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THE HAPPY Prince, Oscar Wilde’s classic story of love, selflessness, and generosity, will receive a special reading/performance as part of the Baboró children’s festival.

If you are over 21 and would be interested in dabbling in some acting, singing, or dancing, then you should enquire about the adult stage school drafted up by Trading Faces later this month. An experience in the performance arts is not a requirement and the course serves as an introductory programme into the world of acting with games and exercises. The training will also incorporate the technique required for screen acting using scenes from films. The same procedure will apply for stage acting instructions.

Aniar is the third best restaurant in Galway. If we are to believe the TripAdvisor rankings, that is. Yes, the only Michelin-starred restaurant in the whole of Galway currently takes the bronze behind the “consistently good” Gourmet Tart Company and the “excellent little gem” that is Oscar’s Seafood Bistro. With The Galleon and Kirwan’s Lane restaurant completing the top five, you may or may not agree with this analysis of the current state of dining in Galway.

London Classic Theatre presents its wonderful new production of Oscar Wilde’s comedic classic The Importance of Being Earnest to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for two special performances on Monday, October 8 and Tuesday, October 9 at 8pm.

Four of Ireland’s top up-and-coming folk acts will appear in the Passionfruit Theatre this Friday September 14. Limerick troubadour Peter Delaney will be joined by Galway acts Yawning Chasm and Brigid Power Ryce as well as Athlone act The Driftwood Manor.

THE BABORÓ International Arts Festival for Children was launched at a reception in the House Hotel on Monday afternoon. The festival runs from October 15 to 21 and features myriad magical and exciting shows and events from home and abroad.

NORTH AFRICAN and French films will feature strongly in the new Galway Film Society autumn/winter season programme, which runs from September 23 to December 9 at the Town Hall Theatre.

NEXT WEEK sees the Town Hall host a welcome return visit from Little John Nee’s current touring show, The Mother’s Arms, last seen at the venue in January, which offers up a comic, musical helter-skelter ride through a surreal but frighteningly believable rural gothic landscape.

This year’s Olympic Games opening ceremony may have an East Galway inspiration because it is being organised by film director Danny Boyle whose mother hails from Balliansloe.

OSCAR WILDE’S theatrical masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, will be staged in Monroe’s Live today and tomorrow.