We should be celebrating this week
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Mother’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Brain Awareness week and lots more.
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Hi all!
Have you read about Level 4.995 in the government’s plans? No? Well, that’s what the great improvement will be in 3.5 weeks. :-( At least twice a week, the Taoiseach is working on conditioning us so that we won’t expect any significant improvement in April. (Here is an example from RTE.ie.) And – in a way – I am doing nothing better than “condition” you to expect bad news. But to be honest, I know some people who are at breaking point, – financially and mentally – and who pin ALL their hope on the “big change” on 05 April, no matter what the indicators are. Yes, be optimistic about the next few months, but be an optimistic realist or a realistic optimist. :-)
We will leave the times of restrictions behind us, that is absolutely certain, but the marathon is not over yet.
In the meantime, let us enjoy ourselves as much as we can! I keep saying it week after week and I am very serious: Do not give up on online events! I know there is a degree of fatigue with them, but they will keep us going for another bit and when we can go back to real-life events, it might be the start of hybrid events. I “went” to a few Enterprise Week events last week and the ONLY reason I was able to go to four of them (REALLY interesting events!) was because they were online with NO travel requirements. One was in Donegal, another in Dun Laoghaire. In normal times I would have missed all four.
So, hold out and keep “going” to online events and keep smiling! :-)
Now let’s have a look at what is coming up!
This weekend is Mother’s Day AND on Wednesday is also St. Patrick’s Day. All official St. Patrick’s Day events are online this year and, for many of you, Mother’s Day also has to be an online event. But whatever you do, do NOT forget Mother’s Day! ;-) |
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The scaling down of weekday events wasn’t overly successful last week, so I will have to do better today and next week I will be on a three day full-day online seminar, so the Dublin Event Guide might even be slimmer. But don’t worry, you will get some suggestions for free events! ;-)
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The sad dog from last week has been replaced with a much happier dog this week! Thanks a lot for the much needed donations. I very much appreciate your help!
If you like free cultural events and enjoy the great content in the “Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)”, please help by donating a small amount. (The next big project is a very much needed update of the Dublin Event Guide website to be able to offer more services.) Any amount will help, but if you are looking for a recommendation, then I would suggest a donation of 12 Euro per year. That’s just one Euro per month. Where else can you get so much value for so little money?
I have created a brand new Dublin Event Guide Donation Page here. It is really easy to use and uses Stripe’s payment processing. Try it out and in case it doesn’t work for you, the “old” links are still below. ;-) On this new page, you can even choose to sign up for a yearly subscription, so that you don’t need to remember to donate every year. (Look for the RED buttons at the bottom.)
If the new page above doesn’t work, just use these links and donate via www.paypal.me/DublinEventGuide
or for Revolut users among you just use @joergbrb (Revolut is moving away from phone numbers and to addresses like this one.)
If PayPal or Revolut don’t work for you, you can buy one or two or even three virtual coffees (or Hot Chocolates!) for the Dublin Event Guide and you can do that on the “Buy Me a Coffee” page here www.buymeacoffee.com/DublinEventG .
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And if you come to www.DublinEventGuide.com and check out some of the ads and click on the ones that you find interesting, that also helps with a few cent!
Thank you!!
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“EPIC – The Irish Emigration Museum” (www.epicchq.com) are currently sponsoring the Dublin Event Guide and this section of the weekly newsletter will contain relevant information about events in general or about EPIC-related news and happenings.
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++ Honour the emigrants in your family
Give the emigrants in your family the recognition they deserve this St. Patrick’s Day. Add their name to EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum’s unique online exhibition “The Power of a Name”. Find out more: epicchq.com/names
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++ Easter around the world – Workshop
Fri 26 Mar – 10:30-11:30 – Online – Adm: EUR 25 for a class
Although we can’t travel this Easter, discover how the holiday is celebrated around the world, from water fights in Poland to the Easter Bilby in Australia! EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum’s EPIC Explorers Easter Workshop will take place on 26 March. Suitable for Primary Level Students and special rates available for home school students, contact us for details. epicchq.com/event/epic-explorers-easter-around-the-world-primary-education-groups-exclusive/
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Free events in Dublin this weekend…
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What’s on and free next week….
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Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)
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St. Patrick’s Festival Week 2021 – Hmmmm!
Is it St. Patrick’s Festival Week and while we didn’t expect much from St. Patrick’s Festival 2021, considering the severe restrictions, it is even worse than expected. There could have been talks and discussions and live gigs and other distributed events, but the organisers decided that a TV Station that sends Irish content from 09:30-22:30 every day is good enough for this year.
It would be surprising if many of you will spend a lot of time watching St. Patrick’s TV at stpatricksfestival.ie/spftv It is not that the content of the TV station is bad throughout, there are definitely good programmes included, so check it out, but it watching a St. Patrick’s TV station just has NOTHING to do with an event or a festival. After billion of hours of Netflix and ordinary TV, another TV station from 12-17 March will not excite anybody. But maybe I am wrong and you love it! If that’s the case, please let me know!
One good idea is the Irish Music Magazine event on St. Patrick’s Day: Form 09:00-01:00, so for a total of 16 hours (!!) you can listen to Irish Music performances. There are not many big names on the line-up – John Spillane is probably the most famous of all contributors – but good music doesn’t necessarily need famous performers. The full schedule is in the Wednesday section above, so check it out!
Also have a look at the Seoda Festival (www.cultureireland.ie/news/article/culture-ireland-seoda-5-day-global-online-festival-17-21-march – an online festival and global celebration of Irish culture by Culture Ireland from 17-21 March. |
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FACEBOOK IS BROKEN :-(
Facebook has managed it finally to break their platform completely. I use Facebook quite a lot to find free events for you, but this week is has all gone town the drain. If you select the location “Dublin” and the timeframe Sat+Sun, then you will find out that NO events are taking place. :-O
The whole mess started when they moved to the ugly new layout. Lots of features stopped working and the events section is getting worse instead of better.
Last week at least a few bits were still working, this week they are broken as well. And as you know, nobody in Facebook is intersted in what an awful state their application is. Infuriating!!!!
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National Brain Awareness Week
National Brain Awareness Week runs from 15-21 March and comes with lots of (free) events. Here is a selection:
15 March
+ NAI Online Launch for Brain Awareness Week 2021
+ Music, Dementia and Positive Ageing
+ Epilepsy & Employment Rights Information Session
+ Virtual Bake For Brain Injury with ABI Ireland
+ BRAIN HEALTH: Online Webinar Series
+ Continuing care for neurological conditions in partnership with your GP
16 March
+ A Synthaesthesia Concert for Brain Awareness Week
+ Emotional Literacy – How to navigate anxiety, sadness and change
+ Chronic Pain and Mental Health Ireland – 5 Steps to Wellbeing During Tough Times
17 March
+ Brain Food – Healthy eating habits in Chronic Neurological Conditions
18 March
+ Sabina Brennan: Beating Brain Fog
+ Epilepsy Ireland & Helium Arts Workshop for Children with Epilepsy
19 March
The Benefits of Physical Activity in Neurological Conditions
20 March
+ Webinar: Self-Empowerment and Self-Care Strategies
+ Music Consciousness: How visual are we compared to Synaesthetes?
+ Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland: Mindfulness & Wellbeing
If this topic interests you or if you are affected by issues that have to do with brain health, check out all details here www.loveyourbrain.ie/events
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Wow! What a promotional film!
Normally promotional films are just that: An ad that you blank out. You get something to eat or drink or go to the toilet while ads are showing, right? Well, look at this ad and it will BLOW YOU AWAY!
It is 90seconds long and is an ad for a bowling alley in Minneapolis. It is filmed in one single take and was filmed by a drone.
Seriously impressive: www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-12/hollywood-drone-video-minnesota-bowling-alley/13241718
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IRISH LANGUAGE FESTIVAL – Seachtain na Gaeilge
The Irish language festival “Seachtain na Gaeilge” is continuing for another few days: It will run until 17 March and comes with plenty of free events. I found it a bit difficult to find them on the website snag.ie/ but if your Gaelic is better than mine, you might have more luck! On Facebook I found some. ;-) www.facebook.com/SeachtainnaGaeilge/
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LEARN A NEW SKILL WITH ONLINE COURSES – Special Offer
Is learning a new skill part of your plans for the new year? Maybe it is a language or an instrument or some technical skills? Or NLP or some Business related “soft skills”? Check out Udemy via the link below, they have thousands of courses and there is good chance that what you are looking for is available.
The lowest cost for courses this month will be around 12.99. Check out the website at shor.by/GqCk And if you buy through that link, you help the Dublin Event Guide! ;-)
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READ MORE BOOKS WHILE IN LOCKDOWN
For physical books and e-books I recommend Book Depository because they are usually cheaper than others and they always include delivery for free and by using this link you help the Dublin Event Guide when you purchase a book and it doesn’t cost you a cent: shor.by/BookDepository .
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And this is it for another week! Have a good weekend and new week.
Take care,
–Joerg (dublineventguide@gmail.com) |
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