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.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

A Festival of Food will take place in Dundrum. Only once a year a free event takes place at the Airfield Estate and it is the Festival of Food this Saturday and Sunday. Airfield Estate is a 38 acre working farm in Dundrum.

There will be a Food Village, Natural Beauty Area, Food Stage, Cooking Demonstrations, Music Stage, Gardening Zone, Family Foraging, Wellness Retreat and more. A Zero Waste Festival will take place in parallel with talks and demonstrations.

Airfield Estate is located beside the Balally Luas stop and 5 minutes from Dundrum Shopping Center. Parking is very limited in that area, so use public transport if possible.

Admission is free. A Festival Lineup and map can be downloaded from this page: www.airfield.ie/festival-of-food/

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.

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.

A whole range of Parkruns take place every week:
+ Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin
+ Cabinteely Park, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
+ Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dublin
+ Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Co. Dublin
+ St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5
+ Father Collins Park, Donaghmeade/Clongriffin, Dublin 13
+ Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24
+ Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin 6
+ Corcagh Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
+ Tolka Valley Park, Finglas South, Dublin 11
+ Porterstown Park, Castleknock, Dublin 15
+ Bricksfield Park, Crumlin Road, Dublin 12

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

The Green Door Market is an indoor food/Farmer’s Market that many know from when it was located at Newmarket Square. Due to the redevelopment at Newmarket Square it had to move and is now on the Old Naas Road, opposite the entrance to the Royal Liver Retail Park. At the new location they are also open on Sundays.

Opening hours are Tue-Fri 12:00-19:00, Sat 09:30-16:00 and also Sunday 11:00-17:00.

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.

Education Expo is an exhibition where colleges and schools of all types offer their courses and upskilling opportunities in the Greater Dublin area.

There will be 27 exhibitors and 9 speakers who will talk at seminars.

Admission is free, but booking is required here. The event is in the Serpentine Hall at the RDS.

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.

The County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

Sculpture in Context is back!! It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition and it is a brilliant exhibition in the beautiful surroundings of the National Botanic Gardens. Some of Ireland’s best artists are showing new work and the sculptures are displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the in the gallery in the Visitors Centre.

The exhibition will be open form 06 Sept and will run until 19 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

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.

The Terenure Bushy Park Market is taking place every weekk. The market has more than 30 stalls, offering a whole variety of foods and crafts.

Admission is free.

Dublin City Hall has a museum/exhibition in the basement, called “The Story of the Capital”, it is an exhibition that you should definitely check out at some stage.

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon was free in 2016, but lucky for us, Dublin City decided to also waive the admission charge for 2018.

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:15.

Áras an Uachtaráin is the residence of the President of Ireland in the middle of Phoenix Park. It started as a modest brick house for the Phoenix Park Chief Ranger in 1751, was then turned into th ‘occasional residence’ for the Lords-Lieutenant and gradually evolved into a huge mansion. After Ireland gained independence it was turned after 1937 into the residence of the Irish president.

Every Saturday a number of public tours take place and admission is free. Tickets will be issued at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre on the day, on a first come, first served basis. Group and/or advance booking is not possible.

The tours will be at 10:15, 11:30, 12:45, 14:00 and 15:15 and take approx. 1 hour.

The Drumcondra Village Market is now the “Art, Bites, Crafts Drumcondra Market”. And as you guessed it, it is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. :-) There will also be some food and music.

The market is open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30-15:30.

Admission is free.

Una Sealy is the Artist-in-Residence in the National Gallery and there will be a number of Open Studio events this week in the Millennium Wing Studio.

Una’s temporary studio in the Millennium Wing will be open to all visitors who want to see what she has been working on as part of her residency. Una will be there during the day to chat about her work and about the inspiration she has drawn from Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns exhibition.

The Open Studio events are:

+ Saturday 08 September 10:30-16:00
+ Tuesday 11 September 14:00-17:00
+ Thursday 13 September 14.00 – 19.00

Admission is free.

The Alliance Francaise is inviting to a Family Open Day. They will have a magical Children’s Show (3 different sessions), French taster courses, various workshops at the French Library, assessment of levels and needs, face painting, balloon modelling, free French pastry, goodies and competitions!

Information will be available about their language classes starting from September 17th and the various events and activities planned for the year.

Toddlers, children, teenagers and their parents are welcome, admission is free.

An open day for adults will follow on 15 September.

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.

The Bleeding Pig Cultural Festival is happening in Donabate this Saturday and Sunday and will be followed by a (Short) Film Festival from Monday until Wednesday. Then the second part of the Cultural Festival will be next week on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

There are a number of free events, but it is not as clear as it should be what is free and what isn’t.

Check out the programme below.

“Ultimate Predators: Lions Versus Tigers” is a Drop-in activity for the whole family in the Natural History Museum.

“Are you team lion or team tiger? Drop-into the Discovery Zone and compare the skulls of two large carnivores to investigate who would win in a fight between these ultimate predators!”

Admission is free.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

A “Storytime at the Gallery Shop” for children will happen this Saturday. Grab yourself a cushion for this hour-long story session.

The theme this month is ‘Best Friends’ and professional storyteller Ruth Concannon will be reading some great stories, including the fantastic Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.

Admission is free.

The current exhibition in the Science Gallery is called “Life at the Edges” and it will run from 22 June until 30 September,

The exhibition is looking at space travel, Mars exploration and it also looks at other hostile or difficult environments like antarctica, volcanoes and living in a floating city.

Some of the most interesting exhibits are:

+ Habitat of a simluated Mars mission
+ Creating souvenirs from Lava
+ Process of creating an iron ring from grass that grew on iron polluted soil
+ Animals that travelled to space
+ A plant growing in Mars atmophere
+ A planet to be built from dead bodies

It is a fascinating exhibition, but take your time to understand the exhibits and think a little more about some of them! It is worth it!

The website below lists all exhibits and provides some explanation so that you can either before or after your visit check further details.

All Science Gallery exhibitions are suitable for ALL ages, even younger children will be able to take part/follow. Some of the exhibits need a bit more of an age-appropriate explanation for younger kids than others, but nearly everything can be simplified for kids.

I strongly suggest to use the help of the amazing mediators, who can explain everything you see, especially if you don’t want to read all the explanations that are next to every exhibit.

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

Admission is free.

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. Meeting point is in the atrium.

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.

A Family Fun Day will take place in Bushy Park in Terenure on Saturday. There will be Live Music, Face Painters, Bouncy Castles and the normal (weekly) Bushy Park Market (from 10:00). The Intrepidus Stage School (13:00) and the Dublin Circus Project will show their skills. In addition you can try out Tennis and Paddle Tennis at the Bushy Park Tennis & Paddel Tennis Club and there will be a Giant Zip line and lots of other entertainment.

Admission is free and there is free parking in Our Lady’s School on Tempelogue Road.

“The National Library’s History & Heritage” is a guided tour to explore the Library’s rich architectural history and heritage. The tour begins in the main hall of the Library and includes a visit to the Library’s iconic reading room.

Admission is free.

Every Saturday a free guided tour will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The tour starts at 14:00.

In addition there is another free tour every Wednesday at 13:00 and one on Sundays at 15:00

The Silk Worm Club “Sea Creatures” for 6-11 year olds will take place on Saturday and there are still some spaces on this free workshop.

“Discover the various sea creatures swimming through the Chester Beatty collection and how we can raise awareness around recycling plastic. Using old bottles create your own sea animals to hang at home as ornamental decorations.”

Booking required via the website below.

Meet one of the artists from Sculpture in Context on Saturdays throughout the exhibition for the opportunity to gain an insight into Ireland’s largest outdoor and indoor exhibition. The walk will take in a selection of sculptures and last around one hour.

Admission is free.

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.

Punch Face Champions will play a gig in Sin E and the support will be provided by “A Burial At Sea” and by Donnie Willow.

Admission is free.

The Stonecutters will play Rock/Pop and Reggae in Bray.

Admission is free.

Tongue In Chic will play a live gig as a tribute to the godfather of disco Nile Rogers. They will play Chic’s hits as well as other legendary disco, funk and pop. Lead singer is Jess Kav.

The band will be on stage from 23:00-01:00 and Admission is free before 22:00. (EUR 5 afterwards)

Strawberry Stew will play a gig in Whelan’s and will be supported by Reprisal.

Admission is free before 22:30.

Rock Tribunal will play their near-weekly gig in the Porterhouse.

Admission is free.

In addition to the Saturday Car Boot Sale in Tallaght, Irish Car Boot Sales run a weekly Sunday Car Boot Sales in Ballymun.

Admission for buyers is free.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

A Festival of Food will take place in Dundrum. Only once a year a free event takes place at the Airfield Estate and it is the Festival of Food this Saturday and Sunday. Airfield Estate is a 38 acre working farm in Dundrum.

There will be a Food Village, Natural Beauty Area, Food Stage, Cooking Demonstrations, Music Stage, Gardening Zone, Family Foraging, Wellness Retreat and more. A Zero Waste Festival will take place in parallel with talks and demonstrations.

Airfield Estate is located beside the Balally Luas stop and 5 minutes from Dundrum Shopping Center. Parking is very limited in that area, so use public transport if possible.

Admission is free. A Festival Lineup and map can be downloaded from this page: www.airfield.ie/festival-of-food/

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.

A Farmers Market will take place in the Farmyard of Farmleigh House.

Admission is free.

The Nepal-Ireland Festival is also happening at Farmleigh House this Sunday.

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.

The Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park was for a long time completely neglected, but it is hugely rich in history. Many have seen it as a barred off concrete fortress in a corner of Phoenix Park and even more don’t even know or have forgotten that it exists. The old Phoenix House, the home of the British Viceroy, was on the site where the fort was built from the early 17th century and then in 1734 the Fort was built and extended in 1801.

In 1916 the Fort was raided by the rebels who expected to find a lot of explosives there, but found the Fort nearly empty. In 1939 the IRA raided the Fort and stole more than a million rounds of ammunition, but most of it was recovered over the following weeks.

Since 1988, the Irish Army doesn’t use the Fort anymore and gave it back to the Office of Public Works (OPW), but not much good has happened to the Fort in the last 30 years (!!) and there were numerous speculations about the reasons for that.

Finally since 2016, guided tours are provided and this year from April until end of October there will be three tours every Sunday at 10:00, 12:00 and 14:00. Only 20 places are available on each tour and if there is a big event in Phoenix Park the tour will be cancelled.

Tickets are available at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre on a first come, first served basis and can not be pre-booked. A shuttle bus will bring the ticket holders to the Fort.

The County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

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.

Sculpture in Context is back!! It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition and it is a brilliant exhibition in the beautiful surroundings of the National Botanic Gardens. Some of Ireland’s best artists are showing new work and the sculptures are displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the in the gallery in the Visitors Centre.

The exhibition will be open form 06 Sept and will run until 19 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

The Drumcondra Village Market is now the “Art, Bites, Crafts Drumcondra Market”. And as you guessed it, it is an arts and crafts fair in the centre of Drumcondra. :-) There will also be some food and music.

The market is open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30-15:30.

Admission is free.

The National Botanic Gardens run “Kids Drop by Activities” on Sunday.

There will be fun activities in the dedicated Children’s Garden. Sow seeds, make seed bombs, design bug hotels and re-use everyday items to create your own piece of eco art. Suitable from age 4. All children must bring their own grown up.

The event times are:
Sunday 09 Sept: 11:00, 11:30, 15:00, 15:30 www.facebook.com/events/279789109296139/

Admission is free.

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.

The Dublin Cycling Campaign is organising a cycle protest for a safe Liffey Cycle Route.

Admission is free.

The yearly Nepal-Ireland Day at Farmleigh House has the theme “Experience Nepal – Cuisine and Culture” and will feature a cultural programme with performances from both Nepalese and Irish artists. The event will also include an exhibition of photographs taken by Irish tourists, Nepalese Handicraft Stalls, Travel Agencies and Airlines Stalls and various other activities and performances.

A Mountaineering Talk will take place at 12:00 with a while range of Mount Everest explorers. Admission is free, but registration is required via the website here.

The Facebook Page doesn’t mention food, but since the title of the event is “Cuisine and Culture”, I would also expect that there will be Nepalese food at the event.

Admission is free.

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.

The yearly Phoenix Park Honey Show will take place this Sunday.

There will be a range of exhibits in the Visitor Centre and also
+ Biodiversity and Horticultural Tours at 11:00+13:00+14:00 in the Walled Garden
+ Tours of Ashtown Castle at 12:00+14:00+16:00 at Ashtown Castle

And the following talks will take place in the Lecture Theatre:
12:00 “Bumblebees, Hover?ies, Honeybees, Pollinators Supreme” with Peter Cuthbert, BSc Agr (Hort) Environmental Consultant
13:00 “7th Century Old Irish Beekeeping Law” with Prof. Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
14:00 “Victorian Gardening” with Beth Ann Kavanagh, OPW guide, Phoenix Park
15:00 “Making gardens more bee friendly” with Peter Whyte BScAgr(Hort), Landscape and Garden Consultant.

There will also be Family activities throughout the day to entertain the kids.

Admission is free.

The Green Door Market is an indoor food/Farmer’s Market that many know from when it was located at Newmarket Square. Due to the redevelopment at Newmarket Square it had to move and is now on the Old Naas Road, opposite the entrance to the Royal Liver Retail Park. At the new location they are also open on Sundays.

Opening hours are Tue-Fri 12:00-19:00, Sat 09:30-16:00 and also Sunday 11:00-17:00.

A Drop-in family session will take place in the Maples and Calder Creative Space in the Atrium on Sunday:

“Join us for this special creative workshop organised to complement the exhibition Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont-Aven. Work together to creatively respond to the exhibition.

Inspired by the exchange of ideas and practices at the artists’ colony of Pont-Aven, artist Fiona Harrington will lead this new intergenerational strand of programming at the Gallery.”

Admission is free.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

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.

Every Sunday, the National Botanic Gardens invite to two guided walks. The first one is at 12:00 and the second one at 14:30.

Admission is free.

The current exhibition in the Science Gallery is called “Life at the Edges” and it will run from 22 June until 30 September,

The exhibition is looking at space travel, Mars exploration and it also looks at other hostile or difficult environments like antarctica, volcanoes and living in a floating city.

Some of the most interesting exhibits are:

+ Habitat of a simluated Mars mission
+ Creating souvenirs from Lava
+ Process of creating an iron ring from grass that grew on iron polluted soil
+ Animals that travelled to space
+ A plant growing in Mars atmophere
+ A planet to be built from dead bodies

It is a fascinating exhibition, but take your time to understand the exhibits and think a little more about some of them! It is worth it!

The website below lists all exhibits and provides some explanation so that you can either before or after your visit check further details.

All Science Gallery exhibitions are suitable for ALL ages, even younger children will be able to take part/follow. Some of the exhibits need a bit more of an age-appropriate explanation for younger kids than others, but nearly everything can be simplified for kids.

I strongly suggest to use the help of the amazing mediators, who can explain everything you see, especially if you don’t want to read all the explanations that are next to every exhibit.

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

Admission is free.

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 will feature Song Cycle 2018-1 with Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) and Finghin Collins (piano).

Dublin Song Cycle 2018-1will consist of:
R Hahn: Le Printemps, Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée, Le Rossignol des lilas
E Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle Op. 37,
C. Debussy: Regret, Musique, Pantomime
B. Britten: Cabaret Songs; Tell me the truth about love, Funeral blues, Johnny Calypso
R. Strauss: Freundliche Vision, Schlechtes Wetter, Zueignung

The Bernard Shaw Flea Market will take place on Sunday. There will be approx 16 stalls, music, pizzas from the Big Blue Bus and the Bernard Shaw Garden Bar. Expect vintage clothes, shoes, jewellery, art, records, bric-a-brac and more and DJs will provide the entertainment.

Admission is free.

This Family Tour is specially designed for children and their guardians, parents and carers to make the works on display in the National Gallery fun and engaging for kids.

Admission is free. Meet at the Merrion Square information desk.

The Lucan Festival will take place this weekend and on Sunday is a Family Fun Day in Lucan Village.

Admission is free.

The Cabinteely Carnival is a yearly family fun day featuring circus performers, activities and a chance to learn some circus skills.

The event will take place in Cabinteely Park in front of Cabinteely House and admission is free.

Performers are
+ Jack Wise (Magician and Street Performer)
+ The Stripey Socks Show (Aerial Hoop and Circus Performance) at 14:00 and 15:30
+ Street Theatre Ireland Circus and Cycle Skills will teach you some skills

There will also be Bouncy Castles, an antique Carousel, Face Painters, Stiltwalkers, Jugglers and a Mime Artist.

Please note: Parking is VERY limited, so if possible walk, cycle or use public transport to get to the event.
The event is organised by dlr Events.

Come to this Drop in Drawing Session and learn drawing techniques, including line drawing, shading perspective and decoration during these relaxed informal sessions. Suitable for ages 13+. Materials are provided but feel free to bring your own sketchbook; dry materials only.

Admission is free.

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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!

Every Sunday a free tour takes place in the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Admission is free and booking is not required, but places are limited, so early arrival is recommended.

Brazilica will perform Jazz, Soul, Latin & Bossa Nova in the Tram Cafe. Brazilica are Luisa Moreira (Vocals) and Jonathan Batista (Guitar/Vocals).

Admission is free.

On World Suicide Prevention Day the organisation “Say Yes To Life” invites to a “Singing Together to Prevent Suicide” on Barnaros Square next to City Hall. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Every Sunday a free guided tour will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The tour starts at 15:00.

In addition there is another free tour every Wednesday at 13:00 and one on Saturdays at 14:00

The talk “Discovering Frans Post’s curious creatures” with Dr Alexander de Bruin (Curator of Image Collections at the Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem) will discuss his discovery of animal drawings by Frans Post.

During the course of his work, he stumbled upon a collection of over 30 previously unknown drawings by Frans Post. These drawings cast light on Post’s experience in Brazil at the time, and give insight into his process as an artist.

Admission is free.

“Hands on History: The Emergency” is a Drop-in activity for all ages.

This is a drop-in handling session for all ages, marking 79 years since the outbreak of WW2. Explore original and replica objects from the Museum’s collection of objects for handling from the period and discover what life was like in Ireland during the Emergency.

Admission is free.

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.

The St. George’s Brass Band will play a concert in the National Botanic Gardens.

Admission is free.

Sunday Sketching for the whole family takes place every Sunday in the Hugh Lane Gallery and admission is free.

Families are invited to explore and respond together the gallery’s collection and temporary exhibitions through discussion and drawing. Bring your own sketchbook along or use the drawing materials provided. There will be a different topic every week. The theme this week is “Illustrated Stories through Stained Glas”

Admission is free and no booking required, although numbers may be limited. Suited for ages 6+.

Travel around European traditional dancing culture without a ticket at the weekly Bal Folk Dance Sessions.

And if you don’t know how to dance, don’t worry! Workshops are provided and admission is free. Donations are appreciated.

The event takes place every Sunday in the Cobblestone Pub.

The High Leeson is a Bluegrass band that plays every Sunday in the Leeson Longe.

Admission is free, donations are appreciated.

The Dixeland Jazzmen play a weekly gig in Sin E. Admission is free.

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

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir sings every Sunday from September to June at their “Gig in God’s Gaff”, a Mass in St. Francis Xavier Church at the top of Gardiner Street near the junction with Dorset Street.

The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, one of the best known gospel choirs in Ireland will give you a chance to experience a mass with a difference. It is uplifting and inspiring and everybody is welcome independent from your level of religiousness or your relationship with the Catholic Church in other contexts.

Disclaimer: I am involved with the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, so the description above MIGHT not be totally unbiased. But just take it from me, they are brilliant! ;-)

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy downstairs in Stag’s Head, Dame Lane from 21:00 every week on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 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).

Danny Tobin and Dermot Byrne will play a Blues Gig in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

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.

Talent Garden is a innovation platform and coworking network for digital innovation in 8 European countries and they just opened their campus in Dublin in DCU in Glasnevin. To celebrate this, they are hosting 30 Tech events in 30 days across a whole range of subjects. The full list is here: www.talentgarden.org/en-it/events/

And the individual events this week are:

+ Community Event – “1 Ask, 1 Give” – 10 Sept 08:00
+ Journey mapping for modern travel – 11 Sept 12:00-13:30
+ Open Day: Talent Garden Dublin – 13 Sept 10:00-16:00
+ Idea Validation Day For Early Stage Startups – 14 Sept 09:15-16:00

Admission is free.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

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.

A “New parents’ tour” will take place on Monday. These tours are for parents, guardians and carers of young children and will focus on a selection of highlights in the permanent collection to welcome families and visitors of all ages and encourage them to feel comfortable in the Gallery rooms. The route is suitable for prams and strollers.

Admission is free.

This is a regular meetup for everyone interested in Electronics, Microcontroller and IOT. Everyone from absolute beginner to experienced is welcome. The evenings are not classes or tutorials, but just very friendly informal evening.

Come in with your Pi, Arduino, Galileo or whatever you have or just with lots of interest and curiosity.

Admission is free.

The Bleeding Pig Short Film Festival will run from 10-12 September in Donabate. It is run by Emma Fagan from “Fillum” and admission is free.

On Monday a selection of short films will be screened. On Tuesday the theme is “Women in Film” and on Wednesday there will be a Feature Presentation. The full programme can be found here.

Song Cycle is a weekly Singer/Songriter showcase in Wheelan’s.

Admission is free.

The Circle Sessions is an “Open Mic” that provides an opportunity for up and coming musicians, spoken word artists, poets and comedians to perform.

Come to this weekly show to perform or to simply watch a great mix of music, poetry, spoken word and comedy.

Admission is free.

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).

Every Monday the Woolshed Bar hosts “The Comedy Shed”, usually with 3 headline acts.

Admission is free.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday, 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).

An Open Trad Music Session is taking place every Monday in Mother Reilly’s. Admission is free.

The Urban Mojo Blues Band will be in the Leeson Lounge playing Blues.

Admission is free.

That’s It Recordings is an open mic every Monday at Sin E. Just turn up and play. Sign up before 22:00 to ensure you get a slot. Bring a USB stick along and you will get a recording of your music to take home.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

Talent Garden is a innovation platform and coworking network for digital innovation in 8 European countries and they just opened their campus in Dublin in DCU in Glasnevin. To celebrate this, they are hosting 30 Tech events in 30 days across a whole range of subjects. The full list is here: www.talentgarden.org/en-it/events/

And the individual events this week are:

+ Community Event – “1 Ask, 1 Give” – 10 Sept 08:00
+ Journey mapping for modern travel – 11 Sept 12:00-13:30
+ Open Day: Talent Garden Dublin – 13 Sept 10:00-16:00
+ Idea Validation Day For Early Stage Startups – 14 Sept 09:15-16:00

Admission is free.

The Pop-up talk “Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid” will take place in Room 38 in front of Vermeer’s painting. Sarah Montague will give the talk.

Admission is free. Meet in front of the painting.

Una Sealy is the Artist-in-Residence in the National Gallery and there will be a number of Open Studio events this week in the Millennium Wing Studio.

Una’s temporary studio in the Millennium Wing will be open to all visitors who want to see what she has been working on as part of her residency. Una will be there during the day to chat about her work and about the inspiration she has drawn from Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns exhibition.

The Open Studio events are:

+ Saturday 08 September 10:30-16:00
+ Tuesday 11 September 14:00-17:00
+ Thursday 13 September 14.00 – 19.00

Admission is free.

The Sean O’Caaey Festival will start with an Opening Event in the Sean O’Casey Theater.

The Festival opens with a performance of a new piece inspired by the work of O’Casey and devised specifically for the festival by Peter Sheridan. The Women of O’Casey is performed by Neili Conroy (Fair City, Intermission) Ruth Lehane, Roxanna Nic Liam (Fair City), Aoife Conroy, Lorna Meade (Red Rock) Gabrielle Breathnach and Jasmine Russell. The performance will include a post show discussion chaired by Joe Duffy (RTE Broadcaster and life long O’Casey fan).

The evening will also feature the unveiling of a new painting by artist Tara Kearns, commissioned for the festival.

Admission is free.

EveryTuesday at 19:00, The Dublin Language Exchange takes place in the Czech Inn. It is the biggest free meeting of people from all around Dublin that are interested in learning languages and communicate with speakers of other languages.

Admission is free and the meetup is completely informal. No booking required.

“The Harbour Ukuleles” is a group of ukulele enthusiasts and they meet every Tuesday in The Harbour Bar in Bray to jam and learn new songs.

Admission is free.

The Bleeding Pig Short Film Festival will run from 10-12 September in Donabate. It is run by Emma Fagan from “Fillum” and admission is free.

On Monday a selection of short films will be screened. On Tuesday the theme is “Women in Film” and on Wednesday there will be a Feature Presentation. The full programme can be found here.

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.

Jesters is a weekly open mic comedy event where a lot of comedians do 5 minutes of material.

Admission is free. If you would like to perform then send a message to the Jesters Facebook Page via the link below.

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.

Ben Prevo will play a live acoustic gig with Blues, Folk & Country. Originals, Covers and Jams.

Admission is free.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday, 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).

The Lounge Quintet plays this gig every Tuesday: Jazz Standards, Latin and Bebop. Often guest musicians and singers join them. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

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.

Every Tuesday, a pub quiz is taking place in the Woolshed.

Admission is free. Max team size is 6 people.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

The Mojo Programme is a training programme for men to find their Mojo. It will run for 12 weeks from 19 Sept every Wednesday and Thursday morning. Admission is free.

Registration is on 12 Sept and it seems that you will have to register personally. To find out more, you can ring Catherine on 087-2470464. The programme is run by the South Dublin County Partnership.

A Celtic Tree Trail will happen: The Celts believed each tree had its own personality & meaning. Learn about their uses through history and why trees are so important.

Admission is free. Find the brochure here.

Did you ever want to give drawing a go? Or maybe you are a budding artist looking for like-minded people to draw with? The Drawing Group for Adults in Rua Red runs free weekly drawing sessions on Wednesdays from 11:00-12:00. Materials are provided.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

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.

A free guided tour will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The tour starts at 13:00.

A Pop-up sketching with Charcoal will take place in Room 3 of the National Gallery. All materials provided.

Admission is free, but places are limited to 15 and are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

The event description is a bit contradictory. It says that the event is outside and to meet at the Merrion Square information desk. But it also says that the event will be in Room 3. :-O Ask at the reception!!

A free guided tour will take place at the National War Memorial at Islandbridge every Wednesday at 14:00 from March until the end of October.

The tour will focus on World War I, in which nearly 50,000 Irish soldiers died. You will also hear about the main features of the gardens at this tour.

Meeting point is the car park at 14:00 (next to the Trinity College Boat Club). For further information and to check that it is taking place, contact 01-6770095 (Phoenix Park Visitor Centre).

This is a talk from the Russborough Garden team on bringing the walled garden back to life. Russborough’s 18th century walled garden is currently being restored by volunteers from the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland (RHSI).

Admission is free.

“Boarders, paying guests and the ‘bogus lodger’: uncovering alternative forms of accommodation in early twentieth century Dublin” is a seminar by Dr Ruth McManus, Dublin City University as part of the Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series in the Long Room Hub.

Admission is free.

Poet Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and to celebrate the 111th anniversary of his birth, Howard Linnane is inviting for the last 12 years to a reading of poems and letters of Louis MacNeice. If you want, you can bring one of his poems and read it or get someone else to read it.

Admission is free.

The Zoological Society and Environmental Society are bringing a talk from Seal Rescue Ireland to the Science Gallery.

Learn about Seal Rescue Ireland’s work and what you can do to help out. There will be a reception with free snacks beforehand too.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website here. Please note this event is 18 and over.

It is ten years since the EUR 64m bailout of the Irish banks by the government and at the Trinity Long Room Hub ‘Behind the Headlines’ public discussion series, the following speakers will discuss the changes this has brought to Ireland.

The speakers are

Ed Sibley (Deputy Governor, Prudential Regulation, Central Bank of Ireland)
Joan Burton TD
Simon Carswell (Irish Times correspondent)
Antonia Hart (PhD candidate in Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities)
Dr Philip Coleman (Associate Professor in Trinity’s School of English)

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

Crash Test Caint is an Irish language speaking event for young people on Wednesday.

Admission is free.

The Bleeding Pig Short Film Festival will run from 10-12 September in Donabate. It is run by Emma Fagan from “Fillum” and admission is free.

On Monday a selection of short films will be screened. On Tuesday the theme is “Women in Film” and on Wednesday there will be a Feature Presentation. The full programme can be found here.

The Music Cafe House Trio (Daniel Rorke (sax), Cormac O’Brien (bass) and Matthew Jacobson(drums)) will play a weekly Jazz gig every Wednesday and they usually have one or more guest musicians or singers supporting them.

Admission is free.

Jesters is a weekly open mic comedy event where a lot of comedians do 5 minutes of material.

Admission is free. If you would like to perform then send a message to the Jesters Facebook Page via the link below.

The Roots Band “Brand New Switcharoo” will perform in the Harbour Bar. Admission is free.

The Dublin Jam Session is an open Jam with full back line. It is open to all levels of musicians and singers and all genres of music and the only rule is that you must jam with others (not all your own band).

It takes place every Wednesday and admission is free.

The Anseo Comedy Club takes place every Wednesday in Anseo (upstairs).

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

“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.

Dance Forro every week at this “Forro Wednesday” in the Woolshed for free.

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

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).

The Harleys are a popular coverband and they will be in the Mezz every Wednesday at midnight.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

Talent Garden is a innovation platform and coworking network for digital innovation in 8 European countries and they just opened their campus in Dublin in DCU in Glasnevin. To celebrate this, they are hosting 30 Tech events in 30 days across a whole range of subjects. The full list is here: www.talentgarden.org/en-it/events/

And the individual events this week are:

+ Community Event – “1 Ask, 1 Give” – 10 Sept 08:00
+ Journey mapping for modern travel – 11 Sept 12:00-13:30
+ Open Day: Talent Garden Dublin – 13 Sept 10:00-16:00
+ Idea Validation Day For Early Stage Startups – 14 Sept 09:15-16:00

Admission is free.

Every Thursday a free tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue takes place. Meet inside the cemetery gates.

Admission is free and everybody is welcome. Ring 01-6770095 for more information.

Grangegorman Military Cemetery is in Blackhorse Avenue just outside Phoenix Park. It is the largest military cemetery in Ireland. It was first opened in 1876 to serve as a graveyard for the soldiers of what was then Marlborough Barracks, now McKee Barracks, and their families. Specific zones were laid out for English, Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian service men. The cemetery’s pedestrian gate is open from 10:00-16:00 seven days a week.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

2018 marks significant anniversaries of a number of important composers and artists and Michael Grant will give talks discussing lives, loves and the careers of some of them.

On Thursday, is the 150th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s death in 1868. In this talk Michael Grant will discuss Rossini, who wrote 39 operas in the period 1812 to 1829, at which point, aged 39, he brought his career as writer of operas to a close.

Admission is free, but booking is required via 01-8734333

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The Temple Bar Craft Market during the week is back and it has moved to Thursdays in 2018. Organised by the Temple Bar Company the market will bring handcrafted jewellery, wood design, handmade soaps, original art, photography, fashion, specialised cards and stained-glass crafts.

The market starts at 14:00 and finishes at 20:00, but is still carrying the totally nonsensical and completely misleading name “Temple Bar NIGHT Market”. I will just ignore this unsuitable and incorrect name and will rename it to “Temple Bar Craft Market”. ;-)

Una Sealy is the Artist-in-Residence in the National Gallery and there will be a number of Open Studio events this week in the Millennium Wing Studio.

Una’s temporary studio in the Millennium Wing will be open to all visitors who want to see what she has been working on as part of her residency. Una will be there during the day to chat about her work and about the inspiration she has drawn from Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns exhibition.

The Open Studio events are:

+ Saturday 08 September 10:30-16:00
+ Tuesday 11 September 14:00-17:00
+ Thursday 13 September 14.00 – 19.00

Admission is free.

A tour of the “World War Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience” exhibition will take place. Find out about the Irish experience ‘over there’ and on the home front during WWI through our collections of letters, diaries, recruiting posters, newspaper reports, cartoons, and leaflets.

Admission is free. WWIreland is at 2/3 Kildare Street.

“Fewer Better Things” is a talk by Dr Glenn Adamson, curator and leading writer on design and the applied arts, about linking the concept of “material intelligence” to ethics and aesthetics today. He will draw on examples from contemporary art and design, and discuss the relationship between craft expertise and technological change.

The talk will take place at 18.00 in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre at NCAD. Admission is free. Places are limited.

A weekly Jazz Club event with live band is taking place at J.W. Sweetman’s.

Admission is free.

Every Thursday the Little Museum of Dublin waives their admission charges for two guided tours thanks to sponsorship from Guinness. The first tour is at 18:00 and the second tour is at 19:00. Make sure that you are there at least 10 minutes before the start of the tour to get one of the limited places.

The Little Museum of Dublin has a fascinating collection of artefacts from the last 100 years Dublin’s history.

On other days and other times, admission is EUR 10 for adults and admission is by guided tour only.

Plants require four simple things to live: water, warm temperature, light and minerals. Most places that consist partly of these vital requirements will be hospitable environments for plants, but some have adapted to survive in extreme conditions. What can we learn from these adaptations, and can we utilize them in space exploration? How might these plants reveal what extraterrestrial life might look like?

Jennifer McElwain (Head of the Botany Department at Trinity College Dublin) will talk about “Remarkable Resurrection: Can Plants prepare us For Space Travel?”

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

Explore some of the highlights of the National Gallery exhibitons at this evening tour.

Admission is free. Meet at the Merrion Square information desk.

An expatriate or expat is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship.

And this is a weekly meeting for all Expats in Dublin (new and old!). If you are new to the city, this is an excellent way to meet people.

Admission is free (no booking required!), but you are asked to give the same kind of welcoming to new members as is given to you.

The Thursday Night Board Gaming event is running for more than 10 years already and it is a weekly event for all Board Game enthusiasts. But even if you are a Board Game newbie, you are welcome. Just come along! More information can be found here: www.meetup.com/IrishGamesAssociation/

Admission is free.

The Collagistas Festival is a yearly meeting of collage artists from all over the globe to show their work and share ideas and thoughts about their practice. 53 collage artists from 20 countries will come to Dublin.

The Festival will run from 13-16 Sept, but the organisers unfortunately and disappointingly did not mention a word about cost, admission or anything like that. So I mention it here, but also include a warning: There are lots of events but it is possible that none of it is free.

Pyramania will present
Laura Ryder, a songwriter who plays piano, guitar and ukulele and Lunar Limb, who play Alternative/Rock.

Admission is free.

A Table Quiz takes place in the Grand Social. On Thursdays teams of 4 people (or at least 2 people) will compete against each other over questions from the areas of General Knowledge, Music, Film, Sports & Entertainment.

Admission is free.

The Irish comedy duo “Those Conspiracy Guys” will be at the Hardy Har Comedy Club and will make fun of the conspiracy theory’s that they don’t believe in or can’t understand.

Admission is free.

Glittering Things will play Rock/Folk/County/Soul in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

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.

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.)

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.

A weekly Trad Music Night is taking place in McLoughlin’s in Dun Laoghaire. It is an acoustic night and all musicians are welcome. Admission is free.

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

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

The BIMM Music College is organising the Midnight Hour on Thursdays in Whelan’s.

Admission is free.

The Dublin Fringe Festival is a theatre and performance festival for bolder, more innovative and sometimes very much “out there” ideas and approaches to art.

Most events are not free and the full schedule will be on the website below. But I was able to find a few performances and exhibitions and I will list them all below with links to the relevant pages on the Fringe Fest website.

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

+ Spitfire Bird by Margaret O’Connor – Hat Makeover for Dubln’s Statues – various locations – 08-16 Sep

+ Question Project by mil m2 – Installation (Questions on mobile scaffolding) – various locations . 08-23 Sep

+ Epoch by Ayesha Ahmad – Photography Exhibition – 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
08 Sep: 15:00 / 09-23 Sep: 12:00-18:00

PERFORMANCES

+ The PeopleSway: Dance Among Other Things – Movement-Theatre – MLV Studios, 7 Castleforbes Business Park, Dublin 1
13-15 Sep: 20:15 (Tickets required via website, donations welcome)

+ The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand by Loosysmokes – Outdoor Aerial Acrobatics – Dubh Linn Gardens, Dublin Castle
14 Sep: 15:00+18:00 / 15+16 Sep: 11:00+14:00 (No tickets required)

Talent Garden is a innovation platform and coworking network for digital innovation in 8 European countries and they just opened their campus in Dublin in DCU in Glasnevin. To celebrate this, they are hosting 30 Tech events in 30 days across a whole range of subjects. The full list is here: www.talentgarden.org/en-it/events/

And the individual events this week are:

+ Community Event – “1 Ask, 1 Give” – 10 Sept 08:00
+ Journey mapping for modern travel – 11 Sept 12:00-13:30
+ Open Day: Talent Garden Dublin – 13 Sept 10:00-16:00
+ Idea Validation Day For Early Stage Startups – 14 Sept 09:15-16:00

Admission is free.

Sculpture in Context is back!! It is Ireland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition and it is a brilliant exhibition in the beautiful surroundings of the National Botanic Gardens. Some of Ireland’s best artists are showing new work and the sculptures are displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the in the gallery in the Visitors Centre.

The exhibition will be open form 06 Sept and will run until 19 October.

Admission is free and apart from seeing some very interesting sculptures, it is also fun to go on a “treasure hunt” for these sculptures which are sprinkled throughout the Botanic Gardens.

The former “SelfBuild & Improve Your Home Show” is now called “Selfbuild Live” and will take place from Fri 14 until Sun 16 Sept in the Citywest Hotel.

It is an exhibition and sales event for people who are building, extending, improving or decorating their home. There will be 250 exhibitors, advice talks, 1-to-1 clinics and panel discussions.

Admission is free if you use the Promo Code “WEB” and you can book your tickets via the website here.

Dublin City Hall has a museum/exhibition in the basement, called “The Story of the Capital”, it is an exhibition about Dublin’s History and you should definitely check it out at some stage.

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon was free in 2016, but lucky for us, Dublin City decided to also waive the admission charge for 2018.

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:15.

Dublin’s Culture Connects is inviting to this “Ardagh 150th Anniversary Tour”.

To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the finding of the Ardagh Chalice, join this special tour of Treasury Exhibition exploring one of Ireland’s most famous and iconic objects. Learn about the people of Early Medieval Ireland, the influence of the coming of Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century and how the Ardagh Chalice, among other fine metal objects, were made and designed.

Admission is free, but booking required via educationarch@museum.ie or 01 6486 334.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings every day of the week. Currently there is at least one free tour every day. Check their website for details. Some special events will be listed separately.

Admission to the gallery and to most events is free.

The super popular Oktoberfest Dublin is back and will take place from Fri 14 Sept – Sat 06 Oct. If you like German Beer (Erdinger Beer), German Food (Bratwurst, Haxn (Pigs Knuckles)) and Bavarian Music (Eeek!) after 16:00, then this event is for you!

But be aware that opening times and admission charges have changed substantially again. It once was free, but now you have to pay to be allowed to go there and spend your money for beer and food. Odd, but there are still queues.

So here are the (weirdly complicated) new opening times and rules:
Free Admission: Tues+Wed: 12:00-23:30, Thurs: 12:00-20:00, Fri+Sat: 12:00-16:00, Sun 12:30-16:00+17:00-22:30
NOT free: Thurs: 20:00-23:30 (EUR 8), Fri-Sat: 17:00-23:30 (EUR 12 with EUR 5 meal voucher)
Mondays the Oktoberfest is closed and Fri-Sun the fest is closed from 16:00-17:00

So the best advise is to go on Tuesday, Wednesday or Sunday.

The website ´link is below, but be aware that at the time of writing this, the website was NOT yet updated with the new opening times and rules on all pages. Only the front page was updated. Hopefully it will be fixed before Friday.

The Pop-up Art talk about Irish Artist Mary Swanzy is entitled “Mary Swanzy: Merrion Square, Honolulu, and beyond” and will be presented by in Dr Kathryn Milligan.

Admission is free.

The Cemetery at Arbour Hill is the last resting place of 14 of the leaders of the 1916 Rising. Among those buried there are Pádraig Pearse, James Connolly and Thomas Clarke. This tour every Friday introduce the Cemetery and will also explain the background and the event of the Easter Rising.

Admission is free and no booking necessary. The meeting point is inside the cemetery gates.

The TramCafe is the venue for Dublin’s only after work Jazz event on a Friday. Lulu Kumama will perform Jazz & Soul Standards wth a Funky Twist.

Admission is free.

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.

“Temptation – Sound of the 80s” is a 80s night where very hour a different DJ will give his/her interpretation of the best music of the decade. There will be Ska, Pop, Alternative, New Wave, Soul, Groove, Rock, Disco, Dance, House and Rap.

Admission is free.

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.

Scentless Apprentice are a tribute band of grunge band Nirvana and they will play a gig in Sin E.

Admission is free.

SpaceVolk will play Alternative Funk in the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

Kid Karate will play a gig in the Workman’s Club and Oslo DJs will follow the band.

Admission is free.