officer in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Expect a vigorous and imaginative staging of Shakespeare from Propeller

Thu, Jul 09, 2009

SINCE THEIR formation in the mid-1990s, Edward Hall’s all-male Propeller Theatre ensemble have been internationally feted as one of Britain’s most exciting theatre companies. Their appearance at the Galway Arts Festival with the ‘Bardic Brace’ of Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ranks high on the list of ‘must-see’ events in this year’s programme.

Company founder and artistic director Edward Hall is the son of director Sir Peter Hall, one of the foremost figures in English theatre of the past 50 years. However that didn’t mean theatre would be Edward’s first choice of career, as he revealed over an evening phone call.

Did Morrissey foretell Diana’s death?

Thu, Jul 09, 2009

THE CLAIRVOYANT powers of Morrissey, the Berlin Wall, loving a man destined to die, and some fun with the comedy film Top Secret! are all part of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

This is the new solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Lars Laumann which is part of the Galway Arts Festival.

All about Eve and The Palace Of The End

Thu, Jul 09, 2009

TWO OF the three characters whose stories are told in Judith Thompson’s powerful Iraq War drama Palace Of The End will already be familiar to Western audiences.

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