Over The Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

THE OVER The Edge fifth annual Fiction Slam takes place on Friday October 11 at 8pm in The Kitchen in the Galway City Museum.

Artists to give public talk on their working methods

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

ARTSPACE ARTISTS will hold a public talk about the process and methodology of collaboration in The Shed, Centre Pier, Galway Harbour, this Sunday from 2pm to 4pm.

‘People focus on the bad stories but there are many good stories’

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

‘EXOTIC DANCING’, ‘East European immigrant’; put these two phrases together and straightaway you have the raw materials for a story of sexual exploitation set amid shady nightclubs and sleazy impresarios. Or perhaps not.

‘People focus on the bad stories but there are many good stories’

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

EXOTIC DANCING’, ‘East European immigrant’; put these two phrases together and straightaway you have the raw materials for a story of sexual exploitation set amid shady nightclubs and sleazy impresarios. Or perhaps not.

Mirjana Rendulic’s one-woman show, Broken Promise Land, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre studio next week as part of the Galway Theatre Festival, offers a different perspective on a milieu we normally encounter via excitable TV exposés or tabloids.

What are you going to in the Galway Comedy Festival?

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

“THE MOST wasted of all days is one without laughter,” said the poet e e cummings, so don’t let the October Bank Holiday Weekend go to waste, as there are seven days of laughter to be had at the Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival.

The comedy festival runs from Tuesday October 22 to Monday 28 and will see more than 50 Irish, Britain, and North American comedians performing across 13 different venues in the city.

Five chances to see Phill Jupitus at the comedy festival

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

PHILL JUPITUS is talking over Galway for the October Bank Holiday weekend as there will be no fewer than five chances to see him during the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival.

Are There More Of You?

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

THE ESTEEMED English actress Alison Skilbeck is bringing her widely-acclaimed one-woman show, Are There More of You? to the Town Hall Theatre for two nights only next week.

In this self-penned comedy-drama, Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women who are reaching out in the dark and reveals what lies behind the brave faces of Claire, Sophia, Sara and Sam, all of whom reside within the same London post-code, SW11. Painful, scary, and hilarious by turns, the stories chart each wildly different character’s search for love and happiness.

Tig Cóilí presents Cherish The Ladies at the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

“IT IS simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” said The Boston Globe about Cherish The Ladies who play Galway next week.

Create your own play at Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

GALWAY AUDIENCES will have the opportunity to help create their own play at this year’s Galway Theatre Festival.

A weekend of events left at Clifden Arts Festival

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

Theatre, music, comedy, dance, lectures, and a grand parade through the streets of Clifden, will all be taking place in the Connemara town during its arts festival this weekend.

Dave Barry @ Massimo

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry will be spinning funk, soul, reggae, latin boogaloo, disco and more tomorrow night in Massimo all on vinyl.Admission it is free. Dave will be returning to Massimo on Sunday for his weekly vinyl chill out session ‘Sunday Service’ from 1 to 3pm while the award winning EAT restaurant supply the food.

Comedy festival stand-up showdown

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

A COMEDIAN stands on stage, alone with a microphone. There are a hundred or so strangers in the room and the comic has two minutes to make them laugh. Can s/he do it?

Actors and writers workshops

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre will be holding a workshop for actors, with the director of Love/Hate, as well as workshop for writers in October.

Disco don makes Galway debut

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

GREG WILSON, the legendary disco don and edit master, will make his Galway debut when he plays the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11pm.

Ultan Conlon to launch new album

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

ULTAN CONLON, the acclaimed Loughrea singer-songwriter, is about to launch his new album, and begin an Irish tour, starting in the Róisín Dubh next week.

Songs of Love So Cruel, Ultan’s second album, is released tomorrow and Ultan and his band play the Róisín on Friday October 4 at 9pm.

Free gigs in the Latin Quarter

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

FOUR NIGHTS of free gigs take place in Galway city’s Latin Quarter, from tonight until Sunday, for the Guinness Live music festival.

John Smith to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

ENGLISH GUITARIST and singer-songwriter John Smith returns to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh as part of his current Irish tour.

Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

AN IRISHMAN, an Englishman, and two Americans, all based in Madrid, make up the band Track Dogs, who play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

The Ikonics @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

THE IKONICS mix a smattering of The Smiths and U2, with 80s pop, and have, in Dean Murphy, a charismatic front man.

See Pat Shortt’s I Am The Band

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

DIXIE WALSH rose to fame with such classic songs as ‘ The Jumbo Breakfast Roll’ and ‘Where Did My Money Go’, and his story is chronicled in I Am The Band.

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