Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014 is open for submissions in poetry and fiction from Thursday November 28.

There is a €500 cash prize for the winner in each category. The winners will be published in a Cúirt publication to be launched at the 2014 festival. The judges are poet Martin Dyar and fiction writer Mary Costello.

Award winning Romanian quartet for Galway

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE ARCADIA String Quartet, winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, are coming to Galway.

‘Away with Words’/Over The Edge reading

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

AN OVER The Edge reading, in conjunction with Away with Words, the Galway based creative writing programme for people with intellectual disabilities, takes place next week.

Last weekend of TULCA events

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THIS IS the last weekend of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway city, which means there is still time to explore the wealth of creative and imaginative exhibitions on display.

Music from another room

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

“I WILL sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision,” David Bowie declared on his 1976 single ‘Sound + Vision’, and Galway audiences are about to do the same.

Minus 3, a music, sound, and visual happening, presented by the Galway Music Residency and New Music:New Audiences, takes place in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2.30pm.

Rita Oates exhibition

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

SINGING BY Itself 2013, an exhibition by Roscommon artist Rita Oates, is on show in the Providence Market Kitchen and Gallery, Saint Augustine Street.

Druid to stage The Colleen Bawn

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

DRUID THEATRE will stage Dion Boucicault’s comic melodrama The Colleen Bawn in the Black Box Theatre from December 5 to 21.

Two American songwriters over two nights

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

AMERICAN SINGER-songwriters James Low, of The James Low Western Front, and Drew Landry, of Bandryland and Drew Landry & The Dirty Cajuns, play Galway.

Silent Disco for kids

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

A SILENT Disco for children will take place this Saturday in the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, from 2pm.

The ‘Silent Disco For Kids’, presented by the Róisín Dubh, will see two DJs playing songs to hundreds of people dancing and singing along to chart hits, anthems, guilty pleasures, fun songs, and pure cheese - except no music will be heard as they will be all wearing headphones. It promises to be wonderful fun for the whole family.

Former TD to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE FORMER Fine Gael Galway West TD Pádraic McCormack will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 21 at 6.30pm.

Romantic Ireland is not dead and gone

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

IRELAND WAS an inspiration to the 19th century Romantic movement, while the Irish Literary movement would inspire the imagination of the 1916 rebels.

A Saudi girl and a bicycle

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

WAJADA, THE first full-length feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and winner of the CICAE Award at the Venice Film Festival 2012, will be shown in Galway.

St Nicholas’ Singers to perform Lux Aeterna

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

CHORAL MUSIC and poetry will join forces at a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, this Sunday at 5pm.

See The Princess Bride on Saturday

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE PRINCESS Bride, one of the best loved of all family, fantasy/adventure films, will be screnned in the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 11.30am.

Flirt FM to premiere new radio drama

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

FLIRT FM 101.3, Galway’s student and alternative station will premiere the radio drama Life Gets Tasteless on Wednesday November 20 from 9pm to 10pm.

Why Not? Adventure Film Festival

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE WHY Not? Adventure Film Festival is taking place in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street, on Saturday November 30 from 7pm to 10pm.

Fugitive Papers @ TULCA

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

FUGITIVE PAPERS, an artistic research project to explore ideas about art, writing, criticism, and public reaction in Ireland, is coming to TULCA.

New bi-lingual children’s book

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

A NEW children’s book as Gaeilge agus as Bearla, Greene’s Shoes Saves Christmas/Shabháil Bróga Greene An Nollaig, is to be launched with proceeds going to the Galway Simon Community.

iRocks band competition @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE FIRST heat of the €10,000 iRadio iRocks band competition takes place in Monroe’s Live tonight from 10pm.

Over the past month, bands across the country uploaded their video to the iRocks Facebook page, and the best entries have been picked by the public, with one wild card entry to be announced.