Visual Arts 29th April – 23rd June 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is thrilled to announce its spring 2017 exhibition entitled: Elsewhere. Featuring the works of three Athlone artists Elsewhere showcases the sterling talents of: Catherine Rock, Lawrence O’Neill … Laurence O’Neill : Elsewhere
Visual Arts 29th April – 23rd June 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is thrilled to announce its spring 2017 exhibition entitled: Elsewhere. Featuring the works of three Athlone artists Elsewhere showcases the sterling talents of: Catherine Rock, Lawrence O’Neill … Lelia Henry : Elsewhere
Visual Arts 29th April – 23rd June 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is thrilled to announce its spring 2017 exhibition entitled: Elsewhere. Featuring the works of three Athlone artists Elsewhere showcases the sterling talents of: Catherine Rock, Lawrence O’Neill … Catherine Rock : Elsewhere
Visual Arts April 28th – May 20th Participating artists: CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery – Megan and Cassandra Eustace, Helen Horgan, Róisín Lewis, John Kent, Ben Reilly, Éilis Ni Fhaoláin, Luke Sisk Elizabeth Fort – Johnny Bugler, Angie Shanahan, Tracy White Fitzgerald, Elaine … Elaine Coakley : Elsewhere
Visual Arts 28 April – 16 June, 2017 Solstice Arts Centre In association with the Nerve Centre, Derry~Londonderry Script: Martin Melarkey, Artwork: David Campbell Francis Ledwidge, Ireland’s Soldier Poet is a graphic novel of the life of Francis Ledwidge. The work opens … Declan Sheehan : Francis Ledwidge – Ireland’s Soldier Poet
Visual Arts 28 April-16 June 2017 Solstice Arts Centre Featuring work by Sven Anderson, Patricia Burns, David Farrell, Clare Langan, Mick O’Dea, Niamh O’Malley and Sasha Sykes Curated by Sabina Mac Mahon, Curator in Residence, Solstice Arts Centre, 2017 It is too … Sabina McMahon and Patricia Byrnes : A Name Unmade: Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
Visual Arts Sun 23 Apr – Fri 19 May Court House Arts,Tinahely Tony Kew was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1937, where he studied in the Johannesburg School of Art. In 1967 he immigrated to Toronto, Canada when he was thirty … Tony Kew : Swansong
Visual Arts Waterford 14 April to 10 June 2017 | Opening: 13 April, 7pm Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present ‘Celebration’, a solo exhibition by Waterford-born artist Tom Molloy. Molloy’s work foregrounds highly charged social and … Tom Molloy : Celebration
Visual Arts Waterford 14 April to 10 June 2017 | Opening: 13 April, 7pm Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Garter Lane Arts Centre presents Behind the Vitrolite Shopfront, an exhibition of photographic works by Albert Walsh which examines how traditional and emerging ways … Albert Walsh : Behind the Vitrolite Shopfront
Visual Arts 2 April – 27 May 2017 Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford Lismore Castle Arts presents the first solo exhibition in Ireland of Massimo Bartolini. Responding to the unique gallery space that is St Carthage Hall, the artist has created … Paul McAree : Massimo Bartolini
Visual Arts 2 April – 15 October 2017 Lismore Castle Arts Lismore Castle Arts is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Anthony McCall, bringing together seminal early works such as ‘Line Describing a Cone’ (1973), alongside complex new works such as … Paul McAree : Anthony McCall
Visual Arts West Cork Arts Centre was established in 1985 in Skibbereen, Co. Cork. It is a publicly funded arts facility that creates opportunities for the people of West Cork to have access to, and engagement with, local and global arts practice … Ann Davoren : Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
Theatre The piece is being co-produced by Waterford actor Andrew Holden (who also stars) in association with Central Arts. It is directed by up-and-coming Cork director Killian Collins and also stars Paula Weldon, who will be well-known to many for her … Andrew Holden : The Collector
Theatre Tuesday 9th – Friday 12th May, 8pm Solstice Arts Centre The Lion King Jr. will be St. Paul’s 5th musical production, which runs every 4 years and includes every child from 3rd – 6th class. Following 2013’s Alice in Wonderland, … Rosemary Meegan : The Lion King Jr. – St. Paul’s Primary School, Navan
Belfast 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
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
Cork 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
Dublin 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
Dublin 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
Dublin 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
Dublin 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
