This week would be very bleak indeed if it wasn’t for two festivals! First off we have the Mental Health festival called First Fortnight, which is a multi disciplinary festival taking in all sorts for the next two weeks. The other one in question is the Dublin Bowie Festival which has some really unusual events such as a talk with Enda Walsh at the Sugar Club.
The IMMA Collection Freud Project is a must see! There’s also a new Hughie O’Donoghue exhibition at the Oliver Sears gallery.
Theatre
Pol na Mone
Sugar Club – An Evening with Enda Walsh (Bowie Festival) – Thu Jan 5th
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 – Ancient Echoes from the River of Time: An Illuminate Herstory Event – 5 Jan
Pol na Mone – 7 Jan | 6pm | Main Space
Project Arts Centre – Exhibition – The Bird with the Human Tongue
Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps (Next Production – Hero – Jan 13th to 28th)
New Theatre – Sleeps (The Voice Factor [X] – Jan 9th – Jan 21st)
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Sleeps (Next Production – From Eden – Jan 09 – 28, 2017)
Viking Theatre – As Time Goes By….. – Jan 5-14 (NEW)
Mill Theatre, Dundrum – The Ice Witch – 2nd – 7th Jan 2017 (NEW)
Civic Theatre – Cinderella – 17 – 22 December & 3 – 8 January
Vagabonds – My Phil Lynott Odyssey – 5 – 7 January // 8.15pm / 5 Jan @ 3pm (NEW)
The Gate – The Heiress – until Sat 07/01/17
Movies
Lighthouse –
LABYRINTH (PG) – Saturday 07 January, 15:00, Sunday 08 January, 18:00
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (18) Saturday 07 January, 21:00, Sunday 08 January, 15:00
IFI –
IFI & First Fortnight: Infinitely Polar Bear – Saturday 7th January 2017 @16.00
FROM THE VAULTS: THE DEAD – Friday 6th January 2017 @18.30
New Release Movies –
The Mercy
Endless Poetry
Gigs
Ok, probably the worst week I can remember since… this time last year! People are broke and promoters are not taking risks. Time to curl up with a good book? Possibly, but there are a few interesting events in the Bowie Festival, along with Christy Moore and David O’Doherty.
Mon 02 Jan
Christy Moore – Vicar Street
Bugsy Malone – NCH
Tue 03 Jan
Christy Moore – Vicar Street
Bugsy Malone – NCH
Wed 04 Jan
Kaleidoscope – Bello Bar
Thu 05 Jan
Reeling In the Showband Years – Pavilion
Tribute to Phil – Grand Social
David O’Doherty: Big Time – Whelans
Fri 06 Jan
RTE NSO: Messiah – NCH
David O’Doherty: Big Time – Whelans
Therapy Sessions – curated by Le Galaxie – Workman’s Club
60’s Bowie Bowie Acapella – Grand Social
RRIC Hangover w/ 1/2 Forward Line (So Cow), Shrug Life, Oh Boland, Fonda & The Pacifics – Whelans
Sat 07 Jan
Avenged Sevenfold & Disturbed – 3Arena
David O’Doherty: Big Time – Whelans
The Puccini Scandal – NCH
David August – District 8
Ashes To Ashes Dublin II – Grand Social
Sun 08 Jan
Rebel Rebel – The David Bowie Experience – Vicar Street
David O’Doherty: Big Time – Whelans
Secret Life: The Sounds & Visions Of David Bowie – Bowery
Art
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
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 – Ali Kirby and Christopher Mahon – January 5th – 8th, 2017
No More Workhorse 