Our very own lovely girl competition kicks off this week with the Rose of Tralee International Festival 2016. I suggest you studiously ignore it! Some small festivals around Dublin include the Harbour to Hotspot – Roots Revival Festival 2016 and the Dalkey Lobster Festival 2016.

Some good gigs this week with John Murry, Warpaint and Lloyd Cole, so a few to choose from. There’s also a few new theatre productions with Buridan’s Ass, The Belly Button Girl, As You Like it and IGNITE: Youth Theatre Festival.

Theatre

Abbey – Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme – until 24th Sept

Olympia – Once – until 27th August

Gaiety Theatre – Riverdance – until 4 September 2016

Smock Alley – Pygmalion – until 3 Sep

As You Like It – 22 -27 Aug (NEW)

Project Arts Centre – RYOU-UN MARU –  10 Jun 2016-13 Aug 2016 – Exhibitions

Civic Theatre – Damien Dempsey Solo – 25 August // 8pm

New Theatre – The Belly Button Girl – Aug 22nd – Aug 27th (NEW)

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Buridan’s Ass – Aug 22 – Sep 10 (NEW)

Viking Theatre – God Bless This Child

The Gate – The Constant Wife – until 27th August

Samuel Beckett Theatre – IGNITE: Youth Theatre Festival – 22 & 23 August 2016 (NEW)

Movies

Lighthouse – Films You’d Love Your Kids To See
THE LION KING – WED 24 AUG, 3PM & 8.30PM
SUN 28 AUG, 3PM
BABE – WED 17 AUG, 3PM & 6.30PM
GREASE SING-ALONG – TUE 23 AUG, 8.30PM
FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF – FRI 26 AUG, 10.30PM

National Theatre Live – As You Like It – 19:00, Tuesday 23 August 2016 (ENCORE)

IFI – ELAINE MAY RETROSPECTIVE

ELAINE MAY: MIKEY AND NICKY – Wednesday 24th August 2016 – 18.30

ELAINE MAY: ISHTAR – Sunday 28th August 2016 – 16.00

New Release Movies –

Bad Moms
Julieta
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village
The Purge: Election Year
War Dogs

Gigs

This week is a bit better than the last few ones, which were pretty miserable in all truth! You’ve got John Murry, Warpaint and Lloyd Cole, so that ain’t half bad, is it?

Mon 22 Aug
Travis Scott – The Academy
The Great Romantics – NCH

Tue 23 Aug
Warpaint – National Concert Hall
Airbourne – The Academy
SUUNS – The Button Factory

Wed 24 Aug
John Murry – Whelan’s

Thu 25 Aug
The Willis Clan – National Concert Hall
Sharon Shannon – Whelan’s

Fri 26 Aug
Lloyd Cole – Vicar Street
The Garden – Whelan’s
RTE CO: Singin’ in the Rain – NCH
The Damned – The Academy
Trouble Pilgrims – Whelan’s
Ka Tet – Whelan’s

Sat 27 Aug
The Original Rudeboys – The Academy
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – NCH
Sharon Robinson – The Sugar Club

Art

IMMA –
Simon Fujiwara The Humanizer – 20 May 2016 – 28 Aug 2016
IMMA Collection: A Decade – 28 Apr 2016 – 08 Jan 2017
The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection – 15 Jul – 26 Feb 2017
A Fair Land – 12 – 28 August 2016

RHA Gallery – Aideen Barry: Brittlefield: A Solo Survey of the Work of Aideen Barry – July 08, 2016 – August 21, 2016
Sean Lynch: Adventure: Capital, Ireland at Venice, The Irish Tour – July 08, 2016 – August 21, 2016
Una Sealy , It Takes A Village – July 08, 2016 – August 21, 2016

Douglas Hyde –August 5 – September 21, 2016
Gallery 2 – EOIN MC HUGH
Gallery 1 – ALEC SOTH – Hypnagogia

Hugh Lane Gallery –
Alan Phelan: Our Kind  – 10 March – 2 October 2016 – Our Kind is a short film by Alan Phelan which

Chester Beatty – Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Olivier Cornet Gallery – Republic –  Group show – until 31Aug

Kerlin – Brian Maguire – Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up – until 20th August 2016

Oliver Sears – Sleeps

Kevin Kavanagh – Ulrich Vogl, Joe Scullion and Tadhg McSweeney – August 4th – August 27th 2016

Taylor Gallery – Summer Group Show – 21 July – 27 August 2015