A weekly car boot sale, one of less than a handful that is still reliably taking place, has up to 200 cars/sellers. The stadium is just a few minutes walk from the Red LUAS line stop and numerous bus stops. For traders the Car Boot Sale opens at 06:30 for buyers from 08:00. If you are interested in selling, check the details and register on their website.

The 3rd Blackrock Animation Film Festival (BAFFA 2013) will take place on 11+12 Oct with screenings, workshops and the presentation of the Blackrock Animation Film Festival Awards (BAFFAs). On Friday the lectures, workshops and screenings will take place in the IADT in Dun Laoghaire before the festival moves to Blackrock on Saturday. The fill programme is here iloveblackrock.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Programme-BAFF2013.pdf All events are free. Pre-registration is required for workshops!

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

The weekly Honest2goodness food market in Glasnevin has fresh meat, vegetables, fish, baked goods, and wines. It is open from 09:30-16:00. It is behind Lidl in the Industrial Estate just after the Glasnevin Cemetary coming from the City Centre.

Parkrun Ireland is organising free weekly runs in parks. It is a timed run over 5km and participation is completely free, but registration before your first parkrun is required.

The SuperNatural Food Market is taking place every Saturday from 09:30-15:30 in St. Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more.

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a relatively new weekly market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. Sounds interesting and I will check it out over the coming weeks. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel). www.facebook.com/merchantsindoormarket

An indoor market in Coolock with over 40 traders with a wide range of goods and a café on site as well.

A Grand Canal Day will take place on Saturday with a lot of cleaning and also other activities along the canal.

+ 10:00 The Big Clean Up from the City Center to Blanchardstown followed by volunteer celebration with music and dancing. Contact 01-8722622 to find out where the meeting points are.

+ 14:00 Family Friendly Walk with Botanist Declan Doogue (Meet at Des Kelly Carpets at Cross Guns Bridge in Phibsborough)

+ 14:00 Walking Tour with Historian Pat Liddy (Meet at Charleville Mall of North Strand Road)

+ 16:00-18:30 Social Cycle with Dublin Cycling Campaign (Meet at Cross Guns Bridge in Phibsborough with your bike)

Admission to all events is free.

As a major fundraiser for the Simon Community, participation in this 5km run is not free, but supporting others and cheering them on and also the kids zone, entertainment and live music is free. You can still register for EUR 25. There will be a 5km run for the grown ups and a kids under 12 can take parts in runs in the kids zone for free.

Some roads in Phoenix Park will be closed with the first ones closing at 08:00 and the last one opening again at 11:30.

The Temple Bar Markets (Food Market on Meeting House Square, Book Market on Temple Bar Square and the Designer Mart near Cow’s Lane) are taking place every Saturday from 10:00-16:30.

After many many months of renovations, the Irish Museum of Modern Art is reopening its main building with a weekend of fun, activities and events for all ages. On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October the celebrations take place and you should even get your dancing shoes on for 1920s Tea Dance in the 17th-century Great Hall. Drop in to pop-up exhibition for families, enjoy a dance and drawing workshop for young children; and don’t miss the line-up of lively talks by curators and artists over the weekend.

The following is an abbreviated schedule of events, please note some events require advance booking. The full schedule is on the website below:

Sat 12 Oct:
Visit five exhibitions
Pop-up Exhibition for Families
12:00-16:00 Bolthole – Build your own shelter or den (Drop in, no booking required)
Curators Gallery Talks at 11:30, 12:15, 15:00, 15:45, 16:30

Sun 13 Oct:
Visit five exhibitions
12:00-16:00 Explorer: Family Workshop (Drop in, no booking required.)
12:00-16:00 Pop-up Family Exhibition
13:00-16:00 Art-making session for 12-18 year olds
Curators Gallery Talks at 12:00, 12:45, 13:30, 14:45, 16;00
16:00-18:00 Tea Dance in the Great Hall with the Big Sound Band and the Macushla Dance Club (No booking required.)

Come and discover the beautifullly restored Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden. Learn about growing your own fruit and vegetables, herbs and lots more. Meet OPW professional gardeners Brian and Meeda at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden on Saturdaywith lots of advice to plan your perfect garden for the Winter months ahead. Please bring suitable footwear.

The Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden is located next to the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, The OPW professional gardeners are on site on the second Saturday of each month, February to November.

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30, and Sundays: 12:00-17:30.

The Irish Aid Volunteer Fair will showcase volunteering options in a variety of developing countries. Over 20 volunteer sending agencies will give advice and presentations detailing their placements, the application process and their personal experiences. The day will also feature a series of lively talks and workshops discussing overseas volunteering opportunities and the sustainable development results achieved through volunteering in developing countries and you will have the chance to chat with returned volunteers.

Admission is free and more detials are on the Facebook Page below.

The Irish Franchising & Start-up Expo will take place on Fri and Sat (11+12 Oct). Admission is free if you pre-register, however there is an admission fee of EUR 10 on the door if you don’t pre-register.

Trade your unworn clothes for fancier ones at the Swopshop Roadshow in the Morgan Hotel this Saturday.

For a number of years “Swopshop” was a popular but small boutique in Temple Bar and now a new format is bringing Swopshop back again and it is bigger and better. The Roadshow is one-day fashion exchange event with additional features (3D makeovers, style clinic and photoshoots).

You can bring your clothes to upgrade them by swopping with others or if you have nothing to swop, you can buy pre-worn clothes for very competitive prices. All clothes are either designer clothes or high-end labels. A service charge of between EUR 0 and EUR 25 is payable to the Swopshop Roadshow. And here is an example:

A guest brings a French Connection dress in perfect condition (worth approximately €90 new) and trades for a Ted Baker dress (approximately same value new). The guest pays the service charge of just EUR 8, i.e a small fraction of original cost or cost of buying new. Or they can trade down and pay less (even EUR 0) or upgrade to a higher category and pay slightly more. Even if you have nothing to trade on the day, there will be a price promise which means the absolute max. you will pay is EUR 30 per piece! Sounds cool!

Even better: Admission is free! There is a limit of people the venue can take, so if you arrive at a time when lots of others are there you might have to wait a bit to get in. And there is one other prerequisite. To understand how the whole event works, you are expected to read the “How To” before the event. The link is here: www.swopshop.ie/roadshow-morgan-hotel-event.php

Happy Swopping! ;-)

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) place every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday it is a fancy dress market. It’s a flea-market type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders. The Oscar Verne Café on site and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

Eamon Dunphy will be in Eason’s in O’Connell Street to sign his new book. Admission is free.

The weekly Ha’penny Flea Market is an indoor market in the Grand Social Pub, which offers vintage Men and Women’s clothing, contemporary crafts, books, DVDs, vinyl records, vintage and handmade jewellery, vintage hair styles, art, photography and much more. Dux & Co will offer food and the Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

On Saturday from 12:30-15:00 four unsigned bands will perform in HMV Dundrum. Line-up: Knoeline Keane, Hidden Highways, Buffalo Sunn, O Emperor

O Emperor will perform songs from their second album Vitreous, Sweet Jane have changed their name to Buffalo Sunn and will be playing music from their debut album Sugar for my Soul, Hidden Highways are perfroming from their debut album called Hidden Highways. Knoeline Keane is starting out, and will perform her own songs at the start of the show.

Admission is free.

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

An Intercultural Tour in Mandarin with Community Ambassador Tiedong Yang who will introduce the collections in Mandarin, will take place. Family-friendly activities are also available in Mandarin. Admission is free and no booking required

A protest march against the Irish Budget, which will be annoucned on Tuesday, will assemble at the Garden of Remembrance and will then march to the GPO. It is organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run every Saturday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

An Intercultural Tour in Irish with Community Ambassador Jack Fizgerald who will introduce the collections in Irish, will take place. Admission is free, no booking required.

I am not sure if this protest march wills till go ahead considering that only 60 minutes earlier the protest against the Budget will assemble at the Garden Of Remembrance and will probably have some speeches at the GPO. The march against Monsanto is allegedly assembling at 14:00 and will then go Kildare Street where the Department of Agriculture is located. Busy O’Connell Street if it is going ahead.

Monsanto is the massive international companies that has their finger in everything from genetically modified crops to herbicides etc. and that is destroying food as we know it. Monsanto would prefer to replace nature with their own chemical and biological engineering and in the process they make seeds so expensive that developing countries can’t afford them.

If you have never heard of Monsanto I strongly recommend that you inform yourself about what the issue is that many many people see as a serious problem.

A joint gig and book launch: Little Island Publishers are launching a book, called “The Powers”, written by Kevin Stevens, and the bands Groom and Land Lovers will entertain with their music and songs. Admission is free.

The Cantóirí Choir is inviting to a Open/Public Choir Rehearsal. The event takes place in association with Mental Health Ireland’s National Choral Singing Week.

Have you ever wanted to sing in a choir or would you like to find out more about how a choir works? You can sing with the Cantoiri choir or just listen, There will be some vocal gymnastics and some catchy songs that you will learn. Cantoiri will also perform a few songs from their repertoire?

The event takes place in front of the Tourism Office in the former church on Suffolk Street, Dublin 2.

Screening of a documentary about the struggle of the people of Jeju Island, South Korea. Set in the context of the American presence in Korea after World War II, the film reveals horrible atrocities at the hands of the U.S. Military Government of Korea.

It is spelled out, but I would expect that admission is free.

Pilgrim Blues will perform in Whelan’s. Admission is free.

Cornucopia Café & Restaurant host live music three evenings a week (Thurs, Fri and Sat). The restaurant is a Wholefood & Vegetarian Restaurant and is open until 22:15.
+ Every second Thursday N.C Lawlor, a songwriter, session player and troubadour plays a mix of country, bluegrass & blues from 19:30-21:30.
+ Every Friday (19:30-21:30) Junshi Murakami plays Irish Harp.
+ Every Saturday (19:30-21:30) Nollaig Mann plays a collection of popular and jazz classics.

This is a weekly Saturday night jazz event in the basement Wine Cave of KC Peaches wholefood restaurant/café. Food will be served until 22:00 and wine, minerals & music will be available until later. Admission is free and a donation into a hat at the end of the evening is appreciated.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are listed on the website below.

Millenium, the 5-piece band that plays all the hits from the turn of the century will be in Whelan’s. Admission free if you arrive before 22:30.

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more.

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a relatively new weekly market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. Sounds interesting and I will check it out over the coming weeks. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel). www.facebook.com/merchantsindoormarket

Every Sunday, the Merrion Square Open Air Art Gallery takes place. Up to 200 artists exhibit their paintings on the railings on three sides (West, North and East) of Merrion Square and you can just enjoy the exhibition or even buy.

The Children’s Art Cart Workshops will be held again in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (01-6770095) every Sunday from 24 March to 22 December 2013. Currently the workshop is still free, but there is a possibility that a fee will be introduced at some point. Children must be over 6 years of age and must be supervised by an adult.
You can’t pre-book, so early arrival is required because there are only 20 places per session.

The themes are:
06 Oct: Deer in Phoenix Park
13 Oct: Birds and their habitats
20 Oct: Make a Surprise
27 Oct: Medieval Life – includes a visit to Ashtown Castle
03 Nov: Medieval Life – includes a visit to Ashtown Castle

A weekly market with lots of food, but also many other products (art & crafts, books, etc) takes place every Sunday in the beautiful People’s Park in Dun Laoghaire. It is a very popular market and with around 50 vendors also one of the bigger markets.

The next Fusion Sundays Market will take place this Sunday in the Dublin Food Co-op. It is a world culture market, an ethnic Bazaar, that focuses on the diverse ethnic culture present in Ireland today. The Market features a huge array of International stalls, ethnic food, live music and entertainment for kids. You can buy handmade goods, arts and crafts, recycled products, jewellery, clothes and food. The market is held every second Sunday of the month. Admission is free.

There seem to be TWO weekly markets on Long Mile Road and both are very close to each other. One is behind Wigoders on Long Mile Road (across the road from Aldi). It hosts more than 50 stalls and there is also a Cafe on site. www.facebook.com/WigodersLongmileMarket And the other one is just on the other side of the road, next to Aldi. www.facebook.com/TheLongMileRdMarket

The well known Palestrina Choir sing every Sunday at the mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. They sing complete masterworks by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Palestrina, de Victoria, usually accompanied by Prof. Gerard Gillen on the organ, who often also plays a solo piece.

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) place every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday it is a fancy dress market. It’s a flea-market type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders. The Oscar Verne Café on site and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

This is the very last Ferocious Mingla Marcade Market in Thomas Street!! The market is moving to Camden Street and will become a daily market. I will keep you posted as soon as I hear more.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Sundays: 12:00-17:30. Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30.

After many many months of renovations, the Irish Museum of Modern Art is reopening its main building with a weekend of fun, activities and events for all ages. On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October the celebrations take place and you should even get your dancing shoes on for 1920s Tea Dance in the 17th-century Great Hall. Drop in to pop-up exhibition for families, enjoy a dance and drawing workshop for young children; and don’t miss the line-up of lively talks by curators and artists over the weekend.

The following is an abbreviated schedule of events, please note some events require advance booking. The full schedule is on the website below:

Sun 13 Oct:
Visit five exhibitions
12:00-16:00 Explorer: Family Workshop (Drop in, no booking required.)
12:00-16:00 Pop-up Family Exhibition
13:00-16:00 Art-making session for 12-18 year olds
Curators Gallery Talks at 12:00, 12:45, 13:30, 14:45, 16;00
16:00-18:00 Tea Dance in the Great Hall with the Big Sound Band and the Macushla Dance Club (No booking required.)

An indoor market in Coolock with over 40 traders with a wide range of goods and a café on site as well.

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. This series of free (mainly classical) concerts continues to present the best of Irish and International music and musicians. Concerts run from September to June. The next concert will feature Paul McNamara (tenor) and Philip Mayers (piano) doing a song recital ‘in the shadow of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus’ with songs by Stanford, Liszt, Humperdinck, Wolf and Duparc in association with the Wagner Society of Ireland.

The “Dublin Sketchers” is an informal group of typically hobby artists who go somewhere different in Dublin every Sunday (e.g. National Museum, Maritime Museum, Dublin Flea Market, Farmleigh, Botanic Gardens, Dublin Castle), sketch for one to two hours and then meet up for coffee afterwards and discuss their sketches. There are some hugely talented people among them and it is a great idea to meet up with others who have the same hobby. Find out on their website where they will meet and join them if you do some sketching/drawing yourself. I know that the Dublin Sketchers often use the Dublin Event Guide to find interesting free events and I am delighted to be able to help!

Afternoon Jazz in Café en Seine. The Stella Bass Jazz Trio play every Sunday from 14:00-16:00 in Café en Seine in Dawson Street. Admission is free. A video is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8aKqtOB5S8

Come to the Family Drawing Sundays in the RHA. All children are welcome to use the RHA Art Cart, in the RHA Atrium. Admission is free. For further information, contact Ruth Carroll on 01 6612558 or via ruth@rhagallery.ie

A Tour of the Dublin Divided Exhibition with Ciarán Woods will take place and admission is free.

Explore some of the artefacts from the Museum’s collection of objects for handling with Museum educators – a drop-in handling session for all ages. No booking required.

Unlike the three branches of the National Museum, the National Print Museum is normally not free, but every Sunday there is a free public tour for the next few weeks. Every visit begins with a short audio-visual presentation where the audience can observe active retired printers providing practical demonstrations of machines from the Museum’s collection.

The next Sunday Sketching for 7+ Year olds has the title “Dublin Street Scenes”. No booking necessary. Admission is free and early arrival is recommended.

Since ancient times, people have been brewing, distilling, and fermenting a dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi. Hear the fascinating tales behind many of the concoctions that have been created, each one a unique contribution to the traditions and cultural history of many people across the world.

Three different guitar acts, including bluegrass and “The Aqualights” will perform all evening in the Beerhouse in Capel Street. Admission is free.

Saucy Sundays is a weekly free live music afternoon and evening in the Grand Social. The line-up and links to all bands/performers are available via the Saucy Sundays Facebook Page (see link below). In brief: Richard Farrell and the Last Tribe, The Magpies, The IKonics, Neon Tetras, Sugar Cane Flame, Sean Oreilly, Raging Sons, The Moves.

The wedding and party band The Long John Jump Band play every Sunday evening in Café en Seine. Admission is free.

Discotekken will be in The Bernard Shaw this Sunday and to present The Third Policeman to you. The Third Policeman will perform his third live set to date, with his array of analogue synthesizers & vintage drum machines. Louis Scully will DJ on the evening. Admission is free.

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Mass invites to a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street every Sunday at 19:30. The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, one of the best known choirs in Ireland will sing during the mass and everybody is welcome independent from your level of religiousness.

Every Sunday this singer-songwriter night takes place in the Bleeding Horse in Camden St. from 8.30pm. It is an Open mic night and performers can just turn up and put their name on the list for that night.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy downstairs in Stag’s Head, Dame Lane from 21:00 every week on Sun+Mon. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of that there is some free ice cream. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

Rogério from the Brazilian dance project “Forró de Lampião” in Dublin tells me: Forró de Lampião is Brazilian music that has the same roots as Samba and there is a whole culture that has developed around “forro”. Every Sunday, free dance classes take place in the Grand Social (new loation!) and if you are interested, just turn up one Sunday.

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe in Sth Great Georges Street, Dublin 2. It is a Rockabilly, R’n’R, Roots night with alternating (week by week) live bands Pavement Kings, Donna & The Sazzy Catz, The Mosquitoes and The Pacifics from 21:00 and with DJs from 23:00-01:30. Admission is free.

The weekly Sunday Roast is a free event in the Mercantile where live music is combined with free roast potatoes. The line-up for the upcoming Sunday Roast is available via the Sunday Roast Facebook Page (see link below). in Brief: Monica and the Explosion, Zero Era, Karen Dunbar, Adasteris, The Late Twos.

Billy Treacy & The Ha’Penny Heads are playing Ballads, Folk, Trad and Classic Country every Sunday. Featuring Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle and Banjo.

Every Sunday (except at Bank Holiday weekends), the Ragtime, Roots and Country Blues Band “Cool Hand Dukes” play in the Porterhouse near Grafton Street.

UCD Centre for Science is hosting the CERN travelling exhibition “Mission Higgs” as part of the month-long celebrations for the opening of the this new science building.

The discovery of the Higgs boson last year was one of mankind’s most important scientific achievement both in terms of our understanding of the universe, and the worldwide theoretical, experimental, and political collaboration that made it happen. CERN provides extensive outreach on its activities, through their web, museums in Geneva, tours of its facilities and the travelling exhibition. The exhibition presents an overview of CERN and its flagship project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), through a combination of large graphic panels, on-screen displays and videos.

Admission is free from 09:00-21:00 weekdays from 09 Oct-28 Oct (with the exception of Friday 18 Oct). Everyone is welcome to come and take a self-guided tour. If you would like a guided tour of the exhibition with a physicist, please send an email to physics@ucd.ie or phone 01-7162361 to arrange a time.

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

‘Borradh Buan 2013’ a festival of Irish language and cultural events will take place in the axis Theatre from 14-25 October. Two events at this festival are free and I will list these two here. The festival is in its 10th year and provides a range of activities for children, young people and adults – anyone who wants to enjoy their Irish. The festival includes live music, film, theatre, puppetry and storytelling, offering events ranging from a traditional music baby bop to brand new performances in Irish. Borradh Buan is a celebration of Irish language contemporary and traditional performing arts, featuring the work of established and emerging artists and companies.

The festival includes the following free events:

14-25 Oct: Ceol Sa Chaife 12:30-14:00 – Admission free (Come along to the axis’ café for live music and the chance to practice your Irish every day from Monday to Friday. Lunchtime meal deals are available from EUr 4.)

Wed 16 Oct (11:00-13:00): Kiddie Craic! With Glór na nGael 0-4 yrs. Parents welcome Time: 11:00-13:00. Admission Free (advance booking required) (A fun-filled ‘baby bop’ featuring traditional Irish and contemporary music for parents/guardians, toddlers and crèche groups.)

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The “8×8 Documentary Film Festival” will take place from 14-18 October in TCD and from 21-25 October in DCU.

This new festival is organised by Suas Educational Development together with loval organisations at the universities. Suas Educational Development tackles educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland.

The week-long festival on each campus will screen documentaries on a range of development issues and includes films that have already featured at major international film festivals in the last year and been nominated for awards. In addition to film screenings, there will be workshops hosted by visiting directors and producers and panel discussions on the issues explored in the films.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. To find out more and to get tickets, go to www.stand.ie/8×8-documentary-film-festival

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

The 13th Week of the Italian Language in the World (XIII Settimana Della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo) is taking place from 14-20 October and the theme is this year “Research, Discovery, Innovation: Italian Expertise”. Seminars, study presentations, symposiums and concerts will take place during the week and most will be in the Italian Institute of Culture on Fitzwilliam Square.

Some highlights are:

Mon 14 Oct: 18:00 (Italian Institute of Culture):
“Petrarch, Boccaccio and Italy’s new learning” by Edoardo Fumagalli, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Welcome by H.E. Beat Loeliger, Ambassador of Switzerland to Ireland
Introductory speech by H.E. Maurizio Zanini, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland
(in Italian)

Wed 16 Oct: 19:00 (Trinity College, Long Room Hub):
“Examples of women’s mastery: silence on women scientists” with Dacia Maraini in conversation with Catherine Dunne

Fri 18 Oct: 18:30 (St. Stephem’s Green Chuch):
Paolo Tagliamento in concerto

Admission is free to all events.

As part of the Maths Week Ireland events series, Professor Keith Devlin (Executive Director of Stanford’s H-Star programme and co-founder of the University’s mediaX centre) from Stanford University will talk about the use of games in the learning of maths. Admission is free, but booking is required. Devlin is famed for his ability to make anyone fall in love in maths and he is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday under the name The Math Guy.

Bring a pencil/pen and a pad and draw in a pub surrounded by like minded individuals with an interest in art/creativity be it major or minor. Admission is free.

A Capoeira workshop with Robson Jamaica takes place. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Song Cycle is a weekly Singer/Songriter showcase. The line-up is not always easily findable on the Whelan’s website, but admission is always free.

“Re-Awakening Dublin’s Bike Culture – the Growth of Dublin Bikes” is the title of the next event of the Dublin Cycling Campaign.

Jason Frehill, Dublin City Council’s project manager for the dublinbikes schemes, will give a talk on the expansion of the incredibly popular dublinbikes scheme. The proposed expansion will provide for 58 new bike stations and a trebling of the scheme’s capacity, with the expanded service becoming fully operational in Summer 2014. Admission is free and all are welcome.

The Monday Echo is a weekly songwriter and poetry live showcase held on Mondays in the basement of The International Bar. Usually, the show has 3 songwriters and 3 poets who perform for roughly 20 minutes each. Admission is free.
The weekly line-up can be found via the Facebook Page below.

A night of wild rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly, stories and rare and exclusive film clips of Memphis music legends like Jim Dickinson and Alex Chilton. Live Live music from The Slick Hicks and The Problem Blob (ex Female Hercules)
Discussion and tall tales from “world famus riter” Pat McCabe and director Paul Duane.

This event is to promote the Irish release of “Very Extremely Dangerous”, a documentary on the last rock ‘n’ roll outlaw Jerry McGill, a 1960s rock ‘n’ roller from Memphis who left behind a promising career in music to concentrate his energy on a fully-fledged gun-toting, drug-taking life of crime. The film opens in the IFI on 18 Oct.

Admission is free.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

The 4-piece band Loose Trad are performing every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. www.loosetrad.com/ Admission is free.

Every Monday, a mix of musicians from bands like The Seven Deadly Skins / Animal Cracker / Upbeat Generation / Crete Boom & more come together to play a free night of Rock & Reggae.

A new Monday night event is taking place in Whelan’s “The Monday Midnight Club” will present a Breakthrough Band at 23:00, The Midnight Act at 12:00 and Funk/Rock/Soul DJs at 01:00. Admission is free and the line-up for the next few weeks is:

09 Sept: The Viking Project / Pet Fox / DJ Meow Cat + Guests
16 Sept: White Trash and The Spear Headed Sparrow Hawks / Half Past Dead (Folk Show) / DJ Meow Cat + Guests
23 Sept: Color//Sound / Marcus Karcus and The Street Wise / DJ Meow Cat
30 Sept: Cold Comfort / Those Creeps / DJ Meow Cat+ Guests

UCD Centre for Science is hosting the CERN travelling exhibition “Mission Higgs” as part of the month-long celebrations for the opening of the this new science building.

The discovery of the Higgs boson last year was one of mankind’s most important scientific achievement both in terms of our understanding of the universe, and the worldwide theoretical, experimental, and political collaboration that made it happen. CERN provides extensive outreach on its activities, through their web, museums in Geneva, tours of its facilities and the travelling exhibition. The exhibition presents an overview of CERN and its flagship project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), through a combination of large graphic panels, on-screen displays and videos.

Admission is free from 09:00-21:00 weekdays from 09 Oct-28 Oct (with the exception of Friday 18 Oct). Everyone is welcome to come and take a self-guided tour. If you would like a guided tour of the exhibition with a physicist, please send an email to physics@ucd.ie or phone 01-7162361 to arrange a time.

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will on Tuesday now as well. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The “8×8 Documentary Film Festival” will take place from 14-18 October in TCD and from 21-25 October in DCU.

This new festival is organised by Suas Educational Development together with loval organisations at the universities. Suas Educational Development tackles educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland.

The week-long festival on each campus will screen documentaries on a range of development issues and includes films that have already featured at major international film festivals in the last year and been nominated for awards. In addition to film screenings, there will be workshops hosted by visiting directors and producers and panel discussions on the issues explored in the films.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. To find out more and to get tickets, go to www.stand.ie/8×8-documentary-film-festival

The Budget 2014 for Ireland will be announced on Tuesday. In the past it was announced just about a month before it was applied (i.e. in the beginning of December), so why now in October? The EU wants to get a chance to check the budgets of the EU countries before they become law so that countries that have lost control of their finances can be reigned in. The deadline is 15 October and therefore the Irish Budget for next year will also be announced on 15 October.

Apart from the expectation that it will be ANOTHER painful budget with cuts and tax increases because Ireland has to save another whopping 2.5 billion, there is (probably! – I am not an expert) a significant difference to previous years: In the past tax increases for alcohol, cigarettes and fuel often already took force from the midnight of the day of the announcement. But that I would expect that this required that the Dail had approved the Budget. With the announcement of a Draft Budget that will then be checked by the EU, it probably means that no tax increases will come into effect on the same day. Is that a big change? Not at all. The pain the budget will cause will be the bigger problem.

All radio, TV and newspaper websites have special Budget coverage on their sites and you will be able to find all the details there. I am not sure if the announcement will take place at 14:00 or any other time. So check closer to the date.

Book Launch for ‘Being Alexander’ by Diarmuid Ó Conghaile will take place. It is the first novel by Diarmuid Ó Conghaile, published by New Island. Admission is free.

REFRESH DUBLIN provides a cross-discipline insight into all things design, interactive, creative and technical, so that different disciplines can learn from each other. This month’s talk is entitled “Symmetry, Scala & Software” by Eric Bowman (Chief Architect & VP of Platform Engineering at GILT).

The concept of symmetry is pervasive across many fields: art, architecture, mathematics, even fashion. In the past decade or so, technologists have begun to talk about symmetry in the context of programming languages and the software programs created with them. In this talk, he will explore the meaning and significance of symmetry beyond its superficial, primarily visual characteristics, and connect it to the practice of writing software.

Admission is free, but booking is required on the website below, where you will also find more information,

Aragon was a French poet of the twentieth century. A surrealist, a communist and a member of the Resistance, he made his mark not just with his poetry but also with his personality. His works will be staged in the Alliance Francaise by Magali Herbinger and Bernard Vasseur accompanied by Véronique Pestel on the piano. Admission is free but pre-booking is required before 13 October. To book send a mail to rsvp@alliance-francaise.ie with the subject “RSVP Aragon”.

Aidan Killian, who runs the weekly Standup Comedy Club “Laugh Out Loud” in Anseo every Wednesday, is inviting to a 2.5 day Comedy Crash Course (EUR 300) and to tell you abit more about what he does and how Comedy and Presentation Skills are directly related, he will do a free event on Tuesday, where he will talk about “Comedy & Presentation Skills”.

You will learn some secrets used by comedians to make groups of people pay attention, stay engaged, enjoy listening to you and laugh.

Every Tuesday an informal sing along with Ukulele and Toy Musical Instruments takes place in the Stag’s Head. Just bring your instrument and come along. Beginners are welcome. Admission is free and further details (and a big book of songs) are available on the Facebook Page below. The get-together meets in the “snug” in Stag’s Head.

Ben Prevo & friends play saucy Blues & soul every Tuesday

A meeting group for women (age 18 and over) to learn to celebrate femininity, discuss themes ideas and philosophies, share, heal, drink tea, support each other, have some fun and make new friends. Discover and celebrate your inner Goddesses together.

Admission is free, but donations of up to EUR 5 to cover tea and for the use of the space are appreciated.

Gypsie Rebel Rabble will perform in the Mercantile. It is not clear if they are part of the Line-up for the new Folk Club in the Mercantile or if it is just a coincidence that another Americana band is in the Mercantile. Admission is free.

The Grand Folk Club has moved and is now just called “Folk Club”. The previous location was the Grand Social and the new home is the Mercantile, so it kind of makes sense to drop the “Grand”. ;-)

The weekly “Folk Club” will feature Trad, Ballads, Americana, Folk, World Music & More. This Tuesday, the line-up is: Lynched (urban folk/ballads/trad), Caoimhe Hogarty and Pauline Burke (folk/trad).
Admission is free.

UCD Centre for Science is hosting the CERN travelling exhibition “Mission Higgs” as part of the month-long celebrations for the opening of the this new science building.

The discovery of the Higgs boson last year was one of mankind’s most important scientific achievement both in terms of our understanding of the universe, and the worldwide theoretical, experimental, and political collaboration that made it happen. CERN provides extensive outreach on its activities, through their web, museums in Geneva, tours of its facilities and the travelling exhibition. The exhibition presents an overview of CERN and its flagship project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), through a combination of large graphic panels, on-screen displays and videos.

Admission is free from 09:00-21:00 weekdays from 09 Oct-28 Oct (with the exception of Friday 18 Oct). Everyone is welcome to come and take a self-guided tour. If you would like a guided tour of the exhibition with a physicist, please send an email to physics@ucd.ie or phone 01-7162361 to arrange a time.

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The “8×8 Documentary Film Festival” will take place from 14-18 October in TCD and from 21-25 October in DCU.

This new festival is organised by Suas Educational Development together with loval organisations at the universities. Suas Educational Development tackles educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland.

The week-long festival on each campus will screen documentaries on a range of development issues and includes films that have already featured at major international film festivals in the last year and been nominated for awards. In addition to film screenings, there will be workshops hosted by visiting directors and producers and panel discussions on the issues explored in the films.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. To find out more and to get tickets, go to www.stand.ie/8×8-documentary-film-festival

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

A two-hour workshop for music artists who play any instrument will take place and is lead by Gabriel Caetano. The first part of the workshop is a music lesson with an emphasis on the guitar, for beginning and intermediate levels. Practice and theory will be covered. The second part of the workshop is an open jam and a time dedicated to developing group dynamics and performance skills. Admission is free, but a donation of EUR 3 is suggested. www.facebook.com/doitwithyourf.kingheart

This is a weekly improv-comedy workshop with Emma. Experience life on the flip side! Embrace the absurdity that afflicts us all. Exercises and scenes will be explored. All experience levels are more than welcome. EUR 3 recommended donation.

The “Havana International Language Exchange” is taking place every Wed from 16:30-19:30 in Havana Tapas Bar in George’s Street. There are many Spanish speakers and English-speakers are explicitly invited, but everyone else is certainly very welcome too, to meet for a chat to improve your Spanish or English.

Fergus Mulligan is the author of “William Dargan: An Honourable Life 1799-1867” and he will talk about William Dargan who was a major figure in 19th century Ireland. Born into a welloff Carlow farming family, he trained as an engineer with Thomas Telford and went on to build roads, canals, railways and reservoirs, developed hotels, flax and linen mills’, reclaimed vast tracts of farmland, turned Bray into the Brighton of Ireland and created Belfast port. At one time as many as 50,000 derived their livelihood directly or indirectly from William Dargan.

Paul Roe is a musician with particular interest in performance, research, education and participative music making. He has a PhD in Performance Practice from the University of York and he is a performer (clarinet and bass clarinet) of international repute. On Wednesday he will run a free Clarinet Masterclass and to reserve a seat, send a mail to compcent@tcd.ie

A public lecture in the School of Biochemistry & Immunology entitled “The Ageing Brain: An exploration into Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases” with Prof Gavin Davey will take place. All are welcome and admission is free.

The 13th Week of the Italian Language in the World (XIII Settimana Della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo) is taking place from 14-20 October and the theme is this year “Research, Discovery, Innovation: Italian Expertise”. Seminars, study presentations, symposiums and concerts will take place during the week and most will be in the Italian Institute of Culture on Fitzwilliam Square.

Some highlights are:

Wed 16 Oct: 19:00 (Trinity College, Long Room Hub):
“Examples of women’s mastery: silence on women scientists” with Dacia Maraini in conversation with Catherine Dunne

Fri 18 Oct: 18:30 (St. Stephem’s Green Chuch):
Paolo Tagliamento in concerto

Admission is free to all events.

Professor David McConnell is a Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He pioneered the development of molecular genetics and genetic engineering in Ireland. Formerly Vice Provost of Trinity College, he is a member of the Executive Board of The European Federation of Biotechnology.

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in the Mercantile. Each week 6-7 bands/solo artists play three songs each. At the end of all the performances a clap-off with the King Kong Club Clap-o-Meter takes place and the winner goes through to a semi-final and it all culminates after six months of competition with The Grand Final, held in front of a panel of celebrity judges.

The list of performers is not yet announced on their Facebook Page and I am not sure if it will be put up there, but check it anyway.

“The Song Room” is another open mic event. It takes place in The Globe in George’s Street at 20:30 every Wednesday.

Could somebody please let me know if this event is still taking place or if it has finished?

“The Zodiac Sessions” is a regular open mic event from 20:30 in Bruxelles (between Grafton Street and Westbury Hotel) for unsigned musicians. Admission is free and there is a different line-up every week.

Bad Boy Jake are every Wednesday in the Gypsy Rose Rock & Blues Bar playing their rock, blues and American.

The monthly Inn Jokes Comedy Night, organised and MC’d by comedian Colm O’Regan, will feature headliner Karl Spain supported by Eleanor Tiernan. Colm O’regan himself will read from his brand new “Second Book of Irish Mammies”.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Traditional Irish Music Session in Hedigan’s (The Brian Boru) in Phibsborough from 21:30 every Wednesday. If you play an instrument you are especially welcome (all levels are welcome).

UCD Centre for Science is hosting the CERN travelling exhibition “Mission Higgs” as part of the month-long celebrations for the opening of the this new science building.

The discovery of the Higgs boson last year was one of mankind’s most important scientific achievement both in terms of our understanding of the universe, and the worldwide theoretical, experimental, and political collaboration that made it happen. CERN provides extensive outreach on its activities, through their web, museums in Geneva, tours of its facilities and the travelling exhibition. The exhibition presents an overview of CERN and its flagship project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), through a combination of large graphic panels, on-screen displays and videos.

Admission is free from 09:00-21:00 weekdays from 09 Oct-28 Oct (with the exception of Friday 18 Oct). Everyone is welcome to come and take a self-guided tour. If you would like a guided tour of the exhibition with a physicist, please send an email to physics@ucd.ie or phone 01-7162361 to arrange a time.

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

A “Commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty” will take place close to the Famine Memorial at the IFSC. The Commemoration brings together people from different walks of life and responsibilities in solidarity with everybody whose daily struggle against poverty and exclusion is a struggle for the respect of human rights. The event is organised by ATD Fourth World-Ireland.

For more information about the UN Day, go to www.overcomingpoverty.org

Every Thursday, free tours of Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue take place. Meet inside the Cemetery Gates. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The “8×8 Documentary Film Festival” will take place from 14-18 October in TCD and from 21-25 October in DCU.

This new festival is organised by Suas Educational Development together with loval organisations at the universities. Suas Educational Development tackles educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland.

The week-long festival on each campus will screen documentaries on a range of development issues and includes films that have already featured at major international film festivals in the last year and been nominated for awards. In addition to film screenings, there will be workshops hosted by visiting directors and producers and panel discussions on the issues explored in the films.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. To find out more and to get tickets, go to www.stand.ie/8×8-documentary-film-festival

‘Crime in the City: Crime and History’ is a series of talks and readings looking at the broad issue of crime in Dublin through the ages.
This series of events brings together writers from fiction with historians, researchers and bloggers to inform, entertain and promote discussion. Events take place every Thursday in October and will be lunchtime readings, talks and discussions.

Admission is free, but booking is required via centrallibrary@dublincity.ie or 01-8734333

The public lecture “How ‘China Through the Lens’ took an Irish fashion designer to London Fashion Week” with Danielle Romeril (fashion designer) will take place. Admission is free and no booking required,

Respicio with Isabelle Fahy (violin), Sandra Collins (recorder) & Norah O’Leary (cello), and guest Andrew Robinson (viola da gamba) will perform music by G.P. Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi, Diego Ortiz, Marco Uccellini, Domenico Gabrielli and J.S. Bach. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

The Music Department in Trinity College Dublin has announced the Luxembourgish ensemble LUCILIN as their ensemble-in-residence for the academic year 2013/14. To celebrate their appointment, LUCILIN will give a public workshop (16:00-17:45) on writing for instruments followed by a concert (19:30) featuring soloist pieces and contemporary repertoire with the participation of Tomoko Kiba on violin, Danielle Hennicot on viola, Christophe Beau on violincello and Marcel Lallemang on clarinet.

As ensemble-in-residence LUCILIN will present a number of workshops and concerts throughout the academic year 2013/14, with future dates to be announced shortly. The October workshop and concert is a public event and all are welcome. Workshop places may be limited so book in advance by emailing compcent@tcd.ie.

AskATon.com is a female-friendly knowledge sharing event series particularly focused on tech and digital industries. The concept for AskATon.com is framed around asking questions, sharing knowledge and finding answers.

Andreea Wade of Brandalism.ie and AskATon.com will talk about “What’s your story” – a talk focused on brand identity concepts and strategy.

Admission is free, but check the websites for details and about how to join AskATon.com

A children’s Fantasy Panel & Book Signing takes place in Eason’s in O’Connell Street. I wasn’t able to find any further detail so you might want to check with the shop directly via 01-8448815. Admission is seemingly free.

Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons; others have detected elements of psychology and religion. Simon Singh, bestselling author of “Fermat’s Last Theorem”, “The Code Book” and “The Big Bang”, instead makes the compelling case that what The Simpsons’ writers are most passionate about is mathematics.

He reveals how the writers have drip-fed morsels of number theory into the series over the last twenty-five years. There are so many mathematical references in The Simpsons, and in its sister program, Futurama, that they could form the basis of an entire university course.

Admission is free, but booking is required. Find more details on the website below.

A series of six free lectures for aspiring small business owners and managers will take place from 26 Sept until 31 Oct. The lecture series is organised by Dublin City Public Libraries and the Dublin City Enterprise Board. All lectures are free, but booking is essential via 01-8733996 or businesslibrary@dublincity.ie.

The lectures all take place on Thursdays from 18:30-20:00:

26 Sept: An Introduction to Self Employment with Brendan Moran
03 Oct: Ideas Generation & Market Research with Brendan Moran
10 Oct: Ethnic Entrepreneurship with Peter Smith
17 Oct: Digital Marketing and Social Media with TBA
24 Oct: Financing your Business with Paul Neary
31 Oct: Business Planning Structure with Brendan Moran

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run next Thursday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

A second Capoeira workshop takes place with Robson Jamaica. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

“Lingua + Musica: a Celebration of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity” is a free event that celebrates the European Day of Languages and draws attention to the importance of linguistic diversity. The evening will begin with a language and song workshop. The audience will be taught a simple dialogue in four different languages, as well as songs in various languages.

The second part of the event (from 21:00) will feature songs and music from a range of countries and cultures. Performers will include the traditional Irish music group The Bonny Men; Spanish/Czech singer Katerina Garcia; Conamara singer and harpist Síle Denvir; violinist Patrick Collins from the Café Orchestra, accompanied by Czech guitarist David Fiedler; and dancer Sibéal Davitt.

For more information about Lingua + Musica, call Gaelchultúr on (01) 484 5220 or send an email to eolas@gaelchultur.com.

The birds and the bees lecture series continues with “The secret life of the common swift”. Something is happening to the swifts in Ireland. Find out what it is and what can we do about it. Organised with the Tolka Branch of Birdwatch Ireland.

Dimestore Recordings run a weekly event in Sweeney Mongrel’s, Dame Street (formerly Le Cirk) with a variety of bands and performers. It starts at 20:00, follow the link for the line up.

Bad Boy Jake are every Thursday until the end of February in the newly re-opened Rathmines Inn, playing their rock, blues and Americana.

The Max Zaska group and the Patrick Groenland group will perform on alternating Thursdays from 21:00 in the International Bar on 23 Wicklow Street.

The Eskies will perform in the Mercantile. Admission is free.

Every Thursday “Left Right & Centre” play a mix of blues & soul with a bit of rock&roll.

Every Thursday a free Trad Session takes place in McNeills and often there are high profile Trad musicians performing. Until the end of August, that Thursday Session is part of the Steeple Sessions programme (www.steeplesessions.com )

“Sculpture in Context” is a brilliant idea and concept: It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition were beautiful sculptures from talented artists are perfectly integrated in the amazing Botanic Garden.

“The gardens are not only a botanical haven, and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European City; they also provide a challenging venue that gives the artist the rare opportunity of realising large-scale work. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery above the Visitor Centre. On Saturdays throughout the exhibition, you will have a rare opportunity to join the artists for a guided tour throughout the exhibition. “

Admission is free and the exhibition will run until 18 October.

Free business advice and information for owner managers and startups in Dublin City. Dublin City Enterprise Board invites this fourth Your Business Day.

There will be:

+ Free business advice from DCEB business mentors (available to pre-book on the dceb.ie website OR drop-in on the day)
+ Information and advice from government & local city support agencies
+ Presentations by 20 business owners and Q & A (from the following sectors: technology, manufacturing, tourism and internationally traded services) that have received support from DCEB
+ Seminars on how to gain a competitive advantage
+ Business information and advice from local city agencies and business representative groups
+ Networking opportunities, free coffee all day and a “Tweet n’ Meet”

Admission is free and booking is not necessary, just drop-in at any point during the day.

A full schedule of events will be available on the www.dceb.ie website on 14 October.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

The “8×8 Documentary Film Festival” will take place from 14-18 October in TCD and from 21-25 October in DCU.

This new festival is organised by Suas Educational Development together with loval organisations at the universities. Suas Educational Development tackles educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland.

The week-long festival on each campus will screen documentaries on a range of development issues and includes films that have already featured at major international film festivals in the last year and been nominated for awards. In addition to film screenings, there will be workshops hosted by visiting directors and producers and panel discussions on the issues explored in the films.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. To find out more and to get tickets, go to www.stand.ie/8×8-documentary-film-festival

The Instituto Cervantes invites to the Irish, Spanish and Latin American Literary Festival (ISLA), which has been organised in collaboration with the Embassies of Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Spain and Mexico and other Irish and International organisations. It is a unique opportunity to attend a gathering of Irish and Hispanic literature where you will enjoy round tables, readings and other events from 18-20 Oct. 16 authors from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ireland, Mexico and Spain will present their poetry, novel, and essay. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

On Friday the events are:
+ 15:30 Doors open
+ 16:00 Opening by Irish writer John Banville (Reading of sonnets by actor Tom Hickey in memory of Seamus Heaney)
+ 17:00 Poetry as a Calling: Profession or Possession? – Chaired by: Lorna Shaughnessy (NUI Galway)
+ 18:30 Readings by international authors.
+ 19:30 Wine Reception

The full programme is here.

The 13th Week of the Italian Language in the World (XIII Settimana Della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo) is taking place from 14-20 October and the theme is this year “Research, Discovery, Innovation: Italian Expertise”. Seminars, study presentations, symposiums and concerts will take place during the week and most will be in the Italian Institute of Culture on Fitzwilliam Square.

Some highlights are:

Fri 18 Oct: 18:30 (St. Stephem’s Green Chuch):
Paolo Tagliamento in concerto

Admission is free to all events.

Cornucopia Café & Restaurant host live music three evenings a week (Thurs, Fri and Sat). The restaurant is a Wholefood & Vegetarian Restaurant and is open until 22:15.
+ Every second Thursday N.C Lawlor, a songwriter, session player and troubadour plays a mix of country, bluegrass & blues from 19:30-21:30.
+ Every Friday (19:30-21:30) Junshi Murakami plays Irish Harp.
+ Every Saturday (19:30-21:30) Nollaig Mann plays a collection of popular and jazz classics.

St Audeon’s is hosting a “Harvest Gathering” on Friday 18 Oct. with a revival of a Harvest Thanksgiving in St Audoen’s, the only surviving medieval Church in Dublin. The church is next door to the other St Audeon’s on High Street, centre for the Polish Chaplaincy.

The Church will be decorated with flowers, foliage, fruit and vegetables, and the Gathering will be celebrated in singing and with music, poetry and readings.

The ancient bells of St Audeon’s will be rung before the event which will be followed by a reception in the Visitor Centre, where traditional Harvest and Halloween fare will be provided. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

The produce of fruit and vegetables, donated towards the decoration of the church for this thanksgiving will be on display over the weekend of October 18 to 20. All produce will then be donated to the Morning Star Hostel for the homeless.

A free weekly a-cappella singing group for women from the LGBT community. Donations welcome.

“Dublin Tribal Spirit” is a weekly event that gives you the great experience of a drumming circle with african drums and authentic tribal rhythms. Tom and Sinead, who run that event are providing lots of drums for it and teach you the rhythms.

There is no formal admission charge for this event, but donations are expected. The organisers bring their own 20-30 drums to it every week, so they are looking for donations to keep the event going.

Pink Floyd Reworked will be performed in the The Voodoo Lounge by

The Blue Choir, Madra, Jupiter & The Infinite, The 68’s, Kingdom of Crows

Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below.

“Rev JM’s Panic Worship and The Poison Hearts” will perform in the Patriot’s Inn a double-bill of alternative country, psychobilly, avante garde.

No Monster Club are performing in the Midnight Club in Whelan’s. Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30.