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Cinemobile, Ireland’s mobile cinema, will be making its first visit to Crossmolina on Monday and Tuesday January 26 and 27 at Fagan’s Car Park. On Tuesday at 11am Cinemobile will be screening The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Pupils from nearby schools are invited to view this timeless story of innocence lost and humanity found by ringing the number below. Children’s films The Tale of Despereaux and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa will also be screened and the teen favourite Twilight. Free phone on 1800 924 949 for movie listings and times, telephone (091) 751 629 or log on to www.cinemobile.net for further information

Well known Barnstorm Theatre Company, based here in Kilkenny, received good news recently that a cut in their funding is not as extensive as that incurred by other theatre companies.

Ballina Film Club’s Spring Programme commences this month with a screening of the Jean Cocteau classic Orphée, on Tuesday February 10 at 8pm. A poet, novelist, painter and playwright, as well as a filmmaker, the breadth of Cocteau’s talent finds full expression in Orphée, re-imagining of the classical Greek mythological story of Orpheus.

IN 2007 the Galway based artist Aideen Barry visited NASA, she was able to see the new technologies it is developing, and experience zero-gravity.

The inimitable Des Keogh delivers a one-man delight of comedy theatre in Confessions of an Irish Publican at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday June 8 and Tuesday June 9 at 8pm.

Custom House Studios in Westport is hosting an exhibition of rt works by members of the community of The McBride Home, Westport. The exhibition was officially opened this week and will run until July 5.

FIS Athlone is a contemporary multi-media exhibition and residency project taking place in Passionfruit Theatre, Athlone over a two week period, initiated and produced by Athlone visual artist and curator Miriam Walsh.

The novel approach of a Mullingar-based web development company in helping companies tackle the credit crunch has recently brought them to the attention of TV3’s Ireland AM.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (saxophones and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Sile Daly (oboe and cor Anglais) and Andrew Synnott (piano), as recently seen on RTE’s Nationwide programme, is continuing its series of three-day projects with a visit to Knockrooskey National School, Westport. At the end of the schools workshop/performances the Quartet will perform a short family recital for all the community on Friday May 8 at 6pm in the new Westport Lodge Hotel, Aughagower. The hotel will offer special reductions for meals at this event for those who wish to extend their evening out. The concert is free to the public and will include Faure’s ‘Sicilienne’, the theme from The Simpsons, and music by Tchaikovsky, Lucia Berio, and Stravinsky.

WEEK ONE of the Galway Arts Festival delivered some memorable productions from both home-based and visiting companies in plays that dealt with such diverse themes as familial neuroses, under-age sex, the Iraq war, murderous teenagers, and a property tycoon who wants to sing like Beniamino Gigli.