Culture Night 2014 Programme

Culture Night 2014 , County Friday, September 19th 6.00pm – 11.00pm

Culture Night provides a terrific opportunity for families to sample aspects of Irish Culture and Heritage. This extraordinary night of cultural festivities has grown each year since its inception in 2006 with inspiring commitment from local authorities, cultural organisations and participants throughout the country. There is a diverse programme of performances, events and exhibitions available to the public.

This will be Letterkenny’s 6th. occasion to participate in Culture Night. In common with other participating towns and cities across the country, the town will see an evening of highly accessible, FREE OF CHARGE, family friendly events. The programme is centered around, among others, , the Regional Cultural Centre, , the ETB Music Education Partnership, An Grianán Theatre, The Artworks, The Central Library, St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Conwal Parish Church, Create-A-Link Art Studio, ArtCo Gallery, Donegal Youth Service @ The LOFT and the Save The Church Lane group.

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Culture Night is brought to you by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in partnership with Donegal County Council (Cultural Services).

Is í an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta a dhéanann comhordú ar an Oíche Chultúir, i gcomhpháirt le Comhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall (Seirbhísí Cultúrtha).

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Full Tilt Recording Studios Unit 29, Pine Hill, Mountain Top, Kilmacrennan Road. T: 074 9177673. E. [email protected] W: www.fulltiltstudios.ie

Open Night @ Full Tilt 7.00pm – 10.00pm

Award-winning local DJs and music producers Timmy Gibson and Tommy Conway have been operating their state-of-the-art Full Tilt Recording Studio facility at Mountain Top since late 2009. Specially for Culture Night, Tommy and Timmy will host an open-to-the-public recording session where visitors can observe and participate in the creation of a brand new dance track.

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ZoNa Dance Co. at Pinehill Studios have a go, an idea of what it’s like to train like Pinehill Studios, Pine Hill, Mountain Top, a dancer. As part of ZoNa Dance Co.’s ethos Kilmacrennan Road. - i. the belief that dance provides a context T: 086.8222189 E. [email protected] for an artistic experience which enables an W. www.zonadanceco.com individual to develop personally, socially and physically - this Invitation is extended to Showcase Performances EVERYONE to participate for one evening & Dance Workshop and join us for a fun-filled time to celebrate 6.00pm – 7.30pm the art of dance.

It’s Open Night with ZoNa Dance Co. at the Pinehill Studios where Jessica Peoples and VENUE 3 her company extend an Invitation to all to come along and enjoy student Showcase Letterkenny Town Park Performances in ballet and contemporary T: 087.2701506/086.8626779 dance (6.00pm-6.45pm) and Open Dance E: [email protected] Workshops for all ages (6.45pm – 7.30pm). W: www.cosanglas.com The dance workshop will give parents, friends, dancers or anyone curious enough to LOINNIR Sculpture Trail 6.00pm – 10.30pm

Following last year’s tremendous success, Gaeltacht artists’ collective An Cosán Glas will bring their magical ‘Loinnir’ trail of temporary, illuminated sculptural works back to Letterkenny Town Park, for another Culture Night spectacular. This will be the first largescale public showing of the collective’s new body of work, since it was created over ZoNa Contemporary the summer months. Featured artists will Dance Workshop

Photo: Nicola Kelly Photography include Deirdre Ní Bhraoináin, Séamus Kennedy,

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Remembrances 7.00pm & 8.30pm

Remembrances is a drama by playwright Jonathan Burgess exploring the experiences of young men from Donegal and the border counties of Derry and Tyrone, during and after the First World War. Members of the Balor Rep Theatre Company will perform excerpts form the play which will tour on both sides of the border in the month Máire Nic Fhearraigh @ Loinnir.

Photo: Annjo Carr, An Cosán Glas An Cosán Photo: Annjo Carr, of October. This production of Remembrances has Annjo Nic Ghiolla Cheara, Ewan Berry, Mícheál been assisted by the Reconciliation Fund of Mac Pháidín, Caoimhín Mac Aoidh, Billy Wynter, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Bernie Hopkins, Leanne McLaughlin, Jim Osborne, Katie McFadden, Máire Nic Fhearraigh, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Kerry Law and Roger O’Shea. Traditional Session 8.00pm – 10.00pm

VENUE 4 Members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Craobh Leitir Ceanainn, present a stirring Donegal County Museum session of traditional music, song and dance, High Road T: 074 9124613 especially for Culture Night. The Letterkenny branch has been in existence since 1957 and hosts a weekly traditional session on Tuesday nights at Gallagher’s Hotel, Upper Main Street. All are welcome.

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North West Words at Café Blend High Road T: 074 9177787 Photos: Donegal County Museum North West Words Donegal and The First 8.00pm – 9.00pm & 9.15pm – 10.15pm World War 6.00pm – 10.00pm North West Words is a monthly reading series that has been running at Café Blend since Donegal County Museum presents an 2010, presenting established and emerging exhibition on the First World War which writers, often alongside local musicians and examines this key period in our history from visual artists. a Donegal perspective. It tells the story of Tonight’s Culture Night edition of NW the First World War through the experiences Words will be in two parts, the first starting at of Donegal men and women, at home and 8.00pm will feature writers Moyra Donaldson abroad. and Nick Griffiths with music by Joel Harkin - The exhibition is curated by Donegal the second, from 9.15pm, will feature Colette County Museum, as part of the Peace III– Ní Ghallchóir and Annmarie Gallagher with funded, Hands of History project. music by Jean Crossan ().

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Both sessions will also feature an Open Mic platform.

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Regional Cultural Centre 46 Port Road (behind An Grianán Theatre) T: 074 9129186 Who’s Counting? W: www.regionalculturalcentre.com F: www.facebook.com/regionalculturalcentre Regional Cultural Centre since it opened in Exhibitions Open July 2007. It illustrates the great quality and 6.00pm – 10.00pm range of world class, local and international acts, that have performed at the RCC to date, PATRICK SCOTT: IMAGE SPACE LIGHT including The Unthanks, Bassekou Kouyate, Presented by the Regional Cultural Centre in Henry McCullough, Peggy Seeger, John association with the Irish Museum of Modern Cooper Clarke, In Their Thousands and many, Art (IMMA). many more. Celebrated Irish artist Patrick Scott, sadly died in February of this year on the eve of the HANDS-ON ART ROOM opening of a major retrospective exhibition of 6.00pm – 10.00pm his work, ‘Patrick Scott : Image Space Light’, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and at The RCC invites children, families and artists Visual, Carlow. of all ages to enjoy its Hands-On Art Room on The exhibition at the Regional Cultural Centre Culture Night, where everyone can make their features works completed by Patrick Scott from own masterpieces in the style of Patrick Scott. the 1960s to the recent past. The show’s focus is on Scott’s mature style, epitomized by his iconic gold leaf paintings. It also features a number of VENUE 6 tapestries - mainly from the late 1970s – and a series of ash tables from the early 1990s. Donegal Music Education Partnership @ Regional Cultural Centre DECLAN DOHERTY: Port Road (behind An Grianán Theatre) DONEGAL PHOTOGRAPHS T: 074 9176293 W: www.donegaletb.ie Declan is best known locally as a press photographer with the but he Established in 2003 and based at the has also undertaken a significant number of Regional Cultural Centre, the Donegal photography commissions with the Regional ETB managed Donegal Music Education Cultural Centre. ‘Declan Doherty: Donegal Partnership is providing the model for Photographs’ is a retrospective exhibition the emerging Music Generation system of featuring a selection of both press and music education, currently being developed project images. It illustrates his considerable nationally by the Music Network agency. feel as a portrait photographer and also a As well as providing a comprehensive sophisticated visual sense when applied to range of music and voice tuition countywide, landscapes and almost abstract close ups. DMEP is also home to a dynamic and colourful array of music and choral JOHN SOFFE: RCC LIVE 2007-2014 ensembles, a selection of whom will be John Soffe : RCC Live features spectacular performing in Letterkenny and in An photographs of live music concerts at the Gaeltacht on Culture Night.

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County Donegal Youth Orchestra Auditorium of the Regional Cultural Centre. Open Public Rehearsal Four acts performing one original composition 8.15pm – 9.15pm each will be recorded, in live sound and on film, on the night. Acts will receive their music County Donegal Youth Orchestra (CDYO) is video within two weeks of the recording which made up of young, talented musicians from they may then upload to their Facebook page, around County Donegal, and is run under Youtube or to music industry promotional sites the Donegal Music Education Partnership such as www.breakingtunes.com banner. CDYO embraces a varied and often Performers wishing to be challenging repertoire, from well-known considered are invited to and loved compositions of the Classical era send a demo recording, on to modern and avant garde creations by CD or DVD, featuring at modern composers and artists, taking in least 2 of their own original music from film and television in between. compositions, plus biog and Earlier this year, the Orchestra’s performance contact details, to Culture at the National Concert Hall, as part of the Night Letterkenny DNK IAYO’s Festival of Youth Orchestras, was very Recording Sessions, c/o well received. Donegal County Council Several unique and much-praised Arts Service, Donegal compositions have been created for the CDYO County Library, Rosemount Lane, by composers and artists such as Vincent Letterkenny on or before Friday, September Kennedy, Little John Nee and Neil Martin. The 5th. The invitation is issued to Donegal-based Vincent Kennedy/Little John Nee adaptation solo performers and bands in any musical of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince’ earned the genre. The four acts will be selected by a panel Youth Orchestra a Special Achievement Award of representatives of the Regional Cultural at the 2013 Festival of Youth Orchestras. The Centre, The Donegal News and Donegal Orchestra is conducted by Vincent Kennedy. County Council Arts Service.

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An Grianán Theatre Port Road T: 074 9120777 W: www.angrianan.com

Photo: DMEP The Errigal Groove Orchestra 6.00pm – 6.45pm VENUE 6 Formed in 2011 by Donegal Music Education DNK Mobile Recording Studio Partnership under the directorship of @ Regional Cultural Centre saxophone tutor Sean McCarron, Errigal T: 086.8494238 Groove Orchestra has evolved into a vibrant E: [email protected] and talented jazz ensemble. Meeting monthly and with its student membership coming Free Sound and Vision Recording Sessions from all over the county, this impressive 5.00pm – 10.00pm collective breathes fresh life into old jazz standards. Performances to date include the Especially for Culture Night, DNK Music and City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival and Sound Production will set up their mobile at the headquarters of the Department of sound and video recording facility in the Education and Skills in .

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Errigal VENUE 8 Groove Orchestra members Artworks Picture Framing Port Road (opp. An Grianán Theatre) T: 0749125073 E: [email protected]

Outdoor Film Screening 7.00pm – 10.00pm Photo: DMEP Artworks presents another of its unique Blue Ribbon Performing Arts outdoor screenings of new short films, School Showcase animations and video works, created by local 7.00pm – 8.00pm film makers including Steve McCollum, Daniel McGarrigle, Paul Bonar, Ronan McConnell, The Blue Ribbon Performing Arts School, Paul Rooney and others. under the direction of Brighdin Carr, has facilitated classes in music, dance and drama for many hundreds of young people in VENUE 9 Letterkenny, over the years. Blue Ribbon’s special Culture Night Showcase at An Grianán The LOFT Youth Project Theatre will feature solo and choral singing, & Health Advice Café music and drama as well as choreographed 16-18 Port Road dance routines in popular, hip hop, Irish and T: 074 9129640, 9188271 contemporary styles. W: www.donegalyouthservice.ie/loft

The LOFT Youth Project is a community- Sweeney’s Jazzmen Paul Sweeney 9.30pm – Late Eamonn Monaghan based resource managed by Donegal Youth Service and Foróige, providing a broad range Paul Sweeney is one of of activities and developmental programmes Donegal’s true musical for young people aged 12 to 18. There is treasures, a renowned a strong emphasis on cultural activities jazz trumpeter - who including music, visual art, drama, dance and alongside Mountcharles film-making, among others. piano player Eamonn Monaghan - performed The LOFT’s Hot Chocolate Art Trail. for many years with Various Venues the legendary Capitol 6.00pm – 10.00pm Showband. Paul now enjoys a hugely popular Sunday residency in Dublin with his outfit, The LOFT Youth Project are preparing a Sweeney’s Jazzmen. series of art pieces and installations during In this special Culture Night appearance, he the month of September, which will be will be joined by his jazz quartet and several exhibited at a selection of participating special guests - including Eamonn Monaghan venues on Culture Night. When you find one - for a night of swinging Dixieland tunes of the pieces, photograph yourself with it and hot Capitol Showband classics. Also and present your photo at the LOFT Youth joining the band will be jazz singer Triona Project on the Port Road, to avail of a free Sweeney and some of the stars of the An Hot Chocolate to keep you warm as you Grianán Theatre /Earagail Arts Festival hit explore Letterkenny’s rich and varied Culture production,‘Fiesta’. Night scene!

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World Wide Voices Showcase Featuring works by many noted Irish artists 7.00pm – 8.00pm and craftspeople including Edel McBride, Ailsa Friel, Emily Bazely, Brian O’Doherty, Meeting weekly at the LOFT, World Wide Karen O’Kane, Siobhán Steele, Shelagh Voices is a group of young people from Dwyer, Raymond Kingham, Emer O’Sulllivan , Nigeria, Poland, Ghana and South and Mary Friel. Africa who have come together under the auspices of the Donegal Youth Service and Music @ Mourne Antiques the Intercultural Group Games initiative. This 6.15pm – 6.45pm special showcase event for Culture Night will feature selection of musical and other collaborative performance pieces, developed VENUE 12 by World Wide Voices over the past year. The night will also feature the launch of the Church Lane group’s ‘One Donegal’ Art Project. Donegal County Council Heritage Office, County House, Lifford. T: 074 9172576 E: [email protected] VENUE 10 Church Lane Built Heritage Walk The Cottage with Colm Murray 49 Upper Main Street Meet @ St. Eunan’s Cathedral T: 074 9125073 E: [email protected] 7.30pm – 8.15pm

‘The Third Place’ Live Church Lane permitted one writer to describe 10.00pm – Late Letterkenny as having the image of a ‘city of God’. How much history does a short steep As a continuation of its very successful ‘The stretch of an Irish town contain? Perhaps more Third Place’ visual art project for Earagail Arts than you think. Colm Murray, Architecture Festival, the Artworks curates a night of new Officer with The Heritage Council and a native original music and visual art for Culture Night, of Letterkenny, will give a short tour of the with performances by Calamity Gin, Joel Harkin Church Lane, pointing out some overlooked and Chris Toye ( whose debut CD, ‘Pleasure in features of architecture, historical geography, Leaving’, has just been released ) and guitar townscape and the plight of small houses in virtuoso, Simon McCafferty. Visual artists Ireland in the early 21st Century. featured will include Kat Dempsey, Paul Rooney, Heston Kelly, Joan Murray and Kristina Wilke. VENUE 13

VENUE 11 Universal Books Church Lane Mourne Antiques T: 074 9161869 E: [email protected] 38 Upper Main Street F: www.facebook.com/universalbooksletterkenny T: 074 9126457 W: www.mourneantiques.com Spoken Word and Music Gallery Artists 8.15pm – 10.00pm 6.00pm – 9.00pm A special Universal spoken word and music A veritable treasure trove of antique jewellery, event with poet and ceramics, prints, contemporary crafts, contributor Brian Smeaton, well-known local watercolours, ornate furniture and more. travel writer Paddy Toye ( via Skype from

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London ) and musician and singer, Laura Wells. Teas and Refreshments will be served. All are Welcome.

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Church Lane Pop-Up Gallery (former Bakersville premises) Save The Church Lane T: 086.3452457 programme with a strong Irish element, around F: www.facebook.com/SaveTheChurchLane the important themes of love, death and life. It includes music written by Michael McGlynn for Church Lane Artists & Craft Workers Anúna, Stanford, Parry, Sullivan and Schubert, Exhibition among others. 6.00pm – 10.00pm Conwal Parish Church, of the Church of Ireland Parish of Conwal and Gartan, dates back As part of its on-going effort to revitalise this to the 17th century when it was constructed to once vibrant street at the heart of replace a crumbling medieval church at Conwal, Letterkenny, the Save The Church Lane group just outside Letterkenny. Its church tower and will host an exhibition in the former spire have recently undergone an extensive and Bakersville premises, where a collective of very impressive refurbishment. local artists and crafts people including sculptor Brian Berkholst, woodturner Brian Laverty, dress maker Margo Baxter, VENUE 16 photographer Jason McGroarty, graphic designer Maggie May, artists Kieran Breslin St. Eunan’s Cathedral and Aileen Kelly, illustrator Gartth Nee and Ard Choilm. T: 074 9121021 mosaic artist Makolo Vonga, will demonstrate E: [email protected] and show their work. There will also be teas, coffees and home-baking. St. Eunan’s Cathedral Choir, The Conwal Singers and Guests 8.30pm – 10.00pm VENUE 15 An evening time of reflection through sacred Conwal Parish Church music, presented by the St.Eunan’s Cathedral Church Lane Choir, under Organist and Choirmaster Graham W: www.facebook.com/conwalandgartanparish Harrison, and The Conwal Singers, with guest soloists Ann Jennings, Diana McLaughlin Gaudium Chamber Choir (sopranos) and Brian McKeever. Diana Bryan McLaughlin, Soprano This is an opportunity for music lovers to 6.45pm – 8.00pm experience the exhilaration of choral, vocal and organ music performed in the superb acoustics Drawn from a pool of experienced singers of St. Eunan’s Cathedral. Under the inspired from Donegal, Derry and Fermanagh, leadership of Bishop Patrick O’Donnell this Gaudium Chamber Choir is a newly formed Cathedral, designed in the French-Gothic style, ensemble, led by Fanad-based organist and but with many Celtic features, was built in four choral director, Daniel Braddell. Tonight’s years and opened in 1902. The original Telford performance features a collaboration with organ was refashioned in 1986 and is currently local soprano Diana Bryan McLaughlin, in a undergoing refurbishment and upgrading.

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VENUE 17 performed to-date in An Grianán Theatre, Glebe Gallery Churchill, Glenveagh Castle, Cara House Family Resource Centre Town Hall and the Sligo Choral Fortwell, Market Square. T: 074 9123986 Festival. Members of the ensemble also E: [email protected] W: www.carahouse.ie sang at the Llangollen International Musical F: www.facebook.com/carahousefrc Eisteddfod in Wales, last year.

Raking Night Plants, Cures and Customs from the 7.00pm – 9.00pm Donegal Schools Folklore Collection 8.45 – 9.30pm Enjoy an evening of stories, music, song and refreshments, in an oldstyle Raking Night at This presentation by folklorist Eithne Ní Cara House, hosted by Teresa McGee and Ghallchobhair will give an insight into home guests. All are welcome. cures used in 1930s Donegal and highlights cultural changes which have taken place VENUE 18 within Donegal during the past seven decades. Eithne works for the Royal Irish The Central Library Academy and has written an introductory Road T: 074 9124950 booklet to the 1930s Schools’ Folklore W: www.donegallibrary.ie Collection.

The Central Library and the EU Direct Office present an intergenerational programme of VENUE 19 ensemble music playing and choral singing with the Donegal Childrens’ String Orchestra Create A Link Art Studio and the Colmcille Gospel Choir and a talk by Pearse Road (behind Charley’s Café noted folklorist Eithe Ní Ghallchobhair. & McKendrick House) T: 074 9168745 Donegal Childrens’ String Orchestra 6.30pm – 7.15pm 7.00pm – 10.30pm Photo: The Donegal Children’s String Orchestra Childrens Clay

(CSO) aims to complement and build on Workshops Jason McGroarty the weekly individual instrumental lessons Children will have the provided by the Donegal Music Education chance to let their Partnership. imaginations run wild, It aims to build confidence and trains and creating their own prepares string players for progression into interpretations through more advanced ensemble groups within clay modelling, of the the DMEP. The ensemble is conducted by Irish mythical giant, Balor na Súile Nimhe / Spanish musician Víctor Yélamo. Balor of The Evil Eye. Legend has it that Balor - the mythical King of Tory Island - could kill Colmcille Gospel Choir anyone, just by looking at them ! 7.30pm – 8.30pm ‘Did You Bring The Toilet Roll?’ Colmcille Gospel Choir are a non- An installation capturing the humour of a denominational, intergenerational ensemble night camping out under the stars. whose members are drawn from the , Milford, Ramelton area. The Chalk Wall Installation Directed by Margaret McAteer, they have Letterkenny artist Paul McClean co-ordinates

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a magical wall of art with the aid and similar vein, the working artists do not appear imagination of children of the community. in the film, rather we see the studio as it lives and sounds everyday. Donegal Dolly Photographs Donegal Dolly has spent the past four weeks on a highly adventurous tour of County VENUE 21 Donegal. With the help of the Studio Artists, all of Dolly’s adventures have been captured Christeph Gallery on camera. An exhibition of the resulting Convent Road/Lr. Main Street T: 074 9126411 photographs will be on shown in the Hallway Gallery. Donegal Portrait Artists’ Exhibition 6.00pm – 10.00pm Artists at Work In Studios 3 & 4, invited and residential artists An exhibition of portraiture from a selection who use the Create-A-Link Studio - including of Donegal’s most decorated visual artists ceramic artist Gerard McGlinchey - will be who, between them have won or been working live on their current projects, giving shortlisted for a host of prestigious awards visitors the opportunity to see an artist at work. including the Irish Sky Portrait Artist of The Year Award, RDS Student Painter Award, Glebe Four In A Room @ Studio 5 Gallery Derek Hill Award, BP Portrait Award, Following on from last year’s very successful RUA, RHA and the Texaco Art Competition. Four In A Room sessions, where four young Featured artists will include Philip Mackey, Daniel talented male musicians played the acoustic Nelis, Selena Mowat, Stephen Bennett, Mantas room, this year it’s the turn of a quartet of Poderys, Oisin Gallagher, Franck Saucian, Emer supremely talented women performers. Smith, Thomas Putt and Brendan Boyle.

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ArtCo Gallery The Artist Hostel Pearse Road (behind Charley’s Café & Lr. Sallaghraine, Ballymacool McKendrick House) T: 074 9168745 (on left, before Aura Leisure Centre) T: 074 9110498 E: [email protected] Sounds and Visions 7.00pm – 10.30pm Mosaic Making Workshop 6.00pm – 8.00pm Sounds and Visions is a short film produced by the artists at the Create-A-Link Studio. An Open Evening at the Artist Hostel with The film is a follow-on from an original living a mosaic-making workshop led by resident studio piece made in 2012. Created in a artist, Makola Vonga.

Further Information: The Arts Service, Donegal County Council. c/o Donegal County Library, Rosemount Lane, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: 074 9121968 E: [email protected]

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VENUE 1 Full Tilt Recording Studios VENUE 11 Mourne Antiques

Open Night @ Full Tilt Recording Studios...... 7.00pm – 10.00pmTo Creeslough Exhibition: Gallery Artists. ( Music 6.15-6.45 )..... 6.00pm – 9.00pm & Glenveagh H St Conal’s oad VENUE 2 ZoNa Dance Co. @ Pinehill Studios VENUE 12 Church Lane Built Heritage Walk toy R Hospital Kil

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