Dublin Event Guide 414: Battle for the Bay, Light & Shadow, Africa Day, Renegade Hip-Hop, How? Festival

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 Malahide Car Boot Sale is running every Saturday at the Malahide Rugby Club. Admission is free for buyers.

The Aer Lingus Volleyball Club is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and to mark this they are organizing a World Airlines Volleyball Tournament on the weekend of 22-24 May 2015.

18 teams from all around the world will participate. They are coming from Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Paris, Lisbon, London, Nice, Poland, Zurich, Vienna and Dublin.

The main day of the tournament is on Saturday 23 May, with matches starting at 09:00 and the final is scheduled to start at 17:20. The event is free and everyone is welcome to come and watch volleyball while meeting people from different parts of the world.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find out if there are any interesting events happening on Sunday and if we – the public – are invited to them. But maybe you can find out when you go to the tournament on Saturday.

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

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

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

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

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

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

The 5th annual Countess Markievicz School will explore the issues of Direct Provision and Reproductve Rights. Speakers including journalist and activist Anthea McTiernan, Liam Thornton, UCD and Mairéad Enright, University of Kent and Emily Logan, chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commisssion, who will give a keynote address about Countess Markievicz’s life.

Admission is free and booking of tickets was requested here. However, since it will be too late to book when you get this mail, I would suggest that you just go to Liberty Hall and ask if you can join the lectures without having pre-booked. Donations are welcome, by the way.

The Drumcondra Village Market is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. 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 Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

A new weekly Farmer’s Market is starting in Dalkey this week with over 20 vendors selling a wide variety of foods and an eclectic selection of arts and crafts. Admission is free.

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 8th Battle for the Bay takes place this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. There will be competitions and demonstrations for Kitesurfing, Stand-up Paddle Boarding and Wakeboarding

There will be a Fun Fair with Food and Entertainment on the beach. Games and Workshops for kids. The King Kong Club will bring some live performers and DJs (On Sunday at 15:00, Julyo (Classical Guitar) will perform) and Drone and Gadget manufacturer Parrot will show their range of Drones.

The full programme is here. Family Events are described here and this is the outline of the entertainment programme.

Admission if 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 Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30, and Sundays: 12:00-17:30.

Explore the weird and wonderful diversity of insects and mini beasts living in and around the pond at the Botanic Gardens.

Admission is free but booking is required via 01-8040300. Suitable for children Age 8+. Meet at the Visitor Centre.

Light & Shadow looks like a really interesting programme of events that will celebrate the International Year of Light.

Find out how light influences all aspects of your life through an exciting programme of talks, demonstrations, displays, installations and film screenings. Ireland’s favourite weather presenter RTE’s Evelyn Cusack will deliver the key note public address to get the day started with ‘Light(s), Camera, Action…’.

The event is suitable for all ages and all levels of scientific knowledge.

Admission is free, tickets needed to be booked via this website

www.eventbrite.ie/e/light-shadow-tickets-16035504626?ref=devg

and when I checked on Saturday really early morning, there were still tickets available. So, I wonder if it would make sense to arrive at UCD and hope for the best if you didn’t get tickets in time before the ticket booking facility closed. I’d say the event will be a very good one!!

You will find a description of the programme on the Eventbrite website and here you can download the full programme.

Celebrating Bealtaine and 300 years as the official Mayoral residence, The Mansion House and Dublin City Public Libraries invite you to share your memory with them on Saturday 23 May and Wednesday 27 May.

The Library Learning Bus will be at the Mansion House Forecourt from 10:30-16:30 on Sat and Wed and a guided tour will take place on these dates at 11:00. (Places are limited and advance booking via 01-2226200 is required). After the guided tour, the house will be open from 12:00-16:00. All events are free.

In St. Patrick’s Park, next to the Cathedral, the Story Weavers are inviting kids to join them.

Irish Theatre Company Monkeyshine will come to St. Patrick’s Park next weekend for a whole range of free activities and performances as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin (ILFD).

They are bringing The Vagabond, the company’s wonderful wandering venue, to Dublin, for a day of free story-telling activities in St Patrick’s Park on Saturday 23 May. From this magical space they will be telling tales of Alice in Wonderland, and – working with Mr Leon, a flamboyant Parisian taxi driver – they will help their audience to tell their own stories of taxi rides – real or imaginary. Monkeyshine’s “Story Weavers” events will also invite all listeners to hunt for their own story – in the park foraging for materials, and then back to the tent to weave their own tale from the ingredients they have found.

The performances on Saturday are:

+ Story Weavers: Find Your Own Wonderland (11:00+15:00) ilfdublin.com/event/story-weavers-find-your-own-wonderland/
+ A Re-Telling of Alice in Wonderland (13:00) ilfdublin.com/event/a-retelling-of-alice-in-wonderland/
+ Mr Leon’s Taxi: Sarah Ardizzone (14:00) ilfdublin.com/event/mr-leons-taxi-sarah-ardizzone/

All events are free but have to be booked via the links provided.

The Terenure Village Market has moved to Bushy Park and is from now on a weekly market.

The market has now grown to 40 stalls offering a whole variety of foods and crafts.

Admission is free.

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

The 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. Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

The Science Gallery exhibition “HOME\SICK – Post-Domestic Bliss” looks at the Home and asks what “Home” really is and also how it could be improved. The word means something different to everyone, but how will the future of technology and design, communities, families, resources, and nations change the nature of what we define as ‘home’?

HOME\SICK is the summer exhibition of the Science Gallery, which usually is the exhibition that is the most accessible and understandable for all ages and that goal was achieved again. It is not the Science Gallery’s best exhibition, but it is still definitely worth a visit.

The exhibition will run from 01 May until 19 July and is open from Tuesday-Sunday (Tues-Fri: 12:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00). Admission is free.

Wooly Ward’s Farm will come to the weekly Marlay Park County Council Market on Sat+Sun 23/24 May, 06/07 June, 20/21 June and 23/23 August.

Kids of all ages (until at least 99 years of age!) love holding and petting cute animals and Wooly Ward’s has lots of them. Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Rabbits, Chicken a Llama and more are available to be held and admired.

Admission is free.

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

British Boxer Ricky Hatton will be in Eason’s to sign copies of his new book “Ricky Hatton’s Vegas Tales”.

Admission is free.

“Renegade: Connect” is a free outdoor Hip Hop performance on Smithfield Plaza as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.

It will take place on Saturday at 13:00 and 16:00 and again on Sunday at 16:00. Duration is 60 minutes.

Innovative German Dance coolective Renegade from Herne, Alexis Fernández, Julio César Iglesias and Caterina Varela (La Macana) will perform and the youth dance group Company B from Dublin will open the event. DJ Dragon and All Ireland Hip Hop Champion Tobi Omoteso and members of Dublin’s Raw Edge Crew will also be featured.

At this Creative Lab Club For Teens “Manga for Beginners”, you will learn how to draw your own manga characters. Artist Lorraine Lawlor will run the event and it is for 15 teens aged 12-17 years. And there seems to be at least one place, maybe even more.

Admission is free.

An Intercultural Tour in Irish Language with Community Ambassador Jack FitzGerald will take place.

Admission is free.

Eun Hee-kyung, one of Korea’s most distinguished writers, reads from her work and talks to Martina Devlin about some of the themes that inspire her. The event is part of the International Literature Festival Dublin.

Admission is free, but booking is advised

After a number of events with film from far away places, the Progressive Film Club this time is featuring two films with a strong Irish aspect to them.

The films are:

+ Mother Jones and her Children – Film about the famous Corkwoman Mary Jones in the USA (14:30)
+ Skin in the Game – Documentary about the economic crash in Ireland (15:35)

Find out more details on the website below.

The Progressive Film Club is a voluntary organisation dedicated to showing progressive films from all over the world. Struggles for people’s rights, for the rights of workers, of immigrants, of women, for national liberation and for social justice.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

“Captain Jack’s Map” with Mary Noonan is this week’s Family Workshop in the National Gallery. It is a fun opportunity for families to enjoy creating and learning together through free activities exploring storytelling, music, art, poetry and drama.

Admission is free, but please check the small print on the website below.

Acropolis run courses about philosophy, but they also provide public talks that give a philosophical perspective on different topics. The next talk is entitled “Stones of Time: Newgrange & Angkor W(h)at?!” and will bring you on a journey of discovery through one of Asia’s most remarkable Temple complexes and one of Ireland’s most impressive stone structures.

+ Sat 15:00: Newgrange: Its location, astronomical alignments and artwork, what do they symbolize? Who built the complex, and why? What is the significance of Newgrange today?

+ Sat 16:15: Angkor W(h)at: Who were the people that built it, and what might have inspired them to do so? What does it look like today, and what can we still learn from it.

Some of the history, mythology, architecture, symbolical meaning and artwork of these enigmatic and ancient places will be explored.

Admission is free. No booking required.

1916 Docudrama “A Terrible Beauty” will be screened in The Elbowroom and the event will be hosted by Stoneybatter & Smithfield People’s History Project as a lot of the action portrayed in the film took place just a stones throw away on North King Street.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome but spaces are limited.

You can watch the trailer here www.vimeo.com/120388195

From Sat 11 Apr until 29 May, the Grand Social will screen 8 episodes (one every Saturday) from the Foo Fighters Documentary “Sonic Highways”. Admission is free,

A great idea!! This is a night of solo acoustic songs from a whole range of artists on the occasion of Bob Dylan’s 74th birthday, which will be on Sunday. Every act will perform two of their favourite Dylan songs in their own style. A gig by The Freewheelers will end the evening.

The acoustic acts are downstairs from 19:30 Declan Landy, Lynda Lucas, Brian Roche, Liam De Siun
and upstairs from 21:00: Wilbury Dublin, Mark Baker, Holly Rose Hudson-Taylor, Edel Meade, John Flynn

The band The Freewheelers follows with Lee Meehan (guitar/vocals), Noel Bridgeman (drums/vocals), John Quearney (bass/vocals).

“After the Ibis” is an 8-piece roots reggae band from Dublin with dub, jazz and soul influences.

Admission is free,

Pantibar had planned a Eurovision party anyway, but with the expected results of the Marriage Equality Referendum it will now be a double party for Eurovision and Marraige Equality.

Admission is free.

It is THAT night again and the fact that there is no Irish participation makes it a lot easier to watch. Why? Well, imagine, if the Irish singer was still in there, you would maybe hope that she will win and wouldn’t be able to focus on the sillyness of this event! So, different from a World Cup, it is better if you have no skin in the game when it comes to the Eurovision.

Watch it, shake your head in disbelief and laugh about it. It is just funny.

There are some Eurovision Parties, but I only found one public one (which isn’t free) and I guess the rest are private house parties.

Live in Sin É will feature a variety of bands and musicians at this weekly gig night on Saturdays. The event is presented by Super Happy Funtimes. Admission is free and the line-up is can be found on the Facebook Page below.

In short the line-up is Cools Humbug, Blue Sun, Maurice Burns.

Every Saturday Robert Coyle will bring his One-man Comedy show “Robert Coyle’s is feeling Numinous; Comedy Attempting Transcendence – probably NOT a cult.” to Accents Cafe.

Admission is free.

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event 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 Dodgy Few will play a gig in the Mercantile. Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

Otis will perform a free gig in Whelan’s.

Night Howl presents Elevation Falls and Good Time Villains at this Midnight Gig in Whelan’s. Admission is free if you arrive before 23:30 or if you sign up for the guest list via the website below.

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

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

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

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

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.

Because of the success of previous Vintage Kilo Sales, Vintage Clothes shop Tola has moved it this time to the RDS and it will be in Hall 4. Every kilo of vintage clothes will be EUR 20.

Admission is NOT free, but since it only costs EUR 1 to get in, I decided to post it here anyway. You can pay the Euro at the door.

Africa Day is back and will happen again in Farmleigh House this year.

There will be three music stages with headliers on Stage 1, the Kwassa Kwassa stage (Kila, Loah, Tig Linn, RiZA and Kiruu), emerging rap and hip hop on the Atilogwu stage (DJ Wax, Pop Dogg, The Motivators etc) and African bands and Singer/Songwriters on Stage 3, the Malika Stage (Rhythm Africana will be the headliner). On the Africa Day Facebook Page you can find a timetable of all performances and the link is here.

There will also be Family Fun, an African Bazaar, stalls of community groups, food stalls and more. If you come in your best traditional African clothes, you can win the “Best Dressed” competition.

Admission to Africa Day is free and everybody is invited.

Because Farmleigh House is a little tricky to get to and parking is very limited, Dublin Bus is providing a free shuttle bus service from the bus stop opposite the main entrance to the Phoenix Park at Parkgate Street to the main entrance into Farmleigh Estate. This service will run approximately every 30 minutes between 11:00 and 18:00.

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

The 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 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.

According to official Met Eireann information, it is not summer yet, despite the general misinformation that people in Ireland were taught in school, but it doesn’t really matter what you call this time of the year, it is a busy and beautiful time in the National Botanic Gardens.

They want to share the beauty of the gardens with you and invite you for a free guided tour viewing the Herbaceous Borders, Annual Bedding displays, the Rose Garden and much more every Sunday at 12:00 and at 14:30.

The Science Gallery exhibition “HOME\SICK – Post-Domestic Bliss” looks at the Home and asks what “Home” really is and also how it could be improved. The word means something different to everyone, but how will the future of technology and design, communities, families, resources, and nations change the nature of what we define as ‘home’?

HOME\SICK is the summer exhibition of the Science Gallery, which usually is the exhibition that is the most accessible and understandable for all ages and that goal was achieved again. It is not the Science Gallery’s best exhibition, but it is still definitely worth a visit.

The exhibition will run from 01 May until 19 July and is open from Tuesday-Sunday (Tues-Fri: 12:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00). Admission is free.

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. This series of free (mainly classical) concerts continues to present the best of Irish and International music and musicians. Concerts run from September to June.

The next concert will be “Time Place Memory” with Temenos (Laoise O’Brien (recorders) and Paul Roe (clarinets)). They will perform music by Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant, CPE Bach, Thomas Morley and new works by Derek Ball, Nick Roth, Marian Ingoldsby, Katherine Norman.

The popular Science & Technology festival “How?” in Shanganagh Park in Shankill is back on Sunday. It is a family event organised by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and will be full of activities and learning opportunities.

This year we are introducing Eircraft: Creating Together which allows young gamers to interact safely online. Eircraft combines interactive and educational workshops, drop-in sessions and outdoor events.

How? will feature the Eircraft service for young gamers by hosting a number of unique Minecraft workshops. (Check the website below for registration and details) for ids up to 12 years of age.

In addition there will be Scientific Sue (introducing kids to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)), Junior Einsteins (science and learning for primary school children), Colmac Robotics (robotics and engineering for children) and School of Irish Archaeology (teaching archaeology to our future generations).

Admission is free.

A protest is taking place in Dun Laoghaire against the plans of the Harbour Company and Dun Laoghaire County Council to make major modifications to the harbour. They plan to spend EUR 18 mio to build a new berth for large cruise ships, without knowing if ships can be attracted to come to Dun Laoghaire and as a competition to Dublin Port.

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A new Bernard Shaw Flea Market with 20+ stalls will take place on Sunday.

The “Dublin Sketchers” is an informal group of (hobby) artists who go somewhere different in Dublin every Sunday (e.g. National Museum, Maritime Museum, Dublin Flea Market, Farmleigh, Botanic Gardens, Dublin Castle, Science Gallery, …), 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 below or on their Facebook Page 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.

‘Sources of inspiration in my work’ with Ruth O’Donnell (artist & printmaker) is a free talk in connection with the talk series “Sean Scully & Contemporary Art”.

Enable Ireland and Bernard Timmins, Lecturer in Manufacturing & Design at the Dublin Institute of Technology will focus on the design of everyday household objects and how their design can be improved to match the needs of older users.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 0 1 6777444.

Brian Keary is a classically trained guitar player who also has experience of different styles / genres of music ranging from ragtime and folk to baroque and contemporary. He will perform in Sweeney’s (Ground Floor) on Sunday afternoon.

“Renegade: Connect” is a free outdoor Hip Hop performance on Smithfield Plaza as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.

It will take place on Saturday at 13:00 and 16:00 and again on Sunday at 16:00. Duration is 60 minutes.

Innovative German Dance coolective Renegade from Herne, Alexis Fernández, Julio César Iglesias and Caterina Varela (La Macana) will perform and the youth dance group Company B from Dublin will open the event. DJ Dragon and All Ireland Hip Hop Champion Tobi Omoteso and members of Dublin’s Raw Edge Crew will also be featured.

The next Jazz&Tapas Brunch/Dinner in Zaragoza is this Sunday with Tania Notaro and Robson Rocha (guitar).

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

The Sweeney’s Dixeland Jazzmen play their weekly gig on the ground floor in Sweeney’s. Admission is free.

At the Jawbone Gig night in Arthur’s Pub, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Mass is back after the summer break and invites you 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 gospel choirs in Ireland will give you a chance to experience a mass with a difference. It is uplifting and inspiring and everybody is welcome independent from your level of religiousness.

Disclaimer: I am involved with the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, so the description above MIGHT not be totally unbiased. But just take it from me, they are brilliant! ;-)

The 900 Club is an open deck night which gives music enthusiasts and up coming DJs the opportunity to play their favourite old records and CDs alongside a host of experienced selectors.

Everyone gets fifteen minutes to play (900 seconds – hence the name!), but you have to submit your playlist before the event.

Admission is free.

Italian band “Mardi Gras” will be in the Mercantile for a gig. Admission is free.

Robyn G Shiels will bring his Folk to the Harbour Bar for this free gig.

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.

Ben Prevo, Tommy Moore & Dominic Mullen play a Blues Gig in The Mezz and admission is free.

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).

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe. Admission is free.

The Pavement Kings play Rockabilly from 21:00 and
DJs Popocorn Peete and Little Dakota follow from 23:00-01:30 with a white variety of styles (Rockabilly, Calypso, Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll, etc).

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 Dublin Blues Cartel will be in Whelan’s again and will perform mostly a version of New Orleans R’n’B with a classic rock twist, sandwiched with swing, Rock’n’Roll, Soul, Funk, Blues and rap of all eras. Admission is free.

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

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

“Inspiring Change: Empowering Women’s Futures in Africa” is a conference to mark Africa Day which is this year celebrated as the “Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”.

The conference will look at key issues in gender equality; on how movements towards equality for women and girls has progressed globally, what the barriers are to female empowerment and gender equality and how can they be overcome and what opportunities exist in 2015 to progress the gender equality platform, given the activities happening this year.

The list of speakers can be found on the Facebook Event Page below.

The Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI), with the support of the African Embassies in Ireland are bringing you this conference.

Admission is free, but registration is required via tidi@tcd.ie

“The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body” is a book by Luna Dolezal and it will be launched on Monday. Find out more on the website below.

Admission is free.

“Climate-Smart Agriculture: Facilitating Change Globally and Nationally” by Dr. Bruce Campbell (Director of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security) is a talk about the challenge posed by climate change and food security from both a developed and developing country perspective.

Bruce Campbell will make a case for the urgent implementation of climate-smart agriculture globally, with a view to reaping its “triple win” of boosting farm productivity and incomes, building resilience to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below. The event will be in the Merrion Room.

‘Harry Clarke’s Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records: Commemorating Irish soldiers who died in World War 1’ is a talk by Marguerite Helmers (Rosebush Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh).

Marguerite specializes in word and image relationships, particularly relating to 20th century Ireland and England. Recent publications include several articles on paintings, drawings, and maps from the First World War. Her book Harry Clarke’s War: Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 will be published by the Irish Academic Press in September 2015.

Admission is free and no booking required. Seats are on a first come first served basis.

The Critical Take, IFI’s monthly film debate, is back on Monday and the panel is panel actor, director and artistic director of The Company Theatre Company Jose Miguel Jimenez, Patrick Stewart, IFI Public Relations Officer and writer, director and lecturer Steven Benedict.

They will discuss Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s film The Tribe, Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Iranian vampire Western “A Girl Walks Home Alone” at Night.

Admission is free, but tickets are required, which you can get from the IFI box office on 01 679 3477.

Super Happy Fun Times are running an Open Mic night for Music and Spoken Word every Monday in Sin É.

Admission is free.

This is an open mic night with Special Guests every Monday. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play. Admission is free.

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

Every Monday the Woolshed Bad hosts “Al Porter’s Comedy Shed”. Admission is free.

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

Every Monday a Jazz Jam Session will take place in the Grand Social and you are invited to listen or even to participate. Admission is free for musicians and audience.

Instruments are supplied (drums (no cymbals), double bass, guitar amp, bass amp, PA system) and ideas and themes will be proposed prior to the session to the musicians who join the event on Facebook (see Facebook Page below).

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

Patrick Mahony sings songs from Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Matt Monro and many more every Monday in the Cafe en Seine. Admission is free.

The Companies Act, the piece of law the regulates all details about how to set up an how to run a company is changing COMPLETELY on 01 June of this year and if you own a company or are interested in setting one up, you have to inform yourself.

In addition to that, this event will feature talks about financial support available for small companies.

Admission is free, but registration is required.

“Sean Scully and contemporary abstract painting” with Dr Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, University College Dublin is part of a free series of talks in May on the theme of Sean Scully & Contemporary Art in conjunction with an exhibition of Sean Scully’s work at the NGI.

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

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

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

This lunchtime series of 3 lectures will be run by the Military Archives and hosted by Rathmines Library starting on Tues 26 May 2015. The Department of Defence is cataloguing and partially digitising the Military Service Pensions Collection (MSPC) in the custody of the Military Archives. Key to understanding and researching the period, context and the events of the period from 1916 -1923 is the MSPC.

Cecile Gordon will explain in her talk how important this new data is and what it means for historical writing.

Admission is free, but booking is required here.

“Enhancing Wellbeing in Later Life: Multimodal Affordances of Intergenerational Arts Practice” by Dr. Susan O’Neill (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) is a public lecture during her term as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Find more details on the website below.

Admission is free.

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

Rumours have it that the Bluegrass Collective will perform in Sin É on Tuesday and there might even be an open Bluegrass Jam! Admission is free.

Live sessions with the Blue Moon Folk and Blues Collective are taking place every Tuesday at the Beerhouse. Admission is free.

The Folk Club in Whelan’s will bring you the best in Trad, Ballads, Americana & World Music every Tuesday. The line-up this week is on the Facebook Page below. Admission is free.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday AND Tuesday. 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 Phoenix Big Band is a 16 piece band playing songs of the 1930s, 1940s and other big band arrangements and they are playing every Tuesday in the Tara Tower Hotel (since 2012!) for adult dancing. If you like to waltz, cha cha or foxtrot, come and enjoy their performance.

Admission is free.

The band plays in the main function room which is occasionally booked, so to confirm that they are playing, please ring the hotel on the day: Phone 01-2694666

There will be free comedy upstairs in the Wicked Wolf in Blackrock on every second Tuesday. New acts and surprise guests will entertain you and the event is organised by Maxine Jones.

The dates are 14+28 Apr, 12+26 May, 19+23 Jun, 07+21 Jul, 04+18 Aug. Put the dates in your calender as I will probably not be able to include the event every week.

A totally unplugged Singer/Songwriter night (no PA, no microphones) with original music is taking place upstairs in Anseo every Tuesday from 21:30.

Please check on the Facebook Page below if the event is going ahead as it seems to get cancelled every now and then and if you want to play a 15-30 min set or just want to play one song make yourself heard via the same Facebook Page.

Admission is free.

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

Celebrating Bealtaine and 300 years as the official Mayoral residence, The Mansion House and Dublin City Public Libraries invite you to share your memory with them on Saturday 23 May and Wednesday 27 May.

The Library Learning Bus will be at the Mansion House Forecourt from 10:30-16:30 on Sat and Wed and a guided tour will take place on these dates at 11:00. (Places are limited and advance booking via 01-2226200 is required). After the guided tour, the house will be open from 12:00-16:00. All events are free.

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

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

The Bealtaine Festival continues for another few days and as part of it, a film screening of “The Quiet Man” will hapen in the Chester Beatty Library.

Admission is free.

The Bealtaine Film Tour will bring “The Quiet Man” to Rathmines on Wednesday. This John Ford film with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in title roles, was nearly 20 years in the making.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 4973539.

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.

Two classes from the Lycée Français d’Irlande went to Shankhill beach at the end of March to help clean the beaches of Dublin Bay and they used some of the household waste they collected to create a Polar bear as a symbol of global warming. The Alliance Française invites you to meet this bear and to learn more about this pedagogical project.

Admission is free, but booking is required by sending an e-mail to rsvp@alliance-francaise.ie with subject “Polar Bear”

The Deaf Heritage Centre Ireland presents a talk on the development of schools for the deaf in Cabra in 1846 and 1857 and of deaf education and sign language. The talk will be by Liam Breen and will be signed by Cormac Leonard.

Admission is free,

“EU and the Migrant Crisis – Why are migrants dying in the Mediterranean?” is the title of a discussion that is organised by United Against Racism and the Irish Anti-War Movement. Speakers are Mark Price (Irish Anti-War Movement), Azad (Syrian Refugee), Memet Uludag (United Against Racism).

Admission is free.

Endless Rain is a monthly themed spoken word event and this month it takes on the world of so-bad-it’s-good fan fiction. The event will feature literary talents like Roisin Kiberd, Boris Belony and James Moran.

Admission is free and there is a EUR 3 suggested donation.

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.

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up.

The Anseo Comedy Club, run by comedian Aidan Killian, takes place every Wednesday in Anseo (upstairs).

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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

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

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

Los Paradiso are playing Rockabilly, Tex Mex, Western Swing, Surf in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

The Jazz Pigs with a classic multi-brass front line play a mix of Lounge, lively sixties Jazz and driving Funk. Every Wednesday downstairs in 4 Dame Lane. Admission is free.

Astronomy Ireland is inviting to a Telescope Watch event at their headquarter in Blanchardstown. They will have powerful telescopes there with which you can watch the night sky, including the moon.

Obviously you can only watch the stars and moon when there are no clouds, but in case it is cloudy, they will give a talk about astronomy and will explain the telescopes, so you are welcome no matter what the weather is like.

Admission is free.

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 Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

Experience counts, share yours through volunteering. Come and chat with organisations providing charitable services across Dublin, to learn how you can help in your local community. Refreshments will be provided.

Do you know someone with experience to share? Often this group are not online so bring your aunt, uncle, Mam, Dad, neighbour, brother, sister, friend, Betty down the road or John from the club. Whether life or professional, their experience counts. Help them share it.

Every Thursday a free tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue takes place. Meet inside the Cemetery Gates. Admission is free and everybody is welcome.

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

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In this series of four lunch time talks, the speakers will look at individuals and how World War I affected them. The series of talks is in connection with the exhibition on the Irish experience of World War 1:

+ Wed 06 May: “Norman Leslie and the Sword of Prince Arthur” by Mark Leslie
+ Wed 13 May: “Meeting Michael O’Leary” with Nikki Ralston, Curator of the WWI exhibition
+ Thurs 21 May: “Lady Augusta Dillon and the women’s war effort in Galway” with Dr Emma Lyons, School of History and Archives, University College, Dublin
+ Thurs 28 May: “Mary Martin: Legacy from Loss” with Isabelle Smyth, Writer in Residence with the Medical Missionaries of Mary

More detail about the topic of each talk can be found on the event page which you reach via the website below.

The last one in this series of Lunchtime Recitals by the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in the Peppercanister Church:

“A handful of Harpists” are varied performances on Irish and Concert Harp.

Admission is free.

Singer Margaret Bridge will perform at this Lunchtime Recital.

Admission is free.

The lecture “St Patrick’s Cathedral – Restoration and Ecclesiology” by Dr Michael O’Neill (Architectural Historian) on Thursday is part of the lectures that accompany the exhibition “St Patrick’s Cathedral: an architectural exhibition” in the Gallery of the Architectural Archive. The exhibition will run from Wed 13 May to Fri 4 September.

Admission is free and everybody is welcome. Booking is required via 01 6633040 or slincoln@iarc.ie

Fresh from performing at the Dublin Dance Festival, Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert will surprise Wicklow audiences on the Bray promenade with two free performances of his new solo (sweet) (bitter). His show responds to Monteverdi’s musical poem of impossible love “Si dolce è’l tormento”.

It is organised by the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray and takes place in the Band Stand in the sea front in Bray. Admission is free.

Get behind the scenes, meet Museum conservators and look at some of the conservation projects they are working on. Admission is free, booking is required via 01-6777444.

This John Ford film The Hundred-Foot Story” with Helen Mirren is on a tour through the libraries and will be in Pearse Street on Thursday.

A weekly Forro Night (Brazilian Dance) with a Forro Live Band takes place in the D-One Bar & Brazilian Grill every Thursday.

Admission is free.

On Thursdays from 18:00-20:00, the Little Museum of Dublin waives all admission charges thanks to sponsor Guinness.

Visit the museum and find out lots more about Dublin. A new exhibition at the Little Museum is “Dear Christy: The Christy Brown Collection”. It is the first time that Christy’s personal archive will go on view. You can visit that exhibition as well when you are there on Thursday.

In addition to the Saturday Car Boot Sale which starts so early (06:00!!) that you need to be an insomniac or a super early bird, there is now a Thursday evening Car Boot Sale in the same location. It starts at 18:30 and runs until 22:00. Late night car boot shopping. :-) Admission for buyers is free.

The launch of poetry collection “Spoglia di Sillabe” by Aurora Coppola takes place in the Italian Institute of Culture.

Aurora Coppola was born in 1981 in Empoli (Florence), lived for a large part of her life in S. Miniato (Pisa) and lives now in Dublin.

Admission is free, but booking is required via iicdublino@esteri.it

“Hugh Lane and the Decorative Art of Display” by Morna O’Neill (Assistant Professor, 18th c. and 19th c. European Art, Scott Family Faculty Fellow, Department of Art, Wake Forest University) is a lecture that is part of the lecture series “Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss”.

Admission is free.

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

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

A weekly live music gig of the genres Blues/Roots/Rock/Soul will take place in Arthur’s Pub with weekly changing performers:

+ 1st Thursday: Ben Prevo
+ 2nd Thursday: Declan Kennedy
+ 3rd Thursday: Dermot Byrne
+ 4th Thursday: Mick Pyro

Admission is free.

Every Thursday, the Xchange invites to a Language Exchange (19:00-20:30), followed by live music (21:00-23:30) by up and coming local and international artists.

Admission is free before 20:00 and free finger food is provided.

Chronic Jazz Flan are inviting to a cultural salon called “The Lestrygonian Sessions” and you need to check out the Facebook Page here: www.facebook.com/events/1399504237040376/ to understand fully what is planned.

Admission is free.

The East Coast Jazz Band will play in the Harbour Bar in Bray and admission is free.

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

See Change is an umbrella organisation for mental health organisations and they have organised an evening of free Storytelling and Music as part of Green Ribbon month which will promote open conversation of mental health.

On stage will be Mark Cox, Tom Rowley, Sarah Nangle, Catherine Brophy, Alvy Carragher, Kellie Marie Reynolds.

The Skeleton Sessions are a band competition in Sin É and this week the following bands/acts will perform:

Fuzz Gigoloo, Paul Fitzpatrick, Renton 7, Popgun Warfare, Dale O Hanlon

Following the success of the Organ Recital Series in Whitefriar Street Church over the last two years, another series of four concerts will be happening in May. The recitals will take place each Thursday at 20:00 and admission is free.

The programme is:
07 May; John Dexter playing works by Bach, Couperin, Pachelbel, and Peeters.
14 May: Peter McBride playing works by Handel, Bach, Bédard, and Vierne.
21 May: Aleksandr Nisse playing works by Buxtehude, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Salvignol-Nisse, Nisse, Florentz and Messiaen.
28 May: Simon Nolan playing works by Marchand, Sweelinck, Bach, Dupré, Peeters and Vierne.

Every Thursday a Singer Songwriter Night will take place in Mother Reilly’s in Rathmines. This is YOUR chance to show everyone what you can do, alternatively you can just listen to the talented Singer/Songwriters. Admission is free.

A Fun Pub Quiz takes place in Brady’s in Terenure on Thurs. The quiz will be on every Thursday night in the Lounge at Brady’s. Keith McLoughlin is the Quiz Master.

There will be six rounds of the quiz with picture questions, audio questions and general knowledge questions. Admission to the quiz is free and therr will be free drink vouchers for the winning and runner up teams. (No phones to get answers allowed.)

The next Cabin Sessions will come to Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Thursday. The Cabin Crew (house band) will perform folk and Americana, plus special guests Helene (France), Rhapsody (male choir), Seanie Vaughan (contemporary). Admission is free.

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

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

Every Thursday a free Trad Session takes place in McNeills and often there are high profile Trad musicians performing.

The yearly Woolshed Karaoke Competition is running from 23 Apr-30 May. Aftger heats and two semi-finals, this week it is the Grand Final. The overall winner will get to record a CD at Temple Lane Studios in Dublin.

Admission is free.

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

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.

Join Lar Joye, curator of “Recovered Voices: Stories of the Irish at War 1914 – 1915” on a personal tour of this recently launched exhibition. No booking required, places allocated on a first-come basis 15 minutes before talk starts.

Peter Manning (Baritone) & Heather Fogarty (Mezzo Soprano) will be in St Ann’s CHurch for a lunchtime recital. Admission is free.

Flying South is a monthly mental health open mic event, organised by a spoken word collective that is also called Flying South.

All types of spoken word are welcome – poetry, performance, storytelling, comedy, drama, songwriting, anecdotal sharing, etc. – if you have something to say about mental health, want to share your own story, or just want to come along & watch, everyone is very welcome. There will be baked goods and teas/coffee.

If you would like to perform or read on the night, just turn up & put your name/act on the signup sheet.

Admission is free.

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

Thje Grande Kino is a new Club Night that starts with a film screening and then presents the music from the films after the screening.

The first movie will be the Fench film “La Heine” from 1995, which introduced the world to the director Matthew Kassovitz and lead actor Vincent Kassel and also to underground Hip Hop/Afrobeat artists like Cut Killer, Solo and Tak Fari Nas.

Admission is free.

The weekly European Folk Dance Workshop/Session takes place in the Tap Bar every Friday.

The dances are French, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese folk and traditional dances and everybody interested to join in or to learn is welcome. Admission is free, but donations (suggested: EUR 3) are very welcome

Carol Keogh & The City Fathers will play an Indie Gig in the Harbour Bar in Bray. Admission is free.

A weekly Gig Night in Sin É, organised and presented by Super Happy Fun Times takes place every Friday and admission is free. The line-up can be found on the Facebook Page below.

Exploding Eyes with support from Duende Dogs, Woven Skull and Shurg Life will be in the Mezz for a Gig Night. Admission is free.

At the time of writing this, the start time hadn’t been announced yet, so check back on the Facebook Page closer to the date.

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

“Ska ‘n’ Reggae” is the theme in the Dive Bar (downstairs in Turks Head) every Friday. The Bionic Rats play live. followed by DJs until late. Admission is free.