Spike is the newest festival in town, and explores the world of alternative cello, no less! There are lots of events including yoga with live cello! Check it out if you can. The Chinese New Year festival continues until Feb 12th.

Other than Spike, it’s a slow week for live music, with Keaton Henson at the Olympia Theatre and Mark Eitzel at Whelans the undoubted highlights!

Arligton opens for previews at the Abbey. There’s also Happy Birthday Jacob at the New Theatre and Autumn Royal at the Project.

The IMMA Collection Freud Project is a must see!

Theatre

Abbey – Arlington  –  10th – 25th Feb 2017 (New)

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Dirty Dancing – 7 Feb 2017 – 11 Feb 2017 (New)

Gaiety Theatre – The Successful TD – 6 Feb 2017 – 18 Feb 2017 (New)

Smock Alley – Next – Smock Allies : Scene + Heard – 14 Feb – 4 Mar | All Spaces

Project Arts Centre –  Dublin Oldschool – 03 Feb 2017-18 Feb 2017
Autumn Royal – 07 Feb 2017-11 Feb 2017 (New)
This is an Irish Dance – 8th – 11th Feb (New)

Theatre Upstairs – Couples+Pairs/2/ – Feb 3rd – 18th 2017

New Theatre – Happy Birthday Jacob – Feb 7th – Feb 11th (New)

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Animalia – Jan 30 – Feb 18, 2017

Viking Theatre – The Quiet Land – Feb 6 – 18 (New)

Mill Theatre, Dundrum – Romeo & Juliet – 7th Feb – 3rd Mar 2017 (New)

Civic Theatre –  Dublin Oldschool – 6-8 Feb (New)

The Gate – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – until 25th Feb

Movies

Sugar Club
Mon Feb06 – Popcorn Presents – Trainspotting
Sat Feb11 – BOBO Productions Presents – Rocky Horror Picture Show Anti Valentines Delight
Sun Feb12 – Popcorn Presents – Sing Street

Lighthouse Cinema
David Bowie Is (Encore) – Sunday 12 March 2017

IFI –
Taxi Driver (opens 10th Feb)

New Release Movies –
20th Century Women
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Fifty Shades Darker
Meetings With Ivor
Prevenge
Moonlight
The Lego Batman

Gigs

Mon 06 Feb
A Celebration of Irish Pianist-Composers – NCH
Chinese New Year Celebration – NCH
Kaleo – The Olympia Theatre

Tues 07 Feb
Colm Wilkinson – From Les Miserables to Phantom of The Opera & Beyond – NCH

Wed 08 Feb
The Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation Charity Gala – NCH
We Cut Corners – The Sound House

Thu 09 Feb
Madeleine Peyroux – The Olympia Theatre
Dana Masters – The Sugar Club
Mongrel State – The Bowery
Finbar Furey – Vicar Street

Fri 10 Feb
Spike – Alt Cello Festival
RTE NSO: Bruckner: Music and Faith – NCH
Don Diablo – The Academy

Sat 11 Feb
Spike – Festival – including Yin Yoga Class with live Cello
Luther 500: Birth (Christmas & Epiphany) – Trinity Chapel
The 22nd Festival of Youth Orchestras – NCH
Keaton Henson – The Olympia Theatre
Asphyx – Voodoo Lounge

Sun 12 Feb
Spike – Festival – including Kate Ellis at the Hugh Lane (Free)
“The Man In Black” – NCH
Mike & The Mechanics – The Olympia Theatre
The Sherlocks – The Grand Social
Taking Back Sunday – Vicar Street
Mark Eitzel – Whelans

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

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

RHA Gallery
Daphne Wright – Emotional Archaeology
Joy Gerrard ‘shot crowd’ RHA Gallery II – January 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017

Douglas Hyde –Nex exhibition – February 17 – April 5, 2017

SEAN LYNCH – Gallery 1
CROQUIS – Painted Tie Designs – Gallery 2

Hugh Lane Gallery – General Exhibition

Chester Beatty – General Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Kerlin – Phillip Allen – Deepdrippings
11th February – 25th March 2017

Oliver Sears – Sam Walsh & Liam Flynn – 2 Feb 2017 — 16 Mar 2017

Taylor Gallery – LACUNA [ 04 ] – 3 – 25 February 2017

Sharon Etgar, Vincent Hawkins, Eimear Murphy, Pauline O’Connell, Rachel Parry, Eddie Rafferty, Gerda Teljeur, Andrew Ward, Tad Wiley

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Altered Light – Kathlyn O’Brien – January 12th – February 11th, 2017