The CRAIC on Thursday April 10th, 2014
10am: The Clifden Traditional Music Festival gets underway today with concerts, sessions, workshops and outdoor entertainment.
10am: Dave Lordan will host a fiction workshop at the Meyrick Hotel while Neil Astley will host an editing workshop.
11am: An international conference on Cultural Gerontology begins today at NUIG.
1pm: Join authors Eimear McBride in conversation with Kathleen McMahon at An Taibhdhearc for some lunchtime literary insights.
4pm: A free Over the Edge Showcase for Cúirt takes place at the Town Hall Theatre this afternoon.6pm: A Poetry Grand Slam takes place at The King’s Head, where performers will have just three minutes to impress the judges on the night, with guest Dave Lordan.
6:30pm: A gathering of Irish actors, writers and artists will hold a literary tribute night, with amusement and recollections, for Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc – Do Johnny/For Johnny at An Taibhearc.
8pm: The first Galway Simon Gigs in aid of the charity takes place tonight at The Quays bar.
8pm: The Galway Community Theatre presents The Monster in the Hall at the Nun’s Island Theatre.
8:30pm: Galway band, My Fellow Sponges, will launch their new EP at the Roisin Dubh on Dominick Street.
8:30pm: A table quiz, For Pete’s Sake, takes place at Crowe’s Bar, Bohermore, to raise funds for specialist cancer treatment for Pete, a 40 year old loving husband and father of 3 young children, who was suddenly struck by an aggressive form of cancer earlier this year.
8:30pm: Authors Roddy Doyle and Hugo Hamilton will take to the stage at the Town Hall Theatre.
