Christmas is in high gear, and it’s all about tinsel and fairy lights at Workhorse towers. In between the manic shopping and egg nogging (ok, that’s not a word) there’s a surprisingly large amount to see around the city.
Theatre
A couple of new additions this week, with Assassins, Cardboard City and Way to Heaven at the Project, as part of the Rough Magic Seeds project. There’s also 60 minutes in Dublin, in the New Theatre.
The Abbey – Previews of The Risen People continues until Feb 1st.
The Gate – Previews of Pride and Prejudice continues until Jan 18th.
Souvenir continues until to the 14th, at the Project Arts Centre, our review is here.
Assassins, Ways to Heaven and Cardboard City are also at the Project.
Fishes (continues until the 11th) and She’s a beauty (14th) are at Smock Alley.
No Smoke without Fire is at the Viking Theatre in Clontarf, until Dec 21st.
60 minutes in Dublin is at the New Theatre Dec 9th to 14th.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is at the Gaiety Theatre.
Henry VI and Michael Harding are at the Civic Theatre (among others).
The Yule Tide Tales – (a cycle of new plays based on classic Christmas tales, set against the backdrop of a modern day Dublin) is at Theatre Upstairs from Dec 3rd to 21st.
Movies
Christmas Crackers at the IFI with Mary Poppins on Monday 9th and Its a Wonderful Life on the 13th.
Bruce Dern season at the IFI, with Nebraska and Drive, he said this week.
My So Called Life screening at the Workman’s Club on the 9th at 8.
Bad Santa is at the Workman’s Club on the 10th at 7.30
Naught or Nice season at the Lighthouse has Mary Poppins, Die Hard and Wake in Fright.
Gigs
Not a vintage week on the gig front, but there’s a good Jazz event on Wednesday with the Larry Goldings Trio and Neko Case on Monday in the Button Factory also. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble begin a residency in the Sugar Club, as part of their Xmas party.
Mon 09 Dec
Josh Ritter – Unitarian Church
Neko Case – The Button Factory
Tue 10 Dec
Josh Ritter – Vicar Street
The Coronas – The Olympia Theatre
Tunes For The Typhoon – Whelans
Wed 11 Dec
Larry Goldings Trio – The Sugar Club
The Coronas – The Olympia Theatre
J Cole – Vicar Street
Tandem Felix – The Button Factory
Emily Wells – Whelans
Kele Okereke – The Button Factory
Thu 12 Dec
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Xmas Party – Sugar Club
Declan O’Rourke – Vicar Street
Hudson Taylor – The Academy
The Original Rudeboys – Olympia Theatre
Storyman – The Workman’s Club
The Cabin Collective – The Grand Social
Animal Beats – Whelans
Fri 13 Dec
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Xmas Party – Sugar Club
Lake Street Dive – The Workman’s Club
Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – The Academy 2
The Blades – The Olympia Theatre
Haim – The Academy
Dublin Gospel Choir – Civic Theatre
Shouting At Planes – Whelans
And So I Watch You From Afar – The Button Factory
Gavin James – Pepper Canister Church
Damien Dempsey – Vicar Street
Claptone – The Button Factory
Guns 2 Roses – The Academy
Daft Funk – The Academy
Le Galaxie – The Olympia Theatre
Sat 14 Dec
The Blades – The Olympia Theatre
Damien Dempsey – Vicar Street
Black Star Riders – The Academy
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Xmas Party – Sugar Club
Wooden Shjips – The Grand Social
Cat Dowling – Whelans
Gavin James – Pepper Canister Church
Ghost Maps – The Workman’s Club
Booka Shade – The Button Factory
J Rocc – The Sugar Club
Sun 15 Dec
Deltron 3030 – The Button Factory
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Xmas Party – Sugar Club
The Dublin Blues Cartel – Whelans
Dictator – The Workman’s Club
Christy Moore – Vicar Street
Peaches – The Button Factory
Talks/ Lectures
Peaches is at the IFI for a Q&A on Sunday the 15th
Other Voices: Just a Song at Twilight – Abbey Theatre – 12th Dec – Join us for a Christmas story in song and verse with actors Aileen Mythen, Damien Kearney & musician Kieran McEvoy.
Greg Proops is the Smartest Man in the World – Sugar Club – Mon 9th Dec
Man, Woman and Child Concert – National Library of Ireland – 11th Dec
8 easy piecess – (11th Dec) – Science Gallery
Art –
IMMA – Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist – until 26th Jan
– Eileen Gray – IMMA Kilmainham – until Jan 19th
RHA Gallery – Tony O’Malley, Joanna Kidney – until Dec 20th
Douglas Hyde –From 15th November until 15th January 2014
Gallery 1 – George Shaw – Neither My Arse Nor My Elbow
Gallery 2 – Paloma Varga Weisz – Krummer Hund
Dublin Divided is at the Hugh Lane Gallery until 2nd Feb.
General Exhibition at the National Gallery
General Exhibition at the Chester Beatty
Tom Wood – Men and Women – Gallery of Photography
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Paul Winstanley – until 7th Jan
Oliver Sears – Hughie O’Donoghue: GORT RUA
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Enigma – Roxana Manouchehri
No More Workhorse 