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Great news from the Dublin Event Guide and LOTS of new free events!

I called it a “refreshed” look, because the changes will be not like the bad move from Facebook’s old to the new layout. It will be a gradual move that goes step by step and will start with small steps. But let me know next week what you think. :-)

Last week I mentioned that I need to buy a software license to help with the new look for close to 180 Euro per year. And with your HUGE help, we made a massive step towards that. I got donations of EUR 85 last week because of this and that is super news! If we could get the same amount together again this week, we are so close that I will definitely be able to go ahead. (Links for donations are following a couple of paragraphs down.) Everybody who already has helped: YOU ARE AMAZING! Thank you! :-)))

Lockdown until at least 05 March? Should I even mention it? I think I won’t this week it is just too depressing. We will just “mosey on” with all the online events and get the Dublin Event Guide into ship-shape for when the real-life events will start again.

I spent a good few hours on transferring the current layout to the new system and now I just need another bit of help with the cost for the software. 95 Euro are needed and every bit closer to the target helps!

If just 8 people helped with 12 Euro each (That’s just one Euro per month and for that you get four, sometimes five editions per month!) Can we make that happen?

Please use the links below! Your contribution really counts!

Please 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.)

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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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. ;-)

Saturday

++ The Science of Birds – Science Show (Age: 5-100) – Theatre of Science UK 10:00-11:00 www.facebook.com/events/747693589497758
+ Imbolc Meditation – Shamanic Yoga Dance Aura-Soma 10:00-11:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/424719958964620/
+ CONFIRMED (but Food Traders only): Blackrock Market 11:00-17:30 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin www.facebook.com/BlackrockMarket/
+ Worlds Without End: Stories Around Borders – Talk by Lawrence Abu Hamdan – Hugh Lane Gallery 11:00-12:00 Online www.hughlane.ie/lectures/forthcoming-lectures/3130-wwe-31-january-2021 (Booking required)

+ Ceviche Vegetarian and Regular Ceviche – Cooking Webinar – VivoClass Cooking School 17:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/3607931159305380/
+ Piper Sunday Seminar with Michael McGoldrick – Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club 19:00-20:30 Online www.facebook.com/events/399234627797222
+ Gardiner Street Gospel Choir – Online Mass 19:30-20:30 Online www.facebook.com/events/174788164000643
+ MONCRIEFF – Gig – Livestream from Cyprus Avenue, Cork 20:00-20:45 Online www.facebook.com/events/165899205009503/
+ El Troubadours Acoustic Nights – Live Gig 21:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/439286080592794

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

1) Virtual Tour of “No. 29 Georgian House Museum”
Mrs. Olivia Beatty moved to No. 29 Fitzwilliam Street in November 1794 and the “No. 29 Georgian House Museum” wonderfully tells her story. Until a few years ago you were able to visit this museum and it was VERY popular. Watch the Virtual Experience here www.numbertwentynine.ie/ or check out the video tour www.numbertwentynine.ie/explore/video-tour and if you like it, PLEASE read the next section below here as well!

2) ESB is closing “No. 29 Georgian House Museum” – DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!
Back in 2013 I got involved in an initiative to save the great No. 29 Georgian House Museum” in Fitzwilliam Street. The museum was opened by the ESB as a form of compensation for knocking down a whole range of Georgian Houses in Fitzwilliam Street to build their (pot ugly) corporate headquarter. But in 2013 they had enough of it and wanted to shut it down. With a public uproar and support from lots of people, including the RTE Liveline show, the ESB got the message and decided to stop the wonderful guided tours but to keep the museum open.
When they decided to replace the ugly office building with a new one, they closed the museum again in 2017 but promised to re-open it once the rebuild is completed.
However the Irish Times reported last Monday (www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/esb-seeks-to-turn-museum-into-luxury-apartments-for-sale-1.4466780) that the ESB now has decided to replace the popular museum with 3 luxury apartments. :-O What a shock! Please tell everyone about it! It would be a crying shame if this great museum was closed for good!
A “Reopen No.29 Georgian House Museum” signature campaign was started in Uplift (my.uplift.ie/petitions/reopen-no-29-georgian-house-museum). But it needs help!

3) Spread Your Wings (Donne-moi des ailes) – Movie
By total coincidence, I came across this new French film “Spread Your Wings (Donne-moi des ailes)” and it looks so good that I have to mention it this week. It will available for free online screening from  31 January until 28 February to viewers in Ireland only and after seeing the trailer (youtu.be/WxGXbsiDhw0) I think you HAVE to watch it. There is a downside: The film is in French with English subtitles and you will see in the trailer that it can be difficult to keep up.
The film is about a videogame-addicted teenager who is sent by his mother to spend the school holidays with his father in the beautiful, wetlands of the Camargue region in Southern France. The father is a visionary scientist who studies migrating geese. Father and son begin to bond as they come together on a madcap plan: to save an endangered species of geese. The pair plan to lead the geese they’ve raised onto new and safer migration routes, guiding them to Norway.
Read the full summary on the booking page below. Watching the film is free in Ireland, but you have to book here billetto.ie/e/the-green-night-of-ideas-free-online-screening-spread-your-wings-tickets-506580

4) Market Queens – New Dublin Ballad
Thomas Goulding (www.facebook.com/thomasgouldingsongwriting), a song writer from Dublin, wrote a great new song celebrating the women in Moore Street. It is called “Market Queens” and, sung by Paul Stone, you can listen to it here: www.facebook.com/thomasgouldingsongwriting/videos/724608024858990/
Thomas asked if you could maybe spread the word about it, if you like his song!

5) Choirs for Cancer 2021
At this big Choir Event for World Cancer Day, 20 choirs from all over the world are coming together (virtually) to remember people that were affected by cancer. You can watch it online on Thursday 04 February  from 19:00-20:30 and you will get the details via  www.eventbrite.ie/e/choirs-for-cancer-2021-tickets-137773378885 The YouTube Channel where the event is taking place on Thursday is here gturl.eu/ChoirsForCancer

6) 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! ;-)

7) 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  .