Special Event Guide 34a: Fiat 500 Launch with Keith Barry, Alternative Valentine’s Day

Hi all!

Originally I had planned to send a mail just to let you know about the final plans for the “Alternative Valentine’s Day”, but this afternoon I got access to some privileged information and I do have to share that with you! As a consequence you are getting a SPECIAL Event Guide today.
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SOME LITTLE THINGS ARE MAGIC!!
While I am writing this, only a small number of people know about this event and even in the morning, when the word will be spread, YOU will have had a chance already to hopefully change your plans for this evening so that you can attend this unique event!
Today (Tues 12 Feb) is the big launch of the Fiat 500 in Ireland and – exactly the way the Dublin Event Guide Community loves it – in addition to an invite-only event, Fiat is celebrating this launch with a big FREE event for everybody.
Keith Barry, the famous and brilliant Irish magician, is performing a magical show with a cute little special guest…the Fiat 500. :-)
The official invitation says this:

“Hey, why not pop along to see me at my big launch TODAY at Ely Chq, IFSC, Dublin 1, at 5.30pm! Keith Barry will perform a public show at 5.30pm and my big unveiling will be at 7.30pm.
I’m the very 1st Fiat 500 to hit Ireland and am also a Limited Opening
Edition (No. 279). I’m being auctioned live on ebay.ie tonight for Temple Street Children’s Hospital, so come down and join us for a magical night of entertainment.
To find out more about me the Fiat 500 and my auction check out www.fiat500.ie or www.ebay.ie. See you there!”

The CHQ building is the new fashionable shopping mall at Customs House Quay and I expect that Keith Barry’s show will take place outside, in the area to the left (where the Docklands Christmas Market always is).

It is quite early especially considering traffic and normal working hours, but maybe you can arrange something! Tell all your friends about this free event and try to make it to it. From the TV shows that I saw Keith Barry in, he is an amazing performer and magician.
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After this unexpected Bonus Event, here the promised update on the

ALTERNATIVE VALENTINE’S DAY
If you read last week’s Event Guide you probably saw that I got an idea about an alternative Valentine’s Day event and asked you for your feedback. I got a good bit of feedback and all was positive. So I am going ahead with this and would like to invite all of you to the very first official Dublin Event Guide Event. :-)
Valentine’s Day can be a stressful day! From the pressure of getting over-priced flowers, presents and/or a restaurant booking for a reduced menu at an increased price if you are in a relationship. Via the raft of emotions that people stress themselves with if they are not in a relationship. To the annoyance the advertisement and media attention can create if you just don’t care about this day. All this often creates more bad feelings than good ones. If you enjoy Valentine’s Day, PLEASE continue enjoying, I don’t want to spoil the day for you.

But if you don’t enjoy it, here is a great alternative for you:
You are invited to come to the Dublin Event Guide Alternative Valentine’s Day. :-P We will meet on Thursday (14 Feb) from 20:30 in the Porterhouse Temple Bar (diagonally across from Turk’s Head, at the corner of Parliament Street with East Essex Street).

The Porterhouse doesn’t reserve an area on a Thursday after 19:00, so we’ll just “hijack” the first floor :-) and meet “coincidentally”. If a lot of people come we might even hijack a bit more. :-)

The idea is to have a nice evening out, without any pressures of Valentine’s Day or anything else. Food can be ordered in the Porterhouse until at least 21:00 or 21:30 as far as I know and from 22:30 (or a bit later) a band will play there.
I will try to hang one or more signs “Dublin Event Guide” at some of the pillars in the area we will be in and I will wear a big red button so that you can recognise me – in case you want to. :-)

Everybody is welcome (including couples, singles and people that are in relationships but have to spend the day alone). This event is not intended as a matchmaking or dating event, so no need to worry about that. Not knowing anybody there is no excuse either. Find me (Phone: 087-2931571) and then you know somebody ;-) and I will make sure that you will soon know more people!
So, if you have no better plans, come to this ALTERNATIVE Valentine’s Day event and meet the rest of the Dublin Event Guide Community in real life!

(By the way, if lots of people come and we HAVE to move to an other area in the Porterhouse, call me if you arrive a little later. Don’t walk away if you can’t find us immediately.)
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I will finish with another piece of good news: The Lightwave exhibition in the Science Gallery was so popular last week, that it has been extended until the 1st of March. Check the times at www.sciencegallery.org.

Take care and hope to see you on Thursday!

–Joerg

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