Festivals Visual Arts Have you ever wondered how the world looks from the point of view of a hammerhead shark, with its hyper-stereo vision? How about a horse, which has exceptional peripheral vision? Or a chameleon, which can look backwards and forwards at … Denis Connolly : Meta-Perceptual Helmets
Festivals Visual Arts After two sell-out runs, Architects of Air are back for a third year in Kilkenny Castle Park with another luminarium – or giant, light-filled inflatable sculpture – for you to explore. Mirazozo is the sister to Miracoco – the luminarium … Kim Lucas : Mirazozo
Visual Arts The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Festivals Nine Lives is an exhibition showcasing the work of a new generation of architects who, together with curator Emmett Scanlon, were selected to represent Ireland at three international architecture festivals in 2015, as part of the New Horizon_architecture from Ireland … Emmett Scanlon and Carrie Lynam : Nine Lives
Visual Arts Artist Lauren Gault introduces a series of sculptures set within the grounds of Jupiter Artland as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Fusing her sculptural work with her interest in the resonance of ordinary materials, Gault has created a … Lauren Gault : Lipstick-NASA
Performance A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague … 17 Border Crossings
Performance Shelley Mitchell talks to Summerhall TV about her Edinburgh Fringe show, Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943. A remarkable true story of four young Hungarian artists and their life-changing conversations they had with what they came to call angels. Gitta Mallasz, … Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943
Visual Arts One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of … David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter
Visual Arts Artist Phyllida Barlow turns the Fruitmarket Gallery spaces upside down with a new series of large and dominant sculptures in her exhibition, Set, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Responding to the spaces, Barlow’s monumental pieces sit, stacked, … Phyllida Barlow: Set
Visual Arts Unlimited’s first exhibition at Summerhall is a series of ambitious mixed media installations by the UK’s leading disabled artists. The exhibition deals with historical and contemporary issues, offering insight into the lives of others whilst also exploring topics which affect … Jo Verrent : Unlimited
Festivals Since its foundation in 1974, Kilkenny Arts Festival has gathered many of the world’s finest musicians, performers, writers and artists in Ireland’s medieval city each August. For ten days, the city’s historic churches, castle, courtyards, townhouses and gardens offer a … Eugene Downes : Kilkenny Arts Festival 2015
Performance A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down. On the way to tell the King, she meets Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky and Turkey Lurkey, but there’s a shocking surprise! Chicken Licken grows up to be the … Chicken Licken and the Little Red Hen
Visual Arts Fidget Feet are an aerial circus company telling their stories anywhere they can; in theatres, from cranes, hidden in forests, or swinging from buildings all over the world. Fidget Feet perform for everyone and love to find new ways of … Fidget Feet : Aerial Circus
Visual Arts Inside / Outside Shelter / Play: Shelters in the hospitals’ campus, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Jephson Robb and Peter Richardson of ZM Architecture have designed three … Shelter Project
Festivals Festival Director David Teevan welcomes you to the 15th annual Clonmel Junction Festival running from 3rd-12th July. Over the 10 days there is a tremendous variety of music, theatre, literature, street entertainment and visual arts. Film inserts from Chloe McGuire … David Teevan : Clonmel Junction Arts Festival
Theatre The setting is the Islayev country estate. Natalya Petrovna, a headstrong woman, is married to Arkady Islayev, a rich landowner. Bored with life, she welcomes the attentions of Michel Rakitin as her devoted but resentful admirer, without ever letting their … Brian Friel’s version of A Month in the Country
Music “I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn!” – Dorothy Parker Composer Trevor Knight and singer Honor Heffernan are delighted to present The Whistling Girl, featuring new musical settings of the poetry of the … Trevor Knight and Honor Heffernan : The Whistling Girl
Music Pulses of Tradition is produced by Brian Morrissey, with staging by Pat Kiernan. Featuring world class musicians and singers from bands such as Buille, Liadan, North Cregg, and Nomos, along with breathtaking dancers, including students from the Irish World Academy … Pulses of Tradition
Visual Arts Director of Edinburgh Art Festival Sorcha Carey, introduces this year’s festival programme at a special launch in the Dovecot Studios. The festival takes place in venues all around the city, showcasing a mix of well known and up-and-coming artists, contemporary … Sorcha Carey : Edinburgh Art Festival 2015
Visual Arts 100 Flowers: Bringing Flowers back into the clinical environment, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The 100 Flowers project is a response to the restriction of real flowers … 100 Flowers Project
Visual Arts Dignified Spaces: Supporting conversations – creating non clinical spaces, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The Dignified Spaces team was led by Alex Hamilton and included Fremi Arts, … Dignified Spaces Project
Visual Arts ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. We also feature short arts news clips made in the north of Ireland as these become … Culturefox : ArtsIreland II
Visual Arts Since moving to the United States in 1975 and taking up American citizenship, Dublin-born Sean Scully has become established as one of New York’s leading contemporary artists. East Coast Light, an early work, was exhibited in Cork in 1973 during … Tina Darb and Marc O’Sullivan : Sean Scully
Visual Arts David Bailey’s ‘Stardust’ at the Scottish National Gallery is the first major showing of Bailey’s work in Edinburgh since the Dean Gallery’s ‘Birth of the Cool’ in 2001. The current exhibition illustrates the extraordinary range of subjects that Bailey has … David Bailey : Stardust & Birth of the Cool
Visual Arts The exhibition LUX SHIFTER features local, Edinburgh based artists such as Evan Thomas, Keith Guy, Scarlett Platel and Susanne Ramsenthaller. ACTINIC is also showing work from further afield, presenting an array of international artists, including USA-based Christian Arrecis and Clint … Scarlett Platel : LUX SHIFTER
Visual Arts Generator Projects committee member Alison Scott, presents the gallery’s newest exhibition, Hold, Sway. Featuring the work of Scott Brotherton, Carla Scott Fullerton, Rosemary Hogarth, Hannah Lees and Laura McGlinchey, the exhibition explores the liminal space between sculpture and painting, and … Alison Scott : Hold, Sway
Ciara O’Connell of Central Arts in Waterford introduces the weekly Arts Beat. This festival includes all forms of Ireland’s traditional music and runs throughout the summer months in the Waterford’s city centre. Ciara O’Connell : Art Beat
Visual Arts Graphics Bank: Involving children and young people in the personalisation of the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Four artists worked with … Graphics Bank Project
Visual Arts Brittonie Fletcher presents LUX SHIFTER, a new exhibition as part of the ACTINIC alternative photography festival. The ACTINIC Festival is a new series of exhibitions and events featuring Scottish and international artists at the intersection of analogue photographic media and … Brittonie Fletcher : LUX SHIFTER
Visual Arts Podium Landmarks: Supporting journeys and way-finding through busy corridors in the multi-use parts of the hospitals, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Graphical House, Haa Design and artist … Podium Landmarks Project
