Things To Do In Dublin (6-10-14 – 12-10-14)

By No More Workhorse on October 5, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

The Dublin Theatre Festival is in its last week, with lots to do around the city. The Stanley Kubrick Season is at the Lighthouse has a few classics this week.There’s also the Kinofest at the IFI (Oct 9th to 12th).

No Idle Day Music Festival runs from Oct 10th to 12th. which is run by the Young Hearts Run Free group.

Theatre

The Abbey – Next: Our Few and Evil Days until 25th Oct.

Meet the Makers: Mark O’Rowe – Oct 7th

Peacock Stage – Dublin Theatre Festival – Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner – 7 -11 Oct 2014

The Gate – The Mariner – until 11th Oct

Project Arts Centre – Book Burning – 08 Oct 2014-11 Oct 2014 | € 20-25
(A)pollonia Staged Readings – 11 Oct 2014 – Special event

Smock Alley – Spinning – By Deirdre Kinahan – 1st – 12th October in the Main Space

Welcome To The Ethics Committee – 6th – 11th Oct @ 8pm / 8th & 11th Oct @ 3pm in the The Boys’ School

Perhaps all the dragons… – 7th – 11th October in the Banquet Hall

Viking Theatre – 44 Seville Place – until Oct 11

New Theatre has Friendly Fire – until Oct 11

Gaiety Theatre has The Borstal Boys – until 11th of October

Civic Theatre – Weighing In – 06 – 11 Oct // 8:15pm

The Night Season – 07 – 11 Oct // 8:15pm

Sam Beckett Theatre – Jack Charles V The Crown (Dublin Theatre Festival) – 8 to 12 October 2014

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – My Name is Alice Devine – until Oct 11, 2014 | 1pm

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Blood Brothers – until 11 Oct 2014

Movies

Kinofest at the IFI (Oct 9th to 12th) – Aims to show the best of contemporary German film.

Lighthouse Cinema – The second in the Kubrick Seaon and it links up with the book club.

LOLITA – 3.00pm Sunday 5th October

SPARTACUS – 8.00pm Wednesday 8th October | 3.00pm Saturday 11th October

MET OPERA – Macbeth [18:00 Saturday 11 October 2014]

Scare Your Kids Weekend, Part 1: Legend – 22:30, Saturday 11 October

Sugar Club – Fri Oct10 – ChoiceCuts Presents – Time is Illmatic – Special Preview Screening

Gigs

There is the No Idle Day festival which is run by Young Hearts Run Free and all in aid of the Simon Community. It’s from the 10th to 12th of Oct, and includes names such as Bill Drummond, Adrian Crowley and more. Full details here. There’s also Safe Francis, Sean Nicholas Savage (one of the oddest performers I’ve seen live) and a wonderful double line up at Whelan’s of Howe Gelb and Grant Lee Philips.

Mon 06 Oct
Ed Sheeran – The O2
The Young Folk – Tower Records

Tue 07 Oct
Kölsch – The Button Factory
Sylvan Esso – The Workman’s Club
Wekeed – The Grand Social

Wed 08 Oct
Slow Skies – The Sugar Club
The High Dials – The Workman’s Club
Corner Boy & Paul Creane – Whelan’s
Marc O’Reilly and The Hard Ground – The Grand Social
Royal Wood – Whelan’s
Shaun Davey’s Voices from the Merry Cemetery – The NCH

Thu 09 Oct
Finley Quaye @ The Button Factory
Le Galaxie @ The Academy
Mark Dignam @ Whelan’s

Fri 10 Oct
No Idle Day Festival – Various
Sean Nicholas Savage – Whelan’s
Kormac’s Big Band – HMV Grafton Street Dublin
WIFE & REID – The Workman’s Club
George FitzGerald – The Twisted Pepper
Sebo K & Matthias Meyer – The Button Factory

Sat 11 Oct
No Idle Day Festival – Various
Grant Lee Phillips & How Gelb – Whelan’s
Zion Train – The Button Factory
The Hot Sprockets – The Grand Social
Led Zeppelin III – The Sugar Club
Primed & Eyeclosed – The Academy 2
Rory and The Island – Opium Rooms
Simeon Kirkegaard – The Workman’s Club
Kishi Bashi – Whelan’s
Declan O’Rourke – Vicar Street
Kormac’s Big Band – The Button Factory

Sun 12 Oct
No Idle Day Festival – Various
Sage Francis – The Sugar Club
Children of Gaza gig – Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott
The Evertides – Whelan’s

Talks/ Lectures

Abbey Theatre – Meet the Makers: Mark O’Rowe – Oct 7th

Science Gallery – Wednesday, October 1, 2014 – 18:00 – Vicki Arroyo: Adapting to Strange Weather and preparing for a changing climate – €5

Irish Writer’s Centre – Wed 8 OctoberPlaywriting – making it work, getting it on – 4pm–6pm

Thursday – 9 October – Salmon Poetry Readings

NGI – Oct 12 2014 15:00 – Sunday Lecture 12 October – ‘Lines of Vision- An Introduction’, with Janet McLean, Curator of European Art 1850-1950

Art –

IMMA – Second Sight: The David Kronn Photography Collection – until 9 November 2014 – Garden Galleries
Jonathan Monk: The Project Spaces – until 12 Oct 2014

RHA Gallery – Next Exhibition – Maria Simonds-Gooding – until 26th Oct

Douglas Hyde – 09 October – 03 December 2014
Gallery 1 – Peter Gallo

Gallery 2 – Lois Weinberger – Invasion

Hugh Lane Gallery – Efforts and Ideals: Prints of the First World War – until 22 February 2015

General Exhibition at the National Gallery

Chester Beatty – Permanent Exhibition

Private Galleries: