July 6th, 2011
I’ve a couple of original pieces in the Kenny Gallery group show Nude as part of the Galway Arts Festival 2011. Check it out if you’re around Galway! (Cross-posted from Caricatures Ireland)
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March 18th, 2011
Galway’s Emmet Scanlan & What the Good Thought will be playing a charity fundraiser in Druid Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway this Sunday 20th March at 7pm. The gig is in aid of Haven, a charity helping in the reconstruction of Haiti after the devastating earthquake there last year. Emmet plans to travel to Haiti in [...]
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March 8th, 2011
126, Artist run gallery is transforming its Queen Street gallery space into a hub of events for four days this March. Hosting a range of educational, unusual, fun and informative events the board aims to move away from it’s usual pattern of consecutive exhibitions and open up the space to different kinds of happenings. 126 [...]
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March 4th, 2011
126 Gallery in association with the Glucksman Gallery, Cork, presents: ‘Wishful Thinking’ Wishful Thinking, curated by Matt Packer from The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, is a travelling programme of selected 16mm film by contemporary international artists: Luke Fowler, Jaki Irvine, Ursula Mayer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Roman Ondak, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Deborah [...]
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February 8th, 2011
Abie Philbin Bowman presents two of his shows this weekend in the Roisin Dubh in Galway. On Friday February 11 at 8.30, Abie will perform Sex Lies & the KKK, and on Saturday February 12 at 8.30, Eco Friendly Jihad. “Way beyond superficial satire… Absorbing, intricately woven, challenging and highly entertaining.” – Malcolm Hay, TimeOut [...]
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December 13th, 2010
Druid and NUIG have today announced a partnership which will see NUIG contributing to the development of Druid’s next major production, while Druid will in turn develop modules for NUIG’s BA and MA students. This initiative is a bit sketchy on details in the press release but I assume NUIG will be contributing financially to [...]
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December 8th, 2010
The Saw Doctors have released a new acapella version of their song, Red Cortina on iTunes. Smyths Toys will donate a separate 1 Euro to the St. Vincent de Paul Society for every download of Red Cortina acapella from iTunes until Friday, December 10. If you’re a Saw Doctors fan you can download Red Cortina [...]
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August 14th, 2010
Enda Walsh’s Penelope is a captivating hybrid of Greek myth and Irish characterisation. It appears to be baking under an Ithacan sun, but its characters have voices soaked in the grey of more northerly isles and names that underscore that origin. It’s not the first example of an Hibernian cowl worn over the shape of [...]
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July 5th, 2010
Counting Sheep, a documentary by Romanian director Dieter Auner, is on this Friday 9th July in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, as part of the 22nd Galway Film Fleadh. Dieter spent the better part of five years constructing this tale of Romanian sheep farmers, living among them in some of Europe’s most remote landscape. From [...]
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June 30th, 2010
Summer heralds Galway at its most attractive: the city’s waterways achieve colours of an almost impossible intensity for the short duration of the warmest season. White swans swarm the Claddagh and Spanish Arch, blue dragonflies dance over the canals whose banks heave with explosions of flowers, and the daylight plays that golden trick that attracts [...]
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June 28th, 2010
Matt Smith: kinda silly, but very cool. Via Forbidden Planet.
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June 24th, 2010
Galway actor Sarah O’Toole will be running her popular kids’ drama programme this July. First camp starts week of July 5th and runs for 2 weeks meeting on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays. Venue is Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, Galway. Second Camp starts week of July 19th and runs for 2 weeks meeting on Tuesdays Wednesdays [...]
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June 12th, 2010
If you’re around Galway it’s worth checking out illustrator Annie West‘s new work in the Art Corridor of University College Hospital, Galway. Vividly beautiful and hilarious, featuring many figures from the Irish literary canon in what if moments. The exhibition runs until 2nd July.
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March 18th, 2010
Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Nestlé had this ad pulled from Youtube claiming copyright violation. Greenpeace put it up on Vimeo instead. Remember, Nestlé are as dirty, as dodgy as they come. Further reading: Greenwashing.
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