Dublin Event Guide 285: Christmas on Merrion Square, Farmleigh House Christmas, People’s Art Exhibition, Festive First Thursday

Antonio Nicaso will talk about “Mafia: Fiction and Reality”. He is an award-winning journalist, a bestselling author and an internationally recognized expert on organized crime. He has written 23 books and he is a regular consultant and lecturer to universities, governments and law-enforcement agencies around the world.

Admission is free and all are welcome. The talk will be in English. The event is organised by the Italian Department of the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies in TCD.

A Christmas Craft Fair at the County Library is takin gplace this weekend with over 35 stalls/tables.

Among others, the craft tables include: homemade ice-cream, fresh cakes, beauty products, on site manicures, patchwork, crochet & knitted items, pixie pots, woodturning, jewellery, framing, fresh flowers and hand painted glassware.

The Ferocious Mingle Market takes 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 and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The location of the new indoor market is 72 Thomas Street (between the Vicar St venue & Cafe Notto) an opening hours are 11:00-18:00. There is also a Café, the Oscar Verne Café, open for business at the market.

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.

A series of Friday-night GAME socials will take place in the Science Gallery with some old-school analogue games, plus a few new ones you’ve probably never heard of. Come along and learn new tricks with new friends in the Science Gallery cafe over some drinks or food, every Friday up to Christmas. This games at this Friday’s event will be:

Settlers of Catan, Carcassone, Forbidden Isle, Talisman, Munchkin Quest, 7 Wonders, Small World, Race for the Galaxy. And there will be some quick games like “Hey, That’s my fish!”, “Ark”, “Bang!” and “King of Tokyo”

Admission is free, but booking is recommended.

Need to wind down after a tiring week? Free Sahaja Yoga Meditation (not physical yoga, but “yoga meditation”!) classes every Friday at 19:30 at 4/5 Eustace Street, Temple Bar (next to IFI, ring bell no. 3)

A drop in class, with newcomers welcome.

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.

Dublin City FM is celebrating their birthday in the Mercantile and admission to the event is free. The line-up is The Young Folk, Saint John the Gambler, Roisin O and more. The Facebook Page asks for e-mails to request tickets, but it is a little late for that, so you might want to see if they have some space and let you in. Just be nice and accept it if you are not let in. ;-)

A weekly Jazz gig takes place on Fridays and on Saturdays in the Italian Restaurant Cucina. Cucina has only 35 seats, so table bookings are advisable. This Friday: Declan Murray

A Jazz Session will take place in the in the Radisson Hotel. This Friday: KEvin Morrow Duo

Astronomy Ireland’s weekly free telescope nights are beginning again, and will take place each Friday night at 20:00 if the weather permits. Check the website below for a weather forecast and to find out what you will be able to see at the telescope night. The focus will be on Jupiter and Moon.

A Django Reinhardt-style band

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are: Fri 30 Nov: Eades & Redmond, Sat 01 Dec: Dead Ringer.

The Bionic Rats play live Reggae and Ska every Friday in Sin É. Admission is free.

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.

This is a exhibition for students learning German at schools and universities. The exhibition is structured around the 26 letters of the alphabet with each of them representing something typical from Germany. During the week the exhibition is available for students and there are only two public viewing dates, this Sat and again on 08 Dec.

The Dublin Food Co-op is open every Saturday at Newmarket for organic wholefoods and sustainable household products, plus over a dozen producer stalls offering organic fruit and veg., baked goods, dairy produce, wines, hot and cold food, etc. The Co-op is also open on Thursdays 12:00-20:00.

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.

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

A Christmas Craft Fair at the County Library is takin gplace this weekend with over 35 stalls/tables.

Among others, the craft tables include: homemade ice-cream, fresh cakes, beauty products, on site manicures, patchwork, crochet & knitted items, pixie pots, woodturning, jewellery, framing, fresh flowers and hand painted glassware.

The Irish Architectural Archive will be the venue for the “Christmas on the Square” Pop-up market, which will be run for one day only. More than 25 stalls will sell gifts, seasonal treats and artisan food. Admission is free.

Farmleigh House is celebrating Christmas with a whole range of events at every weekend in December.

This Saturday the Food Market will take place from 10:00-17:00 and there is a Festive Crib. In addition there are Muppet Shows (12:00+13:45+15:30) and Storytelling events (12:45+14:30+16:15) for children and Carol Singing with the choir of the Alliance Francaise (13:30-15:30) and Barbershop Melodies with The Mellowchords (14:00-16:00) for the whole family.

Admission to all events is free.

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.

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.

“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 recommended via egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

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.

Brent Pope will be signing copies of his new autobiography “If You Really Knew Me” at Dubray Books. All are welcome.

The crypt of Christ Church will be the venue for the probably smallest Christmas market in Dublin again. But nevertheless there is something special about this market. It is a cool venue and if you have a few minutes, give it a go.There will be craft produce and presents and the crypt also has the Christ Church Cafe where you can warm up between your different Christmas Market visits. Admission is free. The Christmas market will take place on the four Saturdays before Christmas.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios has invited 30 of the most exciting publishers of art books from around the world to take part in the second edition of the Dublin Art Book Fair. The Fair will feature Irish and internationally based art book publishers, including publishers from Germany, Norway, UK, USA, Canada, Korea and Luxembourg.

The fair presents a chance for art book lovers to find unusual ‘zines, catalogues and artist books that are not normally found in Ireland. A special section of artists’ books will feature self-published texts, catalogues and projects including handmade books, alongside a programme of daily readings and talks by invited speakers and publishers.

Like all runs, the Jingle Bell Run is not a free event, but it might be a spectacle that you want to watch. Expect 1,500 runners, many of them in Santa gear or with Santa hats.The race starts on Acres Road and finishes very near Chapelizod Gates. Start and Finish are very close to each other. There don’t seem to be any other events around the race. All sponsorship from this charity run goes to Debra Ireland.

There will be road closures in Phoenix Park between 10:00 and 12:30.

Five times this year the “People’s Art 2012″ exhibition will take place. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green. If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions. Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free. Specific start and end times are not defined, but exhibition space has to be occupied by 11:00, so 11:00 is the latest start time. The event runs from Friday until Sunday, but Sat+Sun will most likely be the main days. THis exhibition is the last for the year and is specifically targetting the Christmas customer. There will be all kinds or paintings and other “hangable” art for sale.

People’s Art Dublin is a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to the public of Dublin. A huge variety of art/paintings are displayed and if the weather is nice it is a great art-filled stroll around Stephen’s Green. Definitely recommended!

The Ferocious Mingle Market takes 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 and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The location of the new indoor market is 72 Thomas Street (between the Vicar St venue & Cafe Notto) an opening hours are 11:00-18:00. There is also a Café, the Oscar Verne Café, open for business at the market.

The Moving Crib in St. Martin Apostolate has fascinated generations of children from Dublin and all over Ireland and 50 years after it first began, it still draws the crowds. The Moving Crib is like an expanded Nativity Play going back to Adam and Eve and finishing after the crib scene with the young Jesus teaching the Doctors in the Temple. There are over 100 figures in the Crib arranged in 14 different tableaux. They cover various episodes of the Old and New Testament. The figures are about a metre high, moulded in papier-mache and dressed in miniature clothes. Concealed motors control the movements of the arms, head and legs. All figures, motors, clothing etc. come from a firm in Germany.

Four events take place each day, running for 30 minutes. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find out yet when these four events take place. The opening hours are Weekdays: 14:00-18:00 and Weekends: 11:30-18:00 from 26 Nov-06 Jan. Admission is free.

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 5th French Christmas Market will take place at the Alliance Française this Saturday. Stands will be selling an array of Christmas presents: wine, chocolates, foie gras, biscuits from Brittany, Bûche de Noël – the traditional yule log, French delicatessen, jewellery, cosmetics, accessories, books, magazines and more. And the Alliance Francaise cafe “La Cocotte” will serve vin chaud and a special Christmas menu.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

The Dun Laoghaire Christmas Festival will run from Sat 01 Dec until 01 Jan. It starts on Saturday at 12:00 with the opening of “Santa’s Arctic Kingdom” in the Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre. The Arctic Kingodm (EUR 10 per child – includes gift and photo) is an adventure trip for children from the South Pole to the North Pole to help Santa in his workshop.

At 17:15 the Christmas Festival will be launched officially on the Harbour Plaza (Santa will arrive on a Harley Davidson) and this will be followed by a Fireworks display. (no admission charge)

Other events over the next weeks: On 07 Dec a huge Ice Slide opens at the Harbour Plaza, on Sun 08 Dec Ice Sculptures will be carved live and on 13 Dec the Christmas Market opens. There will be numerous other events (FOUR fireworks display in total) and I will include them all here in the next few weeks when they happen!

Dublin 4 Educate Together have received confirmation that a new primary school will be provided by the Department of Education and they are inviting to a Family Fun Day to spread the word and to allow parents to pre-enrol their children and to learn about the campaign for a an opening day of September 2014.

At the Fun Day there will be Live Music, Kids Arts & Crafts, Santa, Creative Dance, Raffle, Food and Drink, Face Painting and you can buy your Christmas Tree there. 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.

A celebration of Hungarian Culture takes place in the Exchange Dublin on Saturday and Sunday.

Have a look at the detailed programme here www.facebook.com/events/190682557734689/

Santa will arrive at Powercourt Town House Centre and will move into his 18th century style workshop. You are invited to come to celebrate the opening and this celebration seems free. A visit to the workshop, however is not free (EUR 12) and the other Christmas related events for children in the Powerscourt Town House Centre are not free either. A number of choirs will make an appearance in the shopping centre over the next 24 days.

Only the choir performances 01 Dec: School choir and 08 Dec (14:00-16:00): Il Coro Italiano di Dublino seem to be free. There are a lot of other promises on the website, but no times seem to be available.

The Royal Irish Academy of Music invite to a Public Masterclass and workshop with Nobuko Imai and the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Over the next two weekends, Santa and entourage will visit different parts of Dublin. There will be music, giant games, on-street entertainers, face painters and local businesses will be getting involved

Sat 01 Dec: North Earl St & Talbot St Area
Sun 02 Dec: Wolfe Tone Sq & Mary St Area
Sat 08 Dec: Chatham St Area
Sun 09 Dec: George’s Arcade area & Sth Anne St

The DIT Conservatory’s Junior Ensembles Concert, featuring: Junior Strings, Intermediate Orchestra and Prelude Winds

To mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (29 November), and to coincide with the ‘World Social Forum – Free Palestine’ in Brazil, the Progressive Film Club and the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign bring you a one-day Palestinian film festival.

Three films will be screened at 13:00, 14:30 and 15:05 and admission is free. The film titles and descriptions acan be found on the website below.

The IFI continues with its free Archive at Lunchtime screenings on three days every week in December.

The Double Bill on Saturdays is described here: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-dbl-bill-dec-2012/
The Monday/Wednesday programme is here www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-dec-2012/ and here www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-2-dec-2012/

The Ink Slingers Creative Writing Hour takes place every Saturday at the Irish Writers’ Centre. It is a free creative writing session that is organised and led by the Centre’s voluntary arts administrators. The hour includes writing exercises and prompts to get ideas flowing. It is open to everyone and is suitable for all levels of experience.

Join historian Caoimhe Leppard to learn how catapults were used to conquer castles and make your own mini catapult. Suitable for Ages 6+. Admission is free and no booking required.

A Third Level Open Day will take place in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. It will feature performances, demonstration lessons, information sessions and opportunities to meet students and ask questions.

At the Children’s event “Eco Christmas Crafts” children can make Christmas Decorations from recycled bits and pieces (old card, paper, string and plant material from the garden). Admission is free, but advance booking is required via 01 857 0909.

Gloria, Dublin’s LBGTQ choir, are holding their 2nd Children’s party following the success of the event last year. Parents, grandparents, uncles and aunties can bring their young ones to an informal gathering which will involve the choir singing a few songs, getting the young people involved and having a special visit from Santa Claus. You are asked to bring a wrapped gift for each child you are bringing along and Santa will hand it to them.

You are also invited to give time, refreshments, home baking or sponsorship if you can help out in any way. The Gloria website is currently down because the bandwidth limit has been exceeded. Seems to be a busy period! ;-) so I am linking to an alternative site

Dr. Kate Hudson CND General Secretary and author of ‘CND Now More than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement’ will be for a public talk in the Ireland Institute. Kate Hudson was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 2003 to September 2010 when she became General Secretary. She is a leading anti-nuclear and anti-war campaigner nationally and internationally.

Goblin Market is the first publication from White Lady Art Books, featuring work from 35 of Ireland’s finest New Contemporary artists. These artists are working and exhibiting in Ireland, and their artwork will be displayed in the White Lady Art gallery for two week from 01-15 Dec.

The Book & Exhibition launch will take place from 18:00 Admission is free. Bring your own beer.

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.

A weekly Jazz gig takes place on Fridays and on Saturdays in the Italian Restaurant Cucina. Cucina has only 35 seats, so table bookings are advisable. This Saturday: Kevin Morrow

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 Jazz Quintet “Thought Fox” will perform in the Grand Social to launch their debut CD. Admission is free.

Singer Shaz Oye will be in the CFCP for a concert. Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are: Fri 30 Nov: Eades & Redmond, Sat 01 Dec: Dead Ringer.

The Ratzingers, one of the best, if not THE best party, wedding and soul band I have ever heard, will be in Mint Bar for a free gig. If you like good music performed superbly, you will like this band!

Farmleigh House is celebrating Christmas with a whole range of events at every weekend in December.

This Sunday the Food Market will take place from 10:00-17:00 and there is a Festive Crib. In addition there is “Mr Punch’s Christmas Carol” (12:00+13:45+15:30) and Storytelling events (12:45+14:30+16:15) for children and Carol Singing with the Portmarnock Singers (14:30-15:15) and Barbershop Melodies with The Mellowchords (12:00-16:00) for the whole family. Horse and Carriage Rides will take place between 13:00 and 16:00.

Admission to all events is free.

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 Long Mile Road Market behind Wigoders on Long Mile Road (across the road from Aldi) hosts more than 50 stalls and there is also a Cafe on site.

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.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios has invited 30 of the most exciting publishers of art books from around the world to take part in the second edition of the Dublin Art Book Fair. The Fair will feature Irish and internationally based art book publishers, including publishers from Germany, Norway, UK, USA, Canada, Korea and Luxembourg.

The fair presents a chance for art book lovers to find unusual ‘zines, catalogues and artist books that are not normally found in Ireland. A special section of artists’ books will feature self-published texts, catalogues and projects including handmade books, alongside a programme of daily readings and talks by invited speakers and publishers.

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.

Five times this year the “People’s Art 2012″ exhibition will take place. It is an art exhibition on the rails/fence of St. Stephen’s Green. If you want to exhibit at one of the events in the future, check the website for cost and conditions. Visiting the People’s Art Exhibition is free. Specific start and end times are not defined, but exhibition space has to be occupied by 11:00, so 11:00 is the latest start time. The event runs from Friday until Sunday, but Sat+Sun will most likely be the main days. THis exhibition is the last for the year and is specifically targetting the Christmas customer. There will be all kinds or paintings and other “hangable” art for sale.

People’s Art Dublin is a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to the public of Dublin. A huge variety of art/paintings are displayed and if the weather is nice it is a great art-filled stroll around Stephen’s Green. Definitely recommended!

The next Pure Vintage Fair “A Vintage Christmas” will take place this week and it is what it says on the tin. A market/flea market for vintage items, which will take place on the first Sunday of every month. There will be vintage clothes, furniture, collectibles, jewellery and many more vintage items. Sounds interesting and with 30 stalls, it is well worth a visit. There will also be food, hot drinks and a DJ.

The Ferocious Mingle Market takes 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 and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The location of the new indoor market is 72 Thomas Street (between the Vicar St venue & Cafe Notto) an opening hours are 11:00-18:00. There is also a Café, the Oscar Verne Café, open for business at the market.

The Moving Crib in St. Martin Apostolate has fascinated generations of children from Dublin and all over Ireland and 50 years after it first began, it still draws the crowds. The Moving Crib is like an expanded Nativity Play going back to Adam and Eve and finishing after the crib scene with the young Jesus teaching the Doctors in the Temple. There are over 100 figures in the Crib arranged in 14 different tableaux. They cover various episodes of the Old and New Testament. The figures are about a metre high, moulded in papier-mache and dressed in miniature clothes. Concealed motors control the movements of the arms, head and legs. All figures, motors, clothing etc. come from a firm in Germany.

Four events take place each day, running for 30 minutes. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find out yet when these four events take place. The opening hours are Weekdays: 14:00-18:00 and Weekends: 11:30-18:00 from 26 Nov-06 Jan. Admission is free.

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.

A celebration of Hungarian Culture takes place in the Exchange Dublin on Saturday and Sunday.

Have a look at the detailed programme here www.facebook.com/events/190682557734689/

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 is back after the summer break and takes place again in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Now in its 36th year, 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 Peter Tuite, piano with the next installment of Haydn’s piano sonatas: The Complete Haydn Piano Sonatas Concert VI

The Christmas Fair will have professional stall holders selling products including homemade cakes, jams and fudges and also flowers, bikes. For the kids there will be Santa, face painting and other fun stalls. There will also be a raffle with great prizes. Admission is free.

Christmas starts at Collins Barracks with the Christmas Open Day on Sunday. Listen to carol-singing with Latvian choir Elve, make a Christmas candle, or take a Christmassy trail around the Museum.The deailed programme is at www.museum.ie/en/list/featuredevents.aspx

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

The Irish Polish Society invites to a celebration of Casimir Dunin Markievicz, husband to Countess Markievicz, on the 80th anniversary of his death. A lecture by Patrick Quigley, author of ‘The Polish Irishman – the life and times of Count Casimir Markievicz.’ and a song recital by Professor Maciej Smolenski who will sing Irish and Polish songs of the period with Rosemary Hill on piano will take place. Admission is free, but places are limited.

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 “Bronze Horses”. No booking necessary. Admission is free and early arrival is recommended.

A Celebration of Christmas Carols & Readings with the Dublin Welsh Male Choir will take place. Admission is free.

37 Dawson Street is still one of the newsest pubs in Dublin and for the month of December, they are adding a weekly vocal jazz gig to their Sunday attractions.
The upcoming gigs are 02 Dec: Cary Posavitz Quartet, 09 Dec: Karen Cowley Trio, 16 Dec: Clare Finegan Quartet, 23 Dec: Emilie Conway Quartet, 30 Dec: Anne Marie Williams Quartet.

Saucy Sundays is a weekly free live music afternoon and evening in the Grand Social. This week’s line up is The Lazy Band, The Blood Red Mountain Band, The Prairie Dawgs, The Tim HartBand, Elder Roche, Herons, Enda Reilly, The Gospel Project and Mossy Nolan.

Meeting House Square will be the venue for a Christmas Carol charity event for the Dublin Simon Community. Admission is free.

This is the next meeting of Exchange Words, a new scriptwriting (film and theatre) group. A safe space where writers and actors can come together to collaborate, create and have fun. It will feature drama games, writing discussion and script readthroughs. Writers can bring a few copies of script, 1-4 pages in length, for the actors to perform as part of the workshop. The workshop is free and open to all.

Big Smoke Writing Factory’s Winter Literary Café with readings from the Big Smoke Students and guests, live music, mulled wine etc will take place this Sunday in the Back Loft in La Cathedral Studios.

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 a band will play from 21:00-22:30, a Latin Beat Club, Brazilian DJs and Salsa Classes (from 18:00) are additional features. Admission is free.

A free performance by 12 year old jazz sax player Denny Stupakov.

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. This Sunday’s line up is Paul Currie as the headliner with Kevin McGahern.

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.

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

The weekly Sunday Roast is an event in the Mercantile where live music is combined with free roast potatoes. The next Sunday Roast line up is Nella Dwyer, The Statics, Franko Franko, River City Public.

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

The 6th yearly RDS Library Book Sale will take place in the RDS Library from 03-07 December. The Library will be selling duplicate copies and out of date books. RDS Members have also donated books for the sale. 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 next Rising Stars Recital takes place on Monday, but the website doesn’t reveal yet who the rising star is. Admission is free.

The IFI continues with its free Archive at Lunchtime screenings on three days every week in December.

The Double Bill on Saturdays is described here: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-dbl-bill-dec-2012/
The Monday/Wednesday programme is here www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-dec-2012/ and here www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-2-dec-2012/

This regular open-mic literary event is held on the first Monday of every month and anyone can come along to read aloud one or more of your favourite pieces from literature at the event or you can even request that someone else reads your favourite piece, if you don’t want to. The literary pieces don’t have to be in English or in Irish. Recently an extract from Dante’s ‘Inferno’ was read in the original Italian and some piece from Lorca was first read in Spanish and then translated into English. Admission is free.

For further information contact Howard, who organises the event, on 085 2350530.

Babylon Sisters are launching their new EP in the Wilde Venue. Lynn Hilary, Lisa Nolan and Rebecca Winckworth will showcase songs from musical legends such as Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, the Foo Fighters and Metallica. Doors will open at 18:00 and admission is free. The Babylon Sisters will perform from 21:00-23:00 www.babylonsisters.net/

Sean Moncrieff, known to many through his Newstalk radio show “Moncrieff”, is launching his new book “Angel of the Streetlamps” about a economically devastated Ireland. Admission is free, but you need to download your invitation via the website below.

Need to wind down after a tiring week? Free Sahaja Yoga Meditation (not physical yoga, but “yoga meditation”!) classes every Monday from 19:00 in Blakestown Community Resource Centre (next to Lidl).

This is a drop in class, with newcomers are welcome.

The Irish Astronomical Society is celebrating their Christmas Party and will show a video by the European Space Organisation (ESO) about its first 50 years. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Exchange Focus is a collective photography group. They act as a forum and meeting point for Dublin photographers to share techniques and collaborate on projects and they regularly exhibit their work and run free workshops in all aspects of photography. The group meets every second week on Monday nights and is open to everyone. All levels of experience are catered for.

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. This Monday’s line up is Jim Elliott & Derek Ryan with support from Eve Darcy & Elaine Gallgher.

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.

The 6th yearly RDS Library Book Sale will take place in the RDS Library from 03-07 December. The Library will be selling duplicate copies and out of date books. RDS Members have also donated books for the sale. 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 40th Anniversary of the Dublin Bombings in Dec 1972 and Jan 1973 is on Tuesday and a wreath-laying ceremony to honour and remember the three bus men who were killed will take place in Sackville Place at the site of the pavement memorial: ‘A Fallen Bouquet’. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, the CEO of Dublin Bus, Justice for the Forgotten and family members will lay wreaths. The oration will be given by Mr. Jack O’Connor, General President of SIPTU.

The CIE Male Voice Choir and Ms Grace Bradshaw, grand-daughter of the late Tommy Duffy (killed on 1st December 1972) will provide the music. Everyone is welcome at this event.

A Third Level Open Day will take place in the RIAM. There will be musical performances, advice and tips from staff and students, in addition to a variety of consultation lessons.

Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is an expert on convict life in Australia. He will discuss the political and social significance of the life of the Irish Australian bushranger Ned Kelly executed in Melbourne in 1880. He will conclude by looking at the way in which Sidney Nolan and other Australians have chosen to interpret the Kelly legend.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

“When Christians Were Jews: The New Jewish Annotated New Testament and its Goal” is a talk in the Long Room Hub by Prof Paula Frederiksen. Admission is free and all are welcome.

The DIT Choral Society and Opera Ensemble are inviting to their Christmas Concert which consits of two parts. The first part is Part I of Handel’s Messiah and the second part is American composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. It tells the story of a boy visited one night by three kings, on a long journey to visit the Christ child.

The concert will be performed twice. The first time on 04 Dec in Aughrim Street Church and the second time on 06 Dec in Rathmines Church. Admission is free.

The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) continues to bring you Dublin Green Drinks on the first Tuesday of every month in Messrs Maguire. Green Drinks is a monthly event in 711 cities around the world to bring people with an interest in green issues together.

This month hear about green, ethical, sustainable and wildlife friendly gifts and options for Christmas, and even have a chance to purchase some of the items. “Who says is aint easy being Green?”

Meet up on the top floor of Messrs Maguire. Doors open at 18:30 and the talk is at 19:00. Admission is free.

“The Accused” will perform in the Front Bar of Whelan’s. Admission is free.

A public meeting of the People Convention (An Chomhdháil Phobail – The People’s Convention (CPPC)) will take place and the topic “Why don’t the people decide state policy?” will be discussed. The CPPC is of the opinion that every Irish citizen should be asked for their opinion about issues like the national budget and therefore they run this event on the evening before Budget Day.

The People Convention invites everybody “regardless of policy preferences, regardless of ideological differences, regardless of party allegiance” to come. Admission is free.

Imagine, if every decision of the parliament would first have to get checked with every citizen in Ireland. Could that work? I can see how that would work in a small organisation with maybe 100 members, but in a country with 4.8 mio people?

The Workman’s Club will screen the original Willy Wonka film and you are invited to this free event.

A free lecture “Fracking: fact and friction” wiht David Chew will take place in TCD.

Open Mic Night with The Last Tycoons in O’Donoghue’s on Suffolk Street every Tues from 20:00. It’s free and anyone can get up, sing a song or do whatever they like.

Joan Shields Trio (Classic & Latin Jazz) & Allison Sleator (Folk and Contemporary) will perfrom in the Pizza Bus in the backyard of the Bernard Shaw Pub. Admission is free, but a donation of EUR 5 is suggested.

The Plateau Sessions is an open mic night that features acts from all over Ireland. This week’s guest acts are Biggles Flys Again and Gillian Tuite. Admission is free.

White Chocolate is playing Rock Covers from 23:30 in The Mezz in Temple Bar.

Today is Budget Day, which means that the Irish Government will announce the budget for 2013. It won’t be pretty and we all can look forward to having less after the announcement. Some taxes will increase by midnight on Wednesday, so if you are a smoker, drink alcohol or drive a car, make sure that you either buy a supply in the days before Budget Day or immediately after the announcement. Other taxes and cost will increase only by 01 January so you have a few weeks to get ready for it.

The speeches in the Dail will start at 14:30 and there will be two speeches that outline everything. Around 16:00 all will be said and newspapers and websites will analyse the impact of all the changes.

Some websites to follow or to check for announcements and analysis are:
www.irishtimes.com/topics/budget-2013/
www.independent.ie/national-news/budget/
www.kpmg.ie/budget2013/overview/index.htm
www.deloitte.com/view/en_IE/ie/insights

Entry charges at nearly all OPW sites are waived once a month. The Office of Public Works (OPW) launched an initiative last year to encourage more people to visit the historic sites that it manages and this initiative is continuing on all First Wednesdays in 2012. Most sites can already be visited for free, but the sites that normally charge a fee will now be free every first Wednesday until the end of the year.
In the (extended) Greater Dublin Area this will affect the following sites:
+ The Casino, Marino
+ Dublin Castle, State Apartments
+ Kilmainham Gaol
+ Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre at Newgrange
+ Glendalough Visitor Centre in Wicklow

National College of Ireland has partnered with The Summit Finuas Network to hold this free event for jobseekers who wish to break into the world of financial services. The aim is to give practical help in the current employment market and provide advice and information about getting your “foot in the door”. Find all further details on the website and makes sure that you book your place as soon as possible. Admission is free, but booking is required.

The 6th yearly RDS Library Book Sale will take place in the RDS Library from 03-07 December. The Library will be selling duplicate copies and out of date books. RDS Members have also donated books for the sale. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

A Christmas decoration demo with floral artist Carol Bone is taking place in Powerscourt Gardens in Wicklow. Carol will create Christmas floral arrangements so that you can get some great ideas for your home and for Christmas gifts. Admission is free.

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 IFI continues with its free Archive at Lunchtime screenings on three days every week in December.

The Double Bill on Saturdays is described here: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-dbl-bill-dec-2012/
The Monday/Wednesday programme is here www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-programme-1-dec-2012/ and here www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-2-dec-2012/

The DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama International Masterclass Series will run a vocal masterclass with baritone and choral conductor Robert Dean.

The ecofilmfest is a Cine-Cafe film screening that focuses exclusively on environmental themes and consists of a selection of Irish short films.

Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson will talk about “Rooted in the soil: Cottage Gardens & Allotments in Ireland since 1750”. In this lecture they will discuss the cultivation of vegetables and fruit and keeping of livestock in Irish cottage gardens and urban allotments since the mid-eighteenth century.

Dr. Harvey O’Brien, of the UCD School of English, Drama, and Film, and author of the new book Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back (Columbia University Press, 2012), will discuss the genre of action movies.

Admission is free, but tickets are required: Contact the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 to book.

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.

A “Christmas Customer Evening” with 20% off on all books, toys, games and stationary is taking place in Hughes & Hughes in Santry.

Barry Kennerk will sign his book “Moore Street – The Story of Dublin’s Market District”.

You are the one (Una historia de entonces) is the next José Luis Garci film that will be screened in the Instituto Cervantes. Admission is free. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Nicholas Goluses will conduct a Guitar Masterclass in the Recital Room of the RIAM. Admission is free.

Nuala Lyons will launch her book “Movie Fan” in the Gutter Bookshop. Admission is free and all are welcome.

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

“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.

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).

Once a month National Gallery Curators appraise paintings, prints and drawings brought into the Gallery. No appointment is necessary and you can just turn up with your piece of art and get an estimate for it.

The 6th yearly RDS Library Book Sale will take place in the RDS Library from 03-07 December. The Library will be selling duplicate copies and out of date books. RDS Members have also donated books for the sale. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

The Ferocious Mingle Market takes 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 and (at least at the weekends) live music adds even more character.

The location of the new indoor market is 72 Thomas Street (between the Vicar St venue & Cafe Notto) an opening hours are 11:00-18:00. There is also a Café, the Oscar Verne Café, open for business at the market.

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 Dublin Food Co-op is open every Thursday at Newmarket for organic wholefoods and sustainable household products, plus over a dozen producer stalls offering organic fruit and veg., baked goods, dairy produce, wines, hot and cold food, etc.
The Co-op is also opened on Saturdays 09:30 – 16:30. 12:00-20:00.

Lunchtime Market at Christ Church Cathedral from 12:00-15:00.

The mezzanine level of the Print Museum is turned into a Christmas Market with stalls selling crafts and gifts. There will also be a number of self-guided arts and crafts activities for families and the Gutenberg Cafe will be open.

The market will continue on Fri, Sat and Sun. Admission is free.

The yearly service ‘Carols by Candlelight: Words and Music for the Season of Advent’ will be held in College Chapel on Thursday

The First Thursday is normally a monthly event when lots of galleries in and around Temple Bar stay open late on a Thursday night. In December the First Thursday gets a whole other dimension.

At 17:30 the Christmas Light sin Temple Bar’s Old City will be switched on and mulled wine and mince pies are available. A special outdoor projection by Melimage on to the Smock Alley Theatre building on West Essex Street in the Old City will be something to look at.

From 18:00 the normal First Thursday Programme will take place in 49 (!) galleries and the full programme of the Tour is described here: www.templebar.ie/Event/First_Thursdays_Dublin

Then from 20:30 an outdoor film screening of Elf will take place. However this is a free, but ticketed event and all tickets are gone.

Brand new Damn Fine Print Studio is showcasing a mega screen-print spectacular featuring Dublin’s hottest artists and musicians. The exhibition, themed ‘Damn Fine Dublin’ will take place on 06 December at Block T, Smithfield, Dublin 7 to launch their new screen printing facility. It will be an affordable, accessible and creative print hub for people living and working in the City – a place to create, collaborate and learn.

There’ll be music from DJs, visuals from VJ Slip Draft and some beverages and nibbles. Admission is free.

The show will feature 30 hand-pulled screen prints inspired by the phrase ‘Damn Fine Dublin’ from artists including Jim Fitzpatrick, Chris Judge, Steve Simpson, Alan Clarke, Fergal Brennan, Mick Minogue, Alan Hynes, Ursula Celano, Brian Coldrick, Fuchsia Macare and many more.

The DIT Choral Society and Opera Ensemble are inviting to their Christmas Concert which consits of two parts. The first part is Part I of Handel’s Messiah and the second part is American composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. It tells the story of a boy visited one night by three kings, on a long journey to visit the Christ child.

The concert will be performed twice. The first time on 04 Dec in Aughrim Street Church and the second time on 06 Dec in Rathmines Church. Admission is free.

“Ninette” is the next film by Director José Luis Garci that will be screened in the Instituto Cervantes. Admission is free and film will be in Spanish with English subtitles.

This free event is organised as part of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Writer in Residence Programme. The event will be hosted by Katy Hayes, dlr County Council Writer in Residence 2012-2013, and will give the audience the opportunity to hear authors and journalists John Breen, Declan Lynch and Johnny Watterson read from their work and talk about their relationship with sport as writers.

Further information or to reserve your place, contact Ciara King on cking@dlrcoco.ie or on 01-271 9529.

The Dublin Writers’ Forum welcomes writers of all genres, of all ages and all levels of experience. DWF is an open group of writers who share a common passion for all things literary. It is a safe ‘working space’ where on a weekly basis writers can bring their work to be critiqued by other writers.

The Eblana Toastmasters are holding a joint Toastmasters meeting with the Dublin Club in the Freemasons Hall. Everyone is welcome in particular anyone interested in developing public speaking skills.

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.

“Sanctuary Gardens” by Patrick Quigley is a lecture in the Botanic Gardens. This talk looks at the need we have to create a garden, how it is a refuge, a place where we connect with the natural world with increasing emphasis on organic gardening and ecological balance.

A public meeting about “War, Media and Wikileaks” is taking place on Thursday. Find all details about the event on the website below. Event Organisers are AfrI: Action from Ireland.

Jaime Nanci & The Blue Boys are playing a weekly gig in the Mercantile Hotel on Thursdays. Their music is swing, blues, bebop and doo wop. Admission is free.

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.

“Thirsty Thursday” Open Mic Night from 21:00 in the Bridge Inn in Chapelizod Village.

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

Banda Baque Sol play every Thursday funl, soul and samba.

The 6th yearly RDS Library Book Sale will take place in the RDS Library from 03-07 December. The Library will be selling duplicate copies and out of date books. RDS Members have also donated books for the sale. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

The mezzanine level of the Print Museum is turned into a Christmas Market with stalls selling crafts and gifts. There will also be a number of self-guided arts and crafts activities for families and the Gutenberg Cafe will be open.

The market will continue on Sat and Sun. Admission is free.

A 60-metre ice slide is being set up in Dun Laoghaire for a fun experience for adults and children alike on Dún Laoghaire Harbour Plaza. There will be hot chocolate and crepe stalls, an inflatable village and carousel and children’s entertainment.

The ice slide is EUR 2 per go, but I expect that access to the Christmas Viallg around it is free.

The Docklands Christmas Festival will start on Friday 07 Dec and will continue until 23 Dec. The Festival is in its 8th year and while it is the best and most “christmassy” market in Dublin it still could do with some significant improvements. Or at least that was the case in previous years. This year there will be improvements claim the organisers, so let’s see! And let’s hope that the ugly white plastic tents have been replaced with something that has more of a Christmas-feel.

80 traders are selling their goods and there will be stalls with food and mulled wine, hot chocolate, roasted chestnuts etc. A carousel and “Vitorian fairground attractions” will also be there. The market is open until 20:00 on weekdays and until 22:00 on Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is free.

I love Christmas markets and am looking forward to the Docklands Christmas Market!

On Friday from 16:00-18:00 the Christmas Lighting celebration will take place and from Saturday 08 Dec, Santa will meet children every Sat+Sun from 12:00-19:00 for free.

Fiona Loughnane (Associate Lecturer, NCAD) discusses the legacy and lineage of Surrealism in the visual arts from forebearers such as artists Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel to the French Surrealist movement.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

The next lecture in the Hertzog Centre Jewish Studies Lecture Seriesis Dr Lars Fischer who will talk about “Socialists grappling with the Shoah: Early Post-War Responses”.

A free Greek Folk Dance class open to all. Contact Katerini Papathanasiou on papath.kat@gmail.com

The Sixth Bernard Shaw Xmas Exhibition featuring a host of Irish artists, designers, photographers and creatives will launch on Fri with a drinks reception and music from ‘Orlando & Cait’.

A Jazz Session will take place in the in the Radisson Hotel.

Astronomy Ireland’s weekly free telescope nights are beginning again, and will take place each Friday night at 20:00 if the weather permits. Check the website below for a weather forecast and to find out what you will be able to see at the telescope night. The focus will be on Jupiter and Moon.

“From Here To Infinity: Gravity and the Cosmos” by Prof Lord Martin J. Rees is the 11th John Lighton Synge Public Lecture in TCD.