Hi all!

This is Edition Number 30 of the Event Guide (Yippee!) and to celebrate we have again a competition for free tickets this week! The tickets are for a really great concert! Keep reading!!!

I promised that this year will bring a number of new Dublin Event Guide facets and the facebook members among you have seen the first one. I have launched a facebook group (www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7276986445) this week in order to let more people know about the Event Guide. There are about 175 000 facebook users in the IRELAND network now and thousands more are not member of a geographic network, so hopefully a few more people will join the Event Guide family. :-)

Oh, from now on I will call this Guide “Dublin Event Guide” and as well “Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)”. I know both names are NOT a marketeers dream and have zero “brand” value, but at least they describe comprehensively what this “thing” is. :-) Nevertheless if anyone has a brilliant idea for a different and better name, please let me know!!!

Because in recent weeks a huge amount of people have joined us/you as recipients of this Event Guide, I will describe the WHAT and WHY about this Guide towards the end of this weeks mail.
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Usually I am sending this mail on a Thursday evening, but this week you are receiving it slightly earlier because I want to repeat an event announcement from last week for a Thursday (tonight!) evening event. A good few from the Dublin Event Guide family will meet at the “Gooseberry Awards” in the Sugarclub and it is not yet too late for you to come to it too! :-) The Gooseberry Awards are an awards show with a difference and will “celebrate” the WORST in Irish media! The doors open at 20:00 (10th Jan) and while you can’t vote anymore on the website, you can still come to the Award Ceremony. It should be a great fun! Admission is free and the organisers even promise free drinks! (www.theelevator.ie/gooseberries.php) It seems that the online voting did get a huge response and – maybe as a consequence – the promise regarding the drinks has been removed from the organisers own website, but the Sugar Club still promises it on their website. So who knows, you might get a surprise. ;-)
Here is an article about the awards (www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2008/0104/1199313371299.html) and with all the PR the Gooseberries get, I strongly recommend to come EARLY! The Sugar Club is not huge and if it is full, you won’t get in!
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Competition – A Cuban Night
Sinead Hughes, who is a new member of the Dublin Event Guide Family (i.e. a reader of the Guide), is organising an interesting fundraising event for the ARC Cancer Support Centre (www.arccancersupport.ie), a support centre that provides courses, therapies and counseling for cancer sufferers to complement other therapies. The event is a “Cuban Night Extravaganza” on Tuesday the 22nd of January (20:00) in the Sugar Club. The concert features Havana Son (www.myspace.com/havanasondublin), a brilliant Dublin based Cuban Band, and in addition to the sound of great Salsa, Rumba, etc. there will be a raffle for a Cuban hamper from Cafe de Cuba and meal vouchers for Trocadero, Floridita, Paloma, Havana, Odessa, Chez Max and Brazil. There will also be a DJ and Salsa dancing is encouraged – but not compulsory. :-) Tickets cost EUR 15 and are available at the door. Sinead can be reached on 085-7307630 and via sinead_hughes1919@hotmail.com.
Sinead was so nice to make a pair of tickets available for you! You can win this pair of tickets by sending an e-mail to dublineventguide@gmail.com with “Havana Son” in the Subject Line, and with your phone number in the body of the mail. Your mail has to be with me before 21:00 on the 18th of January and the winner will be informed on the 19th of January.
So, if you only have the slightest interest in Latin Music or if you just want to help ARC Cancer Support, make sure to put this Cuban Night in your diary!
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There is an interesting latin flavour in the air this week. :-) Last week I mentioned the DanceIreland Celebration Week and since then Nathalie from Solo Flamenco contacted me with some more information about their Flamenco classes and performances. Solo Flamenco is running Flamenco classes in the DanceHouse in Foley Street. Tonight (Thurs) you have a chance to go to a free taster class at 19:00 in the Dance House and if you are interested, a new course starts on the 17th of January. You can find all the details on www.flamencoyalegria.net/?page_id=57. Solo Flamenco are performing as well every week in the restaurant “La Paloma” in Temple Bar to entertain customers and there is no extra charge for the entertainment.
For completeness, here are all of tonight’s other free taster classes in the DanceHouse (www.danceireland.ie/news_12.07_art04.htm)
18:00 Gyrokinesis/Jazz/Pilates/Yoga
19:00 Bellydance/Contemporary/Dance Liberation Workshop/Flamenco/Yoga
20:00 Aikido/Ballet/Hip Hop
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Every weekend a lot of pubs and nightclubs provide free music either played by DJs or by live bands and every now and then I list a collection of them to remind you of these regular events. In addition I list some special once-off events here every week. This week is still affected by Christmas and there are not too many free music events on, but one reliable is …

Sunday at Noon in the Hugh Lane Gallery: On Sun from 12:00-13:00 the Callino Quartet is playing music from Beethoven, Kurtag and Frank Corcoran. Admission is free.
www.hughlane.ie/concerts/whatson.asp
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And now some new exhibitions, a fair and museum-related events:

From the 12 Jan until the 09 Feb the Kerlin Gallery (www.kerlin.ie) presents the first Irish solo exhibition by London-based artist Stefan Brüggemann. Brüggemann works with language, neon and vinyl and this is MY summary of the exhibition’s description. ;-) You better read the full description here and don’t trust my summary: :-)
www.kerlin.ie/exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions.aspx

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios is showing Colin Darke’s “The Capital Paintings”. With a preview on Friday 11 Jan from 18:00-20:00 and the normal exhibition until the 16 Feb. “The Capital Paintings, best described as a painting installation, comprises 480 individual pieces each painted on a standard A4 size canvas uniformly hung and covering the entire wall space of Temple Bar Gallery. Collectively, these pieces form a single significant body of work, the result of a methodical and painstaking process carried out by the artist over a period of four years.” The Gallery is in 5-9 Temple Bar and the Opening Hours are Tuesday to Saturday (11:00-18:00) and Thursday (11:00-19:00).
www.templebargallery.com/2008Programme/0801CDarke.htm

The National Museum Family Programme in Kildare Street is presenting the “Naturally Wild Roadshow” on Sun 13 Jan from 15:00-16:00. “Experience the wonders of bugs and beasties that are to be found in your own back garden, as well as Life in the Undergrowth, a display of strange and wonderful creatures from the rainforests of Australia and around the world. Make your own Dinosaur Garden after encountering a real living fossil the Wollemi Pine. With Dale Treadwell.”

The 4th Dalkey Good Health Fair is on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of January 2008 from 11:00-17:00. The Fair promises to offer unlimited up-to-date information and resources for all aspects of health, beauty and wellbeing from diet and nutrition to reflexology and acupuncture, as well as offering a variety of health and beauty products. There will be a series of free talks and demonstration held throughout the weekend offering an insight into the techniques of Ancient Thai Massage to information on Allergy Testing. The venue is the Dalkey Town Hall & Heritage Centre and admission is free.
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And here are a few pre-announcements for free events in coming weeks where tickets or registration is required:

The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a series of climate change lectures. The next lecture will take place from 18:00-20:00 on Tuesday 22nd January in the Round Room, the Mansion House,Dawson Street, Dublin 2. The topic is “Meltdown? – Evidence of Climate Change from Polar Science” and the speaker is Dr Eric Wolff from the British Antarctic Survey. Attendance is free, but advance booking is essential. Bookings and enquiries to: Clara Clark Tel: 01- 289 8533 Email: info@claraclark.ie (www.epa.ie/news/events)

And a rather unconventional pre-announcement. Chris Howard, who is – by his own account – “an internationally acclaimed expert in psychology of wealth and leadership” is running his 3-day workshop in Dublin (15/16/17 Feb) called “Breakthrough to Success”. The event is sold for EUR 1200 for the three days, but it seems that following this link www.mrandmrsrai.com/chrishoward.htm you will be able to register for free!! I have no more details than what you can find on the website, but it sounds interesting, so have a look and decide for yourself if it is something for you.
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And finally a brief summary and reminder of what this Dublin Event Guide is and wants to achieve: I had the idea to it a number of years ago when friends of mine hadn’t heard about the Festival of World Cultures and I felt too little was done to inform people about all the brilliant free events that are happening in Greater Dublin. Since June of last year I am compiling this Event Guide and all content is gathered either directly from organisers or via other websites, leaflets, magazines, newspapers and with YOUR help!!

The event list is NOT guaranteed to be comprehensive but contains all interesting free events that _I_ came across. Paid for events are listed in lots of other publications and there are many sites that you can read up on them (dublinks.ie, entertainment.ie, dublin.ie, eventguide.ie, indublin.ie, templebar.ie, etc). My “justification” for a special Guide for free events is that paid-for events have it easier to advertise because they have some money and usually a different organisational structure AND because it should be doubley rewarded if someone puts on FREE events. The main free events throughout the year will be a long list of festivals, but as you can see even this week, there are always good and interesting cultural free events on and I will try to list them all.

The “FREE” rule for listings in my Event Guide has admittedly a few exceptions. Paid-for events can be listed if
a) I am organising the event or am directly involved in the organisation (a rather selfish reason I admit ;-) ) OR
b) if the event organiser can make a few tickets available for free that can then be passed on to the readers of my Event Guide in the context of a competition OR
c) if it is listed together with another free event from the same organiser.
Both a b) “case” and a c) “case” are in this weeks Guide and I am sure you understand what I mean.

Now, after all this information, I better leave the regular listing of “Permanent Free Events” until next week, otherwise you will never get finished reading this mail. ;-) See you hopefully this evening at the Gooseberry Awards!

Enjoy the weekend!

–Joerg

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Disclaimer: This Event Guide (the “Dublin Event Guide”) with a difference is sent to friends, colleagues and whoever else is interested to let you know about (mostly free) events in the Greater Dublin Area! Ticketed events usually make enough money to do their own advertisement, they don’t need extra help.
I started this because some friends asked me to share my weekend plans with them as I went to all types of festivals and searched for more. ;-) If you don’t want to receive this mail, just let me know. If you have feedback, good or bad, PLEASE tell me. If you want to be added to the mailing list or know somebody who would like to receive this guide, just send a mail to dublineventguide@gmail.com.
BTW: I have no affiliation with any of the organisers and don’t get any “reward” from them for advertising their events.
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