All hail Forbidden Fruit 2017 (3 Jun – 5 Jun) as the big event in town this week. There’s Orbital, Aphex Twin and Bon Iver over the three day festival, and a thousand more names you’d care to mention. There’s also Vantastival 2017 (3 Jun – 4 Jun) a bit further afield with the Riptide Movement, Kila and more.
There’s You Bloom 2017 (1 Jun – 5 Jun) for a music industry slant on things. Bloom 2017 is for the green fingered amongst us (1 Jun – 5 Jun). Another fun looking festival is the Dublin Port River Fest 2017 (3 Jun – 5 Jun).
There’s new theatre with Stones in his Pockets in Smock Alley, I Am A Bird Now in Theatre Upstairs and Imagining Liam in the Teachers Club.
Some good gigs include the Swans in the Button Factory, Ron Sexsmith in the Academy and Kraftwerk in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre.
The RHA Annual Exhibition opens this week, which is always interesting. The IMMA Collection Freud Project is a must see!
Theatre
Abbey – The Play About the Baby – 1-3 June 2017
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Imelda May – 29 – 31st May
Kraftwerk 3D – 2- 3 June
Gaiety Theatre – Next Production: Minding Frankie – 6th – 17th June
Smock Alley – Stones in his Pockets – 29 May – 10 Jun
Our Town – 29 May – 3 June
Project Arts Centre – Comedy Showhouse 2017 – 29th – 3rd June
Theatre Upstairs – I Am A Bird Now – 29th – 17th June
New Theatre – Young Skins – The Clancy Kid & Bait – May 22 Jun 3rd
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – The Confirmation Suit – until June 03, 2017
Viking Theatre – This Lime Tree Bower – May 29 – June 17
Civic Theatre – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – 29th May – 3rd June
The Gate – Private Lives – until 24th June
Teachers Club – Imagining Liam – May 29 – June 10
Movies
Lighthouse Cinema –
NT Live: Amadeus (Encore) – Tue 30 May 2017
HOKUSAI: Presented By The British Museum – Sun 04 Jun 2017
Hepburn Forever – 3rd June – 4th July 2017
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (From 3rd June 2017)
IFI –
AS ABOVE SO BELOW: SHOPPING BAG, SPIRITS AND FREEWAY FETISHES – 30/05/2017
AS ABOVE SO BELOW: WINTER LIGHT – 31/05/2017
New Release Movies –
After The Storm
Baywatch
My Life As A Courgette
The Hippopotamus
Wonder Woman
Gigs
Mon 29 May
George Ezra – The Olympia Theatre
Imelda May – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Tue 30 May
Shawn Mendes – 3Arena
Swans – Button Factory
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra – NCH
Picture This – The Olympia Theatre
Imelda May – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Wed 31 May
JP Cooper – The Academy
Imelda May – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
NCH: Sing Out! Choir End of year concert – NCH
Picture This – The Olympia Theatre
Minus The Bear – Whelan’s
Thu 1 May
James Acaster – The Trelogy
Fri 02 Jun
Garry Tallent – Whelans
Siomha – Whelans
Picture This – The Olympia Theatre
An American in Paris – NCH
Ron Sexsmith – The Academy
Kraftwerk – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Sat 03 Jun
Vantastival 2017
Forbidden Fruit 2017
Ben Ottewell – Whelans
An American in Paris – NCH
Picture This – The Olympia Theatre
Kraftwerk – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Sun 04 Jun
Vantastival 2017
Forbidden Fruit 2017
Picture This – The Olympia Theatre
Chris Smither – Whelans
Mon 05 Jun
Forbidden Fruit 2017
Visual Art
ROSC 50 – 1967 / 2017 – 05 May 2017 to 18 Jun 2017
Jac Leirner – Institutional Ghost – 14 February – 05 June 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 – 187th Annual Exhibition – May 23, 2017 – August 12, 2017
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 – Paul Winstanley – Faith After Saenredam and Other Paintings – 20th May – 1st July 2017
Oliver Sears – Barrie Cooke – Works from the Studio – 11 May 2017 — 22 Jun 2017
Taylor Gallery – John Shinnors – New Paintings – 2 – 24 June 2017
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Crooked Orbit – Diana Copperwhite – June 1st – July 1st, 2017
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