Dublin Event Guide 417: Youbloom, Bike Week, Street Feast, Kite Festival, Fusion World Culture Market, Bloomsday

June 13th, 2015
DEG Dublin Event Guide (for free events)

No. 417 | 12 June 2015

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Hi all!

There is nothing more frustrating than if you try really hard to improve something and despite all the result will be a worsening of the situation. The Dublin Event Guide arrives later and later and I am providing you with a seriously bad service at this stage. I could explain what happened in the last two nights, but at this stage I am sure I am boring you with my explanations, so I won’t even try. I will cry in my cornflakes and keep working until the final version is completed. (I am posting this version to the website and also have the updated smart phone version (which also works in every other non-smartphone browser).

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The mail will be sent whenever it is finished and by the looks of it this might be not before Monday (I am joking…I hope…but not that much!).

More than ever I need your help, because clearly I can’t hack it on my own anymore. Grrr! I am soo sorry!

There are two areas the Dublin Event Guide needs your help with: Your donations help paying the bills for sending the Dublin Event Guide every week, so please help if you can. Just 1 Euro per month (12 Euro per year) would be great. Not very many subscribers are prepared to or able to help, so please don’t rely on others! Last week, for example, not a single person did give any donation. :-(

And without you spreading the word we would have never reached 23,000 subscribers and 58,000 Facebook Likes. But it is just the start!! The goal is 50,000 subscribers and 100,000 Facebook Likes! Big goals, I know, but I believe we can achieve it! Imagine if everyone just got ONE additional person to subscribe to the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events). That would be an immediate increase by a few thousand subscribers. Would be super!!!! Can you help?

For donations go to www.perfectresults.info/donate.htm and the link to subscribe is here: www.dublineventguide.com.

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Here is the explanation regarding donations: To send the Dublin Event Guide and for domain names and for web hosting, I have a monthly bill of EUR 190 to cover. This is not for me, but all that money goes directly to external service providers. I am working approx. 35 hours on the Dublin Event Guide every week and don’t make any cent, that’s why I ask you to help with the cost if you can. If you can spare EUR 1 per month (that’s just 25 cent per edition!!) please donate EUR 12 for the year (or more if you can …or even less if you can’t). You can make your donation at www.perfectresults.info/donate.htm using Paypal or CreditCard or send me a mail dublineventguide@gmail.com and I can suggest other ways. I am also looking for some corporate sponsors as well, if you know someone, send them my way. :-)

And please help spreading the word about the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events). Your friends can easily subscribe at www.dublineventguide.com and they will get a weekly e-mail magazine with all the free events in Dublin if they subscribe. They don’t have to pay a cent (but donations are very welcome!) for that and their e-mail address is completely safe with me! More than 23,000 people receive the Dublin Event Guide every week and we are more than 58,000 people at the Dublin Event Guide Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/DublinEventGuide Check it out and click on LIKE when you are there.

And this is a great opportunity to help the Dublin Event Guide for absolutely no cost to you:

Without putting your hand in your pocket (for the Dublin Event Guide) at all you can help by ALWAYS using the ad links in the Dublin News Section and the ads in the Dublin Event Guides when you buy/order goods. If you buy goods immediately (in the same session) after clicking on a link/ad that you find in this e-zine/newsletter (Groupon, LivingSocial, Amazon, Book Depository, LastMinute etc), you help the Dublin Event Guide everytime. This is how it works: The company you buy from (Groupon, Amazon, LivingSocial, Book Depository etc) registers that you came to them via a link from the Dublin Event Guide and they show their appreciation by giving a small commission (5-8%) to the Dublin Event Guide. This might only be 30 cent a go, but if you did that for all online purchases and if lots of people used it, then it could make a big dent into the EUR 190 needed. Use these links as often as possible it doesn’t cost you a cent and you help big time!

Have an event-full weekend and week,

–Joerg

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We are more than 58,000 people on the Dublin Event Guide – Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/DublinEventGuide and are growing every week. Join in and click LIKE on the Facebook page and tell your friends! You will get last minute updates and event reminders through the Facebook Page and you can share your free events directly there with the other people in the Dublin Event Guide Community.

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Feel good slot

The “Feel Good Slot” at this place in the Dublin Event Guide is to share some inspirational, motivational or thought provoking quotes, stories or video clips. You wonder why I added this section to this e-mail magazine? If your week was great, you might not need it, but most of us had some challenging moments in the last week and there could be more in the coming week and this section is for the people that want to overcome the hurdles, achieve more and remember that despite all, life is great!

Today’s feel good slot is short little video clip. You know the saying “Dance as if no one is watching?” An 83 year old did that at a Dutch electronic music festival and he had fun!! Would you like to try? Start in your living room or kitchen and then get out. Maybe the youbloom festival this weekend is a good opportunity! ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3giM-yhsX0

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Support

This part is important to “keep the show on the road”:

To cover the cost for the Dublin Event Guide I need your help and every week generous and nice Dublin Event Guide readers help with a donation.

Last week Deirdre NiD, Elizabeth N, Helen L and Marcus H were the wonderful people supporting the Dublin Event Guide with a donation. Thanks a lot! Please keep in mind that without donations there won’t be a Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events): Your donation will ensure that the Dublin Event Guide will continue arriving in your Inbox every week and every donation will benefit EVERY Dublin Event Guide reader!

The cost for sending the weekly newsletter is approx. EUR 190 per month and a donation from you of just EUR 12 per year will ensure that I will be able to pay the bills.
Has the Dublin Event Guide helped you to find events that you otherwise wouldn’t have known about, or have you saved money by finding great free events? Then go to here and give something back!

I appreciate ANY help: EUR 12 would be great (that’s just 25 cent per week!), but even if it is just the price of 2 pints it will help.

You can donate online by following this link to the PayPal&CreditCard donation page. If you want to transfer your donation directly to my account, just send a mail to dublineventguide@gmail.com and I will send you the details.

In the last 12 months the following wonderful people have sponsored this Dublin Event Guide:
Feargal O’R, Scott P, Jackie C, David F, Belinda B, Sibylle D, Caroline D, Erinna B, Vicky L, Caoimhe A, Frank W, Ciara B, Isidro G, Rita B, Johan S, Clodagh O’C, Lorraine F, Irene C, Erzsebet H, George K, Bernadette B, Nicola S, Cathal L, Regina O’C, Justin M, Jaime M, Jef B,Susan F, Aine G, Deirdre G, John F, Mark G, Deborah B, Jane O’H, Fiona W, Pauline R, Stephen G, Morgan R, Genadil N, Esme E, Tim O’N, Natalie B, Eamonn U, Natalija B, Gerard P, Anabel PM, Fiona F, Eric C, Timothy McA, Gabriel K, Aoife M, Tara R, Aislinn T, Jennifer G, Claire D, Patricia O’D, Barry M, Sharon C, Sillybilly.ie, Emma G, Gerry T, Rebecca T, Comet Records, John F, Brian L, Joan S, Michael C, Aine Ni L, Fiona O’R, Noelle H, Paul M, Sarah S, Meav Ni M, Sinéad J, GiveAffirmations.com, Sandra McD, Jutta B-S, Melanie B, Gwen M, Brian H.P., Anita W, Bairbre E, Carija I, Katarzyna C, Elaine K, Adriano G, Majella M, Eoin P, Catherine P, Arthur D, Elizabeth F, Mary C, Philippa F, Artem K, A C, Ann M, Brian R, Jake M, Mark G, Mark R, Shanel W, Luna B, Fiona D, Sean S, Zelie McG, Shona F, Serena F, Ann M, Nikki D, Christian K, Catherine E, Bridget W, Tania Z, Barbara Q-B, Tony B, Tom O’D, Sueanne O’H, Kay G, Laura S, Brian R, Sophie P-L, Eamonn H, Clarisa Sch, Clodagh O’C, Milena V, Lizzie B, Siobhan P, Susan B, Michelle M, Sharon K, Michele M, Bill G, Catherine O’S, Lisa O’B, Ivan S, Donald M, Martina D, Pascale M, Aishling B, Brendan M, Marta E, Rose P, Fiona D, Mark G, Majella M, Jennyfer P, Emeline J, Pauline R, Joe O’D, Clodagh C, Ellen B, Marsha L S, Geraldine C, Marta C L, Ana L, Tim O’N, Stephen McE, Aishling B, Ana R T, Clarissa de M A, Gordon S, Martin O’S, Keith O’B, Aaron D, Siobhan B, Vincent P, Carol McN, Nicola R, Marion K, Bernadette L, Stephen S, Joseph O’L, Roisin R, Maeve O’N, Jessica G, Monika K, Deirdre I, David S, Jurgen B, Claire D, Jenny H, John O’S, Caitriona L, Isidro G, David F, Filippo G, Amanda L, Jacinta O’B, Mark C, Phillipa C, Ryan M, Deirdre NiD, Elizabeth N, Helen L and Marcus H and Arthur’s Pub (www.arthurspub.ie A classic Dublin old-style pub in 28 Thomas Street with a new and buzzing music venue that runs lots of events), the Birdcage Bakery & Cafe (www.facebook.com/BirdcageBakery An independent cafe and bakery in 23 Harcourt Road, Dublin 2), Cycling Campaign (www.dublincycling.ie), www.FlamencoIndalo.com (A group that supports and promotes the art of Flamenco in Ireland), www.oliviercornetgallery.com (An Art Gallery in 5 Cavendish Row), www.thepaulkanegallery.com (A great Art Gallery, on the search for a new venue), www.cfcp.ie (The Centre for Creative Practices is the the only arts centre in Ireland dedicated to connecting, integrating and promoting immigrant, experimental and emerging artists among the local arts scene and audiences) and www.KravMagaIreland.com, the self-defence training centre for everyone, which provides regular 12-week or 2-day self-defence training courses for beginners.

EventbriteThe main sponsor is Eventbrite and their support is hugely appreciated! Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any event, and has sold over 200 million tickets and registrations worldwide, totalling more than $3 billion in gross ticket sales. Eventbrite is free for free events. The online event registration service makes it easy for everyone to discover events, and to share the events they are attending with the people they know. In this way, Eventbrite brings communities together by encouraging people to connect through live experiences.

All events listed in this Event Guide are free of any admission charges (or at least appear to be free) unless otherwise stated. I try to find confirmation in all cases and do my best to double-check the information. However errors can happen and therefore no promise for correctness can be given.

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Joergs Picks

This section is intended to provide some help in picking and choosing from the huge number of events by sharing with you what I will/might or would do. This is not a “best of…” list and if an event is not listed here, it by no means implies that the event is not interesting. Instead my “picks” are just based on my personal preferences. All events mentioned here are described in detail further down.

A very very busy week with Streetfeast, Kitefest, Bike Fest, Youbloom, Fusion Sunday World Culture Market and lots more!

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Competitions

Obeo Food Waste Box Competition – Get into the recycling habit this summer

Fed up with your smelly brown bin? Then this invention might just be what you need.

The Obeo food waste box is the cleanest, easiest way to deal with food waste. It’s a compostable little box you keep on the kitchen counter, fill up over a few days then throw into the brown bin when full and simply start again with a fresh one. It’s water-resistant so it can cope with any wet or sticky food waste you throw in it. So wave bye bye to bin juice. And the great thing is there’s absolutely no smell.

Using your brown bin can save you money on waste charges AND it will help the environment. So if you haven’t started using it yet let Obeo look after the downsides of the brown bin.

Obeo gave you the chance to win a 6 month supply of their food waste boxes (worth EUR 40) so that should keep you recycling well past the smelly bin season. Thhe competition is closed now and the winner will be announced next week!

In addition Obeo is offering Dublin Event Guide readers a special discount on their online shop www.weareobeo.com/obeo-shop. Just enter the code dubevent15 to get up to 25% off Obeo.

Promote your product or event through a competition!

If you want to reach more than 23,000 people with a product promotion or an event promotion for a non-free event, contact me on dublineventguide@gmail.com and we can discuss the options. You provide the prize for the competition and the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events) runs the competition for you. It couldn’t be simpler.

And if you want me to use/test a product you are selling and then share my assessment here in the Dublin Event Guide, we can talk about that too. I like testing out gear. ;-) [Currently I am looking to buy a high spec Android mobile phone and an action camera and would happily “test drive” some candidates.]

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Help the Dublin Event Guide! It won’t cost you a cent!

Do you enjoy free events? Does it help you to find out about all these free events simply in one e-mail magazine or on one website? Does the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events) deliver all this for you and maybe even more? In that case, you probably also would want it to continue forever, right?

To achieve that some money is needed. Donations are a great help, but not everyone feels they can donate at the moment. So here is the solution: If you could help with a donation without having to pay a cent from your own money wouldn’t that be cool? You can!!

When you buy books online, buy them from Book Depository or from Amazon and use these links to go to the website:

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And when you buy from Living Social or Groupon use these links:

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When you buy holidays (from Lastminute.com, Expedia or Hotels.com) or other products buy them via clicking on the links below:

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When you click on the link and then buy, your books/products/holidays etc cost exactly the same as if you went to the website directly. But if you go via the links above, the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events) will get 5-8% of what you spend as a commission. That’s not a lot, but if you and lots of other people used that link every time, it would amount to a fair amount of crucially important money. Use the links often, actually EVERY time you buy from the relevant site, not just once!

Giving money for free! That’s how easy it is. ;-) THANK YOU!!!

And if you want to donate money directly, then you can do that here: www.perfectresults.info/donation.htm

Dublin Event Guide Smartphone App “Dublin For Free”

Find all details on where to get and how to install the app at www.dublineventguide.com/mobile.html

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Dublin City Traffic Plan – Dramatic changes afoot?

It was clear that the LUAS interconnect will have a significant impact on traffic in the City Centre of Dublin and it also is clear that there is just too much traffic (and that INcludes buses and taxis!) in some parts of the city centre, but the proposed traffic plan is still surprising in its severity. In essence it attempts to ban all through-traffic from the City Centre and from the quays by blocking off Bachelor’s Walk, George’s Quay and Westmoreland Street and D’Olier Street.

Considering that the car ban around College Green was met with SIGNIFICANT resistance by shop owners in the area and then was very much reduced in duration, these new suggestions will again find a lot of opposition and rightly so! Pedestrianisation of some additional areas in the City Centre does make sense, but that will have to include a ban on taxis and buses as well, otherwise no remarkable improvement for pedestrians is achieved.

There is a lot more that could be said about the plan and I might do that at some stage in the This is Odd! section but for now, I just want to draw your attention to this new proposal and ask you to submit your opinions via the consultation website here, before 16 July at 17:00.

The Irish Times describes the planned changes here.

Clerys Departrment Store is gone for good!

On Friday evening, in a shock development, staff was told that Clerys Department store in O’Connell Street would not re-open again and that all 460 people had lost their jobs. The losses were so significant that the appointed liquidator decided to close the shop with immediate effect. (Between August 2012 and January 2015, the business lost EUR 4.3 million.)

Only on Friday morning the sale of the business to an Irish newly founded investment group was announced and their analysis of the company lead to the rapid closure.

The department store was operating under different names and different owners for 162 years and without a doubt, the new owners will do their best to find a new tenant as soon as possible, but it won’t be easy! It is a significantly negative development that the company was not able to reduce the losses or maybe even make a profit and any new tenant will be interested in what this might say about the Irish marketplace.

Find more detail here: www.rte.ie/news/business/2015/0612/707689-clerys-sale/

Zoological Museum in Dublin!?!?

Did you know that Dublin has a Zoological Museum? And that that “unknown” museum is more than 200 years old and has approximately 25,000 specimens!? It is something completely new to me and I’d say most of you hadn’t heard about it either! The Zoological Museum is part of Trinity College and is only a stone-throw away from the Science Gallery. It is not free, but at EUR 3 for adults, EUR 2 for children and EUR 10 is definitely affordable.

The museum will only be open from 02 June – 30 August 2015 from Monday-Sunday 10:30-16:00. An information flyer is here. I will definitely go there for a visit before the end of August and if you make it before me, let me know what you think of it!

www.tcd.ie/Zoology/museum/

Science Educator Mary Mulvihill passed away

Mary Mulvihill was a enthusiastic and passionate Science Educator and science journalist and she was also a real nice and interesting person. Her untimely death will be a big loss for Dublin!

I found out about her death after a short illness on Twitter and it shocked me. Mary was just 55 years of age and MUCH too young to leave already.

I met Mary a few times, initially talking about her Science Event website and the Dublin Event Guide and later about her great “Ingenious Ireland” project and company. She told me how much work and how little real reward the Science Event website created and maybe I should have listened to her more, it was at the early stages of the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

Ingenious Ireland later created walking tours and audio guides about Science and Dublin with a particular focus on the historical side of Science in Dublin and Mary got involved in lots of Science related popular events in Dublin, like some Family-friendly Treasure Hunts. But a really big passion of hers was the whole area of “Women in Science” and she worked and supported it by organising events, talking at events and by heading up the “Women in Technology and Science (WITS)” group for some time. In just about 10 days she was meant to give a keynote speech about “Lessons from History” at the Inspirefest!

If you never met Mary, watch this short video clip and feel her passion, enthusiasm and dedication. You can read here even more about what she worked on and contributed.

Opportunities

The former “Opportunities” section is now Eventbrite’s section to highlight some of the events they – as the main sponsor of the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events) – would particularly like to bring to your attention. Many events listed here will be free, but there will be a non-free event in the list as well and they will be marked as non-free. All information is supplied by Eventbrite.

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LOVE8 PRESENTS “THE YOGA UNION”- THIS SATURDAY
This is a free yoga class and it’s open to those trying for the first time or very experienced. It is set in a not so typical yoga studio and you’ll be able to find it in the serene ambiance of the famous coffee shop M.V.P. on Clanbrassil Street Upper. It begins at 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00. Wear some comfortable clothes. There are some mats available but please feel free to bring your own. A lunch meal deal for EUR 5 will be offered afterwards.
Find out more here
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And in the meantime you can find more events at www.eventbrite.ie or download the Eventbrite app to find events around you.

Exhibitions

Based on your feedback, I have decided to do the following with the Exhibition section in this newsletter from now on: I will provide you with a link to a near-comprehensive listing of exhibitions provided by www.visualartists.ie . For me to list all exhibitions would only be doubling their good work and would be an inefficient use of my resources. The link is www.visualartists.ie/category/listings/dublin/

On top of that I will every now and then include here a small selection of exhibitions that either are not mentioned in the Visual Artist listing or are note-worthy to be mentioned separately.

Press Photographer of the Year 2015

until 19 June

dlr LexIcon Library & Cultural Centre, Haig Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

The Press Photographers Association of Ireland is bringing the “Press Photographer of the Year 2015” exhibition to Dun Laoghaire’s dlr LexIcon until Friday 19 June.

The exhibition is a collection of the 110 best photographs taken by Ireland’s press photographers.

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Press-Photographers-Association-of-Ireland/541007022592309

In Dublin’s Fair City – Graffiti and Street Art photography exhibition

18-20 June

Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

A Graffiti and Street Art photography exhibition in aid of RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama and Education) and the Fountain Youth Project is taking place in Filmbase. It is hosted by Dublin Urban Art and All City Dublin and runs from Thursday until Saturday.

The opening is on Thursday from 17:00-21:30. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-Urban-Art/286941637998294

Emerging Art & Sculpture Exhibition – Whitehall College

Fri 12 June – Tues 16 June (11:00-16:00; closed on Sunday)

CHQ Building, George’s Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1

Students of Art & Sculpture at Whitehall College in Dublin invite to this Graduate Exhibition “EMERGING”. An eclectic mix of emerging Artists from Ireland, Latvia and Sweden that captivate art lovers with their amazing ability to combine, create and inspire show their work in form of Painting, Sculpture, Prints, Ceramics, Drawing & Combined Materials.

Admission is free.
www.facebook.com/EMERGINGArtExhibition

La Cote d’Azur – Photographic Exhibition

13 May – 16 June

Alliance Francaise, 1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

La Cote d’Azur is a photographic exhibition by Fares Fares of mainly landscapes and architecture with the goal to present the places along the Cote d’Azur in a different perspective than the post card images do.

www.alliance-francaise.ie/culture/

Crazy Jane Exhibition – Padraic Reaney

05-18 June

Sol Art Gallery, 8 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

“Crazy Jane” is an exhibition of paintings and prints by Pádraic Reaney based on poems WB Yeats wrote in his later years based on an eccentric old woman: “Crazy Jane”.

Admission is free. The opening is on Friday at 18:00.

www.solart.ie/

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Car Boot Sales – Tallaght

08:00 – 12:00, Sat 13 Jun

Tallaght Stadium, Whitestown Way, Tallaght, Co. Dublin

A weekly car boot sale, one of less than a handful that is still reliably taking place, has up to 200 cars/sellers. The stadium is just a few minutes walk from the Red LUAS line stop and numerous bus stops. For traders the Car Boot Sale opens at 06:30 for buyers from 08:00. If you are interested in selling, check the details and register on their website.

www.irishcarboot.ie/

Bike Week 2015

09:00, Sat 13 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

Malahide Car Boot Sale

09:00 – 13:00, Sat 13 Jun

Malahide Rugby Club, Estuary Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin

The Malahide Car Boot Sale is running every Saturday at the Malahide Rugby Club. Admission is free for buyers.

www.facebook.com/MalahideCarBoot

Honest2Goodness Food Market

09:30 – 16:00, Sat 13 Jun

Honest2goodness, 136 Slaney Close, Dublin Industrial Estate, Glasnevin, Dublin 11

The weekly Honest2goodness food market in Glasnevin has fresh meat, vegetables, fish, baked goods, and wines. It is open from 09:30-16:00. It is behind Lidl in the Industrial Estate just after the Glasnevin Cemetary coming from the City Centre.

www.honest2goodness.ie

Malahide Park Run (free)

09:30, Sat 13 Jun

Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin

Parkrun Ireland is organising free weekly runs in parks. It is a timed run over 5km and participation is completely free, but registration before your first parkrun is required.

www.parkrun.ie/malahide/

SuperNatural Food Market

09:30 – 15:30, Sat 13 Jun

St. Andrews Resource Centre, 114 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

The SuperNatural Food Market is taking place every Saturday from 09:30-15:30 in St. Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

www.supernatural.ie

The Green Door Market

09:30 – 16:00, Sat 13 Jun

18 Newmarket, Dublin 8

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

www.facebook.com/thegreendoordublin

Belgard Weekend Market

10:00 – 17:00, Sat 13 Jun

Belgard Road, Dublin 24

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more.

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

www.facebook.com/belgardmarket

Consultation Workshops on 1916 Rising commemorations

10:00 – 13:00, Sat 13 Jun

Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Have your say on plans to commemorate the 1916 Rising. A Consultation Workshop on 1916 Rising commemorations will take place on Saturday in Dublin City Library and Archive.

Admission is free, but you have to register to attend by email to commemorations@dublincity.ie or phone 01-6744870. Refreshments will be provided.

More information below.

www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-culture-dublin-city-public-libraries-and-archive-events/consultation-workshops-0

Drumcondra Village Market

10:00 – 17:00, Sat 13 Jun

Arts and Business Campus, 40 Drumcondra Road Lower

The Drumcondra Village Market is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/DrumcondraVillageMarket

Jamestown Market

10:00 – 17:00, Sat 13 Jun

Jamestown Market, 90 Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

www.jamestownmarket.com/

Merchants Market

10:00 – 16:30, Sat 13 Jun

Merchants Yard, East Wall Road, Dublin 3

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

www.merchantsmarket.ie/

Temple Bar Markets

10:00 – 16:30, Sat 13 Jun

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

The Temple Bar Markets (Food Market on Meeting House Square, Book Market on Temple Bar Square and the Designer Mart near Cow’s Lane) are taking place every Saturday from 10:00-16:30.

www.templebar.ie

Coolest Project Awards – CoderDojo Event

10:30 – 17:30, Sat 13 Jun

RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

The Coolest Projects Awards is the annual awards ceremony to recognise and reward creativity of CoderDojos participants from all over Europe. 500 attendees from Dojos across Europe aged between 7 and 17 will demo projects they have built across a range of technology categories including Hardware and Advanced Languages.

CoderDojo is a global movement of free programming clubs for young people between the ages of 7 – 17. There are over 680 clubs spread across 57 countries.

Everyone is invited to check out the projects and admission is free. Tickets can be booked at platform.coolestprojects.org/#/pages/ticket The event is in Hall 1 of the RDS.

More information is available here: www.coolestprojects.org/

platform.coolestprojects.org

Meet the Phoenix Park Gardeners

10:30 – 12:30, Sat 13 Jun

Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

Discover the beautiful restored Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden and learn about growing your own fruit and vegetables, herbs and lots more. Meet OPW professional gardeners Brian and Meeda at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden. They have lots of advice to plan your perfect garden for the Summer months ahead. Please bring suitable footwear. Admission is free and car parking is available.

The Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden is located next to the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, and the Phoenix Café. The OPW professional gardeners are on site on the second Saturday of every month.

www.phoenixpark.ie/newsevents/title,13312,en.html

Blackrock Market

11:00 – 17:30, Sat 13 Jun

Blackrock Market, 19 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30, and Sundays: 12:00-17:30.

www.blackrockmarket.com/

Terenure Village Market

11:00 – 16:00, Sat 13 Jun

Bushy Park, Tempelogue Road, Terenure, Dublin 6W

The Terenure Village Market has moved to Bushy Park and is from now on a weekly market.

The market has now grown to 40 stalls offering a whole variety of foods and crafts.

Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/terenurevillagemarket

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Sat 13 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

Ha’penny Flea Market

12:00 – 18:00, Sat 13 Jun

Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey Street (near Ha’Penny Bridge), Dublin 1

The weekly Ha’penny Flea Market is an indoor market in the Grand Social Pub, which offers vintage Men and Women’s clothing, contemporary crafts, books, DVDs, vinyl records, vintage and handmade jewellery, vintage hair styles, art, photography and much more. Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

www.thegrandsocial.ie/

HOME\SICK – Science Gallery Exhibition

12:00 – 18:00, Sat 13 Jun

Science Gallery, Pearse Street, TCD, Dublin 2

The Science Gallery exhibition “HOME\SICK – Post-Domestic Bliss” looks at the Home and asks what “Home” really is and also how it could be improved. The word means something different to everyone, but how will the future of technology and design, communities, families, resources, and nations change the nature of what we define as ‘home’?

HOME\SICK is the summer exhibition of the Science Gallery, which usually is the exhibition that is the most accessible and understandable for all ages and that goal was achieved again. It is not the Science Gallery’s best exhibition, but it is still definitely worth a visit.

The exhibition will run from 01 May until 19 July and is open from Tuesday-Sunday (Tues-Fri: 12:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00). Admission is free.

dublin.sciencegallery.com/

Archive at Lunchtime – IFI

13:00, Sat 13 Jun

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

www.ifi.ie/

Qigong – Drop-in class – Chester Beatty Library

13:00, Sat 13 Jun

Chester Beatty Library, Gardens of Dublin Castle, Dublin 2

Qigong is a traditional Chinese form of meditation coordinating slow flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm state of mind.

Come to this gentle Qigong practice outdoors on the Roof Top Garden of the Library (weather permitting) or indoors with a view of the roof garden. Suitable for all ages.

Admission is free and no booking required, but numbers are limited.

www.cbl.ie/Programme—Events/Events-Schedule.aspx

“My Favourites” – Dublin City Walking Tour

14:00 – 16:00, Sat 13 Jun

Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run every Saturday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

www.dublincitywalkingtours.com/

Artefact Detective – Museum for Kids

14:00 – 16:00, Sat 13 Jun

National Museum, Kildare Street (Archaeology), Dublin 2

Think like an archaeologist for an afternoon and try to solve the puzzle of some mystery objects during this drop-in session.

Located next to the Treasury exhibition, ground floor. No booking required. Suitable for Ages 6+. Admission is free.

www.museum.ie/en/list/calendar-of-events.aspx?eventID=4664

Forgotten Voices – Walking Tour

14:00 – 16:00, Sat 13 Jun

Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7

“Forgotten Voices” is a tour that will explore the lives of the tenement dwellers of Dublin city from the time of the famine right up to the middle of the last century. The tour will provide an insight into the lives lived off Dublin’s inner city residents.

Meeting point is at the entrance of the Four Courts Dublin. The tour is free but donations are welcome and booking is required via email jsfolkloregirl024@gmail.com

Private group bookings off up to 25 people can be accommodated at a different time and or day on request.

Intercultural Tour in Irish – Chester Beatty Library

14:00, Sat 13 Jun

Chester Beatty Library, Gardens of Dublin Castle, Dublin 2

An Intercultural Tour in Irish Language with Community Ambassador Jack FitzGerald will take place. Admission is free and no booking required.

www.cbl.ie/Programme—Events/Events-Schedule.aspx

Theatre at the James Joyce Tower

14:00 – 16:30, Sat 13 Jun

James Joyce Museum, Joyce Tower, Sandycove , Co. Dublin

“Molly Bloom” by Caitriona Ni Threasaigh – Theatre at the James Joyce Tower. Two performances of this 30 min play will take place. The first is at 14:00 and the second at 16:00. Admission is free.

jamesjoycetower.com/calendar/

Yeats Birthday Celebration: Poetry, Music and more

14:00 – 17:00, Sat 13 Jun

National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Come to the National Library to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats.

From 14:00-16:00, Denise Kelly-McDonnell harp, Ellen Cranitch flute, and Jane Hughes cello will play music of the period in the front hall.

Niall MacMonagle will introduce a selection of Yeats’ poems read by students from the Poetry Aloud competition at 14:05 and at 15:05.

Follow the Yeats trail to find the places in the library that are associated with W.B. Yeats.
Visit the reading room where Yeats and Joyce read and studied.

The exhibition “Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats” is open all day for you.

At 16:00, Katherine McSharry of the NLI will give a short talk entitled “The Poet and the Library: Yeats and the National Library of Ireland” which explores Yeats’s links with the National Library.

Admission to all events is free.

www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx

Great Music in Irish Houses Support Act Programme – Classical Music

15:00, Sat 13 Jun

National Botanic Gardens, Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 9

The National Botanic Gardens will hosted the KBC Great Music in Irish Houses Festival residency programme for young, aspiring chamber ensembles and this progreamme closes with a free afternoon concert of Classical Music in the Botanic Gardens.

www.botanicgardens.ie/news/events.htm

2016 Euro Qualifier Ireland v Scotland

17:00, Sat 13 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

The crucial 2016 Euro Qualifier Ireland v Scotland will be on Saturday and you can expect the majority of pubs to screen this sooo important match for Ireland.

As one example, I will mention the Sugarclub, where they show the match on their big screen and there will be an Outdoor BBQ and Live Music after the match: www.thesugarclub.com/listings/event/2016-euro-qualifier-ireland-v-scotland

Admission is free.

youbloom 2015 – Music Festival

18:45, Sat 13 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

youbloom 2015 is a Music Conference and a Music Festival.

The 1-day conference on Saturday is about “How to Succeed as a Music Artist in the new Music Business”. It will take place in the Central Hotel in Exchequer Street and there is an admission charge of EUR 20.

In addition, over the whole weekend, from Friday until Sunday, there will be a vast amount (more than 60!) of bands and acts performing on a Busker Stage and in the Mercantile and Sweeney’s.

The gigs start on Friday at 19:00 and continue until midnight on Sunday. The full line-up is here and you can find on that page also links to more information about the bands.

For Saturday the details are:

+The Globe
18:45-19:45: youbloom Starter Party with Rachael McCormack

+ Mercantile
19:00-19:30: The Dyatonics
20:00-20:30: WOB!
21:00-22:00: Youth Mass

+ Mercantile Gallery Stage
19:30-20:00: Aine Cahill
20:30-21:00: Miriam Donohue

+ Sweeney’s Basement
20:00-20:30: Elevation Falls
20:45-21:15: Bagels
21:30-22:00: Motorcycle Display Team
22:15-22:45: The Other Breed
23:00-23:30: Fangclub
23:45-00:15: This Other Kingdom
00:30-01:30: Kerouac
01:30-02:30: The Witch Trials

+ Sweeney’s Upstairs
20:00-20:45: Darren Lynch
21:00-21:45: Sean’s Walk
22:00-22:45: The Quakers
23:00-00:00: Castle Creek
00:15-01:15: Buffalo Sunn
01:30-02:30: The Ronan Gallagher Band

Admission is free to all gigs.

www.youbloom.com/dublin-2015/

Blood Red Mountain Band – Gig

20:00, Sat 13 Jun

Harbour Bar, 1 Strand Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow

The Blood Red Mountain Band will be in Bray for a Bluegrass/Folk gig and admission is free.

www.theharbourbar.ie/whats-on/event/blood-red-mountain-band

Live in Sin É – Gigs

20:00, Sat 13 Jun

Sin É, 14 Ormond Quay, Dublin 1

Live in Sin É will feature a variety of bands and musicians at this weekly gig night on Saturdays. The event is presented by Super Happy Funtimes. Admission is free and the line-up is can be found on the Facebook Page below.

The line-up in short is ETC, Loop Culture, Paul Fitzpatrick.

www.facebook.com/shftimes

Saturday Night Live

20:00 – 22:30, Sat 13 Jun

KC Peaches (Wine Cave), 28/29 Nassau St., Dublin 2

This is a weekly Saturday night live music event event in the basement Wine Cave of KC Peaches wholefood restaurant/café. Food will be served until 22:00 and wine, minerals & music will be available until later. Admission is free and a donation into a hat at the end of the evening is appreciated.

www.facebook.com/KCPeachesWineCave

Live Music – Stillorgan Orchard

21:00, Sat 13 Jun

Stillorgan Orchard, The Hill, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

www.stillorganorchard.com/live_music.html

Slim Jim & the Bone Breakers

21:00, Sat 13 Jun

The Mezz, 24/25 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Slim Jim & The Bone Breakers are playing rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll to kick start your Saturday evening.

www.facebook.com/mezzdublin

Dogs – Gig

22:30, Sat 13 Jun

Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2

The Dogs are playing a gig at midnight in Whelan’s. Admission is free before 22:30 or if you sign up for the guest list.

www.whelanslive.com/index.php/midnight-hour-w-dogs/

Pete Pamf – Gig

23:55, Sat 13 Jun

The Mezz, 24/25 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Pete Pamf will play a gig with his band. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/mezzdublin

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Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship near Dun Laoghaire

06:30 – 20:00, Sun 14 Jun

Dun Laoghaire (various locations)

This is not an event, but an explanation: If you are near the sea on Sunday and you see a bit ship outside Dun Laoghaire, you most likely say to yourself: I wonder what ship that is?

Here is the answer: It is the Celebrity Cruises Ship “Silhouette” with 3000 passengers and crew. It will be in Dun Laoghaire Bay from 06:30-20:00 and its passengers will come to Dun Laoghaire. Unfortunately you can’t return the favour and visit them on board. ;-)

Bike Week 2015

09:00, Sun 14 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

Belgard Weekend Market

10:00 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

Belgard Road, Dublin 24

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more.

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

www.facebook.com/belgardmarket

Fitminds – Training with a difference

10:00 – 11:00, Sun 14 Jun

Hampstead Common, Glasnevin, Dublin 9

Working towards – a fit mind. Fitminds is a new regular Sunday workshop which brings together the benefits of fitness & Mindfulness training. Move your body first, then meditate… and see how your mind likes it.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome (max EUR 10).

There will be interval training (walk, job, sprint) with varying intensity to accommodate all levels of fitness, followed by meditation. The event is hosted by Backtobasics who are a team of health professionals, personal trainers and wellness practitioners.

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Unfortunately the address is not unique. I took the information from the Facebook Page and also the map marker, but I was not able to find a street or anything that is called “Hampstead Common”, so please ring 086 217 9917 if you have problems finding the location.

www.facebook.com/events/1591693224415919/

Jamestown Market

10:00 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

Jamestown Market, 90 Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

www.jamestownmarket.com

Merchants Market

10:00 – 16:30, Sun 14 Jun

Merchants Yard, East Wall Road, Dublin 3

The Merchants Market on East Wall Road is a weekly indoors flea market on Saturdays and Sundays with more than 80 stalls in a big industrial hall. There is everything from furniture and antiques to paintings and mirrors, electronics and hot food to bicycles and buns. It is just a few minutes walk away from the Point Theatre/O2 (walk in the direction of the Port Tunnel).

www.merchantsmarket.ie/

Merrion Square Open Air Gallery

10:00 – 18:30, Sun 14 Jun

Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Every Sunday, the Merrion Square Open Air Art Gallery takes place. Up to 200 artists exhibit their paintings on the railings on three sides (West, North and East) of Merrion Square and you can just enjoy the exhibition or even buy.

www.merrionsquareart.com/

Dublin Kite Festival

11:00 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

Bull Island, Dublin 3

The Dublin Kite Festival is a great event on Bull Island. In a spot where the wind hardly ever stops, you will see lots of kites and there will also be music, games, kite making workshops for children, a kite flying competition, kite flight demonstrations and some food stalls. On a nice day, this is a super place to be.

The full schedule is here.

Admission is free. The Dublin Kite Festival is brought to you by Dublin City Council and is supported by Pure Magic and 98FM.

www.dublinkitefestival.ie

Dun Laoghaire Market

11:00 – 16:00, Sun 14 Jun

People’s Park, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

A weekly market with lots of food, but also many other products (art & crafts, books, etc) takes place every Sunday in the beautiful People’s Park in Dun Laoghaire. It is a very popular market and with around 50 vendors also one of the bigger markets.

www.dlrcoco.ie/aboutus/councildepartments/environment/findit/markets/

Fusion Sunday World Culture Market – Food Co-Op

11:00 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

Dublin Food Co-op, 12 Newmarket Square, Dublin 8

The next Fusion Sundays Market will take place this Sunday in the Dublin Food Co-op.

It is a world culture market, an ethnic Bazaar, that focuses on the diverse ethnic culture present in Ireland today. The Market features a huge array of International stalls, ethnic food, live music and entertainment for kids. You can buy handmade goods, arts and crafts, recycled products, jewellery, clothes and food. The market is held every second Sunday of the month.

There is always a great atmosphere and I definitely recommend this monthly market.

Admission is free.

This week there is also the HOPE Carnival, a market and entertainment event to raise funds for the HOPE Foundation, just a few doors up from the Fusion Sunday Market. Go to both!! Admission is free to both.

www.facebook.com/fusionsundaysmarket

Irish Wolfhound Show

11:00, Sun 14 Jun

Farmleigh House, Castleknock end of Phoenix Park, Dublin 15

The Irish Wolfhound Club of Ireland will have their Championship Show in Farmleigh Estate this Sunday. There will be the dog show, music on the bandstand and food stalls.

The Irish Wolfhound Club is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year.

www.farmleigh.ie/events/Title,34164,en.html

Palestrina Choir

11:00, Sun 14 Jun

St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, 83 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1

The well known Palestrina Choir sing every Sunday at the mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. They sing complete masterworks by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Palestrina, de Victoria, usually accompanied by Prof. Gerard Gillen on the organ, who often also plays a solo piece.

www.procathedral.ie/music/this-week

Dublin City Hall – Free Admission

11:30 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2

Dublin City Hall is waiving the admission charges into their exhibition in the basement on every Sunday in June. The exhibition is entitled “The Story of the Capital” and is definitely worth a visit if you are interested in Dublin! You have four Sundays to give it a go, don’t miss it. (Last admission is at 16:15).

At 12:00 and 15:00 short talks about the City Hall will also take place.

dublincity.ie/dublincityhall

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Sun 14 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

Bike Fest – Family Cycling Festival

12:00 – 18:00, Sun 14 Jun

St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5

Cycling Ireland’s Family Cycling Festival BIKE FEST in St. Anne’s Park is back again this year and will start the Bike Week (13-21 June).

At the festival there will be opportunites for the learning of new skills in the coached skills zones featuring Sprocket Rocket, Gearing up off Road, Strider Bikes and a mini cycle track and there will be a relaxed picnic area.

The event is suitable for all ages, just bring your bike!
(It seems that bicycle helmets are mandatory, something you might or might not agree with, but these seem to be the rules.)

Admission is free.

www.cyclingireland.ie/page/programmes/sprocket-rocket

Blackrock Market

12:00 – 17:30, Sun 14 Jun

Blackrock Market, 19 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Sundays: 12:00-17:30. Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30.

www.blackrockmarket.com/

Guided Summer Walks – Botanic Gardens

12:00 – 15:30, Sun 14 Jun

National Botanic Gardens, Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 9

The National Botanic Garden wants to share the beauty of the gardens with you and invite you for a free guided tour viewing the Herbaceous Borders, Annual Bedding displays, the Rose Garden and more. Every Sunday at 12:00 and at 14:30.

My interpretation of the National Botanic Garden Website is that the tour is free on Sundays (and EUR 5 during the week), but it is not completely clear.

www.botanicgardens.ie/news/events.htm

HOME\SICK – Science Gallery Exhibition

12:00 – 18:00, Sun 14 Jun

Science Gallery, Pearse Street, TCD, Dublin 2

The Science Gallery exhibition “HOME\SICK – Post-Domestic Bliss” looks at the Home and asks what “Home” really is and also how it could be improved. The word means something different to everyone, but how will the future of technology and design, communities, families, resources, and nations change the nature of what we define as ‘home’?

HOME\SICK is the summer exhibition of the Science Gallery, which usually is the exhibition that is the most accessible and understandable for all ages and that goal was achieved again. It is not the Science Gallery’s best exhibition, but it is still definitely worth a visit.

The exhibition will run from 01 May until 19 July and is open from Tuesday-Sunday (Tues-Fri: 12:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00). Admission is free.

dublin.sciencegallery.com/

Street Feast 2015

12:00 – 16:00, Sun 14 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Street Feast is a big event, but it is not done for you. Instead it is what you and others make of it.

The idea behind it is to get as many people as possible across Ireland to sit down to have lunch with their neighbours. You can do that in your house, in the garden on the footpath or in a park. In some smaller streets in Dublin, neighbours even take over the whole street for their party/festivities/get together.

You organise the Street Feast yourself in your own street or your local community and what and how you do it is completely up to you.

The website below has some ideas and suggestions for your own event and there is also a list of events taking place so that you can go to one of the Streetfeasts near you even if you didn’t know that there is one.

It is a fun event that brings neighbours closer. That can only be good! :-)

www.streetfeast.ie/

Summer Rising Festival at IMMA

12:00 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8

The second “Garden Rising” of the “Summer Rising” Festival at the IMMA will take place this weekend.

All day-time events are free and some of the events are listed here:

Family-Friendly Food Workshops
+ From 12:00: Use icing to create an artwork on an Edible Gingerbread Canvas. Come early!
+ 14:00-15:00: Forage in the IMMA Meadow and learn to make herbal tea mixtures
+ 14:00-15:00: Learn about fermenting and preserving foods
+ 15:30-16:30: Outdoor butchering workshop teaching you how to cut meat and then cook it to perfection.
+ 15:30-16:30: “The Domestic Godless Guide to Dinner Party Surprises”, a food workshop

Interactive Art Experiences
+ Explore the “maze” of the Formal Gardens and discover three different artists at work: join in with Slavek Kwi as he weaves a large spidery web between the hedges; meet Ed Devane and hear his custom multiplayer wind chimes and cardboard slap-tube; and lend a hand as Joe Coveney’s bamboo constructions take shape.

THEATREclub performance A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! from 12:00-17:00
Doireann Coady & Grace Dyas of Dublin theatre collective THEATREclub, will take up residence in IMMA’s studios during the Summer Rising Festival. Responding to the resonances of the inherited history of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the pair will make a durational piece of performance in the Formal Gardens placing the spectator in history in the present tense.

And a few other events:
+ Tour of Bully’s Acre – Dublin’s Oldest Cemetery 13:00-14:15
+ Tour of Formal Gardens 15:00-15:30
+ Critical Talk with Megs Morley 15:30-16:30
are mentioned as independent events in this Dublin Event Guide.

www.imma.ie/en/nav_44.htm#sunday

Sunday at Noon

12:00 – 13:00, Sun 14 Jun

Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

The Sundays at Noon Concert Series continues in the Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery. This series of free (mainly classical) concerts continues to present the best of Irish and International music and musicians. Concerts run from September to June.

The next concert is part of the KBC Great Music in Irish Houses series of classical concerst. It will feature a WB Yeats Celebration with Soprano Deirdre Moynihan, accompaied on piano by Fionnuala Moynihan,.

www.hughlane.ie/past-sunday-concerts/1357-sundaysnoon-yeats-celebration

Sitric Picnic – Streetfeast Event

13:00 – 18:00, Sun 14 Jun

Viking Road, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7

The Sitric Picnic is a regular neighbourhood event and was one of the inspirations for the Streat Feast that is taking place this Sunday. The Sitric Picnic is still going strong and they don’t just do their neighbourhoodly thing, but also have music and workshops. If you want to join them, bring some extra food.

There will be Show Training from two boxing clubs, seed bomb workshops, beard competition, cupcake competition and best dressed pet competition. And the music side of it will feature the Barry McCormack Trio and Ben Prevo, followed by a DJ.

www.facebook.com/events/641773465923237/

Tour of Bully’s Acre: Dublin’s Oldest Cemetery

13:00 – 14:15, Sun 14 Jun

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8

A Tour of Bully’s Acre, Dublin’s oldest cemetery, takes place on Sunday. Join historian and author Paul O’Brien (OPW) as he tells the story of this little known graveyard in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and last resting place of Robert Emmet and many generation of Dubliners.

Admission is free, but places are limited. and booking via the page below is required.

www.imma.ie/en/page_236995.htm

Biodiversity Monitoring Talks

14:00, Sun 14 Jun

Farmleigh House, Castleknock end of Phoenix Park, Dublin 15

Biodiversity Monitoring Talks will take place over three Sundays (14+21+28 June) in the Arkle Room of Farmleigh House.

As many species of pollinators (bees, wasps, etc) continue to decline around the world, the need to monitor them has increased. The pollinators now rely on us to provide them with a healthy habitat and in turn provide us with food and beauty. By learning a few simple steps to help provide a healthy environment, these species can then continue to provide us with useful functions such as pollination.

The talks will cover various interesting aspects of Biodiversity Monitoring in Ireland including species identification, how to set up a monitoring transect & how to increase pollen and nectar sources in you garden.

The event will start with a 25 minute Biodiversity presentation in the Arkle room followed by a 25 minute outdoor exploration to view some species on Farmleigh grounds. (Weather Permitting).

Admission is free and will be distributed on a first come first served basis at the guides reception desk of Farmleigh. For further information contact farmleightours@gmail.com or call 01 815 5914.

www.farmleigh.ie/events/Title,34203,en.html

Dublin Sketchers – Sunday Meet-up

14:00, Sun 14 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

The “Dublin Sketchers” is an informal group of (hobby) artists who go somewhere different in Dublin every Sunday (e.g. National Museum, Maritime Museum, Dublin Flea Market, Farmleigh, Botanic Gardens, Dublin Castle, Science Gallery, …), sketch for one to two hours and then meet up for coffee afterwards and discuss their sketches.

There are some hugely talented people among them and it is a great idea to meet up with others who have the same hobby. Find out on their website below or on their Facebook Page where they will meet and join them if you do some sketching/drawing yourself. I know that the Dublin Sketchers often use the Dublin Event Guide to find interesting free events and I am delighted to be able to help!

www.dublinsketchers.blogspot.com/

HOPE Carnival and Market

14:00 – 18:00, Sun 14 Jun

18 Newmarket, Dublin 8

The HOPE Carnival takes place this Sunday in the Green Door Market premises on Newmarket. There will be market stalls, food and entertainment and there will be Carnival Games and Hook a Duck and Coconut Shy and Skittles and Hoopla.

Admission is free and all money raised will go to the Hope Foundation.

And with the Fusion Sunday WOrld Culture Market next door on Newmarket, you get two for the price of one and what a good price that is: Admission to both is free.

www.facebook.com/events/814906815265489/

Stella Bass Jazz Trio

14:00 – 16:00, Sun 14 Jun

Café en Seine, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Afternoon Jazz in Café en Seine. The Stella Bass Jazz Trio play every Sunday from 14:00-16:00 in Café en Seine in Dawson Street. Admission is free. A video is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8aKqtOB5S8

www.stellabass.com

Family Drawing Sundays

14:30 – 16:30, Sun 14 Jun

Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

Come to the Family Drawing Sundays in the RHA. All children are welcome to use the RHA Art Cart, in the RHA Atrium. Admission is free. For further information, contact Ruth Carroll on 01 6612558 or via ruth@rhagallery.ie

www.rhagallery.ie/html/educate/educate_family.html

Blackrock to UCD 10k Family Cycle

15:00, Sun 14 Jun

Blackrock (various locations)

Bike Week 2014 takes place from 13-21 June and as part of the week, a leisurely 10km cycle is planned from Blackrock Village to UCD and back.

Starting in Blackrock’s Main Street and continuing along the new cycle route on Frascati Road, the cycle then travels west along Rock Road (4km route for younger children turns into Blackrock Park at Booterstown Dart Station and back to Blackrock) and turns left on Trimelstown Avenue and onto UCD via Woodbine Road.

Following a short route within the UCD campus, the cycle will come back along the same route and back Blackrock via Blackrock Park.

The aim of the event is to promote the new Frascati Road and Temple Hill Route Improvement Scheme and the Booterstown Dart to UCD route.

Admission is free and registration starts at 14:30. There will be a range of activities and entertainment before the cycle begins and a goodie bag and refreshments will be waiting for everyone at the finish line.

The event notive asks you to register via cycling@dlrcoco.ie but since that won’t reach them anymore in time, I would suggest to hope for a registration opportunity on the day in Blackrock.

www.dlrevents.ie/cycle.html

Hands on History – National Museum

15:00 – 16:00, Sun 14 Jun

National Museum, Collins Barracks (Decorative Arts & History), 7 Benburb Street, Dublin 7

This is a chance to explore some of the artefacts from the Museum’s collection of objects for handling with Museum educators – a drop-in handling session for all ages. No booking required. Admission is free.

www.museum.ie/en/list/calendar-of-events.aspx?eventID=4666

Museum Tour – National Print Museum

15:00 – 16:30, Sun 14 Jun

National Print Museum, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4

Unlike the three branches of the National Museum, the National Print Museum is normally not free, but every Sunday there is a free public tour for the next few weeks. Every visit begins with a short audio-visual presentation where the audience can observe active retired printers providing practical demonstrations of machines from the Museum’s collection.

www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/guided-tours.html

North Great George’s Street – Bloomsday Street Party

15:00, Sun 14 Jun

James Joyce Centre, North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1

Earlier, a non-free (and sold out) Bloomsday Lunch will happen in North Great Goerge’s Street and when all the lunch crowd has left, North Great George’s Street invites you to a free Street Party with theatre and music, where residents and the local community can soak up the atmosphere and participate in fun and games.

bloomsdayfestival.ie/programme/

Talk about Dublin Zoo

15:00, Sun 14 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

A free talk on Dublin Zoo and Biofacts by Jim McMonagle will feature all those favourite animals you like to know about. An elephant’s foot and a turtle’s shell will be among artefacts on display.

www.phoenixpark.ie/newsevents/title,34117,en.html

Tour of the Formal Gardens – RHK

15:00 – 15:30, Sun 14 Jun

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8

A tour of the formal gardens at the RHK will be lead by Cathal O’Sullivan (Craft Gardener, OPW) and he discusses the heritage and vistas of the formal gardens.

Admission is free and no booking required. Meeting Point is the Garden Fountain.

www.imma.ie/en/page_236996.htm

Strategies of Collaboration and Resistance – Critical Talk

15:30 – 16:30, Sun 14 Jun

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8

“Strategies of Collaboration and Resistance” with Megs Morley, looks at the the history of Irish artist-led and self-organized initiatives and their troubled pasts. The talk reflects Morley’s research interests in artistic strategies of resistance, self-organisation, intervention and collectivism. Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

www.imma.ie/en/page_236998.htm

Brian Keary plays Classical Guitar

16:00 – 17:00, Sun 14 Jun

Sweeney Mongrel’s, 32 Dame Street, Dublin 2

Brian Keary is a classically trained guitar player who also has experience of different styles / genres of music ranging from ragtime and folk to baroque and contemporary. He will perform in Sweeney’s (Ground Floor) on Sunday afternoon.

www.sweeneysdublin.ie/gigs.php

Edel Meade & Myles Drennan – Jazz

18:00, Sun 14 Jun

McLoughlin’s Bar, 73 Upper George’s Street, Dun Laoghaire

Edel Meade (vocals) and Myles Drennan (piano) will be in McLoughlin’s Bar for a free Jazz gig.

dublinjazz.ie/gigs/gig-listing/edel-meade-myles-drennan

Jazz & Tapas Dinner

18:00 – 20:30, Sun 14 Jun

Zaragoza, 18 South William Street, Dublin 2

The next Jazz&Tapas Brunch/Dinner in Zaragoza is this Sunday with Linzi McKeon (vocals) and Shane Smith (piano) performing.

www.zaragozadublin.com/

LJJ Band – Cafe en Seine

18:00 – 20:00, Sun 14 Jun

Café en Seine, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

The wedding and party band The LJJ Band play every Sunday evening in Café en Seine. Admission is free.

www.longjohnjumpband.com/

Sweeney’s Dixieland Jazzmen

18:30 – 20:30, Sun 14 Jun

Sweeney Mongrel’s, 32 Dame Street, Dublin 2

The Sweeney’s Dixeland Jazzmen play their weekly gig on the ground floor in Sweeney’s. Admission is free.

www.dublinsessions.ie/sweeneys.html

Jawbone – Acoustic Folk & Blues Night

19:00 – 21:00, Sun 14 Jun

Arthur’s Pub, 28 Thomas Street, Dublin 8

At the Jawbone Gig night in Arthur’s Pub, Acoustic Folk & Blues will be performed every Sunday. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/pages/Jawbone-Dublin-Acoustic-Folk-Blues-Commune/724102984268967

www.facebook.com/ArthursPub

Lee Meehan & Hugh Buckley – Jazz/Soul Gig

20:00, Sun 14 Jun

Harbour Bar, 1 Strand Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Lee Meehan & Hugh Buckley will be in the Harbour Bar playing Jazz/Soul. Admission is free.

www.theharbourbar.ie/whats-on/event/lee-meehan-hugh-buckley-event2

Square Pegs – Blues Gig

20:00, Sun 14 Jun

The Mezz, 24/25 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

The Square Pegs will play Blues in the Mezz. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/mezzdublin

youbloom 2015 – Music Festival

20:00, Sun 14 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

youbloom 2015 is a Music Conference and a Music Festival.

The 1-day conference on Saturday is about “How to Succeed as a Music Artist in the new Music Business”. It will take place in the Central Hotel in Exchequer Street and there is an admission charge of EUR 20.

In addition, over the whole weekend, from Friday until Sunday, there will be a vast amount (more than 60!) of bands and acts performing on a Busker Stage (Friday) and in the Mercantile and Sweeney’s.

The gigs start on Friday at 19:00 and continue until midnight on Sunday. The full line-up is here and you can find on that page also links to more information about the bands.

For Sunday the details are:

+ Sweeneys Upstairs
20:0-20:30: David Keenan
20:40-21:10: November Pearls
21:20-21:50: Jamie Duff
22:05-22:35: Christian Collins
22:50-23:30: Emma O’Reilly
23:45-00:30: Corner Boy

+ Sweeneys Downstairs
20:15-20:45: The Sacreblues Band
21:00-21:30: Paradox
21:45-22:15: Hurdles
22:30-23:00: Beware of you
23:15-00:00: Green Monkey

+ Sweeney’s Ground Floor
19:00-21:00: Jazzmen
21:15-00:00: Amica Dub City (DJ)

Admission is free to all gigs.

www.youbloom.com/dublin-2015/

Apollo Sessions

20:30, Sun 14 Jun

Bleeding Horse, 24 Upper Camden St., Dublin 2

Every Sunday this singer-songwriter night takes place in the Bleeding Horse in Camden St. from 8.30pm. It is an Open mic night and performers can just turn up and put their name on the list for that night.

www.facebook.com/apollosessions

Comedy Crunch

21:00 – 00:00, Sun 14 Jun

Stag’s Head (downstairs), Dame Lane, Dublin 2

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy downstairs in Stag’s Head, Dame Lane from 21:00 every week on Sun+Mon. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of that there is some free ice cream. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Comedy-Crunch/83791357330

Rhythm Rocker

21:00, Sun 14 Jun

The Globe, 11 South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2

“Rhythm Rocker at The Globe” is a weekly event on Sunday night in The Globe. Admission is free.

The Pavement Kings play Rockabilly from 21:00 and
DJs Popocorn Peete and Little Dakota follow from 23:00-01:30 with a white variety of styles (Rockabilly, Calypso, Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll, etc).

www.facebook.com/rhythmrocker

Billy Treacy & The Ha’Penny Heads

21:30, Sun 14 Jun

Ha’Penny Bridge Inn, 42 Wellington Quay Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Billy Treacy & The Ha’Penny Heads are playing Ballads, Folk, Trad and Classic Country every Sunday. Featuring Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle and Banjo.

www.billytreacy.com/

Cool Hand Dukes

22:00, Sun 14 Jun

Porterhouse Central, 45-47 Nassau Street, Dublin 2

Every Sunday (except at Bank Holiday weekends), the Ragtime, Roots and Country Blues Band “Cool Hand Dukes” play in the Porterhouse near Grafton Street.

www.facebook.com/coolhand.dukes.1

The Dublin Blues Cartel – Gig

22:30, Sun 14 Jun

Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2

The Dublin Blues Cartel will be in Whelan’s again and will perform mostly a version of New Orleans R’n’B with a classic rock twist, sandwiched with swing, Rock’n’Roll, Soul, Funk, Blues and rap of all eras. Admission is free.

www.whelanslive.com/index.php/live-from-the-window-w-the-dublin-blues-cartel-28/

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Bike Week 2015

09:00, Mon 15 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Mon 15 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

Archive at Lunchtime – IFI

13:00, Mon 15 Jun

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

www.ifi.ie/

Low priced books with free delivery!

13:00, Mon 15 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Free Delivery on all Books at the Book Depository

If you regularly or occasionally buy books online, you can help the Dublin Event Guide hugely even without having to pay cent directly. In fact you even save money this way:

Buy your books from The Book Depository and get better prices and free (!!) delivery for all orders independent from the volume and when you click on the picture here before you buy, then 5% of what normally The Book Depository would get, they give back to the Dublin Event Guide. Everybody wins!

www.bookdepository.com?a_aid=dubevg

If you prefer Amazon to buy your books (for free postage you need to order a minimum of GBP 25), then use this Amazon link to help the Dublin Event Guide. Thanks!

Wheel to Reel 1

18:30 – 22:00, Mon 15 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

For the first Wheel to Reel 1 event, Roy Barron (Phoenix Park Guide) will lead a bike tour to the ‘hidden secret’ that is Grangegorman Military Cemetery, right next to Phoenix Park. Discover the other side of 1916 and the so-called Great War and Ireland’s involvement in it.

After that tour, it is back to the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre for a cycling themed movie starting at 20:00. The film is called “Bicycle Thieves” (1948, 93 minutes, Italy, drama B&W). The story centres on the desperate search of an impoverished Roman for the man who stole his much-needed bicycle.

Admission is free.

Book Launch: Shattered Dreams & Scorpions at Midnight by Miriam McGuirk

19:00 – 21:00, Mon 15 Jun

Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

Miriam McGuirk has M.E. and her life in Ireland had become unbearable, so in 2003 she moved to south-west Turkey. She dreamt of finding a sanctuary, a place to heal by the sea.

In her book “Shattered Dreams & Scorpions at Midnight” she describes her life in Turkey.

Admission is free, but registration via liz.white@whitewordmedia.co.uk is required.

The Turkish Ambassador Necip Egüz will attend as a guest of honour.

irishwriterscentre.ie/collections/whats-on-at-the-centre/products/book-launch-shattered-dreams-scorpions-at-midnight-by-miriam-mcguirk

Super Happy Fun Times – Open Mic

19:00, Mon 15 Jun

Sin É, 14 Ormond Quay, Dublin 1

Super Happy Fun Times are running an Open Mic night for Music and Spoken Word every Monday in Sin É.

Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/shftimes

Back Door Sessions – Open Mic Night

20:00, Mon 15 Jun

Sweeney Mongrel’s, 32 Dame Street, Dublin 2

This is an open mic night with Special Guests every Monday. Arrive, sign in (from 19:00) and play. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/sweeneysbar

Song Cycle

20:00, Mon 15 Jun

Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2

Song Cycle is a weekly Singer/Songriter showcase. The line-up is not always easily findable on the Whelan’s website, but admission is always free.

www.whelanslive.com

Al Porter’s Comedy Shed

20:30, Mon 15 Jun

Woolshed Bar & Grill, Parnell Street, Dublin 1

Every Monday the Woolshed Bad hosts “Al Porter’s Comedy Shed”. Admission is free.

www.woolshedbaa.com/dublin/

Comedy Crunch

21:00 – 23:00, Mon 15 Jun

Stag’s Head (downstairs), Dame Lane, Dublin 2

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Comedy-Crunch/83791357330

Jazz Jam Session – Grand Social

21:00, Mon 15 Jun

Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey Street (near Ha’Penny Bridge), Dublin 1

Every Monday a Jazz Jam Session will take place in the Grand Social and you are invited to listen or even to participate. Admission is free for musicians and audience.

Instruments are supplied (drums (no cymbals), double bass, guitar amp, bass amp, PA system) and ideas and themes will be proposed prior to the session to the musicians who join the event on Facebook (see Facebook Page below).

www.facebook.com/pages/Jazz-Jam-Session-at-The-Grand-Social/224553674385198

Loose – Trad Sessions

21:00 – 23:30, Mon 15 Jun

Mother Reillys, 26/28 Upper Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6

The 4-piece band Loose Trad are performing every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. www.loosetrad.com/ Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/motherreillysADMIN

Patrick Mahony sings Nostalgia

21:00 – 23:00, Mon 15 Jun

Café en Seine, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Patrick Mahony sings songs from Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Matt Monro and many more every Monday in the Cafe en Seine. Admission is free.

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Bloomsday

08:00, Tue 16 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

For some, Bloomsday is the high point of the year and for other it is an odd and superflous celebration of the fictional account of a day from an unreadable book.

James Joyce Fans love this story from Ulysses, the unreadable book by Joyce. They dress up and recite Joyce and follow the foot steps of Leopold Bloom, the character in the book. Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Black Pudding have to be eaten, David Norris has to be listened to and David Norris-invented fancy dress has to be worn. You can read more about the day here: www.jamesjoyce.ie/bloomsday/

All in all it is a harmless, fun (for Joyce fans) celebration of James Joyce that might have turned a little more pompous than Joyce would have wanted, but nevertheless it is not really offending anyone. It is interesting, though that you are either IN or OUT. Fully behind it or totally left baffled. There is no “little bit” of Bloomsday, it seems.

Bike Week 2015

09:00, Tue 16 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

Bloomsday Events in Dun Laoghaire

09:00, Tue 16 Jun

Dun Laoghaire (various locations)

With the James Joyce Tower in Sandycove (Open 10:00-18:00, Admission free) and Ulysses featuring Dun Laoghaire (and Sandycove and Glasthule) heavily, there are plenty events there as well. So many that I will just give you two websites to check if you are interested in Bloomsday events:

www.jamesjoycetower.com/calendar/

www.dunlaoghaire.ie/bloomsday-festivities-2015-dun-laoghaire/

Threshold Conference: Generation Rent

09:00 – 15:30, Tue 16 Jun

Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Threshold Conference: ‘Generation Rent – The Future of the Private Rented Sector in Ireland’

The private rented sector has doubled in size over the past decade, with one in five households in Ireland now renting from a private landlord and an even higher proportion in our urban centres. But this sector is now under pressure, with a shortage of supply, rapidly rising rents, high numbers of landlords in mortgage arrears, and concerns about the suitability of accommodation.

This conference is about the future of this generation of renters, whether they are young families, single parents, immigrants or older people living alone. It is also about the over 150,000 landlords whose livelihoods, at least in part, depend on the private rented sector.

This conference will explore the current challenges facing the private rented sector and what options there are for the future direction of the sector. The conference will be chaired by the journalist and writer Frank McDonald, and will include inputs from the following Irish and international speakers:

Senator Aideen Hayden, Chairperson of Threshold
Prof. Peter Kemp, University of Oxford
Derek Scally, Berlin Correspondent, The Irish Times
Rory O’Donnell, Director, National Economic & Social Council (NESC)
Anne Marie Caulfield, Director, Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB)
Frank Conlon, Head of Strategic Property Division, IDA Ireland
Peter Stafford, Director, Property Industry Ireland
John O’Connor, Chief Executive, Housing Agency
Prof. Tony Fahey, University College Dublin
Prof. Eoin O’Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin

This event is free of charge but registration is needed as places are limited. To register please fill out this short registration form

Full conference agenda will be available on www.threshold.ie/

Threshold is a national housing charity that provides housing advice, advocacy and support services for over 20,000 people annually, the vast majority of whom live in the private rented sector.

“My Favourites” – Dublin City Walking Tour

11:00 – 13:00, Tue 16 Jun

Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs on Tuesdays now as well. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

www.dublincitywalkingtours.com/

Bloomsday at Glasnevin Cemetery

11:30, Tue 16 Jun

Glasnevin Museum, Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin 11

Glasnevin Cemetery, which features in James Joyces works and is also the place where his parents are buried, runs a day of events on Bloomsday. Only one of the events is free, the others are breakfast and tours and details and cost can be found on the website below.

The free events is a re-enactment of the funeral procession of Paddy Dignam from Episode 6, ‘Hades’, of Ulysses. It will ru from 11:30-12:00 and will be performed by the ‘Joycestagers’. Admission is free.

www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/events/bloomsday-2015/index.xml

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Tue 16 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

James Joyce – A Musical Tale of Three Cities

13:00, Tue 16 Jun

Central Library, Ilac Shopping Centre, Henry Street, Dublin 1

“James Joyce – A Musical Tale of Three Cities – Dublin, Paris, New York” is the Music Library’s contribution to Bloomsday. Colm ‘Stride O’ Brien (piano), accompanied by Eithne and Michael Shanley will perform music that pays tribute to the three cities. The show is light-hearted and slightly ironic and has readings from Joyce as well as songs alluded to in his works.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01 8734333 or centrallibrary@dublincity.ie

www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-culture-dublin-city-public-libraries-and-archive-events/bloomsday-james-joyce

Lunchtime Recital: Carlos Pavan (Argentinian Guitar)

13:15, Tue 16 Jun

St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Carlos Pavan (Guitar) will perform music from Argentina and original compositions.

Admission is free. Donations are welcome.

stann.dublin.anglican.org/concerts/index.php

The Museum in Bloom – Special Tour

14:00 – 15:00, Tue 16 Jun

National Museum, Kildare Street (Archaeology), Dublin 2

Join Jennifer O’Mahony (National Museum of Ireland) to trace the steps of Leopold Bloom and discover what the Museum would have looked like at the beginning of the 20th century. Feel free to bring your copy of Ulysses.

Meet at the Reception Desk. Booking is not required but places are limited and will be assigned on a first come basis. Suitable for adults.

www.museum.ie/en/list/calendar-of-events.aspx?eventID=4667

Bloomsday Readings

15:00 – 18:00, Tue 16 Jun

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Songs, readings and performances for Bloomsday take place in Temple Bar. Lead by drag queen and LGBT activist Panti and featuring Irish actors, politicians and musicians, this is a free event for everyone interested in James Joyce/Bloomsday.

Admission is free and no booking required.

bloomsdayfestival.ie/programme/

Launch: “Belfast: Towards a City without Walls” by Vicky Cosstick

18:30, Tue 16 Jun

Gutter Bookshop, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 8

‘Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls’ tells the story of the walls that divide Belfast and the community groups, officials, architects, businesses and tourists who are concerned with an enduring symbol of the Troubles in Belfast.

Admission is free.

gutterbookshop.com/events.html

Spanish Affair: A CD of Poetry & Music by Shirley McClure – Launch

18:30, Tue 16 Jun

Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

You are invited to the launch of Shirley McClure’s new CD of poetry and music “Spanish Affair”. It features her sparkling, funny & moving poems, music from gifted guitarist Eamon Sweeney and poems from two brilliant Bloodaxe poets, Katie Donovan and Jane Clarke.

Refreshments will be served. Admission is free.

All proceeds from the sale of CDs go to Arklow Cancer Support Group.

irishwriterscentre.ie/collections/whats-on-at-the-centre/products/launch-spanish-affair-a-cd-of-poetry-music-by-shirley-mcclure

Wheel to Reel 2

18:30 – 22:00, Tue 16 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

At the second Wheel to Reel eventin Bike Week 2015, John McCullen, Historian & Landscape professional will lead a bike tour on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a link in Phoenix Park to the Irish born Duke of Wellington

The film screening following the cycle is
Wadjda (2013, 1 hr 40 minutes, Saudi Arabia – drama). WADJDA is the story of a young girl living in a suburb of Riyadh determined to raise enough money to buy a bike in a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue.

Admission seems to be free.

www.bikeweek.ie/events/dublin/wheel-reel-2

Ukulele Tuesday

19:45 – 22:00, Tue 16 Jun

Stag’s Head, Dame Lane, Dublin 2

Every Tuesday an informal sing along with Ukulele and Toy Musical Instruments takes place in the Stag’s Head. Just bring your instrument and come along. Beginners are welcome. Admission is free and further details (and a big book of songs) are available on the Facebook Page below. The get-together meets in the “snug” in Stag’s Head.

www.facebook.com/UkuleleTuesday

Dublin Bluegrass Collective – Gig

20:00, Tue 16 Jun

Sin É, 14 Ormond Quay, Dublin 1

Rumours have it that the Bluegrass Collective will perform in Sin É on Tuesday and there might even be an open Bluegrass Jam! Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/Sin.E.Pub

Blue Moon Folk and Blues – Gig

20:30, Tue 16 Jun

The Beerhouse, 84.5 Capel Street, Dublin 1

Live sessions with the Blue Moon Folk and Blues Collective are taking place every Tuesday at the Beerhouse. Admission is free.

www.beerhousedublin.com/

The Folk Club

20:30, Tue 16 Jun

Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2

The Folk Club in Whelan’s will bring you the best in Trad, Ballads, Americana & World Music every Tuesday. The line-up this week is on the Facebook Page below. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/TheGrandFolkClub

Comedy Crunch

21:00 – 23:00, Tue 16 Jun

Stag’s Head (downstairs), Dame Lane, Dublin 2

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday and Monday AND Tuesday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Comedy-Crunch/83791357330

Phoenix Big Band

21:00 – 23:00, Tue 16 Jun

Tara Towers Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin 4

The Phoenix Big Band is a 16 piece band playing songs of the 1930s, 1940s and other big band arrangements and they are playing every Tuesday in the Tara Tower Hotel (since 2012!) for adult dancing. If you like to waltz, cha cha or foxtrot, come and enjoy their performance.

Admission is free.

The band plays in the main function room which is occasionally booked, so to confirm that they are playing, please ring the hotel on the day: Phone 01-2694666

Bloomsday Afterparty

21:30, Tue 16 Jun

Pantibar, 8 Capel Street, Dublin 1

After a hard day of Bloomsday celebrations, the Pantibar invites to an afterparty with music and performances from 21:00. And they say “period costume is actively encouraged”. Admission is free.

bloomsdayfestival.ie/programme/

Camden Sessions – Singer/Songwriter Night

21:30, Tue 16 Jun

Anseo, 18 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2

A totally unplugged Singer/Songwriter night (no PA, no microphones) with original music is taking place upstairs in Anseo every Tuesday from 21:30.

Please check on the Facebook Page below if the event is going ahead as it seems to get cancelled every now and then and if you want to play a 15-30 min set or just want to play one song make yourself heard via the same Facebook Page.

Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/TheCamdenSessions

International Bar Jazz Night

21:30, Tue 16 Jun

The International Bar, 23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

www.international-bar.com/jazz/

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Bike Week 2015

09:00, Wed 17 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

Crucible’s Health Hack

09:30 – 13:30, Wed 17 Jun

Science Gallery, Pearse Street, TCD, Dublin 2

Crucible are a group of individuals from all walks of life that are working closely together to interact, create and push the boundaries in communicating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) to all that will listen. And this day of talks with the Crucibles is the Science Gallery’s contribution to Inspirefest.

The day starts with “Health Hack”, looking at the problems and solutions of smoking. And the second half of the day will be “Full Steam Ahead”, a series of short talks about a variety of STEAM-related subjects. “Full Steam Ahead” listed as a separate event in this Dublin Event Guide under the headline “Communicating STEAM”.

At Health Hack, you work in teams on solutions to solve the problem of smoking. More details are on the website below.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the same website below.

dublin.sciencegallery.com/events/2015/05/crucibleshealthhack

Mexican Tall Ship “The Cuauhtémoc” in Dublin – Open to visit

10:00 – 19:00, Wed 17 Jun

Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2

The Mexican Tallship “The Cuauhtémoc” will be in Dublin for five days and you are invited to visit the ship while it is at Sir Rogerson’s Quay. The ship is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Army and it was built in 1982 in Bilbao, Spain. The Cuauhtémoc was in Dublin before, so some of you might recognise it again: In 2012 the ship was here as part of the Tall Ship Races and at that time 23,000 visitors came on board during the Dublin visit.

Opening hours are Thursday-Saturday 10:00-19:00 and on Sunday 10:00-15:00. You will find in some media outlets (print and online) that the ship is open on Wednesday as well, but the Mexican Embassy thinks differently according to their website. The ship does arrive on Wednesday and is then open from Thursday.

The Cuauhtémoc will arrive on Wednesday at 10:00 and before entering the port it will “salute the city” with a cannon shot in Dublin Bay. It will then be met by Dublin Port’s tug boats Shackleton and Beaufort as well as a flotilla of yachts from local sailing clubs, which will escort the ship to Sir Rogerson’s Quay.

embamex.sre.gob.mx/irlanda/

NCAD Innovation Day 2015

11:00 – 14:30, Wed 17 Jun

NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8

The National College of Art and Design, Dublin is inviting to an Innovation Day on Wednesday.

The 2nd Annual National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Innovation Day will bring together leaders from business, society and academia, to discuss how to infuse creative thinking into your organisation and drive business and social innovation.

Industry leaders speaking on the day include:

+ Wayne Hemingway, co-founder of British design company Red or Dead.
+ Sean McNulty, MD of the creative design and innovation consultancy, Dolmen.
+ Dr Sarah Miller, CEO, Rediscovery Centre, a social enterprise dedicated to providing community employment and training via innovative reuse enterprises focused on new product design.
+ Noel Joyce, co-founder, Designhub, a group of designers from varied disciplines – brand strategy, product design, commercial interior design and multimedia.
+ John Horrigan, founder, Cara Mobility, an NCAD Origin8 start-up developing wheelchair assistive products.

A series of keynote speeches, followed by a panel discussion, will illustrate how creative thinking is being adopted to achieve innovation in a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit contexts. Speakers will highlight a number of case studies illustrating how design thinking strategies and creative practice models can be applied to transform your business and address real world issues.

A networking lunch, provided by Luncheonette, will be served, and an exhibition will be in place showcasing exemplar industry design projects by Origin8, NCAD’s on-campus centre for innovation commercialisation.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, TD, will visit Innovation Day and address delegates after lunch, and will speak about the importance of the creative industry and the contribution it can make to the Irish economy.

NCAD Innovation Day 2015 takes place on the top floor of the School of Design for Industry, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Registration opens at 10:30.

Admission is free, but booking via the website below is required.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/ncad-innovation-day-2015-tickets-17170945761?ref=devg

Phoenix Park Walking Tour

11:00, Wed 17 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

There will be a free walking tour of the Monuments of the Phoenix Park featuring the Phoenix Monument, the Papal Cross and the Wellington Testimonial on Wednesday.

www.phoenixpark.ie/newsevents/title,34166,en.html

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Wed 17 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

Lunchtime City Cycle

12:45, Wed 17 Jun

Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2

The annual Dublin City Lunchtime Cycle will take place at 13:00 on Wednesday. Starting from Grand Canal Square, it is just a 5km (30min) cycle. Last year approx. 2000 cyclists took part!

The starting and end point of this short cycle is Grand Canal Square, which will turn into a busy bicycle market with a range of vendors selling bike related goodies and food vendors provding options for your lunch.

Admission is free, but participants must be over 16 years of age. There will be spot prizes on the day for best individual fancy dress, best dressed bike and fanciest helmet. Booking is not absolutely necessary, but is prefered. So go to lunchtimecycle.eventbrite.ie the first 500 to pre-register will receive a goodie bag. In addition everyone who pre registers will be entered into a draw for an iPad Mini!

www.bikeweek.ie/events/dublin/lunchtime-city-cycle

Archive at Lunchtime – IFI

13:00, Wed 17 Jun

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

www.ifi.ie/

The Narwhal – Unicorn of the Sea – Lunchtime Talk

13:15, Wed 17 Jun

Zoological Museum, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2

At this short 15 minute lunchtime lecture in the Auk Room of the Zoological Museum in Trinity College, you will hear the story of the “Narwhal – Unicorn of the Sea” and then you will visit the museum to see the real thing. The talk is free, admission to the museum is EUR 3.

www.tcd.ie/Secretary/Communications/Noticeboard/data/33600.html

Communicating STEAM; (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)

13:30 – 17:00, Wed 17 Jun

Science Gallery, Pearse Street, TCD, Dublin 2

“Crucibles Full STEAM ahead” is the Science Gallery contribution to Inspirefest with talks about STEAM: Crucibles are a group of individuals from all walks of life that are working closely together to interact, create and push the boundaries in communicating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) to all that will listen.

There will be the following talks:
+ How mums are key in kick-starting the digital revolution – Dr. Sue Black (Daily Mail Technology Agony Aunt) and Sinead Kelly (#techmums)
+ Art/science research and learning – Dr. Mark Clements (Director Learning and Teaching, University of Westminster)
+ Black Girls Code: Changing the Face of Technology – Kimberly Bryant (Founder: Black Girls Code)
+ Using sensors to create art installations (poker playing) – Kieran Daly (Health/Tech innovator)
+ Tartan tales: researching historical textiles by micro-chemical analysis – Anita Quye (Technical art historian, Glasgow University)
+ Creating ‘brain-in-a-dish‘ models for Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases – Paul Roach (Bio-engineer, Keele University)
+ Dinosaurs in space (or how I got into engineering) – Lucy Rogers (Rocket Scientist)

In the morning a “Health Hack” will take place and it is listed as a separate event in this Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events).

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

dublin.sciencegallery.com/events/2015/05/cruciblesfullsteamahead

Creativity in Fashion and Design – Talk

13:30 – 14:30, Wed 17 Jun

Central Library, Ilac Shopping Centre, Henry Street, Dublin 1

A talk entitled “Creativity in Fashion and Design: expertise in design and tailoring for the discerning fashion designer” with Colm Atkinson (Senior Tutor with Grafton Academy) will be interesting for everyone with an interest in Fashion and Design.

Admission is free. For further information contact the Business Information Centre at 01 8734996 or centralibrary@dublincity.ie

www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-culture-dublin-city-public-libraries-and-archive-events/interested-fashion-and

Havana International Language Exchange

16:30 – 19:30, Wed 17 Jun

Havana Tapas Bar, Georges St, Dublin 2

The “Havana International Language Exchange” is taking place every Wed from 16:30-19:30 in Havana Tapas Bar in George’s Street. There are many Spanish speakers and English-speakers are explicitly invited, but everyone else is certainly very welcome too, to meet for a chat to improve your Spanish or English.

www.facebook.com/pages/Havana-Tapas-Bar/10503361821

Free Raif Badawi – Protest

18:00 – 18:30, Wed 17 Jun

Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 6-7 Fitzwilliam Square East, Dublin 2

Raif Badawi has been in prison for 3 years for blogging about free speech.

He was flogged 50 times on 9 January and only international attention and pressure was able to put a stop to any further flogging for now. But he is still at risk of flogging and he has a 10 year prison sentence.

Amnesty International won’t stop until Raif Badawi is freed and is looking for your support at a protest on Wednesday to show the Saudi Arabian embassy that there is widespread international interest.

Take action online: www.bit.ly/StopRaifsflogging

www.facebook.com/events/899838053388013/

Talking by Eye and Hand: With, Through and Against the Machine

18:15, Wed 17 Jun

Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College, Dublin 2

This is a public lecture by Prof Jeff Higginbotham (State University of New York) during his term as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

“In an increasingly mediated society, common solutions for individuals who experience significant communication challenges have been technological in nature. Speech Generating Devices are often recommended for individuals with ALS, cerebral palsy, autism and other challenges to offset their communication problems. However, careful analyses of the situated social interactions involving these “augmented speakers” suggests that the underlying design paradigm of speech generating devices provides a poor fit for the interaction tasks at-hand, and in fact, may be an additional source of communication impairment. The intent of this talk is to show how individuals work with, through and against their speech generating devices to engage in collaborative talk.”

Admission is free.

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/events/details/2015/2015-06-17talking_eye_and_hand.php

Book Launch: Idir Mhná by John McGahern

18:30, Wed 17 Jun

Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

Professor Declan Kiberd, Keogh Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame University will launch “Idir Mhná”, the translation into Irish by Irene Duffy Lynch of “Amongst Women” by John McGahern.

Admission is free.

irishwriterscentre.ie/collections/whats-on-at-the-centre/products/book-launch-idir-mna-by-john-mcgahern-trans-irene-duffy-lynch

Wheel to Reel 3

18:30 – 22:00, Wed 17 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

The third night of Wheel to Reel starts with a cycling tour to the deer in the park:

Terry Moore (Phoenix Park Deer Ranger) will lead the hugely popular ‘Meet the Fawns’ bike tour. During this period when deer fawns are now being born, see the action close up and the wonder of newborns.

The cycling will be followed by cycling themed short films movies from 20:00:

1. Alastair Humphreys (2015, 8.37 minutes Scotland) Mountain Bikes and Bothy Nights – An imaginary journey round Scotland, linking together wild bothies and landscapes.
2. Danny MacAskill (2015, 7.39 minutes, Scotland) The Ridge – A brand new film from Danny Macaskill shown in 2015 as part of the Banff Film Festival. For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a mountain bike and returns to his native home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland to take on a death-defying ride along the notorious Cuillin Ridgeline.
3. Safe Cycling (1947, 10 minutes, Ireland) Public information film stressing the need for caution while cycling, showing often very amusing sequences of good and bad cycling practices. The film gives a brief overview of the history of the bicycle and its importance in modern transport.
4. Epicurean Cyclist (1971, 18 minutes, Scotland) A pair of videos of Scottish cyclist Bill Houston, who calls himself a “mechanized tramp’.

Admission seems to be free.

www.bikeweek.ie/events/dublin/wheel-reel-3

Speaking Words in Pearse Street Library

19:00, Wed 17 Jun

Pearse Street Library, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

As part of “Speaking Words in Pearse Street Library”, there will be poetry reading session “Girls of the Globe” with Rosmarie Rowley on Wednesday. She was born in Dublin, and has degrees in literature and philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin and a diploma in psychology from NUI. She has published five books of poetry and has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition.

Light refreshments will be provided from 18:30. The event is free and booking is not required.

www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-culture-dublin-city-public-libraries-and-archive-events/speaking-words-pearse

The Grande Kino: Black cat, white cat

19:30 – 23:30, Wed 17 Jun

Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey Street (near Ha’Penny Bridge), Dublin 1

The Grande Kino presents the next special movie screening of “Black cat, white cat”, followed by an Balkan music after party at The Grand Social.

The idea behind Grande Kino is to screen a film and then afterwards to play the music that was in the film or is related to it.

Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/events/1641295082755400/

King Kong Club

20:00, Wed 17 Jun

Mercantile, 28 Dame Street, Dublin 2

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in the Mercantile. Each week 6-7 bands/solo artists play three songs each. At the end of all the performances a clap-off with the King Kong Club Clap-o-Meter takes place and the winner goes through to a semi-final and it all culminates after six months of competition with The Grand Final, held in front of a panel of celebrity judges.

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up.

www.facebook.com/TheKingKongClubDublin

Anseo Comedy Club

20:30, Wed 17 Jun

Anseo, 18 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2

The Anseo Comedy Club, run by comedian Aidan Killian, takes place every Wednesday in Anseo (upstairs).

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

www.facebook.com/StandUpComedyClub

The Song Room (open mic)

20:30, Wed 17 Jun

The Globe, 11 South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2

“The Song Room” is another open mic event. It takes place in The Globe in George’s Street at 20:30 every Wednesday.

www.theglobe.ie/events

The Zodiac Sessions (open mic)

20:30, Wed 17 Jun

Bruxelles, Harry Street, Dublin 2

“The Zodiac Sessions” is a regular open mic event from 20:30 in Bruxelles (between Grafton Street and Westbury Hotel) for unsigned musicians. Admission is free and there is a different line-up every week.

www.facebook.com/zodiacsessions

Bad Boy Jake

21:00, Wed 17 Jun

Gypsy Rose Blues & Rock Bar, 5 Aston Quay, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Bad Boy Jake are every Wednesday in the Gypsy Rose Rock & Blues Bar playing their rock, blues and American.

www.dublinsessions.ie/gypsy.html

Los Paradiso – Gig

21:00, Wed 17 Jun

Leeson Lounge, 148 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4

Los Paradiso are playing Rockabilly, Tex Mex, Western Swing, Surf in the Leeson Lounge. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Leeson-Lounge/114810058553792

Jazz Pigs – Gig

21:30, Wed 17 Jun

4 Dame Lane, Dame Lane, Dublin 2

The Jazz Pigs with a classic multi-brass front line play a mix of Lounge, lively sixties Jazz and driving Funk. Every Wednesday downstairs in 4 Dame Lane. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/dublinjazzpigs

Trad Session

21:30, Wed 17 Jun

Hedigan’s (The Brian Boru), 4 Prospect Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 11

Traditional Irish Music Session in Hedigan’s (The Brian Boru) in Phibsborough from 21:30 every Wednesday. If you play an instrument you are especially welcome (all levels are welcome).

Thursday 18 Jun

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Bike Week 2015

09:00, Thu 18 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

The Green Door Market

09:30 – 16:00, Thu 18 Jun

18 Newmarket, Dublin 8

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

www.facebook.com/thegreendoordublin

Mexican Tall Ship “The Cuauhtémoc” in Dublin – Open to visit

10:00 – 19:00, Thu 18 Jun

Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2

The Mexican Tallship “The Cuauhtémoc” will be in Dublin for five days and you are invited to visit the ship while it is at Sir Rogerson’s Quay. The ship is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Army and it was built in 1982 in Bilbao, Spain. The Cuauhtémoc was in Dublin before, so some of you might recognise it again: In 2012 the ship was here as part of the Tall Ship Races and at that time 23,000 visitors came on board during the Dublin visit.

Opening hours are Thursday-Saturday 10:00-19:00 and on Sunday 10:00-15:00.

embamex.sre.gob.mx/irlanda/

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Thu 18 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

Support the Dublin Event Guide – Buy your books here!

13:00, Thu 18 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Free Delivery on all Books at the Book Depository

If you regularly or occasionally buy books online, you can help the Dublin Event Guide hugely even without having to pay cent directly. In fact you even save money this way:

Buy your books from The Book Depository and get better prices and free (!!) delivery for all orders independent from the volume and when you click on the picture here before you buy, then 5% of what normally The Book Depository would get, they give back to the Dublin Event Guide. Everybody wins!

www.bookdepository.com?a_aid=dubevg

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Lunchtime Recital: Robyn Richardson & Keith Stears (Piano)

13:15, Thu 18 Jun

St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Robyn Richardson & Keith Stears (Piano) will perform a lunchtime recital.

Admission is free, donations are welcome

stann.dublin.anglican.org/concerts/index.php

Yeats2015: Public Tour of the Yeats Exhibition

14:00, Thu 18 Jun

National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

COme to a public tour of the exhibition “Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats” on the first Thursday of each month from March – October 2015.

As this year marks the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth in 1835, the tour will introduce the life and work of the poet.

www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx

Beyond GIS: The Spatial Humanities, Deep Maps, and Spatial Narratives

18:00, Thu 18 Jun

Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College, Dublin 2

This is a Digital Environmental Humanities public lecture by Professor David J. Bodenhamer (The Polis Center, Indiana University Purdue) organised as part of the Networking the Digital Environmental Humanities Workshop.

Geo-spatial technologies such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have transformed how the world is perceived and how cartographic (mapping) practices are conducted. But these tools are rooted in a positivist vision of the way the world is; they demand precise, measurable, abstract data. Although valuable for certain domains, they do not allow for a more complex understanding of the world as experience, expressed through emotions, values, poetics, memory, and other characteristics that define space as place. In other words these technologies largely fail to represent other ways of knowing. It is here where spatial humanities and the deep map, a new form for managing and visualizing information, become important, perhaps essential.

This event will be followed by the launch of two books:
Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives (Indiana University Press: 2015) edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris and Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS (Esri Press: 2015) by Charles Travis.

Admission is free and no booking required. Find more information on the website below.

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/events/details/2015/2015-06-18beyond_gis.php

Brazilian Dance – Forró

18:00, Thu 18 Jun

D-One Bar, 89 Capel Street, Dublin 1

A weekly Forro Night (Brazilian Dance) with a Forro Live Band takes place in the D-One Bar & Brazilian Grill every Thursday.

Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/donebardublin

Girl Geek Dinner

18:00 – 20:00, Thu 18 Jun

Science Gallery, Pearse Street, TCD, Dublin 2

Girl Geek Dinners are a chance for ladies in technology to get together, enjoy some nice food and drinks and have fun meeting other women in their field. Agenda and details are here and you need to register for this free event here. Men are allowed to come but only when invited by a woman, check the rules on the website below.

dublin.sciencegallery.com/events/2015/06/girlgeekdinners

Little Museum of Dublin – Free Admission Thursday

18:00 – 20:00, Thu 18 Jun

Little Museum of Dublin, 15 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

On Thursdays from 18:00-20:00, the Little Museum of Dublin waives all admission charges thanks to sponsor Guinness.

Visit the museum and find out lots more about Dublin. A new exhibition at the Little Museum is “Dear Christy: The Christy Brown Collection”. It is the first time that Christy’s personal archive will go on view. You can visit that exhibition as well when you are there on Thursday.

www.littlemuseum.ie/

Car Boot Sale – Tallaght

18:30 – 22:00, Thu 18 Jun

Tallaght Stadium, Whitestown Way, Tallaght, Co. Dublin

In addition to the Saturday Car Boot Sale which starts so early (06:00!!) that you need to be an insomniac or a super early bird, there is now a Thursday evening Car Boot Sale in the same location. It starts at 18:30 and runs until 22:00. Late night car boot shopping. :-) Admission for buyers is free.

www.facebook.com/irishcarboot

Wheel to Reel 4

18:30 – 22:00, Thu 18 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

Wheel to Reel 4 is the fourth event in this series:

Miriam Whittle (Phoenix Park Guide) will take you on a fascinating tour exploring “Nature in the Park” – from wildlife to plants and trees and birds. Find out the fascinating breadth of City Wildlife existing in the Park.

The cycling tour will be followed by cycling themed movie starting at 20:00:
Breaking Away (1979, 1 hr 40 minutes, America), staring Dennis Quaid, a coming of age comedy-drama film that follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. The film is ranked eighth on the List of America’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies.

Admission seems to be free.

www.bikeweek.ie/events/dublin/wheel-reel-4

“My Favourites” – Dublin City Walking Tour – Night Walk

19:00 – 21:00, Thu 18 Jun

Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher will run next Thursday. It will be an Alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

Meeting point is at the Spire. The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

www.dublincitywalkingtours.com/

Blues/Roots/Rock/Soul – Thursdays at Arthurs – Gig

19:00, Thu 18 Jun

Arthur’s Pub, 28 Thomas Street, Dublin 8

A weekly live music gig of the genres Blues/Roots/Rock/Soul will take place in Arthur’s Pub with weekly changing performers:

+ 1st Thursday: Ben Prevo
+ 2nd Thursday: Declan Kennedy
+ 3rd Thursday: Dermot Byrne
+ 4th Thursday: Mick Pyro

Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/ArthursPub

The Xchange – Language Exchange & Music

19:00, Thu 18 Jun

Slattery’s Bar, 129 Capel Street, Dublin 1

Every Thursday, the Xchange invites to a Language Exchange (19:00-20:30), followed by live music (21:00-23:30) by up and coming local and international artists.

Admission is free before 20:00 and free finger food is provided.

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Xchange/1472043553072435

The Lestrygonian Sessions

19:45, Thu 18 Jun

Red Bank Wine Bar, Duke Street, Dublin 2

Another Lestrygonians session will take place as a Bloomsday Extravagance/Open music session.

Multilingual Joyce readings, saucy Molly monologue, Borgesian tales, cabaret acts followed by an open music/performance session.

Admission is free. Curated by Jona Xhepa and Chronic Jazz Flan.

www.facebook.com/events/1462692840692039/

Brain Donation – Gig

20:00, Thu 18 Jun

Harbour Bar, 1 Strand Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Brain Donation are playing Alternative Rock at free gig in the Harbour Bar.

www.theharbourbar.ie/whats-on/event/brain-donation-event

Dimestore Recordings presents

20:00, Thu 18 Jun

Sweeney Mongrel’s, 32 Dame Street, Dublin 2

Dimestore Recordings run a weekly event in Sweeney Mongrel’s with a variety of bands and performers. It starts at 20:00, follow the link for the line up.

The line-up this week is

Cult Called Man (Alternative/Rock), Bunk (Funk/Soul/Rock), Frankenstein Bolts (Alternative/Synthpop/Folk), Slouch (Alternative/Rock).

www.facebook.com/DimeStoreRecords

Singer Songwriter Night – Mother Reilly’s

21:00, Thu 18 Jun

Mother Reillys, 26/28 Upper Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Every Thursday a Singer Songwriter Night will take place in Mother Reilly’s in Rathmines. This is YOUR chance to show everyone what you can do, alternatively you can just listen to the talented Singer/Songwriters. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/motherreillysADMIN

Brady’s Fun Pub Quiz

21:30, Thu 18 Jun

Brady’s Pub, 5 Terenure Place, Terenure, Dublin 6

A Fun Pub Quiz takes place in Brady’s in Terenure on Thurs. The quiz will be on every Thursday night in the Lounge at Brady’s. Keith McLoughlin is the Quiz Master.

There will be six rounds of the quiz with picture questions, audio questions and general knowledge questions. Admission to the quiz is free and therr will be free drink vouchers for the winning and runner up teams. (No phones to get answers allowed.)

www.gumtree.ie/a-events-gigs-nightlife/dublin/brady-s-fun-pub-quiz-back-thursday-8th-jan-2015/1001225919300910319322809

International Bar Jazz Night

21:30, Thu 18 Jun

The International Bar, 23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

www.international-bar.com/jazz/

Left, Right & Centre – Blues+Soul

21:30, Thu 18 Jun

Frank Ryan’s Bar, Queen Street, Smithfield, Dublin 7

Every Thursday “Left Right & Centre” play a mix of blues & soul with a bit of rock&roll.

www.frankryans.com

McNeills Trad Music Pub Sessions

21:30, Thu 18 Jun

J. McNeills, 140 Capel Street, Dublin 7

Every Thursday a free Trad Session takes place in McNeills and often there are high profile Trad musicians performing.

www.facebook.com/McNeillsPubSessions

Woolshed Karaoke

21:30, Thu 18 Jun

Woolshed Bar & Grill, Parnell Street, Dublin 1

The Woolshed Karaoke is happening every Thursday from 21:30. Anyone can participate! Admission is free.

www.woolshedbaa.com/dublin/

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Bike Week 2015

09:00, Fri 19 Jun

Dublin (various locations)

Bike Week 2015 takes place from 13-21 June and there are events in the Greater Dublin area nearly every day during the festival. Have a look on the event page here, to find out what is happening.

Some of the headline events are:
+ Sun 14 June: Bike Fest in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny
+ Wed 17 June: Lunchtime City Cycle from Grand Canal Square at 12:45
+ Sat 20+ Sun 21 June: Pedal in the Phoenix Park
+ Sat 20 June: Gravitation – Boards, Bikes, Blades, Beats in Monkstown
+ Sun 21 June: Cargo Bike Championships in Phoenix Park

There are many other events a well, so check the list above or the Bike Week website below.

www.bikeweek.ie/

Mexican Tall Ship “The Cuauhtémoc” in Dublin – Open to visit

10:00 – 19:00, Fri 19 Jun

Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2

The Mexican Tallship “The Cuauhtémoc” will be in Dublin for five days and you are invited to visit the ship while it is at Sir Rogerson’s Quay. The ship is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Army and it was built in 1982 in Bilbao, Spain. The Cuauhtémoc was in Dublin before, so some of you might recognise it again: In 2012 the ship was here as part of the Tall Ship Races and at that time 23,000 visitors came on board during the Dublin visit.

Opening hours are Thursday-Saturday 10:00-19:00 and on Sunday 10:00-15:00.

embamex.sre.gob.mx/irlanda/

National Gallery Talks

11:30 – 16:50, Fri 19 Jun

National Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

nationalgallery.ie/whatson

The Green Door Market

12:00 – 19:00, Fri 19 Jun

18 Newmarket, Dublin 8

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

www.facebook.com/thegreendoordublin

The Wellington Weekender – Gigs

17:00, Fri 19 Jun

Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2

The Wellington Weekender is a three day festival in the Workman’s Club starting on Friday 19 June at 17:00 and running until Sunday night.

On Friday the “A Tribe Of Nomads” will be starting the festival. They will feature Simi Crowns, DVO Marvell and Kobina.

Simi Crowns is a lyricist rapper from Dublin with rhymes and unique soundscapes influenced by his African roots and other contemporaries, like Kanye West, Mos Def, Nas and old skool RnB.

DVO Marvell is a Dublin hop hop artist who draws his inspiration from contemporary hip hop but also resepcts hip hop’s earlier generations, Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest and Q-Tip. Kobina is Dublin based producer Sean Arthur, who has played Electric Picnic, Longitude and lots of high profile support acts to boot.

Following A Tribe Of Nomads, there will be The Connoisseur Soul Sessions and Northern Soul Club Night on until late.

Upstairs, DJs will keep you dancing.

Admission is free.

theworkmansclub.com/events/the-wellington-weekender/

Be part of Irish Design 2015

18:30 – 21:00, Fri 19 Jun

Chocolate Factory, 26 King’s Inn Street, Dublin 1

The Chocolate Factory will host a weekend-long (19-21 June) furniture and interiors exhibition and pop-up shop showcasing the work of some of the in-house designers along with invited guests. The whole weekend event is free and along with the opportunity to browse the exhibition and purchase directly from the makers, there will be drop-in family friendly workshops and a chance to hear from the exhibiting designers in a series of short pop-up talks.

On Friday Night the Launch Night will take place:
A special launch night event with a preview of the Chocolate Factory Collection furniture and interiors exhibition and pop-up shop and a Design Café event where participants can sign up for mini-consultation sessions with a designer, interior designer or architect in an enjoyable and informal setting. Food and drinks can be bought at the Blas Café.

On Saturday and Sunday from 11:00-16:00 there will be workshops and you can see the exhibition.

To register for the Launch or to book the activities on Saturday/Sunday, you can go here here.

www.facebook.com/events/1656098791268263/

Le Pays Basque en Fête Tasting, Exhibition, Concert

18:30 – 21:30, Fri 19 Jun

Alliance Francaise, 1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Enjoy culture and traditions of the Basque country with food and wine tastings, a Painting & Photo exhibition and a live performance by local music group Dublineko Hiruak.

Admission is free, but registration is required before Monday 15 June via rsvp@alliance-francaise.ie with subject “Basque Event”.

alliance-francaise.ie/culture/

Wheel to Reel 5

18:30 – 22:00, Fri 19 Jun

Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

Wheel to Reel 5 is the final one of cycling and movie inspired events:

And for something completely different, this time you will ‘pair up’ with a new friend on the ‘Singles Speed’ tour. Enjoy a leisurely cycle and chat in the wonderful surrounds of the Phoenix Park while meeting a new friend!

A cycling themed movie will fowllow the cycle at 20.00:

Janapar: Love on a Bike (2012 UK – adventure/romance). A true love-story, filmed over four years in thirty-two countries by one man on a bicycle.

Admission seems to be free.

www.bikeweek.ie/events/dublin/wheel-reel-5

Cornucopia – Live Music

19:30 – 21:30, Fri 19 Jun

Cornucopia Café & Restaurant, 19/20 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

Cornucopia Café & Restaurant host live music three evenings a week (Thurs, Fri and Sat). The restaurant is a Wholefood & Vegetarian Restaurant and is open until 22:15.
+ Every second Thursday N.C Lawlor, a songwriter, session player and troubadour plays a mix of country, bluegrass & blues from 19:30-21:30.
+ Every Friday (19:30-21:30) Junshi Murakami plays Irish Harp.
+ Every Saturday (19:30-21:30) Nollaig Mann plays a collection of popular and jazz classics.

www.cornucopia.ie

Bal Folk – European Folk Dance Session

20:00, Fri 19 Jun

Tap Bar, 44 North King Street, Dublin 7

The weekly European Folk Dance Workshop/Session takes place in the Tap Bar every Friday.

The dances are French, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese folk and traditional dances and everybody interested to join in or to learn is welcome. Admission is free, but donations (suggested: EUR 3) are very welcome

www.facebook.com/pages/Njoy-Dancing-Dublin/251213698276941

Live in Sin É – Gigs

20:00, Fri 19 Jun

Sin É, 14 Ormond Quay, Dublin 1

A weekly Gig Night in Sin É, organised and presented by Super Happy Fun Times takes place every Friday and admission is free. The line-up can be found on the Facebook Page below.

www.facebook.com/shftimes

Toasted Special – Gig

20:00, Fri 19 Jun

Harbour Bar, 1 Strand Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Toasted Special is the Harbour Bar House band and they are playing covers and mashups. Admission is free.

www.theharbourbar.ie/whats-on/event/toasted-special-event2

Live Music – Stillorgan Orchard

21:00, Fri 19 Jun

Stillorgan Orchard, The Hill, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

www.stillorganorchard.com/live_music.html

Ska ‘n’ Reggae with The Bionic Rats

21:00 – 02:30, Fri 19 Jun

Turks Head, 27 Parliament St, Dublin 2

“Ska ‘n’ Reggae” is the theme in the Dive Bar (downstairs in Turks Head) every Friday. The Bionic Rats play live. followed by DJs until late. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/TURKSHEADDUBLIN

The Bandits – Gig

21:00, Fri 19 Jun

Mother Reilly’s, 26/28 Upper Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6

The Bandits, an acoustic trio from Wicklow will play cover songs from The Beatles to Lady Gaga.

Admission is free.

dublinsessions.ie/mother-reillys/

Wicked Wolf Comedy

21:00, Fri 19 Jun

Wicked Wolf, 2 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

There will be free comedy upstairs in the Wicked Wolf in Blackrock – normally on every second Tuesday. (This next date seems to be out of sync a little as it is on Friday 19 June according to the website.) New acts and surprise guests will entertain you and the event is organised by Maxine Jones.

The dates are 14+28 Apr, 12+26 May, 19+23 Jun, 07+21 Jul, 04+18 Aug. Put the dates in your calender as I will probably not be able to include the event every week.

www.wickedwolfcomedy.com

Cabinteely Bat Walk

21:30, Fri 19 Jun

Cabinteely Park, Dublin 18

Ireland is home to nine species of bat, an important mammal that consumes large quantities of insects each night. They are nocturnal hunters, rely on high-pitch ultrasonic noises to fly around in the dark.

On Friday evening a Bat Walk will take place in Cabinteely and you can join Paul Scott from Bat Conservation Ireland on this walk to enter the mysterious world of bats.

Admission is free, but booking is required via info@batconservationireland.org or dublinbatgroup@gmail.com

This event is part of the dlr Biodiversity events series “Exploring Nature”.

www.dlrevents.ie/nature151.html

Hustle – Gig

23:55, Fri 19 Jun

The Mezz, 24/25 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Hustle will play Soul, Funk, Disco, Rock and Old School Hip Hop at a gig in The Mezz. Admission is free.

www.facebook.com/mezzdublin

Events Coming Up

Science Gallery House Party

Fri 26 June – 19:00-22:00

Science Gallery, TCD, Dublin 2

For the fourth installment and as part of the current HOME\SICK exhibition, the Science Gallery are inviting everyone for the house party you don’t want to miss.

Independent, DIY, alternative music curators HomeBeat will be there for a gallery-wide musical takeover that includes CatsCars, Fierce Mild and Margie Lewis. Neil Flynn, the DJ for the night, will mix live from his bedroom in Berlin.

Comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog will be bringing the house down with sketches from their brand new show and if you bring along an old record or CD you can turn it into a clock with a workshop by MAKESHOP.

Expect live music in the living room; experiments and tastings in the kitchen; workshops, demos and games in the garden and for some lucky golden ticket winners, extra special one-on-one experiences in the six-metre tall Lighthouse.

Admission is free, but booking is required and expect tickets to be gone VERY soon. Go to the website below for more details and for your registration.

dublin.sciencegallery.com/events/2015/06/housepartyeveryonebackours

Inspirefest Workshops for Kids and Teens

20 June 2015 – 10:00-13:00

Merrion Square, Dublin 2

The Inspirefest is just around the corner and while the event and also the Fringe programme for the Inspirefest are not free, there are some free workshops available in Merrion Square. The one for adults is already booked out but for 7-17 year olds you can still book workshops about coding and Hardware hacks. Have a look at the website here to see what is still available.

Dublin Mountains Partnership – Guided Walks

07+27 June

Every month the Dublin Mountain Partnership runs free guided walks in the Dublin Mountains on some Saturdays or Sundays during the month. The walks have varying difficulty and duration and the details can be found on the Dublin Mountain Partnership website: www.dublinmountains.ie/news/upcoming_events/?no_cache=1

The next walks take place on 07+27 June.

All walks are free, but pre-registration is required.

Not free, but interesting nevertheless:

Dalkey Book Festival 2015: 11-14 June

Taste of Dublin: 11-14 June

All City Jam – Street Art & DJs: 13 June

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This is odd

Please note: This section contains observations taken from the world I live in that strike me as odd. I express my personal opinion and you might not share it. ;-) If you are easily offended by opinions that are not identical with your own, please don’t read this section and I am VERY serious about that!

Are you going to “Movies on the Beach DUBLIN”? – NO, you are not!!!

Are you one of the 46,000 (!!!!) people that are going to the event “Movies on the Beach Dublin”? Fourty-six-THOUSAND!! That would be a busy beach! If you did declare on Facebook that you are going to this event, I have bad news for you. You are most likely not going to it. Why so?

Let’s have a look at Facebook announcement: Somebody…and it could be you!….called him/herself “Movie on the Beach Dublin” and invited to an event on a specified date (Sunday 02 August) at an unspecified location using a photoshopped picture from a hotel in Bali. The person didn’t give any contact information and is quite unresponsive on the Facebook Event Page. For some odd reason, it turned into a frenzy and 46,000 people said that they are going with many asking where they can buy tickets.

Why did it turn into a frenzy is anybody’s guess. It’s not that we don’t have cinemas and its not that the beaches are not there at other times. It is not either a rare occurrence that you can watch a movie outdoors, that has happened numerous times last year and earlier this year and will happen again during the summer. One example are the movie screenings organised by “Happenings”, which usually cost EUR 5-10 and sometimes are even free, when on Grand Canal Plaza. At no previous film screening that really took place in Dublin has been interest that came close to these numbers, so what is so magical about this event? Maybe it is the beach? Maybe the expectation that when something happens on a beach, automatically the weather will be super hot. Or maybe it is the hope that that movie screening will turn into a massive beach party (obviously with the super weather included). If you have clicked on JOIN, then you know better than I do what the fascination is.

How real is such an event? The person posting the event couldn’t have known how many will be interested. So we can’t say he/she is totally unrealistic. On the other hand, not indicating that there might be a limit in posts since the high interest was detected is probably intentional. And it is misleading.

Can such an event be organised for 46,000? Absolutely not! Can it be done for 10,000? Still too much! Can it be done for 5000? We are getting closer. Realistically, it can be done for about 1000-3000 people.
In Sydney, Australia the “St George OpenAir Cinema” has a 350 square meter cinema screen, and 32 speakers and caters for 1,900 people. A film festival in the Pula Arena, a 2000 year old amphitheatre in Pula in Croatia, can in a stadium environment host approx. 5000 people. Germany’s biggest movie event the “Filmnächte am Elbufer” in Dresden has standing room for 12,000 and sitting rom for 3,500 people.

But for such an amount of people, the screen has the be massive and the sound system enormous, And to build that on a beach ( I guess Dollymont Strand would be the only one big enough!?) is a big job.

So your chance shrunk by a factor of 9 when this reduced the max number from 46,000 to 5,000.

But the probability that you will be at a Movie Screening on a beach will shrink a LOT further because many think that the whole event is just fake.

Maybe the poster wanted to market research to see if there would be interest in such an event OR it was a test balloon to get a sponsor on board: “I can get you 46k attendees, if you can somehow finance my huge budget.”

For an event of that size on public land, a formal planning application is required, proof of insurances and lots of other formalities are required. And the risk that this event would turn into a massive beach party with (smuggled in) alcohol and all other shenanigans, will scare the livin’ daylight out of any authority.

So, 46,000 people on a beach in Dublin ain’t gonna happen! And the small sized event? Most likely not either.

(Ohh, and if you are still convinced that that event is genuine and definitely going ahead, then I assume you also had signed up for “The Moonlight Cinema comes to Dublin“, a Facebook event that got 65,000 (!!) people to declare their intention to go to this event TONIGHT (Friday) and which was totally unexpectedly ;-) only three days ago postponed to 03 July. Reason: “an unfortunate delay in the delivery of Moonlight Cinema film licensing”. Because there are soooo many people wanting to go, you now could increase your chances of getting a ticket by filling in your name, e-mail address and Date of Birth in a form. Sure, no problem! Can I please give you my credit card details too!?)

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