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I WAS picking up some late night shopping late last week in St Stephen’s Green shopping centre when I stumbled across their 20th birthday celebrations involving a lazer light show. I can’t believe it is that long since it opened, I remember when it was all new and shiny.

Unfortunately their website doesn’t have any details of the birthday but I managed to grab a few snaps.

In the last year I moved from Phibsboro to Stoneybatter and while I loved living in Phibsboro I have to say I absolutely love Stoneybatter, even the name is brilliant. There is a wonderful atmosphere in the area and being a stone’s throw from Smithfield, it is definitely worth spending an afternoon wandering about and enjoying the best of old Dublin meets new.

Between the coffee shops, local shops, great pubs, delicatessens, cinema, horse fairs, it is all happening here and one particular exhibition is coming up that you should definitely make a point of seeing and thats Dublinr, a photographic exhibition in the Joinery, made up of some of Dublin’s favourite Flickr members.

It opens on November 5th (so remember remember the fifth of November) and knowing some of the photographers from Flickr it will be well worth checking out.

Here’s a map to the Joinery Gallery, which incidentally is a relatively new space. I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of it pre-opening and I am very much looking forward to seeing it finished with amazing photographs on the walls. The Dublinr exhibition runs from November 5th (remember remember) until Sunday 9th, 11am – 6.30pm daily.

I am delighted to see exhibitions like this and I know there’ll be more, having heard murmurings of the same over recent months. So watch this space, the best of luck to Dublinr (I know it’ll be great), make sure you catch it.

Christchurch is an amazing iconic building/s in Dublin. Reaching over a main road, its origin’s date back to an original Viking Church in 1030. Find out all about Christchurch here and explore medieval Dublin at Dublinia here (the pic was taken of the Dublinia side of Christchurch).

Once again St Stephen’s Green is host to an outdoor photographic exhibition this time featuring photographs of Polish wildlife by Artur Tabor. There was a previous outdoor gallery held last year in the park and from what I can gather it was very popular with visitors to the park so it is well worth a visit.  This year’s exhibition was officially opened at the end of last week and will run until September 6th. You can find out more information about the exhibit on the website. Meanwhile here is some of what you can expect.

I JUST noticed today that Dublin City Libraries have a Flickr account thats been in operation since January. What a great way to show people all the different kinds of work they are doing. You’ll see pics of libraries everywhere, pics of their launches, all sorts of stuff. Do check it out here. And if you are on Flickr add them as a friend.

For the first time ever the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament) is to open its doors for a family day on Sunday, June 29th, from 10am to 6pm.

Among the attractions taking place on the fun day is a tour of Leinster House with visits to both the Dáil and Seanad chambers, a picnic on Leinster Lawn, gourmet food stalls, live music, entertainment, hot air balloon (commemorating the balloon flight that took place in 1785 from Leinster Lawn), great political speeches as performed by members of the Gaiety School of Acting and a series of brief lectures on the history of the parliament.

To find out more and book tickets check out the Family Day website.

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