This is the week of the Digital Biscuit, with Michel Gondry and David Chase coming to town, along with many others involved in the world of movie making and technology.  It promises to be a fascinating event, so get along if you can.

There’s also a reprisal of a few good plays, with The End in the New Theatre, Riverrun in the Proejct and Mavericks in Bewley’s Cafe Theatre.

One the music scene there is Tweedy at Vicar Street on Wednesday, Lambchop at the NCH on Sunday and the Tradfest from the 28th to the 1st of Feb.

Theatre

The Abbey – She Stoops to Conquer -until Saturday, 31 January 2015

The Gate – Wuthering Heights – until Jan 31st

Project Arts Centre –  Riverrun – 27th to 31st Jan

Tommy Tiernan – Creative Mornings – 30 January 2015 8.30am

Smock Alley – Over The Wire – Derry Playhouse – January 26th – 31st at 8pm

Viking Theatre – Mary Massacre – Jan 19th – Jan 31st

New Theatre – The End – Jan 26th – Jan 31st

Teacher’s Club – Flann’s Back in the City – Theatre @36 Parnell Square, Jan 27 – Feb 7

Gaiety Theatre –   John B Keane’s Moll  – 27 Jan – 14 Feb

Civic Theatre – sleeps

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Mavericks – Jan 26th – 14th Feb, 2015 | 1pm

Bord Gais Energy Centre – The Nutcracker – Jan 28th to 30th

Olympia Theatre – Walworth Farce – Jan 10th until 8th Feb

Movies

Lighthouse Cinema – GONE GIRL at 18:30 on Monday 26 January – Book Club

IFI – IFI & TRADFEST 2015: A Curious Life – Dustin Bruce

IFI & Digital Biscuit: Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? – 18.30 – introduced by Liz Gill, feature film and TV drama director and screenwriter.

Sugar Club –  Red Kremlin Short Film Evening – Sun Jan25

Gigs

Another one of those slow weeks, but there is Tweedy at Vicar Street on Wednesday and the Tradfest kicks into high gear, for those that way inclined. Lambchop at the NCH is possibly the best of the bunch. See the full list below.

Mon 27th Jan
John Mccormack’s Life And Songs – NCH

Tue 28th Jan
Rte Nso Horizons 2015: Philip Hammond – NCH

Wed 28th Jan
Tweedy – Vicar Street
Hothouse Flowers – St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Trio Elatha – The Sugar Club
Aldoc – Whelan’s
Charlie Landsborough – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
Marc O’Reilly & The Hard Ground – St. Werburgh’s Church
Infinity Ink – Hangar

Thu 29th Jan
Slow Skies – The Workman’s Club
Bstarr – The Academy 2
Mick Flannery – St. Michan’s Church
Sweeney’s Men – St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Fri 30th Jan
Otherkin – The Workman’s Club
The Undertones – The Button Factory
The Legend of Luke Kelly – Vicar Street
Cara Dillon – St. Michan’s Church
Max Cooper – Opium Rooms
Danú – St. Werburgh’s Church
Gillis – The Grand Social
Subplots – The Workman’s Club
Neville Staple – Opium Rooms
Ilenkus & Hexxed – Whelan’s
The Black Captain – BelloBar
Isaac Tichauer & Lane 8 – The Twisted Pepper
Andrea Oliva – The Button Factory

Sat 31 Jan
Popical Island Bash – Whelan’s
Girl Band – The Twisted Pepper
Kenny Dope – Opium Rooms
Beoga & Big Band – The Button Factory
At The Gates – The Academy
The Levellers – St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Karine Polwart – St. Michan’s Church
Darling – The Sugar Club
Ryan Bingham – Whelan’s
Pokahontaz – The Workman’s Club
Coda – St. Werburgh’s Church
New Wave – BelloBar
The Straw Gods – The Grand Social
Mary Coughlan – Abbey Tavern
Interskalactic  Whelan’s
The Field – Hangar

Sun 01 Feb
Lambchop – NCH
Lynched – St. Michan’s Church
Sick Of It All – Voodoo Lounge
Andy White – Whelan’s
Mary Black – Vicar Street

Talks and Lectures –

National Gallery of Ireland – Jan 27 2015 @ 10:30 – ‘A Behind-the-Scenes View of the NGI Refurbishment’, with Christiaan Clothworth

IMMA – 31 Jan 2015 – 14:00 Artist Conversation | Duncan Campbell

 NLI – Yeats 2015 event: The Poet and the Library (28/1/2015)

Science Gallery – First Up: Mary Nally, independent curator and director of Drop Everything – Wednesday, January 28, 2015 – 13:00

Digital Biscuit – Film and Technology Forum – Jan 28th to 30th.

Art –

IMMA – until 31 Dec 2014 – IMMA Collection: Conversations

until 29 Mar 2015 – Duncan Campbell

until 01 Mar 2015 – Primal Architecture

TROVE – Dorothy Cross selects from the National Collections – 03 December 2014 – 08 March 2015 – Garden Galleries – Get along to this if you can, it’s fantastic.

RHA Gallery – January 16, 2015 – April 26, 2015 Nick Miller Vessels: Nature Morte RHA Foyer
January 16, 2015 – February 22, 2015 Mark Garry A New Quiet RHA Gallery I
January 16, 2015 – February 22, 2015 Amelia Stein Erris RHA Gallery II

Douglas Hyde –from 12 December – 25 February 2015
Gallery 1 – Niamh O’Malley

Gallery 2 – Mairead O’hEocha

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

National Gallery – Turner Watercolours – Until Jan 31st

Hennessy Portrait Gallery – Until Feb 8th.

Chester Beatty – Permanent Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Image above –Paul Seawright

Kerlin – Paul Seawright – The List – 30 January–21 March 2015

Oliver Sears – Sarah Walker – The Boxing Diaries – 15 Jan 2015 — 19 Feb 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – Richard Proffitt – Wild Cries of Ha-Ha –  until 6th February

Taylor Gallery – Winter Group Show  – until 31st Jan 2015