Real Life coming back & Online here to stay
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Africa Day, UCD Festival, International Literature Festival, Bealtaine Festival
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Hi all!
Do you have kids that enjoy singing and would love to be in a Virtual Choir singing “Best Day of My Life”?We (you might have read before that I am involved with the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir) are inviting kids from 10-17 to join our Virtual Choir project that will be part of Cruinníu na nÓg, a day of “free creativity for children and young people” on 12 June. 12 June is another bit away, but our project has started already and you can find all details on gsgc.info If you go to the bottom of this newsletter you can read already more about the complete event, but if your kids want to be part of our Virtual Choir send them to the link above.
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More and more people are adding themselves to the Dublin Event Guide e-mail list! Good decision! Now that events will start properly again, that is the best way to get all the information about free events in a much better looking way and also to get all the events that happen during the week directly in your Inbox, Sign up for the weekly newsletter at www.dublineventguide.com to ensure that you get regular updates about the great free events in Dublin.
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Considering that we are told everywhere that this is the summer of Outdoors (with pubs and restaurants only open for outdoor dining and drinking), someone should send a WhatsApp or text message to the weather gods. It seems they have not received the information yet. :-O We are still in Spring until 01 June, but even late spring should be better than the 9.7 degrees that we had yesterday.
And talking about pubs, will we have Penney’s like scenes outside pubs when they re-open? I would imagine that on the first few nights or the first weekend, it will NOT be a pretty picture. ;-)
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Have you been out yet? Gone to a Farmer’s Market? Visited a museum? Or a gallery? Or maybe even dared entering a shop? You should!!! Easy yourself back into normal life. Do it your own speed, but do it! We are returning to normality with huge steps. You don’t have to rush anything, but also don’t stall! Real life is coming back, but it seems that online is here to stay!
There will be figures in this whole scenario that will continue to tell you that “The next two weeks are critical!” or that will paint “Dark clouds on the horizon”, but it is now time to challenge the doom and gloom merchants on the veracity of their statements. Some seem to like lockdowns a little too much. :-O
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And before we get to all these many free events that are taking place this weekend and next week, it is my duty to ask you again to help the “Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)” with a donation. Why “duty”, you ask? Well, I am compiling this weekly newsletter not because it is lots of fun, but because I am convinced that it helps you (the appreciating audience) and the hard working event organisers of free events to find each other. And I would do a really lousy job to let it die because I ran out of money to keep it going.
The Dublin Event Guide is a free service that I run since 2007. I don’t make any money from it, but I need your help to pay the bills (approx 200 Euro per months). If you can help, to keep it going, I very much appreciate your donation. If you don’t have the means to help with a donation, then the Dublin Event Guide is my gift to you!
Any amount will help, but if you are looking for a recommendation, then I suggest a donation of 12 Euro per year. That’s just one Euro per month and you get FOUR Dublin Event Guides for that. Where else can you get so much value for so little money? And if your funds are limited, but you still want to help, you can buy a virtually coffee for me. I won’t drink the coffee, but will use the money for the Dublin Event Guide.
For donations, use the Dublin Event Guide Donation Page here. It is really easy to use and uses Stripe’s trustworthy payment processing. In case it doesn’t work for you, the “old” links are still below for another little while. And maybe you can even sign up for a yearly subscription on the page above!? Yearly subscriptions will give some important financial stability and reliability to the Dublin Event Guide and are really appreciated! (Look for the RED subscription buttons at the bottom of the Donation Page.)
You can also donate here via www.paypal.me/DublinEventGuide or for Revolut users among you, just use @joergbrb
And you can even buy one or two or even three virtual coffees (or Hot Chocolates!) for the Dublin Event Guide on the “Buy Me a Coffee” page here www.buymeacoffee.com/DublinEventG
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Finally, there is also another way to help and it is even free: If you come to www.DublinEventGuide.com and check out some of the ads and click on the ones that you find interesting, that also helps with a few cent! ?
Thank you!!
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“EPIC – The Irish Emigration Museum” (www.epicchq.com) are currently sponsoring the Dublin Event Guide and this section of the weekly newsletter will contain relevant information about events in general or about EPIC-related news and happenings.
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+++ EPIC Explorers: World Explorers
Fri 28 May, 4 + 11 June – 10:00-11:30 – Online – Admission for class: EUR 35
Have you ever dreamt of travelling the world? Get out of your classroom and into the wild with explorer and investigative journalist Nellie Bly on this virtual school tour with a difference. Interrogate the past to discover far away destinations such as the Caribbean and Australia and complete everything from trivia to arts and crafts tasks to fill out your journalist reports, while learning lots of fascinating facts from Irish and world history. The workshop for a whole class of up to 30 students is just EUR 35, but you don’t need to find 29 other kids: Special rates are available for home school students, just contact EPIC for details. Booking is required. epicchq.com/event/epic-explorers-world-explorers-epic-museum/
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Free events in Dublin this weekend…
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Saturday 22 May
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If you know about Markets being back (any, but in particular Marlay Park and People’s Park), please let me know. DLRcoco is currently bad at letting people know.
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+ Last week was Biodiversity Week, but I didn’t know. :-O The last events take place today and they are here: biodiversityweek.ie/events-calendar
+ Bealtaine Festival which celebrates the arts and creativity as we age (Age: 50-100) with LOTS of events every day throughout May. bealtaine.ie/events_2021/
+ Supernatural Food Market – Food & Farmer’s Market 09:00-15:00 St Andrew’s Resource Centre, 114-116 Pearse St., Dublin 2 www.facebook.com/thesupernaturalfoodmarket
+ Honest2Goodness Market – Food & Farmers’ Market – 09:30-15:00 – 136a Slaney Close, Dublin Industrial Estate, Glasnevin, Dublin 11 www.facebook.com/GlasnevinMarket/
+ Bushy Park Market – Food & Farmers’ Market 10:00-16:00 Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin 6W www.facebook.com/bushyparkmarket
+ Red Stables Market – Food & Farmers’ Market 10:00-16:00 Red Stables, St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5 www.facebook.com/RedStablesMarket
+ Eclipse Special: The Sun Show – Family Workshop – Theatre of Science (UK) 10:00-10:45 Online www.facebook.com/events/322155749308509
+ Inchicore Record Fair 10:30-17:00 CIE Hall Inchicore Sports & Social Club, Library Square, Inchicore, Dublin 8 www.facebook.com/events/496463314804404
+ Temple Bar Food Market 11:00-16:00 Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 www.templebarmarkets.com/foodmarket
+ Blackrock Market (Food Traders only) 11:00-17:30 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin www.facebook.com/BlackrockMarket/
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+ March for Palestine – Protest – Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) 14:00 Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 www.facebook.com/events/240520177803738
+ Introduction to Bharatanatyam – Dance workshop with Vidya Salian – Five Lamps Arts Festival 14:00-15:00 Mount Joy Square, Dublin 1 www.facebook.com/events/5733632923328493 (Booking required)
+ Dublin withNature2021 – Biodiversity Event 16:00-18:00 Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149894304901 (Booking required)
+ Food for Wellbeing – Live Webinar with Isha Yoga 16:00-17:00 Online www.ishayoga.eu/index.php/live-webinars/
+ The Firemen’s Tale – Burning of the Custom House on 25 May 1921 – Talk 20:00-22:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/1144989809308101
+ The FAA Side (Declan Garry) – Irish Gigs 20:00-22:30 Online www.facebook.com/events/223009906244028
+ Acoustic Gig with Lenny from the Vintage Vibes Band 20:30 Online www.facebook.com/vintagevibesband
+ Introduction to SKY Breath Meditation Workshop – Art of Living Foundation 21:00-22:00 Online www.eventbrite.com/e/58096834195 (Booking required)
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What’s on and free next week….
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Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)
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+++ CRUINNIU NA NOG for kids and teenagers
On 12 June another edition of Cruinniú na nÓg will take place. It is a day of “free creativity for children and young people” – as the tag line says – and targets everybody under the age of 18. There will be lots of free events and you can already find them on cruinniu.creativeireland.gov.ie/ The reason why I mention it already is because the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, with which I am involved, is inviting to a Virtual Choir event. The participant (Age: 10-17) will learn a song and afterwards video themselves singing the song. All entries will then be combined to form a Virtual Choir. The song is called “Best Day of my Life” and is a great high-energy song that is a lot of fun to learn. If you have or know kids/teenagers who might be interested, they can find out all details on gsgc.info (Registration is required). Participation is free.
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+++ RCSI MY HEALTH LECTURES
Over the last few months, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) ran the RCSI MyHealth Series of lectures. The series is now finished, but all lectures can be watched online here www.rcsi.com/myhealthlectures The topis are wide reaching and really interesting. They cover topis like Happiness, Fertility and Pregnancy, Vaccinations, Winter Readiness, Stress Management, Tobacco and Alcohol, Exercise and Nutrition, Arthritis and many more. A total of 18 lectures are available.
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+++ Free admission to ALL Irish Heritage Sites managed by OPW
The OPW (Office of Public Works) manages most Irish Heritage sites, including Dublin Castle, Kilmainham Gaol, Rathfarnham Castle, Kilkenny Castle, Brú Na Bóinne/Newgrange Visitor Centre and many others. To hel with the recovery and getting back to normality, the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPE, Patrick O’ Donovan has announced on Friday that admission to all sites will be free until the end of the year.
In normal times this would be super news and I would celebrate it. But at the moment we still are in different times. Some sites are closed (e.g. Kilmainham Gaol), other sites have limited visitor numbers and guided tours are also still cancelled. So the celebration is a little dampened, BUT, there is a real possibility that all sites will open before the end of year AND that guided tours will re-start again and once that happens, then this free access until the end of the year is great news. Find all details on heritageireland.ie/
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+++ Dublin Dance Festival & International Literature Festival
The Dublin Dance Festival (with this year’s focus on Dance Films) will take place from 18-30 May. It seems that there are a couple of free events as well, but it is so difficult to find out which events are free and which aren’t that I had to give up. You need to check yourself: www.dublindancefestival.ie
The International Literature Festival Dublin also takes place at the end of May (20-30 May). They run some free and some non-free events and the full list (unfortunately also without a clear identification of free evens) is here ilfdublin.com
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+++ LEARN A NEW SKILL WITH ONLINE COURSES
Is there ever a wrong time for learning a new skill or enhancing what you are already interested in? Maybe it is a language or an instrument or some technical skills? Or NLP or some Business related “soft skills”? Check out Udemy via the link below, they have thousands of courses and there is good chance that what you are looking for is available. Nearly all the courses are REALLY affordable!
The lowest cost for courses this month will be around 12.99. Check out the website at shor.by/GqCk And if you buy through that link, you also help the Dublin Event Guide! :-)
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+++ READ MORE BOOKS
For physical books and e-books I recommend Book Depository because they are usually cheaper than others and they always include free delivery in their price AND by buying books from Book Depository you will definitely help the Dublin Event Guide and it doesn’t cost you a cent. Buy your books here shor.by/BookDepository .
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And this is it for another week! Have a good weekend and new week.
Take care,
–Joerg (dublineventguide@gmail.com)
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