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Spare tickets for Science Gallery ‘Infections Laughter’ tonight

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So I accidentally bought tickets for the “INFECTIOUS LAUGHTER: Members’ Only closing party – with added George Hook!” event that takes place at the Science Gallery. Here’s the skinny from their website:

INFECTIOUS LAUGHTER: CLOSING EVENT and IS LAUGHTER CONTAGIOUS TALK?

LOL@the Gallery. Can you be infected by laughter? How does a joke spread? Join this members’ only event to mark the end of the INFECTIOUS exhibition at Science Gallery. The ticket price of €10 (with 10% discount for members) entitles you to entry to the event and a first come, first seated place at the IS LAUGHTER CONTAGIOUS talk. This lively discussion, chaired by Newstalk presenter and rugby pundit George Hook, will look at how laughter spreads, how it is being researched and how laughter has inspired works of art.
Speakers include INFECTIOUS curator Luke O’Neill, Sophie Scott – who will present her laughter research and also ask the audience to participate and artist Piero Steinle, who has presented his work “The Triumph of Laughter” around the world.

The INFECTIOUS LAUGHTER event continues with a talk by Professor Richard Wiseman – please note that you need to buy a separate ticket for this event. (And this where I went ‘oops’ & bought those tickets.)

Tickets are €9, I have a pair and I’m pretty sure it’s all good to attend once you’re  a member. I’ll be heading over there for 6ish, leave a comment, pop me an email to steph@iamsteph.com or a tweet @cloudsteph and I’ll put your name on them.

If you’re heading for the Science Gallery later, see you there :)

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Toyota wants you in an IQ

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My ideal iQ
My ideal iQ

On Monday, Toyota Ireland announced on Twitter that they were seeking “4 Irish bloggers wanted to give happy homes to 4 Toyota iQ’s for 2009“.

If you get selected you will have a lovely little Toyota iQ to drive for the next 6 months & you’ll be tweeting & blogging your experience as you go.

Last night @toyotaireland tweeted that in under 12 hours of launching the new iQ promotion, they had received in excess of 100 applications and the toyota.ie website experienced an increase of 13% in traffic. Not bad going considering @toyotaireland is still a fledgling Tweeter yet to really embrace the interaction rather than the broadcast side of Twitter.

Interested? Well you’ve got until this coming Friday to apply, which you can do here at www.toyota.ie/about/promotions/iQ-Twitter

Here’s some of the obligatory terms & conditions of the gig, the entire list can be found here:

  • Each of the four participants will receive their Toyota iQ from week commencing July 20th until January 4th 2010. Usage of the iQ is non transferable and is limited to the island of Ireland.
  • Provision of the iQ will require each participant to blog and tweet about their real life experiences with their iQ at least once a week. You must include a photo or short video of you and your iQ at least once a month.
  • Tweets must include #toyotaiQ and the blog post must link to wwww.toyota.ie/promotions. Participants will be required to take part in some publicity which will also promote the participants blog.
  • All maintenance and insurance costs for the vehicle will be covered by Toyota Ireland. To be covered on Toyota’s insurance policy you must be over 25 and have a full clean drivers licence. If you are over 21 and can insure the iQ on your policy then you can also apply.

It’s a really cool offer & I can’t wait to see how it works out for both Toyota and the participants. I’m not usually a fan of the ‘super-mini’ class of motor but this thing seems to pack a lot of punch. It scores 5 stars in the Euro NCAP safety test and Top Gear described it as “…boring Toyota’s iPod moment…” – praise indeed :)

If the iQ ain’t for you, earlier they put out a tweet about their plans to produce some self-help videos on general car maintenance and are looking for suggestions on what topics to cover. You can send them your ideas via Twitter to @toyotaireland.

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Swingin’ at the NCH this Thursday night!

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Conor McKeon
Conor McKeon

The National Concert Hall is the place to be this Thursday night if you fancy a bit of toe-tappin’ & finger-snappin’ as Conor McKeon takes to the stage rolling out the hits of the swingers including Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong and The Great American Song Book. As if that wasn’t enough he’ll be up there with a 24-piece band and an orchestra with a special appearance by the wonderful Gardiner Street Gospel Choir. Conor and the band warmed up for GSGC at The Helix last month and were absolutely fab – really looking forward to hearing them tomorrow.

If that hasn’t swung it for you well then the fact that the gig is to raise money for the ’3 T’s – Turning The Tide of Suicide’. Tickets are still available from www.nch.ie. Hopefully see you there :)

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What’s goin’ on?

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Swingin sisters
Swingin' sisters

Wondering what to do with yourself for the next few days? Here’s some ideas & heads ups on what’s going on out n about:

TEDx is in the Science Gallery, Dublin this evening. Live streaming will be here.

SPWC hits Cork on Saturday and Sunday – see you down there (holding a giant pig apparently…)

Taste of Dublin is on until June 14th.

Bloomsday is this coming Tuesday & there’s a bunch of various bits n bobs on in Dublin to mark it.

Get winning some tickets to the Transformers 2 premiere thanks to Rick.

And a little further down the road, on Friday next the 19th there will be 3 choirs totalling 100 voices singing the Messiah at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 2 – ticketless event so get there early!

Bon weekend, maybe see you at SPWC or Sabrina’s tweetup in Cork!

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What’s goin’ on?

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A few happening things floated into my radar range that I would like to share with you:

Gardiner Street Gospel Choir at The Helix this weekend, can’t wait!

Galway Arts Festival programme announced, website leaves a lot to be desired unfortunately :/

GAF is always followed by the Galway Races, who knows this may be my first year attending the famed festival!

June 10th is the final sign-up date for the Tour de Burren, which is part of the An Post Cycle Series. It promises to be a fab weekend with 3 different routes to choose from through some of the most wonderfuly scenery in the country. Register online here.

Jason is asking you to put your name down for another installment of the awesome BTW (Blogger, Twitter, Whatever) which is happening on Thusday 11th of June. See you there!

There’s a mega range of stars n starlets playing the Live at the Marquee do this summer in Cork, from Josh Ritter to Rod Stewart to Lady Gaga to Gilbert O’Sullivan and everything in between (which is pretty much everything).

Tickets for Muse @ The O2, Dublin this November are on sale on Friday morning via Ticketmaster. It’s going to rock & I shall see thee up the front as the cool kids say.  If you don’t know who or what I’m on about I suggest you listen to this gorgeous delight (give it time, tis a slow starter but SO worth it):

and then Bliss: