The Wicklow free event guide.

LEIN

After a review of the last forum charter update regarding "free gigs/events", we have decided to open the option back up as we feel it is of benefit to the community to know what is happening in your local area.

Here are a few rules:

This thread is for free gigs and events only.
All posts are to go in this thread only which will remain in and around the top few posts on the first page.
Any posts for paid events will be considered spam and will be removed, the user will also receive a permanent ban from the forum.

Enjoy

bollinski

If you love slightly pretentious French movies, this should do it for you. Kinoteka is back with a classic French love triangle, a bankrobbery, a Godard film with dancing and humour - what better way to start off the year?


Franz and Arthur meet Odile in a language class. They both fancy her and the stash of money hidden in her aunt’s house. Odile finally agrees to a robbery and seems to fall for the charms of Arthur. Mayhem ensues. Featuring Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, “Bande a part” has been called “a Godard film for people who don’t much care for Godard”, because of its fairly lighthearted approach and lack of political engagement. Instead, it features the three main protagonists dancing the Madison and attempting to break the world record for running through the Louvre (9 minutes and 43 seconds at the time apparently).

Kinoteka is free, it is in the Harbour Bar in Bray, so put on your horn-rimmed spectacles and polonecks and see you there.

MyPerfectCousin

It's time for another open mic night at Oli's Coffeehouse, so musicians, poets, comedians, and entertainment appreciators, come down and bring all your friends!

Free admission. 8.30 pm Saturday, 21st January

bollinski

Thanks for doing this, I think it's a good initiative to group these kinds of events together and to have a single place for finding them

oli.

More live music at Oli's! Garret Moore and Chloe, two excellent singer/songwriters, will be playing a free gig at Oli's Coffee House on the Albert Walk in Bray on Thursday, 2nd of February at 8pm. Here's the facebook event page for the night, includes links to the musician's page's if you want to check them out: http://www.facebook.com/events/214733385282801/

bollinski

What could be better than spending Valentine's Day in the cosy surroundings of the Harbour Bar watching "Kontroll", a Hungarian black comedy from 2003?

Kontroll follows the lives of a gang of ticket inspectors working on the Budapest Metro. They are competing with Gonzo's crew, who are much more organised and get all the good routes, they fight the fare evaders and are trying to track down a mysterious guy who throws unsuspecting people in front of trains. Bulcsú, the leader of team decides that the only way of keeping control of it all is to abandon life on the surface. But then a woman dressed up as a bear comes along..

Hope to see you all there on Tuesday, 14 February, 8:30 pm in the Harbour Bar Bar.

More about Kinoteka on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Kinoteka.Bray or on the website kinoteka-bray.tumblr.com/

MyPerfectCousin

WHAT: Live music featuring Bray's own Chisty (Kris Finnerty) and new bluesy folk duo Blue Note
WHERE: Oli's Coffeehouse & Wine Bar, 3 Albert Walk, Bray
WHEN: Friday night, 10th Feb, 9pm

COST: FREE

https://www.facebook.com/events/375908969092595/

bollinski

Dear all, due to circumstances beyond my control, Kinoteka will have to postpone the screening of Kontroll to Tuesday week, 21 February. I am sorry if that screwed up anybody's hot Valentine's day date.

https://www.facebook.com/events/174516852653760/

bollinski

Here's the trailer of "Kontroll"

MyPerfectCousin

There will be loads of free events on in Bray during the week long St. Patrick's Festival, including the parade on Paddy's Day itself. There will be a fun fair at the seafront and a number of other activities throughout the week.

http://www.discoverireland.tv/us/ireland-things-to-see-and-do/whats-on/listings/product/?fid=FI_69200

One activity on Paddy's Day will be a live music and art event at Oli's, starting early (3pm) and going till 10pm

Gypsy Rebel Rabble, who played at the Bray Summerfest last year, will be among several bands and musicians. There will also be live mural-making upstairs by the Inklude Collective art group.

Free in everyone welcome. https://www.facebook.com/events/255150044570326/

bollinski

Tuesday, 13.3., 8:30 pm, Harbour Bar Bray, free as usual.

There is so much goodness in this film, it's hard to know where to start. Almodóvar! Carmen Maura as the protagonist! A convoluted plot featuring death by ham! A perfect melodrama! Lizards? Telekinesis!
Gloria (played by Carmen Maura) is a frustrated housewife, struggling to get by in the Madrid suburbs. She lives in a cramped apartment with her husband, who fancies a German torch song singer, her mother-in-law who wants to get back to the village with her drugdealing son, while her other son moves in with a paedophile dentist. And the pills are not working either. Out of this overblown plot, Almodóvar weaves his most realist film yet, creating a portrait of a woman trapped by her lack of money, love and escape routes.
In Spanish with English subtitles.

MyPerfectCousin

It's time for another open mic night at Oli's Coffeehouse, so musicians, poets, comedians, and entertainment appreciators, come down and bring all your friends!

Free admission. 9 pm sharp, Saturday, 24th March

bollinski

The next Kinoteka screening brings you one of the masters of animation. Hayao Miyazaki's film from 2001 is a brilliant retelling of Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz with plenty of Japanese spirits thrown in.

Ten-year-old Chihiro enters an old abandoned theme park where her parents are turned into pigs. She discovers that the park is a resort for all sorts of witches, spirits and ghosts and is set a task: She has to change her identity and is put to work, but if she forgets who she really is, she will never be able to leave.
Miyasaki’s film is Japanese animation at its finest and features a brilliant cast of strange creatures.

Tuesday, 17 April, 8:30 pm, Harbour Bar Bray - hope to see you there.

Wicklowarms

The Hype Ireland's newest U2 tribute band are playing in The Wicklow Arms Saturday 21st. Should be a great night. Admission is free. This is an over 18's event

bollinski

Cinema at its most gut-wrenching and touching: a tale of love, belief and loss from the master of misery himself, Lars von Trier. At the Harbour Bar at 8:30 pm, free as usual. For more, go to http://www.facebook.com/Kinoteka.Bray

hope to see you there,
Patrick

MyPerfectCousin

Oli's Open Mic night is back this weekend. Saturday, May 12th at 9pm sharp, come out to enjoy or make some music and good times. No need to book if you want to play, but it is best to get there early to get on the lineup. Always free in but there's a charge if you want to byob.

https://www.facebook.com/events/285958428156453/

bollinski

June is upon us and full of events, from weddings to diamond jubilees to Mystery Food Trails. So what to do? Take some time out, head down to the Harbour, grab a glass of wine or a beer and enjoy James Cagney's only (intentionally) funny role, in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three", one of his more underrated works, mostly because for once history was quicker than the dialogue in his films. While he was filming this one about James Cagney as a Coca Cola representative based in Berlin who wants to sell the brown stuff to the communists, they went and built the wall, thus turning up the heat considerably in the Cold War and ruining the premise of the film.

It's still a very enjoyable film (and a lot funnier than all of Lars von Trier's films put together), so an ideal midsummer night out, hope to see you on Tuesday, 8:30pm, Harbour Bar.

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zoobizoo

Bray Summerfest kicks off this evening at 7.30...

Ryan Sheridan is on this Saturday after local lads Empire Saints and Luan Parle.

There's a big skate ramp and displays from The RampRage lads coming down from the north.

There'll be parkour, BMX, blade, skateboard and street dance demos and workshops from Saturday morning at 10.

www.braysummerfest.com

All the music is free, as is the skate and bmx stuff.

Splendour

zoobizoo wrote: »

Bray Summerfest kicks off this evening at 7.30...

Indeed it did and I was there in the wind and rain to hear The Harleys. These guys are brilliant and well worth standing in puddles to watch! Had a have a couple of hot ports in the Martello to warm up afterwards ;o)

zoobizoo

This coming weekend is aimed at families.

On Saturday afternoon there's a Princess & Pirate party at 1 o'clock - kids can dress up for story telling, magic tricks and games.... adm,.: free

Reuben will be on both Sat & Sun at 2.30pm. adm: free

There are some great workshops: t-shirt design, jewellery making, Art & Dance... a fiver per child. They run for about 45 mins....

There'll be a big maze on the seafront too and Glenroe farm will be bringing its touring petting farm too.

Music across the weekend: There'll be a Cold Play tribute band on the Friday night, a DAFT PUNK tribute on the Saturday night and then The Camembert Quartet on the Sunday night

All info on www.BraySummerfest.com

Judgement Day

Vintage and Collectables Fair
Vincent’s, Mill Road, Greystones, Co.Wicklow
(close to the railway station and public library)



On: Saturday 21st July, 2012

From: 10.00am – 5.30pm.

We will have a variety of vintage fashion and accessories as well as vintage style bric-a-brac for sale. Collectables in the form of stamps, records, books etc will also be available.
Light refreshments will be served.
If you have anything vintage or collectable that you would like to donate we would be delighted to accept it for this event.

Further information: (01) 287 8600

zoobizoo

The Bray Olympic Committee are pleased to present a family street party with live music on the main street in Bray this evening from 6pm. Apparently it's the only one in the country.

Music from Route 66 Brass Band and the opening ceremony will be shown on a big screen.

pixbyjohn

Ireland by pixbyjohn, on Flickr

zoobizoo

The annual fireworks are on in Bray tonight at 11pm.

Last DART to G'stones is at 11.40 and to Connolly at 11.30.

There'll be music on the bandstand all evening.

The sun has just come out and it should be a nice evening.

insomniac86

I'm pretty sure the fireworks are on tomorrow. It said on the event calender that it was on the 6th of August

cute_cow

insomniac86 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the fireworks are on tomorrow. It said on the event calender that it was on the 6th of August

From the website halfway down the page.

"Fireworks: To celebrate the festival the annual fireworks display will take place on Sunday 5th August after Smash Hits performance (so around 11pm) on the seafront"

Creamy Goodness

definitely tonight...

weather is ****e though.

zoobizoo

insomniac86 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the fireworks are on tomorrow. It said on the event calender that it was on the 6th of August

Nope. It says Saturday august 5th on my brochures and it is on tonight . After Smash Hits

Splendour

Screen being set up at the seafront for Katie's first fight at 2.30 today.

homer911

http://wicklow.mykidstime.ie/component/mykidstime/?view=listing&lid=119451


Sunday 26/8/12

Annasopra

Lots of events during heritage week in Co Wicklow starting this weekend

http://www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/event-search

bollinski

Summer seems to be on its last legs, therefore it is time for some indoor activities again. Kinoteka is back again on Tuesday 11 September, with "Down by law" by Jim Jarmusch. This classic of American Independent cinema features three unlikely convicts, played by John Lurie, Tom Waits and (a very young) Roberto Benigni who are locked up in a sweaty prison in New Orleans and decide to escape. This is Jim Jarmusch's international breakthrough, beautifully shot in black-and-white and a very funny take on the buddy/prison escape genre.

Whippersnapper

bollinski wrote: »

Summer seems to be on its last legs, therefore it is time for some indoor activities again. Kinoteka is back again on Tuesday 11 September, with "Down by law" by Jim Jarmusch. This classic of American Independent cinema features three unlikely convicts, played by John Lurie, Tom Waits and (a very young) Roberto Benigni who are locked up in a sweaty prison in New Orleans and decide to escape. This is Jim Jarmusch's international breakthrough, beautifully shot in black-and-white and a very funny take on the buddy/prison escape genre.

Can anyone just turn up on the evening? Do many go? Mostly guys/girls/older etc?

bollinski

yes, you can just turn up, you need to be over 18 as it's in a pub, but it's free and the crowd coming is quite mixed with regards to age, gender, hairstyles.

MyPerfectCousin

Lots of free events on this Friday all over the county.

Wicklow Culture Night programme can be downloaded here:
http://www.secondel.com/securefb/culturenight/docs/Events-2012.pdf

bollinski

Sorry for the late notice, but here it is, film showing tomorrow night:



When Penelope met Javier for the first time, it was on the set of “Jamon, Jamon”. This films gives you all the clichees you can throw at Spain, from the bullfighting to the smoldering beauties to the ham, the passion, the music and the “cojones” and delights in deconstructing them in a smouldering sexy mess. Bigas Lunas delights in analysing class and gender roles and created “A movie that combines lurid melodrama with vast improbabilities, sexy soap opera with heartfelt romance, and cheerful satire with heedless raunch.” (So says Roger Ebert).
9 October, Harbour Bar Bray, 8:30 pm, free as always.
facebook/Kinoteka.Bray for more info

ruthloss

^Lord God!!., would I be able for that.:D

MyPerfectCousin

Oli's Open Mic night is back this week. Friday, October 19th at 9pm sharp, come out to enjoy or make some music and good times. No need to book if you want to play, but it is best to get there early to get on the lineup.

https://www.facebook.com/events/433910813333943/
http://www.oliscoffeehouse.com/

MyPerfectCousin

bollinski

Tuesday, 13 November, 8:30 pm, Harbour Bar, Bray, free as usual

And next Kinoteka screening coming at you faster than a Czech express train. This month it's the excellent “Closely observed trains”. This film is is a Czech classic, a study on laziness, sexual awakening and fighting the Nazis. Central Bohemia, towards the end of World War II: Milos, 18, wants to continue the family tradition of having no ambitions. He becomes an unpaid station assistant apprentice, his main job being waving at trains leaving. Meanwhile, he dreams of losing his virginity. But this proves difficult, as does ignoring the war, as the Germans are retreating and partisans are fighting them. Eventually, Milos manages to meet a woman who will help him with his situation, but this comes at a price…
The pinnacle of Czechoslovak cool, “Closely observed trains” won an Oscar as best foreign film in 1967. But it also proved to be the end of a short period of relative artistic freedom as the Soviet invasion in 1968 crushed all non-conformist endeavours for a while.

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bollinski

Tuesday, 11 December, 8:30 pm, Harbour Bar Bray, free

The next film is imminent and this is a beautiful one: the world of the fishermen in the Venetian lagoon and life of illegal immigrants come together on the island of Chioggia, in a story of an unlikely friendship. Oh, and it's an Irish premiere!

A bittersweet story of friendship between two outsiders who have left their homes behind: Shun Li is an illegal Chinese immigrant who works in a bar on an island in the Venetian Lagoon, trying to make money to bring her son to Italy. Bepo, called the poet, left his native Yugoslavia decades ago and became a fisherman on the island. He is a regular at the bar and they become unlikely friends. But their friendship is not accepted by the Chinese and the local community and they threaten to destroy it.

bollinski

The classic American take on what life in Ireland is supposed to be like, featuring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Man hides from his past, returns to Ireland, meets woman, complications ensue as does a complicated bar room brawl. If you haven't seen it, you haven't lived obviously.

Tuesday, 8 January, 8:30 pm, Harbour Bar Bray, free in.

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bollinski

Two angels face the old dilemma: to remain pure and heavenly or to descend into the murkiness of human existence, with all its pain, futility and mortality, but also with the hope of encountering some life-changing emotions.
Wim Wenders created the ultimate arthouse movie, featuring Bruno Ganz (him of Downfall fame), Solveig Dommartin, Peter "Columbo" Falk, and in a cameo, Nick Cave. All set in West Berlin before the fall of the Wall and shot in moody black and white (until he meets the girl - then it turns into colour (sounds cheesy, I know, but trust me on this one)).

Wenders came from the New German Cinema of the 1960s/70s and became well known through his collaborations with authors like Sam Shepard and Peter Handke (with whom he co-wrote Wings of Desire) but is now perhaps better known for his documentaries like Buena Vista Social Club about Cuban Music and his first venture into 3D, Pina, about the dance company of the late choreographer Pina Bausch.


Start at 8:30pm, free in as usual, in the Harbour Bar, Bray.


Hope to see you there,

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bollinski

Nothing like death to cheer you up: Harold is a young bored man who likes to go to strangers’ funerals, watch demolitions and simulate suicides. He meets Maude, a sprightly lady in her seventies who shares some of his hobbies but also infects him with her joyous anarchy. An unlikely relationship (aren’t they always?) develops. With a lovely soundtrack by Cat Stevens and some great supporting actors, this is a funny, truly uplifting film about being alive.


Hopefully see you on Tuesday, 8:30 pm in the Harbour Bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zQYSLy3ec

bollinski

Dear all,


April being the cruelest month and all that, it is time for some serious silliness. Emir Kusturica, no stranger to controversy by having managed to piss off all ethnic groups in the Balkans at one time or another made "Black cat, white cat" in 1998. It is a farce and has been described as "Four Weddings And A Funeral... reimagined by Fellini with a cast of crazy Balkan rogues and a background chorus of farmyard animals."
(Anton Bitel, Film4)

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams.(IMDB)

Madness ensues.

bollinski

"The spirit of the beehive", Victor Erice, Spain 1973

A film about childhood, monsters, innocence, death and families torn apart in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Featuring Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernan Gomez and Teresa Gimpera.

From the man who makes few films - one every ten years - comes one of the classics of Spanish cinema, presenting Erice’s comment on the effects of the Spanish Civil War on society and how it ripped apart families, with the biggest monster father figure Franco looming over it all. Told from the perspective of a little child, Ana, who a couple of years later excelled in that other Kinoteka favourite “Cria cuervos” by Carlos Saura.

This Tuesday, 14 May 8:30 pm in the Harbour Bar, free as always.

bollinski

Back to the roots of cinema with this French pre-war classic by Jean Vigo, who only managed to make four films before he died at the age of 29.

"L'Atalante" is a story of a young newlywed couple who work on a canal barge and are trying to come to terms with their new life situation and living in close quarters with two crew members on the river. As the ship comes closer to Paris, Juliette is attracted by the prospects of the big city and runs off to see the sights. She has to make up her mind whether to return to live with her husband or stay in the big city.
A deceptively simple story, told in a captivating visual style fillmed by Boris Kaufman, the brother of Russian avant garde cinematographer Dziga Vertov and foreshadowing many traits of the Nouvelle Vague, many of whom admired Vigo and rescued him and his works from obscurity. A fitting finale for a wonderful cinematic journey.

Come on down to the Harbour Bar on Tuesday 11 June, 8:30pm to enjoy the last Kinoteka screening before it moves to (even) sunnier climes.

convert

Balto Balloon Fest is on this weekend in Baltinglass


https://www.facebook.com/pages/Balto-Balloon-Fest/313461148764580:

Baltinglass and District celebrates The Gathering 2013 with an event that promises to be both spectacular and exciting for local people and visitors alike. The National Balloon Association is delighted to partner with the community, for the first time ever, for a three day extravaganza of Hot Air Ballooning.

These magnificent colourful aircraft will ascend to a backdrop of the town's landmark 13th century Cistercian Abbey right on the River Slaney, on the edge of the town. This small rural heritage town will come alive for the three days with street entertainment, a Country Market, face-painting, music, sporting events, children's art competitions, exhibitions and talks, and lots more.

The event celebrates the areas historic links with Hot Air Balloons: Richard Crosbie, first Irish manned flight by Balloon flight in 1785, and Lord Aldborough, 3rd Earl of Stratford, a balloon enthusiast (the stone from his balloon house makes up the present St. Joseph's Church tower in Baltinglass). This is the first, of what the town hopes will be, an annual event on the County Wicklow summer calendar.

We invite all our diaspora, and visitors of course, to come and join us for this momentous occasion in the history of Baltinglass and District. For three days on June 21 to 23, 2013 Baltinglass will rise like a phoenix from West Wicklow and show off its true colours for all to see. A céad míle fáilte awaits you all.

Up to date info can be found on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Balto-Balloon-Fest/313461148764580

hdowney

I think there is a facebook page and stuff for this. Should be a good time

Annasopra