So, the Film Festival disappears for another year, and what are we left with on the streets of Dublin? Don’t worry, we’ve got lots to keep you happy. What about the Collaboration festival in Smock Alley for starters?
Theatre
The Abbey – Sive by John B Keane continues (until 12th April). We thought it was lots of fun. Our review is here.
Also at the Abbey – 24 Hour plays. – 2nd March.
The Gate – The Vortex by Noel Coward continues (until March 22nd). Our review is here.
Project Arts Centre – Care (not to be missed) runs until the 1st March. The Grapes of Wrath starts on the 27th and runs until the 1st of March.
Smock Alley has the fantastic Collaborations festival featuring over 30 different pieces, which runs until March 8th.
Viking Theatre has Charlie and Me until the 1st March.
The New Theatre has Retreat from the 3rd of March (next week).
Samuel Beckett Theatre – has Interloper from the 27th until the 1st of March.
The Gaiety Theatre has New Jersey Nights until the 1st of March.
The Civic Theatre has More Light and Journey’s End, until March 2nd.
Theatre Upstairs has Angels from the 25h until the 8th March.
Chancery Lane has Liam O’Maonlai – Feb 25th
Bord Gais Energy Centre – Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake – until March 1st.
Movies
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll season is on at the IFI, with part two Drugs running this month, with:
CHRISTIANE F. – Wednesday 26th February 2014 – 18.20
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM – Thursday 27th February 2014 – 18.30
NT Live: National Theatre’s War Horse (12A) -27th February 2014 – Cineworld among others.
Best Picture – Review at the Lighthouse
PHILOMENA – SUN 23RD 18.50 – MON 24TH 16.00, 18.10
12 YEARS A SLAVE – MON 24TH 15.20, 18.05
AMERICAN HUSTLE- TUE 25TH 15.35, 20.40
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET – WED 26TH 14.30, 20.25
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS – WED 26TH 18.00 – THU 27TH 15.25
Cinema Book Club at the lighthouse – High Fidelity – Feb 24th at 6.30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyifzFZT7_Q
Gigs
Not a classic week for music in Dublin, but with the Meteor Choice Awards, I Draw slow and the Jezebels, there’s enough to keep you going! Check the details below.
Mon 24 Feb
Hermitage Green – Bewlets Cafe
Eric Church – The Olympia Theatre
The Aristocrats – The Grand Social
Tue 25 Feb
New Jersey Nights – Gaiety Theatre
Danny Brown – The Academy
The Statics – Whelans
New Road – Whelans
The Quakers – Whelans
Liam O Maonlai – Chancery Lane Theatre
Wed 26 Feb
Square Pegs – Whelans
Ronan O Snodaigh – Whelans
New Jersey Nights – Gaiety Theatre
Rachel Sermanni – The Workman’s Club
Thu 27 Feb
Meteor Choice Music Awards – Vicar Street
Reggae Pie – The Grand Social
Hermitage Green – The Academy
Tvvins – Whelans
New Jersey Nights – Gaiety Theatre
The Hardcore Priests of Yemen – The Twisted Pepper
Carriages – Whelans
Fri 28 Feb
James Blunt – Vicar Street
Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters – Whelans
Fantastique – NCH
Maximo Park – Whelans
Crystal Antlers – The Workman’s Club
New Jersey Nights – Gaiety Theatre
Andrew Ashong – The Sugar Club
Tom Colontonio – The Academy 2
Kyle Hall – The Twisted Pepper
Pleasurekraft – The Button Factory
The Wood Burning Savages – Whelans
Saturday 1st March
Ellie Goulding – O2
Claude Von Stroke (Dirty Bird) – Button Factory
Twenty One Pilots The Academy
Reeve Carney The Workman’s Club
Julia Kent Odessa Club and Restaurant
Chamber Music with Trio Paderewski Pepper Canister Church
I draw Slow – Whelans
The 4 of Us – Vicar Street
POGO: Subject & Vision Collector present Virginia – The Twisted Pepper
New Jersey Nights – Gaiety Theatre
The Jezabels – The Button Factory
Sun 02 March
Brendan Cole – Licence to Thrill Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
Midge Ure – An Acoustic Evening The Sugar Club
Birdy – Vicar Street
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Sundays – Noon Concert Series Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
The Hibernian Orchestra Concert Spring Concert – RDS
James Bay – The Academy
The Jezabels – The Button Factory
Talks/ Lectures
National Gallery of Ireland – Feb 27 2014 18:30 20:00 – The Artist Amanda Coogan in Conversation
National Gallery of Ireland – Feb 26 2014 13:30 14:00 – Coiscéim Dance Theatre – Dance Talking: Portraits of a Dancer, by David Bolger. Admission free
National Gallery of Ireland – Mar 1 2014 10:00 – Study Day: War Artists – Focusing on World I, this Study Day includes contemporary poets and artists and it is accompanied by a reading of war poetry
Banter: Living for the City – Alternative Spaces – Wed 26th at 6pm at The Twisted Pepper
Does Dublin Need A Real Mayor? – Little Museum of Dublin
Art –
If you fancy a road trip, there’s no better place than Visual in Carlow, for the rest of the Pat Scott retrospective! So much to see.
IMMA – Pat Scott – Image and Space – until 18th May.
RHA Gallery – Ciaran Lennon until 27th April
Richard Mosse – The Enclave – until March 12th – Go check it out.
Douglas Hyde – until 19 March 2014
Gallery 1 – Andrea Büttner
Gallery 2 – Coptic Textiles
Hugh Lane Gallery – Sleepwalkers with Gavin Murphy until 25th of May.
General Exhibition at the National Gallery
Costumes Parisiens, fashion plates from 1912-1914at the Chester Beatty until March 30th
Gallery of Photography – John Myers – until 30th March
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Willie Doherty – (image above) until the 4th March.
Oliver Sears – Ed Milano The Nature of Time – until 27 March2014
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Ulrich Vogl – until 22nd March 2014
Cross Gallery – If Walls could Dance – Amy Stephens – until 1st March
No More Workhorse 