TOUR

First Music Contact Tour 2014

Dolan's Warehouse 8pm €10 dolans.ie

For a measly €10, you can groove, grunt, kick out the jams (and other preserves), and say a cheery hello to Fight Like Apes, Kid Karate, and Sleep Thieves, as they head out on this year’s FMC nationwide tour. TCL

THEATRE

The Waste Ground Party

Peacock Theatre, Dublin. 8pm €13/€25 abbeytheatre.ie

Now, here’s an interesting development. The young writer Shaun Dunne is best known for his collaborations with Talking Shop Ensemble, which have synthesised documentary techniques with playful creation. His first play for the Abbey sounds more conventional, though: a drama about inner-city teenage friends considering leaving college and uniting local kids in a soccer league. Posing questions about the bonds of community, it might also bring some of Dunne’s adventurous spirit to new audiences. PC

FILM

Kinopolis: 9th Polish Film Festival @ IFI, Dublin

Between November 6th and 9th Kinopolis offers a programme of new Polish film and animation. Highlights include The Word, a teenage bunny boiler, and Jack Strong, based on the life of Ryszard Kuklinski, a Polish colonel who worked for the CIA during the Cold War. Documentarian Pawel Lozinski (above) will also be on hand to introduce a selection of his works. TB