Dublin Event Guide 311: Riverfest, Kitefest, Space Expo, TCD Shakespeare Festival

The Woman’s World Show takes place over the bank holiday weekend (Fri-Sun) in Simmonscourt Complex of the RDS in conjunction with The Women’s Mini-Marathon. With exhibitors and experts from the worlds of Fashion, Health, Food, Beauty, Women’s Health, Fitness and Wellbeing, this is the largest female event in Ireland.

There will be 15 catwalk shows over the weekend and there will be Health Checks and Style Academies as well.

Admission is free, but only if you have registered on the website to get your free tickets.

This is a free pre-concert organ recital linked to main evening NSO concert (which is not free). Mark Duley will play the organ in the National Concert Hall.

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

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.

The band “By Chance” is launching their single “Impossible is Nothing” on Friday. Special Guests are “Men in Slacks” and “My Marble Eye”. Admission is free.

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

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

The Addison Lodge are inviting local bands, musicians, poets, comedians and performers to share their talents at the new Addison Lodge Open Mic Nights in Glasnevin (opposite the Botanic Gardens). The event will take place every week. Admission is free.

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

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.

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

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

A free Fitness Class will take in the Exchange, However, the event schedule/programme doesn’t say what type of fitness class it will be and if you have to bring something (e.g. a Yoga mat or similar).

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.

The Woman’s World Show takes place over the bank holiday weekend (Fri-Sun) in Simmonscourt Complex of the RDS in conjunction with The Women’s Mini-Marathon. With exhibitors and experts from the worlds of Fashion, Health, Food, Beauty, Women’s Health, Fitness and Wellbeing, this is the largest female event in Ireland.

There will be 15 catwalk shows over the weekend and there will be Health Checks and Style Academies as well.

Admission is free, but only if you have registered on the website to get your free tickets.

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

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

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

The Dublin Port Riverfest is a new festival for Dublin. For many years the Maritime Festival invited people to come to the Quays on the June Bank Holiday weekend, but when the Dublin Dockland Development Agency (DDDA) got into hot water a few years back, the Maritime Festival got buried as well.

Now the Dublin Port Authority took the initiative and will run the Dublin Port Riverfest on North Wall Quay between the Samuel Beckett Bridge and the East Link Toll Bridge.

Looking at the programme, this year’s Riverfest might not be as multifacetted yet as the Maritime Festival was, but you best check that yourself. ;-) I know, I will.

There will be a Funfair, a Food & Craft Market, there will be 6 Tall Ships and over 60 gaffers (old sailing boats with gaff rigs).

On Sat 01 June the events take place from 11:00-18:00 with Tall Ships being there, Tug Boat Displays at mid-day, markets the funfair, rowing and curragh races on the Liffey and face painters and balloon artists.

On Sunday there will also be the “Parade of Sail” at 16:00 with 50 gaffers and Tall ships and the “Between the Bridges” Gaffers Race from 14:00-16:00.

On Monday the brochure doesn’t list the Tall Ships anymore, but the programme on the website still does? The rest of the programme will be as on Saturday.

I couldn’t find any details about the music entertainment, but two interesting oppoertunities to visit some ships (for free): The Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship and the MV Cill Airne will be at North Wall Quay and you will be able to visit them.

Eason Story Time is back. As part of Eason’s “Get Into Reading” campaign, a specially selected children’s book will be read at 11:00 each Saturday in every Eason store in the country. On the website below are the dates and book titles from now until mid-June and for the next two months I have them included here:

01 Jun: I Am Not Sleepy & I Will Not Go To Bed by Lauren Child
08 Jun: This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
15 Jun: Come On, Daisy by Jane Simmons

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

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

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.

The IMPROSITEATION improv festival takes place this weekend and there will be free improvised walking tours at 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 this weekend. (Donations are welcome, though.) The aim of these Improvised Walking Tours is to take improvisation out into the streets. Find yourself on a road you’ve never taken. Marvel at a side of Dublin you never knew about. The improvised walking tour makes up the route, facts and history in this 40 minute trip through Dublin. Meeting point is at the Central Bank.

A series of protest events and marches in many countries will take place on Saturday against Austerity and the Troika (IMF, ECB, EC). In Dublin the event will be at the Garden of Remembrance but a protest march doesn’t seem to be planned.

[Since the protest is too indirect and unspecific, many doubt that it a) will be effective and that b) many will take part. It is like protesting against taxes. Sure we all don’t like them, but if you want to achieve change you have to be very specific. ]

Scavengers Assemble is a Photo Treasure Hunt in the City Centre, organised by the people behind the monthly story-telling event “Milk & Cookie Stories”.

The event is NOT free, but I definitely think it is ok to mention it here because for years, Milk & Cookie Stories is a free events and so I am happy to help with this fundraiser to ensure that Milk & Cookies can continue as a free event. The cost for taking part is EUR 4 and you can take part in groups of up to 5 people.

The event is suitable for all ages and will be action packed and fun-filled, I am told. Sign-up begins at 12:00 at the Chocolate Factory. At 13:00 the teams will be given a list of challenges and each team then has until 16:00 to complete as many challenges as possible & return to the Chocolate Factory.

Read all the rules (there aren’t many) and instructions here: www.facebook.com/events/538104092903201/542396872473923

Sounds like a really cool event! And with the mountain of prizes and the amount of organisation such an event needs, EUR 4 per person is a bargain.

Astronomy Ireland are continuing their weekly Sun Shows at the Astronomy Ireland Shop in Swords. Each Saturday, the staff of the Astronomy Ireland Shop will be showing you amazing views of our nearest star. Using special filters and some of the largest telescopes in Ireland you will get to see sunspots bigger than Earth and huge solar flare bursting from our nearest star. If it’s cloudy, there will be a telescope demonstration and you will find out how you can safely observe the Sun and undertake some daytime astronomy using your own telescope.

The IFI continues with its free “Archive at Lunchtime” screenings on three days every week in June. The theme for the whole month will be the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.
The Double Bill on Saturdays is described here:
01+22 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-progs-1-2-june-2013/
The Monday/Wednesday and non-double-bill Saturday programmes are here
03+19 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-1-june-2013/
05+17 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-2-june-2013/
08+12+24+29 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-3-june-2013/
10+26 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-4-june-2013/
Dr. Harvey O’Brien (Film Studies Lecturer, UCD) will give an illustrated talk looking at the representations on film of the JFK visit to Ireland in 1963 in the free IFI Afternoon Talk on 27 June at 16.30, You need to book for this free event. Check the details.

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

This is a ‘open-mic’ night for film makers. KinoD, the Dublin cell of the Kino free-film-movement, are inviting all filmmakers to come and screen their films at one of the upcoming film screening nights.

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

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

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 Woman’s World Show takes place over the bank holiday weekend (Fri-Sun) in Simmonscourt Complex of the RDS in conjunction with The Women’s Mini-Marathon. With exhibitors and experts from the worlds of Fashion, Health, Food, Beauty, Women’s Health, Fitness and Wellbeing, this is the largest female event in Ireland.

There will be 15 catwalk shows over the weekend and there will be Health Checks and Style Academies as well.

Admission is free, but only if you have registered on the website to get your free tickets.

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

The themes are:
09 June; Animals in the Phoenix Park
16 June: Summer in the Walled Garden
23 June: Cycling in the Park
30 June: Deer in the Park.

The first Dublin Kite Festival will take place on North Bull Island near Clontarf on Sunday only. There will be Kite Flying Demonstrations, Kite Making Workshops for children and a Kite Making Competition and there will be the Kite Ballet demonstration where kites will be flying to music.

All entertainment is free and the event is organised by Dublin City Council. It is a great thing that Dublin City is behind many events, but unfortunately many of these events have one thing in common: Detailed information is a rarity. Have a look at the schedule for the Kitefest www.dublinkitefestival.ie/schedule/ Yes, the different headlines are there, but unless you want to spend the whole day at the festival, it would be hugely helpful if times were provided too.

I would love to see some of the demonstrations or – even better – the Kite Ballett, but now knowing when it will take place is absolutely no help. Please Dublin City, don’t just organise events, but laso tell us about the details! It is not too much to ask I would think!

The Dublin Port Riverfest is a new festival for Dublin. For many years the Maritime Festival invited people to come to the Quays on the June Bank Holiday weekend, but when the Dublin Dockland Development Agency (DDDA) got into hot water a few years back, the Maritime Festival got buried as well.

Now the Dublin Port Authority took the initiative and will run the Dublin Port Riverfest on North Wall Quay between the Samuel Beckett Bridge and the East Link Toll Bridge.

Looking at the programme, this year’s Riverfest might not be as multifacetted yet as the Maritime Festival was, but you best check that yourself. ;-) I know, I will.

There will be a Funfair, a Food & Craft Market, there will be 6 Tall Ships and over 60 gaffers (old sailing boats with gaff rigs).

On Sat 01 June the events take place from 11:00-18:00 with Tall Ships being there, Tug Boat Displays at mid-day, markets the funfair, rowing and curragh races on the Liffey and face painters and balloon artists.

On Sunday there will also be the “Parade of Sail” at 16:00 with 50 gaffers and Tall ships and the “Between the Bridges” Gaffers Race from 14:00-16:00.

On Monday the brochure doesn’t list the Tall Ships anymore, but the programme on the website still does? The rest of the programme will be as on Saturday.

I couldn’t find any details about the music entertainment, but two interesting oppoertunities to visit some ships (for free): The Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship and the MV Cill Airne will be at North Wall Quay and you will be able to visit them.

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 next Pure Vintage Fair 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. www.facebook.com/events/367094980038984

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

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

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.

The IMPROSITEATION improv festival takes place this weekend and there will be free improvised walking tours at 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 this weekend. (Donations are welcome, though.) The aim of these Improvised Walking Tours is to take improvisation out into the streets. Find yourself on a road you’ve never taken. Marvel at a side of Dublin you never knew about. The improvised walking tour makes up the route, facts and history in this 40 minute trip through Dublin. Meeting point is at the Central Bank.

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

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. 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 Maurizio Barbetti (viola) and Francesco Cuoghi (guitar). They will perform music by Gian Francesco Malipiero, Raymond Deane, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Astor Piazzolla

At this event there will be Food & Music along with some of Dublin’s best graffiti/street artists. There will also be a crafts market who will sell hand made designed craft & clothing. Some Graffiti & street artists will be performing live in a large outdoor area.

The Market/ live performance area is free entry but donations are welcome. Performers are Emily Dawson, Paul Creen, Idealism Art, Kevin Bohan, Phish, Iulian Bocancea.

The Live Music and DJ Sets are not free (EUR 10). Live music Line-up: Regulators (Reggae/Funk/Blues), Cu Cullen – (Hip Hop), Lynda Lucas -(Country Soul Roots), Bedford – (Piano)

There will also be a Drumming Workshop…and some food.

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

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.

Saucy Sundays is a weekly free live music afternoon and evening in the Grand Social. The line-up and links to all bands/performers are available via the Saucy Sundays Facebook Page (see link below). The line-up is: Ana Gog, Edisons, Robb Murphy, Destrossat, I am Niamh, The Stone Masons, The Little Mammoth, Sarah Something.

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

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

The Workman’s Club Bank Holiday Sunday Party will feature the following performers in the Main room from 19:30-01:00:

Alias Empire, This Other Kingdom, Lover, My Mind Races, The North Sea, Joey Doyle (Fiction Peaks), followed by The Karaoke Club til 03:00.

On the First Floor from 22:30: Sr. Lisa Marie (80?S/90?S Guilty Pleasures) / Trev Radiator- Post Forbidden Fruit- Madchester Anthems

Doors open at 17:00.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 a free event in the Mercantile where live music is combined with free roast potatoes. The line-up for the upcoming Sunday Roast is available via the Sunday Roast Facebook Page (see link below). The line-up this week is Wob, Punch Face Champions, Interskalactic.

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 Living Room describes itself as a Centre for Silence and Contemplative Arts (and has nothing to do with the pub with the same name!). The Centre is open to all with a contemplative attitude coming from any spiritual tradition or background. There are lots of free events and also other workshops (check the website). The daily free events are taking place Mondays -Fridays
+ 08:00-08:45: Common Early Morning Meditation
+ 13:00-14:00 Lunchtime Guided Meditation (Mon: John Main, Tue: Carmelite Wisdom, Wed: Centering in Love, Thurs: Tibetan Singing Bowls, Fri: Insight Meditation for Beginners)
+ 15:00-15:30: Accompanied Silence (also Mon+Wed+Thurs from 11:00-11:30)

The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2013 will be the biggest Shakespeare Festival ever to take place in Ireland (from 03-08 June) and it will also be the last TCD Shakespeare Festival! So if you always wanted to experience this festival or have a soft sport for Shakespeare, come to this year’s events. Do NOT postpone it to next year, there will be no next year!

Up to 500 performers, both professional and amateur will take part in over 50 outdoor performances of Shakespeare’s work in the streets and parks of Dublin to bring the greatest playwright of all time out of classrooms and libraries and into some of Dublin’s most beautiful locations.

Every day of the Festival, areas including St. Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Christ Church Crypt and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will host enactments of some of the most loved scenes in Shakespeare’s works.

With so many performances and so many locations I can’t list all details here. but if you go to www.dublinshakespeare.com/timetable/ you will find the schedule for all 6 days there.

The Dublin Port Riverfest is a new festival for Dublin. For many years the Maritime Festival invited people to come to the Quays on the June Bank Holiday weekend, but when the Dublin Dockland Development Agency (DDDA) got into hot water a few years back, the Maritime Festival got buried as well.

Now the Dublin Port Authority took the initiative and will run the Dublin Port Riverfest on North Wall Quay between the Samuel Beckett Bridge and the East Link Toll Bridge.

Looking at the programme, this year’s Riverfest might not be as multifacetted yet as the Maritime Festival was, but you best check that yourself. ;-) I know, I will.

There will be a Funfair, a Food & Craft Market, there will be 6 Tall Ships and over 60 gaffers (old sailing boats with gaff rigs).

On Sat 01 June the events take place from 11:00-18:00 with Tall Ships being there, Tug Boat Displays at mid-day, markets the funfair, rowing and curragh races on the Liffey and face painters and balloon artists.

On Sunday there will also be the “Parade of Sail” at 16:00 with 50 gaffers and Tall ships and the “Between the Bridges” Gaffers Race from 14:00-16:00.

On Monday the brochure doesn’t list the Tall Ships anymore, but the programme on the website still does? The rest of the programme will be as on Saturday.

I couldn’t find any details about the music entertainment, but two interesting oppoertunities to visit some ships (for free): The Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship and the MV Cill Airne will be at North Wall Quay and you will be able to visit them.

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 June. The theme for the whole month will be the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.
The Double Bill on Saturdays is described here:
01+22 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-progs-1-2-june-2013/
The Monday/Wednesday and non-double-bill Saturday programmes are here
03+19 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-1-june-2013/
05+17 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-2-june-2013/
08+12+24+29 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-3-june-2013/
10+26 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-4-june-2013/
Dr. Harvey O’Brien (Film Studies Lecturer, UCD) will give an illustrated talk looking at the representations on film of the JFK visit to Ireland in 1963 in the free IFI Afternoon Talk on 27 June at 16.30, You need to book for this free event. Check the details.

The Women’s Mini Marathon, a 10km road race, will take place on Monday. Registration to the race is now closed, but you can cheer the 40,000 (!!) runners on, most of whom run for a charity.

The race will start at 14:00 at Fitzwilliam St Upr, before travelling onto Mount St Lwr, Northumberland Rd, Shelbourne Rd, Merrion Rd, Nutley Lane, up and over the UCD Flyover, onto N11/Donnybrook Rd inbound, Morehampton Rd, Leeson St and finishing up at St Stephen’s Green East.

There will be many road closures in the area from as early as 06:00, so if you need to drive somewhere in the affected area, check your route beforehand.

The Mini Marathon is a massive feel-good-event and it is allegedly the biggest all-women event of its kind in the world.

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

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. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

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

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

The Living Room describes itself as a Centre for Silence and Contemplative Arts (and has nothing to do with the pub with the same name!). The Centre is open to all with a contemplative attitude coming from any spiritual tradition or background. There are lots of free events and also other workshops (check the website). The daily free events are taking place Mondays -Fridays
+ 08:00-08:45: Common Early Morning Meditation
+ 13:00-14:00 Lunchtime Guided Meditation (Mon: John Main, Tue: Carmelite Wisdom, Wed: Centering in Love, Thurs: Tibetan Singing Bowls, Fri: Insight Meditation for Beginners)
+ 15:00-15:30: Accompanied Silence (also Mon+Wed+Thurs from 11:00-11:30)

The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2013 will be the biggest Shakespeare Festival ever to take place in Ireland (from 03-08 June) and it will also be the last TCD Shakespeare Festival! So if you always wanted to experience this festival or have a soft sport for Shakespeare, come to this year’s events. Do NOT postpone it to next year, there will be no next year!

Up to 500 performers, both professional and amateur will take part in over 50 outdoor performances of Shakespeare’s work in the streets and parks of Dublin to bring the greatest playwright of all time out of classrooms and libraries and into some of Dublin’s most beautiful locations.

Every day of the Festival, areas including St. Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Christ Church Crypt and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will host enactments of some of the most loved scenes in Shakespeare’s works.

With so many performances and so many locations I can’t list all details here. but if you go to www.dublinshakespeare.com/timetable/ you will find the schedule for all 6 days there.

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 European Space Expo will visit Trinity College Dublin next week and will take place in the “Space Dome” on the Front Square in TCD. This is a spectacular travelling exhibit that shows how space and its applications provide benefits to Europe. There will be lots of activities surrounding the Space Expo visit, including space-related workshops for kids, an Irish space industry event, public talks, and lots more.

The Space Expo highlights the critical role of space and space-based technologies to Europe. In Ireland, there is an active space science and astronomy research community who have worked with the European Space Agency for many decades. What’s more, there are now over 40 Irish companies working with ESA on everything from telecommunications, to materials, to remote sensing of our oceans.

Every day there are a number of Soap Box Talks about interesting Space related topics given by talented scientists and every day at 13:00 you have a chance to remotely control a world-famous telescope on the Canary Islands and take pictures of the Sun.

The exhibition and talks seem to be targeting not just space enthusiasts or even experts, but are suitable for everyone and a schools and kids programme will target the younger audience.

I will definitely go to the Space Expo, it sounds really exciting and I’d say after ISS Commander Chris Hadfield made everything “spacey” a lot more interesting and accessible for “normal” people, this exhibition will be hugely popular. Give it a go! Admission is free!

Antonio R. de Toro, professor of English Philology at the Universidade da Coruña, talks about the influence of the Irish Literature in Spain. For more information check the website below.

Alan Jude Moore has selected 12 poets to read in this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions, The readings will take place over 3 nights. The 2nd series in the Poetry Ireland Introductions Readings 2013 features:
Caoilinn Hughes, Victoria Kennefick, Sheila Mannix, Alan Weadick

Admission is free.

“Bad Movie Night is a night dedicated to showing the very worst in cinematic history including gems such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Creeping Terror, Trolls 2 and much more. The night is intended as an evening of light-hearted entertainment for those with a taste for all things terrible in film-making. Bad acting, terrible scripts, dreadful lighting, cheesy special effects, inept directing, irrelevant dubbing….bring it on!
Entry will be open to all and free, although there will be a request for donations to go towards the upkeep of the venue.”

Green Drinks is a monthly meeting and discussion of green issues and topics. Andrew Jackson from An Taisce will talk about the “History and the Future of EU nature conversation policy”. The event is organised by the Irish Wildlife Trust and takes place in J.W. Sweetman (former Messrs Maguire). Admission is free, but booking via the Facebook Page or via dublinbranch@iwt.ie is required.

“The Bloomsday Survival Kit crew are romping around Dublin reading Ulysses by James Joyce in the places it was set. Join them on Tuesday at the James Joyce Centre.

Bloom potters around the kitchen. He clambers into bed with Molly, wiping up another man’s crumbs from the sheets. We’ll read the second half of Chapter 17 – Ithaca…The one with all the questions.”

More readings will take place on Blooms Day (11 June).

The Workmans Den Cinema Club presents The Big Lebowski + The Job.

Admission is free.

This is an open mic night with Special Guests. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play and if you are a performer you get a free beer. Admission is free.

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.

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

The weekly “Grand Folk Club” will feature Trad, Ballads, Americana, Folk, World Music & More. This Tuesday, the line-up is: Traditional Arts Collective, featuring Katerina Garcia (Trad/Folk/Balkan) and Woodlark (Folk/Contemporary). Admission is free.

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

The Living Room describes itself as a Centre for Silence and Contemplative Arts (and has nothing to do with the pub with the same name!). The Centre is open to all with a contemplative attitude coming from any spiritual tradition or background. There are lots of free events and also other workshops (check the website). The daily free events are taking place Mondays -Fridays
+ 08:00-08:45: Common Early Morning Meditation
+ 13:00-14:00 Lunchtime Guided Meditation (Mon: John Main, Tue: Carmelite Wisdom, Wed: Centering in Love, Thurs: Tibetan Singing Bowls, Fri: Insight Meditation for Beginners)
+ 15:00-15:30: Accompanied Silence (also Mon+Wed+Thurs from 11:00-11:30)

Entry charges at nearly all OPW sites are waived once a month. The Office of Public Works (OPW) launched this initiative in 2011 and is still continuing to encourage more people to visit the historic sites that it manages. On all First Wednesdays in 2013 admission is free to OPW sites. Most sites can already be visited for free, but the sites that normally charge a fee will now be free every first Wednesday as well.
In the (extended) Greater Dublin Area this will affect the following sites:
+ The Casino, Marino
+ Dublin Castle, State Apartments (closed due to EU presidency)
+ Kilmainham Gaol
+ Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre at Newgrange
+ Glendalough Visitor Centre in Wicklow

The European Space Expo will visit Trinity College Dublin next week and will take place in the “Space Dome” on the Front Square in TCD. This is a spectacular travelling exhibit that shows how space and its applications provide benefits to Europe. There will be lots of activities surrounding the Space Expo visit, including space-related workshops for kids, an Irish space industry event, public talks, and lots more.

The Space Expo highlights the critical role of space and space-based technologies to Europe. In Ireland, there is an active space science and astronomy research community who have worked with the European Space Agency for many decades. What’s more, there are now over 40 Irish companies working with ESA on everything from telecommunications, to materials, to remote sensing of our oceans.

Every day there are a number of Soap Box Talks about interesting Space related topics given by talented scientists and every day at 13:00 you have a chance to remotely control a world-famous telescope on the Canary Islands and take pictures of the Sun.

The exhibition and talks seem to be targeting not just space enthusiasts or even experts, but are suitable for everyone and a schools and kids programme will target the younger audience.

I will definitely go to the Space Expo, it sounds really exciting and I’d say after ISS Commander Chris Hadfield made everything “spacey” a lot more interesting and accessible for “normal” people, this exhibition will be hugely popular. Give it a go! Admission is free!

The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2013 will be the biggest Shakespeare Festival ever to take place in Ireland (from 03-08 June) and it will also be the last TCD Shakespeare Festival! So if you always wanted to experience this festival or have a soft sport for Shakespeare, come to this year’s events. Do NOT postpone it to next year, there will be no next year!

Up to 500 performers, both professional and amateur will take part in over 50 outdoor performances of Shakespeare’s work in the streets and parks of Dublin to bring the greatest playwright of all time out of classrooms and libraries and into some of Dublin’s most beautiful locations.

Every day of the Festival, areas including St. Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Christ Church Crypt and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will host enactments of some of the most loved scenes in Shakespeare’s works.

With so many performances and so many locations I can’t list all details here. but if you go to www.dublinshakespeare.com/timetable/ you will find the schedule for all 6 days there.

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 June. The theme for the whole month will be the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.
The Double Bill on Saturdays is described here:
01+22 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-progs-1-2-june-2013/
The Monday/Wednesday and non-double-bill Saturday programmes are here
03+19 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-1-june-2013/
05+17 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-2-june-2013/
08+12+24+29 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-3-june-2013/
10+26 June: www.ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-prog-4-june-2013/
Dr. Harvey O’Brien (Film Studies Lecturer, UCD) will give an illustrated talk looking at the representations on film of the JFK visit to Ireland in 1963 in the free IFI Afternoon Talk on 27 June at 16.30, You need to book for this free event. Check the details.

Ruaille Buaille is a children’s music festival incorporating workshops, performances and outdoor events in Lucan. Some of the festival events are free and they are listed below. Nevertheless, have a look at the rest as well. The full programme is here.

Some free events at Ruaille Buaille:

Wed 05 Jun:
+ 15:00: Sing Your Socks Off at Lucan Library. Pre-school children and parents join for a lively journey of songs and rhythms, using movement, instruments, stories and puppet friends.
+ 15:30: A Musical Story with harpist Laoise Kelly (Ireland) and violinist Vladimir Jablokov (Slovakia) at Lucan Library. The musicians will describe their musical heritage through story, high quality performance and lots of fun. An event for all the family.
+ 16:00: Launch of Ruaille Buaille Lucan! 2013 at Lucan Library. Enjoy entertainment and informal workshops with some of Ruaille Buaille Lucan! guest performers. Exhibition of winners of Create An Image Competition will also be on display in the Upper Foyer of the Library.

Thur 06 June:
18:30: Tradmad Music Masterclasses at Lucan Library. Irish fiddler Gerry O’Connor will teach his chosen tune on your chosen instrument. Participants must bring their own instrument.

Fri 07 June:
+ 11:00: Performance by White Noise Human Beatbox at Lucan Library. Interactive Beatbox performance which will combine workshop with live demonstration, a show with audience participation.
+ 15:00: World Music Workshop at Lucan Library. Itchy Feet percussionist Peter Crann will lead an African and Latin American World Music Session for all ages.

Sat 08 June:
+ 12:00: Elton’s Songwriting Workshop at Lucan Library. A lively journey of songs and rhythms, using movement, instruments, stories and puppet friends. A family event.
+ 13:30: Design a Prom’s Mask at Lucan Library. Have artist Joanne help you design a mask to wear at the mini Proms on Lucan Village Green.
+ 15:00: Mini Proms Day on Lucan Village Green. with Vladimir Jablokov (violin) and Sean Costello (tenor), Rudolf Bado (viola) and Andrew Csibi (double bass).

Sun 09 June:
+ 14:00: Percussion in the Park at Griffeen Park. Irish, African and Latin American rhythms. Learn to play the world rhythms of the music being performed by Tig Linn on the bandstand later in the afternoon. Instruments provided!
+ 15:00: 7-piece band Tig Linn Performance their Irish/Nigerian fusion on Bandstand in Griffeen Park

Experiences of botanical and geological surveys of four islands of the South pacific.This lecture with Howard Fox & Maria Cullon will be illustrated by stunning landscapes, seascapes and cloudscapes of this beautiful and scenic region.

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.

Raymond Beggan a talented photographer is launching his first photography book on Birds in Dublin entitled Winged Encounters. Admission is free, but pre-registration through the Facebook Page below is requested.

“Días de cine”, a comedy by director DAvid Serrano which is set in 1977, will be screened and is presented by the producer of the film Tomás Cimadevilla. Admission is free.

“Identity and Mempry in Europe: The Perspective of critical Discourse Analysis” is a lecture by Prof Ruth Wodak (Lancaster)in the Long Room Hub. Admission is free. The lecture is part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe jointly organised by the IIIS and the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The next Indie Music showcase “New Natives” will have the folllowing line-up: Electric Taurus, We know Jack, Hoon. Admission is free.

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

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

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

“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.

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

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 Living Room describes itself as a Centre for Silence and Contemplative Arts (and has nothing to do with the pub with the same name!). The Centre is open to all with a contemplative attitude coming from any spiritual tradition or background. There are lots of free events and also other workshops (check the website). The daily free events are taking place Mondays -Fridays
+ 08:00-08:45: Common Early Morning Meditation
+ 13:00-14:00 Lunchtime Guided Meditation (Mon: John Main, Tue: Carmelite Wisdom, Wed: Centering in Love, Thurs: Tibetan Singing Bowls, Fri: Insight Meditation for Beginners)
+ 15:00-15:30: Accompanied Silence (also Mon+Wed+Thurs from 11:00-11:30)

The European Space Expo will visit Trinity College Dublin next week and will take place in the “Space Dome” on the Front Square in TCD. This is a spectacular travelling exhibit that shows how space and its applications provide benefits to Europe. There will be lots of activities surrounding the Space Expo visit, including space-related workshops for kids, an Irish space industry event, public talks, and lots more.

The Space Expo highlights the critical role of space and space-based technologies to Europe. In Ireland, there is an active space science and astronomy research community who have worked with the European Space Agency for many decades. What’s more, there are now over 40 Irish companies working with ESA on everything from telecommunications, to materials, to remote sensing of our oceans.

Every day there are a number of Soap Box Talks about interesting Space related topics given by talented scientists and every day at 13:00 you have a chance to remotely control a world-famous telescope on the Canary Islands and take pictures of the Sun.

The exhibition and talks seem to be targeting not just space enthusiasts or even experts, but are suitable for everyone and a schools and kids programme will target the younger audience.

I will definitely go to the Space Expo, it sounds really exciting and I’d say after ISS Commander Chris Hadfield made everything “spacey” a lot more interesting and accessible for “normal” people, this exhibition will be hugely popular. Give it a go! Admission is free!

The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2013 will be the biggest Shakespeare Festival ever to take place in Ireland (from 03-08 June) and it will also be the last TCD Shakespeare Festival! So if you always wanted to experience this festival or have a soft sport for Shakespeare, come to this year’s events. Do NOT postpone it to next year, there will be no next year!

Up to 500 performers, both professional and amateur will take part in over 50 outdoor performances of Shakespeare’s work in the streets and parks of Dublin to bring the greatest playwright of all time out of classrooms and libraries and into some of Dublin’s most beautiful locations.

Every day of the Festival, areas including St. Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Christ Church Crypt and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will host enactments of some of the most loved scenes in Shakespeare’s works.

With so many performances and so many locations I can’t list all details here. but if you go to www.dublinshakespeare.com/timetable/ you will find the schedule for all 6 days there.

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

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

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.

An In Focus Tour “Magic in the Chester Beatty Library” with Brian O’Neill is taking place. Admission is free, but there is a limit of 15 participants. It seems that First-come, First-served applies, but I am not completely sure. The website below gives no other details,

Kaleidoscope 2013 is the end of year show for BA (Hons) Creative Digital Media students at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown on Thursday 06 June and Friday 07. You are invited to attend and Admission is free.

This is a Panel Discussion chaired by Eugene Downes (former Chief Executive of Culture Ireland) exploring emigration from the perspective of artists living abroad. Speakers will include; Alan Phelan (artist), Caoimhe Kilfeather, Janice Hough, and others. Admission is free, but booking via the website below is required.

Inspired by First Thursdays carried out in London, First Thursdays Dublin is the name given to cultural spaces opening their doors after hours and offering an extra chance to see art, culture and events in a number of venues from 18:00-20:00 on the first Thursday of every month. In the meantime 47 galleries and venue are taking part and it is getting bigger and bigger. It is like a Culture Night for Galleries! ;-)

RISK LAB is the current Science Gallery exhibition and you are invited to watch a poker game with a difference at the Risk Lab poker table.
‘Risk’ by Michelle Browne is a performance that explores how entrepreneurs and economists respond to risk-taking. It considers entrepreneurship and the gamble that is taken to generate business in the economy. In this curated game of Texas Hold ‘Em the artist competes against high-profile entrepreneurs, including Joe Macken, Peter Stewart, and Steven Forsyth.
Quite often poker is about bluffing, sizing up your competition and betraying nothing during the game. During this game, however, the players are monitored with a shimmer device that tracks their stress levels by measuring things like galvanic skin response, which is used in lie detection tests.

Admission is free.

Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) promotes, explores, discusses and exhibits art and technology in Ireland and the world. D.A.T.A is dedicated to both showcasing the work of technologists, musicians, and artists using technology as well as providing a meeting point for the intersection of these disciplines.

At Data 58.0, PiNG, a French NGO that explores digital practices and invites people to make technologies theirs will be represented. It is both a space of ressources and experiment and a fablab. The NGO develops its project around mediation, pedagogy, project support and digital stakeholders networking. (www.pingbase.net)

Admission is free.

Ruaille Buaille is a children’s music festival incorporating workshops, performances and outdoor events in Lucan. Some of the festival events are free and they are listed below. Nevertheless, have a look at the rest as well. The full programme is here.

Some free events at Ruaille Buaille:

Thur 06 June:
18:30: Tradmad Music Masterclasses at Lucan Library. Irish fiddler Gerry O’Connor will teach his chosen tune on your chosen instrument. Participants must bring their own instrument.

Fri 07 June:
+ 11:00: Performance by White Noise Human Beatbox at Lucan Library. Interactive Beatbox performance which will combine workshop with live demonstration, a show with audience participation.
+ 15:00: World Music Workshop at Lucan Library. Itchy Feet percussionist Peter Crann will lead an African and Latin American World Music Session for all ages.

Sat 08 June:
+ 12:00: Elton’s Songwriting Workshop at Lucan Library. A lively journey of songs and rhythms, using movement, instruments, stories and puppet friends. A family event.
+ 13:30: Design a Prom’s Mask at Lucan Library. Have artist Joanne help you design a mask to wear at the mini Proms on Lucan Village Green.
+ 15:00: Mini Proms Day on Lucan Village Green. with Vladimir Jablokov (violin) and Sean Costello (tenor), Rudolf Bado (viola) and Andrew Csibi (double bass).

Sun 09 June:
+ 14:00: Percussion in the Park at Griffeen Park. Irish, African and Latin American rhythms. Learn to play the world rhythms of the music being performed by Tig Linn on the bandstand later in the afternoon. Instruments provided!
+ 15:00: 7-piece band Tig Linn Performance their Irish/Nigerian fusion on Bandstand in Griffeen Park

Salmon Poetry Launch of Collections by Susan Millar DuMars, Richard W. Halperin & Noel King.

Admission is free.

“Flat-share in Fleet Street: WB Yeats leaves home” is a talk by Michael Ashe SC QC who reflects on six months of Yeats’s life when he first left the parental home, lived with other young poets, embarked on his first love affair and wrote some beautiful poetry.

Admission is free. No booking required.

Processing Dublin is a social gathering for all interested in creative coding. Developers, designers, artists, hobbiests & the curious are all welcome. It is not just restricted to Processing coders, many themes and tools are presented, just bring your creative technology projects and ideas ! Processing Dublin was set up by Stephen Howell and Evangelos Kapros to spread the good word about programming and how it can be used within the arts and creative industries.

Processing Dublin organise meetings that are free and open to everyone on the 1st Thursday of every month.

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.

The Trinity Bar, nect to the Cetntral Bank on Dame Street, has live music four nights/afternoons every week and admission is free:
Tues – 20:00: Theo Red (Alternative Rock)
Wed – 20:00: Tara Hill (Folk Rock, Celtic and Traditional)
Thurs – 20:00: Pachino Brothers (cover versions, oldies and own material)
Sun – 17:00: Traditional LIve Music

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

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.

The Living Room describes itself as a Centre for Silence and Contemplative Arts (and has nothing to do with the pub with the same name!). The Centre is open to all with a contemplative attitude coming from any spiritual tradition or background. There are lots of free events and also other workshops (check the website). The daily free events are taking place Mondays -Fridays
+ 08:00-08:45: Common Early Morning Meditation
+ 13:00-14:00 Lunchtime Guided Meditation (Mon: John Main, Tue: Carmelite Wisdom, Wed: Centering in Love, Thurs: Tibetan Singing Bowls, Fri: Insight Meditation for Beginners)
+ 15:00-15:30: Accompanied Silence (also Mon+Wed+Thurs from 11:00-11:30)

The John Ford Ireland Film Symposium is taking place from 06-09 June. It will come with film screenings, panel discussions, public interviews and will cover everything that has to do with John Ford. Quite a number of events are free and if you are interested, you should check the schedule/programme at www.johnfordireland.org/index.php/symposium-june-2013

Some of the free events for Friday are

09:00 Opening Address by Dan Ford & Lecture by Lea Jacobs
11:00 John Ford Documentary Screening, Followed by Q&A with Andrew Eaton

Admission is free, but tickets have to be booked via the website above.

Kaleidoscope 2013 is the end of year show for BA (Hons) Creative Digital Media students at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown on Thursday 06 June and Friday 07. You are invited to attend and Admission is free.

The European Space Expo will visit Trinity College Dublin next week and will take place in the “Space Dome” on the Front Square in TCD. This is a spectacular travelling exhibit that shows how space and its applications provide benefits to Europe. There will be lots of activities surrounding the Space Expo visit, including space-related workshops for kids, an Irish space industry event, public talks, and lots more.

The Space Expo highlights the critical role of space and space-based technologies to Europe. In Ireland, there is an active space science and astronomy research community who have worked with the European Space Agency for many decades. What’s more, there are now over 40 Irish companies working with ESA on everything from telecommunications, to materials, to remote sensing of our oceans.

Every day there are a number of Soap Box Talks about interesting Space related topics given by talented scientists and every day at 13:00 you have a chance to remotely control a world-famous telescope on the Canary Islands and take pictures of the Sun.

The exhibition and talks seem to be targeting not just space enthusiasts or even experts, but are suitable for everyone and a schools and kids programme will target the younger audience.

I will definitely go to the Space Expo, it sounds really exciting and I’d say after ISS Commander Chris Hadfield made everything “spacey” a lot more interesting and accessible for “normal” people, this exhibition will be hugely popular. Give it a go! Admission is free!

The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2013 will be the biggest Shakespeare Festival ever to take place in Ireland (from 03-08 June) and it will also be the last TCD Shakespeare Festival! So if you always wanted to experience this festival or have a soft sport for Shakespeare, come to this year’s events. Do NOT postpone it to next year, there will be no next year!

Up to 500 performers, both professional and amateur will take part in over 50 outdoor performances of Shakespeare’s work in the streets and parks of Dublin to bring the greatest playwright of all time out of classrooms and libraries and into some of Dublin’s most beautiful locations.

Every day of the Festival, areas including St. Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Christ Church Crypt and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will host enactments of some of the most loved scenes in Shakespeare’s works.

With so many performances and so many locations I can’t list all details here. but if you go to www.dublinshakespeare.com/timetable/ you will find the schedule for all 6 days there.

Ruaille Buaille is a children’s music festival incorporating workshops, performances and outdoor events in Lucan. Some of the festival events are free and they are listed below. Nevertheless, have a look at the rest as well. The full programme is here.

Some free events at Ruaille Buaille:

Fri 07 June:
+ 11:00: Performance by White Noise Human Beatbox at Lucan Library. Interactive Beatbox performance which will combine workshop with live demonstration, a show with audience participation.
+ 15:00: World Music Workshop at Lucan Library. Itchy Feet percussionist Peter Crann will lead an African and Latin American World Music Session for all ages.

Sat 08 June:
+ 12:00: Elton’s Songwriting Workshop at Lucan Library. A lively journey of songs and rhythms, using movement, instruments, stories and puppet friends. A family event.
+ 13:30: Design a Prom’s Mask at Lucan Library. Have artist Joanne help you design a mask to wear at the mini Proms on Lucan Village Green.
+ 15:00: Mini Proms Day on Lucan Village Green. with Vladimir Jablokov (violin) and Sean Costello (tenor), Rudolf Bado (viola) and Andrew Csibi (double bass).

Sun 09 June:
+ 14:00: Percussion in the Park at Griffeen Park. Irish, African and Latin American rhythms. Learn to play the world rhythms of the music being performed by Tig Linn on the bandstand later in the afternoon. Instruments provided!
+ 15:00: 7-piece band Tig Linn Performance their Irish/Nigerian fusion on Bandstand in Griffeen Park

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

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

The new Flea Friday, a Flea Market in the Dark Hose Inn on Fridays will start from 19 April. You will find clothes, jewellery, cake, records, art, etc at the market. Admission is free.

As part of the European Space Expo at TCD, a public lecture will take place entitled “Exploring the Radio Universe with LOFAR” with special guest speaker Dr Anna Scaife.

Dr. Scaife is a member of the Irish LOFAR radio telescope team and is an expert in radio astronomy.

Admission is free and no booking required.

A Butoh Dance Workshop with performance by Ambra G. Bergamasco will take place on Friday. The workshop will last approx. 1.5 hours and will be followed by the performance. Everybody is welcome. Admission is free and no previous experience is required.

“Butoh dance is a non-representational dance of which movements stem out from visualization and internal movements.
The night will offer a Butoh dance workshop of 1.5 hrs followed by a performance. The workshop will explore the themes of the performance and provides the necessary codes to understand the process that a Butoh piece is involved with, this in order to facilitate and develop the understanding of the dance form. The themes related to this event are those of mud, fire water and springing of newness.”

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

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). This is a srop in class and newcomers are welcome.

On Fri and Sat a BioBlitz event takes place in St. Anne’s Park. BioBlitz is an annual National Event that intends to raise biodiversity awareness for beginners and experts and invites people to get out to explore nature and discover a wide range of species of flora and fauna in their locality.

On 07 and 08 June, over a 24 hour period, Dubliners will be challenged to identify and record as many species of flora and fauna in St Anne’s Park and at North Bull Island.

On Friday evening a “Species of the Night” event takes place. There will be a Photographic Exhibition “Moths on Canvas” by Philip Strickland in the Red Stables in St. Anne’s Park. A moth trap demonstration will be set up and an evening lecture “Let’s Listen for Bats” and bat walk with Tina Aughney from Bat Conversation Ireland will take place from 20:30. Booking is essential via biodiversity@dublincity.ie

For more information about these events and a list of what will happen on Saturday, check out the event programme.

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

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

The Addison Lodge are inviting local bands, musicians, poets, comedians and performers to share their talents at the new Addison Lodge Open Mic Nights in Glasnevin (opposite the Botanic Gardens). The event takes place every week. Admission is free.

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