After the madness of last week, it’s a bit quieter this week. There’s still more than enough to keep the average punter happy though. There’s Patti Smith at IMMA on Monday 1st of June, with the pretty tasty support of Spirtualized and Ariel Pink. The Carlow Arts Festival runs from the 29th until the 7th of June, with the jewel in the crown The Festival of Writing and Ideas taking place this weekend, the 5th to the 7th of June.

Theatre

The Abbey – Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts –  4 June 2015 – 27 June 2015

The Gate – The Gigli Concert  – May 21st to June 27th

Smock Alley –  End of The Year Show – MyArt School of Dance and Art – Sunday June 7th at 1pm

Theatre Upstairs – A Boy Called Nedd – 02 JUNE – 13 JUNE 2015

Viking Theatre – The Aran Islands – June 1st – 6th

New Theatre –  Maureen Is Home – June 1st – 6th

Gaiety Theatre –  One Night in Istanbul – 2nd – 6th June

Project Arts Centre –   sleeps

Civic Theatre  – Goodbye to Marie – Wed, 3rd – Sat, 6th June 2015
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Wed 3rd – Sat 7th June

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – No Smoke Without Fire – June 02 – 13, 2015

Bord Gais Energy Centre –Top Hat – 27 May 2015 – 6 Jun 2015

Movies

Lighthouse Cinema – Bill Murray Season – All through June

This week there’s Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation among others!

Sugar Club – Fri June 05 – The Sugar Club presents “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” + The Cujo Family + Mick Pyro

New Releases this Week

Fortune’s Wheel – The Fairview Lion Tamer
Gascoigne
Insidious: Chapter 3
Listen Up Philip
Spy

Gigs

There is a sense of recovery after all the festivals around the place the previous week! Still, there’s Patti at Kilmainham, which is pretty amazing in itself! There’s also Roxette if you prefer things in the pop spectrum. Check out the full list below.

Mon 1st June

Patti Smith – Royal Hospital Kilmainham

Roxette – 3Arena (The O2)

Don McLean – Vicar Street

Tue 2nd June

The Overtones – The Olympia Theatre

Gilbert O’Sullivan and his band – Vicar Street

Wed 3rd June

The Matthews – Whelan’s

RTE Concert Orchestra: Sondheim at 85 – NCH

Gilbert O’Sullivan and his band – Vicar Street

Thu 4th June

Hermitage Green – Whelan’s

Chatham Saxophone Quartet – Odessa

Alistair McKay and Rupert Edwards – Bello Bar

Fri 5th June

Wyvern Lingo – Whelan’s

Bairbre Anne (‘Sparks’ EP Launch) – The Workman’s Club

Caroline Moreau – The Purty Kitchen

Vienna Rivals: Beethoven and Reicha – NCH

Twin Kranes – The Grand Social

Heroes in Hiding (EP Launch) – The Twisted Pepper

Cian (EP Launch) – Bello Bar

Sat 6th June

Girls Names – Hangar

Tankcsapda – The Button Factory

Aaron Anthony (Single Launch) – Whelan’s

Hannah Curwood – The Twisted Pepper

European Sensoria Band – Arthur’s Pub

Lord Huron – Whelan’s

Ross Breen – The Workman’s Club

Manden Express & Ajo Arkestra – The Sugar Club

Sun 7th June

Louis Stewart Quartet – JJ Smyth’s

Ash – Whelan’s

Talks and Lectures

National Gallery of Ireland – Jun 2 2015 – Tuesday Talk: 2 June – ‘Butler Gallery, Kilkenny’, with Anna O’Sullivan, Butler

May 31 2015 – 15:00 – Sunday Lecture 31 May – ‘Capturing images in diverse media’, with Hugh O’Conor

IMMA – Screening and Discussion with Stan Douglas – Wednesday 3 June, 6-8pm, Irish Film Institute

IMMA – Summer Rising – The IMMA Festival – 4-14 June 2015

Art

IMMA – Gerda Frömel, A Retrospective  – 09 April – 05 July

Karla Black – 01 May 2015 – 26 Jul 2015

IMMA Collection: Fragments – 01 May 2015 – 26 Jul 2015

Diogo Pimentão : Disequilibrium Displacement – until 05 Jul 2015

National Gallery of Ireland – Sean Scully – 9 May – 20 September 2015

RHA Gallery – May 25, 2015 – August 08, 2015 185th Annual Exhibition

Douglas Hyde – May 22 – July 22, 2015
Gallery 1 – SAM KEOGH – Four Fold
Gallery 2 – WOODEN SHIPS – An exhibition of small found objects

Hugh Lane Gallery – Declan Clarke: Wreckage in May – 30 April 2015 – 13 September 2015

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

Private Galleries:

Kerlin – Samuel Laurence Cunnane – 22nd May – 20th June 2015

Oliver Sears – Jeff Schneider & Nest Design – 21 May 2015 — 25 Jun 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – Sonia Shiel – Here, while the bees are sleeping – 30th April – 30th May 2015

Taylor Gallery – Off The Rack – 13 May – 13 June 2015

Olivier Cornett Gallery – 5 Cavendish Row – Opening June 7th