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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 RecommendedBaby DeePOD, Dublin @ 20:00 Experimental • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €15
Performance artist, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran...

	Highly RecommendedGarrett Wall BandBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Indie	Feb 26, 2010

	Highly RecommendedGroove ArmadaOlympia Theatre, Dublin @ 19:30 Electronica • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Buy Tickets
Groove Armada are a big beat duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay from England. They are now primarily based in London, and continue to produce and record music as well as hosting semi-regular club nights in London and an annual London festival under the Lovebox banner.

	Highly RecommendedHistoric Walk: Cinema CityAmbassador Theatre, Dublin @ 11:00 Monologue • Information	Feb 26, 2010
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
A walk & talk with historian and author Pat Liddy. There were once about thirteen cinemas in the O’Connell Street area of Dublin. Today only one is still operating. This walk takes a nostalgic and humorous tour to track down the sites of some of the great palaces of entertainment of a bygone time. The walk kicks off at the legendary Ambassador Cinema. Walk concludes at 12.30pm at the Central Library, Ilac Centre, where tea and coffee will be served.

	Highly RecommendedPop Up: Corrugated Tunnel + Comedy Lab + Erik NoonMill Street Studios, Dublin @ 19:30 Party • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10
Pop up is a musical carnival taking place on the last Friday of every month. Different place, and space. It's a new type of gig...Come early, come late...It will be a different musical bag each time. Line up wise, everything from funk, soul, electro to techno. There's FREE food and FREE drink on the night for the early birds... bring your own drink otherwise. This time round: Corrugated Tunnel (Night Vision, Dance Electric, Invisible Agent); and Comedy Lab presented by Emmet Kirwan (RTE's Sarah & Steve) and Erik Noon & The Future Gypsies (Reggae, Alternative, Soul, Folk) and Nic James (Funk, Party, Soul, Bass).

	Highly RecommendedSuper Extra Bonus PartyAndrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Electronica	Feb 26, 2010 €5

	RecommendedDrunken Boat + I (heart) the Monster Hero + Jonny Fun and the.. HesitationsThe Lower Deck, Dublin Indie • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €8
Brian Walsh (Drunken Boat) has been recording and writing music and lyrics for the last 13 years. With in excess of 100 songs, many routed in folk and others in alternative styles, the music made varies from strumming some chords, to minutes of hissing amps and feedback, to improvisation and experimentation with recording techniques. These bedroom recordings resulted in 4 demos which were handed out to friends under the name Howie Walshberg.

	RecommendedGod Is An AstronautThe Academy, Dublin @ 20:00 Electronica	Feb 26, 2010 €19.85

	RecommendedInvocation of My Demon BrotherIrish Film Institute, Dublin @ 21:00 Experimental • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €5
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
Conceived by Padraic. E. Moore, this unique evening of music, ritual and performance has been organised as a response to, and celebration of, Anger’s work. It includes a special performance by one of Ireland’s most exciting young musicians, David Turpin.

	RecommendedMaurice FultonButton Factory, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10
DownTownSounds celebrates it's 9th Birthday at Nightflight on Friday the 26th of February and they have invited one of their all time favourite djs and a regular at their parties in Ri Ra back in the day, Maurice Fulton, to select the music on the night.

	RecommendedRussian ArkNational Gallery, Dublin @ 18:00 Film • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
As part of the 2010 focus on Russian Cinema season, the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is delighted to present a opportunity to revisit a film shown in the very first film festival in 2002, but now but shown in a new setting for a single , very special screening. As successful as it is ambitious, Russian Ark condenses three centuries of Russian history into a single uninterrupted 87 minute take. A visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, Alexsandr Sokurov’s film is a spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one fluid take using High Definition video cameras, the photography floats and careens through the lavish corridors of the museum, examining its architectural details while following a dreamlike plot.

	RecommendedTenth Planet: Blake Baxter + Nelson Ramalho + DjamelThe Good Bits, Dublin @ 23:00 House • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €8 - €14
Blake Baxter has been called many things. First wave Detroit, The Prince of Techno... With nearly two decades of classics behind him the Prince is well and truly full grown. First releasing on Chi towns famous imprint “Dj international” .Prolific as ever in his hometown motor city. To bringing it forward and back with the Berlin connection with his Dream Sequence release series on Tresor. Blake Baxter has produced classic tracks across the board. KMS, Ingognito, Underground Resistance, Disko B ...The list goes on. Combining soulful deep efforts at times, and bridging house and techno together with a hard as nails minimalism. The prince’s crown is assured. The Tenth Planet is glad to have one of the originator’s preaching behind the decks.

	RecommendedJack Whitehall + Mary Bourke + James Gouldsbury + John CollearyLaughter Lounge, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €26 Buy Tickets
Jack Whitehall: Host of Big Brothers Big Mouth comes to headline this great show! - UK Mary Bourke: Brilliant comedian with some well crafted material and is seriously funny! James Goldsbury: Great Irish comedian - will have you in stitches! John Colleary: "Currently the top stand up comedian in Ireland" - Today FM

	'Land Poisened'The Joinery, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
'Land Poisened’ is an exhibition of new work by Sligo artist Colm Rooney. His work draws on personal and social histories, mythology and photography. Rooney is a graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork and more recently a graduate of the Music and Media Technology Masters in Trinity College Dublin.

	Adam BeyerPOD, Dublin Techno • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €20
Alongside Stockholms Cari Lekebusch, Joel Mull and Jesper Dahlback, Adam Beyer has become synonymous with the techno sound of Sweden, which has quite literally shaken the world since the mid-nineties.

	AmbivalentPOD, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10 Buy Tickets
Kevin McHugh [aka Ambivalent] is a native of Washington, DC and resident of New York City. His musical development began in DC where he was influenced by the broad nature of that city's music scene. Early exposure to acid-house and industrial side-by-side with DC's homegrown go-go and hardcore punk scenes deeply influenced his music. He moved to Berlin in 2004 to help Richie Hawtin produce the Plastikman live concert. He later returned to New York and re-dedicated himself to producing music inspired by his friends. He answered an ad for an apartment, and moved in with a DJ named Camea. She later created Clink Recordings. He DJs regularly in New York, and on his internet radio show, The Nerd Tank, with Camea.

	Artists ProofDraíocht, Dublin @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
Artist’s Proof is an exhibition by 24 Irish and international fine art printmaking artists. Visitors will be able to see the creative methodology of the printmaker showing the development of the idea from the research and exploration stages through to the rigorous process of making the print, requiring great technical skill. The prints will be displayed alongside two working proofs to provide a glimpse of how it was made.

	BabaloniaSouthwilliam, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
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	Beth Moysés ExhibitionSycamore Club, Dublin @ 18:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 2010
An exhibition of works by Beth Moyses (Brazil), curated by Lourdes Viso and Róisín Russell for Woman's Aid.

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 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.

	Cold 100Shebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 Blues • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
The Cold 100 are a 4 piece Blues/Rock band based in Dublin. Taking the bulk of their influences from the old bluesmen of Chicago and the Missippi Delta, The Cold 100 channel much of the same spirit, passion and power in their music and performances that these great artists explemfied in their songs. Particular influences on the band are the likes of Son House, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and the enigmatic Robert Johnson.

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre, Dublin @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10
Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but scientists can give us a good idea of what they looked like and how they moved. We often imagine dinosaurs as colossal flesh-eating beasts that lived on our planet for an incredible 160 million years. Some were indeed gigantic, but many were only as heavy as a Labrador dog and many were vegetarian! Did you know that the Ornithomimus could run faster than an Olympic sprinter? See how the sociable Triceratops lived in herds, caring for and protecting their young. Meet Dilophosaurus, a relative of the first dinosaur found in Scotland. Come face to face with the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the fiercest land predators ever known. This massive animatronic model, 4 metres tall and 7 metres long, is so lifelike you’ll think it’s the real thing! Walk past the head of a hungry Tyrannosaurus and watch as his terrifying jaws go SNAP!

	Disco Not DiscoShine, Dublin @ 21:30 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010
Disco, house, funk & soul.

	DJ BubblesShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event

	DJ Eamonn BarrettThe Globe, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
Eclectic mix of tunes played.

	DJ Rob MClub M, Dublin @ 22:00 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010
Chart, dance, r&b.

	Do The HustleOdeon, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event

	Fridays @ Cafe en SeineCafe en Seine, Dublin DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
DJs and dancing until 3am, cocktail promotions.

	InsideOutSolas, Dublin DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010
Soulful disco.

	IvulIrish Film Institute, Dublin @ 18:30 Film • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
Filmmaker, artist and wild man of British cinema Andrew Kötting reinvents himself – in French – as a Franco-Swiss filmmaker with this intimate and eccentric family story. Alex (Auzanneau) and his older sister Freya (Leroux) are teenage scions of the dynasty of an émigré Russian patriarch (Bideau). When the pair are caught playing taboo games, Ivul père is furious, telling his son never to set foot on his land again – an order the boy follows literally, taking to the trees and living a life off ground. Absolutely convincing as a French film in the ‘intimist’ vein, Ivul is at the same time 100% Kötting – mixing English ruralism and French family narrative with the kind of visual and sonic mixing familiar from the director’s Gallivant and This Filthy Earth. Ivul sees Kötting developing a bold but tender new variant on his idiosyncratic outsider aesthetic.

	Jack Daniels Set: Ladydoll + The Dirty 9s + Mail Order Messiahs + CutawaysWhelans, Dublin @ 21:00 Rock	Feb 26, 2010

	James McMorrowTower Records, Dublin Folk	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event

	Lee MackVicar Street, Dublin Information	Feb 26, 2010 €25
ee will be bringing his trademark brand of high energy banter, well crafted gags and sharp one-liners to venues across the UK and this special show in Dublin as part of his biggest ever live stand-up tour. Lee is best known to BBC One viewers as the star of multi-award winning Not Going Out and as team captain on Would I Lie To You?

	Make Art Not RubbishDraíocht, Dublin @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
Over a seven week period well known artist and sculptor Cris Neumann will facilitate the creation of 3D works by Coolmine and Hartstown Community School students in a project that will be a fun reflection of Vodafone Ireland’s Green Agenda Policy. This educational and environmentally innovative visual arts project will explore the concepts of communication, mobility and technology and how these concepts can work in the reduction and recycling of waste. For more information and photos of the works in progress check out the website: www.makeartnotrubbish.com

	Rory Montane + Aoife NicCanna + Brazillian Marina4 Dame Lane, Dublin @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
Both floors of 4 Dame Lane in action with two very different styles on offer. The bar holds court to Rory Montane - a backstage favorite at Oxegen and Slane - with his big bag of guitars and electronic goodies. The club has two favourite lady DJs - Aoife NicCanna and Brazillian Marina. Playing a mix of house and latin breaks and beats.

	RTE National Symphony Orchestra: Sinéad MulhernNational Concert Hall, Dublin @ 20:00 Classical • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €10 - €35
Sinéad Mulhern soprano Bernard Richter tenor Anne Marie Gibbons mezzo-soprano Claudia Boyle soprano Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano Dean Power tenor Philip O’Reilly bass RTÉ Philharmonic Choir (Mark Duley chorus master) Gerhard Markson conductor Based on the oriental epic Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore, Schumann’s ‘secular oratorio’ tells the tale of the Peri, the fallen angel, who may not enter Paradise until she provides the heavenly gatekeeper with ‘the gift heaven prefers above all others’. Renowned Irish soprano Sinéad Mulhern leads a strong line-up in a rare chance to hear this masterpiece.

	Sticks and StonesBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €15
Includes light lunch. A Chicago cop finds himself in deep water in the office of a Jewish lawyer in downtown Los Angeles . Accused of a deadly crime, the cop faces the prospect of not only losing his job but also his life. The lawyer is faced with a choice that could make or break him. A winner of the Showtime best one act play festival award, STICKS AND STONES is a tense, razor sharp legal drama with a nail-biting twist that will keep you guessing right until the very end.

	The Problem With StabilityPallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
Australian artists Pat Foster and Jen Berean have opened a new exhibition to coincide with their international studio residency.

	Thirty Seconds to Mars + Street Drum Corps + Fox AvenueThe O2, Dublin @ 20:00	Feb 26, 2010 €39.20

	Waiting for IKEAMill Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €15 - €17
After selling out last year ‘Waiting for IKEA’ is back for the last time ever in an extended and even better version. Set in the heart of ‘new’ Dublin, Pimlico where night wear is day wear and bitching is everywhere. Pimlico Flats is akin to Cheers where everybody knows your name, your business, your record and what you are having for dinner. Nothing much changes in Pimlico, each day begins and ends the same; it’s what happens in between that keeps the neighbours gossiping. The Celtic Tiger has been and gone and they never even stroked it. Recession! What’s da? A new fragrance from Calvin Klein?

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event
This is an experimental exhibition which attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks become part of a collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list of works, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removal of artworks generating absences which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections. Additions of works will draw out new and perhaps unexpected associations, and new narratives will emerge within the overall structure of the exhibition. Other strategies such as repositioning works within the exhibition will be used to alter the pace of the exhibition. A list of these potential works will not be disclosed in advance.

	ZrazyNational Concert Hall, Dublin @ 13:00 Jazz • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €15
Zrazy aka Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson, bring a different take to original contemporary music in Ireland with their unique style of jazz and increasingly spiritual interpretation of life and all its loves and challenges. Musically sophisticated, lyrically smart, Carole's compositions along with singer and sometimes co-writer, Maria Walsh simply have an intuitive musical connection borne of their 20 years creating music together. Award winners for Best Album in Chicago 2005 with Dream On and Best Jazz in New York 2000, Maria and Carole will present new material along with some old favourites.

	The GuitarmanThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 13:30 Folk	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event

	Pello YellowThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 16:30 Folk	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event

	Gypsy RoversThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 19:00 Folk	Feb 26, 2010 Free Event

	Christ Deliver Us! by Thomas KilroyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 26, 2010 €25 - €38
‘When I have children I’m going to let them grow wild as weeds. No one bothers with weeds and still they grow and grow.’ In a provincial Irish town in the 1950s the children have some questions: What’s happening to them and what’s happening in the world around them? And why? The young heroes of Thomas Kilroy’s urgent new play strive to carve out an understanding of the world beneath the unbearable weight of unanswered questions, confusion and their own desires. And the clergy gather like crows on the horizon. Based on Frank Wedekind’s masterpiece of German symbolism Spring Awakening, Christ Deliver Us! is a play about how hard and how wonderful it can be to grow up during a period of Irish History that we can never again look back on with nostalgia. An Abbey Theatre commision

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 26, 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.

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