Ok, so there’s not a lot on, but there’s a few scraps if you’re interested in doing something cultural over the Christmas. The main event in town is the Dublin NYF Festival, which is a three day event with concerts and gigs around the City. There’s the Lingo NYF Poetry Slam, Tongue Fu and even a great big concert with Walking on Cars and the Blizzards!

The IMMA Collection Freud Project is a must see! There’s also a new Hughie O’Donoghue exhibition at the Oliver Sears gallery.

Theatre

Abbey – Anna Karenina –  7th Dec – 28 Jan 2017

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Big The Musical  – 8 Dec 2016 – 7 Jan 2017

Gaiety Theatre – Robin Hood and his Merry Men – 27 November 2016 – 8 January 2017

Smock Alley – Sleeps

Project Arts Centre –  Exhibition – The Bird with the Human Tongue

Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps (Next Production – Hero – Jan 13th to 28th)

New Theatre – Sleeps

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Sleeps (Next Production – From Eden – Jan 09 – 28, 2017)

Viking Theatre – David McSavage – Tues 27th & Wed 28th Dec 8:00pm

Mill Theatre, Dundrum –  Jack and the Beanstalk – 7th – 31st Dec 2016

Civic Theatre – Cinderella – 17 – 22 December & 3 – 8 January

The Gate – The Heiress – until Sat 07/01/17

Movies

Lighthouse –
NO MAN’S LAND – 14:00, Wednesday 28 December 2016 (Encore)

Sugar Club
Wed Dec28 – The Sugar Club Presents – Stop Making Sense
Fri Dec30 – Sign of The Times (Prince Concert)

IFI – DONNIE DARKO – 15th Anniversary Screening (OPENS DECEMBER 23RD)

New Release Movies –
A Monster Calls
Assassin’s Creed
Silence (2017)

Gigs

Tue 27 Dec
Aslan – Vicar Street
The Brilliant Trees – The Grand Social

Wed 28 Dec
Bugsy Malone – NCH
Paddy Casey – Whelan’s
Le Freak – District 8
R.S.A.G. – The Sound House
Orange Kyte – The Grand Social
The Dublin Legends – Vicar Street

Thu 29 Dec
Bry – The Academy
Hudson Taylor – Whelan’s
Montauk Hotel – Sin E
Andy White – Whelan’s Upstairs
Aslan – Vicar Street
Interskalactic – The Bowery

Fri 30 Dec
Bugsy Malone – NCH
Motorheadache – A Tribute To Lemmy – The Academy 2
Aslan – Vicar Street
Tongue In Chic – The Bowery
Bonzai – District 8

Sat 31 Dec
The Hot Sprockets – The Workman’s Club
3Countdown Concert – Walking On Cars, Brian Deady, Little Hours, The Blizzards
New Year’s Eve Gala – NCH
NYE Mix Tape – Vicar Street – Paul Noonan, Richie Egan & Booka Brass Band
Sugar Club NYE Ball

Sun 1 Jan
RTE NSO: New Year Celebration

Art

IMMA

Emily Jacir Europa – 26 November 2016 – 26 February 2017

Duncan Campbell, The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy – 25 November 2016 – 7 May 2017
IMMA Collection: A Decade – 28 Apr 2016 – 08 Jan 2017

Morph and Transform – 29 October 2016 – 29 January 2017, Project Spaces
The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection – 15 Jul – 26 Feb 2017
15 Sep 2016 – 29 Jan 2017 Historica – Republican Aesthetics: Invited Curator Sumesh Sharma
15 Sep 2016 – 29 Jan 2017 The Plough and other stars: Invited Curator Kate Strain
23 Sep 2016 –  15 Jan 2017 Jaki Irvine If the Ground Should Open…

IMMA Collection Freud Project, 2016 – 2021 – 21 October 2016 – mid October 2017

RHA Gallery 
November 16, 2016 – December 21, 2016 David Crone RHA Echoes and Reflections RHA Gallery I
November 16, 2016 – December 21, 2016 John Cronin RHA Gallery II

Douglas Hyde –November 18, 2016 – February 1, 2017

Gallery 1 – JOSEF SUDEK
Gallery 2 – KATHY PRENDERGAST

Hugh Lane Gallery –
Michael Kane: …Modality of the Visible  – 20 October 2016 – 15 January 2017
Sven Augustijnen  – 08 September 2016 – 22 January 2017

Chester Beatty – Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Kerlin – Siobhán Hapaska – 17th December 2016 – 4th February 2017

Oliver Sears – Hughie O’Donoghue RA – 8 Dec 2016 — 26 Jan 2017

Taylor Gallery – Winter Group Show – gallery + invited artists – 7 December 2016 – 28 January 2017

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Forthcoming – Robert Armstrong and Anna Bjerger – November 17th – December 17th, 2016