Dublin Event Guide 503: A Fabulous Market , Chinese New Year Family Day, Humans Need Not Apply Exhibition Launch

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 Chinese New Year Festival will take place from 28 Jan – 12 Feb and the New Year actually starts on Satruday 28 January. There are a number of free events in connection with the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival and they are listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

All events and the full schedule can be found here: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com/festival-programme/

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.

A whole range of Parkruns take place every week (and if you know some more, please tell me):
+ Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin
+ Cabinteely Park, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
+ Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dublin
+ Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Co. Dublin
+ St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5
+ Father Collins Park, Donaghmeade/Clongriffin, Dublin 13
+ Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24

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 Irish Society of Botanical Artists Open Day (ISBA) invites to an Open Day in the Visitor Centre at the National Botanic Gardens. The day-long event will include artists demonstrating the techniques used in botanical art, information about membership, opportunities to talk to artists, information on botanical art classes and workshops available with ISBA artists around the country, merchandise to buy, and a colouring corner for children.

This is an event for the entire family and admission is free.

For more information go to www.irishbotanicalartists.com

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 County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

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.

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 event “Chinese New Year Symbols – Tour of the Chester Beatty Library’s Chinese Collection” will take place twice this Sunday. The first tour at 11:00 will be in Mandarin, the second tour at 13:00 will be in English.

“For centuries in China, aristocrats and common people alike used a shared language of symbols. They decorated walls and household goods, accessories and clothes. Join Vicky Wang for this tour to discover the hidden meaning of symbols associated with the Chinese New Year.”

Admission is free and no booking required.

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

The next “The Fabulous Market” will take place in the George Bar in South Great George’s Street. It will have Valentine’s theme this month!

Admission is free.

The Chester Beatty Library is running a “Decorate your own Rooster”-Workshop for pre-school children with their parents or guardians. Tissue paper, feathers, foam shapes and felt will be used for the decoration.

Admission is free, but places are limited.

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.

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 event “Chinese New Year Symbols – Tour of the Chester Beatty Library’s Chinese Collection” will take place twice this Sunday. The first tour at 11:00 will be in Mandarin, the second tour at 13:00 will be in English.

“For centuries in China, aristocrats and common people alike used a shared language of symbols. They decorated walls and household goods, accessories and clothes. Join Vicky Wang for this tour to discover the hidden meaning of symbols associated with the Chinese New Year.”

Admission is free and no booking required.

The Bernard Shaw Flea Market is a weekly market (every Saturday) with approx 16 stalls, music, pizzas from the Big Blue Bus and the Bernard Shaw Garden Bar. Expect vintage clothes, shoes, jewellery, art, records, bric-a-brac and more and DJs will provide the entertainment.

Admission is free.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs every Saturday. It is 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!”

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

Come make your own lantern and hear stories from the Chinese New Year Festival to inspire your creations. Send wishes for the future, onward and upward, with your uniquely-tailored lantern.

Admission is free and suitable for ages 6-11. There are only 20 places ad booking is required here. At the time of writing this there were still places available.

Every Saturday a kid’s book will be read in 27 Eason’s stores all over Ireland. In O’Connell Street the reading takes place at 14:00. In the other Eason Stores, the times vary between 11:00 and 15:00 (see website below). Suitable for age 0-6 with their parents.

Admission is free.

To some it seems as if the Rugby Six Nations from 2016 is just over and already the next one starts, but it has been a while since the last round. ;-)

The 2017 competition starts on Saturday and will be screened in MANY pubs around Dublin. One of them (and opening earlier than normally) is the new Bowery in Rathmines.

Kick off is at 14:25 for Scotland v Ireland. At 16:50 England v France follows.

Stephen Butler (Horticultural Curator at Dublin Zoo) will talk about his work immersing the animals and the visitors in naturalistic planting at Dublin Zoo. Thematic planting creates a different appearance around each area and this talk will illustrate some of the thinking behind the desig, including aspects of planting to enrich the habitat for the animals.

Admission is free.

In their “New Writing” support programme, the New Theatre is inviting to a Playreading of

“Let Your Hair Down” by Christine Foley

It is a “harrowing tale of life and death and what happens in between.”

Admission is free, but a donation of EUR 2 would be welcome.

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet in Clontarf on the seafront car park, on Clontarf Road, opposite the Clontarf Bus Depot for a public star-gazing. Members bring along their telescopes and share the wonders of the night-sky with you. Admission is free.

The event is weather dependent, so check www.irishastrosoc.org/events/events.htm after 18:00 on the night in the case of poor weather, to see if it is going ahead.

Dreaming of Jupiter will play a gig in Sin É.

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.

The band “PopLife” are playing a showcase gig in the Liquor Rooms.

Admission is free.

The popular Bionic Rats are back in the Harbour Bar playing their Ska/Reggeae/Rocksteady gig.

Admission is free.

Ska band SKAZZ will be in the Bowery for a gig.

Admission is free.

There SHOULD be a 2Stroke String Session gig on Saturday night as it is the first Saturday of the month, but their website doesn’t confirm it yet:

The 2 Stroke String Sessions are playing oldtime fiddle and banjo tunes and Appalachian mountain tunes.

Admission is free.

Brass Tacks, a 4-piece band full of experienced musicians, will keep you on the dance floor at their gig.

Admission is free before 22:30.

The Clockworks and Young Earth are playing in the Midnight Hour slot.

Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list via the website below.

In addition to the Saturday Car Boot Sale in Tallaght, Irish Car Boot Sales run a weekly Sunday Car Boot Sales in Ballymun.

Admission for buyers is free.

The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival will take place from 28 Jan – 12 Feb and the New Year actually starts on Satruday 28 January. There are a number of free events in connection with the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival and they are listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

All events and the full schedule can be found here: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com/festival-programme/

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 Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park is unusually neglected and at the same time unusually rich in history. Many have seen it as a barred off concrete fortress in a corner of Phoenix Park and even more don’t even know or have forgotten that it exists. The old Phoenix House, the home of the British Viceroy, was on the site where the fort was built from the early 17th century and then in 1734 the Fort was built and extended in 1801.

In 1916 the Fort was raided by the rebels who expected to find a lot of explosives there, but found the Fort nearly empty. In 1939 the IRA raided the Fort and stole more than a million rounds of ammunition, but most of it was recovered over the following weeks.

Since 1988, the Irish Army doesn’t use the Fort anymore and gave it back to the Office of Public Works (OPW), but not much good has happened to the Fort in the last 28 years (!!) and there were numerous speculations about the reasons for that.

Finally, this year, guided tours were provided and were meant to run for three months until end of October 2016. But the interest was so great that the OPW decided to continue the tours even through the winter months, They will take place every Sunday at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and only 20 places are available on each tour.

Tickets are available at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre on a first come, first served basis and can not be pre-booked. A shuttle bus will bring the ticket holders to the Fort.

The County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

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 Drumcondra Village Market is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. There will be Food Stalls, Flea Market, Vintage Clothing, Arts&Crafts and a Pop-Up Record Store.

Admission is free.

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 Kilkenny Shop Cafe is inviting to a Jazz Brunch Sunday every Sunday from 11:00-14:00 and from 14:30-16:30 a Bluegrass Band is taking over. Unfortuantely they don’t specify who the bands are.

Admission is free.

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.

Admission is free.

The National Gallery is running a series of free themed family drop-in workshops from 11:30-13:30 every Sunday.

Inspired by the collection and the exhibitions in the National Gallery, these workshops are suitable for all ages from approx. 18 months to age 8. You can choose to stay for as long or as short a time as works for you.

The space will be divided by age and ability, and each child will be encouraged by Artist and NGI Education Assistant Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire and the week’s guest artist to create their own work on the week’s theme.

Admission is free and no booking required. Numbers are limited to 40 people at any one time but you can drop in and out whenever it suits you and as long as there is still space. Children have to be supervised at all times. The event takes place in the Atrium.

This week’s theme is: Me, Myself and I

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 technique behind making the traditional St. Brigid’s Cross will be demonstrated step-by-step using fresh rushes.

The demo will take place at 11:30 and 15:30 in the Visitor Centre.

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.

Every Sunday, the National Botanic Gardens invite to two guided walks. The first one is at 12:00 and the second one at 14:30.

Admission is free.

This is a bi-lingual seminar to provide attendees with information on immigration from China, residency requirements, property transactions, company set-up, financial matters and general advice on Irish law.

Admission is free. Contact Ping on 01 6761100 or ping@crowleymillar.com for further info.

This event in the CHQ is this year’s Chinese New Year Family Festival.

There will be Rooster-themed entertainment, activities, arts and crafts, suitable for all ages. You can try Chinese chess and calligraphy, experience martial arts displays, ping pong demos and musical performances, take part in Clay Model Making, Face Painting or try the Chinese food and drink that will be sold at the Spring Festival. There will also be short-film screenings, a fashion show and a shadow puppetry performance.

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 feature Adrian Mantu cello & Dearbhla Brosnan piano performing works from Beethoven, Bazelair and Brahms. This is the second of a five-concert series featuring musicians associated with the Royal Irish Academy of Music – Doctor in Music Performance.

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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!

Every Sunday a free tour takes place in the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Admission is free and booking is not required, but places are limited, so early arrival is recommended.

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

The Bagots Hutton Jazz Brunch takes place on Sundays from 12:00 with Jazz music from 14:00. The Noel Dumont and band will perform a mix of jazz, soul and lounge music.

Admission is free.

Acoustic Karma are playing Rock ‘n’ Roll from the 70s to the 90s with a twist of country.

Admission is free.

Every Sunday two free guided tours will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The first one is at 15:00 and the second one at 16:00.

In addition there is another free tour every Wednesday at 13:00.

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.

Blues Got Soul, a four-piece blues band from Dublin is performing the music of the founding fathers of blues and blues masters in the International Bar every Sunday. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

Travel around European traditional dancing culture without a ticket at the weekly Bal Folk Dance Sessions.

And if you don’t know how to dance, don’t worry! Workshops are provided and admission is free.

The event takes place every Sunday in the Cobblestone Pub.

Every Sunday evening from 18:00-20:00, the Wiley Fox is hosting a trad session, where some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians will play for you.

Admission is free.

The Dixeland Jazzmen play a weekly gig in Sin E. Admission is free.

The Firehouse Film Contest is a monthly competition and film screening for new short films (3-5 minutes) which are not older than one month. Screenings take place on the first Sunday of the month.

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 sings every Sunday from September to June at their “Gig in God’s Gaff”, a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street.

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 or your relationship with the Catholic Church in other contexts.

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! ;-)

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 Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 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 with live music (Rockabilly) and DJs. Admission is free.

Super Bowl LI (51) is one of the biggest sports spectaculars in the world this year. It will take place in Houston, Texas and this year the two teams playing against each other are the New England Partiots and the Atlanta Falcons.

The game starts at 23:30 and continues for up to 4 hours.

Since the Super Bowl is still increasing its audience on our side of the ocean, many pubs will screen the event live. However, make sure that they will show the FULL game. Because it is a Sunday evening, the long running time and the pub rules clash, which doesn’t allow pubs to stay open that late unless they have an extension. A few years ago, some pubs kicked the customers out at half-time, but I seriously hope that doesn’t happen anymore.

Some of the Super Bowls events are free screenings, other are Super Bowl Parties, which are typically not free and often organised by one of the Dublin-based American Football Teams.

Some of the free Super Bowl screenings are taking place here and most start the screening at around 22:00:
+ Woolshed Baa, Parnell Street, Dublin 1
+ The Living Room, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1
+ Square Ball, 45 Hogan Place, Dublin 2
+ Adelphi. 52 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
+ Sinnotts, South King Street, Dublin 2
+ McSorley’s, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
+ Fibbers Magee, 80 Parnell Street, Dublin 1

If you don’t want to go to a pub to watch it but rather from the comfy couch at home, BBC (from 23:20) and Sky Sports (from 22:00) will also show the game. Lady Gaga will be the star of the half time show.

This monthly singing session offers a warm and welcoming atmosphere for singers and listeners alike. Each month features a special guest singer. Ye Vagabonds Diarmuid MacGloinn is guest at the first The Night Before Larry Got Stretched of 2017.

Admission is free.

The Rock ‘n’ Rock and Swing Band “The Jive Cats” will perform in the Mercantile every Sunday from 22:00.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival will take place from 28 Jan – 12 Feb and the New Year actually starts on Satruday 28 January. There are a number of free events in connection with the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival and they are listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

All events and the full schedule can be found here: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com/festival-programme/

Enjoy music, song, rhyme and movement with your toddler at this Musical Movements event with Carla Fazio.

It will take place on 09, 16, 23, 30 January, 06, 13 February and 06, 13, 20, 27 March in Blackrock Library.

The time is 10:15-11:00 for Ages 2-3 and 11:15-11:45 for Ages 18 months – 2 years.

Admission is free and no booking required, but there are only 15 places and they will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

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.

This Traditional Music Session is presented by Rathmines DIT students from the “DIT Irish Traditional Music Ensemble”.

Admission is free.

The “Using the National Library: research workshop” will help you with advice and guidance on researching the rich and varied collections of the National Library. The workshop will draw on case studies of personalities from the NLI’s collections and is suitable for anyone looking to embark on a research project or to enhance research skills in navigating the catalogue, accessing the various collections and interpreting the sources.

Admission is free, but places are limited and booking is required via learning@nli.ie or 01 6030 259

The next lecture in the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series is “The emperor who wanted to be king. HRE Charles VI in Spain and Germany, 1685-1740” with William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge).

Admission is free.

Gail O’Rourke will be in Eason’s to launch her new book “Crime or Passion”

Admission is free.

I Vicerè is a 2007 Italian historical drama based on the novel with the same title written by Federico De Roberto. The story is set in Sicily in 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in control of its power against the new regime, both on political and personal levels, leading to intricate love affairs, difficult parental relationships and obstacles on their way to the top.

The film will be screened in Italian with English subtitles.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

Are you interestered in volunteering? At this Spotlight event, five organisations have five minutes each to recruit you. This event gives you the chance to hear from some local groups who are recruiting for volunteers right now.

The organisations are:

St. Patrick’s Festival Ireland, One for Ireland, YCW Ireland, Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre, D12 Disability Mainstream Access Project

Admission is free, but registration is required on the website here.

“A Century of Years of the Rooster: Vignettes of a Changing China” is a lecture by Dr Isabella Jackson (Assistant Professor in Chinese History in the Department of History and the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin).

Traditionally, people are warned to expect bad luck in their own year of the Chinese zodiac, so those born in the year of the rooster should beware in 2017. This lecture will trace the life of an imaginary character born in the year of the rooster 1909, looking at how China changed in each year of the rooster during her lifetime, and how these changes would affect her.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the link below.

This is a weekly gig with authentic old-time fiddle tunes and Appalachian music.

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.

The Circle Sessions is an “Open Mic” that provides an opportunity for up and coming musicians, spoken word artists, poets and comedians to perform.

Come to this weekly show to perform or to simply watch a great mix of music, poetry, spoken word and comedy.

Admission is free.

Every Monday the Woolshed Bar hosts “The Comedy Shed”, usually with 3 headline acts.

Admission is free.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday, 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).

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).

An Open Trad Music Session is taking place every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. Admission is free.

Donal Kirk and Anto Drennan are playing music from Lowell George Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Free, Bad Company, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Beatles, Bobby Bland, Vince Gill, Ray Charles, Etta James, Elvis, Ry Cooder, Dobie Gray, Guy Clarke, early ZZ Top, Dave Edmunds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival will take place from 28 Jan – 12 Feb and the New Year actually starts on Satruday 28 January. There are a number of free events in connection with the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival and they are listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

All events and the full schedule can be found here: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com/festival-programme/

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.

“How to get and keep the job you want” is a talk by Barry McLoughlin who is a Senior Training Consultant with The Communications Clinic.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 873 3996 or businesslibrary@dublincity.ie

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs on Tuesday and Saturday. It is 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!”

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

This is a weekly event in Buskers on the Ball. They have 5 table tennis table and are now running a social league on Tuesdays. Free play at the tables and drinks specials are available.

Storyteller and art historian Jean Ryan will engage you in an evening of storytelling inspired by the artworks in the exhibitions.

Admission is free, but booking is requried via the Eventbrite website below.

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

“Common Sense and the Common Fisheries Policy” is the topic this month and Edward Fahy will discuss this.

Meet up on the top floor of J.W. Sweetman’s. Doors open at 18:30 and the talk is at 19:00. Admission is free.

EveryTuesday at 19:00, The Dublin Language Exchange takes place in the Czech Inn. It is the biggest free meeting of people from all around Dublin that are interested in learning languages and communicate with speakers of other languages.

Admission is free and the meetup is completely informal. No booking required.

“The History of a Document: Anne Frank and her Diary” is a lecture by Raphael Gross (Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for
Jewish History and Culture and Chair for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig).

This lecture is celebrating the yearly Holocaust Memorial Day.

Admission is free, but registration is required via info@hetireland.org or 01-6690593

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.

This is a weelly acoustic roots and blues session every Tuesday in Arthur’s Pub.

With Anthony Mannion(Guitar/vocals) and Luke Mercer(Guitar/vocals). Admision is free.

The Shipstern Open Session is the Open Mic night in the Bowery in Rathmines. A weekly event where everyone is invited to take part, sing, play an instrument of even tell some jokes. And anybody who will perform on stage will get a cocktail voucher. Sometimes even big names come in to try out their new material.

The night is hosted by Cian from the tband MKAI.

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.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday, 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 Lounge Quintet plays this gig every Tuesday: Jazz Standards, Latin and Bebop. Often guest musicians and singers join them. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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 Tuesday, a pub quiz is taking place in the Woolshed.

Admission is free. Max team size is 6 people.

The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival will take place from 28 Jan – 12 Feb and the New Year actually starts on Satruday 28 January. There are a number of free events in connection with the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival and they are listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

All events and the full schedule can be found here: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com/festival-programme/

This Baby Book Club with library staff takes place in the Children’s Library, Level 4 in dlr LexIcon every second Wednesday of the month at 10:00.

Introduce your baby to the love of books and socialise with others in a library setting. There will be stories, song and some crafting.

Admission is free. For more information email dlrlexiconlib@dlrcoco.ie or phone 01-2881147

Did you ever want to give drawing a go? Or maybe you are a budding artist looking for like-minded people to draw with? The Creative Den in Rua Red runs free weekly drawing sessions on Wednesdays at 11:00.

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.

A Graduate Careers Fair will take place in the RDS with sub sections for Language Careers and for careers in STEM.

There will be employers who have open positions and there will be seminars.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Eventbrite link below.

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 Popular Literature Lunchtime Lectures continues with the lecture

“Crime Fiction (and The Wire) in the Era of Ferguson and Black Lives Matter” by Dr Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast)

Admission is free.

“First Up: Creative entrepreneurs on breaking through” is a series of lunchtime talks from the creative minds at the forefront of Irish culture, science and the arts. The individuals featured, have believed in an idea and did everything possible to make that idea work. They invested in their own talent and creativity in order to create a career or lifestyle suited to their vision and personal aspirations.

On Wednesday Biohacker and scientist Cathal Garvey will be featured.

Cathal has become known for DIYbio and democratised biotechnology. He was a co-curator at the Grow Your Own exhibition at the Science Gallery and he is now a co-founder at Ireland’s first community laboratory Forma Labs.

Admission is free, but booking is required.

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The film “In the Mood for Love” (2000) will be screened in Cantonese/French and Mandarine with English subtitles.

“After discovering their spouses are having an affair, two neighbours develop a strong bond finding comfort in their growing friendship all the while keeping their relationship platonic so as not to repeat the mistakes of their respective partners.”

Admission is free.

“Sea pea in a nutshell – Have some of our plants come from America?” is the title of a talk by Dr. Marc Delêtre and Colin Kelleher.

Ireland has a number of botanical oddities whose origins we cannot explain. Some of our floral elements may have even arrived from America. Join Colin Kelleher of the National Botanic Gardens to learn about one of their current projects which is trying to investigate the origins of an ephemeral coastal visitor, the Sea pea.

Admission is free.

The next lecture in the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series is

“Boiling Volcano? North and South in the 1970s” with Dr Brian Hanley

Admission is free.

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.

“Dublin’s Sporting Heritage and the development of Dublin City’s Sports Archive” by Ellen Murphy (Senior Archivist, Dublin City Archives) is the first talk in the Spring Programme of the “Old Dublin Society”.

The Dublin City Sports Archive (DCSA) was established in 2010 to provide a lasting legacy to Dublin’s term as European Capital of Sport. Collections relating to hockey, golf, cycling, athletics, swimming pool, water-polo, VEC Sports and football have been donated to the DCSA so far. The talk will provide an overview of these archival treasures and also consider more broadly the status of sports history and archives in Ireland and the challenges and rewards of preserving these records.

Admission is free.

The Roots Band “Brand New Switcheroo” will perform in the Harbour Bar. Admission is free.

The Donegal Band “One Man Town” will play a gig and they are supported by “The Heart Vandals” also from Donegal and “Mitch” from Dublin.

Admission is free.

The Anseo Comedy Club takes place every Wednesday in Anseo (upstairs).

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

The Live Music Societies from DIT & BIMM (Music College) are running a band competition and Heat 2 of the “Battle of the Bands”.

Five bands will battle for a place in the final, with a variety of genres. The bands are

Identity Thief, KANDCE, Kiwi, Leila Jane & The Healers, *ROGUE!

Admission is free.

“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.

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 Dublin Chinese New Year Festival will take place from 28 Jan – 12 Feb and the New Year actually starts on Satruday 28 January. There are a number of free events in connection with the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival and they are listed separately in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

All events and the full schedule can be found here: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com/festival-programme/

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 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.

Today the words “Diva” and “Divo” have a negative connotation. In this series of three talks Michael Grant will rely on the original definitions and will look at the careers of some of the European, American and Australasian singers of outstanding talent in the worlds of opera and the concert platform.

The first talk on 09 Feb will look at the careers of some of the great singers of the first 40 years of the 20th century, including Luisa Tetrazzini, Claudia Muzio, Enrico Caruso and John McCormack. He will also look briefly at the written records handed down to us relating to the singing skills of some of the great artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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

Spend an afternoon the German way, with “Kaffee und Kuchen” (coffee & cake) and conversation in German at the cafeteria of the Goethe-Institut. Kaffeklatsch will take place every second Thursday of each month.

The topic is “Carnival in Germany”.

Admission is free and you are welcome even if your German is a bit rusty.

Tea drinking in many Asian cultures is highly ceremonial, especially in China where it first originated. It was first introduced as a medicine and food spice, but has now become the beverage of choice and a way of life. The history of Tea in the Western world was remarkable in that it inadvertently brought about major social changes in China, precipitating the Opium wars of the 1840s and leading to the fastest sailing ships of their day – the Tea Clippers.

Matthew Jebb will give the lecture from 15:00-15:30 and before and after (14:00-15:00 and 15:30-16:30) a traditional Chinese Tea ceremony will take place.

Admission is free. (It is not clear if any booking is required.)

Join this tour of the exhibition “World War Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience” in 2/3 Kildare Street.

Find out about the Irish experience ‘over there’ and on the home front during WWI through the NLI collections of letters, diaries, recruiting posters, newspaper reports, cartoons, and leaflets.

Admission is free.

The “Kids Create: Children’s writing, book and art club” with dlr Writer in Residence Sarah Webb will take place and some extra dates have been added. It is for ages 7+ and may 12 kids can take part. They will read short books, write and draw and get their creativity flowing.

The added dates are Thursdays 09 Feb and 30 March (15:00-16:00).

Admission is free, but booking is required. via stillorganlib@dlrcoco.ie or phone 01-2889655.

“Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) – An Artist of the People” with Erwin Joos (Curator of the Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum) will introduce the life and work of the painter Eugeen Van Mieghem.

“In the European social art of the turn of the century many artists admired the work of Jean-François Millet and many strove to match this social authenticity. As a child of the port, Van Mieghem did not experience their restlessness. He was fascinated by the colourful hustle and bustle of life at the dockside. His origins determined his later art. He did not need to go in search of inspiration, for the world was on his doorstep. Driven by his youthful idealism, he left behind a unique and enduring oeuvre about the lives of ordinary people in a cosmopolitan seaport.”

Admission is free.

The newest Project Arts Center exhibition is Caroline Doolin’s “Fault Found Bodies”. It will be launched on Thursday and everyone is invited.

Admission is free.

The Spanish film “Cría cuervos” (1976) will be screened in the “Spanish Essentials” Film Series. The screening is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Admission is free and no booking required. Find more details on the website below.

“China’s Environmental Governance in Years of the Rooster” is a talk by Heidi Ningkang Wang-Kaeding (Professor in Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science and the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin).

“How do we connect the Years of the Rooster to environmental protection in the People’s Republic of China and why does it matter? The year of 2017 will be an exciting one to observe China’s role in the global environmental governance. This lecture will trace back to 1957, the first year of the Rooster in the People’s Republic, and select one representative event from each Year of the Rooster to demonstrate the trend of environmental protection (or destruction) of various political actors.”

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

The next Science Gallery exhibition from 11 Feb – 14 May is called “Humans Need Not Apply” and looks at how Artificial Intelligence and robots will dramatically change our world. How will our workd look when it is robot-friendly? What are the ethical consequences of machines taking over? And how will we deal with the fact that these intelligent machines will take our jobs and are much smarter than we are?

On Thursday the launch of the new exhibition will take place and admission is free, but registration is required via the website below.

Every Thursday the Little Museum of Dublin waives their admission charges for two guided tours thanks to sponsorship from Guinness. The first tour is at 18:00 and the second tour is at 19:00. Make sure that you are there at least 10 minutes before the start of the tour to get one of the limited places.

The Little Museum of Dublin has a fascinating collection of artefacts from the last 100 years Dublin’s history.

On other days and other times, admission is EUR 7 for adults and admission is by guided tour only.

“Matilde di Shabran” is Rossini’s last contribution to the ‘semi-serious’ operatic genre. Set in the Spanish Castle of the misogynistic Corradino, the opera combines comic hilarity and darker dramatic moments.

The Opera screening will be in Italian with English subtitles.

Admission is free, but booking via the website below is required.

The next “Career Mentoring & Coaching – New For You” event with Ilaria Dondero, Career & Life Coaching (ww.ilariacoaching.com) will take place on Thursday.

This series is suitable for anyone looking for career advice, career change, career development or career transitional opportunities in 2017. Support will be provided to help you advance your career with a host of tools and resources including group discussions.

The Thursday events will be “CV Writing Skills, Group Mentoring & Coaching Discussion”.

Admission is free, but booking is required on 01 873 3996 or businesslibrary@dublincity.ie

A Composting Workshops with Maria Kennedy, Onja VanDorsleer and Margaret Quirke will take place in Stillorgan.

Participants can learn how organic waste can be converted to crumbly black “gold” for use in flower and vegetable growing. The process and the techniques involved for effective and efficient breakdown of matter and ways of avoiding problems of smell and pests will be discussed. A range of composting systems will be illustrated.

Admission is free, it seems. Limited to 30 places and admission is on first come first served basis.

Further info via stillorganlib@dlrcoco.ie or 01 288 9655

Fergus Finlay (Chief Executive of Barnardos) will be the next speaker at the “Reimagining Irish Civil Society” Lecture Series of the Carmichael Centre.

Admission is free, but registration is required via the Eventbrite link below.

The Irish Launch of “We come apart” by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan will take on Thursday.

It seems that 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

An expatriate or expat is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship.

And this is a weekly meeting for all Expats in Dublin (new and old!). If you are new to the city, this is an excellent way to meet people.

Admission is free (no booking required!), but you are asked to give the same kind of welcoming to new members as is given to you.

And this is the third (!) Board Gaming night in Dublin! They are taking over! ;-)

It is a weekly event and on Thursday the focus is on Introductory Board Games, so if you haven’t for a while (or ever) played Board Games, this is for you.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Jam Session is an open Jam with full back line. It is open to all levels of musicians and singers and all genres of music and the only rule is that you must jam with others (not all your own band).

It takes place every Thursday and admission is free.

“A Botanical Scramble of Africa” is a lecture by Seamus O’Brie. He recounts the story of his recent travels in South Africa where he, and a keen group of enthusiastic Irish plants people, studied the flora of the Cape, including Table Mountain and the flowers of the Drakensberg Range into Lesotho. This includes the tale of his visit to the South African ‘Glass Nevin.’ The talk concludes with images of plants and animals in Kruger National Park.

Admission is free.

Chris Holten will be in the Bernard Shaw Pub in the “Good Name” slot on Thursday.

Admission is free.

A new weekly Table Quiz takes place in the Grand Social. Every Thursdayteams of 4 people (or at least 2 people) will compete against each other over questions from the areas of General Knowledge, Music, Film, Sports & Entertainment.

Admission is free.

The Crystal Skull Sessions is a band competition in Sin É. The line-up is not yet listed, but hopefully it will closer to the day.

Admission seems to be free.

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.)

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.

Admission is free.

A weekly Trad Music Night is taking place in McLoughlin’s in Dun Laoghaire. It is an acoustic night and all musicians are welcome. Admission is free.

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

The Woolshed Karaoke is happening every Thursday from 21:30. Anyone can participate! Admission is free.

The band “Athens” will play a gig in Whelan’s and they will be supported by “Glassgears”.

Admission is free.

Every Friday the chq will run a market in the building with a whole range of stalls. There will be food and arts & craft. Some stalls are there every week, others change regularly.

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 next Science Gallery exhibition from 11 Feb – 14 May is called “Humans Need Not Apply” and looks at how Artificial Intelligence and robots will dramatically change our world. How will our workd look when it is robot-friendly? What are the ethical consequences of machines taking over? And how will we deal with the fact that these intelligent machines will take our jobs and are much smarter than we are?

The new Science Gallery exhibition will open from Friday until mid-may. 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.

Go behind the scenes of the new Science Gallery exhibition “Humans Need Not Apply” with the artists, curators and designers of the show and find out how they brought the automated future to life in Science Gallery.

The panel of experts will discuss the exhibits, the design of the gallery space and their inspirational take on the implications of artificial intelligence in society and culture.

Admission is free, but registration is required via the website below.

Get a cup of tea, gather the last bit of energy and then bring this work week over the line! And for next week, get some special teas via the ad below and help the Dublin Event Guide while you are doing that. ;-)

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Orders over GBP 35 are free in the UK and if you use Parcelmotel’s Belfast to Dublin service, you can get it delivered for just EUR 3.95 of postage.

“Representations of Time in Irish Literature: 1800 to the Present” with Prof. Martin Middeke (Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg).

Sounds interesting…at first! Then you read the further information:

“His joint research project with Professor Chris Morash (School of English, TCD) will contend that any experience of time makes up a historically variant phenomenon whose complexity is conditional upon the degree of specialization, differentiation and segmentation of a particular society and culture.”

…and suddenly I am less interested. ;-)

“Aspects of Love: Classic film screenings” is a film screening event in Rathmines Library this February on 10+17+24+31 Feb.

It seems, however, that the film that will be screened is no where mentioned. Lucky dip anybody?

Check with Rathmines Library on 01-497 3539 or rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie to find out the title of the film.

Admission is free.

The 29th Public Lecture & Meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network will feature a lecture by Dr. Derek Gladwin of the University of British Columbia, entitled

“Ya can’t trust em: Shifting Ecological Perspectives of Literary and Cultural Peatlands”

The lecture will take place in Trinity College Dublin in the Ui Chadhain Theatre, Arts Block.

Admission is free.

Sylvie Chausse, French author of some thirty books of youth literature, will be in the Alliance Francaise on Friday to bring you on a literary tour of the profession of the author, the relationship between writers and illustrators, her work with the Association “Les Incorruptibles” and end with a reading.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

Are we entering an ‘AI renaissance’, where human art and culture will be created autonomously by machines? Or is art a uniquely human endeavour and such algorithmic ‘artists’ are just pretenders who create picturesque but ultimately meaningless media?

Join artist, hacker and creative technologist Ross Goodwin and HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY curator William Myers as they debate whether robots can create art, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.

The evening will start with a screening of SUNSPRING, the world’s first sci-fi short written entirely by an algorithm.

Admission is free, but registration is required via the website below.

Hilary Lloyd’s work centres on film and video, but she also uses sculpture, painting, collage and installation. For Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Lloyd has constructed a multi-part installation in which film and sculptural elements are interwoven. Central to this installation is a group of new film works in which Lloyd continues to probe the architecture and ambiences of particular places. She integrates sounds and images in ways that challenge typical viewing conventions – sliding from interpretable scenes into ‘abstract’ formulations of colour, shape and light.

The exhibition will be launched on Friday and admission is free.

Astronomy Ireland is inviting to a Lunar Eclipse Watch on Friday evening, but unfortuantely they forgot to specify a time.

So I chose 19;00 as a start time, but I strongly suggest that you check their website before the event for the correct time. They will hopefully update it soon.

Just in time before Valentines Day, a Singles Night will take place in J.M. Sweetman.

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.

The bands Fever Solstice and Soul Badger will be inm the Grand Social for a gig.

Admission is free.

The band “Good Times Band” will play a showcase gig in the Liquor Rooms.

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.

Singer/Songwriter Miles Graham will play a gig in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

“Off the Wagon” is a new Gypsy Swing Band and they are playing their first gig in the Patriot’s Inn.

Admission is free.

McGowans in Phibsborough run a monthly Singles Night. There will be music, games and ice breakers.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the Eventbrite link below.

Dublin band “The False & The Fair” will be in Whelan’s for a gig. Doors for the gig open at 23:00, but admission is only free if you arrive before 22:30 OR if you sign up for the guest list via the website below.