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Mellow with music

Sundays@Noon: Phoenix Trio, as part of the free Sunday concert series at 12noon in the Hugh Lane Gallery, with Phoenix Trio featuring Lina Andonovskaflute, Alexina Hawkins-viola and Harold Gretton-guitar. Hughlane.ie

Grace Brendan

Brendan Grace: Celebrating 48 Years of Comedy (below), featuring Brendan’s best and most requested pieces from his vast repertoire over the last 48 years, including his ‘Bottler’ character and his interpretation of the ‘Irish Wedding’, on January 15, at the National Concert Hall, 8pm. nch.ie

Snatch Shoplifters

Shoplifters, described as a “subtle and moving drama about the forces holding a struggling Tokyo family together”, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, Best International Film Munich Film Festival 2018 and Best Film Vancouver International Film Festival 2018. Catch it tomorrow at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, 5pm and 8pm. paviliontheatre.ie

Gallop to Galway

Compositions written towards the end of a composer’s life are the focus of Music for Galway’s Midwinter Festival — Swansong, taking place at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway from Friday, 18 — Sunday, January 20. musicforgalway. ie/midwinter-festival

Acknowledge art

[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives (below), exhibition shedding light on artists Mary Swanzy, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett, at the National Gallery of Ireland, until February 28. nationalgallery.ie