The autumn season at the Firkin Crane Centre opens on Friday 26th with Sunday Lunch, a dance piece by the Fabulous Beast Dance Company, and featuring two Dubliners, Michael Keegan Dolan, choreographer and Michael Martin Dolan, dancer . . . The Fingal Scribe, a new literary award, is this year dedicated to short stories, and the award is £1,000 - application forms from Spotlight On Skerries, Fingal Scribe, Community Centre, Dublin Road, Co. Dublin . . . The Douglas Hyde Gallery opens a series of lectures on contemporary art on October 15th at 7 p.m. in Room 3074 in the Arts Block; the first lecture is entitled: "Marxism And Contemporary Art" and is given by lecturer and critic Paul O'Brien.