The play is set in a rural town in County Kerry that has been over-run by a Hollywood film crew. The story revolves around the two central characters, Charlie Conlon and Jake Quinn, who are working as extras in the film. The cast of two perform all 15 characters (men and women), often switching gender and voice with swift dexterity and the absolute bare minimum of costume changes.

 

Artist’s Proof is an exhibition by 24 Irish and international fine art printmaking artists. Visitors will be able to see the creative methodology of the printmaker showing the development of the idea from the research and exploration stages through to the rigorous process of making the print, requiring great technical skill. The prints will be displayed alongside two working proofs to provide a glimpse of how it was made.

 

Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges the generous loan of these works.

 

Featuring: Cormac Breathnach Martin Dunlea And many more...

 

Community Residential Services presents this night of show-stopping melodies, high drama and the odd comic turn. Enjoy the brightest and best of local community talent in this fun filled night of craic, perfect for these recessionary times. A surprise band will introduce the proceedings and some celebrity guests will judge the talent show and crown the CRS Has Talent Winner 2010.

 

Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is an American band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The band is known for their annual summer-long tours of the US and Europe, featuring lengthy improvisational renditions of their songs accompanied by elaborate video and lighting.

 

Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but scientists can give us a good idea of what they looked like and how they moved. We often imagine dinosaurs as colossal flesh-eating beasts that lived on our planet for an incredible 160 million years. Some were indeed gigantic, but many were only as heavy as a Labrador dog and many were vegetarian! Did you know that the Ornithomimus could run faster than an Olympic sprinter? See how the sociable Triceratops lived in herds, caring for and protecting their young. Meet Dilophosaurus, a relative of the first dinosaur found in Scotland. Come face to face with the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the fiercest land predators ever known. This massive animatronic model, 4 metres tall and 7 metres long, is so lifelike you’ll think it’s the real thing! Walk past the head of a hungry Tyrannosaurus and watch as his terrifying jaws go SNAP!

 

 

Electropical global beats.

 

DJs Dave McGuire and Steve O.

 

Minimal techno.

 

Live classic rock.

 

Oatlands College in association with Sion Hill present ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, a rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman. Featuring a cast of 70 transition year students from both schools, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ tells the tale of a hapless florist shop worker, Seymore Krelborn, who raises a plant that feeds on human blood! The musical includes several show stoppers including ‘Skid Row’, ‘Somewhere that’s Green’ and ‘Suddenly Seymour’.

 

Over a seven week period well known artist and sculptor Cris Neumann will facilitate the creation of 3D works by Coolmine and Hartstown Community School students in a project that will be a fun reflection of Vodafone Ireland’s Green Agenda Policy. This educational and environmentally innovative visual arts project will explore the concepts of communication, mobility and technology and how these concepts can work in the reduction and recycling of waste. For more information and photos of the works in progress check out the website: www.makeartnotrubbish.com

 

 

Grab your mates and get a team together for this quiz night in aid of One Family (Voice / Support / Action for One Parent Families). E15 per head, teams of four.

 

A Gala Concert to celebrate the centenary of the birth of American Composer Samuel Barber (born 9th March 1910) and his connections with Ireland. Barber's finest songs, to texts by Yeats, Stephens and Joyce and his haunting and lyrical Adagio for Strings.

 

Includes light lunch. A Chicago cop finds himself in deep water in the office of a Jewish lawyer in downtown Los Angeles . Accused of a deadly crime, the cop faces the prospect of not only losing his job but also his life. The lawyer is faced with a choice that could make or break him. A winner of the Showtime best one act play festival award, STICKS AND STONES is a tense, razor sharp legal drama with a nail-biting twist that will keep you guessing right until the very end.

 

Soul, ska and indie.

 

 

 

Indie and electro.

 

This is an experimental exhibition which attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks become part of a collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list of works, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removal of artworks generating absences which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections. Additions of works will draw out new and perhaps unexpected associations, and new narratives will emerge within the overall structure of the exhibition. Other strategies such as repositioning works within the exhibition will be used to alter the pace of the exhibition. A list of these potential works will not be disclosed in advance.

 

 

Eamon was a former member of early 90s Dublin bands "The Conspiracy", "Babylon The Bride" and "Drowning Kristiania". Eamon also played on stage with U2 in Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork in 1987 where they performed they Curtis Mayfield classic "People Get Ready".

 

‘When I have children I’m going to let them grow wild as weeds. No one bothers with weeds and still they grow and grow.’ In a provincial Irish town in the 1950s the children have some questions: What’s happening to them and what’s happening in the world around them? And why? The young heroes of Thomas Kilroy’s urgent new play strive to carve out an understanding of the world beneath the unbearable weight of unanswered questions, confusion and their own desires. And the clergy gather like crows on the horizon. Based on Frank Wedekind’s masterpiece of German symbolism Spring Awakening, Christ Deliver Us! is a play about how hard and how wonderful it can be to grow up during a period of Irish History that we can never again look back on with nostalgia. An Abbey Theatre commision