To download a printable version of our Spring 2010 Calendar of Events, click here!

CURRENT LISTINGS

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(visual arts)
MAREE HENSEY AND MARK RYAN:
Source & Surroundings
Official opening (new date) Saturday 23rd January, 3-5pm

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.

(education)
IRISH LANGUAGE CLASSES
For beginners
Starting Wednesday, 10th February, 8pm - 9.30pm
A six week course introducing the basics of conversational Irish,
in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

(music)
NIWEL TSUMBU
Song of the Nations
Saturday, February 6th, 8.30pm

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.

(youth drama)
TRAMPS AND POETS
New season starts Monday, February 8th

Our resident youth drama group resumes Monday workshops, under the leadership of Aisling Flitton.
NEW! classes for younger children, aged 4-7 years old,
in addition to the older groups (8-10 yrs and 11-14 yrs). Click here for full details.

(film)
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Friday, February 12th, 8pm

A spectrally beautiful Swedish vampire film that features in most of the year's 'best films' lists.

(visual arts)
MAIREAD O'NEILL LAHER:
What Lies Beneath
Opening Sunday 14th February, 3-5pm

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.

(film)
MAN ON WIRE
Tuesday, February 16th, 8pm

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.

(music)
PORTICO QUARTET
Friday, February 19th, 8.30pm

UK Jazz Sensations and 2008 Mercury Award Nominees
“Warm, chiming, ponderous and uncommonly beautiful” - Time Out

(map)
PICK UP YOUR NEEDLES
A Day of Fibre Craft
Sunday, February 21st, 10am-5pm

Learn knitting, crochet, drop-spindle spinning and wet felting, in an all-day haven for yarn mavens and wannabe woollies alike.

(music)
COURTHOUSE CAFE
Thursday, February 25th, 9pm

Our popular regular showcase (much copied, never rivalled) of local artists and performers this month presents a tribute to Tom Waits.

(film)
KATYN
Friday, February 26th, 8pm

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.

(film)
FROZEN RIVER
Tuesday, March 2nd, 8pm

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.

(theatre)
Mephisto Theatre Company
THE WORLD'S WIFE
Saturday March 6th, 8.30pm

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.

(film)
TONY MANERO
Tuesday, March 9th, 8pm

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.

(music)
DERMOT DUNNE (accordion)
KATHERINE HUNKA (violin)
Saturday, March 13th, 8.30pm

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.

(music)
SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE
Sunday, March 14th, starting at 4pm

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!

(visual arts)
GREG TIERNEY:
A Walk in the Woods
Opening Sunday 21st March, 3-5pm

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!
Tinahely - where else would you be going?)

(film)
SLEEP FURIOUSLY
Tuesday, March 23rd, 8pm

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.

(music)
COURTHOUSE CAFE
Thursday, March 25th, 9pm

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.

(comedy)
JON KENNY
Saturday, March 27th, 8.30pm

‘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

To download a printable version of our Spring 2010 Calendar of Events, click here!