Calendar.ie, a site with the list of public holidays for Ireland (and a printable calendar).
Crawford College of Art multimedia final year multimedia and visual communication students have an exhibition starting June 10th. Hope the website isn’t a testimony to their skills.
IGNITE (in UCC) is a free 9 month business incubation programme which has been designed specifically for graduates who wish to set up new businesses and turn innovative ideas into new products and services. Applications are now open from graduates of any discipline, from any 3rd Level Institution for IGNITE – beginning in October 2011. Information evening is on June 13th.
CruiseCamp is a fun and informal business networking event with a difference. Setting sail on the fabulous Moonriver Pleasure Cruiser at 7pm from the bridge in Carrick on Shannon you will meet business owners from around Ireland while cruising on the river Shannon
Bus Éireann are sponsoring Alan Bennett to travel around the country on Bus Éireann services to events, gigs and festivals and report on them. Blog here.
Saw a review of this on The View the other night. “Iron”, by ‘one of Scotland’s brightest dramatists’ (The Times) is a psychological thriller about a woman, serving life for murdering her husband. Running in the what used to be The Lighthouse cinema. It’s a very very long play I’m told though.
Tonnes of deal websites in Ireland now. Get them all on one page with DealPage.
Two craft events on:
Crafters and Artist Support Group – Thursday 19th May 8pm The Creative Space, Killiney. Email Craftconnect@gmail.com for more info
1 day Mentoring workshop for craft people and artists, Sunday 22nd May 11am – 5pm, Bewleys Hotel Leopardstown, D18
126 Special Olympics Ireland athletes will represent Ireland on the global stage at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Special Olympics Ireland want them to know that the whole country is behind them. Leave your message of support for the team on Facebook.
The first ever Green Energy BizCamp to be run in Ireland on the 19th May 2011, Kilkenny
One Hundred Mornings, opens at the IFI in Temple Bar on Friday May 6th. The Director will also take part in a discussion about his work at the IFI on Saturday May 7th
Hard lessons from Jeff Jarvis that won’t be learned by many in news and media. Paywalls won’t work unless you’re paying for the public not to access your rich boy’s private member’s club.
Solstice is a five day arts event and symposium that will run in Cork from the 15th -19th of June 2011 as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival programme:
So there was this boy and this girl, and they’d never met. They’d never spoken to each other or even seen each other. But one day the girl wrote a letter to the boy.
I suppose I should highlight these more. Cork Social Media Course in May and Dublin Social Media Course in May still have spaces. My last of 2011 before I go into retirement/hibernation/breakdown mode.
Pen and Pixel is a Tipp IT digital media exhibition and a photography competition which will be held on the 14th of April at 6.30pm. Students have to organize and promote the exhibition themselves.
IQ Content’s Morgan McKeagney took a sobering look at the world of digital marketing, and called for an end to ‘‘hype, bullshit and bling’’. The construction industry’s theory – build it and they will come – had virtually destroyed the Irish economy, and the same attitude had prevailed in much of digital media, argued McKeagney.