Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival
2018-04-27 19:30 - 2018-04-28 01:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Various Locations, Select a Country:
Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival is Ireland’s newest genre-specific film festival. The festival will take place from 26-29th April in Dublin city centre and comprise screenings of new features, documentaries and short films, along with classic science fiction and fantastic features from the vaults.
Venues: Light House Cinema & Generator Hostel, Smithfield, Dublin 7

Dublin Design Night
2018-04-25 20:00 - 23:00
The third annual Dublin Design Night kicks off this Wednesday April 25, 6pm-9pm, with 19 design destinations around the city center. Image Interiors & Living readers are welcomed to meet some of Ireland’s finest makers, as curated by interior designer Emily Cunnane of InSpace Interior Design.
https://www.imageinteriors.ie/dublin-design-night

The Sophisticats Live at Bagots Hutton
2018-04-24 22:30 - 2018-04-25 01:00 | Bagotts Hutton, 6 Ormond Quay, Dublin 7, Dublin, Ireland
Dublinjazz.ie Presents at Bagots Hutton live jazz set. Celebrate the Jazz Era with the”The Sophisticats” . Featuring music from the Roaring Twenties through the Swing Era as well as jazzy renditions of today’s hits. The Sophisticats are made up of 5 incredibly accomplished musicians that bring life to the dance floor and reignite community enthusiasm for jazz and swing music. They will be performing at Bagotts Hutton on Friday, May 11th at 8:30 pm.
Vintage dress optional.

The Plough and the Stars at the Gaiety Theatre
2018-04-24 21:30 - 2018-05-06 00:00 | The Gaiety Theatre, South King Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Seen by over 50,000 people in Ireland and the US, Sean Holmes’ refreshed, high-energy restaging of The Plough and the Stars opens at the Gaiety Theatre on Tuesday, April 24th and runs until the 5th of May.

Written by Seán O’Casey and first performed on February 8, 1926 by the Abbey Theatre, the play is set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising in Dublin. The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism, revolution, and patriotic nationalism.

Women and the Vote: The Journey to Citizenship at the National Museum
2018-04-21 11:30 - 17:00 | National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7, Dublin, Ireland
Organized by the History Teachers of Ireland Association, commemorates the Representation of the People’s Act, 1918. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, giving a presentation on Francis and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.
Other speakers include archivist and broadcaster Catriona Crowe, Mr. Justice John McMenamin and the Education team of the National Museum of Ireland.
The event will take place from 9:45am to 3:00pm on April 21st, 2018.
All are wecome.
Contact National Secretary of HTAI: historyteachers@gmail.com to book tickets.

Áine Cahill
2018-04-20 22:00 - 2018-04-21 00:30 | Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, Ireland
First The Strypes, then Lisa O’Neill and now Cahill means Cavan’s got cool. Cast more as a LA chanteuse in the mould of Adele and Lana Del Ray, she sings more of making it in Hollywood than toiling away in The Lakelands. Cahill’s husky vocals exude a shimmering and smoky glamour. She’s notched up appearances at Glastonbury (2016) and Eurosonic in January, signed to Warners and had her Blood Diamonds track produced by Courage. Her latest single Plastic ratchets up expectations for a whopper debut album.

WIKI at The Workman's Club
2018-04-20 22:00 - 2018-04-21 00:00 | The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin, Ireland
The New York rapper will be performing at The Workman’s Club on Friday, April 20th at 8pm. After receiving rave reviews from hip-hop enthusiasts in New York, the 23year old rapper has traveled to Europe to present his rap style across the ocean, presented by MCD.
MCD presents WIKI

Greyscale presents Visionist
2018-04-14 22:00 - 2018-04-15 01:00 | The Chocolate Factory, 26 Kings Inn Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
With an expressed agenda of creating “a new series of events that aims to highlight audio-visual art”, Greyscale have some feathers to their cap to date putting on Clu in the Pillar Room of The Rotunda and a Wood Quay show with Damien Lynch. As part of MusicTown (see festival), they are bringing Louis Carnell, a London-based experimental composer and producer to town accompanied by Pedro Maia, a Portuguese filmmaker and audio-visual artist known for his specific interest in working with analog film.

RUNWAY Club Live
2018-04-14 14:00 - 20:00 | Dublin Weston Airport, Junction 5 N4, Lucan
See high-performance cars take on the one-mile runway at Dublin’s Weston Airport on Saturday, April 14th from 12pm-6pm.
Seats are available in the grandstands set up alongside the runway action arena. Spectators can explore the car display, trade village, food stands, and other exhibits. This is a family friendly event.

NOTE: Tickets cover full event access from 12pm to 6pm & includes a grandstand seat for ONE HOUR.

Joris Vroom at District 8
2018-04-14 01:00 - 05:00 | District 8
On Friday, April 13th at 11pm Joris Vroom will be performing at District 8. The Netherlands artist has been touring around western Europe bringing his technical tracks to Dublin on Friday.
https://soundcloud.com/joris-voorn

Festival: MusicTown
2018-04-13 10:00 - 2018-04-22 19:00
Exploring and celebrating the diverse constellation of music cultures that exist in our city, MusicTown focuses on the themes of collaboration and community.
Highlights for 2018 include: A collaboration of storytelling, song and instrumental music recounting the tales of Dublin’s former dockworkers from Macdara Yeates & The Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society, a live concert dedicated to the rich diversity of African music styles and their influence within the Irish music scene today, Sounds of the Diaspora
and children accompanied by their favourite teddies will move through the streets of Dublin driven by song as part of Dublin Choral Foundation’s The Teddybear’s Picnic.
Various venues, April 13-22
musictown.ie

Assassins at the Gate Theatre
2018-04-12 20:00 - 2018-06-09 22:30 | The Gate Theatre, Cavendish Row, Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
The multiple Tony Award-winning ASSASSINS lays out the lives of nine people who assassinated (or tried to assassinate) the President of the United States. Playing at the Gate Theatre from the 12th of April through the 9th of June.
ASSASSINS is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr. Original orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Playwrights Horizons Inc., New York City produced ASSASSINS off-Broadway in 1990. First Broadway production, 2004, Roundabout Theatre Company, * Todd Haimes, Artistic Director. Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited. ASSASSINS is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr. Original orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Playwrights Horizons Inc., New York City produced ASSASSINS off-Broadway in 1990. First Broadway production, 2004, Roundabout Theatre Company, * Todd Haimes, Artistic Director. Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited.
Please note: This production contains strobe lighting and loud noises throughout.
Archived: Assassins

David Lunney—Chrome Dreams
2018-04-12 14:00 - 20:00 | Pallas Project, 115-117 The Coombe, Dublin, 8, Ireland
Chrome Dreams begins with a sculpture which is based around a sheet of ArtGlass (TM). This completely clear glass acts an invisible platform for a variety of reflective elements. This portable sculpture was brought to a forest in Ballyedmonduff (Dublin Mountains) where it was photographed in a variety of positions. Two of these photographs have been rendered as drawings. These strange and complex drawings are always the goal of this process; in a sense of reverse-engineering the imagery from the initial sculpture.
David Lunney’s artistic practice involves the undertaking of protracted art processes. Typically, these processes start with the construction of site-specific or portable sculptural works in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains. These sculptures are generally created less for their inherent value but rather to provide photographic source material for documentary artworks. The resulting documentary artworks can take the form of prints, drawings or photographs. These images are rendered, framed and presented in a fashion which intentionally obscures and embellishes the original object and moment that they represent. In these artworks, it is often the relationship between representational imagery and its surrounding abstract visual information which infers the process and concept behind the work. The works have a self-contained narrative; the concept and the material process are intrinsically linked in the artworks discussion of its provenance.
In Chrome Dreams, which shows new work from late 2017 and early 2018, Lunney has expanded the complexity of the work, both in process and execution. This can be seen most clearly in the Things Twice at Drumnabober series and in the new, eponymous project. Chrome Dreams is an extension of the ongoing Things made for drawing project which uses handheld reflective sculptures, photography, drawing and other media to create process-driven artworks about the Dublin Mountains. In addition, an important influence on this exhibition has been the artist’s work as a picture framer, which has allowed him to tailor make unique manner of frames and devices.
Until April 14

Kaithlyn Aurelia Smith
2018-04-10 22:00 - 2018-04-11 00:30 | The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
An eagerly anticipated Irish debut appearance by this experimental magpie who released her sixth album The Kid in 2017. This journey from birth to death is full of crunchy textures and was composed with her Buchla and effects-treated voice alongside bassoon, trumpet, cello and flute. She’s also just launched a multidisciplinary label called Touchtheplants and do check out her remix of Four Tet’s Planets too.

Japanese Film Festival
2018-04-09 14:00 - 2018-04-22 01:00 | Various Locations, Select a Country:
This year’s Japanese Film Festival is the biggest to date and presents an exciting line-up that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese cinema, with a mix of new work from established directors and first features from inspiring new talent.
The packed programme includes the Irish premieres of the crowd-pleasing family drama Close Knit, the latest from Naoko Ogigami, whose Rent-a-Catwas a particular favourite with JFFaudiences in 2013; the wickedly humorous At the Terrace, which sees the aftermath of a dinner party implode as social politeness gives way to revelations and scandal; the probing family drama Dear Etranger; and the mysterious, haunting Snow Woman the latest adaptation of the iconic story written by the Irish-Greek author Lafcadio Hearn. Following its recent win at the Japan Academy 2018 for Best Film and Best Director, Irish audiences will also have the opportunity to catch The Third Murder, which sees the great Hirokazu Kore-eda taking a break from his usual family dramas to deliver a dark legal thriller.
For this 10th event the anime selection is particularly strong. As previously announced the Festival is presenting, for one night only, exclusive fan preview screenings of Studio Ponoc’s highly anticipated first feature Mary and the Witch’s Flower, with some screenings already sold-out. The Festival will also host the Irish premiere of acclaimed screenwriter Mari Okada’s directorial debut Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, just weeks after its international premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival. 10 years after Masaaki Yuasa debut Mind Game featured in the first Japanese Film Festival in 2008, it is also fitting that this year’s event will share his latest creations with Irish audiences – Annecy award-winner Lu Over the Wall and The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, which recently won the Best Animated Feature Prize at the Japanese Academy Awards.
www.jff.ie
Until April 21

Ailie
2018-04-08 22:00 - 2018-04-09 01:00 | Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Leitrim musician, Ailie Blunnie, is set to make her Whelan’s main-stage début on the rescheduled date of Sunday 8th April, following postponement due to snow.
Fresh from Whelan’s Ones To Watch 2018 and Templebar TradFest, and NY Irish Echo’s “top pick for best début album and best début artist in 2017”, the Leitrim singer-songwriter takes her burgeoning blend of experimental folktronica to the main stage of Whelan’s to showcase songs from her critically-acclaimed début album “West to the Evening Sun” (Nov. 2017, Happy Out Records)
Influenced by her academic studies in music and psychology, Blunnie’s sound melds assured songwriting, inventive arrangements, and newly-expanded soundscapes developed in collaboration with producer Daragh Dukes (Headgear/Asylum Speakers/RTE).
Plus special guest: Junior Brother

Bráulio Amado
2018-04-07 13:00 - 15:00
Portugese graphic designer Bráulio Amado is prolific in the game. Having earned creative stripes with Bloomberg Businessweek, and later at Wieden + Kennedy, Amado continues to extend his focus with a huge array of posters, album covers, videos and editorials. There’s a fluid vibrancy to his style and a stretch to the edges of his capabilities. This solo exhibition of new work should serve as the perfect post-Offset catch-up also.
Until April 14

David Kitt
2018-04-06 22:00 - 2018-04-07 00:30 | Button Factory, Curved Street, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Our sources tell us it was down to New Jackson, Talos and Ships when it came to deciding the Choice Music winner last month. Ships won in the end. No other defeated act on the bill had the bounce back of being able to release a new album the following morning though. Kittser’s Yous is his first solo release in nine years and suffused with warmth, grace and the plucking of heart and guitar strings. Margie Lewis’s violin provides the lamp glow of true love to an exceptional release.

A Night For Aware
2018-04-06 21:00 - 2018-04-07 01:00 | Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
A group of very special Irish music acts are coming together for ‘A Night for Aware’, a unique concert in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, all in aid of Aware.
The terrific line-up includes such musical stalwarts as Christy Dignam, In Tua Nua, Mundy, Mal Touhy & JP Dalton from The Riptide Movement, The Pale, Cry Monster Cry, Barq, Jem Mitchell, Trouble Pilgrims and The Skatuesques.
Check out the following video where a number of those performing on the night talk about why they’re getting involved and taking to the stage on the 6th.

A snapshot of the Irish music scene past and present, the lineup features a great mix of artists from the 80s to the present, ensuring that there is something for everyone, all in aid of a great cause.
A night not to be missed!
Tickets €25 on sale now
All proceeds to Aware
The event is kindly supported by Cadbury.
Doors 7pm. The concert will kick off at 7.30pm sharp.

Toto
2018-04-05 22:00 - 2018-04-06 00:00 | Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street, Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland
As classics go, Toto’s Africa is up there with the very best. And it rarely goes out of fashion. Last month, The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino wrote a Rabbit Holes column entitled: ‘The Overwhelming Emotion of Hearing Toto’s “Africa” Remixed to Sound Like It’s Playing in an Empty Mall’ which references a YouTube video (1m views) of Africa echoing “over a tilted, pink-tinged photo of an empty eighties-era shopping center—white tiles, green ferns, and mirrored windows in a ghostly neon glow.” It is debatable if any other track has brought so much joy to so many people.

Tryst
2018-04-04 21:30 - 23:30 | Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
Matt and Steph are hungover. Their wedding is in a week. Things are under control. Mostly.
But when their best friend Rachel arrives unannounced, she reveals a secret that threatens to unravel everything. Now they must deal with the consequences of their messy nights and bad decisions.
Who do you blame when your life is derailed? And how far will you go to get it back on track?
A blistering new play written by Finbarr Doyle and Jeda de Brí; Tryst explores the price of curiosity, the limits of friendship and the complications of sex.
Until April 14

Emil Nolde: Colour is Life
2018-04-03 13:00 - 2018-06-10 19:30 | National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West, Dublin 2, Ireland
This major exhibition of German Expressionist painter Emil Nolde will comprise over 120 paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints spanning his career from his early atmospheric paintings of his homeland right through to the intensely coloured oils, to his so-called ‘unpainted pictures’ – works done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich, when Nolde was branded a ‘degenerate’ artist and forbidden to work as a professional artist. The works on show will also include Nolde’s famous flower and garden paintings, and his extraordinary religious paintings, with their mix of spirituality and eroticism.
Until June 10

En Vogue
2018-04-02 22:00 - 2018-04-03 00:30 | Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street, Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland
The ear-grinning glee was plastered on the giddy faces of everyone who caught En Vogue last year. They banged out the bangers of which they have many – Hold On, My Lovin’, Don’ Let Go. They, oddly, work fine with backing tracks and have enough in their arsenal to work everyone into a classic pop frenzy. On the flipside, it’s a Monday night which is a bit of a stinger and flogging ‘meet and greets’ for €107.50 is a tad American, tacky and ‘cheap’.

Caged
2018-04-01 21:00 - 22:30 | Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, Ireland
In an absurd and bold theatrical mash up of text, aerial, dance and music, the glass case of femininity is shattered. Enter a world of the weird, the wonderful and the uncomfortable.
By Femme Bizarre (part of a series of rescheduled Scene + Heard shows)

Phase Fatale (Ostut Gon)
2018-03-31 21:00 - 2018-04-01 01:00 | Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, Ireland
We have to admit seeing this show billed as a 7pm standalone is somewhat perplexing. And we had a slight giggle when Smock Alley’s PR people called his label Ostut Gon. However, sniggers and quibbles aside, it is a Saturday so you can start the night early with the slenderest whiff of Berghain in the Boys School. We’re assuming Smock Alley isn’t rolling through to Monday morning.
Phase Fatale is the techno project of Berlin-based DJ and producer Hayden Payne originally from New York. He released two EPs in 2016 on Jealous God and presented a live collaboration with Silent Servant during the label’s showcase at Berlin Atonal. In 2017, he released two albums Redeemer and Anubius. Dark and pulsing.

Brian Maguire, War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings
2018-03-30 13:30 - 19:30 | IMMA, Military Road Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland
This new exhibition brings together Brian Maguire’s latest body of work, resulting from a visit to Syria in 2017. It is shown in the context of earlier work made in response to the refugee crises hitting Europe’s shores as a result of the Syrian conflict. The Aleppo Paintings document the ruined buildings of the city, offering a visceral and stark insight into the physical consequences of war and the international arms trade that fuels all conflict.
Until May 6

Poacher's Gin & Tonic Club
2018-03-29 20:30 - 22:30 | Dublin Bar Academy, 141 North King Street, Dublin 7, Ireland
Join us for another Poacher’s Gin & Tonic Club Session.
A totally unique experience where we bring together some of the finest gins of Leinster and pair with them Ireland’s first and only premium tonic waters.
Enjoy full serves of Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin and Bonac 24 from Wicklow, Mór Irish Gin from Offaly and Dublin City Gin with Poacher’s classic and citrus tonic waters.
Ambassadors from the brands will be on hand to share details of how all the spirits and tonic waters are made and how they can best be enjoyed!

Fake: The Real Deal?
2018-03-28 14:00 - 22:00 | Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Fake is certainly the word du jour. ‘Fake News’ was named word of the year by Collins for 2017 and the Science Gallery are capitalising on the buzz by applying the idea to their spectrum of interests. “From fake meat to fake emotions, if faking it gets the job done, who cares? In both the natural world and human society, faking, mimicking and copying can be a reliable strategy for success. When the focus is on how things appear, a fake may be just as valuable as the real thing. But what about replicating taste, emotions, chemical signatures, facts and trademarks? Have patents, politics, and art given copying a bad name? From biomimicry to forged documents, from scandals to substitutes, Fake asks when authenticity is essential, when copying is cool, and what the boundary is between a fakery faux-pas and a really fantastic Fake.”
Until June 3

Coffee Conversations at The Hugh Lane Gallery
2018-03-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1, Ireland
During these discussions, attendees are invited to join guest speakers in an exploration of the Gallery’s permanent collection, exhibitions and conservation projects. The exhibit is followed by tea or coffee with the speaker in the Gallery café. On Wednesday, March 28th Michael Collins by Seamus Murphy will be featured followed by a screening of the documentary Seamus Murphy – Quiet Revolution.

MØ
2018-03-26 22:00 - 2018-03-27 00:30 | Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
She might only have one album under her belt but Danish singer-songwriter MØ has leveraged the success of No Mythologies to Follow to maximum effect. Of course, what with Sigrid making the big break through and Robyn bringing out a new album, there is little time for MØ to rest on her Scandie laurels and expect a hi-energy live show with tracks from last year’s When I Was Young EP as well as bangers such as Lean On. This show is upgraded and re-scheduled from her cancelled Academy date last year.
