BLOOD is the title of the new Science Gallery exhibition that will run from 24 Oct – 25 Jan.

25 exhibits explore the symbolic, scientific and strange nature of blood and there are certainly some “out there” contributions. For example the video and relics from a bio-art performance where an artist had a blood transfusion form a horse. Or a spoof brand that uses bloodstain-formed fashion accessories addressing the stigma about men strual blood.

But there are quirky things as well, like the Jukebox that will guess your age by taking your pulse rate and playing a song from your teenage years. And there are some practical aspects: You can take a test that will determine your blood type and you can find out what happens to to donated blood in Ireland.

An interesting exhibition, but different than what you have seen before in the Science Gallery and that is reflected by the recommendation that the exhibition is only suitable for over 15 year olds.

If you are ok with the focus on this red substance that makes some of us a bit queasy when we think about it, you should definitely go to the exhibition (and bring an open mind ;-) ). But if blood makes your knees wobbly, then it might not be for you.

Admission to the exhibition is free

“Altrove” is Roberto Bertoni’s new collection of short stories and a reading will take place as part of the Italian Language Week.

As part of an interntaional series of lectures the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends will be informing about a special path to health and happiness at numerous events in Ireland as well. Bruno Groening was a German “Miracle healer” who was active in the 1940s and 1950s.

He believed that health was the natural state of all living things and told his followers that one can maintain health and heal from illness by absorption of a Divine life force that he called “Heilstrom” (“Healing Stream”).

Two doctors will talk at the events in Ireland about the healings based on the Groening teachings. Groening himself died in 1959 only 52 years young from stomach cancer.

If you are interested in these events, it might be advisable to spend some time on www.bruno-groening.org/english/default.htm so that you can find out if it is really for you. Admission to the talks is free, donations are appreciated.

Friday 24 Oct, 19:00 Carnegie Court Hotel, North St, Swords
Saturday 25 Oct, 11:00 Jurys Inn Hotel, Coustom House Quay, Dublin 1
Saturday 25 Oct, 15:00 Carlton Hotel, Blanchardstown, Dublin 11
Saturday 25 Oct 19:00 Metro Hotel Dublin Airport, Sentry Cross, Ballymun Road, Dublin 9
Sunday 02 Nov 11:00 Citywest Hotel, Saggart, Co. Dublin
Sunday 02 Nov 17:00 Beacon Hotel,Sandyford, Dublin 11

Planet Parade are performing in Whelan’s and admission is free.

Folk-Rock 5-piece Stephen Young & The Union are performing in Sweeney’s.

The Brady’s Sessions is a monthly singer/songwriter night in Gub Dandy’s at Brady’s Pub Terenure. Admission is free and this month’s line-up is:

Wilbury, Sue Callaghan, Boxhed, Dermot Reynolds, Anthony Roe, Benny Volance

We Went Down And Knoxville Morning are performing on Friday and this is also the Fancy Dress Halloween Party Night at Mother Reilly’s, so make sure you dress up.

Left, Right & Centre will perform their Blues & Soul in Arthur’s Pub and admission is free.

The Guilty Party are back in Whelan’s with a free gig on Friday.

Go Swim and Galans will both be playing in the Night Howl slot in Whelan’s. Admission is free if you arrive before 22:30 OR if you sing-up for the guest list via the site below.

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 Bram Stoker Festival took the legacy of Dublin horror novelist Bram Stoker and his gothic novel ‘Dracula’ as inspiration for a whole range of events from large-scale spectacles including a gothic ball, to small performances in unusual spaces, along with a whole range of film and literary events.

The full schedule of events is here: www.bramstokerfestival.com/events/

There is a huge amount of events and as much as possible, I have listed the free events in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events). Many free events required pre-booking and are full, but there are still a few events for you to go without any tickets.

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).

Mrs Doubtfayre is a stage show and a craft market. The stage show/musical is not free (EUR 12.50 or via some deals websites EUR 6), but admission to the craft fair is free.

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

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.

“New in the Old City” is series of mini festivals in Cow’s Lane in Temple Bar and “Unravel” celebrates the start of the colder months with all things felt, yarn and woolly.

On Sat+Sun come to see craft installations and take part in felting and knitting workshops, or see how the professionals do it. There will be handcrafted and designer fashion available from the Cow’s Lane and West Essex Street makers and retailers.

Viruses, for example, is a special installation of felted sculptures inspired by the microscopic shapes and vibrant colours of common viruses. They are created by felt-maker and designer Niki Collier of Cow’s Lane Designer Studio.

All open-air workshops are next to the Gaiety School of Acting on Cow’s Lane. No registration is required but places at the workshops are limited (frist come, first served basis).

The programme schedule is outlined here:

Sat 25 Oct
———-
+ 10:00-11:30 Craft Bombing with artist Niamh Synott (decorate lamp-posts and trees with knitting and felt)
+ 11:00-17:00 Mini-weaving Loom & The Arty Weaver – Designer Mart
+ 11:30-12:15 A Good Yarn – Storytelling for children (3-7 years)
+ 13:00-16:00 Giant Felted Wall – Open-air workshop for children aged 4+
+ 13:00-16:00 Family Knitting Stall – Open-air knitting
+ 14:00-16:00 Learn to Knit with Dublin Knit Collective – Knitting class
Bring your own knitting needles (5.5-7mm) and some bright yarn that’s easy to see.

Sun 26 Oct
———-
+ 12:30-13:15 A Good Yarn – Storytelling for children (3-7 years)
+ 13:00-16:00 Felt your Foe or Fear – felting with maker and designer Niki Collier
(Make a piece of felt art from an old/orphan sock. For children aged 5 years and over. Bring a lonely or odd sock from home with you.)
+ 14:00-16:00 Learn to Knit with Dublin Knit Collective – Knitting class
Bring your own knitting needles (5.5-7mm) and some bright yarn that’s easy to see.

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.

As part of an interntaional series of lectures the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends will be informing about a special path to health and happiness at numerous events in Ireland as well. Bruno Groening was a German “Miracle healer” who was active in the 1940s and 1950s.

He believed that health was the natural state of all living things and told his followers that one can maintain health and heal from illness by absorption of a Divine life force that he called “Heilstrom” (“Healing Stream”).

Two doctors will talk at the events in Ireland about the healings based on the Groening teachings. Groening himself died in 1959 only 52 years young from stomach cancer.

If you are interested in these events, it might be advisable to spend some time on www.bruno-groening.org/english/default.htm so that you can find out if it is really for you. Admission to the talks is free, donations are appreciated.

In three locations this event takes place today:

Saturday 25 Oct, 11:00 Jurys Inn Hotel, Coustom House Quay, Dublin 1
Saturday 25 Oct, 15:00 Carlton Hotel, Blanchardstown, Dublin 11
Saturday 25 Oct 19:00 Metro Hotel Dublin Airport, Sentry Cross, Ballymun Road, Dublin 9
Sunday 02 Nov 11:00 Citywest Hotel, Saggart, Co. Dublin
Sunday 02 Nov 17:00 Beacon Hotel,Sandyford, Dublin 11

Chris O’Dowd and Nick V. Murphy will be signing their book “Moone Boy: The Blunder Years”.

Admission is free.

The Main Hall of the RDS in Ballsbridge is the location where each of the 13,000+ Dublin City Marathon participants has to collect his/her race number and race pack and in the same venue is a small expo where you can buy equipment (clothes and shoes) and food and other aids for Marathon participants.

Admission is free.

Drop-in and meet zoologist Geraldine Breen at the Discovery Zone and get up close to some of the largest teeth and scariest skulls in the animal kingdom. Age 7+. No booking required. Admission is free.

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

Kevin Bridges will be signing copies of his book “We Need to Talk About…”

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.

Explore the exciting sagas, legends and beliefs of the Vikings through shadow puppetry with artist Roisin Coyle. For Ages 8+. The event takes place at 11:30-12:30 and 14:00-15:00 in the Learning Resource Room on the first floor.

Admission is free, but places are limited book via 01 648 6332

BLOOD is the title of the new Science Gallery exhibition that will run from 24 Oct – 25 Jan.

25 exhibits explore the symbolic, scientific and strange nature of blood and there are certainly some “out there” contributions. For example the video and relics from a bio-art performance where an artist had a blood transfusion form a horse. Or a spoof brand that uses bloodstain-formed fashion accessories addressing the stigma about men strual blood.

But there are quirky things as well, like the Jukebox that will guess your age by taking your pulse rate and playing a song from your teenage years. And there are some practical aspects: You can take a test that will determine your blood type and you can find out what happens to to donated blood in Ireland.

An interesting exhibition, but different than what you have seen before in the Science Gallery and that is reflected by the recommendation that the exhibition is only suitable for over 15 year olds.

If you are ok with the focus on this red substance that makes some of us a bit queasy when we think about it, you should definitely go to the exhibition (and bring an open mind ;-) ). But if blood makes your knees wobbly, then it might not be for you.

Admission to the exhibition is free

Brian O’Driscoll will be signing copies of his autobiography ‘The Test’ in Eason O’Connell Street.

Admission is free.

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.

Come to Blackrock for “Scary Saturday”, a Halloween-themed family fun day.

Organised by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Blackrock’s retailers, this free event will see a wide range of activities taking place in the Blackrock Shopping Centre, the Frascatti Shopping Centre and on Blackrock Main Street.

There will be a fancy dress contest for kids, a special haunted tent , face painting for kids and special effects makeup for older kids.

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.

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

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

Dress up in your finest bloody threads and choose to dance with the goths or walk among the dead. Join hundreds of participants who have transformed into Goths and Zombies for a thrilling walk through the city. Working with choreographer Megan Kennedy from junk ensemble this will be a dance off unlike anything seen before – arms and legs may go flying as Zombies face off the Goths.

The two areas were they assemble are Grafton Street and Georges Street. I wonder where the clash will happen. Maybe near the Gaiety Theatre? (This is just a guess!!)

To celebrate Dublin Elephant Month join zoologist Catherine McGuinness to learn more about elephants, including how they are linked to the legend of the cyclops. For Age 6+.

Admission is free, but places limited. Book via 01 648 6307

Chris O’Dowd and Nick V. Murphy will be signing their book “Moone Boy: The Blunder Years”.

Admission is free.

A Contact Improv Workshop with Tom Pritchard will take place and will be followed by a jam in the evening. Admission is free and all levels are welcome.

The Progressive Film Club screen “The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community” on Saturday the club’s “Green Day”. It begins with the “The Last Ice Merchant” at 15:00, followed by the main feature at 15:30.

“THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE accepts the consensus of scientists that climate change has already arrived, and asks, what is keeping us from action? The film explores how unlimited growth and greed are destroying the life support system of the planet, the social fabric of society, and the lives of billions of people.”

Admission is free, donations are appreciated.

The Spanish National Classical Theatre Company (Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico) presents a performance by three of its actors, accompanied by a musician. The show will include titles of the Spanish Golden Age such as La vida es sueño and El alcalde de Zalamea by Calderón de la Barca, as well as El perro del Hortelano, by Lope de Vega.

Admission is free, but booking is strongly advised via reservas.dublin@cervantes.es

Sweeney Todd allegedly bled his victims to death before dumping them out of his barbers chair into the basement. But many barbers around that time were interested in blood letting to heal, not to kill. Blood on the Streets is series of public performance lectures that will all take place in the window of a babershop.

On Saturday “The Butcher Barbers” will host Jamie Lewis Hadley and Dr Natasha Malik as they expose the history of bloodletting as a medical practice, tracing its roots in ancient medicine, the rise of the barber-surgeon and our current understanding of this incredible substance. Through a combination of live text, projected images and re-enactment, the key figures, instruments and (often unbelievable) techniques will be explored.

Note: This peformance lecture involves one packet of blood being extracted from Jamie Lewis Hadley’s arm.

Admission is free and no booking required. During the event the audience will be outside on the street.

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.

FOAD will feature Alternative Rock Bands: The sons of Robert Mitchum, The Black Pits, Night Blind, Suzaku Avenue.

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 Devils Jukebox is live music from 20:00-23:00 and DJs with Alternative, Punk, Rock, Metal & Garage after that. Every Saturday! Admission is free.

The Romanian Cultural Days in Dublin conclude with an extravaganza of music, imagery and delicious food & drink sampling, featuring the diva of Balkan electro, DJ Nico de Transilvania. Admission is free.

Mid Term Break are a new 6 piece band and they will play hits from 60s – 90s with particular focus on the 80s.

Admission is free.

Rock-Blues Cover band D-Riculous All Stars will play in Sweeney’s.

The 5-piece band Evil Empire will play in Mother Reilly’s. 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.

Higher Ground are performing at 22:00.

Check your clocks! Last night Summer Time ended, which means that the ckocl went BACK by one hour and it would mess up your events schedule today if you forgot.

If you have a smartphone, do NOT change the time on it! Smartphones and computers are summer time aware and do the change by themselves. If you also change the time when you go to bed you will have the wrong time in the morning. BUT in case your phone isn’t smart enough or forgot about the change, check against an old (non-smart clock) to see if all worked fine.

In the worst case ring yout neighbours door and tell him/her: I don’t need any sugar, but I need your time! That could have interesting consequences. :-P

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 Bram Stoker Festival took the legacy of Dublin horror novelist Bram Stoker and his gothic novel ‘Dracula’ as inspiration for a whole range of events from large-scale spectacles including a gothic ball, to small performances in unusual spaces, along with a whole range of film and literary events.

The full schedule of events is here: www.bramstokerfestival.com/events/

There is a huge amount of events and as much as possible, I have listed the free events in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events). Many free events required pre-booking and are full, but there are still a few events for you to go without any tickets.

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.

A new market (flea/vintage/etc) with two cafés has opened in the same location in Thomas Street where the Ferocious Mingle Market was before their move to Camden Street.

The new market in 72 Thomas Street is called Stable Market and it is open from Thursday until Sunday from 10:00-18:00 every day. It seems there is neither a website nor a Facebook Page yet.

The next Dublin Flea Market is taking place in the Food Co-op, 12 Newmarket, just off Cork Street, Dublin 8 on Sun from 11:00-17:00. The flea market takes place every last Sunday of the month and admission is free. For more information or if you want to sell your own stuff, check out www.dublinflea.ie

“A bizarre bazaar of vintage clothing, bric-a-brac and what nots, old and new. Stalls include hand-made goods, art, jewelry, furniture, records and lots more unwanted items that may just be your treasure!”
The Co-op Hall is wheelchair accessible and lots of free parking spaces are right outside the door.

The Main Hall of the RDS in Ballsbridge is the location where each of the 13,000+ Dublin City Marathon participants has to collect his/her race number and race pack and in the same venue is a small expo where you can buy equipment (clothes and shoes) and food and other aids for Marathon participants.

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 well known Palestrina Choir sing every Sunday at the mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. They sing complete masterworks by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Palestrina, de Victoria, usually accompanied by Prof. Gerard Gillen on the organ, who often also plays a solo piece.

The Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

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.

BLOOD is the title of the new Science Gallery exhibition that will run from 24 Oct – 25 Jan.

25 exhibits explore the symbolic, scientific and strange nature of blood and there are certainly some “out there” contributions. For example the video and relics from a bio-art performance where an artist had a blood transfusion form a horse. Or a spoof brand that uses bloodstain-formed fashion accessories addressing the stigma about men strual blood.

But there are quirky things as well, like the Jukebox that will guess your age by taking your pulse rate and playing a song from your teenage years. And there are some practical aspects: You can take a test that will determine your blood type and you can find out what happens to to donated blood in Ireland.

An interesting exhibition, but different than what you have seen before in the Science Gallery and that is reflected by the recommendation that the exhibition is only suitable for over 15 year olds.

If you are ok with the focus on this red substance that makes some of us a bit queasy when we think about it, you should definitely go to the exhibition (and bring an open mind ;-) ). But if blood makes your knees wobbly, then it might not be for you.

Admission to the exhibition is free

The monthly Smithfield Market in the Generator Hostel is making use of Halloween. More than 35 market stalls will sell their wares and there might be a bit of a Halloween atmosphere around.

Live music from 12:00 and film screenings will also be provided in the hostel…including the screening of the Man Utd v Chelsea football game live at 16:00. Will that be spoooky as well? Psycho will be on the screen from 20:00.

Admission is free.

“Made by Hand” or “Hecho a manos” is a new Sunday weekly market in Viva, Portobello with most things made by hand and some vintage clothing and curiosities too. Admission is free.

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

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. 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 the Dublin Song Series 2014-1 with Sarah Shine, soprano, Sean Boylan, baritone and Dearbhla Collins, piano. They are performing Berg: Seven Early Songs and Finzi “Let us Garlands Bring”.

“New in the Old City” is series of mini festivals in Cow’s Lane in Temple Bar and “Unravel” celebrates the start of the colder months with all things felt, yarn and woolly.

On Sat+Sun come to see craft installations and take part in felting and knitting workshops, or see how the professionals do it. There will be handcrafted and designer fashion available from the Cow’s Lane and West Essex Street makers and retailers.

Viruses, for example, is a special installation of felted sculptures inspired by the microscopic shapes and vibrant colours of common viruses. They are created by felt-maker and designer Niki Collier of Cow’s Lane Designer Studio.

All open-air workshops are next to the Gaiety School of Acting on Cow’s Lane. No registration is required but places at the workshops are limited (frist come, first served basis).

The programme schedule is outlined here:

Sun 26 Oct
———-
+ 12:30-13:15 A Good Yarn – Storytelling for children (3-7 years)
+ 13:00-16:00 Felt your Foe or Fear – felting with maker and designer Niki Collier
(Make a piece of felt art from an old/orphan sock. For children aged 5 years and over. Bring a lonely or odd sock from home with you.)
+ 14:00-16:00 Learn to Knit with Dublin Knit Collective – Knitting class
Bring your own knitting needles (5.5-7mm) and some bright yarn that’s easy to see.

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Meet a zoologist and learn about all the animals hiding – from bats to creepy crawlies – in the Dead Zoo this Halloween. For Age 7+.

Admission is free and no booking required, but places are limited to 20 (first come first served basis)

The event takes place at 14:15 and at 15:30.

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

Viking Oval Brooches were a common find in many Viking burial sites across Dublin. Drop in to find out why the Vikings were buried with their favourite belongings and make your own Viking brooch to take home.

Admission is free and no booking required.

“Halloween Pumpkin Carving” is the next Phoenix Park Visitor Centre Talk. Admission is free.

Co-operative housing could offer a way out of the precarious rental market and the trap of long-term mortgage debt, according to Donal O’Driscoll, a member of UK-based co-op network Radical Routes, who will explain how to set such a housing co-op up at this event.

“The model of co-operative housing is well-established in the UK where legal recognition and corporation tax exemptions make the process of setting up a co-op relatively straightforward,” says Donal.

The Radical Routes network has over 35 member co-ops throughout the UK which are residential projects of all shapes and sizes as well as a number of workers co-operatives.

Admission seems to be free.

Panti Bliss will be signing copies of her new book “A Woman in the Making” in Dubray Books.

“‘A Woman is the Making’ is the story of Rory O’Neill’s journey from small town Ireland to becoming Panti Bliss – the voice of a brave new nation, embracing diversity, all the colours of the rainbow, and most of all, a glamorous attitude.”

The yearly Samhain Haunted Forest Walk is coming back to Marlay Park.

“This year’s Samhain will feature a longer route of spook than ever before with more scare footage of chills, freaks and frights than you can shake a broom at. The forest at Marlay Park will be alive, for one night only with freaky fog, ghastly spiders, all seeing eyeballs, spine chilling skeletons, menacing witches and wizards and rotten pirates.
Festoon lighting, sound effects and smoke will all add to the scare factor with the haunted forest open 20:30. The haunted forest is not for the faint hearted or easily freaked! The walk is approx 1.7km long on a path suitable for buggies and wheelchairs.”

(There will be no fireworks!)

The Haunted Woods will be open between 15:30 and 20:30. Admission is free, but ONLY if you have a wristband, Wrsitbands are not available on the day of the event, instead that have to be collected at the DLR Coco Market in Marlay Park on Saturday 25 October from 11:00. And when they are gone, they are gone. (Limited to six per family.)

Entry times to queue for the Haunted Walk will be printed on the wristband and are before 16:00, 16:30, 17:30 , 18:30 and after 19:30.

The website below gives details about how to get there. Check it out because parking is very limited at Marlay Park.

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.

Goth Karaoke is part of the Bram Stoker Festival and will be on Meeting House Square. Claire Biddles from Glasgow has replaced all the usual songs on the karaoke machine with the classics from The Cure, Nick Cave, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and plenty more. Perform live on stage or just watch others sing along to the tunes.

Admission is free and no booking necessary.

House Dublin is a restaurant and bar in Leeson Street. On Sundays the Camembert Quartet is playing in their Green House from 17:00-19:00. Admission is free.

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.

The weekly Sunday Roast is a free event in the Mercantile where live music is combined with free roast potatoes. The line-up for the upcoming Sunday Roast is available via the Sunday Roast Facebook Page (see link below).

In short: The Magpies, TouchWood, TabloidTv, No Longer Player (Solo), Fast Son (Solo).

This weekly Latin Music event will take place every Sunday. You will be able to dance salsa, bachata, merengue, cumbia and reggeaton. Live music, food tasting and free admission, what more could you want?

The guys at the Workman’s Club know how to celebrate bank holidays. A free night of gigs and entertainment will take place again with live music from: Tara, Segrasso, Sissy and The Revellions.

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.

At the Jawbone Gig night in Sin É, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free. For the line-up check here www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

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

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

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

This is not a free event and if you hadn’t planned to run 42 km, now would be a little late to opt for it anyway, but it is a BIG event in Dublin and many people take part by supporting the runners from the side of the street.

Around 13,000 people take part and the first wave of runners starts at 09:00, but the Wheelchair users are already at 08:50 on their way. And then it takes the fastest runners just about 2 hours and 20 minutes (Wheelchairs: 2hrs 30 min) to get from start to finish. The slowest walkers will be 7.5 (!!) hours on the course.

The start is at Fitzwilliam Square and the finish at Merrion Square and you can check the complete route and the times here. I remember that the race course was – at least for the last few kilometres – quite different in previous years, so check the map to find out where you should support the runners/walkers.

Due to the Marathon, quite a number of streets are closed and getting into and out of Dublin City is not completely trivial. Information about street closures is on the AA Ireland website.

The Oktober Bank Holiday Monday is the last holiday before Christmas, so make good use of it. You can expect that nearly all (larger) shops in the City Centre are open.

Buses, Dart and Luas (?) are on weekend schedules and Pay&Display Parking is free on that day.

The Bram Stoker Festival took the legacy of Dublin horror novelist Bram Stoker and his gothic novel ‘Dracula’ as inspiration for a whole range of events from large-scale spectacles including a gothic ball, to small performances in unusual spaces, along with a whole range of film and literary events.

The full schedule of events is here: www.bramstokerfestival.com/events/

There is a huge amount of events and as much as possible, I have listed the free events in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events). Many free events required pre-booking and are full, but there are still a few events for you to go without any tickets.

A cHildren’s Willow Workshop is taking place and is suitable for kids from 7-12 years of age (must be accompanied by an adult). Admission is free, but places are limited and booking is required via 01-6770095.

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.

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The Beerhouse invites you to a free Pumpkin Carving Competition. I am not sure if there are priyes, but your Pumpkin will be compared so it IS a competiton. :-) Pumpkins are provided from 27-31 October every day from 16:00-20:00, you just need to do the carving.

“Macnas take to the streets of Dublin as mercurial tailors with a glee for stitching laughter to darkness, summoning monsters and marvels from drains, lanes and street corners. Creatures , characters, contortions dissolve and are remade and revealed.

Macnas populate this journey with mischief, active imagination, baptism and burial. These new priests and madmen whistle and unleash from the shadows, a haunted air heralding in the slumbering descent of countless agitations on high as they close the night upon the city like a trap door.”

The three routes of the parade are:

1. City Hall towards Capel Street, left at Nealon’s Pub towards Arran Street East and then Mary Street
2. Essex Street, through Temple Bar and Temple Bar Square, then crossing the Milennium Bridge
3. Moore Street, Henry Street, Wolfe Tone Square

A map is on the website below and you will see that it all leads to Wolfetone Square!

Admission to this street spectacle is free.

The Liquor Rooms are inviting to an Arts+Cocktails talk on Monday as the start to their multi-disciplinary series of talks. The three speakers are:

+ Declan Byrne, President of the Bartenders Association of Ireland: “Photography Through the Eyes of a Bartender”
+ Oisin Davis, Champion Mixologist: “Cocktails and Cinema”
+ Alan Kavanagh, Industry Expert: “The Ups and Downs of the Cocktail Umbrella”

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.

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

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

The Crafty Monday Sessions is an Open Mic night for acoustic singer/songwriters and original bands. Admission is free.

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 Pyro Blues Executive play in the Leeson Lounge every Monday and admission is free.

A Diary of Dublin City Library is a pilot programme that will support children to develop their understanding of architecture and its effect and importance to all of us. Suitable for Ages 12+

Working with architect Emmett Scanlon and artist Aoife Giles over three hours and using a variety of creative methodologies, the children will be encouraged to explore architecture through touch, smell, sound and taste as well of course, as sight

The programme runs twice on Tuesday: 11:00-13:00 + 14:00-16:00

For details and a registration form, ring the library at 01-8734333

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

The Dublin City Hall Lecture Lunch Time Series about “Dublin and the Great War” closes with another event. This time it is not a lecture but poetry and songs:

“The saddest songs, those heartfelt rhymes: Songs and Poetry from the Great War” with Francis Devine and Friends, Tom Burke and Alastair Smeaton.

Admission is free.

The Beerhouse invites you to a free Pumpkin Carving Competition. I am not sure if there are priyes, but your Pumpkin will be compared so it IS a competiton. :-) Pumpkins are provided from 27-31 October every day from 16:00-20:00, you just need to do the carving.

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.

Ben Prevo & friends play saucy Blues & soul every Tuesday

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.

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 Imps are a mixed group of young and old experienced performers and here they take on the newest group to hit Dublin in a no holds barred Deathmatch. The teams will take it in turns to play games, the winner being determined by you the audience.

Improvised comedy is totally driven by Audience suggestion and participation but you won’t get picked on! Just bring yourselve and your suggestions to take part in a fun evening of improvised mayhem.

Admission is free and donations are very welcome.

Every Tuesday 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 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 October, 11+25 November and 09+23 December. 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.

Wednesday Walks will take place in and around Phoenix Park from every Wednesday from June to December. Weather permitting, walkers will meet at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (VC) or Farmleigh House (F) at 11:00. Each walk takes about 90 minutes.

Please check the website below for updates or ring the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (01 677 0095) or Farmleigh House (01 815 5914) for further information. Admission is free,

The upcoming walks are:
08 Oct: Guided Tour of Arbour Hill Cemetery (A)
05 Nov: Gate Lodges of Phoenix Park from Ashtown Castle to Castleknock (VC)
03 Dec: Monuments of Phoenix Park (VC)

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 RIA Library’s exhibition (2 July – 30 Jan) is “Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland”. In connection with this exhibition, there will be series of lunchtime lectures covering all aspects of the OS project. Admission is free and booking is not required.

The next lecture is:

Prof. Michael Herity, MRIA: “John O’Donovan’s work for the Ordnance Survey”

The Abbeydale Singers from Sheffield will present a varied programme of music by Tallis, Byrd, Bruckner and Duruflé to a new setting of Yeat’s ‘The Cloths of Heaven’. Admission is free, donations are appreciated.

As a tribute to the Italian actor and director Nino Manfredi, his films will be shown at 13:15 and 18:30 on Thursdays between 02 Oct and 04 Dec. The next screening is on Thursday: “Operazione San Gennaro” by Dino Risi (1966). (In Italian with English subtitles.)

Admission is free.

Patema Inverted is a 2013 Japanese anime fantasy film by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. The film will be screened in the Cheaster Beatty Library in the English version. Admission is free and no booking required.

Over 1,000 years ago, when Ireland was old and Dublin was young, there was a combmaker. His name was Ragnar Olafson. He was born in the year 950AD, a third generation Dublin Viking. Join him to hear stories of Viking Dublin and his brave Scandanavian ancestors. For Age 7+

Admission is free, but places are limited. Book via 01 648 6332.

“‘It’s up to you now to fight for your own country’: the recruitment of Ireland’s Great War veterans into the Irish Republican Army and the Royal Irish Constabulary, 1919-21” with Dr Steven O’Connor, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, TCD is the next talk in the seminar series of the Centre for Contemporary Irish History.

Admission is free.

The Beerhouse invites you to a free Pumpkin Carving Competition. I am not sure if there are priyes, but your Pumpkin will be compared so it IS a competiton. :-) Pumpkins are provided from 27-31 October every day from 16:00-20:00, you just need to do the carving.

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.

“Antarctica Then and Now: The Legacy of Shackleton” by Prof. Rorke Bryanne is the next talk in the RDS library series of talks.

Admission is free.

Introduced by anecdotes and explanations about the Spanish Lyrical Genre, this recital presents the Zarzuela, music that told and sang the Spanish culture in the 19th and 20th century. Tenor Enrique Viana and pianist Miguel Huertas will perform.

Admission is free, but booking is strongly advised via reservas.dublin@cervantes.es

The public lecture “Voices from Mountjoy Prison’s Unmarked Graves” by historian Tim Carey, author of “Mountjoy, The Story of a Prison”, “Croke Park: A History” and his latest publication “Hanged for Murder: Irish State Executions”.

Behind the walls of Mounjoy prison lie the remains of 29 people executed by the State for murder between 1923 and 1954. The stories behind the convictions and the executions of these 28 men and 1 woman look at their personal lives and give an insight into what drove them to commit the crimes.

Admission is free and booking is not required.

Boka Recordings will feature Phazam Haze and Vernon Jane on Wednesday. Admission is free.

The arts variety show, Endless Rain features a mix of poetry, prose and comedy from upcoming and established Irish talent.

And this is how Colm Kearns, the organiser of this event, describes it: “Given that Halloween is on the horizon, expect scares a plenty! We’ll be foretelling the grisly deaths of our errant audience members. This month will also feature deranged storyteller, Boris Belony (author of Transmorphosis and Other Short Story); Stephen Hill (The Runt) disturbing the audience with his weird tales; and the ample comic talents of reigning Endless Rain champion, James Moran. Also, all attendees are welcome to try their luck at ‘The Pun-ger Games,’ our open invitation pun contest!”

Admission is free.

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

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up.

“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.

Every Wednesday 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.

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.

On 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 Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

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.

Prof James Wickham will talk about “After the Party’s Over: Ireland’s employment model and the surprising survival of the welfare state” at this lunchtime seminar.

You are invited to bring your lunch to the lecture and eat during the seminar.

RSVP to Sylvia Byrne on 01 6169050 or by email to sbyrne@tasc.ie if you wish to attend.

An Indian Music Concerts with Debajyoti Sanyal, tabla, Philip Horan, bansuri and Sudipto Das, vocal will take place.

Admission is free and donations are appreciated.

Imagine if you could make a real city, or change the one you live in – what kind of city would you make? Explore the cityscape around Collins Barracks in this workshop for families with children (6-12 years) with architect and educator Orla Murphy, then create your own wonderful city plan.

Booking required via 01-6777444, admission is free and materials are provided.

In Norse mythology, Huginn and Muninn are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world and bring back information for the Viking god Odin. Come to discover more about the beliefs of the Vikings and their celebrations at this time of year and make your own spooky raven mask to take home. Halloween costumes welcome.

Admission is free and no booking required.

How do you secure the favour of the Pagan Gods? What is life like for a sea-faring warrior? What was the most horrible thing the Vikings ate? Meet Viking characters from Montague Heritage Services who will talk you through the various aspects of life in Viking Age Dublin. Meet a coin-striking Silversmith, a fearsome Warrior and a hardworking Viking Housewife.

Admission is free and booking not required.

The Beerhouse invites you to a free Pumpkin Carving Competition. I am not sure if there are priyes, but your Pumpkin will be compared so it IS a competiton. :-) Pumpkins are provided from 27-31 October every day from 16:00-20:00, you just need to do the carving.

On teh evening before Halloween, two films will be screened on Wolfe Tone Square. Dublin City invites to the screenings

+ The Hotel Transylvania at 18:00
+ The Wolf Man at 20:00

Admission is free and no booking required (I assume first come first served.)

New Island launch a new book “D’You Remember Yer Man? A Portrait of Dublin’s Famous Characters” by Bobby Aherne with illustrations by Ruan van Vliet in the Pearse Street Library on Thursday. Guest Speaker is Tom Rowley of storymap.ie

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-2784225

The film “Hector” (2004) will be screened in the new film series “Feminine Space”. Admission is free. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Forum Polonia invites you to the public lecture by Dr Antje Roeder “Thank you Ireland – Ten years of Polish post-accession migration”.

This public lecture is part of a series of events organised to celebrate ten years since Polish EU accession. It will give an overview of research on migration from Poland since its accession to the European Union in 2004 and outline current trends and likely future developments. Ireland was one of the main receiving countries of post-accession migration and is now home to a large community of Poles.

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

“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 egaldog@gmail.com or 085-2725095

Comedians, poets, musicians and even choirs can come to this Open Mic night and perform. If you fancy getting involved email us at info@ruared.ie or call 01 4515860

Admission is free.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (DBE, FRS, FRAS) will talk about “Pulsars and tests of Einsteins General Relativity”. The lecture is open to everyone and seems to be free. For more information contact stalker@maths.tcd.ie

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.

The Max Zaska group and the Patrick Groenland group will perform on alternating Thursdays from 21:00 in the International Bar on 23 Wicklow Street.

Featuring The Cabin Crew – Spats Davenport (guitar), Con Butler (bass), Gerry Fitzpatrick (dobro), Cathy McEvoy (fiddle), Christian Volkmann (harmonica), Dave Hardy (sax/clarinet) and Special Guests: Tom Horan (folk/country), Sue Callaghan (contemporary), and from Belfast – Janet Holmes & Colin Henry (folk/country).

Admission is free.

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 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 Ferocious Mingle Marcade (Market and Arcade) is back in a new location. The Marcade is now in Camden Street next to Daintree Paper and opposite the Centra and off-license there. It takes place every Thurs-Sun and is a flea-market-type permanent market with stalls and “chalets” for traders.

Come to the National Print Museum for a fun pumpkin inspired Halloween storytelling session. After the story, children will be invited to create their own paper pumpkins in a short guided activity. There will also be many self-guided Halloween arts and crafts to enjoy. Suitable for 3-7 year olds.

Admission is free, but spaces are limited and will be allocated on first come, first served basis….and you are asked to be there by 11:20 for a prompt start.

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 Beerhouse invites you to a free Pumpkin Carving Competition. I am not sure if there are priyes, but your Pumpkin will be compared so it IS a competiton. :-) Pumpkins are provided from 27-31 October every day from 16:00-20:00, you just need to do the carving.

The Otherworls Festival in Ballymun takes place again this year at Halloween. It starts with a Parade from Dane Road at 17:15 via Balbutcher Lane to the Ballymun Plaza where it will arrive at 18:00. At the Plaza there will be live music with Rachel McCormack and other performances. Check the Facebook Page for details.

Admission is free.

The Finglas Halloween Festival will take place on Friday.

The festivities start with the Finglas Frightnight Parade. The parade will go from Finglas Celtic Football Club, Deanstown Avenue, via Deanstown Road, Ratoath Avenue, Abbottstown Raod and Abbottstown Avenue to Cardiffsbridge Road and will then go via Kildonan Road and Kildonan Avenue to the Finglas Civic Centre, Mellowes Road.

Highlights during evening are Live Music, Ghost Train, Haunted Forest, Magic Show, Children’s Rollercoaster, Carousel, Tea Cups, Bouncy Castles and Fair ground games.

The main attraction is a spectacular fireworks display which will take place at the rear of Finglas Civic Centre.

Admission is free.

A Science Gallery Halloween Party with live music by Ships and Little Xs for eyes, with a black pudding demo, performances, comedy and the brand new Science Gallery exhibition “Blood”. Admission is free, but booking is requried via Eventbrite on the website below.

A spooky Halloween Lantern Parade for all kids will take place in Naul. Bring your lanterns and dress up. Admission is free.

High Society will play Jazz and Swing at this free gig.

Takin’ The Mic Open-Mic Night is an open mic night at the Irish Writers’ Centre, taking place one Friday every month. Writers, spoken-word artists and musicians are all welcome to perform. Names of contributors are taken from 19:00, so arrive early if you want to perform. Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. BYOB

This month the theme is Halloween, so bring your ghostly stories, poems, prose or music.

Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus have garnered an audience of more than 2 million readers at TheMinimalists.com, where they write about living a meaningful life with less stuff. They are the bestselling authors of five books and are coming to Dublin to promote their book, talk about their life with less and answer your questions.

I am definitely not a Minimalist, but I will go to that talk and hopefully I will learn something. :-)

Admission is free. Book via the Eventbrite site here.

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 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

The Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet at the Martello Tower car park in Sandymount 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. If the weather is too poor it is not going ahead and that information will be on the website.

Rhythm&Blues / Rock ‘n’ Roll 3-piece The 68s will be in Sweeney’s for a free gig.

The gig is announced for 20:00-03:00, but that is clearly not the case. Unfortunately Sweeney’s gig times seem to be always wrong. There is nothing wrong in enticing people to come to a pub a bit earlier, we all need to make money somehow. But maybe announcing a gig for 20:00-03:00 that possibly only takes place at midnight and lasts for 1.5 hours or so, is stretching that understanding for the commercial needs a little.

Popular Irish Folk Band Gypsy Rebel Rabble will play a free gig in Sweeney’s.

“Electric Fridays with DUB” is a weekly gig/open mic night in the basement of The International Bar. Admission is free.

Musicians, artists, bands who want to play a 25 min set should contact the organisers via the Facebook page below. A PA and some equipment is available.

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 and the DJs Tommy Rash and Fukszy are on the decks until late. Admission is free.

The Guilty Party are back in Whelan’s with a free gig on Friday.

60’s / Pop / Rock covers band Sosueme will play in Mother Reilly’s for the first time.