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To download a printable version of our Spring 2010 Calendar of Events, click here! |
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CURRENT LISTINGS (click on title or images for more information) |
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(visual arts) These new sculptures (stainless steel, bronze, steel and aluminium) and drawings (tone and the mark-making process) by Mark Ryan and Maree Hensey present an intriguing and strong response to the artists' environment. The works can now be viewed at the Courthouse during regular opening hours and online here. |
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(music) Congolese jazz guitarist and full band blend African rhythms, rhumba, new jazz, and classical flamenco with Congolese jazz melodies sung in Niwel's native Lingala. “Antidotes to the recession don't come much more potent than this.” - Irish Times |
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(youth drama) Our resident youth drama group resumes Monday workshops, under the leadership of Aisling Flitton. |
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(film) A spectrally beautiful Swedish vampire film that features in most of the year's 'best films' lists. |
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(visual arts) The earth’s shifts and movements mean that landscape is constantly evolving, changing and becoming something other. The landscape, which we think of as a fixed stable entity, is in fact ground shifting beneath our feet. |
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(film) A man walks on a high-wire across the Twin Towers in one of the most wildly entertaining documentaries of recent years. This film of daredevil Philippe Petit, who brought together a motley crew to help him realise his dream of crossing from the top of one tower to the other in 1974, is an adventure tale that astonishes in every respect. |
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(music) UK Jazz Sensations and 2008 Mercury Award Nominees |
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(map) Learn knitting, crochet, drop-spindle spinning and wet felting, in an all-day haven for yarn mavens and wannabe woollies alike. |
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(music) Our popular regular showcase (much copied, never rivalled) of local artists and performers this month presents a tribute to Tom Waits.
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(film) Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008, this latest offering from one of Europe’s greatest directors is a powerful work, forcing audiences to acknowledge the sheer scale of brutality meted out during the Katyn massacre in Poland in 1939. |
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(film) Set on the ‘other border’ with America - the St. Lawrence River, across which a smuggling trade from Canada has thrived for centuries - this is a gripping thriller about human trafficking and the unfolding of an unlikely friendship between two desperate women. |
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(theatre) Female figures from the worlds of myths, fairy-tales and history finally get a word in with this playful stage show based on the poetry collection of the same name from UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. |
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(film) Set in Chile during the Pinochet regime, this is more than an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie but also an extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity. |
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(music) This stunning classical duo present an exciting mix of music which ranges from celebrated classics and virtuoso show pieces to a selection of works with a strong Latin flavour. |
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(music) A programme celebrating Irish culture including music from the young members of Tinahely Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann; guitarist Dan Carollo and uilleann piper Martin Nolan and the Fagan Irish Dancers; and an informal evening gathering with poetry, caint agus craic. Non-Irish speakers (include the Courthouse staff in that) are welcome!
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(visual arts) A celebration in watercolour of the power, beauty and importance of trees. (Presented in association with
Tomnafinnoge Woods, just a couple of miles from our gallery and also free of charge! |
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(film) Images of wistful sadness — lone figures with plodding dogs on rain-lashed hillsides — are interlaced with humour and moments of skin-prickling beauty that leave the audience undone. |
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(music) Our monthly showcase features (mainly) local singers, musicians, poets, writers, actors, orators and others. The atmosphere is welcoming, the genres eclectic, and the talent real and engaging.
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(comedy) ‘Jon Kenny drips country. If you hung him out to dry what you’d find if you looked in the puddle below would be a reflection of rural Ireland over the past few decades, warts and all’ - Connacht Tribune |
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To download a printable version of our Spring 2010 Calendar of Events, click here! |
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