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Is there a future for the Dublin Event Guide? You decide! Events: Science Week and Diwali

Hi all!

Difficult times for everybody in all areas and as it looks, this will go on for another good while.

We will definitely stay in lockdown until 01 Dec if you listen to the rumblings from the government. Then they will give us some “day release” until just after Christmas and with families getting together over Christmas, it wouldn’t be surprising if we will be in another lock down in January. :-O

Here is the counter that shows you how long it will be until the current lockdown is over:

… days until life will continue.
(The Countdown Timer can not be seen in the Facebook Post at www.Facebook.com/DublinEventGuide but you can check it out in the weekly Dublin Event Guide newsletter in your Inbox (if you have subscribed) and on www.dublineventguide.com.)

Uff! That’s not a great outlook. I haven’t seen my parents, who are in their eighties, since last Christmas and it looks as if I won’t see them anymore this year. And at that age, the countdown timer is running much faster than at a younger age, so every month is precious.

What can we do to lift ourselves up? I have some suggestions at the end of this Dublin Event Guide. Check the section after the events where you find the “more events and suggestions.” ;-)

For the Dublin Event Guide there are also some challenges: Last week just two (very appreciated!!) people helped with a donation. And on top of that, Facebook decided to only show the weekly Facebook Post at www.Facebook.com/DublinEventGuide to only HALF the normal number of people. Facebook engagement (that’s where your help is essential) is down significantly, so Facebook gets the impression you are not keen on seeing the weekly post and then doesn’t show more people.

So this week, I need your input and it is serious! Please help me understand if you still like the Dublin Event Guide or not. The question is quite simple. It is “Would you miss the Dublin Event Guide if it went on a break until live events are back after Covid?” Please vote here shor.by/pIrR or click in the red button below. This is an important chance to influence the future of the Dublin Event Guide!

I am not asking for a lot, but I think one or two Euro per MONTH is a very fair suggestion. So for the year, this would be 12 Euro or – for people you can afford a bit more – just 24 Euro per year! That is ONLY 23 or 46 cent per Dublin Event Guide edition! An amazingly low cost for the great value that you get every week! :-)

Please donate via www.paypal.me/DublinEventGuide
or for Revolut users among you just via 0872931571.

And if 12 Euro is too much for you, then it would be great if you bought one or two or even three virtual coffees for the Dublin Event Guide and you can do that on the “Buy Me a Coffee” page here www.buymeacoffee.com/DublinEventG

Thank you very very much!

The EPIC Zone

And here are as many free events for you as I could find:

I hope everybody knows that all events in the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events) are actually free. The name does give it away ;-) but it seems not everyone is totally aware of that!

Saturday

+++ Science Week 08-15 November www.sfi.ie/events/
+ How to Create Certainty in Uncertainty – Yoga & Coaching Workshop 10:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/373854244053814/ (Booking required)
+ Cookery Class with Giuseppe Crupi 11:00-12:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/372444190772555/
+ Herbert Park Market 11:00-16:00 Herbert Park, Dublin 4 www.facebook.com/Herbert-Park-Market-405930226496273/
+ Blackrock Market 11:00-17:30 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin www.facebook.com/BlackrockMarket/
+ Diwali Recital Online – Chester Beatty Library 12:00-13:00 chesterbeatty.ie/whats-on/music-for-diwali-online/
+ Sunday Organ Recitals in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral 12:15-13:15 Online www.facebook.com/events/1051332581964281/

+ Sundays@Noon Online: Sharon Carty – mezzo-soprano, Finghin Collins – piano – Hugh Lane Gallery 12:00-13:00 Online www.hughlane.ie/forthcoming-sunday-concerts/3056-sundaysnoon-online-sharon-carty-mezzo-soprano-finghin-collins-piano
+ Science of Style – How do Neuroscience and Evolution impact on our Fashion Choices? Seminar for young people (13-17 years) 17:30-18:30 gaietyschool.com/product/science-of-style/ (Booking required)
+ From Monaghan to Medicine: An Interview with Prof. Sam Mc Conkey – Science Week Event 19:00-20:00 www.facebook.com/events/391543628895560/ (Booking required)
+ Science of Confidence – Masterclass/Seminar for Adults – Science Week Event 19:00-20:00 Online gaietyschool.com/product/science-of-confidence/
+ Piper Sunday Seminar with Nollaig McCarthaigh – Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club 19:00-20:30 Online www.facebook.com/events/1190960187927858/
+ Gardiner Street Gospel Choir – Online Mass 19:30-20:30 Online www.facebook.com/events/618767912076311/

I found a few more things to keep you going or that you might find interesting:

11) SCIENCE WEEK
From Sunday 08 Nov until next Sunday is Science Week in Ireland and there will be lots of interesting events, but this year you will have to watch out for a new feature. When you go to the events page at www.sfi.ie/events/ my natural reaction was to select “Dublin” as the events location. And then I was surprised that there were lots of events “missing” that I knew about. So this year you also have to consider the category “Online” with over 30 events!
I have a few Science Week events listed above, but it is a very small selection, so you should definitely spend the time to go to the Science Week website.

2) LIFT UP THE LOCKDOWN MOOD
Plenty people give advice on what to do during lockdown. how not to panic and how to keep your spirits up and always one aspect is the longterm effect and longterm prospects of these restrictions. I expect that we will start seeing improvements by middle of next year. No, it won’t be a total lifting of all restrictions, but a gradual softening because we will “normalise” Covid. After more than a year there will also be more reliable research available and the treatment methods will have improved so that normalisation is to be expected. “Normalisation” really mans, that we will start accepting the Covid risks in a similar way as we accept lots of other risks in our lives as normality. Most people don’t freak out when they cross the street, they are aware that it is a risk and they are as careful as possible.
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But mid of next year is still a good while away, so what should we do in the meantime? Apart from keeping yourself busy I found one really good suggestion that I would like to share. The suggestion was about things that you love and now miss hugely: Pick ONE thing that you really miss doing/experiencing and brainstorm with yourself or with others about what you could do to NEARLY experience in in the current “new normality”? So how could you modify that experience that you get as close as possible to it, even now?
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Don’t expect that it will be easy! If you particularly enjoy traveling to Mauritius and do snorkeling there, then taking the bus to Sandycove and snorkeling there might not cut it. But maybe you can recreate other aspects: Some foods that you like when you travel. The relaxation that you experience because you read books or go for long walks. So compromises will be necessary, but if you look for the SOME of the essential things that you like then you might be able to recreate some. ;-) Let me know if that suggestion helps!

3) EXPERIMENTAL VIRTUAL SCIENCE GALLERY TOURS
The current Science Gallery exhibition is called “Invisible” and we could joke that it has that name, because we can’t see the exhibition due to the lockdown, but this was not the reason for that name. ;-) Instead, the exhibition shows how science, art and philosophy help imagining the unseen and questioning the invisible.
I was able to see the exhibition on the day the first lockdown was announced in March, which was the day when “Invisible” should have been launched.
To let more people visit the exhibition virtually, the Science Gallery mediators are running virtual tours now on an experimental basis and if you want to participate in such a tour, you can book it via the link below. New slots will be added every week, so if there are no slots available, come back!
dublin.sciencegallery.com/news/were-launching-experimental-virtual-trips-to-invisible

4) LEARN A NEW SKILL WITH ONLINE COURSES – Special Offer
I just bought two new Udemy courses last week, how about you? What skills are you adding during lockdown? Udemy courses are still super popular because as long as we still spend a lot of time at home, it makes sense to use some of that time to learn something new.
Did you learn a new skill in the last few months? In November most Udemy courses will cost between EUR 10.99 and 12.99 again. But fopr one short day on Wednesday 11 November, the price for all courses will drop to 10.99. That is the day to buy lots! ;-) There are no 9.99 discounts planned this month, so you better get the courses when you see them for between 10.99 and 12.99. Please use this link shor.by/GqCk because if you buy through that link, you help the Dublin Event Guide! ;-)

5) READ MORE BOOKS
A new free Book summary can be found here every week: readitfor.me/91927 Readitfor.me actually provides a number of weekly free book summaries and they also have a special offer at the moment still that will expire soon: For $99 you will get Lifetime access to ALL book summaries! This is a great price if you consider that their normal monthly charge is EUR 10, so in just 10 month you would have spent more than with the lifetime access.
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To buy 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). Please don’t use any other links than the one below!! (Book Depository changed all their links and with the old one you don’t help the Dublin Event Guide.) With this link you do help the Dublin Event Guide when you purchase a book and it doesn’t cost you a cent: shor.by/BookDepository