Dublin Event Guide 284: Feeding the 5000, Christmas Tree Lighting, Aviation Fair, Dublin Flea Market

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 Christmas Lights in CLontarf will be switched on on Fri. Mayor Naoise O’Muiri will be there and will get help from Ellen Keane and Santa. Entertainment will be provided by the Showtime Theatre School, St John Baptists Choir and Quintessential Sax. Nibbles are available from “A Taste of Clontarf”.

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 Friday’s social is curated by the Trinity Gamers Soc, and will include:

Carcassone, Apples to Apples, Werewolves of Millers Hollow, Magblast, Munchkin, Kill Dr. Lucky, Robo Rally

Admission is free.

Olympic Boxer Katie Taylor will sign her book.

There will be free live music by Affiniti (www.affinitimusic.com) – putting a celtic twist on songs by Elbow, Evanescence, Shakespeares Sister, The Bangles and many more.

The Pete Pamf 6tet will perform in the Front Bar at Whelan’s. Admission is free.

Radio Joinery presents Sound +/- Vision, a “three-day long event of talks, performance and music which will be additionally broadcast online. While setting up a temporary radio-station is a crucial element of the project, it will also celebrate not so much the idea of radio itself, but radio as a means of creating a shared experience. The project will explore the notion of live experience versus its online relay; the getting together, listening and seeing versus the radio-station as a one-sided experience.”

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.

Kevin Morrow will perform on Fri 23 Nov and Declan Murray will be in Cucina performing Jazz on Sat 24 Nov. Cucina has only 35 seats, so table bookings are advisable.

A Jazz Session will take place in the in the Radisson Hotel. This Friday James Mullen will perform.

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.

“Desparation State” are peforming tonight in the Mercantile. They will be supported from “The Animators”

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers will meet at the Martello tower car park in Sandymount from 20:00-22:00 to observe the 11 day old Moon. This event is free and everyone is invited. The event is weather dependent and you shoukd check the website below after 18:00 to see if it is going ahead.

The Stillorgan Orchard provides regular live music. The upcoming gigs are: Fri 23 Nov: The Bunko Brothers and Sat 24 Nov: Rattle & Hum

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

Blues with The Business in the Patriot’s Inn! Admission is free.

Heavy Soul, The Juice, Val Normal and the P.I.G.S will perform at Gig Night in Sweeney’s Mongrel. Admission is free.

“When Good Pets Go Bad” will perform in Whelan’s “Midnight Hour”. Dooprs open at 23:30, but admission is only free until 22:30.

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 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.

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.

A protest against an Oil/Gas Drill operation in Dublin Bay, just about 4km from Dalkey, will take place on Saturday.

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.

Michael Palin will be signing copies of his new book “Brazil” at Dubray Books in Grafton St. All are 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.

Astro-Expo is Astronomy Ireland’s yearly exhibition, Ireland’s largest Astronomy and Space Exhibition, and it will take place this Saturday in the Sami Nasr Institute of Advanced Materials (SNIAM) in Trinity College. It is an exhibition of Telescopes and photos and equipment that members bring along each year to show new members and the public how exciting their hobby is. Throughout the day a host of telescope and equipment demonstrations and displays (including high-power amateur rockets from the Irish Rocketry Society) will be available and there are also three interesting talks.

The exhibitions and demonstrations are free, but the lectures are EUR 7 for each (!) lecture (EUR 5 for members). You can pre-book tickets for the lectures via the website.

The talks are
13:00: David Moore “A Whistlestop Tour of the Universe”
14:30: Kevin Nolan: “Latest from the Mars Curiosity Rover”
16:30: Tony Ryan: “Death From Above and the Sept 21 Fireball”

“Feeding the 5000” is an interesting event this Saturday. Surprisingly ;-) it does exactly what it says on the tin: 5,000 Dubliners are invited to enjoy a hot vegetarian meal made entirely out of fresh misshapen vegetables that would otherwise go to waste. And with that you will get apple juice made from wonky but wonderful apples that would otherwise go unloved in orchards across the country. So come along and as long as some food is left, enjoy this free meal.

All this will be provided completely free but with the aim to raise awareness about the scale of the problem of food waste in Ireland. Find out more about the European Week of Waste Reduction here www.ewwr.eu/pre-home and about the Feeding the 5000 initiative on the website below.

Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5,000 in the UK will be present to give a talk on food waste at 12:30 and three chefs will give cooking demonstrations (13:00: Sian Breslin – Sian’s Plan, 14:00: Maggie Lynch – Soul Food Company, 15:00: Tony Keogh – Cornucopia). There will also be live music from local band Ember J

I will definitely go to that event, it sounds really interesting!

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.

Darren Clarke will be in Eason’s in O’Connell Street to sign his book.

Lrona Byrne will be in Eason’s in Tallaght to sign her book.

The Dublin Council of Trade Unions are protesting against cuts and all types of austerity measures. The event starts at 13:00 at the usual spot for demonstrations, the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square. I couldn’t find where the march goes to, but the usual destination is the Dail in Kildare Street or alternatively Merrion Square.

Some people are quite critical about the Union’s involvement in these protests, considering that all bar one of the union bosses earn between 100k and 200k ( www.independent.ie/national-news/big-salaries-and-pensions-of-union-bosses-uncovered-3237083.html ), others wonder where – if not through cuts or tax increases – the money will come from, but everybody needs to decide for themselves if this protest is the best way to express your opinion.

The IFI continues with its free Archive at Lunchtime screenings in November, but has them reduced from daily to only Sat, Mon and Wed. In addition the way the schedule is complied got a lot more complicated. So instead of including six (!!) links here, I need you to check it out on the IFI website via this single link: www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/

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.

Former golfer Christy O’Connor Jnr will be in Eason’s to sign his recent book.

An interesting, but extremely difficult to describe event (because it is so multi-facetted) is taking place in Donnybrook. It is a fundraiser for a Daycare Centre for the Elderly. There is no admission charge, but donations are required and hoped for.

The afternoon will have craft workshops, there are baked goods and a raffle of hand-made goods. There will be tea and you can swap stories. You can bring your won craft-work or try something new (origami, car-making and more) and there will be a Stichers’ Corner. If you are into crafts, this is definitely something you have to check out more! Go to the facebook page and hopefully it will become clearer to you. ;-)

A free concert with the Dublin Orchestral Players to celebrate the opening of the new Riverbank Day Centre for the homeless and drug addicted, followed by a blessing of the centre by the Franciscan Friars. The Church is located directly across from Four Courts.

The Concerts are free but to secure your seat please RSVP to Belinda Kearns at MQI by calling 01 524 0965 or email Belinda.kearns@mqi.ie

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.

Kevin Morrow will perform on Fri 23 Nov and Declan Murray will be in Cucina performing Jazz on Sat 24 Nov. Cucina has only 35 seats, so table bookings are advisable.

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: Fri 23 Nov: The Bunko Brothers and Sat 24 Nov: Rattle & Hum

The yearly Aviation Fair at the ALSAA Fitness Club takes place and offers everything for the Aviation enthusiast. From Air Band radios to Flight Simulators, you will find everything that excites people with an interest in aviation. – I will definitely be there this year, after I missed last year’s fair. ;-) Admission 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.

The next Dublin Flea Market is taking place on Sun from 11:00-17:00. The flea market takes place every last Sunday of the month. For more information or if you want to sell your own stuff, check out www.dublinflea.ie. The Coop Hall is wheelchair accessible and lots of free parking spaces are right outside the door. The market is made up of about 60 stalls and all kinds of second-hand/pre-loved goods are sold for low prices.

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 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.

Hooked Crochet and Science Gallery’s Makeshop are inviting you to a walk-in workshop to support innocent’s ‘Big Knit’ campaign (www.innocentdrinks.ie/thebigknit) Come along and crochet a little woolly hat for innocent smoothie bottle tops. 25c from every bottle sold goes towards Age Action. So come to the Makeshop at Lincoln Place any time between 12:00-15:00 where wool, hooks and some smoothies will be provided. Participation is free.

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.

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 Jazz pianist Kenny Werner performing solo.

Vegan Performance artist and poet Dominic Barry will perform at three different locations in Dublin on Sunday as the last event of Vegan Ireland’s events and activities for World Vegan Month.

At 13:00 at Temple Bar Square, Vegan Ireland members, many dressed in animal costumes and fancy dress, will hear Dominic Berry give the first of three public poetry recitations. Free food and literature will be given out.

At 14:00, at the entrance to St. Stephen’s Green, Dominic will give his second “set” of poems alongside an information and vegan food table in aid of Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary who have launched a new film “You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Hugged a Turkey,” for World Vegan Month.

At 15:00, Dominic will present a longer collection of his poetry at the Cornucopia Restaurant, Wicklow Street, Dublin.

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!

I have to admit that I never did and still don’t get the Irish fascination (in some circles) for Christmas Jumpers. That is the jumpers that are only given and worn at Christmas and which have usually quite awful Christmas-related motives on them. Reindeers, Santas, etc.

On Sunday the Christmas Jumpers get a mass airing in the only suitable context: a light-hearted and totally non-serious challenge.

You are asked to dig our your cheesiest Christmas jumper and come to O’Connell Street to set a new world record for the most number of Christmas jumpers in one place at the same time.It won’t surprise you that the previous record was set in Dublin as well. Last year 583 people attended the same event.

The event is part of the activities around the Christmas Tree lighting ceremonies in O’Connell Street. It isn’t explicitly said, but I would assume/expect/hope that particiaption is free.

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

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 “Light and Reflections”. No booking necessary. Admission is free and early arrival is recommended.

The public lecture “Reflections of the Age of Reason as seen through the Architecture of Charlemont House” with Patrick Casey will take place. Admission is free and all are welcome. Early arrival is recommended as places are limited.

The main Christmas Lighting event in Dublin is always the lighting of the Christmas Tree in O’Connell Street and you will find out some VERY interesting detail about this years Christmas Tree in the Dublin News section!

The Lighting Ceremony starts at 16:00 with the Christmas Jumper Challenge. After that Christmas carol singers from the Halleluia Gospel Choir and St. Andrew’s Choir will join the army band to perform on O’Connell Street. At 18:00 the Christmas Tree Lights will be switched on. The event is suitable for the whole family and it is free.

Saucy Sundays is a weekly free live music afternoon and evening in the Grand Social. This week’s line up is The Quicksand Band, Lisa McLaughlin, Markas Carcas, Tarantella Fall, Rachel Austin, Stefano Campo, Nathan Conway & The River Valley Band, Carol Keogh & The City Fathers, Dylan Tighe.

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.

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 Miniature Jack, Lost Colours, The Travelloes, plus a special not-yet named act.

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 Foil Arms and Hog as the headliner plus additional guests.

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.

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 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 RDS continues its series of Rising Stars Music Recitals in the RDS Concert Hall with Padraic Rowan (Baritone) accompanied by Dearbhla Collins (piano). They are performing Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann and Let Us Garlands Bring by Gerald Finz. Admission is free and booking is not required.

The IFI continues with its free Archive at Lunchtime screenings in November, but has them reduced from daily to only Sat, Mon and Wed. In addition the way the schedule is complied got a lot more complicated. So instead of including six (!!) links here, I need you to check it out on the IFI website via this single link: www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/

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 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 Chris Kent, Neil Hickey and guests.

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 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.

Futureproof is a weekly science show on Newstalk 106-108fm (Sat 18:00) that looks at how extraordinary science applies to everyday life. Futureproof at the Movies is a film screening organised by Futureproof. The fiom is “The Science of Sunshine”.

The Newstalk show has been exploring the real science behind some of the most iconic science fiction films and now, with the help of TCD solar physics researcher Peter Gallagher, will take on some of the most challenging questions in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine. There will also be a Q&A with Peter Gallagher and Futureproof host Jonathan McCrea.

It is not clear what this event is. It could be a book launch or a talk. Either way, it involves Kevin O’Connor, who is the author of the “forthcoming biography of the artist Harry Kernoff”. I’d say it is a book launch, but the Irish Writer’s Centre website doesn’t give much away.

Poetry Ireland presents the launch of “Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems” by John F. Deane. It will be launched by Jack Harte. Admission is free.

Teagasc and the RDS are inviting to a new series of science lectures on the growing challenges of sustainably meeting the food security needs of the world. On Tuesday a lecture by Dr Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Senior Economist and Team Leader, Global Perspectives Studies Team, on “Will we run out of Natural Resources needed for Food Production?” will continue the series. Admission is free and all are welcome. Booking via the website www.teagasc.ie/events/rds-lecture-series/index.asp is required.

This month, The Critical Take (the IFI’s free monthly film club) will discuss new films from the three directors Jacques Audiard, Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Haneke. The films are Rust and Bone, The Master and Amour. Panellists will be John Kelleher, former Director of Film Classification; Manus McManus, Senior Collections Officer at the IFI; and Eileen Culloty, a PhD student in film studies at Dublin City University. Admission is free, but booking is required via the IFI Box Office or by calling 01-6793477

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.

An evening of musical entertainment with The Lounge Quartet, an extended line up, play some classic Art Blakey jazz tunes as arranged by saxophonist Brian Wynne. Also featuring Bill Blackmore – trumpet, Colm O’Hara- trombone, Tom Harte – guitar, Tom Dunne – drums, Paidge McConaloig – Bass. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

The new weekly “Grand Folk Club” will feaure Trad, Ballads, Americana, Folk, World Music & More. This Tuesday, the line-up is: Keegan McInroe (USA) with Country/Blues/Originals and Lena Ullman, Anna Falkneau and Ivan J MUrray with Americana. Admission is free.

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

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.

“Weather!: meteorology and meteorological collections at the Royal Irish Academy and Met Éireann” is the title of a lunchtime lecture with Mairéad Treanor, Librarian, Met Éireann at the RIA. Admission is free and no booking is required.

The IFI continues with its free Archive at Lunchtime screenings in November, but has them reduced from daily to only Sat, Mon and Wed. In addition the way the schedule is complied got a lot more complicated. So instead of including six (!!) links here, I need you to check it out on the IFI website via this single link: www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/

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.

Olly Murs will be meeting fans and signing copies of his new album ‘Right Place Right Time’. The event will be a signing only and 400 wristbands are available. The event on Wednesday is free, but you have to pay something nevertheless: Fans can pick up a wristband with the purchase of the album from the store from 08:00 on Fri 23 Nov. Maximum of one wristband per customer, which means you would have to buy two albums if you want to go with a friend and your friend has to be there to buy the album because wristbands are given out “in person only”. Quite a lot of conditions if you ask me, but then, I am definitely not the target market! ;-)

At the next event in the RDS Speaker Series, Sandra Delamer will talk about ‘How Did We Get Here? Pointing the James Webb Space Telescope at the distant past’. The talk is aimed at a general audience. Admission is free and everybody is welcome. Booking is required via the website.

‘Hawthorn and Child’ is the story of two London policemen and the lives that connect with them. It is a novel by Dubliner Keith Ridgway and he will discuss and read from it in teh Gutter Bookshop. Admission is free and all are welcome.

The UCD Earth Institute is inviting to a public seminar on the subject of hydraulic fracturing. The Professor of Applied and Environmental Geophysics at Keele University, Peter Styles, will speak on ‘Managing the Risks of Fraccing for Shale Gas extraction’. Before the talk, from 18:00 there will be a wine reception. Admission is free and all are welcome. Booking is required via the website below.

Luis Alberto de Cuenca and Alicia Mariño will pay homage to writer Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula. The talk will be chaired by Dr. Jarlath Killen, Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Trinity College Dublin.

“The Ulster Covenant 1912: an exercise in mass- democracy or reaction?” is a History Ireland Hedge School panel discussion with panelists Peter Collins (St Mary’s, Belfast), Tom Hartley (Sinn Féin), Brian Kennaway (Irish Association) and Philip Orr (New Perspectives: Politics, Religion and Conflict in Mid-Antrim).

On ‘Ulster Day’, 28 September 1912, 237,368 men signed the ‘Solemn League and Covenant’, 234,046 women signed a similar Declaration.

Admission is free and no booking is required.

“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).

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.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall will be signing copies of his new cookbook “Hugh’s Three Good Things…On a Plate” at Dubray Books in Grafton Street. All are welcome.

“The BBC’s Irish Troubles” is a talk by Professor Robert Savage of Boston College during his term as a Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow. Admission is free and all are welcome. Find more details on the website.

A film screening of Contemporary Italian Films will take place. And the film is

“Un viaggio chiamato amore” (2002), by Michele Placido

The film will be screened at 13:30 and at 18:30 and there will be a Q&A with Monica Insinga after the evening screenings. The film is in Italian with English subtitles. Admission is free.

Worklink is a volunteer led employment support network that assists unemployed jobseekers to successfully transition into full employment. Visit the Worklink Information Stand for further information and advice on job preparation, internship and job opportunities.

Medb Ruane (writer and psychoanalyst) and Anne Enright (author) explore fragments of Enrights play-script Cassandra, the inspiration for Maher’s newly-commissioned film of the same title which is presented in the Annex space at NCH. Admission is free but booking is required via the website.

The Music Composition Centre at Trinity College Dublin will welcome Brian Lock, Film Composer, University of London to the Centre. The Boydell Recital Room is in House 5, TCD. (Through the Trinity Front Arch to the right). This event is free and all are welcome. For further information contact compcent@tcd.ie

The Contemporary Music Centre presents the Kirkos Ensemble in the final Salon series concert of 2012. Young musicians from the Kirkos Ensemble will perform a range of recent and new Irish works. The programme consists of solos, duos and trios for varying combinations of violin, viola, cello and piano. It features six works composed over the last eight years and includes two world premieres. Established in April 2012, Kirkos is a contemporary music ensemble founded and run by students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

The Contemporary Music Centre’s new music::new Ireland salon series aims to encourage newcomers and enthusiasts to engage with the music Irish composers. Each performance takes place in an informal atmosphere with dialogue encouraged between composer, performers and audience. Admission to the concert is free, but booking is required. To book contact the National Concert Hall (tel: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie).

The screening of the film “Canción de luna” (1994) by director José Luis Garcí will take place. It is followed by a Q&A with the director. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

What inspires you as a designer? In this talk David Pope (design tutor, senior design executive and freelancer for his label Design Pusher) would like to take you through his A-Z of influences, experiences and projects that have either fired him up or wound him up over the years.

A film screening of Contemporary Italian Films will take place. And the film is

“Un viaggio chiamato amore” (2002), by Michele Placido

The film will be screened at 13:30 and at 18:30 and there will be a Q&A with Monica Insinga after the evening screenings. The film is in Italian with English subtitles. Admission is free.

Poetry Ireland and Astrolabe Press present the launch of “Epigrammata” by Peter Denman & “So Far” by Claire O’Connor. Admission is free.

Tower Records will screen the new release of the Irish Comedy “Grabbers”. There will be some special guest and surprises. The movie will be screened on the 1st floor in the cafe and admission is free.

Laser Combat is an outdoor sport similar to paintball, but without the paint! Equipment consists of a laser gun which fires beams of invisible infrared light. Each person has a set amount of health points and you will work as a team to defeat the opponent. The night game event on Thursday is free and all equipment will be provided.

Sounds cool! I will DEFINITELY have to try that at some stage!!

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.

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.

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.

“We Were Giants” will perform in The Midnight Hour at Whelan’s and will be supported by Holy Ghost/Holy Grail. Doors open at 23:30, but admission is only free if you arrive before 22:30.

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.

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

According to this website www.dublinsessions.ie/mercantile.html which was last updated by the Mercantile in the beginning of the month, Dublin City FM is celebrating their birthday and admission to the event is free. A time is not specified so I just arbitrarily tagged it with 20:00.