WATERFORD 16-25 OCTOBER 2020 imagineartsfestival.com TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THEATREROYAL.IE OR 051 874 402. 2 SEE MORE ABOUT OUR COVID-19 SAFETY GUIDELINES HERE WELCOME Welcome to the 19th Imagine Arts Festival, and to our new online programme, in which we hope there is something for everyone to enjoy. 2020 has presented challenges to us all, and this year’s festival, for the first time, includes both live and online events, an exciting departure which promises to enhance Waterford’s tradition as a centre for the arts by making events available to a wider audience than usual. Our programme includes music, literature, dance, visual art, performance and history, as well as incorporating the John Dwyer Trad Weekend and Waterford Writers Weekend. Imagine would like to say ‘thank you’ to all of our artists, volunteers and audience, and also to the sponsors and advertisers who have contributed in so many ways over the past 19 years. We would also like to say a special ‘thank you’ to Waterford Council, the Arts Council and our venue and media partners for their continued support, especially in these uncertain times. Jane Keen - Chairperson, Imagine Arts Festival FUNDING PARTNERS
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FESTIVAL FRIENDS Imagine Arts Festival realises that 2020 has been a difficult year for all workplaces and industries, and we would therefore like to acknowledge the continued support that Waterford businesses, large and small, have given to us over the years. Thank you! 3 FLOOD Thursday 22 - Saturday 24 October Theatre Royal | 8.00pm | Matinee 24 October 1.00pm €18 Booking through www.theatreroyal.ie or 051 874402
Flood, by Ger Bourke is a look into the lives of Stella and Jack, a married couple in their fifties adrift in a small boat in modern day Ireland. The rising water has knocked out all lines of communication. Power lines. Electricity. Television masts. Phone masts. Covered all stop signs. As they desperately bail water from their now sinking boat the interaction becomes frantic. Can anything be salvaged from a marriage that is literally and metaphorically; ‘on the rocks’, before it is too late. Written by Ger Bourke, directed by Jim Nolan, starring Lynda Gough and Joe Meagher. Lighting design by Richard Lippy Collins. A co-production of Bag-a-Cats and Rigout Productions. Supported by Waterford City and County Council, Art Links and Imagine Arts Festival. 4 SAINT SISTER Named “Best Irish Band” Sunday 25 October by The Irish Times, Saint Sister is the collective moniker Theatre Royal | 8pm of alt-folk duo Gemma €25 Booking through www.theatreroyal.ie Doherty and Morgan or 051 874402 MacIntyre. Fusing a unique blend of electronica, Celtic harp, and soulful vocal harmonies, the duo call their music ‘atmosfolk’ and were outstanding on their last visit to Waterford when they were a huge hit at ‘All Together Now’ in 2018.
“The thick, eerie electro-folk of Ireland’s Saint Sister, not so much haunted as delicately possessed” The guardian 5 JUNIOR BROTHER WITH SUPPORT FROM TRÁ PHÁIDÍN
Saturday 24 October An idiosyncratic, challenging and richly lyrical singer/ Theatre Royal | 8pm songwriter, Junior Brother is €18 Booking through www.theatreroyal.ie the pseudonym of Co. Kerry, or 051 874402 Ireland singer Ronan Kealy. Chosen as one of RTÉ's Rising Irish Stars of 2018, and as one of The Irish Times' contenders ready to break through in 2019, Junior Brother has built a rabid following thanks to unmissable live shows, and music both excitingly forward- looking and anciently evocative. His strange stories unfold with reckless abandon upon an idiosyncratic guitar and foot tambourine accompaniment, influenced as much by the avant-garde as music from the middle ages and his home place in rural Ireland.
Trá Pháidín are a collective improvisation and experimentation. Their debut one track album Set a hAon was released late last year by Cork City’s Sunshine Cult Records.
6 JOIN ME IN THE PINES Join Me in the Pines is the Wednesday 21 October solo moniker for Kildare’s David Geraghty, also known Theatre Royal | 8pm to audiences as a founding €18 Booking through www.theatreroyal.ie member of Bell X1. or 051 874402 As a member of Bell X1, David has released seven studio albums to date. In addition to this, Geraghty released two solo albums under his own name. In 2014, David decided to delineate his solo work by giving it a new name, and so Join Me in the Pines was born. Inherit was JMITP’s first album release in 2014, followed by Monomania last year. Monomania brims with David’s distinctive vocal and song-writing style but this time he has ventured into an edgy 80s synth-pop world with hints of funk, conjuring shades of Prince, Bowie, Gary Numan and Grace Jones. The album was mixed by the masterful Ross Dowling (James Vincent McMorrow, Talos, Brian Deady) and was released on Decal Records. Lockdown, although devastating to the live music scene, has provided an opportunity for the writing and recording of a new JMITP album. Some of this new music will be released in the coming weeks. 7 MUSIC OF WATERFORD MUSIC OF THE 17th AND 18th CENTURIES FROM IRELAND, ENGLAND, FRANCE AND SPAIN Tonos: Róisín O’Grady - Soprano Eamon Sweeney - Baroque Guitar, Bandora and Lute Special Guest: Cárthach Mac Craith - Sean Nós Singer The Port City of Waterford in the 1600s was a thriving place, busy with trade from all corners of Europe. The coming of Oliver Cromwell and the Siege of Waterford in 1649 was to change the face of the city and Ireland’s culture forever. While ‘to Hell or to Connaught’ were the options presented to poorer Irish, merchants of means fled Waterford to far-off lands including France and Spain. Meanwhile Irish culture, language and traditions were sent underground, to live on in the more remote corners of the country. This concert presents music that was heard both in Ireland and abroad during this turbulent period. Tonos and Cárthach perform a beautiful selection of European and Irish music from the 17th and 18th centuries - mixing Irish song with works by English and Continental masters and highlighting common threads and distinct differences. This concert provides a unique opportunity to hear the sean nós singing tradition alongside that of the classical style, both telling stories through song in different ways. Composers performed will include Purcell, Handel,Lully, Aranes, Marín, O’Carolan, Mac Domhnaill and Ó Riain. Saturday 24 October This concert is kindly Garter Lane Theatre / Live Online | 8.00pm supported by the €10 Booking theatre tickets through Arts Council of Ireland. www.garterlane.ie or 051 855038. Online Event see www.imagineartsfestival.com 8 MESSRS. SMILEY & VENEER SERVICE WITH A SMILE Friday 23 October Vincent Smiley and Samuel Veneer are a pair Cathedral Square | 2.00pm | 3.15pm | 4.30pm of infamous salesmen, Booking through www.imagineartsfestival.com masquerading as world- famous dentists. They travel from town-to-town trying to sell their “pearly-whites elixir”—a cure-all remedy that will eliminate the need to ever visit the dentist again. What happens when their plan fails and their façade falls...can these “greatest salesmen” survive to sell another day? Come one and all to see the hilarious duo, Smiley & Veneer, perform their quirky street show jam-packed with song, dance, slapstick, comedy and live music, which will have you grinning from ear to ear! Smiley & Veneer will make you laugh so hard you’ll be picking up your false teeth from the floor! Created and designed by Curious State Directed by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin Starring Nicholas Kavanagh and Killian Browne Composed by Killian Browne Soundtrack by Joe Harney Choreographed by Jess Rowell 9 IMAGINE presents A WATERFORD COUNCIL INITIATIVE
Brian Conaghan Colm Keegan Daniel Mulhall Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Felicia Olusanya Frank Farrelly Kerry Hardie Leke Ogunde
Mark Roper Jimmy Murphy Mary Murphy Samuel Yakura
Sarah Baume Jim Nolan Deirdre Dwyer Eimear Cheasty 10 SARA BAUME HANDIWORK Saturday 24 October Garter Lane Theatre | 2.00pm €5 Booking essential through www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038
Sara Baume talks about her first non-fiction title – an exploration of productivity and what it means to be an artist. handiwork offers observations that are at once gentle and devastating, on the nature of art, grief and a life lived well. Not to be missed.
DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA A GHOST IN THE THROAT Saturday 24 October Garter Lane Theatre / Live Online | 4.00pm Theatre €5 Booking essential through www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038. Online Event see www.imagineartsfestival.com
The stunning debut prose title from multi- award winning writer Doireann Ni Ghriofa is a fluid hybrid of essay and autofiction. Ní Ghríofa explores the ways in which a life can be changed in response to the discovery of another’s – in this case, the life of Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill, and her poem Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi as ‘the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.’ A devastating and timeless tale about finding your voice by freeing another’s. 11 COLM KEEGAN THIS IS WATERFORD
Friday 23 October Garter Lane Theatre / Live Online | 5.00pm Theatre €5 Booking essential through www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038. Online Event see www.imagineartsfestival.com
Waterford Writers Weekend have commissioned acclaimed poet, playwright and performer Colm Keegan to collaborate with local writers and write This is Waterford, a vibrant and contemporary literary work. After a series of workshops with a wide range of Waterford residents, Keegan has created a rousing review of Waterford old and new that speaks of us, and to us, and will be launched on the day as a limited- edition print. Join us in this celebration of our home and our city, of Waterford, the place we love and the times we live in.
FELISPEAKS AND GUESTS Friday 23 October Garter Lane Theatre / Live Online 7.00pm €5 Booking essential €5 Booking essential through www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038
The inimitable Felispeaks has curated an event that hopes to inspire thought, excitement and perspective. Longford native Felicia Olusanya is a poet, playwright and performer at the forefront of a pioneering new literary scene in Ireland. Ably joined by Leke Ogunde and Samuel Yakura, this evening event is sure to be a highlight.
12 See www.imagineartsfestival.com for further details THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER KERRY HARDIE MARY MURPHY Poet, novelist and Aosdána member Kerry Hardie reads from her up and coming Only A Tree Knows How To Be A Tree collection from Bloodaxe Books, Where A tree has leaves that turn sunshine into Now Begins as well as exploring her tree food. Amazing! Dogs, fishes, birds, extensive and acclaimed catalogue. A must water... they are all themselves, yet they for poetry lovers. fit together to make our living world. Join Goma Gallery, 3.30pm. Online Event. author and illustrator Mary Murphy explore Booking essential her incredible book Only A Tree Know How To Be A Tree, the world and our place in it. see www.imagineartsfestival.com For our youngest storytellers. FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER Age 2 – 4, Carrickpheirish Library, Free Event, 10.00am, 11.00am, 12.15pm. BRIAN CONAGHAN (One carer/ parent per child, The M Word 8 participants max – 16 including carers) Costa and Irish Book Award winner Brian Booking Essential. Conaghan will chat about his latest YA title See www.imagineartsfestival.com The M Word, an unforgettable novel about grief and healing. An opportunity to see DESERT ISLAND POEMS one of the finest YA authors in person. Ambassador of Ireland to the United Ages 11 plus, Carrickpheirish Library, States Daniel Mulhall joins us to talk about Free Schools Event, 11.00am. the poems that shaped him as a reader Booking essential and writer, and inspired him as a person. see www.imagineartsfestival.com We are thrilled to welcome the Waterford native to the festival for the first time, live WATERFORD POETRY PRIZE from Washington. The Arts Office, Waterford City and County 12.00pm, online event. Booking essential Council will announce the winners of the see www.imagineartsfestival.com national Waterford Poetry Prize 2020 with judge Colm Keegan reading the winning FRANK FARRELLY works and giving us an insight as to why The Boiler Room Launch they were deemed this years’ winners. Local poet Frank Farrelly launches his Online event. 3.00pm. collection The Boiler Room. An exploration See www.imagineartsfestival.com of family, his experiences of school as a pupil and teacher, identity and personal struggle. COLM KEEGAN “The principal concern in writing poetry This is Waterford has always been to search for dignity and meaning in people’s lives, despite their, and See page 12 my own inevitable human flaws”. A highly FELISPEAKS AND GUESTS anticipated debut from this Waterford poet of note. See page 12 Goma Gallery, 2.00pm, Free Event. Booking essential see www.imagineartsfestival.com 13 MODWORDS JIM NOLAN & JIMMY MURPHY Identity In Conversation A collection of writers and musicians from Talking theatre with Jim Nolan and Jimmy different eras and generations, standing Murphy. Two of Irelands finest writers and on the same ground pressing our ears with directors chat writing, process and legacy. their words of change and melody. Garter Lane Theatre. Theatre €5 Garter Lane Theatre, €5, 9pm Online Event. Booking essential Booking through www.garterlane.ie see www.garterlane.ie or 051 - 855038 SARA BAUME SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER handiwork MARK ROPER See page 11 Beginnings – A Workshop DOIREANN NI GHRÍOFA Poet Mark Roper leads this workshop for beginners. Ideal for those who have A Ghost In The Throat never written before and want to build See page 11 their confidence to create a practice for themselves. Goma Gallery, 10.00am, €20. Booking essential through www.imagineartsfestival.com
MODWORDS PRESENTS
14 WILD AND PRECIOUS MARGO BANKS 21 October - 6 December Official opening 21 October | 5.00pm | 6.30pm | 7.45pm Goma Gallery FREE EVENT Registration essential. See www.imagineartsfestival.com
The role of drawing is fundamental to my work. These drawings of crows and animals are sometimes prefaces to paintings, and sometimes a relaxation from them. They are works in their own right. They are witnesses to the changes in the landscape of Teeromoyle in South West Kerry – my mother’s place. My mother died quite young but I was reared on her stories about her childhood in the mountains, so family and a sense of place haunts my work. My mother’s past is my past. Her parent’s house is long gone but the field where the house was remains unchanged and I have painted this field many times. Painting the field sometimes makes me feel snug, warm and sheltered and other times exposed, vulnerable and turbulent. I remove layers of earth while adding layers of paint This is my subject matter, not the meaning of my paintings. 15 Come join us on our festival tour of a selection of artists studios from around the Waterford County. Meet ten artists in their creative spaces talking about themselves, their work and how their
Janey Kavanagh Janey environment influences their art! Ritchie Murphy and Dave Curran and Dave Murphy Ritchie IMAGINE ARTS TRAIL 16 - 25 OCTOBER Magdelena Karol Magdelena Vivenne O’Malley Vivenne
Online via www.imagineartsfestival.com James Horan James Ben Hennessey Bernadine Lawton
16 MONUMENTS II (MEMORY TRACES) CIARA RODGERS Garter Lane Arts Centre are delighted to present Ciara Rodgers FOH solo show MONUMENTS II (Memory Traces). Ciara’s practice often involves historic and abandoned site visits. Former future facing productions of man surrender progressively to 27 August - 26 October nature in the form of the ruin and in the detritus of past Garter Lane Foyer technologies. Objects in the Gallery opening times 11.00am - 5.30pm the contemporary landscape Tues-Sat. FREE EVENT do not simply disappear all in one go as if by magic but are relegated to obsolescence, haunting us like the living dead as they insist upon the integration of the past into the here and now. Time and place are blurred through Ciara’s charcoal drawings of structures and objects within non -descriptive vistas and through Polaroid narratives which often depict dreamlike excursions. Elevating these often-defunct structures to a higher level of appreciation, the artist refers to them as Monuments. This exhibition is supported by Waterford Cultural Quarter.
CREATION’S TESTIMONY JANET SIBLEY 16-30 October Coastguard Station Cultural Centre, Tramore Gallery opening times 9.00pm - 5.00pm Mon-Fri, 11.00am - 5.00pm Sat-Sun. FREE EVENT
I’m a self taught artist originally from Manchester but now living permanently in Waterford. I enjoy painting treescapes, the leafy or naked canopies of giant trees, which take the eye to the dizzy heights of the sky above, and insects that give on a larger scale a glimpse into the tiny world that constantly buzzes and works around us. 17 THE GALWAY INCIDENT A WORK IN PROGRESS BY CLARE SCOTT Sunday 25 October Free Online Event | 2pm See www.imagineartsfestival.com
The artwork in progress is a fitting metaphor for the current global situation. It is an exploration, a process, a searching for solutions. The now is chaos, the ending undefined. Failure is an ever- present possibility… The Galway Incident is a short film (5 minutes) that tells the story of happenings during a night-out in Galway city. As the narrative becomes increasingly fragmented, both visually and aurally, the viewer has to work harder and harder to follow the story. The film was intended to be projected onto an installation accompanied by events and workshops exploring the experiences of the hard of hearing. However, interrupted by current events, the artist has chosen to present the work as is. In addition to the online premiere of this short film, Scott will also be presenting research connected to this project in the form of 3 short pieces in the form of filmed interactions, re-enactions, online talks or workshops. Or something. Probably. But then…who knows? Clare Scott is a multi-undisciplinary artist and writer based in the South East of Ireland. This is an Artlinks supported project. AN ARTIST TALK WITH LAURA JAMES Garter Lane are delighted to announce that they will host a talk with California based abstract painter, Laura James. Due to Covid 19 restrictions, Laura’s up and coming exhibition has been postponed until 2021. Come join us online to see this artists take on her world of creativity! ‘I love the interaction I get to have with people who view my pieces – to see the work through another’s eyes.’ Friday 16 October & Friday 23 October Online Event | 5pm See www.imagineartsfestival.com 18 “I” KITSCH DOOM, CIARA O’ NEILL, MATT HIGGS, WILLIAM MURRAY CURATED BY SANDRA KELLY 2 September - 26 October Garter Lane Foyer FREE EVENT. Gallery opening times 11.00am-5.30pm Tues-Sat. FREE EVENT
PLEASE NOTE THERE MAY BE WORKS OF ART ON DISPLAY IN THIS EXHIBITION “I” WHICH SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND DISTASTEFUL. PARENTS SHOULD EXERCISE THEIR JUDGEMENT BEFORE BRINGING THEIR CHILDREN INTO THIS EXHIBITION.
“Creativity takes courage” Henri Matisse “I” is a curated selection of works by emerging artists; Kitsch Doom, Ciara O’Neill, Matt Higgs, William Murray. Each artist is exploring themes of gender, sexuality, and identity within Irish culture. The artist works in a range of diverse mediums such as photography, print, drawing, sculpture, and performance, and this collective exhibition aims to reflect samples of their work as individuals, who’s grouping together is providing a collective space for reflection, inquiry and immersion. Using architectural interventions, the intent is that of creating a space that is soft, accessible, and intimate. Keen to examine the reach of the gallery output into societal discourse, Sandra Kelly has curated an exhibition that will create conversation and stimulate debate. The works presented are accompanied by a programme of discussion, screening and workshop style events as a means of carrying the themes of the exhibition into a well structured and safe forum. Some visitors to “I” may want to exercise parental discretion, and some may view the work as “sensitive in nature”. Garter Lane Arts Centre is based in the South East of Ireland providing a yearlong programme of exhibitions. For further information please do not hesitate to contact Visual Arts and Education Manager, Sandra Kelly at [email protected] or on 051 877153. This exhibition is supported by Waterford City Council. 19 IMAGININGS – A SHOWCASE OF IDEAS
An idea, a stage, an audience! Imagine Arts Festival launched an idea during lockdown to find three creators and help them to bring their ideas to the stage, now we just need the audience! Join us on an evening of creativity to explore three works in progress, giving you the opportunity to be a part of the journey that makes an idea come to life. There will be three 20 minute performances by Shannon O’Reilly, Aine O’Hara and Yasmin Mello followed by a Q&A with Ronan Fitzgibbon of A Little Room, Theatre Development Centre.
Wednesday 21 October Garter Lane Theatre | 6.00pm Theatre €5 Booking through www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038. Online Event, see www.imagineartsfestival.com
THE IMAGINE ONLINE ART SHOP
Welcome to the Imagine Online Art Shop, where you can browse the art from the comfort of your armchair whist deciding which wall to hang the chosen piece you are buying directly from the artist themselves! It couldn’t be more simple!
16 - 25 October Opening – 12pm 16th of October Closing – Midnight 25th of October To view see www.imagineartsfestival.com
20 oh, this hectic world Sunday 25 October Free Online Event | 1pm See www.imagineartsfestival.com
A musical setting for 10 classic haiku, composed by Eric Sweeney, haiku selected and read by Mark Roper. Eric Sweeney passed away in July this year. A composer of national and international importance, he had been deeply involved in the musical and artistic life of Waterford for most of his life. His death is a huge loss to the world of music in Ireland. oh, this hectic world is the last piece Eric composed, a setting for 10 classic Japanese haiku selected by the poet Mark Roper, who had collaborated with Eric on many ventures over many years. The piece was due to be performed by Eric and Mark at Imagine Arts Festival this year. Composer and pianist Marian Ingoldsby, a close friend and colleague of Eric’s at WIT for over 25 years, has very kindly agreed to step in to play Eric’s music. Imagine is proud and honoured to present oh, this hectic world, a tribute to the memory of a man who will be so greatly missed in so many different ways. CREATING TOGETHER, APART A YOUNG ARTIST EXHIBITION 16 - 25 October Venue TBC See www.imagineartsfestival.com for details
Imagine Arts Festival presents a young artists exhibition, Creating Together – Apart, promoting the artistic creations of young people from the ages of 7 – 17 during this time of Covid 19, and all that it brings! Art can help us through times like these, as we can express how we are feeling by being creative. Inspiration can come from anywhere. The great thing is that everyone’s experience is different, so everyone can offer something unique! Kindly sponsored by Waterford based K Sports 21 WHEN ALL IS RUIN ONCE AGAIN A FILM BY KEITH WALSH
Thursday 22 October Garter Lane Theatre | 6.30pm €10 Booking through www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038
A rural community commit their lives to memory as a new motorway ploughs onwards through their landscape, a glaring symbol of our modern age. What will remain when nature inevitably subsumes it all? Keith Walsh was born in Waterford in the south east of Ireland. His first exposure to cameras was at 13 when he began filming with his older brother. He studied Film and Television in Galway City and began working professionally while in college. Over the past 25 years he has worked specifically in non – fiction – directing, shooting and editing his own work with long time collaborator Jill Beardsworth. Their work has screened at over 50 festivals worldwide and picked up several awards, most recently best cinematography for When All is Ruin Once Again at the Galway Film Fleadh. “FREEDOM IS...” SMARTPHONE FILM COMPETITION €350 PRIZE POOL See www.imagineartsfestival.com for full details Imagine Festival, in partnership with Waterford Film Centre present the finalists in the Smartphone Film Competition. Come along and see a selection of short films especially created for this event. Sunday 25 October ONLINE EVENT | 4.00pm See www.imagineartsfestival.com 22 A DARK HISTORY OF WATERFORD Wednesday 21 - Friday 23 October Cathedral Square | 7.00pm €5 Booking through www.imagineartsfestival.com
James Doherty returns to the Imagine Arts Festival this year with his hugely popular Dark History Walk. Learn about our cities gruesome past that they don’t mention in the history books. Expect stories of murder, betrayal and betrayal. James is a historian and story teller with a gift for bringing history, even dark history, back to our streets! Covid 19 compliance will be maintained on this walk! Please dress suitably for weather conditions. For more information please see Twitter @jimsdarkhistory Walk is not suitable for under under 16’s.
6 Lombard St, Waterford [email protected] 087 196 1923 051582633 23 BOOZE, BLAA’S ‘N’ BANTER 2020 The highly popular early morning Booze, Blaa’s ‘N’ Banter annual hootananny extravaganza held in Jordan’s American Bar, on Waterford’s Quay’s goes online this year due to the Covid19 pestilence. It’s organised by the Waterford Council of Trade Unions in association with the Imagine Arts Festival and is a homage to the madness and mayhem of the city’s early house dockers taverns of yore. The event involves short labour, maritime and social history talks, intermingled with music, poetry and merry making, where complimentary Waterford blaa’s, supplied by local bakers, along with filings from local butchers and fish mongers are served throughout. And hosted in the friendliest bar in town by Andy, Kathy and Anna Jordan. The line up includes: Catherine Foley, Journalist, broadcaster author and filmmaker on Dan the Man Shanahan and Old Waterford Memories. David Caroll, Author, on The History of Dunmore East RNLI. Ian Lumley, National Heritage Officer of An Taisce on The Destruction of Waterford’s Built Heritage. Dave Lordan, Poet, teacher, Web Designer and activist on HyBrazil, Atlantis and Poems of the Sea. Emmet O’Connor, History and Lecturer on The Origins of the Waterford Left Andrew Doherty, Author, broadcaster and local historian. Jack Burchill, award winning local historian. Paul O’Brien, Writer and historian on Waterford and the Slave Trade. Please note: We will also include some snatches from BBB in previous years Musicians and poets include: Tom Mullane, Derek Flynn, Jim Casey, Pat Galvin, Dyksie Saturday 24 October | 9.00am, 9.00pm Walshe, Louis Quinlan and many Sunday 25 October | 9.00pm more. Online Event Most to be announced. See www.imagineartsfestival.com 24 IMAGINE presents 16 - 17 OCTOBER THE MUSIC OF JOHN DWYER A CELEBRATION Saturday 17 October Online Event | 8pm See www.imagineartsfestival.com
Following the passing of our great friend John Dwyer this past August, this concert will celebrate the man and his music. The entire concert will feature tunes from the repertoire of John himself and will be performed by a selection of musicians who are based in the South East. MC - Jimmy O’Brien Moran Macdara, Pax agus Cárthach Ó Faoláin (bouzouki, fiddle, accordion) Caoimhín & Seán Ó Fearghail agus Paddy Tutty (Flute, uilleann pipes, fiddle, bouzouki) Edel Fox & Neill Byrne with Lia Byrne (concertina & fiddles).
25 GLÓR NA nDÉISE This concert will feature a host of Friday 16 October musicians and singers from across the county of Waterford and will focus on Online Event | 8pm the repertoire of each performer’s local See www.imagineartsfestival.com area within the county. MC - Edel Fox Sarah O’Gorman (fiddle) and Claire Fennell (flute) Áine agus Tomás Ó Dálaigh (concertina and fiddle) Jimmy O’Brien Moran (uilleann pipes) Ciarán Ó Gealbháin and friends
26 JOHN DWYER TRAD WEEKEND FREE ONLINE WORKSHOPS
Saturday 17 October Online Event Registration essential. Spaces Limited See www.imagineartsfestival.com
Workshops will run for 90 minutes on Zoom. Booking is essential as places are limited. 11am – 12.30pm Fiddle – Paddy Tutty Concertina – Edel Fox Uilleann Pipes – Jimmy O’Brien Moran Singing in Irish / Amhránaíocht as Gaeilge – Ciarán Ó Gealbháin 2pm – 3.30pm The compositions of John Dwyer (open to all instruments) – Neill Byrne This workshop is only suitable for intermediate - advanced players
CÓMHRÁ GAEILGE WITH VIV NÍ CATHÁIN Cad? Cathain? Cen Fáth? Conas? Saturday 17 October Bígí linn don Chiorcal Cómhrá. Beidh scéalta, craic is cluiche nó dhó Online Event | 2.00pm - 3.30pm againn. Registration essential. What? When? Why? How? Join us for See www.imagineartsfestival.com an Irish language conversation. We will have stories, craic and a game or two. Beidh fáilte romhat. 27 WHAT’S ON Friday 16th October Event Location Time Creation’s Testimony - Janet Sibley Exhibition Coastguard Station Cultural 12.00pm Centre, Tramore Monuments II - Ciara Rodgers Exhibition Garter Lane Foyer 12.00pm “I” - Collabrative Exhibition Garter Lane Gallery 12.00pm Creating Together, Apart. Venue - TBC 12.00pm A Young People’s Art Exhibition Imagine Visual Arts Trail Online Event 12.00pm Imagine Visual Art Shop Online Event 12.00pm An Artist’s Talk with Laura James Online Event 5.00pm - Registration Essential Glór Na nDéise - John Dwyer Trad Weekend Online Event 8.00pm Saturday 17th October John Dwyer Trad Weekend Online Event 11.00am - Instrument Workshop - Registration Essential 12.30pm The Compositions of John Dwyer Workshop Online Event 2.00pm - - Registration Essential 3.30pm Cómhrá Gaeilge with Viv Ní Catháin Online Event 2.00pm - - Registration Essential 3.30pm The Music of John Dwyer, A Celebration Online Event 8.00pm John Dwyer Trad Weekend Wednesday 21st October Wild and Precious Worlds, Goma Gallery 5.00, 6.30, Opening of Margo Banks Exhibition - Registration Essential 7.45pm ‘Imaginings’, A Showcase of Ideas Garter Lane Theatre 6.00pm A Dark History of Waterford Starting point Cathedral Square 7.00pm - Jim’s Dark History Walk (over 16’s) - Booking Essential Join Me In The Pines Theatre Royal 8.00pm Thursday 22nd October Only A Tree Knows How To Be A Tree Carrickpheirish Library - 10,11am, with Mary Murphy Registration Essential 12.15pm Desert Island Poems with Dan Mulhall Event Live Online 12.00pm - Registration Essential A book launch, The Boiler Room by Frank Farrelly Goma Gallery 2.00pm - Registration Essential Kerry Hardie Poetry Reading Goma Gallery 3.30pm - Registration Essential
28 When Is All Is Ruined Once Again. Garter Lane Theatre 6.30pm A film by Keith Walsh A Dark History of Waterford Starting point Cathedral Square 7.00pm - Jim’s Dark History Walk (over 16’s) - Booking Essential Flood, a Ger Bourke Theatre Premiere Theatre Royal 8.00pm Identity, Modwords Garter Lane Theatre 9.00pm Friday 23rd October The M Word with Brian Conaghan Carrickpheirish Library - 11.00am Registration Essential An Artist’s Talk with Laura James Online Event 5.00pm - Registration Essential Messrs Smiley & Veneers Cathedral Square 2.00, 3.15, - Curious State Street Theatre Company 4.30pm Waterford Poetry Prize Reading with Colm Keegan Live Online from Waterford 3.00pm Gallery of Art Colm Keegan, This is Waterford Garter Lane Theatre / Live Online 5.00pm A Dark History of Waterford - Jim’s Dark History Walk Starting point Cathedral Square 7.00pm Felispeaks and Guests Garter Lane Theatre 7.00pm Flood, a Ger Bourke Theatre Premiere Theatre Royal 8.00pm Saturday 24th October Booze, Blaas & Banter Online Event 9.00am Mark Roper, Beginings - A workshop for beginners Goma Gallery 11.00am Jim Nolan and Jimmy Murphy in Conversation Garter Lane Theatre/Live Online 12.00pm Flood, a Ger Bourke Theatre Premiere Theatre Royal 1.oopm Sara Baume, handiwork. Garter Lane Theatre 2.00pm In Conversation with Deirdre Dwyer Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat Garter Lane Theatre/Live Online 4.00pm Music of Waterford Garter Lane Theatre/Live Online 8.00pm Junior Brother with support Trá Pháidín Theatre Royal 8.00pm Booze, Blaas & Banter Online Event 9.00am, 9.00pm Sunday 25th October oh this hectic world, Haiku Poetry reading with a Online Event 1.00pm musical score by the late Eric Sweeney The Galway Incident - A work in progress by Clare Scott Online Event 2.00pm Waterford Film Centre Smart Phone Competition Online Event 4.00pm Showcase Saint Sister Theatre Royal 8.00pm Booze, Blaas & Banter Online Event 9.00pm
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