The big event in town this week is the Audi Dublin International Film Festival. Yes, that name will take some getting used to, but it’s the same show, with movies, interviews and a whole lot of stars! It runs from the 18th to the 28th of Feb, with a huge amount of events on around the city.
There’s also the Smock Alley – Scene and Heard Festival of New Work, which should be a lot of fun. There’s also the Lime Tree Bower in the Project, along with Whack!! A slow week for music, but we’d recommend Ozric Tentacles, the Avant Gardai and Shuggie Otis.
If you’re close to the RHA the Mick O’Dea exhibition is pretty damn cool! The Nick Miller in IMMA also comes highly recommended.
Theatre
Gaiety Theatre – John B Keane’s Big Maggie – 29 Jan – 12 Mar 2016
Smock Alley –Festival of New Work – Smock Allies: Scene + Heard –
February 17th – March 5th 2016 – MUSIC – DANCE – THEATRE – COMEDY + SPOKEN WORD – (NEW)
Project Arts Centre – 16 Feb 2016-27 Feb 2016 – This Lime Tree Bower
25 Feb 2016-27 Feb 2016 | € 10 – €16 – Whack!!
Civic Theatre – Alice – 18 – 20 February // 7.30pm & 3pm matinee on 20th Feb – (NEW)
New Theatre – Taboo – Feb 15th – Feb 27th (NEW)
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – The Quiet Land – Feb 08 – 20, 2016
Theatre Upstairs – Couples + Pairs – February 5th 2015 – February 20th 2015
Viking Theatre – Padraig Potts’ Guide To Walking – Jan 25 – Feb 5
The Gate – Juno and the Paycock – Thu 11/02/16 – Sat 16/04/16
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – The Perfect Murder – 15 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 201
Movies
Wed Feb17 – Popcorn Presents – True Romance
Oscar Nominated Shorts 2016: Animation
18:45 Monday 15th February
See all 5 Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film screened back-to-back:
Bear Story – Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Prologue – Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Sanjay’s Super Team – Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeldt
Oscar Nominated Shorts 2015: Live Action
20:45 Monday 15th February
See all 5 Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Film screened back-to-back:
Ave Maria – Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Day One – Henry Hughes
Everything Will Be Okay – Patrick Vollrath
Shok – Jamie Donoughue
Stutterer – Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
REEL ART: FURTHER BEYOND (ADIFF 2016) – Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – Friday 19th February 2016 18.00 (Tickets only available through ADIFF)
New Releases this week!
Only The Dead
The Subjects
Bone Tomahawk
Chronic
The Finest Hours
Freeheld
How To Be Single
Triple 9
Gigs
So, what to recommend this week? Well, it’s funny to see Ozric Tentacles on the list. There’s also the Avant Gardai and Shuggie Otis in a fairly meagre line up of bands, this week…
Mon 15 Feb
Nevermen – The Olympia Theatre
Tue 16 Feb
All Time Low – 3Arena
Eddi Reader – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
Wed 17 Feb
Ozric Tentacles – Hangar
Dublin International Piano Competition – Nathalia Milstein – NCH
Boy & Bear – The Academy Green Room
Julia Holter – The Button Factory
Warsaw Radio – Whelan’s
Thu 18 Feb
The Avant Gardaí – The Workman’s Club
Niamh Crowther, The Klares, Sun Set Ships, The New Wave – The Grand Social
Shuggie Otis – The Sugar Club
Walk The Moon – The Olympia Theatre
Essential Classics With John Wilson – NCH
Paul Brady – Vicar Street
Fri 19 Feb
The X Factor Live Tour – 3Arena
Stomptown Brass – The Sugar Club
Jack O’Rourke – Whelan’s
Hotel On Mars – The Grand Social
Lethal Dialect – Whelan’s
Daft as Punk – The Grand Social
Sat 20 Feb
VerseChorusVerse & David Lyttle – The Workman’s Club
The Altered Hours – The Workman’s Club
The X Factor Live Tour – 3Arena
Slum Village – The Sugar Club
William McCarthy – The Grand Social
Gabrielle Aplin – Olympia Theatre
Craig Gallagher – Whelan’s
Sun 21 Feb
Fifi Rong – The Sugar Club
The Prettiots – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
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
IMMA Collection: Nick Miller and the studio of Edward McGuire – until 02 May 2016
IMMA Collection: Approaches to paper – until 02 May 2016
Mick O’Dea PRHA: The Foggy Dew – January 15, 2015 – February 21, 2016
David Farrell: Before, During, After … Almost – January 15, 2015 – February 21, 2016
December 11, 2015 – February 24, 2016 -Gallery 2 – MERLIN JAMES – Meeting at the Building
Gallery 1 – SERGE CHARCHOUNE
Hugh Lane (1875-2015): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss celebrates Hugh Percy Lane. – until 10th Jan
Chester Beatty – Exhibition
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Jan Pleitner – Water for the Tribe – 22 January – 10 March 2016
Oliver Sears –Ed Miliano – 28 Jan 2016 — 10 Mar 2016
Kevin Kavanagh – Aileen Murphy and Kathy Tynan – Opens Thursday 7th January at 6pm
Taylor Gallery – Winter Group Show – 18 December 2015 – 30 January 2016
No More Workhorse 