There’s a new festival this week with the Five Lamps kicking off on March 4th and running until the 14th. There’s also some fine new additions in the world of theatre, with the Pillowman opening at the Gaiety and Witness in the Project Arts Centre.

Theatre

Collins Barracks – Pals by Anu – Until April 30th. Tickets €5. Full details here.

The Abbey – A Mid Summers Night’s Dream – runs until Saturday, 28 March 2015

The Gate – The Caretaker – until 21st March

Smock Alley – Collaborations 2015 – until March 7th

Theatre Upstairs – Slender – until March 7th

Viking Theatre – Little Gem – Feb 23rd – March 7th

New Theatre – Returning to Haifa – March 2nd – 7th

Gaiety Theatre –   Pillowman – Monday March 2nd – March 14th

Project Arts Centre – Witness –  02 Mar – 07 Mar 2015

Civic Theatre – Shadow of Heroes – March 3rd to 7th
The Fureys – 5th March 2015

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – The Hole – Feb 16 – Mar 07, 2015 | 1pm (doors at 12.50pm)

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Bord Gais Energy Student Theatre Awards – March 4th

Movies

Sugar Club –  Fri Mar06 – Encore!!! presents Purple Rain + NPG Pop-Life Afterparty

IFI -Reading Pictures – The Verdict – A six week course

This Coming Friday

Appropriate Behavior
Chappie
Difret
Hyena
Kill The Messenger
Unfinished Business

Gigs

Tune – Yards is in town this week, with a gig in Vicar street on Tuesday. There’s also the Gloaming, Ryan Adams and Noel Gallagher, if you’re that way inclined! On the smaller gigs, there’s Dylan Tighe and Brian Mooney in Whelans next Saturday and Southern Tenant Folk Union on Sunday.

Mon 02 Mar
The Gloaming – National Concert Hall
Europe and Black Star Riders – The Olympia Theatre
Jack Savoretti – The Sugar Club

Tue 03 Mar
Tune-Yards – Vicar Street
Waltons World Masters – Habib Koite – NCH
Spandau Ballet – 3Arena
Death DTA – The Academy
Jim Lauderdale – Whelan’s

Wed 04 Mar
Lisa Lambe – Whelan’s
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – 3 Arena

Thu 05 Mar
Ryan Adams – The Olympia Theatre
Meteor Choice Music Prize – Vicar Street
Meridian Sway – The Workman’s Club
The Flaws – Whelan’s
PØRTS – Whelan’s (Upstairs)

Fri 06 Mar
Tom Johnson: Nine Bells (Festival Opening) – NCH
Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval: Steel Hammer – NCH
Lang – man made, John Luther Adams – Become Ocean – NCH
The North Sea – Whelan’s
This Is The Kit – The Workman’s Club
Clean Bandit – The Academy
Leo Drezden – The Twisted Pepper
Karen Egan (Album Launch) – Whelan’s
Sweens – The Unitarian Church
Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds – Christ Church Cathedral
Scuba – The Twisted Pepper
Sasha – The Button Factory
Guilty Optics – Whelan’s

Sat 07 Mar
Joan Armatrading – Vicar Street
Vann Music – The Button Factory
CAOS Ensemble with Brian Irvine – NCH
Dylan Tighe and Brian Mooney – Whelan’s
Cry Monster Cry – Tower Records
Country to Country – 3Arena
The Answer – Whelan’s
Dj Funk – The Twisted Pepper

Sun 08 Mar
Country to Country – 3Arena
PictureHouse – The Unitarian Church
Southern Tenant Folk Union – Whelan’s
Markus Feehily – The Olympia Theatre
Edyta Bartosiewicz – The Academy
Motorcycle Display Team – The Grand Social
The Darkness – Whelan’s

Talks and Lectures –

National Gallery of Ireland  – Mar 3 2015 – 10:30 – ‘An introduction to the exhibition ‘Passion & Persuasion: Images of Baroque Saints’, with Dr Audrey Nicholls.

Science Gallery  – Wednesday, March 4, 2015 – 18:00 – Cathal Gurrin on recording every moment

Irish Writers Centre – The Birthday Cake by Niamh Gleeson | Rehearsed reading – Thursday 5 March – 7.30pm

Sugar Club – Thu Mar05 -RESPAWN Nights/Gaming Unleashed

IMMA – Artists Conversation – Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler – Sat 7 March, 2-3pm

Art –

IMMA – until 31 Dec 2014 – IMMA Collection: Conversations

until 29 Mar 2015 – Duncan Campbell

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 – Next Exhibition –

March 13, 2015 – April 26, 2015 Joe Dunne RHA Ashford Gallery
March 13, 2015 – April 26, 2015 The Untold Want RHA Gallery I

Douglas Hyde –March 6 – May 13, 2015
Gallery 1 – ROSE WYLIE
Gallery 2 – INDIAN MATCHBOX LABELS

Hugh Lane Gallery – Phoenix Rising: Art and Civic Imagination – 07 November 2014 – 29 March 2015

Chester Beatty – Seven Treasures: Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London – March 14th to June 14th

Private Galleries:

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

Oliver Sears – Katherine Boucher Beug – 26 Feb 2015 — 2 Apr 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – I See a Darkness –  until 14th March

Taylor Gallery – Tim Goulding – Patching the Void  – 20 February – 7 March 2015