Event of the weekAll Together NowFrom Thursday, July 30th, until Sunday, August 2nd, Curraghmore Estate, Co Waterford, various times and stages, sold out, alltogethernow.ieThis year’s All Together Now features a shrewdly programmed selection of music, comedy, and conversation. Music highlights include Pulp, Kneecap, Self Esteem, Kate Nash, Christy Moore, Mary Wallopers, Underworld, Mogwai and Kae Tempest. Comedy acts include Tony Cantwell, Aoife Dunne and Mike Rice. The ever-inventive Curious Minds stage features, among many highlights, conversations with Doireann Ní Ghríofra, Mike Joyce, Aidan Gillen, Stuart Carolan, Dylan Moran and Kneecap’s Moglaí Bap. Following daytime events and activities, Afterburner is a late-night flame-surging art piece that also functions as a live performance stage. Now in a larger arena space, acts appearing at Afterburner across the weekend include Joy Orbison, Efa O’Neill and David Keenan. That’s not all. Have we mentioned laughter yoga, trauma release exercises, Breathe Yourself Calm and Hawaiian lomilomi massage? GigsAgnes ObelSaturday, July 25th, NCH, Dublin, 7.30pm, €49, nch.ieAgnes Obel The Danish musician Agnes Obel, who is based in Berlin, has been presenting singular chamber, neoclassical and cinematic pop music that has garnered plaudits worldwide for more than 15 years. Her choice of instrumentation includes violin, cello, harpsichord and rather more uncommon musical equipment, such as a trautonium, an early predigital synthesiser. Most of the set focuses on her back catalogue of four pensive albums (Philharmonics, from 2010, Aventine, from 2013, Citizen of Glass, from 2016, and Myopia, from 2020), with the addition of several songs from her next release. Support is the Edinburgh cellist, composer and sound designer Peter Gregson, best known by Bridgerton fans for his cello obbligato arrangement of Charli XCX’s 360. Belfast TradFestFrom Sunday, July 26th, until Sunday, August 2nd, various venues, times and prices, belfasttraditionalmusic.com Belfast TradFest: Solas The figures are impressive: 1,000 artists, 600 events, 40 venues, 130 pub sessions and more than 80 talks, screenings, workshops and come-all-ye céilithe. As one of Europe’s primary traditional-music festivals, Belfast TradFest continues to build its reputation by programming a strong line-up. This year’s highlights include the Grammy-nominated Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies (Sunday, July 26th, Mandela Hall, 1pm, £24.50), Michael McGoldrick Big Band (Sunday, July 26th, Mandela Hall, 7.30pm, £29.50), Solas (Friday, July 31st, Mandela Hall, 7.30pm, £34.50) and Flook (Saturday, August 1st, Mandela Hall, 7.30pm, £26.50). BooksAn Evening with David BaldacciMonday, July 27th, John Field Room, NCH, Dublin, 7pm, €24.99/€17.99/€11.99, nch.ieDavid Baldacci Having sold more than 150 million copies of his legal thrillers, the American author (and non-practising attorney) David Baldacci might not need to sell any more, but after spending months at a time in a small room thinking and typing, writers love to talk. In a rare live appearance in Ireland, Baldacci will be interviewed by the Irish thriller writer Edel Coffey. Up for conversation will be Baldacci’s latest Walter Nash books, Nash Falls, from 2025, and the recently published Hope Rises. (There will be no formal book signing at this event, but signed copies of Nash Falls, Hope Rises and other Baldacci titles will be on sale.)FilmGaze International LGBTQIA Film FestivalFrom Tuesday, July 28th, until Monday, August 3rd, Light House Cinema and Irish Film Institute, Dublin, various times and prices, gaze.ieThis year’s Gaze opens with Bitter Christmas (Tuesday, July 28th, Light House Cinema, 8pm, €23.48), the new film by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, who has described it as “a tragic comedy about gender”. Other highlights include Stop! That! Train! (Wednesday, July 29th, IFI, 8.30pm, €16.38), featuring the US drag queen RuPaul Charles; the romantic drama Iván & Hadoum (Thursday, July 30th, Light House Cinema, 8.15pm, €16.38), winner of the Teddy Award at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival; and Barbara Forever (Saturday, August 1st, Light House Cinema, 1pm, €16.38), a documentary on the pioneering lesbian experimental film-maker Barbara Hammer. Sidebar events include Café au Gaze (Thursday, July 30th, Light House Cinema, 11am-5pm, €21.45), a day of public interviews and panel discussions with Irish and international guests.Summer school39th John Hewitt International Summer SchoolFrom Monday, July 27th, until Friday, July 31st, Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh, various times and prices, johnhewittsociety.orgHonouring the work of the Belfast poet John Harold Hewitt (1907-1987), the international summer school celebrates its 39th year with a programme of discussions, public interviews, poetry, workshops, book launches and readings. Workshops include Writing the Short Story, with Wendy Erskine (Monday, July 27th, Tuesday, July 28th and Thursday, July 30th, 2.45pm, £80). Public interviews include Andrew Miller (Monday, July 27th, 1.30pm, £10), Sarah Gilmartin (Tuesday, July 28th, 1.30pm, £12) and Mary Costello (Friday, July 31st, 1.30pm, £12). In conversation6 Tracks with Sorcha RichardsonThursday, July 30th, Hen’s Teeth, Dublin, 6.30pm, €15, hensteethdublin.com“Think Tiny Desk meets Desert Island Discs,” say the promoters of a new season of conversation and performance events at the compact Hen’s Teeth venue. It starts with the Kerry-based singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson, who will talk about the six songs that have had the biggest impact on her life and creativity, and then perform songs from her albums First Prize Bravery (2019), Smiling Like an Idiot (2022) and the forthcoming Draw the Outline. The season continues each month, with music and chat from Brigid Mae Power (Thursday, August 27th), Efé (Thursday, September 24th) and Saoirse Miller (Thursday, October 29th). Still runningEnda Burke: Domestic RitualsUntil Sunday, August 9th, Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere, Co Cork, sarahwalkergallery.comEnda Burke: Domestic Rituals The Galway-based photographer Enda Burke is, he says, “drawn to the strange monotony associated with home life, exploring humour, nostalgia and kitsch design”. There is an abundance of each in this exhibition, which features invented prop-heavy scenarios saturated with neon colour and inhabited by routine chores and religious iconography.Book it this week Dracula, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, November 3rd-7th, ticketmaster.ieKronos Quartet: Steve Reich at 90, November 22nd, NCH, Dublin, nch.ieRapunzel, Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, December 22nd-January 10th, ticketmaster.ieHayden Thorpe, Sugar Club, Dublin, February 2nd, foggynotions.ie