700th Dublin Event Guide!!
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Birthday Edition, Summertime Starts, OUTing the Past
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Hi all!
This is the 700th Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)!! What a crazy number. ;-) Crazy, because it means that for 700 weeks I am creating this list of free events. It started very very humble with an e-mail to about 10 friends close to 14 years ago, in June 2007. By Christmas of that year I had told 180 people and then it was a sloooow, overnight success :-D when the subscriber numbers kept climbing and climbing.
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The original plan was just to let some friends know about great free events that were poorly promoted, so that I could meet up with them. But more and more people saw the merit in that idea and the growth was something that I had never anticipated or planned. If it had been planned, I would have tried to compile a business plan and find a way to make money with it and – to be honest – I would have seen that it is a bad idea. :-D
Today, 700 weeks later and after nearly giving up in 2018, but emerging from a 3 months break with new energy, I am still spending toooo many hours on searching for free events week after week and am still not making ANY money from the “Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)”, BUT I have managed to help 1 or 2 people to find some cool events and 1 or 2 organisers to find a very appreciative audience. So it is all worth it! ….I Hope! :-)The Dublin Event Guide now has 24,000 subscribers and more than 80,000 Facebook Followers and a loyal following even during the last 12 months of nearly NO real-life events. And as long as I have your support, I will add a few more editions to the 700.
If you want to send birthday wishes, you can do that below this week’s post on Facebook or to dublineventguide@gmail.com and for any Birthday presents (you NEVER know, there might be some lovely generous people!) I will leave the link to the Dublin Event Guide Donation Page right here.
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This coming week has two really important days in it.
On Thursday is April Fool’s Day so watch out for any announcements from the government on that day ;-) and don’t fall for any other jokes, hoaxes and pranks.
And speaking of which (I think the “which” refers to government announcements! ;-) ). The other big day is on Tuesday, when we probably find out about the changes to the Level 5 restrictions. I would love to be able to tell you with conviction that we can look forward to a significant improvement, but the strategically placed comments by government representatives in the last 2 weeks unfortunately don’t give much hope! Let’s keep our fingers crossed!!
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This week, the hat above is a birthday hat!
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 trustworthy payment processing. In case it doesn’t work for you, the “old” links are still below for another little while. On this new page, you can also choose to sign up for a yearly subscription, yearly subscriptions will give some financial stability and reliability and would be great to have! (Look for the RED subscription 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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++ Celebrate Easter at home with EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum’s Easter Imagination Camp
30 Mar-01 Apr + 06-08 Apr – 10:30-11:30 – Online – Adm: From EUR 9
Looking for fun, virtual Easter activities for the whole family? Travel around the world with EPIC’s Imagination Camp! Suitable for children aged 6-12 years, the 3 day camp has sessions dedicated to Female, Space and Antarctic explorers. Join Nellie Bly as she travels the world in 72 days; follow Ernest Shackleton to the South Pole and train alongside Neil Armstrong to see have you got what it takes to explore space. (EUR 9 for 1 Day Pass, EUR 20 for 3 Day Pass) epicchq.com/whats-on/easter-at-epic/
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++ Shop Local this Easter at EPIC Museum Gift Shop
From kid’s adventure books to delicious sweet treats, choose from fun and unique Irish-made Easter gifts for the whole family at EPIC Museum Gift Shop. shop.epicchq.com/collections/easter-packs
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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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Science Gallery – In These Strange Times
On 12 March 2021 – exactly one year after COVID closed the doors of the Science Gallery for the first time – a new programme was launched called “IN THESE STRANGE TIMES”. It is an evolving series created in response to the global pandemic and it consists of a new exhibit and a number of Podcasts at the moment. dublin.sciencegallery.com/whats-on-2
I remember the 12 March 2020 very very well! I was in the Science Gallery in the morning for the media launch of the newest exhibition and while the two great lead mediators showed me around and explained all the exhibits to me, we found out that the government just had announced that all museums and galleries would have to close from that evening. The public launch was planned for the evening and had to be cancelled and we couldn’t it when we found out. If anyone had said at that time that a whole year later we are still in lockdown, we definitely would have declared that person as insane! :-O
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End “Direct Provisioning” for Asylum Seekers
On 10 April 2021 the “Direct Provisioning” system for asylum seekers in Ireland will be 21 years old! It is an inhuman and degrading system where genuine asylum seekers are forced to live in camps, often are not allowed to work and get very little “pocket money”. It is degrading because their whole independence as adults is taken away from the asylum seekers and from a country like Ireland, that “exported” millions of economic migrants to countries all over the world, we should demand a different treatment of migrants no matter for what reason they came to Ireland.
The “Say No to Direct Provisioning” initiative is running 21 nights of online protest with short Zoom events every evening at 21:00. Find out more details on the event page here www.facebook.com/events/120711176663109 and their Facebook profile here www.facebook.com/AbolishDirectProvisionIreland/ And if you are not too sure what Direct Provisioning really means and why it is a bad system, check this out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_provision
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FACEBOOK IS STILL BROKEN :-(
Facebook is still not able to provide an events list that does not require you to specify the category of the events AND to use a search term. That means it is impossible to search for all cultural events in Dublin on a Saturday and a Sunday, for example. This has the effect that people can not search effectively for events and then event organisers will put up less event notices.
If anybody of the dear Dublin Event Guide readers has a TINY bit (or even more) of influence on Facebook people in charge, PLEASE get them to fix their search engine. And if you need more detail, I am more than happy to help!
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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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Hotel Quarantine starts…but NOTHING will change!
You probably have heard about the brand new Hotel Quarantine system that will lock away arrival at the airport and ports for 12 days if they come from the wrong country or don’t have a PCR test.
It is a complex and expensive system that will ot make the slightest difference on our infection rates. Read here in my blog why:
www.joergsteegmueller.com/2021/03/27/covid-hotel-quarantine-starts-in-ireland-but-nothing-will-change/
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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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