There’s a few new festivals in town this week, which look nice and odd! Live Collision 2017 (19 – 23 Apr 2017) is a festival of how audiences and performers collide! It’s an unusual one, so expect the unexpected.

There’s also the one day festival called Cruinniu na Casca 2017 taking place on Monday 17th April. The Customs House area has bands such as Inni-K, Crash Ensemble and Slow Moving Clouds. Smithfield has free screenings at the Lighthouse – The Secret Scripture, Song of the Sea (with one screening in Irish), Older than Ireland, The Young Offenders, The Lobster and Room. There’s also performances from Jack O’Rourke & Booka Brass Band. There’s also lots of talks and bands at Dublin Castle.

Our gigs of the week would include Peter Silberman (The Antlers) at The Unitarian Church and Happyness at Whelan’s (Upstairs). Running With Dinosaurs opens at the New Theatre and previews of Waiting for Godot at the Abbey.

The IMMA Collection Freud Project is a must see! National Gallery of Ireland has the ‘Beyond Caravaggio‘ until 14th May. Book now or feel awful silly!

Theatre

Abbey – Waiting for Godot – 22 Apr until 20th May (New)

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Not Dead Enough – 18 Apr 2017 – 22 Apr 2017 (New)

Gaiety Theatre – Next Production: The Chastitute – 25 April 2017 – 20 May 2017 

Smock Alley – Phonica : Five – Mon 24 Apr (New)

Project Arts Centre –  Live Collision 2017 – 19 – 23 Apr 2017 (New)
Giselle – 22 -29 Apr (New)

Theatre Upstairs – Monster? – April 14th – 29th 2017

New Theatre – Running With Dinosaurs – Apr 17th – Apr 29th (New)

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Yeats Besotted – Apr 03 – 22, 2017

Viking Theatre – The Misanthrope – Apr 10 – 22

Civic Theatre – Room For Two – 18 – 27 April (New)

The Gate – Private Lives – until 24th June

Movies

Lighthouse Cinema  –
NT Live: No Man’s Land (Encore) – Tue 18 Apr 2017
NT Live: Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (Live) – Thu 20 Apr 2017
Met Opera: Eugene Onegin (Live) – Sat 22 Apr 2017

IFI – INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE CZECH NEW WAVE
INTIMATE LIGHTING: NOBODY WILL LAUGH – Wednesday 19th April 2017 – 18.30
INTIMATE LIGHTING: A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND THE GUESTS – Saturday 22nd April 2017 – 14.00
INTIMATE LIGHTING: CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS – Sunday 23rd April 2017 – 20.00

Sugar Club –
Fri Apr 21 – Popcorn Presents – Prince Night : Sign of The Times ( Prince Anniversary Night )

New Release Movies –
Clash
Handsome Devil
Rules Don’t Apply
Their Finest
Unforgettable

Gigs

Mon 17 Apr
Cruinniu na Casca 2017 – Inni K, Crash Ensemble, Booka Brass Band and more

Tue 18 Apr
Liam Oragh (Album Launch) – Whelan’s
Me And My Girl – NCH

Wed 19 Apr
Me And My Girl – NCH
Al Stewart – Vicar Street

Thu 20 Apr
Áine Cahill – The Sugar Club
Me And My Girl – NCH
Brass Phantoms – The Workman’s Club

Fri 21 Apr
Peter Silberman – The Unitarian Church
Happyness – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Me And My Girl – NCH
The Live Last Waltz – The Olympia Theatre
Talos – The Button Factory
Áine Cahill – The Sugar Club
Brave Giant – Whelan’s
Boom Child – The Workman’s Club
Sven Väth – The Wright Venue

Sat 22 Apr
This Side Up – The Grand Social
Kasabian – The Olympia Theatre
Me And My Girl – NCH
Winter Heart – The Academy 2
Brave Giant – Whelan’s
This Other Kingdom – The Workman’s Club
The Revellions (Single Launch) – The Grand Social
Jenny Greene – District 8

Sun 23 Apr
Frankie Ballard – Whelan’s
Blood Or Whiskey – Toners

Visual Art

IMMA
Duncan Campbell, The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy – 25 November 2016 – 7 May 2017
Jac Leirner – Institutional Ghost – 14 February – 05 June 2017
Grainne Hassett, The Calais Maps – 29 Mar 2017  to 23 Apr 2017
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics – 13 Apr 2017 to 27 Aug 2017
IMMA Collection Freud Project 2016 – 2021 – 21 October 2016 – mid October 2017

RHA Gallery – Carey Clarke PPRHA: Portraits – January 20, 2017 – April 23, 2017
Futures, Series 3, Episode 1 – March 17, 2017 – April 23, 2017
Jennifer Cunningham: All That Surrounds Us – March 17, 2017 – April 23, 201

Douglas Hyde – April 21 – May 27, 2017
NIAMH O’MALLEY Gallery 2
DENNIS DINNEEN Gallery 1

National Gallery of Ireland – Beyond Caravaggio – 11th Feb – 14th May

Hugh Lane Gallery –
Frank O’Meara and Irish Artists Abroad  – 13 February 2017 – 11 June 2017 Artistic Migration: Frank O’Meara and Irish Artists Abroad
Eugeen Van Mieghem: Port Life  – 09 February 2017 – 11 June 2017

Chester Beatty – General Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Kerlin – Aleana Egan – A House and Its Head – 31st March – 13th May 2017

Oliver Sears – Stephen Lawlor – 23 Mar 2017 — 4 May 2017

Taylor Gallery – Spring Show – 6 – 28 April 2017

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Aspasia – ‘An Influential Immigrant’ – Margaret Corcoran – March 23rd – April 22nd, 2017