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- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Things to do in Dublin this long weekend (May 30 - June 2)
With a long bank holiday weekend stretching out before us, now is the perfect time to plan your next day out, whether it be to Ireland's premier garden festival or a night on the town enjoying improv comedy. A staple of the June Bank Holiday Weekend, Bord Bia Bloom is an extravaganza of food, fashion, flowers and craft. Now celebrating its 19th year, Ireland's premier garden festival takes place across 70 beautiful acres of Dublin's Phoenix Park from Thursday, 29 May - Monday, 2 June. Full price day tickets cost €30. 2. Marvel Pub Quiz Do you know your Spider-Man from your Hawkeye? Your Ant-Man from your Black Widow? This Saturday, 31 May, Board Dublin - a bar specialising in no and low alcoholic drinks - is hosting a Marvel pub quiz, so put your thinking caps on and get ready to assemble. Free booking, please book in groups of two or more people. 3. Free screening at the IFI Join the Irish Film Institute for free daily lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office and sit down to something you've likely never seen before. This week's screening is A Church is Built, a 27 minute film shows the construction of The Church of the Redeemer in Dundalk, designed by architect Frank Corr, from the discussion of the first plans to the blessing of the finished building. 4. Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote The Lighthouse Cinema is hosting an interactive screenings of classic Murder, She Wrote episodes. This Monday will see games, prizes and audience participation as attendees attempt to solve the case of the episode, Old Habits Die Hard. There are 3:30pm and 8:30pm screenings. Tickets cost €25. The Music Presents: Dublin miniFEST — an electrifying night of live music, good vibes, and unforgettable energy taking place in Fibber Magees on Parnell Street. Tickets cost €23.18 and guests can expect local and touring musicians including Lavery, Laura C, and Elvis Poko. 6. Auto-Correbt & Friends BYOB Comedy Show Comedy group Auto-Correbt are hosting a night in Dublin's Pearse Centre featuring a series of sketches, characters and stories - all created in the moment. Don't worry, though, no one will get pulled on stage from the audience, so you're safe as an audience member. This BYOB event will take place on Sunday, 1 June, from 7:45pm - 10pm. Tickets are €12 while student / unwaged tickets are €6. 7. Chappell Roan Themed Pottery Painting Night Taking place on Saturday, 31 May, from 7pm - 9pm in Smithfield, Dublin Pottery are hosting a femininomenon-al event whereby attendees can enjoy a special Chappel Roan-themed night with HOT TO GO! inspired designs, music, suprises and more. €5 guarantees your spot and ceramics can be bought in the studio. Sylvia Ferguson is hosting outdoor yoga in Marlay Park on Friday morning from 9.30am - 10.30am. Tickets cost €18 and the class is a mixed-ability yoga flow that is suitable for everyone. If it's dry, bring your yoga mat. If it's raining, bring a raincoat and sturdy shoes. Warm layers are essential.
Irish Independent
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Bealtaine Festival's film tour brings Italian classic to Wicklow
For over 20 years the resource organisation Access Cinema – whose mission is to provide all audiences throughout Ireland with access to the best of Irish, world and independent cinema, via a national network of non-profit and voluntary organisations – has partnered with the Irish Film Institute to organise a May film tour. The screenings happen in May to coincide with the Bealtaine Festival, where audiences over the age of 55 are actively encouraged to get involved with the Arts in their local areas. Film is one of the most accessible art forms and each year titles are chosen that it is hoped will appeal to the target audience. The film tour has struggled a little in the post-Covid landscape so this year the approach was changed a little, and organisers asked some of the cinema-loving audiences to help programme this year's tour. A call-out was arranged for volunteers to meet (in person and remotely) over a few months to work together to choose at least one of the titles. The group – comprising of volunteers from Droichead Art Centre, Dunamaise Art Centre and Mermaid Art Centre, along with the IFI's Wild Strawberry film club counterparts – attended meetings and programming workshops to work towards a title selection. Brigid O'Brien was Mermaid's representative. Part of what informed the selection was this year being Bealtaine's 30th Birthday and its continued theme of 'Lust for Life', based on Iggy Pop's iconic punk-era song celebrating life's dreams and ambitions. After much debate and discussion the title chosen for the tour was the classic Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema. A winner of awards across the world, the film tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon, memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier. The Wicklow screening for Bealtaine's film selection of Cinema Paradiso takes place in Mermaid Arts Centre, on Monday, May 26, at 5.30pm. Tickets €3 includes tea/coffee.
