With a record 150,000 visitors to last year's Festival, this year's event takes place on the quays both north and south of the Liffey with attractions for all ages. The river will be a buzz of activity and Ireland's tall ship The Jeanie Johnston will form part of the festival and will be open to the public, giving people the chance to experience first hand what life on the ocean waves is like. Along with the stunning tall ships, there will be plenty of entertainment for all the family including a breathtaking array of street theatre, musical entertainment and amusements all creating a fun carnival atmosphere.

 

A new weekender/mini-festival called “The Beatyard” which runs from Wednesday June 2nd until Sunday June th between The Bernard Shaw & The Twisted Pepper venues. The aim of The Beatyard is to bring together enthusiasts of music, media & culture for the weekend in a space where they can meet like minded people and discover something new and different.

 

Life Festival Music, Arts and Culture is an annual, three-day gathering of like-minded music lovers, held at Belvedere House in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. In 2009 almost 5,000 people participated during the weekend form over 10 different countries. The festival features leading musicians, artists, and performers from around the world for a world-class concert series, inspiring experiences and workshops. Life Festival has been nominated for the "Best Small Festival of Europe" where organisers said "it's an event unlike any other weekend in Ireland's dance scene." World's worst website, no schedule available, otherwise we'd have listed all the acts and their times and whatnot.

 

"Dubstep supa star Caspa returns to give Mud a rinsing alongside MC Rod Azlan."

 

 

STUDIO 54 was a legendary club in Manhattan, that shook NY life in 70′s with all the madness and glamour that gave it its international reputation as the best club ever. The idea was to make your dreams come true by making the parties seem to last forever. A place where fantasy was real, without labels and rules, where normal people could mix with celebrities. Recognised internationally as one of the most legendary nightclubs of its era, Studio 54 offered a clubbing experience like no other. For one night only, Stereo Vibe will recreate this global phenomenon in Dublin. A blend high-energy House Music with a unique atmosphere that could make the original 70′s club blush.

 

Emerging in 2004 with a woodsy blend of midtempo rocks and reverb-laden vocals, Band of Horses gained an audience in their native Northwest USA before their album "Everything All The Time" made them indie rock darlings.

 

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” The award-winning ROUGH MAGIC Theatre Company presents a sparkling new production of The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde’s timeless and much loved comedy. Starring Emmy-Award winner Stockard Channing (The West Wing, Grease) as Lady Bracknell, and featuring a stellar cast directed by Lynne Parker. Don't miss this most perfect of Wilde's comedies.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setanta Murphy is a young man with a lot of time on his hands. Paddy is his grand-uncle, a cantankerous 90 year old with a razor sharp tongue. When Paddy gets sick, they are thrown into the messy world of public hospitals until Paddy finds himself in a nursing home, plotting his escape. This is a touching and funny story of their relationship as they attempt to navigate their way through the ups and downs of the Irish Health system.

 

 

 

 

 

Croi8 is a dynamic new Art Collective of eight visual artists from the border counties of Louth, Cavan and Monaghan who have come together to share ideas, experiment with new concepts and exhibit together in Ireland and internationally. The artists include Kate Beagan, in whose landscapes and beach scenes, the shape pattern and colour play a large part in her choice of subject; Petra Berntsson's landscapes have been described as uniquely Scandanavian - blissfully naive and haunting while Roisin Duffy uses colour, humour and balance as the basis for her art with which she strives to lift the spirits of the viewer. Meanwhile Adrienne M Finnerty's art is energised with conceptual direction, emotionally inspired and attuned to her moods and responses to life . Avril Gould paints in vibrant colours to depict the beauty in nature that surrounds her. Elaine Hoey's work for 2010 explores some of the complexities of human nature and emotional responses through the dynamic fusion of images, text, colour and light. Bernie Mc Adam's paintings reflect her fascination with the subtle life force which emanates from seemingly inanimate objects and its effects. In Carmel O' Callaghan's work, she explores her chosen subjects deeply and displays a quiet sense of expectancy, using a variety of media and supports.

 

 

Includes light lunch. CIRQUE DE LEGUME wowed audiences at the Dublin Fringe Festival last September and we are delighted to be presenting it at Bewleys to bring it to a wider audience and start the summer season with a smile. (A show for everyone aged 8 to 80!) "The greatest vegetable circus on earth!" The Irish Times

 

Skeletons leap from suburban closets in Bookworms, Bernard Farrell’s hilarious and razor-sharp vision of a household savaged by the Celtic Tiger. ‘….and Larry, let’s try to show everybody that, recession or no recession, we are contented, confident and happy – and that this evening is going to be fun!” This month’s Book Club hostess Ann is struggling to stay calm, desperate to deliver the perfect evening of literary classics and late-night canapés. But when the all-female group invite their husbands to join the club, and a mysterious figure pays a visit from an upstairs room, everyone is forced to contend with a lot more than just Virginia Woolf. Opinions are challenged, suspicions aroused and tempers flare as their daily lives unravel into a saga to rival even the most outrageous fiction. Director Jim Culleton brings to life this hugely entertaining new play by the popular and celebrated playwright Bernard Farrell (I Do Not Like Thee Doctor Fell, Canaries, Lovers At Versailles) in an evening of wine and cheese, mystery and mayhem. An Abbey Theatre commission.