Returning to The National Concert Hall following their 2006 performance with Chinese pianist Lang Lang, the Czech Philharmonic will be joined by another outstanding musician, Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti who will perform thepopular Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, a favourite with music-lovers everywhere.

 

 

"If These Walls Could Talk" looks to the literal and conceptual presence of the walls and structures that define the urban environment and focuses on how space is re-used, recycled and re-invented to span over lifetimes. For over twenty years, Cairo-born artist Khaled Hafez has explored the continuous reproduction of dichotomies both within and between the popular culture of his native Egypt and that of two of its chief western influences: the United States and France. This exhibition includes the DEAF Film programme selection of video works from Hafez, alongside a video installation from Ahmed El-Shaer (known for his work with the Cairo-based group ‘Medrar: For Contemporary Art’)

 

 

Landscapes and portraits from the boglands of the mid-West. Originally from Northern Ireland, photographic artist Simon Burch worked in London for 8 years before moving to Dublin in 1996 to establish a studio. Since then, he has staged exhibitions of his personal work as an invited artist in RHA, along with other solo and group shows. The recipient of numerous international awards (EPICA inclusion on two occasions and AOP Silver for his portraiture), Burch was recently commissioned by the Regional Cultural Centre in Donegal to produce a new body of work as part of their imaging Donegal‚ Residency.

 

Seven Folds in Time by Jaki Irvine, a major new multi-screen video installation commissioned by and made specifically for Temple Bar Gallery. Jaki Irvine’s work in film and video, whether in single-screen format or in more complex multi-screen installations, weaves together enticing, though ultimately elusive narratives in which image and musical score variously overlap, coalesce and diverge. These languid explorations of human interaction with the natural world, the built environment, and with other humans are suffused with a melancholic lyricism, sometimes leavened by a dreamlike humour. Subjectivities split and fragment as the boundaries that separate self from other become fluid or permeable.

 

 

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".