Theatre 28th to 30th April Lyric Theatre, Belfast Greise Youth Theatre By Alistair McDowall performed by Greise Youth Theatre. The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened…Spending a day watching their schedule of … Shannon Cash & Evan Smith : Zero for the Young Dudes
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
1 April to 6 May 2017 Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford Living Arts Project Exhibition 2016-17 in association with Wexford County Council and the Arts Council. The Living Arts Project was established in 2013 as a long term visual arts … Catherine Bowe : Living Arts Project Exhibition
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
RUA RED – South Dublin’s Hub for Creative Activity. RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre is a unique and inspiring arts centre based in the heart of Tallaght, catering for the artistic needs of all South Dublin. Opened in 2009 … Maolíosa Boyle : RUA RED
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
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 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
GOMA presents ‘The Old and the Weary’ a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly. The world stepped into when we explore Ben’s work is made up of things, materials, objects, stuff. Is it a door handle? A leather boot? A bag … Ben Reilly : The Old and the Weary
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
Visual Arts Monday 27th February to Saturday 25th March 2017 Wexford Arts Centre Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre are pleased to present I Wanted to Write a Poem, a new exhibition of work by Jonathan Mayhew, winner of the Emerging … Jonathan Mayhew : I Wanted to Write a Poem
Theatre The Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise The Big Tree Players present Sive by John B Keane Since forming in 2005, The Big Tree Players have presented annual comedies locally including Cassidy’s Chair, Troubled Bachelor, That Family Feeling, Off the Hook and … Michael Lakes : Sive
Visual Arts IMMA has announced its programme for 2017. The full details of it can be seen on imma.ie. The announcement was followed a talk given by Brazilian artist Jac Leirner, of her exhibition “Institutional Ghost” which runs from 14th February to … Sarah Glennie : IMMA programme 2017
Theatre Wexford man Noel has advanced MS and decides to end it all. While waiting for his overdose to take effect he records an increasingly rambling message for his best friend. Noel has apologies to make and messages to send. He … Ben Barnes : My Real Life
Festivals The 28th Cork French Film Festival, coming up 5th to 12th March 2017, brings you the latest and best from France, with a strong emphasis on contemporary French cinema. The main programme is at the Gate cinema, packed with new … Nora Callanan : Cork French Film Festival
Visual Arts The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opens in the National Gallery of Ireland on Saturday 11 February 2017. It brings together over 40 major works, including four master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), complemented by other significant masterpieces … Adrian Le Harivel : Beyond Caravaggio
Visual Arts Beatland is an exhibition of paintings by Dublin based artist Chanelle Walshe. The paintings depict human organs, the heart and lungs, in various energetic states. The forms are isolated, unearthed from a nourishing ground, and offered up to the viewer … Chanelle Walshe : Beatland
