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	Highly RecommendedJean Butler + Tere O'Connor: DayAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Dancing • Information	May 21, 2010 €18 - €22
	This event is part of the Dublin Dance festival.
Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre are delighted to co-present Jean Butler in an engaging new work by Tere O’Connor. Jean asked Tere to create this solo for her, one which departs from her long history and training in Irish Dance. Entitled DAY, the piece explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/ her life. It questions how much we can really know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the actual truth. Tere O’Connor’s work Rammed Earth was seen at DDF 2008, the same year that Jean Butler remounted her first contemporary solo, does she take sugar?, for the Festival.

	RecommendedShawshank Redemption (Matinee)Gaiety Theatre, Dublin @ 14:30 Theatre • Information	May 21, 2010 €25 - €55 For Children
Following a hugely successful season in the Gaiety Theatre in May 2009, where it received an almost unbroken run of standing ovations, and a West End Premiere, Lane Productions are delighted to announce that THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION will return to the Gaiety Theatre by popular demand for a limited run.

	RecommendedThe Shawshank RedemptionGaiety Theatre, Dublin @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	May 21, 2010 €25 - €55
Following a hugely successful season in the Gaiety Theatre in May 2009, where it received an almost unbroken run of standing ovations, and a West End Premiere, Lane Productions are delighted to announce that THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION will return to the Gaiety Theatre by popular demand for a limited run.

	A Landscape of Unknown FactsProject Arts Centre, Dublin @ 11:00 Exhibition • Information	May 21, 2010 Free Event
A newly commissioned solo exhibition that explores the complex and historical world of spectatorship. Adopting the early special effects technique of matte painting, Sander uses and quotes the visual intricacies associated with illusion, while critically examining the personal motivation of consumers who participate in spectator industries. Tourism, audiences, the traveller and the curious are all characters who take time out of everyday life and pay to see things. The gallery will be transformed into a single, circular screen, providing a constantly changing and looping landscape. Sander contrasts the simplicity of matte painting with the complexity of the current economic unknowns that form the background to many of our lives.

	Alicia KeysThe O2, Dublin @ 20:00 RnB • Information	May 21, 2010 Buy Tickets
The world famous R&B musician is touring Europe to present her latest work: "The Element of Freedom" released in 2009.

	BorderlandMill Theatre, Dublin Art • Information	May 21, 2010 Free Event
Drawings and paintings from Ukraine. Ukraine defines itself by opposition to its bordering states. It is not Russia, not Poland, not Tatar… It views its Soviet past as another country, yet the past is omnipresent: the border is porous. To the outsider Ukraine is also a fantastically beautiful space where the borders between the structures of civilisation – houses, tower blocks, railways – are constantly being assailed by nature. Everywhere there is green.

	Boyz II MenPOD, Dublin @ 19:30 Pop • Information	May 21, 2010 €36 - €40
This brings back some memories.

	Carlotta SagnaProject Arts Centre, Dublin @ 20:00 Dancing • Information	May 21, 2010 €17 - €22
	This event is part of the Dublin Dance festival.
Inspired by an advertising slogan - “For men who know how to live” – Carlotta Sagna asks the question: what about the others? Those who live their lives with less ease, those who are inept at living. Embodying a subtle, highly gestural movement language, Sagna probes the borders of normality and pathology. Carlotta Sagna trained with her mother, Anna Sagna, choreographer and teacher, in their native Turin. Having spent several years performing with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Rosas, she joined Needcompany in 1993 as performer and choreographer. She has based her own company in Paris since 2005 and joined her company with her sister Caterina’s, in September 2009.

	Harvest: A Tribute To Neil YoungCobblestone, Dublin @ 21:00 Covers	May 21, 2010

	Let's Make PartyThe Village, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	May 21, 2010
Regular event. Hip-hop, soul, funk.

	Madam SilkDraíocht, Dublin @ 20:00 Dancing • Information	May 21, 2010 €12 - €18
The winds of time blow through a room in an empty old house and awaken Madam Silk with all her memories, dreams and fantasies. Three fantastic female aerial dancers, who evolve in a universe of veils and drapes, create a sensual atmosphere that gives birth to beautiful choreography while performed to eclectic music and film projections. A feast for all the senses! Fidget Feet is Ireland’s foremost aerial dance theatre company whose previous work includes contemporary circus suspended from cranes, trees, buildings, using props such as real boats!

	Paidair McIllhaltonThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 17:00 Folk	May 21, 2010 Free Event

	RTE Dance on the BoxMeetinghouse Square, Dublin @ 22:15 Film • Information	May 21, 2010 Free Event
	This event is part of the Dublin Dance festival.
Over 900,000 viewers were attracted to the eight dance films commissioned by the Arts Council and RTÉ’s Dance on the Box initiative and premiered on RTÉ television during Dublin Dance Festival in 2006 and 2008. Also screened in the open air in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, the films went on to travel to festivals in Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and the USA. Following up on that success, the Arts Council and RTÉ are delighted to come together again for a third season of RTÉ Dance on the Box. Four short films have been commissioned, by the choreographer/director teams of David Bolger & Conor Horgan, Cindy Cummings & Oonagh Kearney, Fearghus Ó Conchúir & Dearbhla Walsh and John Scott & Steve Woods.

	RTE National Symphony Orchestra: Claudia BarainskyNational Concert Hall, Dublin @ 20:00 Classical • Information	May 21, 2010 €10 - €35
Marvellous music all round. The Schubert all power and drive; the rarely heard Mozart, K. 246, written for a Salzburg Countess, full of spirit. The Berg songs, other-worldly and beautiful, and Schoenberg at his most ardent and romantic. A concert where the refinement and economy of Schubert and Mozart is countered by an enthralling questing late romanticism.

	Sharon & DaveThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 00:30 Folk	May 21, 2010 Free Event

	Stone Temple PilotsOlympia Theatre, Dublin Rock	May 21, 2010 €49.20

	The GuitarmanThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 13:30 Acoustic	May 21, 2010 Free Event

	The Shawshank RedemptionOlympia Theatre, Dublin @ 19:30 Theatre	May 21, 2010 €22.50 - €55

	Whistle Down The WindGrand Canal Theatre, Dublin @ 18:30 Information	May 21, 2010 €25 - €55
Jonathan Ansell, who won the heart of the nation as lead vocalist in X-Factor runners-up G4, has been cast in his musical debut, starring in Bill Kenwright’s production of Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down The Wind. The musical shows how powerful love can be when the innocence of childhood collides with the cynicism of the adult world. In a stunning combination of multi-award-winning songs, powerful all new staging and epic storytelling, Whistle Down the Wind is a record breaking theatrical sensation that is both mesmerising and moving.

	The KissBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	May 21, 2010 €15
Price includes light lunch. TOM HICKEY is one of Ireland's best-loved and most distinctive actors. A founder member of the Focus Theatre, he has been a regular on the stages of The Abbey and The Gate for many years, creating some of the major roles in Irish drama. MICHAEL HARDING received the Stewart Parker Award for new writing in 1990 and he has continued, ever since, to be lauded for his work both as a playwright and novelist. His plays have been produced by The Abbey Theatre, as well as internationally, and he was elected a member of Aosdana in 2000. Michael writes a column for the Irish Times every Friday - Displaced in Mullingar - chronicling small town life in the Irish Midlands.

	Addy Van Der Borgh + Willie White + Michael Downey + Steve CumminsLaughter Lounge, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	May 21, 2010 €25 Buy Tickets
The blurb: "This comic genius is back due to popular demand!"

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