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	RecommendedDublin International Film Festival Information	Feb 18, 2010 - Feb 28, 2010
Established in 2003, The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) has fast become Ireland’s premiere feature film festival and takes place in Ireland’s capital city over the course of eleven days and nights each February. JDIFF continues its commitment to celebrating film as an art form by presenting over 120 films from the four corners of the globe to the Irish Audience. The festival is a citywide event that takes place in all of the Dublin City Centre Cinemas including Cineworld, The Savoy, Screen and the Irish Film Institute as well as The Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield and Movies@Dundrum. The majority of films shown at the film festival are Irish premieres, and for some of the films shown, the festival represents the only public screening that will take place in Ireland.

	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 RecommendedFinley QuayeThe Village @ 20:00 Reggae • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €23 Buy Tickets
Purportedly the uncle of Tricky and the brother of prominent guitar sideman Caleb Quaye. Four years after his critically acclaimed debut "Maverick A Stroke", Quaye resurfaced with "Vanguard".

	Highly RecommendedValerie FrancisWhelans @ 19:30 Indie • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €15
Her debut album Slow Dynamo was named Irish Album of the Year in the Irish Independent, and her video for 'Punches' was championed by none other than rap giant Kanye West. It then won IMTV's Video of the Year. Valerie is currently nominated for Best Irish Female in this year's Meteor Awards, and her album Slow Dynamo is nominated for the Choice Music Prize.

	RecommendedCodesThe Academy @ 19:30 Indie • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €15
Codes are an indie electronic quartet from Dublin, Ireland consisting of Daragh Anderson, Eoin Stephens, Paul Reilly and Raymond Hogge. The band was formed in mid 2007 and within a couple of months had two singles - "Edith" and "This is Goodbye" - enter the Irish Top 40 at #39 and #32 respectively. The single "Guided by Ghosts" was released on 10 October, coinciding with a show in The Button Factory, Dublin. The band began work on their debut album with Manic Street Preachers producer, Greg Haver in Modern World Studios, Cotswolds in late 2008. The album is expected to be released in the mid-end of 2009.

	RecommendedDublin Film Critics Circle AwardsIrish Film Institute @ 18:30 Party • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
Join the Dublin Film Critics Circle as they ponder JDIFF 2010 and name their final selections for Best Film, Best Irish Film, Best Documentary, Best Actor and Best Actress from the festival programme. In addition, this year, a jury that this year includes John Maguire (Sunday Business Post), Paul Lynch (Sunday Tribune), George Byrne (Evening Herald), Donald Clarke (Irish Times) and DFCC president Tara Brady (Hot Press) will announce the recipient of the inaugural Michael Dwyer Discovery Award, named after our late friend and colleague. TV stars and DFCC members Taragh Loughrey Grant (RTÉ) and Mike Sheridan (Entertainment.ie) will be on hand to introduce the final deliberations of the 2010 jury from 6.30 pm on 27th February at the IFI.

	RecommendedJohn DalyThe Twisted Pepper @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €10 Buy Tickets
Admission free before 10.30pm. John Daly has quickly proven to be one of the most promising new producers to emerge. The young Irishman’s productions are as deep and elemental as they are anachronistic, recalling a simpler era of electronic music. His stylistic ties to electronic music’s roots are what set him apart from his deep-house contemporaries, as his tunes bear the warm and full-bodied mark of analog synths VSTs still struggle to properly emulate.

	RecommendedStrictly HandbagOdeon @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
"Music with words for your dancing pleasure." Four rooms, three areas, two floors, one handbag. Heated terrace. Free before 11pm. Two for the price of one until 12 midnight. Ten euro after midnight.

	RecommendedThe Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly (1)The Ark @ 14:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 2010 For Children
The Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly is an epic adventure during which Peggy learns something really great about herself, becomes the hero and saves a whole lot of grown ups.

	RecommendedThe Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly (2)The Ark @ 16:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 2010 For Children
The Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly is an epic adventure during which Peggy learns something really great about herself, becomes the hero and saves a whole lot of grown ups.

	RecommendedThe Saw DoctorsOlympia Theatre @ 19:15 Folk Rock	Feb 27, 2010 €35

	RecommendedJack Whitehall + Mary Bourke + James Gouldsbury + John CollearyLaughter Lounge @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 27, 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 @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	A Jam Named SaturdayAnseo @ 20:00 DJ • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
DJs: Lex Woo, Mr. Whippy, Matjazz, Warm DJ & friends jazz disco breaks latin hip-hop house afrobeat funk breakbeat soul reggae brazilian jungle

	Artists ProofDraíocht @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	Autumn OwlsShebeen Chic @ 20:00 Indie	Feb 27, 2010

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	Celine Carroll + Full BandCherrytree Jazz • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €14
Joining Celine on stage will be Jerry Fehily (Drums.. ex Hothouse Flowers), Johnny Campbell (Bass) Paul Seymour (Keys) Siobhan Lennon (BVs). Having served her time in various bands, including the acclaimed Mississippi Mermaids, Dubliner Celine now swims in solo waters. Her music has been described from soft-jazz to damn fine acoustic soul, with shades of Burt Bacharach, Carole King & Paul McCartney. "A night of Pure Melody and Laid-Back Grooves guaranteed..."

	Child of the Dead EndIrish Film Institute @ 16:30 Film • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €10
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
With his customary grace and skill, acclaimed Irish documentary maker Desmond Bell has mixed early cinema archive film and new material to retrace the story of navvy poet, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter Patrick MacGill. Born in 1889 into crushing poverty in Donegal in the west of Ireland, MacGill went on to become one of Ireland’s most successful authors. His autobiographical novels penned in Scotland and hugely popular at the time, paint a vibrant picture of the life of the navvy, the labourer and the whore, “the outcasts of a mighty industrial society”. MacGill lived the life of a navvy in the Scottish highlands and in his writing fact and fiction, social report and love story mingle. Director Bell, alongside his collaborator Stephen Rea has fashioned an elegant and engaging portrait, while also interrogating the basic principals by which biographies are told and retold. Director Desmond Bell will be in attendance at this screening

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Feb 27, 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!

	Gaviscom + Goldy4 Dame Lane @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
Saturday night sees two of the city's finest mixologists at work over both floors. Goldy - a legendary tecnician - literally takes the roof off the bar with serious good mixing skills and a wide bag of tunes. Gaviscom takes care of the club with plenty of mash-ups, breaks and the odd random Fleetwood Mac tune.

	JLSThe O2 @ 18:30 Pop • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Buy Tickets
For most of the British public, Oritsé, JB, Aston, and Marvin are only the most successful group of all time to enter The X Factor, Simon Cowell’s star-making vehicle that ascended the ratings scale last year to become the most popular show on British TV.

	Kenneth Anger Retrospective 3Irish Film Institute @ 14:30 Film • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €10
	This event is part of the Dublin International Film festival.
Kenneth Anger himself will be in attendance at this screenings.

	Mainly Winehouse + David de Valera + Adam Keni + Martin C + Eoin Long + Rob Le NanPOD @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €12
Pentagon's unique format, which is the first of its kind in Dublin, runs across five rooms with each room transmitting a particular musical style. Live music, house, techno, chart, Brazilian, chill-out and minimal are all represented by Dublin's most respected and sought after DJs and bands. Pentagon is housed over three stories, with five distinct rooms boasting thousands of square feet of pulsing energy. Each of Pentagon's versatile levels offers a spacious dance floor, and state of the art sound and lighting systems.

	Make Art Not RubbishDraíocht @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 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

	Noel V Ginnity + Linda Martin + Sean DunphyNational Concert Hall @ 20:00 Cabaret • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €30 - €35
After a sell out show in November, The Kings of Cabaret are back for a second show. The Kings of Cabaret are all fantastic entertainers in their chosen field. Linda Martin won The Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland in 1992. She has been a judge on You're A Star and has just finished starring in Robin Hood at The Olympia. Linda Martin will perform all her classic Eurovision hits including her winning song, Why Me? from 1992.Sean Dunphy was Ireland’s first Eurovision superstar and Noel V Ginnity is one of Ireland’s foremost comedians. All of them have risen to the top of their profession and each of them is a King of Cabaret. Sean Dunphy will perform all his hits including If I Could Choose, The Lonely Woods of Upton, Two Loves and many more.

	Reach for the StarsDraíocht @ 20:00 Dancing • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €20
The Norma Breen Stage Academy presents an energetic and fast-moving evening of song and dance, showcasing the children's talents with well known celebrity guests, in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Hopesource Foundation. The aim of this family friendly evening is to have fun and raise funds for CF Hopesource, specifically for the CF out-patient facility at Temple St Children's Hospital. Produced and Directed by Norma Breen.

	Ria CzerniakBewley's Cafe Theatre @ 20:30 Indie • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €10
inger/songwriter/artiste Ria has been performing with current band in venues around ireland over the past year. Band members are Maurice Czerniak(guitar), Sheila Rogers(keyboards) & Justin May(percussion). This performance includes a number of new songs from her up and coming album as well as tracks from the 'Cherry' EP which was released last year. Currently writing and recording.

	Shindig @ ShebeenShebeen Chic @ 21:00 DJ	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event

	Sticks and StonesBewley's Cafe Theatre @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	Study MorningNational Gallery @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 2010 €25
Portraits Dedicated to the Irish Face Tickets €25/€15 Students (inc. coffee and 3pm Tour of the Portrait Collection)

	The Problem With StabilityPallas Contemporary Projects @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
Australian artists Pat Foster and Jen Berean have opened a new exhibition to coincide with their international studio residency.

	Waiting for IKEAMill Theatre @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 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 @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	VICPOD @ -:00 Rock	Feb 27, 2010 €7 Buy Tickets

	VIC (All Ages)POD @ -:00 Rock	Feb 27, 2010 €7 Buy Tickets

	The GuitarmanThe Temple Bar @ 11:30 Folk	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event

	Christ Deliver Us! by Thoms KilroyAbbey Theatre @ 14:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 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

	Dave RooneyThe Temple Bar @ 14:30 Folk • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
Dave Rooney is a multi instrumentalist, singer/songwriter hailing from Dublin. A passionate musician, he has gigged across Europe for 15 years.

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre @ 14:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	Lad LaneThe Temple Bar @ 17:45 Folk • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
Ladlane formed in 2004 in Dublin. The band features Eugene Quinn from Templeogue, Dublin on guitar/banjo/vocals, Ray Dempsey from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford on accordion and Colm Keane from somewhere in north county Dublin on fiddle/vocals.

	Christ Deliver Us! by Thomas KilroyAbbey Theatre @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 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 @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 27, 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.

	Indie NightThe Bull and Castle @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 27, 2010 Free Event
Playing indie and alternative music all night. Runs til 2.30am.

	ShadowdancerButton Factory @ 23:00 House	Feb 27, 2010 €10 Buy Tickets

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