Literature 29 April 2017 Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford Towers and Tales is a celebration of children’s books, stories and illustration, designed to give young audiences unforgettable, creative and transformational experiences with books. Jennifer Marshall : Towers and Tales
Festivals Literature Paul Howard, Eileen Battersby and Anne Sebba, William Wall, Billy O’Callaghan and Alan McMonagle are the first of the writers to be announced for the 13th outing of the Cork World Book Festival running 18-23 April 2017 at Cork City … Ann Luttrell and Liam Roynane : Cork World Book Fest 2017
Visual Arts Thursday 6 April 2017 – Saturday 27 May Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Film installation and accompanying exhibition by David Jacques using the infamous quote by OPEC originator Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo as a starting point to explore the devastating rise … David Jacques : Oil is the Devil’s Excrement
Theatre Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as one of the few men to serve with both Scott and Shackleton and survive three famous expeditions: Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 – … Aidan Dooley : Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer
Visual Arts Thursday 6 April – Sunday 14 May 2017 Gallery of Photography, Dublin Noel Bowler’s expansive project ‘Union’ looks at the spaces of organised labour. ‘Union’ explores the meeting rooms and back offices at the coalface of the ideological war between … Noel Bowler : Union
Books Festivals 29 April 2017 Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford Towers and Tales is a celebration of children’s books, stories and illustration, designed to give young audiences unforgettable, creative and transformational experiences with books. Jennifer Marshall : Towers and Tales
Books Festivals Paul Howard, Eileen Battersby and Anne Sebba, William Wall, Billy O’Callaghan and Alan McMonagle are the first of the writers to be announced for the 13th outing of the Cork World Book Festival running 18-23 April 2017 at Cork City … Ann Luttrell and Liam Roynane : Cork World Book Fest 2017
Visual Arts The Butler Gallery is delighted to present Cubus, an exhibition of new sculpture by Martina Galvin. Martina Galvin’s work is involved with form and spatial awareness and can incorporate photography, installation, drawing and sculpture. The basic physical and conceptual elements … Martina Galvin and Bairbre-Ann Harkin : Cubus
Visual Arts Dermot McNevins uses paint and film to explore the tensions felt in our inner and outer worlds. The title of his latest body of work is’ Iomramh’ (pronounced Imram). An Iomramh is a class of Irish epic tale in which … Dermot McNevin : Night Falls
Theatre Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is a throwback to a gentler … Des Keogh : The Quiet Land
Theatre Following the success of three major productions at Visual in 2016, Carlow Little Theatre Society return to the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in April 2017 as part of this year’s Pan Celtic Festival with Marina Carr’s provocative and bewitching play … Paul Dunne : By the Bog of Cats
Theatre Up the Hill Jackie is a new play by Áine Ryan and was performed at Central Arts on Friday 24th and 25th March – with a tour scheduled (see below) following the success of the show’s premiere at The Source … Áine Ryan : Up the Hill Jackie
Visual Arts A group exhibition at RUA RED exploring how art can impact education, featuring work from John Beattie, Sarah Browne, Ella de Búrca, Priscila Fernandes, Mark O’Kelly, Maria McKinney, and Sarah Pierce. Curated by Jennie Guy This exhibition addresses a crisis. … Jennie Guy : It’s Very New School
Theatre Close your eyes as the inventive Carpet Theatre brings you a fascinating play in the dark, where live music, sound effects and smells swirl around you. It’s the floods of 2011. David, an old sailor with failing sight, mops a … Ciarán Taylor : The Flood
Theatre Alice is bored. Everything is school and homework and always doing what you’re told. Until she follows a White Rabbit down a hole and her whole life is quite literally turned upside down and almost inside out. Suddenly, she finds … Janice de Bróithe and Ally O’Neill : Alice in Wonderland
Visual Arts Audiences can experience the works of acclaimed Belgian artist Eugeen Van Mieghem for the first time in Ireland next year, through an exhibition depicting the vibrant life of the Port of Antwerp at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Eugeen … Michael Dempsey : Port life
Theatre “He shall not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky, where he is lain” A call to arms. War Poet Francis Ledwidge (Ethan Dillon) is torn between his love for Shivvie (Katie O’Kelly), and Ellie (Amy O’Dwyer), his friend … Amy O’Dwyer : Ledwidge
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Data Horizons is the result of a collaboration between the Extreme Light group at Heriot-Watt University and Lily Hibberd, Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence at Heriot-Watt throughout 2016. Led by Prof Daniele Faccio, the Extreme Light group develops experiments in laser physics … Lily Hibberd : Data Horizons
Theatre ‘Pearse, Connolly, McDermott and the rest of their merry men; they died for a Republic. But we don’t live in a Republic. We live in an economy’ A wry and funny look at Irish life one hundred years after the … Jim Nolan : Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Visual Arts A collaboration between Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina and C-EENRG at Cambridge University, UK, artist Sebastian Verea’s Sounds of the Anthropocene is a multimedia experience played by Earth´s rotation in real time, that shows the new geological epoch that … Sebastian Verea : Sounds of the Anthropocene
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Each year, since 2012, we hand over the keys to Summerhall to the Edinburgh International Science Festival, reuniting the former Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies back to its scientific foundations. They turn our multi-arts venue into their Festival hub, … James Howie : Science Festival 2017
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sat 01 Apr 2017 – Fri 12 May 2017 Meadows Gallery, Summerhall From the Dark Ocean Comes Light is a new body of sculptural work by artist Hannah Imlach, resulting from a year-long residency within The Institute of Biological Chemistry, … Hannah Imlach : From the Dark Oceans Comes Light
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Genocentric is an exhibition of new and evolving work by artist Louise Mackenzie in collaboration with Northumbria University, Newcastle University and Edinburgh University, exploring affective responses to working with life as biotechnological material. Taking as a starting point the concept … Louise Mackenzie : GENOCENTRIC
Visual Arts In an automated world, is it nearly time to put humans out to pasture? Does the future resemble a leisure-time utopia or a robot-tended human-zoo? Will the notion of work become a thing of the past if machines really can … Aleksandra Amaladass and Ryan Coyne : Humans need not apply
Visual Arts The Solstice Lectures run each Summer in late June in Sanquhar’s Town Hall. Featuring a panel of international scientists with an interest in the scale, origins and nature of the universe, this year’s panel is being coordinated by exhibition curator … Charles Jencks : The 2017 Solstice Lectures, Town Hall, Sanquhar
Visual Arts The architects/artists Charles Jencks and Daniel Libeskind will be exhibiting COSMIC COLLISIONS with the cosmologists Carlos Frenk and Noam Libeskind at MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar from June 23rd till September 7th. Carlos Frenk is organising this year’s Solstice Lectures at Sanquhar … Charles Jencks & Daniel Libeskind : Cosmic Collisions at The Ogden Centre, University of Durham
Visual Arts WIT LúAC In The Library is the second exhibition of 2017 for the LúAC art collective. LúAC were invited by Kieran Cronin, Developmental Librarian at Waterford Institute of Technology to exhibit in the Library after he opened LúAC’s previous exhibition … Kevin O’Keeffe : LUAC exhibition at Luke Wadding Library
Visual Arts Sculpture cast from red hot lava, fin whale bones engraved with the whale’s final journey before beaching, a video installation layering endangered fish with a chorus of birds and prints of dinosaur skeletons; these are some of the intriguing artworks … Danny Osborne and Frieda Meaney : Landmarks and Lifeforms
Visual Arts Lorraine Neeson works primarily with lens based media, light, sound, video installation and architectural intervention, to create multi-sensory environments that disrupt and disorient a conventional sense of spatial and temporal logic. The combined series of works presented in Current in … Lorraine Neeson : Current
Visual Arts Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the … Miranda Driscoll : Activities at Sirius Arts Centre
