The NDA Conference 2016 is themed “Ordinary Homes, Ordinary Places: Planning, designing and building supportive communities for people with disabilities” this year and there will be speakers from Ireland and the USA.

Admission is free. All details can be found here.

An Opera Aria Masterclass with Roy Loughlin (Head of Music at the National Opera Studio) will take place in the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

The lecture “Examining the Roots: Sources in Irish History Painting” with Claire Crowley, NGI, is part of a free lecture series in October around the exhibition “Creating Histories: Stories of Ireland in Art”.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

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The popular series of lunch-time lectures in Dublin’s City Hall returns this October, with the theme “Traditional Music in Dublin”. It will focus on the history of traditional music in the City and will include talks about Dublin’s Piping Tradition, Luke Kelly, The Tradition Club and Fiddle Music. Each talk will conclude with an element of live performance.

The talks will take place each Tuesday in October and the titles are:
04 October – Fiddle Music in Dublin with Liam O’Connor
11 October – Na Píobairí Uilleann (The Piper’s Club) and Dublin’s Piping Tradition with Terry Moylan (NPU)
18 October – The Tradition Club, 1967-1989 with Seán Corcoran (Crann)
25 October – Dublin’s Voice: Luke Kelly with Francis Devine

Admission is free and on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs on Tuesday and Saturday. It is an alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

The space for engaging with performance is shrinking. Critical coverage is disappearing, star ratings just won’t cut it, and online sharing is simply a speedy and cost effective way of talking only to ourselves.

The makers of Blast, a new platform for conversations about Irish theatre, will host a critical discussion about the context for this year’s work, its impact and the talking points of the festival.

Bringing together Irish and international critics, this forum considers performance from several angles and welcomes audience feedback.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

This year is the fourth centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes (22 April 1616), Spain’s greatest writer, comparable only to Shakespeare in terms of the depth and range of his cultural impact.

You might know that he wrote Don Quixote. But what else did he write and who was he? Why does he deserve to be celebrated, and to be read?

Admission is free.

“Someone You Love” is an exhibition of pro-choice art in aid of the Abortion Support Network. The exhibition will showcase pro-choice and pro-Repeal art from 20 established and emerging artists to raise awareness of the situation faced by 12 Irish women travelling for abortions every day. Limited edition prints by each artist will be on sale with all proceeds going to Abortion Support Network.

Admission is free, but the event is ticketed. The first round of tickets was released on Friday and the second round will be released on Monday.

Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker and she has translated works by Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Baricco and others. She is also the editor of the Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. In conversation with Eileen Battersby, she will talk about translating from Italian, with particular reference to Primo Levi.

Eileen Battersby is a writer, a critic, and the Irish Times literary correspondent.

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website below.

A new weekly Board Games night is taking place in the Black Sheep Pub. Lots of games are available and you can also bring your own.

Admission is free.

The launch of Caroline Busher’s children’s novel set in 1848, a novel with circuses, villains and ghosts aplenty. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

“Burying the Past or Celebrating it: Commemorating the Irish Revolution” with Dr Roisín Higgins (Senior Lecturer in History at Teeside University) looks at the tangled history of commemorating the revolutionary period in Ireland. It considers the sometimes difficult relationship between personal memory and public remembrance and how this inform ideas of both nation and state. Roisín will ask what we have learned from the recent Easter Rising centenary and what this might tell us about the remaining years of the Decade of Centenaries.

Admission is free.

EveryTuesday at 19:00, The Dublin Language Exchange takes place in the Czech Inn. It is the biggest free meeting of people from all around Dublin that are interested in learning languages and communicate with speakers of other languages.

Admission is free and the meetup is completely informal. No booking required.

Rumours have it that the Bluegrass Collective will perform in Sin É on Tuesday and there might even be an open Bluegrass Jam! Admission is free.

The King Kong Club is a weekly music game-show in Whelan’s.

Each week 6-7 bands/solo artists play three songs each. At the end of all the performances a clap-off with the King Kong Club Clap-o-Meter takes place and the winner goes through to a semi-final and it all culminates after six months of competition with The Grand Final, held in front of a panel of celebrity judges.

Check the Facebook Page below for the line-up. Admission is free.

This is a weelly acoustic roots and blues session every Tuesday in Arthur’s Pub.

With Anthony Mannion(Guitar/vocals) and Luke Mercer(Guitar/vocals). Admision is free.

Every Tuesday an informal sing along with Ukulele and Toy Musical Instruments takes place in the Stag’s Head. Just bring your instrument and come along. Beginners are welcome. Admission is free and further details (and a big book of songs) are available on the Facebook Page below. The get-together meets in the “snug” in Stag’s Head.

The Comedy Crunch is a free Stand Up comedy event every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Every week different comedians entertain and on top of good comedy you will get free ice cream. Admission is free. The line-up can be found via the Comedy Crunch Facebook Page (see link below).

The Lounge Quintet plays this gig every Tuesday: Jazz Standards, Latin and Bebop. Often guest musicians and singers join them. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Every Tuesday and Thursday the International Bar invites to a Jazz night in the Lounge.

Groups led by Cote Calmet, Sean Maynard Smith, Dominic Mullan, Paddy Groenland, Georgia Cusack & Alex Mathias are performing regularly with occasional guest players, but there are also other bands from all over.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of EUR 5. The website clearly says that there is no entry fee, but – and that makes a lot of sense – that your donations are very much appreciated (Musicians need to pay for rent and food too!) Be generous after the gig if you liked it, but if someone wants to charge an admission charge, please point out that the “rules” as described on their website are like I have explained.

Every Tuesday, a pub quiz is taking place in the Woolshed.

Admission is free. Max team size is 6 people.