The big event this week is definitely the New Year Festival which is a great idea, considering how little is on otherwise! It’s a three day festival from the 30th to the 1st, and has plenty of Music, Spoken Word and other events.
We also get the start of the First Fortnight Festival, which runs for the first two weeks of the new year (obvs). The First Fortnight is a multidisciplinary festival that aims to explore mental health, with music, theatre, talk and more.
There’s a couple more of the Oscar Movies being released this week, with Joy and the Danish Girl.
Might be a good time to catch up on IMMA, the Hugh Lane and the National Gallery… or hit the sales. I’ll leave the choice up to you…
Theatre
Abbey Theatre – You Never Can Tell – 2 December – 6 February
Gaiety Theatre – Little Red Riding Hood Pantomime – 29 November 2015 – 10 January 2016
Smock Alley – NYE Festival including
The Ruby Sessions – New Year’s Festival – December 30th & 31st at 6pm in The Boys’ School
Ashoka – Yes Inclusion – New Year’s Festival – December 30th at 1pm
A Guard At The Cross – New Year’s Festival / LINGO – December 31st at 12pm in the Boys’ School
Hello Myself – First Fortnight / New Year’s Festival – Jan 1st at 12pm, 2pm & 4pm in The Banquet Hall
Project Arts Centre – Sleeps
Civic Theatre – Aladdin – 20 December – 3 January
New Theatre – Sleeps
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Sleeps – Next Production – Sure Thing – Jan 04 – 23, 2016
Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps – Next Production – Lockdown – Jan 11th – Jan 16th
Viking Theatre – John Colleary & Patrick Mc Donnell – Saturday Jan 2 8:00pm €15
The Gate – The Importance of Being Earnest – until 30th Jan
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Mary Poppins – 3 Dec 2015 – 9 Jan 2016
Movies
First Fortnight including… Gabriel – 2nd Jan
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS – 28 DEC, 4PM
NYE: WHEN HARRY MET SALLY – THU 31ST DEC, 4PM
New Releases this week!
Danish Girl
Joy
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Gigs
It’s actually decent enough, all things considered! Thursday night is obviously the main event, with Lisa Hannigan, Le Galaxie, HamsandwicH and more…
Mon 28 Dec
Hudson Taylor – Whelan’s
Bad Manners – The Academy
The Dublin Legends – Vicar Street
Tue 29 Dec
Something Happens – Whelan’s
The Complete Stone Roses – The Button Factory
The Choir Invisible & Riot Tapes – The Workman’s Club
Nathan Carter – Vicar Street
Wed 30 Dec
Ruby Sessions – Smock Alley
Brian Kennedy – Whelan’s
Prison Love – Whelan’s Upstairs
Nathan Carter – Vicar Street
Thu 31 Dec
Ruby Sessions – Smock Alley
NYE2015 @ The Sugar Club
Three Countdown Concert | The Coronas, Fatboy Slim, Kila & More
NYF Street Fest 2015 – Le Galaxie, All Tvvins, Otherkin, Wyvern Lingo
The Turning Pirate NYE Mix Tape 2015 – Vicar Street including…. Lisa Hannigan, Booka Brass Band, Niamh Farrell (Hamsandwich)
New Year’s Eve With HamsandwicH – Whelans
Sat 02 Jan
Aslan – Vicar Street
Art
IMMA –
What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now – 12 September 2015 – 7 February 2016
Featuring modern and contemporary masterworks from the world’s leading collections by ABRAMOVIĆ, BRANCUSI, DALÍ, DUCHAMP, ERNST, GIACOMETTI, OPPENHEIM, PICASSO, WARHOL, YOKO ONO, and many more.
Chloe Dewe Mathews: Shot at Dawn – 09 Oct 2015 – 07 Feb 2016
Grace Weir, 3 Different Nights, recurring – 7 November 2015 – 6 March 2016
E.gress: Marie Brett & Kevin O’Shanahan – 03 Nov – 13 Dec 2015
RHA Gallery – Next Exhibitions –
November 18, 2015 – December 20, 2015 FUTURES Anthology RHA Gallery I
November 18, 2015 – December 20, 2015 Ailbhe Ní Bhriain Reports to an Academy RHA Gallery II
November 18, 2015 – December 20, 2015 Sean Molloy Neo Pentimenti RHA Ashford Gallery
Hugh Lane (1875-1915): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss – until 04 October 2015 Hugh Lane (1875-2015): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss celebrates Hugh Percy Lane. – until 10th Jan
Chester Beatty – Exhibition
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Liliane Tomasko – Sense – 28 November 2015 – 16 January 2016
Oliver Sears –Sasha Sykes & Sara Flynn – Caliology & Lineage – 26 Nov 2015 — 21 Jan 2016
Kevin Kavanagh – Paul McKinley – Hanuman – Nov 19th – Dec 19th, 2015
Taylor Gallery – Pat Harris – Thin Places – 20 November – 12 December 2015
No More Workhorse 