Halloween is over, but there’s a couple of interesting sounding festivals in town this week, with the Dublin Burlesque Festival 2014 – Circus Macabre if you want something a bit spicy. If you’re looking for a different type of education, there’s also the Science Week 2014 from the 9th to the 16th of Nov.

The IFI has the 9th Polish Film Festival – Nov 6th to 9th. The Stanley Kubrick Season is at the Lighthouse has the Barry Lyndon this week.  On the Musical end of things, there’s Caribou, Future Islands, The Speicals, Billy Idol, Phox and the Wedding Present and more…

Theatre

The Abbey – Waste Ground – 29 October 2014 – 22 November 2014

First Plays by Great Writers – Owners – Caryl Churchill – Saturday 8 November, 2.30pm

The Gate – Wuthering Heights – previews Nov 13th

Project Arts Centre –   Casts and Conversations – 05 Nov-08 Nov

Smock Alley –  Diary of a Newlywed Poet –  (Madrid, Spain) – 5th Nov @ 7pm
Alien Envoy + Nick Kelly –  6th Nov
Festival of Curiosity – Sat 8th & Sun 9th Nov

Viking Theatre – Little Gem – Oct 27 – Nov 8th

New Theatre – New Writing Week – Nov 3rd – Nov 8th

Theatre Upstairs – Spectres – Oct 28th – Nov 8th

Gaiety Theatre –  GREASE – 5 November 2014 – 16 November 2014

Civic Theatre –  Queens of Pimlico – 04 – 08 November
Damn the Circus- 08 November
Des Bishop: Coming Home- 09 November // 8:00pm

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Patrick Kavanagh: A Life – until 1st Nov

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Shrek the Musical – Oct 21st – 9th Nov.

Sugar Club – The Girls of Dublin Town – Mon Nov 3rd

Movies

Lighthouse Cinema – BARRY LYNDON

3.00pm & 8.00pm Wednesday 5th November | 3.00pm Sunday 9th November

FRANKENSTEIN (MILLER) – 20:30 Thursday 6 November 2014

IFI & KINOPOLIS: 9th Polish Film Festival  – Nov 6th to 9th

Gigs

Some decent enough gigs on the horizon with Caribou, Future Islands, The Speicals, Billy Idol, Phox and the Wedding Present all in town this week! You’ve really no excuse.

Mon 03 Nov

Future Islands -Vicar Street
The Specials – The Olympia Theatre
Damien Rice – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Martha Wainwright – Whelan’s
Paolo Nutini – The O2
Pleasing Features – The Workman’s Club

Tue 04 Nov
MØ – The Academy
Martha Wainwright – Whelan’s
Furnace Mountain – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire

Wed 05 Nov
Caribou – Vicar Street
Sheppard – The Workman’s Club
Arborea – Whelan’s

Thu 06 Nov
Brian Kennedy – The Sugar Club
Danny Bryant – Whelan’s
Preachers Son, Riot Tapes & We Raise Bars – The Workman’s Club
PolyGlove – The Bernard Shaw
Anais Mitchell – Whelan’s
Snowblind & Theories Divide – Whelan’s

Fri 07 Nov
Billy Idol – Vicar Street
The Lost Brothers – Whelan’s
Paul Potts – The Olympia Theatre
Ana Gog – Pepper Canister Church
A lazarus soul – The Grand Social
Peter Doran – Whelan’s
Jon Sanders & Friends – DC Music Club
Kölsch – The Button Factory

Sat 08 Nov
The Wedding Present – The Button Factory
Soak – The Unitarian Church
Beardyman – Opium Rooms
Kylie Minogue – The O2
Gangs – Sweeney’s
Paper Aeroplanes – Whelan’s
Rocstrong – Whelan’s
Major Problems Showcase – Opium Rooms

Sun 09 Nov
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau – National Concert Hall
Phox – The Sugar Club
Erasure – The Olympia Theatre
Boy & Bear – Whelan’s

Talks/ Lectures

Sugar Club – Con Artists Presents – Football Manager Launch & Sporting Intelligence Q&A – Wed Nov05

Abbey Theatre – Meet the Makers – Shaun Dunne.

National Galley of Ireland – Nov 6 2014 18:30 – Irish Writers in Conversation – Theo Dorgan, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Billy Roche.

Irish Writer’s Centre – Tuesday 4 Nov 19.30 – The Irish Writers’ Union 2014 Plunkett Award Ceremony with Donal Ryan

 Science Gallery of Ireland – Friday, October 31, 2014 – 19:00 – Dead Beats: Halloween and BLOOD at Science Gallery

Banter Present: Meet the Commish – Tuesday, November 4, 18.00 @ MVP

Art –

IMMA – Second Sight: The David Kronn Photography Collection – until 9 November 2014 – Garden Galleries

RHA Gallery – next exhibition Nov 14th.

Douglas Hyde – until 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:

Kerlin – Eoin Mc Hugh – the skies will be friendlier then – 14th November – 23rd December

Oliver Sears – Joseph Walsh, Lilium – Joseph Walsh — 27 Nov 2014

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  –Mick O’Dea – The Split -until 15th November

Taylor Gallery – until 15 November 2014 – Maria Simonds-Gooding

Cross Gallery – Graham Crowley until 22 November

The Doorway Gallery 6 November 2014 – 4 December 2014 – Chris Wilson – Small Islands