Culture Night 2014 Programme Culture Night 2014 Letterkenny, County Donegal 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, Donegal County Museum, the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny Town Park, the County Donegal 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. www.culturenight.ie www.facebook.com/culturenight 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). 2 Culture Night 2014 Programme VENUE 1 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. VENUE 2 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, 3 Culture Night 2014 Programme Remembrances 7.00pm & 8.30pm Remembrances is a drama by Derry 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. VENUE 5 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 (Highland Radio). 4 Culture Night 2014 Programme Both sessions will also feature an Open Mic platform. VENUE 6 Photo: Declan Doherty 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 Donegal News 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. 5 Culture Night 2014 Programme 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.