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	Emergenza Information	Dec 09, 2009 - Apr 27, 2010
Emergenza is the world's biggest festival for unsigned bands, with an average of 6,000 bands participating every year in 200 different cities all over the world. Every year the national finalists gets to spend three days in Germany at the Taubertal Open Air festival, where the world final takes place, with an average of 30,000 people showing up over the weekend. This is where, every year, the best band wins a professional production for their first album and where plenty of other musicians are rewarder for their skills with prizes from the festival's sponsors.

	Highly RecommendedDara O'BriainVicar Street, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Buy Tickets
After leaving college, Ó Briain began working at RTÉ as a children's TV presenter. At this time he also began performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. He admitted, "I did the trip from Donegal to Dublin to play to six people; then I turned round and drove home again. I did about three or four years playing to a lot of bad rooms, but learning as I went. It's not bad when someone gives you 40 quid for standing up and telling jokes. I remember thinking: 'This is the life.'"

	Highly RecommendedGamepak: Nordloef + SKPThe Twisted Pepper, Dublin @ 20:00 Experimental • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €6
Gamepak returns to the Twisted Pepper for a night of full on chiptune madness. (Music from & Inspired by video games). Thursday 21st January see's Gamepak welcome there first international guests! Live gameboy weilding madness shall be heard from the likes of: NORDLOEF (Sweden/ Terrordata) SKP (Belfast) Also expect your standard high octane 8 bit bass from your resident Gamepak DJ's Zyme and C60Force. Get here early so you dont miss the 4 way big screen Mario Kart Competiton!

	RecommendedMaria Doyle KennedyOdessa Club, Dublin @ 21:00 Singer Songwriter • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €10
Odessa Club members enter for free. DJ plays til late.

	A Light in the Darkness Turner's Watercolours & Silhouettes and MiniaturesNational Gallery, Dublin Art • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
The National Gallery of Ireland's famous Vaughan collection of watercolours by JMW Turner (1775-1851) will be on display for the month of January. It includes Turner's most striking works in watercolour painted during his later European tours: the Doge's Palace in Venice, Lake Lucerne, and the fortresses at Bellinzona in Switzerland. This year the exhibition will be complemented by a display of seventeenth-, eight eenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettes and miniatures from the Mary A. McNeill Bequest, comprising works by John Comerford, Richard Crosse and William Grimaldi.

	Art StudiesNational Gallery, Dublin @ 18:30 Art • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
Issues of conflict and identity in the work of Jack B. Yeats and Louis le Brocquy Lecturer Dr Roisin Kennedy, University College Dublin

	Beatdown: DJ Handsome PaddyPygmalion, Dublin @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Joker, J Dilla, Glitch Mob, Lee Fields, Harmonic 313 and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings.

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €0
Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges the generous loan of these works.

	Big Time!The Bernard Shaw, Dublin DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010
YouTube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown-ups.

	Brendan O'CarrollOlympia Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Comedy • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €30
Comedian Brendan O'Carroll is bringing Mrs Brown to the BBC in a new TV series. A pilot show was filmed in front of a live audience in Scotland in October and will be screened by RTE, which is involved in the production, over the Christmas period. The BBC will also show the pilot later next year ahead of the screening of all six episodes.

	Control/DeleteAndrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €4
Indie and electro.

	Ed Devane + ilexThomas House, Dublin @ 20:30 Experimental • Information	Jan 21, 2010
Ed Devane will be doing an improvised liveset featuring some of his home-made instrumentation, and it’s “going to be fairly heavy in a head bopping sort of way”. Expect some unusual time signatures and grooves for yr feet, and crunchy audio biscuits for your ears. Also playing will be ilex, who’s 7 January !K Club gig had to be postponed due to the weather. Music to thaw yr feet and yr brain out to! Support from some or maybe all of the following: A-Force, DJ Rodafther, Eomac, PCP, Redmonk, Richie !K, Sixfoot Apprentice…

	Funk 45sSouthwilliam, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
Six hour funkathon. Strictly seven-inches.

	Hard To TouchThe Baggot Inn, Dublin @ 21:00 Rock	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event

	I-Cons Next Big ThingWhelans, Dublin @ 20:00 Indie • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €5
Artist to be confirmed.

	IsotopeJJ Smyths, Dublin @ 21:00 Jazz • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €10
Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

	Jack and the BeanstalkGaiety Theatre, Dublin @ 18:30 Theatre • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €16.50 - €35
The much-loved traditional pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk returns to The Gaiety Theatre. Join Jack and his beanstalk on a giant adventure, where Jack must outwit and outrun the giant. This classic tale will capture children’s interest and spark their imagination. When Jack swaps his cow for some magic beans, they grow into an enormous magic beanstalk. Can Jack climb the beanstalk, save the lovely princess from the giant and escape with all his arms and legs? Come along and follow Jack up the beanstalk to find out!

	LadydollWhelans, Dublin @ 23:00 Rock • Information	Jan 21, 2010
Ladydoll's music would be most suitably classified under the genre of 'Dark Rock' infused with pop undertones, which are evident in the lyrical and melodic hooks heard across the range of the band's repertoire. Intricate guitar solos and vamp-like piano sequences provide the perfect backdrop to the cleverly-placed and often dark and melancholic lyrical content.

	MashSouthwilliam, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
Mash-up breaks edits dubs & versions.

	MuzikButton Factory, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010
Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

	Picturing New YorkIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 14:00 Photography • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €0
Picturing New York comprises 145 masterworks from the photographic collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, covering the period from the 1880s to the present day. It celebrates the tradition of photographing New York, a tradition that frames and influences the perception of this vibrant urban centre. Including photographs by such influential photographers as Berenice Abbot, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and Cindy Sherman, it explores both New York and its inhabitants, highlighting associations – from the vast, overwhelming architecture and bright lights, to the diversity of people that lie at the soul of the city.

	Real DJs presents Soul @ SolasSolas, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010
Resident DJ Mr Razor delivers a mix of funk, jazz, hip-hop and latin beats.

	SoundcheckSpy, Dublin @ 19:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
Unarocks and Sarah J Fox play indie rock'n'roll.

	The Electric Penguins + Bare AudioButton Factory, Dublin @ 19:30	Jan 21, 2010 €5

	Thursdays @ Cafe en SeineCafe en Seine, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ • Information	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event
DJs and dancing 'til 2.30am, cocktail promotions.

	I Am Of Ireland by Edward CallanBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 13:15 Theatre • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €15
Includes light lunch. Bosco Hogan gives one of his finest and most accomplished performances in a richly drawn portrait of W.B. Yeats: the poet, the mystic, the visionary and the man. For lovers of great literature, theatre and Irish culture, I Am Of Ireland promises to be atmospheric, evocative and insightful. Bewley's Café Theatre are proud to present, in association with Focus Theatre, a revival of an entertainment on the life and work of one of Ireland's great creative icons.

	The GuitarmanThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 14:00 Folk	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event

	Adrian O'KeeffeThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 17:30 Folk	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event

	The Seafarer by Conor McPhersonAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €25 - €38
A thrilling tale of a debt with the Devil… “Drink yourself up on to the next shelf in the basement. Drink to where possibility feels infinite and your immortality feels strong.” It’s Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who’s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. With the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul… In the midst of this raucous tale of drinking, craic and card playing, there is a tender story of a family, and of redemption. So, pull up a chair alongside Sharky, Nicky, Ivan and co and enjoy a great story, well told.

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Jan 21, 2010 €25
Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the Sambucas aren’t getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kay’s got an itch that Gem can’t scratch (but maybe Kermit can). Paul is just using Amber until he can get to Australia. The Hairy Man fancies Lorraine but fails to rise to the occasion, and Gem doesn’t like the neighbours coming in to ‘mind’ him. And if all that wasn’t bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and…well…life is never the same again.

	The FolksmenThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 20:30 Folk	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event

	George MurphyThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 23:30 Folk	Jan 21, 2010 Free Event

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