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.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46a8ofJHU1qgv5ylo1_1280.jpg

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