Lots of festivals this week, which is always the way mid summer. There’s the Bloomsday Festival (11 June – 16 June) for those that have read the big book! If you haven’t there’s also the Dublin Kite Festival (18 June) and even the Taste of Dublin which kicks off again in the Iveagh Gardens.
One of the best book festivals takes place with the Dalkey Book Festival (15 Jun – 18 Jun). There’s the tail end of the Carlow Arts Festival 2017 (7 – 13th June).
No Knife runs for one week only in the Abbey. It’s a slow week for live music, but there is Hans Zimmer, The Wedding Present, Arcade Fire and a few others.
The National Gallery reopens on the 15th of June! How long have we been waiting for that one. The RHA Annual Exhibition is in full swing, which is always interesting. Vermeer and the masters of genre painting: Inspiration and rivalry has opened at the National Gallery and runs until Sept 17th.
Theatre
Abbey – No’s Knife – 10 – 17 June (New)
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Evita – 6 – 17th June
Gaiety Theatre – Minding Frankie – 6th – 17th June
Smock Alley – The Dubliners Dilemma – 16 + 17 Jun
Misses Liffey – 17th June
Project Arts Centre – DYT@40– 17 June
Theatre Upstairs – I Am A Bird Now – 2nd – 17th June
New Theatre – Cyclops – 6th – 24th June
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Dubliners Women – June 06 – 17
Viking Theatre – This Lime Tree Bower – May 29 – June 17
Civic Theatre – Between Your Love and Mine – 18th June
The Gate – Private Lives – until 24th June
Movies
Lighthouse Cinema –
NT Live: Peter Pan (Recorded) – Tue 13 Jun 2017
Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo – Love & Death – Tue 13 Jun 2017
Hepburn Forever – 3rd June – 4th July 2017
The African Queen – (From 17th June 2017)
My Fair Lady – (From 18th June 2017)
IFI –
DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE:
LENNY – Thursday 15th June 2017 – 18.30
MARATHON MAN Saturday 17th June 2017 20.30
PAPILLON – Sunday 18th June 2017 – 14.00
New Release Movies –
By Time It Gets Dark
Cardboard Gangsters
Churchill
Gifted
Whitney: Can I Be Me
Gigs
Mon 12 Jun
Jackson Browne – Vicar Street
Richard Dawkins – NCH
Tue 13 Jun
Hans Zimmer – 3Arena
Wintersleep – Whelans
Wexford Opera Festival Summer Recital – NCH
Jackson Browne – Vicar Street
Wed 14 Jun
Aerosmith – 3Arena
Elmer Bernstein: 50 Years of Film Music – NCH
Devin Townsend Project – The Academy
Arcade Fire – Malahide Castle
Thu 15 Jun
The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow – Leopardstown
Hibernian Orchestra Summer Gala Concert – NCH
Dermot Barrett – Whelans
Paramore – The Olympia Theatre
Clutch – The Academy
Cliff Richard – Live At The Marquee
Jackson Browne – Vicar Street
Fri 16 Jun
Bloomsday – A Celebration in Song and Prose of James Joyce’s Ulysses – NCH
Brian McGovern – Whelans
RTE NSO Old-Time Sing-along – NCH
Jackson Browne – Vicar Street
Sat 17 Jun
The 1975 – Malahide Castle
Come on Live Long – Whelans
Popcorn Not Included – NCH
Robbie Williams – Aviva Stadium
The Wedding Present – The Academy
Sun 18 Jun
Shalosh – Whelans
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
National Gallery of Ireland – Vermeer and the masters of genre painting: Inspiration and rivalry – Until Sept 17th.
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 – Hannah Fitz, Áine McBride, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Marcel Vidal – 8th July – 26th August 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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