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What’s Hot: Dublin City of Science 2012
Check out WHAT’S HOT in our Science in the City festival from 6th - 15th July. (If you fancy any of the events below, our advice is to book tickets now to avoid disappointment).
CurisousCity
CuriousCity will be a series of city-wide events in Cork from June 23 – 28 to inspire creativity, spark innovation and seek answers to life’s great questions.
- June 23rd -28th, Various venues around Cork
- Event info & tickets
UCD Imagine Film Festival
UCD Imagine Science Film Festival will host an exciting programme of events and screenings at dynamic locations throughout the city. We will draw the cinema going public into a participative experience, where debates, Q&A sessions and post-screening events will energise our audience. Join us if you are eager to explore science from a new perspective.
- July 4th - 15th, Various venues around Dublin
- Event info & tickets
Sylvia’s Quest
Sylvia’s Quest is the story of Sylvia Sylvana, a young Bulgarian archaeologist who works as a cleaner in Dublin, who has to find her way home tonight. Throughout the experience the audience wear headphones on which they experience the sounds, voices and worlds which only Sylvia can usually see and hear, and with which Sylvia interacts. Wonderland will be the first theatre makers to use such wireless technology in Irish theatre.
- July 6th to 15th, Wonderland Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Begotten Not Made
Gúna Nua Theatre Company present a reading of award-winning playwright Paul Meade’s new play Begotten Not Made. The play explores a number of issues such as IVF, saviour siblings and assisted suicide in a thought provoking and entertaining manner. Get your ticket now!
- July 8th, Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
Belle Moral
“Belle Moral” by Ann-Marie Macdonald is an intriguing dark comedy set in a Scottish manor house. . A family secret is unearthed and everywhere there is the pull of opposites – science vs nature, rational vs supernatural, conscious and unconscious.
- July 11th, Sauel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2
That’s about the size of it
What if you could see, every choice, every dream, every possible outcome of your Life? On the 10th Dimension, we can be anything we want to be.
Blackrock Castle Cork
Date: June 24 & 25 2012, 21:00 – 22:00
Admission: €15/€12 from the Cork Midsummer Festival box office
Project Arts Centre
Date: July 11 - 14 2012
Admission: €12/€10 from the Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
Age of Reason: How Logic Can Save Us…Again
Dara Ó Briain and a panel of thinkers from across society take a humorous journey through logic, reason and scientific thinking to see how their use solved problems in the past. Scientific thinking is not just for scientists, you know.
- July 13th, Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2
- Tickets on sale this weekend here
Copenhagen
In probing the mystery of this meeting, Michael Frayn has created an extraordinary play - gripping, haunting, exhilarating and moving - which asks how we can ever know why we do what we do. Get your seat.
- July 13th, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2
The Music of the Spheres
Two thrilling 20th-century masterpieces transport us from the excitement of the New World to the wonders of outer space. Combining classical music and jazz, Gershwin’s thrilling “musical kaleidoscope of America” Rhapsody in Blue is an exhilarating hymnal to the home of the skyscraper… Be the 1st to get a ticket.
- July 13th, National Concert Hall, Dublin 2
- Event info & tickets
Icarus at the Edge of Time
Film, music and science collide in thisf amily-friendly performance. Author Brian Greene teamed up with American composer Philip Glass in this multimedia recreation of Greene’s board book for children Icarus at the Edge of Time; a futuristic reimagining of the classic Greek myth set in outer space, about a boy who challenges the awesome power of a black hole. Hurry - book your seat now!
- July 14th, National Concert Hall, Dublin 2 (3pm and 7pm)
- Event info & tickets
