Comhairle Ceantair an Iúir, Mhúrn agus an Dúin Newry, Mourne and Down District Council Clár Geimhridh – Earraigh na nEalaíon agus Cultúir Arts & Culture Winter – Spring Programme

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Ag freastal ar an Dún agus Ard Mhacha Theas Serving Down and South Armagh Welcome DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Seo chugaibh eagrán na bliana úir de chlár Welcome to the New Year, Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Iarsmalainne de chuid new season edition of the Arts, Chomhairle Ceantair an Iúir, Mhúrn agus Culture and Museum programme an Dúin don séasúr nua. Sa bhroisiúr seo for Newry, Mourne and Down District gheofar eolas faoi na beo-léirithe, ranganna, Council. This brochure contains live ceardlanna, léachtanna, taispeántais, agus performances, classes, workshops, imeachtaí ar leith a bheith ar siúl fud fad talks, exhibitions and special events an cheantair ó Eanáir go hAibreán. across the district from January – April.

Tá sé lán d'imeachtaí siamsaíochta atá It is packed full of entertainment An Comhairleoir oiriúnach don teaghlach ar fad le linn events for the entire family over the Searlaí Ó Cathasaigh míonna gheimhridh nó earraigh. Léiríonn winter/spring months. It highlights Cathaoirleach sé tiomantas na Comhairle dá chinntiú go the Council’s commitment to gcuirfear ar fáil do chách atá ina chónaí, ensuring that we offer all who live, Chairperson, nó a n-oibríonn, nó a dtugann cuairt ar work and visit the district as many Councillor an cheantar an oiread sin deiseanna le plé opportunities as possible to engage Charlie Casey leis na healaíona agus leis an chultúr. with arts and culture.

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David Meade Ronnie Greer Catch Meade if You Can Blues guitar legend, Ronnie DATE: Greer returns to Down Arts Saturday 18 January Centre with his powerhouse Brand new show for 2020! DATE: TIME: band, featuring some of the Performance Described across the world as Saturday 11 January 8pm (bar available finest musicians in the country. “Jaw Dropping” and “Hilarious”, from 7pm) TIME: Expect a night of blues, Northern Ireland’s record 8pm roots, and a little jazz-based PRICE: breaking Mind Reader Meade is music, played with style and £12 / £10 concession back on home soil to blow your PRICE: conviction by some of the mind in his most interactive £23 VENUE: best in the business. show yet. You simply have Down Arts Centre to see this show to believe VENUE: “This is a magnificent band, Down Arts Centre it. David is the first mentalist of world class.” Blues in to win a million dollars in a Britain Magazine Las Vegas casino, he’ll blow “Greer, the doyen of Irish blues your mind as he does the guitar” allaboutjazz.com impossible live on-stage. This sell out show will be a night to remember that your whole family will enjoy. Can YOU catch him out?

2 — 3 Performance DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Beatles: The Studio Years Live The Fureys

The Beatles stopped playing DATE: After three previous sell-out DATE: shows in 1966, entering what’s Friday 24 January concerts, legends of Irish Friday 7 February known as ‘The Studio Years’. music and song, The Fureys - These were some of their most TIME: renowned for their hit songs, TIME: Performance 8pm (bar available ‘I Will Love You’, ‘When You 8pm (bar available creative years, during which from 7pm) from 7pm) time they released iconic Were Sweet 16’, ‘The Green albums such as ‘Sgt. Pepper’s PRICE: Fields of France’, ‘Red Rose PRICE: Lonely Hearts Club Band’, £12 / £10 concession Café’, ‘Steal Away’ and more, £25 ‘The White Album’,’ Abbey Road’ return to Down Arts Centre. and ‘Let It Be’. Notable songs VENUE: VENUE: Down Arts Centre The Fureys have been Down Arts Centre like ‘All You Need is Love’, entertaining audiences ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Here Comes the worldwide for 42 years. PRESENTED BY: Sun’, ‘While My Guitar Gently Audiences that have included Joe McCadden Weeps’ and ‘Lucy in the Sky former Australian Prime with Diamonds’ sit alongside Minister, John Howard, former some hidden gems. Irish President, Mary McAleese and the late Pope John Paul, This nine piece ensemble while Tony Blair has publicly from Belfast (fronted by Donal stated his favourite peace song Scullion), takes you on a of all time is the Fureys’, ‘Green journey through the music Fields of France’. President from this exciting period in Michael D Higgins also the history of one of the attended their last concert biggest bands of all time. in the National Concert Hall. Beautiful orchestrations, soaring harmonies are Expect a great night of music, passionately performed by song and stories. multi-instrumentalists. DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Jake O’Kane: Walking the Line Micky Bartlett – Love it!

Jake O’Kane’s new show DATE: Following a sell-out show at DATE: sees Northern Ireland’s most Saturday 15 February The Ulster Hall and his third Friday 21 February popular comic once again tour of Australia, Micky Bartlett TIME: TIME: cast his caustic eye over the 8pm (bar available is going on tour with his smash 8pm (bar available Performance events of the last year. As from 7pm) hit show ‘Love It!’. from 7pm) always, nothing and no-one A regular feature on BBC NI are beyond attack as Jake PRICE: PRICE: (The Blame Game, Monumental) continues his sixth year of £22.50 £14 with appearances on BBC sell-out tours. VENUE: Scotland and BBC Radio 4, VENUE: Jake’s show is a heady mix The Great Hall, Lurgan man, Micky Bartlett Down Arts Centre of video, photos and general Downshire Estate might just be able to move out PRESENTED BY: mayhem as he picks apart our PRESENTED BY: of his mum’s house...and he’s Shine dysfunctional society, ably David Hull Promotions only 32. supported by the talented GUIDANCE: Divulging more hilarious Terry McHugh. GUIDANCE: secrets that most people If you’ve already seen Jake wouldn’t tell their priest, perform, you’ll be back for Micky takes you through the more; if you’ve yet to catch journey of his own head. Strap him live, don’t wait too long in, you’re going to love it! to book as his shows sell-out extremely quickly.

4 — 5 Performance DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Seefin Neil Delamere: End of Watch

Seefin is a string trio who DATE: Fresh from a sell-out tour, DATE: compose inventive, unexpected Saturday 22 February star of BBC’s the Blame Game, Sunday 1 March blends of music, with a unique Fighting Talk and the Newsquiz, and Sunday 8 March TIME: feel that’s infused with the Neil Delamere returns to Performance 8pm (bar available TIME: influences and rich colours from 7pm) Down Arts Centre with a 8pm (bar available of Irish and European styles. brand-new show. from 7pm) PRICE: Time waits for no man, With glimmers of classical, £12 / £10 concession PRICE: traditional and an improvisatory especially one trying to buy £22.50 feel of jazz, Seefin create a VENUE: a watch. Things always get music without boundaries. Down Arts Centre complicated. VENUE: Down Arts Centre Informed by land and “You’ll be hard pressed to seascapes encountered on their find a more gifted comic at PRESENTED BY: wanderings, their music elicits the Fringe.” ***** The Lisa Richards the freedom to linger and savour The Scotsman Agency open spaces and isolation. The “One lean, mean, comedy, group features the distinctive GUIDANCE: killing machine.” ***** musical talents of Brendan The Herald Popplestone (guitar and vocals), Sherry Robinson (cello) and Niall Lynch (violin).

TO BOOK CALL: 028 4461 0747 DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Dream, Sleep, Connect Ruby!

A bold new comedy by DATE: Following on from its critically DATE: c21 Theatre Company about Friday 6 March acclaimed sell out run last year, Friday 13 March disconnection in the digital Little Willow Productions is TIME: TIME: world – Dream, Sleep, proud to return with ‘Ruby!’, 8pm (bar available 8pm (bar available Performance Connect takes a timely ‘swipe’ from 7pm) a play written by Michael from 7pm) at online dating and appoholics. Cameron and featuring Libby PRICE: Smyth as Ruby Murray. PRICE: Chris is working on a £12 / £10 concession £15 technological solution for the Belfast born Ruby Murray Irish border under the beady VENUE: was one of the most popular VENUE: eye of his boss, Lucy, when he Down Arts Centre singing stars in the world in Down Arts Centre realises he has no one to invite the 1950s, becoming the only PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: to the office do. He joins Tinder c21 Theatre Company recording artist in history Little Willow only to find he’s met his match to have five songs in the Top Productions in more ways than one… Twenty in the same week. Behind the triumphs however, GUIDANCE: But before long, Chris begins a darker story was unfolding in to ask the ultimate question: Ruby’s life. This intimate drama Who is watching who? enthralled audiences on its Written by Rosemary Jenkinson debut run. and directed by Stephen Kelly. Please note the play contains strong language and adult themes.

6 — 7 Performance DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

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Kieran Goss & Annie Kinsella Give My Head Peace Live

Veteran Irish songwriter, DATE: The Gang are back! After last DATE: Kieran Goss and singer, Annie Saturday 14 March year’s completely sold out tour, Saturday 21 March Kinsella released their debut Ulster’s two most dysfunctional TIME: TIME: duo album, ‘Oh, the Starlings’ families return to the stage with Performance 8pm (bar available 8pm (bar available on 1st March 2019. from 7pm) a brand-new show. It will have from 7pm) your favourite characters, mad Goss has long been considered PRICE: plots, lots of jokes, up-to-the- PRICE: one of Ireland’s greatest £22.50 minute topical satire and £22.50 songwriters. Together with superb stand-up comedy Annie Kinsella, who has joined VENUE: VENUE: from Tim McGarry. him on stage on his recent Down Arts Centre Down Arts Centre tours, they have enchanted A firm favourite with local PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: audiences with their live David Hull Promotions audiences. If you haven’t been David Hull Promotions performances and won rave before find out why audiences reviews. come back year after year. With songs, stories and Don’t miss it! harmonies that transport the listener to another world, this Show contains adult references. is music from the heart, for Responsibility for allowing the heart. under 12s to view lies with the accompanying adult. A show to make you laugh and cry - A show to move you with its honest beauty - A show not to be missed! DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Mrs Jones’ Diary In the Name of the Son presented by Rozlyn Sheridan This exciting new play DATE: chronicles the extraordinary Saturday 4 April Join marvellous Mrs Jones DATE: life of The Guildford Four’s, Friday 27 March TIME: in this uninhibited, unruly Gerry Conlon, following his and outrageous story of her 8pm (bar available Performance release from prison in 1989. colourful life! TIME: from 7pm) 8pm (bar available You’ve laughed at her in smash from 7pm) Who will ever forget the TV PRICE: hit comedy shows, ‘It’s Wine images of a wild-eyed, fist- £16 / £14 concession O’Clock’ and ‘Nobody Puts Bernie PRICE: pumping man, storming up to in a Corner’. Now she’s back with £16 a bank of microphones outside VENUE: her own laugh-out-loud, feel The Old Bailey, proclaiming Down Arts Centre good, one woman show! VENUE: to the world, “I am a totally Down Arts Centre PRESENTED BY: Recently widowed, Mrs Jones innocent man!” Green Shoot smokes too much and drinks Productions PRESENTED BY: The story of what happened too much with a tendency to Rozlyn Sheridan say whatever comes into her next and what kind of man that mind. Hashtag no filter! GUIDANCE: emerged from 14 years of soul- She embraces everything from destroying imprisonment, is motherhood, men, menopausal simply the stuff of legend. pitfalls, weight gain, wedding night jitters and the joy Written by Gerry’s lifelong of friendship. friend, Richard O’Rawe and If you fancy a sing-a-long Martin Lynch, the play explores or a spot of Bonanza Bingo triumph of the human spirit then join us in this over extreme adversity. high energy, hilariously A great story of hope. funny comedy, featuring music through the decades! 8 — 9 Performance DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Ulster Orchestra: Poems on a Sunday Afternoon On Your Doorstep As always, our Sunday session DATE: offers a welcoming space to Sunday 26 April Join musicians from the DATE: share your work - poem, story Ulster Orchestra and renowned Saturday 18 April TIME: or song- or the work of a Performance pianist, Ivan Ili´c for a 2.30pm – 4.30pm TIME: favourite poet or author. wonderful evening of music – 8pm (bar available PRICE: the perfect herald to spring! from 7pm) Featured Reader: Linda McKenna Ivan Ili´c is a champion of the PRICE: composer, Anton Reicha, a £12 / £10 concession Her debut collection will VENUE: contemporary of Beethoven’s, be published by Doire Press Down Arts Centre and whose Piano Concerto is a VENUE: in March 2020. Originally hidden gem of classical music. Down Arts Centre from Dublin but living in PRESENTED BY: Downpatrick for over 20 years, Castle Ward Arts This performance will PRESENTED BY: & Crafts and Down Linda started writing about feature a very special Ulster Orchestra Arts Centre arrangement of the Piano four years ago and has had Concerto for small ensemble; poems published in a number the perfect introduction to of journals including, ‘Crannóg’, orchestral music in a relaxed ‘The Honest Ulsterman’, and intimate setting. So, The North’, ‘Poetry Ireland indulge your curiosity at this Review’. She won the Seamus unmissable night! Heaney Award (2018) for new writing and the 2018 Red Line Book Festival poetry TO BOOK CALL: competition. 028 4461 0747

Exhibitions DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Outsider Artist

Painting is something that I’ve always felt I wanted to do. DATE: For me it’s a meditation and release, a way of escaping from Friday 10 January – everyday life. When focused on creating it feels natural Saturday 1 February Exhibitions and the work is made quickly whilst delving deeper into the TIME: intuitive aspects of art. As I paint, time will pass by in a flash During Centre without me noticing. opening hours

My method usually begins with abstract mark making, either in PRICE: my sketch book or painting directly on to the canvas. Rather than making purely premeditated compositions, I seek images and ideas that are intuitively generated from abstraction. I’ve developed an energetic, explorative and risk-taking way to create which is fast, VENUE: Down Arts Centre fun and free. I am excited by spontaneity during the painting process. I mainly use acrylic paints as this medium dries rapidly ARTIST: and can be used with acrylic gel medium for collage, built up Simon Bradley in layers or scraped away when wet and rubbed off with water. Occasionally I later use isopropyl alcohol to reveal surprises and aspects that previously dried under layers. I enjoy the interplay of abstraction and realism to communicate a story or idea. By using expressively charged brush strokes, colour, tone and texture I allow the painting to flow and lead the way to the finished composition. DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Exhibitions

Annual Photographic Arts Council of Exhibition Northern Ireland By Northern Ireland Recent acquisitions Photographic Association

This exhibition is drawn from DATE: Exhibitions Friday 6 March – DATE: the Collection of the Arts The members of the Saturday 4 April Northern Ireland Photographic Friday 7 February – Council of Northern Ireland. Saturday 29 February Association present their Many of the artists in the TIME: Collection have national and During Centre work for display - a mixture TIME: international reputations. opening hours of monochrome and colour - During Centre The works in this exhibition having been selected by three opening hours PRICE: distinguished photographers will include some of the best from over 500 entries from PRICE: examples of contemporary camera club members art by artists from Northern VENUE: throughout the country. Ireland. The artworks have Down Arts Centre VENUE: been created by both emerging Down Arts Centre The prints are mounted and in and established artists and ARTIST: Various 50x40cm frames from a varied ARTIST: the exhibition will include set of genre - landscape, Various photographic work, painting, portrait, sport, architecture printmaking and silver. and nature to name but a few. Feedback on the work on display is welcome.

12 — 13 Exhibitions DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Valerie Giannandrea McKeag

"In 2017 I travelled around the stunning land and coastline DATE: of Northern Ireland creating paintings for a solo show, and Friday 10 April – noticed many buildings from different primary industries Saturday 2 May Exhibitions (quarries, textile and wood mills) as well as derelict farm buildings and equipment and decided this would be my next TIME: project. Often times, I would be interrupted by locals who During Centre would tell me about the building and surroundings, and opening hours I came to understand how much these industries had been at the centre of local communities". PRICE:

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ARTIST: Valerie Giannandrea McKeag DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Workshops & Classes

Tai Chi for All Dance First Draw and Paint Think Later This class involves fluid and A class to assist and encourage slow body and mind exercises the absolute beginner as well Attributed to Samuel Beckett. to develop mindfulness and as those already more familiar movement skills. You will learn Experience a different and with drawing and painting. beneficial lunchtime break. a short form of Yang Style Tai Chi Beginning with the basics of The aim is to relax your mind, and an energy-based practice, drawing you will learn techniques gently exercise your body and to form the basis of your painting, called Qigong, that will develop put a smile on your face. your body, balance, coordination, moving onto mixing colours and Ashley Ray, an experienced Irish strength, and awareness. working towards a finished piece. Set and French Bal Folk dancer, Materials to bring to the first This class is suited to adults of will offer weekly tuition in Irish session include HB pencil, rubber, all ages interested in body-mind and French traditional group and practices to develop a greater couple dances. sharpener and sketchbook. Advice will be given on any sense of wellbeing and fitness. Ashley will teach at most two other materials and paint needed simple dances each week and

for the rest of the course. & Classes Workshops DATE: time permitting, an opportunity Friday 10 January to repeat at subsequent classes. for 6 weeks & No experience, nor partner, DATE: Friday 28 February needed, just wear comfortable Monday 20 January for 6 weeks shoes and clothes. for 10 weeks To book contact Ashley on TIME: 028 4484 1444 or text 077 3672 7001. TIME: 10.30am – 11.30am 7pm – 9pm & 12noon – 1pm DATE: PRICE: PRICE: Monday 13 January for 5 weeks £55 / £50 concession £26/ £24 concession (per session) & Monday 2 March for 5 weeks TIME: VENUE: VENUE: 11.30am – 12.30pm Down Arts Centre Down Arts Centre PRICE: TUTOR: TUTOR: £20 (or £5 per session) Vincent McDonnell Michael Bean VENUE: Down Arts Centre TUTOR: Ashley Ray

14 — 15 Workshops & Classes DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Intermediate Silver Jewellery Tai Chi Dressmaking Each participant will be taught Tai Chi is a gentle flowing exercise traditional jewellery making which aims to enhance the body's This class is aimed at those techniques such as piercing, intrinsic energy system. The main who are familiar with using soldering, rolling, annealing benefits are relaxation and physical their own sewing machine and filing. If you have attended and mental balance. As well as this, and can therefore thread it previous workshops this is a Tai Chi works on strengthening up and wind a bobbin. great opportunity to build the core and is a cardiovascular All patterns will be provided on the skills that you have exercise. At its basis, Tai Chi and different techniques will already gained. promotes physical and mental be taught - how to do buttonholes, well-being through focusing the Copper sheet provided. insert zips and use stretchy practitioner on the individual Sterling silver to be purchased fabrics. Please bring along moves and creating a sense by each participant. your own sewing machine. of truly being in the moment. As the nature of the movement is DATE: Workshops & Classes Workshops DATE: slow and gentle, Tai Chi is suitable Tuesday 21 January Tuesday 21 January for all regardless of age or ability. for 12 weeks for 12 weeks

TIME: TIME: DATE: 6.30pm – 9pm 10am – 1pm Tuesday 21 January OR PRICE: PRICE: Thursday 23 January for 10 weeks £75 / £70 concession £125 / £115 concession TIME: VENUE: VENUE: Tuesdays 12.30pm – 1.30pm Down Arts Centre Down Arts Centre OR Thursdays 6.30pm – 7.30pm TUTOR: TUTOR: Naomi Whan Diane Lyness PRICE: £40 / £35 concession

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TUTOR: TO BOOK CALL: Petesy Burns 028 4461 0747 DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Workshops & Classes

Painting Silver Jewellery Pottery Making Workshop This painting course is aimed Learn how to work with clay using at both beginners and those hand-building techniques such who have some experience of Suitable for beginners with no as slab work, pinch pots, coiling, acrylic painting. The sessions previous jewellery experience, using formers and more. Create will cover essentials such as basic this exciting course will include unique pieces from pots, figures, equipment and materials, getting a traditional and contemporary animals and bowls, all supported by started, choosing subject matter, approach to jewellery making and figurative artist, Sandra Robinson. composition, colour, perspective, design. You will be guided through still life and landscape. A list of the basics of annealing, cutting, soldering, doming, texturing and DATE: materials needed is available at Wednesday 22 January www.downartscentre.com the use of safe enamelling to build for 10 weeks in ‘downloads’. towards a little jewellery collection. TIME: Course tutor, Karen Daye- 10.30 – 12.30am DATE: Hutchinson, owner of Ghost OR

Tuesday 21 January & Bonesetter Jewellery, is a 7pm – 9pm & Classes Workshops OR multimedium artist who exhibits Thursday 23 January nationally and internationally PRICE: for 10 weeks £85 / £80 concession and is winner of many awards TIME: and commissions. VENUE: 7pm – 9pm Down Arts Centre DATE: PRICE: Tuesday 21 January for 12 weeks TUTOR: £55 / £50 concession Sandra Robinson TIME: VENUE: 7pm – 9pm Newcastle Centre PRICE: Tuesday £90 / £85 concession TUTOR: Martin McParland VENUE: Down Arts Centre TUTOR: Karen Daye–Hutchinson

16 — 17 Workshops & Classes DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

I Have A Story Painting Acrylic Painting In Me ………. Learn the main principals of This established course is drawing, colour theory and aimed at both beginners and You’ve heard it a thousand times, composition to help improve your those who have some experience maybe even said it yourself… paintings, guided by figurative of acrylic painting. The sessions “I have this great idea for a artist, Sandra Robinson. Sandra is will cover essentials such as basic equipment and materials, getting children’s book…” but that’s a full-time artist working in both as far as it gets! Life gets in started, choosing subject matter, painting and ceramics from her composition, colour, perspective, the way and the story never studio in Belfast. She graduated still life and landscape. A list gets told, and if you don’t tell with a first-class honours at the of materials needed is available your story, who is going to? University of Ulster and completed at www.downartscentre.com in No one – that’s who! an MA at the Royal College of Art. ‘downloads’. So why not let published author and artist, Kieron Black help DATE: DATE: you get your story from daydream Wednesday 22 January Wednesday 22 January to thumbnail sketch to workable

Workshops & Classes Workshops for 10 weeks for 10 weeks plot, all fleshed out with crazy characters, impossible scenarios TIME: TIME: and fantastic landscapes in 2pm – 4pm 7pm – 9pm a workshop that really tells PRICE: PRICE: a story. £55 / £50 concession £55 / £50 concession

DATE: VENUE: VENUE: Wednesday 22 January Down Arts Centre Down Arts Centre for 10 weeks TUTOR: TUTOR: TIME: Sandra Robinson Martin McParland 1.30pm – 3.30pm

PRICE: £45 / £40 concession

VENUE: Down Arts Centre

TUTOR: TO BOOK CALL: Kieron Black 028 4461 0747 DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Workshops & Classes

Creative Writing Beginners Thursday Singers Workshop Dressmaking Farewell Winter - Hello Spring! These workshop-based classes This course is aimed at those who are designed to support those have no dressmaking skills and who wish to explore and develop those who need help in using a This class is suitable for their writing skills. They will sewing machine. beginners as well as singers with some experience of group singing. cover topics such as writers’ You will be taught how to read a All songs are taught by ear and tools and sources, character pattern and understand what all you may find it useful to bring a and plot, as well as looking at a the symbols mean. Your tutor will smart phone or recording device to variety of styles including short provide all the patterns and you aid learning. We sing a wide range stories, scriptwriting and poetry. will experiment with different of songs from world folk to pop. Opportunities to experiment with garments to gain the confidence to different types of writing will be be able to make your own clothes. provided to enable participants to Please bring along own sewing DATE: find and enhance their own writer’s machine or if you don’t have one Thursday 23 January & Classes Workshops voice. Whether for fun or with please enquire at time of booking for 10 weeks a view to publication, this course and one maybe available. aims to find ways to unlock TIME: 2pm – 4pm imagination and to develop DATE: a greater awareness of the craft. Thursday 23 January PRICE: for 12 weeks £40 / £35 concession DATE: Wednesday 22 January TIME: VENUE: for 10 weeks 10.30am – 1pm Down Arts Centre

TIME: PRICE: TUTOR: 7pm – 9pm £75 / £70 concession Laura Plummer www.lauraplummer.com PRICE: VENUE: £45 / £40 concession Down Arts Centre

VENUE: TUTOR: Down Arts Centre Naomi Whan

TUTOR: Dr Catherine Kelly

18 — 19 Workshops & Classes DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Crochet: Ossia Guitar Sewing Club Improvers In a relaxed and informal During the 10 weeks students setting, all students will gain will be working on a wide variety This inspiring course is ideal for valuable playing experience of individual projects. Some may intermediate crocheters who are whilst having fun. A perfect choose to make bags, cushions, confident with the basics of crochet option for all beginner guitarists clothing or soft toys etc. but who now want to take their seeking a fun-based learning Feel free to come along with crochet knowledge to new creative programme. All aspects of some of your own individual levels. You will learn the next guitar playing will be touched sewing project ideas and discuss steps to many classic techniques upon, from basic rhythms to with tutor, Naomi at the first class including textures, crochet flowers, fundamental finger style. and she will be on hand to help you leaves, squares, circles, edgings and develop and achieve your sewing finishing techniques. There will be DATE: wishes. This class suits all levels original patterns to work on and Thursday 23 January of ability and teaches you lots although the course will follow a for 10 weeks of new skills in a fun and schedule, the teaching is flexible, Workshops & Classes Workshops relaxed environment. allowing you to go at your own pace. TIME: 6.30pm – 7.30pm (Beginners) 7.30pm – 8.30pm (Improvers) DATE: DATE: Friday 24 January Thursday 23 January PRICE: for 10 weeks for 12 weeks £45 / £40 concession TIME: TIME: VENUE: 10.30am – 1pm 7pm – 9pm Down Arts Centre PRICE: PRICE: £60 / £55 concession TUTOR: £50 / £45 concession Paul McMordie VENUE: VENUE: Down Arts Centre Down Arts Centre TUTOR: Lucinda Guy TUTOR: Naomi Whan DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 One Day Workshops

Wednesday Metal Embossing Three Little Birds Singers Sing Winter This popular workshop is In this specialised workshop, Into Spring! a great introduction to the art participants will have an of metal embossing. introduction into the various wires available, their qualities This class is suitable for more Participants will learn the and what to look for when experienced singers who are used to hand embossing techniques sourcing wire. You will learn singing parts and can hold a harmony used to shape and texture the how to prepare recycled wire line. All songs are taught by ear. metal, different ways to colour and how to achieve various Singers are expected to do around and patina the metals and how patinas through experimenting 30 minutes of practice at home to mount and frame their with everyday ingredients. each week between classes so you finished piece. will need to bring your smart phone Then we will be making three with a recording App or some other The different tools that are very sweet, little birds while recording device to the sessions. used include many from around learning helpful techniques for We sing a wide range of songs the home. working in wire. At the end of from world folk to pop. the workshop we will dip these Day Workshops One little ones in a solution that will DATE: oxidise the copper and give it an Saturday 25 January DATE: aged effect. Finally, we will mount Wednesday 26 February TIME: them on driftwood branches for 6 weeks 10am – 4pm attached to wooden plinths. TIME: PRICE: 7.30pm – 9.30pm £45 / £40 concession DATE: PRICE: (materials and lunch included) £25 / £20 concession Saturday 1 February VENUE: VENUE: Down Arts Centre TIME: Down Arts Centre 10am to 4pm TUTOR: TUTOR: Lindy McMahon Laura Plummer PRICE: www.lauraplummer.com £40 / £35 concession (materials and lunch included)

VENUE: Down Arts Centre

TUTOR: Joy Gray 20 — 21 One Day Workshops DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Calligraphy Tiffany Glass Natural Soap Workshop Making Workshop Modern calligraphy is free and very easy to do as you can influence it with your own handwriting. We Create a cute fox light catcher If you are interested in making will use both ink and white paper and learn the skills needed for your own handmade soap using and, in the afternoon, metallic copper-foiled glass. Qualified tutor only 100% natural ingredients, colours on a dark background. and glass artist, Irene McBride then this hands-on workshop is of Discovery Glass will teach all for you. Tutors, Pamela Mawhinney the stages from cutting glass to and Irene Gourley from local DATE: soldering your finished piece. business Naturally Soap, will teach Saturday 8 February An enjoyable day working with you the ancient craft of soap- TIME: beautiful glass. Please wear shoes, making using the traditional cold 10am – 4pm not sandals, covered legs and process method. The basic skills don’t forget to bring an apron. taught will enable you to go home PRICE: and make your own soap with ease. £45 / £40 concession One Day Workshops One All materials will be provided, (materials & lunch included) DATE: Saturday 22 February however, it is recommended that VENUE: attendees bring their own apron. Down Arts Centre TIME: 10am – 4pm DATE: TUTOR: Saturday 29 February Jacquie Brachi PRICE: £45 / £40 concession (materials & lunch included) TIME: 10am – 12.30pm VENUE: Down Arts Centre PRICE: £25 / £20 concession TUTOR: (materials included) Irene McBride, Discovery Glass VENUE: Down Arts Centre

TUTOR: Irene Gourley & Pamela Mawhinney

TO BOOK CALL: 028 4461 0747 DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020 One Day Workshops

Traditional Woven Silver Stacking Rings Stone Carving Willow Hare Spend a day of fun in the workshop and create silver stacking Participants will learn the basics In this exciting workshop you rings. Each participant will be of stone carving using locally will create a basic willow hare taught traditional jewellery making sourced sandstone and specialist using random weave techniques. techniques such as piercing, tooling. Drawing equipment is In this willow sculpture workshop, provided which also forms an soldering, rolling, annealing important part of the class. Clive Lyttle from Welig Heritage and filing, enabling them to design Stencils and templates are provided Crafts will guide you through the and make a beautiful piece of but free hand and new design creation of your piece. All tools jewellery to take home. work is encouraged before carving and materials are provided. commences. Participants will be No previous experience necessary. assisted individually in the design DATE: and carving of their stone tablet Saturday 21 March and make ready for internal or DATE: exterior display. Saturday 14 or Saturday 28 March TIME: 10am – 4pm Day Workshops One Participants can aim to achieve TIME: a relief carved emblem or design 10am – 5pm PRICE: with some lettering using £60 / £55 concession traditional methods. There will PRICE: (materials and lunch included) also be an opportunity to work £60 / £55 concession on 2D and 3D designs. (materials & lunch included) VENUE: Students can bring along an idea Down Arts Centre of their own however, templates VENUE: and information will be made Down Arts Centre TUTOR: available to everyone. Diane Lyness TUTOR: Clive Lyttle, Welig Heritage Crafts DATE: Friday 6 & Saturday 7 March TIME: 10am – 4pm PRICE: £130 / £125 concession (materials and lunch included) VENUE: Down Arts Centre TUTOR: Marc Kelly 22 — 23 One Day Workshops DOWN ARTS SEASON PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Easter Flower Bees Wax Wraps Arm Knitting Arranging and Body Butter Learn to arm knit yourself a super cozy blanket. Create your own festive Easter Join Gwen Earnshaw, beekeeper floral art arrangements in this and owner of the botanical skincare Perfect for beginners, arm knitting one-day workshop with Elizabeth and soy candle company, The without needles is the simplest Rea and learn basic flower Honeysuckle Bee and Me, and learn and most satisfying form of giant how to make and take home your arranging skills for traditional knitting there is. With the most own natural gentle beeswax balm gorgeous merino wool in a trendy and contemporary design. for dry skin and also a set of eco- colour of your choice, and in just a Suitable for beginners and friendly beeswax food wraps. few hours, you will go home super those with more experience. This wonderful, gentle and chuffed with your blanket! multipurpose beeswax balm is DATE: especially moisturising and protective Saturday 4 April for hands, nails or any other very dry DATE: skin areas needing some extra love. Saturday 25 April

One Day Workshops One TIME: Eco beeswax wraps are an attractive, 10am – 3pm plastic free alternative to food bags TIME: and cling film for wrapping and 10am – 12 noon PRICE: storing food in. We will be making £45 / £40 concession a set of three sizes. They can be PRICE: £60 /£55 concession (materials included) washed and reused for months. (materials included) VENUE: This fun and relaxing session Down Arts Centre requires no previous experience. VENUE: All equipment and refreshments Down Arts Centre TUTOR: are included. Elizabeth Rea TUTOR: Adele Brown DATE: Saturday 18 April TIME: 10.30am – 3.30pm PRICE: £45 / £40 concession (materials and lunch included) VENUE: TO BOOK CALL: Down Arts Centre TUTOR: 028 4461 0747 Gwen Earnshaw IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Concessions: Performance and Adult Classes/Workshops: Concessionary tickets apply to children under 16, fulltime students, people over 60, those claiming unemployment benefit or registered disabled. Proof of status will be required.

Special Assistance: Down Arts Centre is wheelchair accessible with a lift to all levels of Kids Pottery classes Illustration the building, low level access at the box office and allocated wheelchair spaces in the auditorium. Disabled Join DAC’s tutor to create Drawing is great fun, drawing patrons can avail of a complimentary sculptural forms, animal pots, well is even better and everyone ticket for an escort if they require explore texture and impressing can do it - all that is needed is one. Please notify staff of any special in clay, make relief tiles and an encouraging word or a nudge requirements you may have when coil or pinch pots. (smudge!) in the right direction. purchasing tickets. Get guidance in the techniques of pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, Booking Information: DATE: acrylic, even felt-tips or crayons – Tickets for performances may be Saturday 25 January if you like – anything to get that booked by phoning 028 4461 0747 for 8 weeks idea out of your head and on to and in person at Down Arts Centre. the page. Join author, artist and – Tickets cannot be reserved AGE RANGE: illustrator, Kieron Black for this without payment. 4 – 6yrs from 11am – 12noon fun workshop aimed directly at – Tickets will be held by the box the younger artist and get that office and available to pick up 7 – 11yrs from 12.30pm – 2pm creativity unleashed! before or on the night of the event. – Should you request posting, a £1 postage and administration PRICE: DATE: fee will be applied. 4 – Tuesday 4 February 6yrs £35 for 8 weeks – Tickets cannot be exchanged 7 – or refunded. 11yrs £40 AGE RANGE: – Latecomers cannot be admitted. 9 – – All information is correct at time VENUE: 11yrs of print. Down Arts Centre – Down Arts Centre reserves TIME: the right to change or cancel TUTOR: 4pm – 6pm events or refuse admission. Aine McKenna PRICE: £60

VENUE: For full terms and Down Arts Centre conditions visit www.downartscentre.com TUTOR: Kieron Black or contact the Box Office on 028 4461 0747 to request a hard copy.

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Information Booking

Sean Hollywood Arts Centre - Tickets for performances may be booked by calling 028 3031 3180 1a Bank Parade and in person at Sean Hollywood Newry BT35 6HP Arts Centre. [email protected] - Tickets cannot be reserved www.newrymournedown.org without payment. - Tickets will be held by the box office and available to pick up before or on the night of the event. TO BOOK CALL: - Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. 028 3031 3180 - Latecomers cannot be admitted. - All information is correct at the Throughout the programme we time of print. have placed coloured rectangles - Sean Hollywood Arts Centre directing you towards the box reserves the right to change or office telephone number. cancel events or refuse admission. SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Cinderella A Day with Bruiser 2020 Presented by Charlie Smyth Schools’ All Day Workshop and Newry Panto Players

Join the talented cast in this wonderful School bookings are now open for A Day with Bruiser. tale of love triumphing over evil. This is the perfect opportunity for GCES and A-Level Come and cheer for Buttons the hero students to explore Bruiser’s unique physical style. of the story and boo at the ugly sisters. Working with a range of expert facilitators, pupils A wonderful fun event for all the family. will rotate around three dynamic workshops covering text, movement and voice, Bruiser’s style and physical DATE: Friday 17 – Saturday 25 January theatre and devising and improvisation. The day will Matinees: Saturday 18, end with a short live performance by Bruiser.

Sunday 19 and Saturday 27 January Performance This one day crash course will equip pupils with TIME: the skills they need to create exciting devised pieces, Evenings: 7.30pm gain knowledge on Bruiser’s ensemble style and Matinees: 2.30pm develop confidence as performers. A must for all performing arts students! PRICE: £7 There are 10 bursary spaces available. Please contact Sean Hollywood Arts Centre for details on how to apply. VENUE: Newry Town Hall DATE: BOOKING: Monday 20 January From Altnaveigh House until Sunday 5 January. TIME: 9am – 4pm including performance From Buttercrane Shopping Centre after Sunday 5 January. PRICE: Standard rate: £25 per pupil

VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre

26 — 27 Performance SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

The Joxer Esq. Mother Goose Starring Phelim Drew Presented by Warrenpoint Pantomime Club Sean O’Casey’s playful scrounger from the classic, Juno and the Paycock, takes centre stage in this Join Warrenpoint Pantomime Club in their intriguing new play starring Phelim Drew, from the wonderful production of Mother Goose, a pantomime pen of Eddie Naughton (Inishfallen Fare Thee Well). that will delight and enthral children of all ages. With events that were to alter the course of This is the simple story of poor but ugly Irish history as a backdrop, Joxer Daly Esq. Mother Goose who dreams of being rich and charts an everyman journey from respectable member of The Foresters Association to a vagabond beautiful. Mother Goose lives in the village of scraping by with only his wit to use as collateral. Sweet Content with her children, Jill and Billy. The village squire wants his rent from her small run- From the 1913 Lock Out to the Rising - and the down cottage and threatens to have her thrown out.

Performance events of O’Casey’s classic, The Plough and the Stars However, Priscilla, a magic goose who has escaped - to the birth of a new divided nationalism in Juno from Gooseland, arrives and is befriended by and the Paycock, we see it all through the eyes of a survivor like no other. Joxer Daly is an ordinary Mother Goose. When Priscilla starts laying golden person trying to navigate the difficult waters of eggs Mother Goose becomes rich, moves into a what was Dublin in the period leading up to the grand mansion and reopens the village school. birth of a Republic. But how will the story end? Brilliantly performed by Phelim Drew, Joxer’s love of language, humour, literature and song, together DATE: with a drinker’s purple recollection, make this a Sunday 9 – Sunday 16 February Matinees: Sunday 9 February performance like no other. Entertaining and funny, and Saturday 15 February Joxer Daly Esq. is a thought provoking gander at one of Irish Literatures most loveable chancers! TIME: Matinees: 3pm Evenings: 8pm DATE: Friday 7 February PRICE: TBC TIME: 7.30pm VENUE: Warrenpoint Town Hall PRICE: £15 BOOKING: Booking Office opens on Tuesday 4 February at 12noon. VENUE: To book contact Box Office T: 028 3025 6666 Sean Hollywood Arts Centre SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Ruby Warrenpoint Feis Directed by Richard Orr Presented by Willow Productions The festival runs from mid-February to mid-March with three sessions daily. Competitions include music, dance, Belfast born Ruby Murray was one of the and speech and drama. For further most popular singing stars in the world in details go to www.warrenpointfeis.com the 1950s, becoming the only recording artist in history to have five songs in the Top Twenty in the same week. Behind the triumphs however, DATE: a darker story was unfolding in Ruby’s life. Little Wednesday 19 February – Friday 13 March Willow Productions is proud to present a new TIME: play written by Michael Cameron, directed by 9.30am – 9pm Richard Orr and featuring Libby Smyth as Ruby! PRICE:

Pay at door Performance

DATE: VENUE: Thursday 20 February Warrenpoint Town Hall TIME: 8pm

PRICE: £15/£13

VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre

TO BOOK CALL: 028 3031 3180 28 — 29 Performance SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

David Meade Old Newry Society Catch Meade if you Can Join the Society as they explore different themes on Old Newry on each night. Brand new show for 2020! Described across the world as “jaw dropping” DATE: Tuesday 18 February and “hilarious”, Northern Ireland’s record breaking and Tuesday 21 April mindreader, Meade is back on home soil to blow your mind in his funniest and most interactive show yet. TIME: 8pm You simply have to see this show to believe it. The first mentalist to win a million dollars in a PRICE: £7 donation at door Las Vegas casino, he’ll blow your mind as he does the impossible live on-stage right in front of you. VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre Performance Last year in Northern Ireland nearly 10,000 people bought tickets to see David live - selling out every seat in every venue, so act now to secure a night to remember that your whole family will enjoy. Can YOU catch him out? ‘A laugh from start to finish, mind-blowing’

DATE: Saturday 29 February

TIME: 8pm (doors open from 7.30pm)

PRICE: £23

VENUE: Newry Town Hall

BOOKING: www.eventbrite.co.uk/d/united- kingdom--belfast/david-meade/ SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Newry Musical Feis Dream, Sleep, Connect

Annual Newry Musical Feis hosts A bold new comedy by c21 Theatre Company hundreds of competitors in about disconnection in the digital world, a variety of the arts. ‘Dream, Sleep, Connect’ takes a timely ‘swipe’ at online dating and appoholics. Sean Hollywood Newry Town Hall Chris is working on a technological solution for Arts Centre the Irish border under the beady eye of his boss, Lucy, when he realises he has no one to invite to EVENTS: EVENTS: the office do. He joins Tinder only to find he’s met Speech and Drama Open Dancing his match in more ways than one… but before long, (Open) Thursday 13 – Chris begins to ask the ultimate question, Sunday 23 – Sunday 16 February “Who is watching who?” Friday 28 February Music Written by Rosemary Jenkinson Performance Speech Open Wednesday 26 Directed by Stephen Kelly Monday 23 – – Friday 28 February Saturday 28 March DATE: Irish Music Tuesday 3 March Irish Music Sunday 29 March Sunday 29 March TIME: Music 8pm Music Monday 30March PRICE: Mon 30 March – – Saturday 4 April £12 / £10 Saturday 4 April Ballet and Theatre VENUE: Speech and Saturday 18 Sean Hollywood Arts Centre Drama Schools – Saturday 25 April Mon 27 – Speech and Thursday 30 April Drama Schools Monday 27 April – Friday 1 May Confined Dancing Saturday 2 – Monday 4 May

30 — 31 Performance SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Scoildramaiochta Take Me Home Féile an Iúir Lore and Saffyre, both from Northern Ireland, have come together to create an unforgettable An annual feast of short plays in Irish, night of Contemporary Irish and American produced by local primary and post-primary music. Lore has just finished its last theatre schools competing for nomination from tour, taking in some of the country’s finest Féile an Iúir to progress to the provincial venues. Saffyre is made up of sisters, Shauneen final, Féile Uladh. and Maria and cousin Emma from Co Down. The melodies and harmonies, which are DATE: signature to the Saffyre sound, have been Friday 6 March honed and perfected over years of recording and live performance. With a hint of folk and TIME: Americana, both bands have been attracting 10am – 2pm audiences with their stunning vocal harmonies Performance and finely crafted original songs. PRICE: £5 / £2 DATE: VENUE: Saturday 7 March Sean Hollywood Arts Centre TIME: 8pm

PRICE: £12 / £10

VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre

TO BOOK CALL: 028 3031 3180 SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

In The Name of the Son Footloose

This exciting new play from Green Shoot Newry Musical Society, in its 75th celebratory Productions chronicles the extraordinary life year, proudly presents ‘Footloose’, by kind permission of The Guildford Four’s, Gerry Conlon following his of Rodgers and Hammerstein organisation. release from prison in 1989. Who will ever forget the TV images of a wild- ‘Footloose’ is one of the most explosive movie eyed, fist-pumping man, storming up to a bank of musicals in recent memory to burst onto the live microphones outside The Old Bailey, proclaiming stage. When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to the world, “I am a totally innocent man!” to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the The story of what happened next and what kind of inevitable adjustment period at his new high school. man that emerged from 14 years of soul-destroying The heartfelt story that emerges is of a father longing imprisonment is simply the stuff of legend. for the son he lost and of a young man aching for ‘In the Name of the Son’ charts Conlon’s remarkable the father who walked out on him. journey into ‘freedom’ as he received and spent over £1million pounds, became a cause-celebre at This show, which appeals to all ages, is full of great Performance the Hollywood Oscars and ran in the same circles as musical and dance numbers including, ‘Footloose', Johnny Depp, Shane McGowan and Daniel Day Lewis. ‘Holding out for a Hero’, ’Let’s Hear it for the Boy’, Conlon seemed to have it all but away from the ‘Mama Says’ and ‘I Can’t Stand Still’. glamour, fuelled by an addiction to crack-cocaine, his life was spiralling out of control. ‘Footloose’ celebrates the wisdom of listening What emerges from the darkness is Conlon’s to young people and guiding them with a warm heart resilience and his eventual life-changing recovery and an open mind. to beat his demons and become a world-renowned human rights campaigner against miscarriages of justice, similar to his own. DATE: Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 March Written by Gerry’s lifelong friend, Richard O’Rawe and Martin Lynch, the play explores triumph of the human TIME: spirit over extreme adversity. A great story of hope. 7.30pm

PRICE: DATE: Details released from January 2020. Con- Thursday 12 March tact 075 1145 6420 or checkout facebook TIME: @newrymusicalsociety. 8pm VENUE: PRICE: Newry Town Hall £16 / 14 VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre 32 — 33 Performance SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Mrs Jones’ Diary Cappella Caeciliana

Join the marvellous Mrs Jones in this uninhibited, Belfast-based chamber choir Cappella Caeciliana unruly and outrageous story of her colourful life! was formed in 1995 and has performed across Ireland and in Scotland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland You’ve laughed at her in the smash hit comedy and the USA. It has also made five highly acclaimed shows ‘It’s Wine O’Clock’ and ‘Nobody Puts Bernie CD recordings. One of Northern Ireland’s leading in a Corner’. Now she’s back with her own laugh- choirs, it is known for the quality of its musical out-loud, feel good, one woman show! interpretations and the breadth of its repertoire. Recently widowed, Mrs Jones is a woman who Under the direction of Donal McCrisken, the choir smokes too much, drinks too much and has a will present a Spring concert to launch its tour tendency to say whatever comes into her mind. to Poland at Easter. The programme will comprise Hashtag no filter! Learn about her hysterical a selection of sacred and secular music from the history as lead singer of renowned country 16th century to the present day.

Performance Showband, ‘The Smugglers.’ Mrs Jones embraces everything from DATE: motherhood, men, menopausal pitfalls, Saturday 21 March weight gain, wedding night jitters and the joy of friendship. Joining her will be her fabulous TIME: family and hypochondriac friends. 7.30pm PRICE: If you fancy a sing-a-long or a spot £12 / £10 of Bonanza Bingo then join Mrs Jones in this high energy, hilariously funny comedy, featuring VENUE: music through the decades. You’re only old once! Sean Hollywood Arts Centre

DATE: Friday 20 March

TIME: 8pm

PRICE: £15

VENUE: Newry Town Hall TO BOOK CALL: BOOKING: www.eventbrite.co.uk 028 3031 3180 SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Performance

Newry Drama Festival Floral Art Faust

The Festival opens its doors to Floral arranging demonstrations presented by Curious Doings a week of full length plays from by some of Ireland’s leading groups all over Ireland. florists, with themes for the Would you make a pact spring and summer. with the devil? DATE: This is a modern day Monday 23 March – DATE: Saturday 28 March reimagining of the legend Monday 27 January, of Faust, fusing together themes Monday 23 March & TIME: Monday 18 May of addiction, morality and fame in 7.30pm a high energy, visceral performance. TIME: A company of six young women tell PRICE: 7.30pm £9 / £8 their stories as they navigate their Season Ticket £45 way through today’s world of fast

PRICE: Performance £5 fashion, instant gratification and VENUE: social media. Newry Town Hall VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre Presented by Curious Doings, Northern Ireland’s leading devised TUTOR: theatre company, the play was Guest floral artist each evening first performed as part of Eastside Arts Festival 2019.

DATE: Saturday 25 April TIME: 8pm PRICE: £12 / £10 concession VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre

AGE RANGE:

12+

34 — 35 Exhibitions SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Sometimes She… by Kevin Dwan With his new exhibition Kevin wishes to re-establish the DATE: strength and integrity of the female form in popular culture. Monday 6 January – He believes that popular culture has created a disingenuous Monday 3 February Exhibitions perspective of the female form, that to be a passive object, TIME: which is overtly sexualised and objectified and not an 9.30am – 5.30pm empowering one. He wishes to represent the female form as active, strong and PRICE: beautiful, in forms that inspire self-confidence, integrity and ultimately that all forms are an expression of ‘The Goddess’. The exhibition will consist of thirteen pieces. All will be of a VENUE: mixed media of welded metals, chain, bronze and one statue. Carroll Gallery The exhibition piece, ’Sometimes She’s All About The Money’, Sean Hollywood will be made of 10, 20 and 50 cent coins. All will be illuminated Arts Centre with an internal lighting design. Also join Kevin on Saturday 1 February to discuss the ‘Goddess’ as part of the Herstory Festival - for more information go to the Herstory section of the brochure. SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Exhibitions

Bernie Millar

“Growing up in the Northern Irish coastal town of Warrenpoint DATE: developed my interest in different natural environments as a Tuesday 4 February – young child. I would study how the mood and colours change Saturday 29 February Exhibitions with the weather to stir up different feelings and create TIME: imagined stories. I was also influenced by local folklore and Monday – Friday, stories that explained natural phenomena. 9.30am – 5.30pm

I worked as a primary school teacher in Belgium for over 20 PRICE: years and developed the skill of ‘plein air’ painting on summer holidays. In this exhibition I want to combine first hand studies along with painting from my memory and imagination. Hopefully, exploring how the setting of Carlingford Lough inspires and VENUE: Carroll Gallery unlocks my creative drive of visual storytelling.” Sean Hollywood Arts Centre

36 — 37 Exhibitions SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Silent: Listen 2 By Mary Clarke

Navan artist, Mary Clarke, presents a collection of abstract DATE: painted works on canvas, photographic paper with collaged Tuesday 3 March – photo prints. Friday 27 March Exhibitions Silent is an anagram of Listen, as it is Enlist. Through her TIME: abstracted images, Mary explores the necessity to be still, Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm observe and pay heed to the catastrophic global issues relating to climate change that speak to us daily. The viewer PRICE: is asked to pay attention or pay the price. Attempting to tackle widespread apathy and inaction whilst helping to visualise the effects and threats of global VENUE: climate change, Mary depicts images of glacial melting ice Bell Gallery masses, deep sea colour and futuristic images in brilliant Sean Hollywood Arts Centre technicolour. Mary attempts to engage the imagination and provoke a reaction, all in an effort to inspire positive response. The exhibition also includes the added message, ‘Save our Seas’ (SOS). SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Exhibitions

How it’s Made Contemporary by Sinead Kerr Images Exhibition by David Burke Sinead is an Irish multimedia DATE: artist based in the Ireland Wednesday 1 April – Friday 24 April and United Kingdom, recently David was born in ‘72, DATE: Friday 3 – graduating from De Montfort TIME: “I always drew and was Tuesday 21 April University, Leicester with a BA Monday – Friday, to pursue a career in the First-Class Honours in Fine Art. 9.30am – 5.30pm graphics but while in college TIME: I took an audition for a band She is interested in virtual Monday – Friday, PRICE: and ended up becoming a and concrete space, which 9.30am – 5.30pm professional musician and is evident in her abstract touring over the next 10 PRICE: sculptures. These are made years. After retiring from Exhibitions of metal and acrylic combining VENUE: Bell Gallery music I started a new career. with multiple layers to cause Sean Hollywood After an injury in work I was VENUE: a vocal point with the viewer. Arts Centre left with time and in this time Carroll Gallery She uses film to help capture I started to draw again to Sean Hollywood the intimate process of an relax, which culminated in Arts Centre her ideas and methodologies this body of work. from constructing and deconstructing almost Pieces from this current collaging but with different exhibition have been chosen to media. Kerr’s work is influenced be displayed in London and the by her practice in making, Dublin Rock and Roll Museum”. constructing and realisation of artwork in a studio or showing space. She is interested in how the creative process negotiates space, light, architectural boundaries or obstacles in a space.

38 — 39 Workshops & Classes SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

EOTAS Photographic Newry Art Society & Art Exhibition Spring Exhibition

Organised by Education DATE: View recent works by this DATE: Other Than at School (EOTAS), Monday 27 – established art group from Friday 1 – this exhibition features art Wednesday 29 April abstract, landscape, collage Friday 29 May and photography from local TIME: to seascape. All works are TIME: primary and secondary schools Monday – Friday, available to purchase. Monday – Friday, and youth clubs on the theme, 9.30am – 5.30pm 9.30am – 5.30pm ‘Beauty of the Natural World’. The pieces on display were the PRICE: PRICE: result of a competition based on the same theme and were

Exhibitions selected by judges for the VENUE: VENUE: exhibition. The exhibition is Carroll Gallery Carroll Gallery to highlight the need to care Sean Hollywood Sean Hollywood for our natural world. Arts Centre Arts Centre EOTAS makes educational provision for children with social, emotional and medical or other issues who, without its provision, cannot access suitable education. Projects like this build confidence and self-esteem and help students consider the wider community. SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020 Workshops & Classes

Porcelain Illustration Drawing Class

Workshops with Vincent McDonnell

Join local ceramicist, DATE: Introducing Creative Aging DATE: Amy Mackle as she guides Saturday 8 February to Sean Hollywood Arts Centre, Thursday 30 January you through the techniques & Saturday 4 April beginners and those for 10 weeks and processes involved in TIME: with a little experience TIME: creating your very own 10am – 1pm in drawing are welcome to 2pm – 4pm porcelain illustrations. come along and join Vincent Using specific tools and PRICE: in this eight week class. PRICE: underglazes, we will create £15 including He will teach you techniques £25 unique and individual sketches materials to enable you to develop your VENUE: in porcelain. Each piece will VENUE: own individual style. Sean Hollywood then be fired and glazed before Sean Hollywood Materials to bring to the Arts Centre being returned to you to frame Arts Centre first session include an HB up and keep.

pencil, rubber, sharpener & Classes Workshops A relaxing and creative way and sketchbook. Advice will to spend a Saturday morning! be given on any other materials needed for the rest of the course. To book call Box Office T: 028 4461 0747

TO BOOK CALL: 028 3031 3180 40 — 41 Workshops & Classes SEAN HOLLYWOOD PROGRAMME January–April 2020

Reynolds School of Dance

The School of Dance offers DATE: classes in classical, ballet Monday & Tuesday and modern theatre dance. evenings and Students are prepared for Saturday mornings exams in the ISTD syllabus TIME: and performance. Various

T: 028 4177 3673 PRICE: E: [email protected] On application Accolade Choir VENUE: TO BOOK CALL: Sean Hollywood The Accolade Choir meets DATE: Arts Centre every Tuesday and welcomes Tuesdays new members. Accolade is 028 4177 3673 TUTOR: TIME: Ms Leo Reynolds a community association 7pm – 9pm established in 2013. The Association works to promote PRICE: As per terms strengthened and deepened relationships between VENUE: Newry Art Society different communities and Sean Hollywood cultures through exciting Arts Centre CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP Days: Wednesday and inspiring arts-based MUSICAL DIRECTORS: Newry Art Society meets programmes within an artistic, Nikolay Ivanov and on Wednesday nights and Time: social and educational context. Veselka Ivanova is looking for new members 7.30pm to join them. Beginners and E: [email protected] those with experience alike are made very welcome with friendly advice given by our Speech and Drama for Kids professional artist, Cora

Workshops & Classes Workshops Harrington. Demonstrations Contact: Crossan School Days: and workshops are held of Speech and Drama. Saturdays

regularly by experienced and Time: professional artists. Society 10am – 12noon members have the opportunity TO BOOK CALL: to hang their work in our twice yearly exhibitions. 07835 879 672

Please come along and sample two free sessions. Find us on facebook @NewryArtSociety. Yoga Eddie Kelly ‘Drop In’ yoga sessions. Contact: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre Days: PRICE: Wednesday evenings £6 per session

Time: TUTOR: 6.30pm – 8pm Eddie Kelly

VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre Herstory

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council is delighted to support this year’s International Herstory Light Festival, an annual global event celebrating women and equality.

The 2020 Herstory Light Festival takes place over the weekend of St Brigid’s Day from 31 January until 3 February, in honour of Ireland’s triple goddess.

Events will take place across the district at the Council’s arts and museum venues. Irish Women Over the Ages Growing Old Disgracefully Storytelling for Primary Schools by Lua McIlwraith

Join renowned storyteller, Karen Edwards Lua McIlwraith stars in her own show, and hear how women have helped to shape a cabaret style compilation of lyrics written Ireland through the centuries - from the Warrior to recognisable tunes (parodies gone mad), Queen Meabh of Connaught to Grainne Mhaol the which celebrate the joys and woes of famous pirate queen; from Bride the bringer of growing older. Spring and crucial link between paganism and Lua’s aim is to send people home with aching Christianity, to Macha who placed her curse on ribs and increased levels of serotonin. With the warriors of Ulster - these stories will highlight titles like ‘Growing Old is not for Wimps’, the power and influence wielded by Irish women ‘Dieting Woes’, ‘The Gym Rabbit’, and ‘The Libido over the ages. Blues’, interspersed with more mainline numbers, Booking essential. audiences won’t help but get involved. Herstory Events

DATE: DATE: Friday 31 January Friday 31 January

TIME: TIME: 9.15am, 10.15am, 11.15am, 7.30pm 1.15pm, 2.15pm PRICE: PRICE: £12

VENUE: Sean Hollywood VENUE: Arts Centre Newry and Mourne Museum CONTACT: 028 3031 3180 CONTACT: 028 3031 3178 The Penelopiad Herstory at the Museum by Margaret Atwood Herstory aims to raise awareness of the role of women in the past and present and examine This theatrical reading by She-Wolf Theatre their contributions to culture, society, science Collective responds to the theme of ‘Ancient’s Rising’ and the economy. with a rehearsed reading of extracts from, ‘The Penelopiad’ by Margaret Atwood. This event will enable visitors to hear more about women’s lives in County Down in the past, Directed by Brenda Winter Palmer and performed by with short illustrated talks on: members of the Collective, the play presents a retelling of the story of ‘The Odyssey’ from the perspective of • Women Artists of County Down Odysseus’s wife, Penelope and her twelve maids who • Women in the Old Gaol of Down were inexplicably hanged by Odysseus on his return from war. In this domestic story behind the Homeric • Women’s Experiences of Medical Care in the Past epic, Penelope tells how she fended off the attentions • Textile Pieces and Quilts Made by Local Women of greedy suitors while waiting on her husband. from Down County Museum’s Collection Herstory Events ‘The Penelopiad’ has been called “satanically • The Lace Industry in South Armagh witty and yet profoundly moving” and “a pitiless indictment of the horrors that men bring onto See more about women and girl’s lives in County women, but even more frighteningly, the horrors Down in the past with a special trail through the that women do unto each other”. Museum galleries. Have a go at St Brigid Cross making and design your own ‘memory’ quilt. DATE: Saturday 1 February DATE: Saturday 1 February TIME: 8pm (bar available from 7pm) TIME: 11am – 3pm PRICE: £5 PRICE: PRESENTED BY: She-Wolf Theatre Collective VENUE: VENUE: Down County Museum Down Arts Centre CONTACT: CONTACT: 028 4461 5218 028 4461 0747 Sometimes She…. He Named Me Malala Poems on a Talk by Kevin Dwan Sunday Afternoon: ‘Sometimes She…’ is a new Directed by Davis Guggenheim, World of Equals exhibition from Kevin Dwan this 2015 American documentary of 13 statues all celebrating the film presents the young Pakistani Part of the Herstory celebration, feminine goddess. Kevin’s working female activist and Nobel Peace but with the usual warm invitation title is ‘Sometimes She’. Using Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai, to share your own work – poem, social archetypes to express how who has spoken out for the rights story, song or a favourite piece, whether on the wider theme or not. ‘she’ manifests, the main thread of girls, especially the right to of the idea is, “sometimes she education, since she was Sunday Afternoon Shared Space: 2.30pm – 3.45pm is A, sometimes she is B, but very young. Women Aloud NI: 4pm – 5pm she is always the goddess”. On 1 December 2015, ‘He Named Me Malala’ was shortlisted with We are delighted to welcome Join Kevin to discuss the goddess. fourteen other documentaries Women Aloud NI writers to our featured space. With a ‘World of

Herstory Events submitted to the 88th Academy Equals’ focus, this performance of DATE: Awards in Best Documentary Saturday 1 February readings by collective members Feature. The title refers to the brings into light those women – TIME: Afghani folk hero ‘Malalai of writers or non-writers in the public 12 Noon Maiwand’, after whom her father eye or personally connected – named her. The film also recounts who have inspired courage in PRICE: how she miraculously survived and these women writers to make £5 including refreshments has become even more eloquent in their own voices heard. her quest after being hunted down VENUE: and shot by a Taliban gunman. DATE: Carroll Gallery, Sunday 2 February Sean Hollywood Arts Centre DATE: TIME: Saturday 1 February 11am – 5pm CONTACT: PRICE: 028 3031 3180 TIME: 2pm followed by a Q&A

PRICE: PRESENTED BY: £5 including refreshments Castle Ward Arts & Crafts and Down Arts Centre VENUE: Sean Hollywood Arts Centre VENUE: Down Arts centre CONTACT: CONTACT: 028 3031 3180 028 4461 0747 Comhairle Ceantair an Iúir, Mhúrn agus an Dúin Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Clár Geimhridh – Earraigh na nIarsmalann Museums Winter – Spring Programme

Ag freastal ar an Dún agus Ard Mhacha Theas Serving Down and South Armagh Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Located in the eighteenth century Gaol of Down, Down County Museum, collects, conserves and displays objects, images and documents relating to the history of County Down. The Old Gaol of Down was opened in 1796 and until its closure in 1830 held hundreds of prisoners, incarcerated for a variety of offences from the minor to the most serious crimes. The gaol was also a convict gaol with approximately 400 prisoners transported to the penal colony of New South Wales. Today, visitors can see the restored gaol buildings including some of the cells where prisoners were kept. A selection of the museum’s collection of historic objects is displayed in our permanent galleries.

Down Through Time

Down Through Time is the permanent exhibition displaying the history of County Down from 9,000 years ago to the present. The exhibition brings together over one thousand objects, documents, paintings, photographs and hands-on features to provide an intriguing account of how County Down has developed over time. With sections on prehistory, St Patrick, early Christian Down, the Vikings and the Normans, the early modern period, the Victorians, the First and Second World Wars and modern times, the exhibition shows how the people of Down have lived and worked in changing and turbulent times. Hands-on features enable visitors to undertake a range of enjoyable activities from dressing up and puzzle solving to exploring sites in the locality. A visit to Down Through Time is a must for all ages! www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

At the rear of the eighteenth century cell block an extension houses three more permanent galleries, temporary display galleries and a café.

Raising the Cross in Down ‘At Present Confined’ Tells the story of the Downpatrick Life in the old Gaol of Down High Cross and its place in the Uncovers the history of the early Christian tradition of County gaol and tells the stories of Down. An interesting collection of some of the prisoners confined artefacts illustrates the story of here from 1796 to 1830. the development of Christianity in Cathedral View Tearoom the locality, with the centrepiece Run by Mainstay DRP being the 10th century (Downe Residential Project), Downpatrick High Cross displayed it provides a great range of in a specially constructed gallery. delicious snacks and lunches Harvests from Land and Sea made with locally sourced Displays how the farming and ingredients. The tearoom fishing industries have developed also offers a great view of over time and how our landscape, the Cathedral, Mound of culture and identity have been Down and across the Quoile shaped by those working on river to Inch Abbey. the land and sea.

Educational Visits and Behind the Scenes Tours Down County Museum has a collection of over 10,000 objects and almost 50,000 photographs. Museum staff are available to visit your venue to give talks on all aspects For more information on arranging of the collection. We can also arrange for tours and staff talks: smaller community and educational groups E: [email protected] to avail of special behind the scenes tours. T: 028 4461 5218

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Exhibitions

From Ballyhosset When We to Bengal Were Young

This display features a selection of documents, This exhibition looks at how children’s photographs, medical instruments and lives have changed over the past century. uniforms belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel The display includes objects relating to Alexander Silcock, which were recently education and school days, toys and games donated to Down County Museum. and the experiences of children in County Down communities. Born in Ballyhosset in 1856, Lieutenant- Colonel Silcock joined the Indian Medical This is a fascinating account of how times Service in 1881 and had a distinguished and expectations have changed for children, career as a surgeon in India. which will bring back memories for many.

Date Admission: Date Admission: Until Summer 2020 Until February 2020

Venue Venue Down County Museum Down County Museum www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Heydays and Holidays Shared History Community Embroidery

This exhibition looks at how holidays and Community groups in Newry, Mourne and Down special days were celebrated in the past have come together to collectively produce a and the wider development of leisure in our large scale community embroidery featuring communities. The exhibition features a images connected to our local history and culture. wide range of objects and images. The groups worked along with Creative Spark to design panels based on local history, folklore, stories and memories to learn and share new sewing and embroidery skills with each other. The result of the project is this new textile exhibition.

Date Admission: Date Admission: Until April 2020 13 March – Summer 2020

Venue Venue Down County Museum Down County Museum

This project supported by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council and the European Union’s Peace IV Programme; managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) 04 – 05 Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Special Events

Tin Whistle Classes Tin Whistle Classes for Adults - Beginners for Adults - Intermediate

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn Now that you’ve mastered the basics to play a traditional instrument. come along and perfect your skills and learn to play a wider variety of tunes! Danny McGreevy is one of the finest traditional Tutor, Danny McGreevy will teach you musicians in County Down and is looking how to incorporate new techniques forward to teaching an adult group at the into your repertoire. Museum. These classes and a little daily practice, will ensure that you will be able to play Please enrol in advance a mixture of well known and traditional airs. at the Museum.

Please enrol in advance at the Museum.

Date Time Date Time Tuesday 14 January – 10.30am Tuesday 14 January – 11.15am Tuesday 4 April Tuesday 4 April (no class on 17 March) Price: (no class on 17 March) Price: Please pay a member Please pay a member Venue of Friends of Down Venue of Friends of Down Down County County Museum at Down County County Museum at Museum the first class Museum the first class www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Preserving or Plundering? Museum Collecting from Hans Sloane to Modern Museums

This PEACE IV funded project is seeking to recruit 20-30 interested participants from throughout the community. The free course will run mainly on Tuesday evenings from 4 February to 7 April 2020 and be based in Down County Museum. It will focus on the impact of Sir Hans Sloane on the development of museums and aim to increase understanding of cultural diversity. It will include a series of lectures and three site visits. Participants should reside within the Newry, Mourne and Down District area and able to commit to the entire course. Booking essential. Sir Hans Sloane by Leo Reynolds is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Contact Shirley Lennon, course facilitator to book: E: [email protected] T: 07718084708

Date Admission: 4 February – April

Venue Down County Museum

This project supported by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council and the European Union’s Peace IV Programme; managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB)

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Valentine Crafts Downpatrick Artisan for Children Market at the Museum

Bring the kids along for some fun Valentine’s Downpatrick Artisan Market features all the Day craft from cards and paper decorations best in delicious, locally produced food and to jewellery boxes! non-alcoholic drink as well as beautifully made arts and crafts.

Date Time Date Time Saturday 8 February 1pm – 4pm Saturday 15 February 11am – 3pm Saturday 21 March Venue Admission: Saturday 18 April Admission: Down County £3 Museum Venue Down County Museum www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Talk: by Brian Sloan, Playful Museums’ Festival: Queen’s University Belfast Special Museum Activities Uncovering Medieval for Under 5s Downpatrick

Down County Museum is taking part in the August 2019 saw a return to Cathedral Northern Ireland Museums’ Council funded Hill Downpatrick for the second community- Playful Museums Initiative. This project is based investigation. Building on the results aimed at increasing opportunities for under of 2018, this year’s excavation focused on 5s and their parents and carers to enjoy a the kitchen and midden pits associated with range of activities at museums. the Benedictine Abbey that was on this site during the medieval period. A large assemblage Come along and take part in storytelling, of medieval artefacts was recovered giving handling activities and much more! important evidence for the everyday life of the monastery. This talk will discuss the results of the excavation as well as highlight some of the surprises along the way!

Date Time Date Time Friday 14 10am – 12pm Wednesday 4 March 7.30pm and Saturday 15 and 1pm – 3pm Venue Admission: Venue Admission: Down County Museum Down County Museum

This project supported by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council and the European Union’s Peace IV Programme; managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB)

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Special Event for International Women’s Day St Patrick Crafts for Children

Join us for this special event focusing on Come along and make a great range of women’s involvements in campaigns for St Patrick themed crafts, from cards and social justice at home and abroad. paper decorations to bookmarks.

Date Time Date Time Friday 6 March 10am – 2pm Saturday 14 March 1pm – 4pm

Venue Admission: Venue Admission: Down County Down County £3 Museum Museum www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

St Patrick’s Day Celebrations

St Patrick’s at the Museum is one of the highlights of St Patrick’s Day in Downpatrick with a fun filled programme for all ages. The exhibitions and shop are open throughout the day along with lots of family entertainment including Irish dancing, traditional and folk music, storytelling and circus style entertainment.

Date Time Tuesday 17 March 10am – 6pm

Venue Admission: Down County Museum

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Conference: The History of Crime and Punishment in County Down

A one day conference in association with Newry, Mourne and Down District Council and Down County Museum as part of their Peace IV Shared History Project. With lectures and workshops from leading academics in the field of crime and punishment in Ireland, participants will have the opportunity to explore the evolution of crime prevention and punishment in Irish History.

To book a place on this conference please contact Robert Forshaw: E: [email protected] T: 0790 168 8979

Date Time Saturday 21 March 10am – 3pm

Venue Admission: Down County Museum

This project supported by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council and the European Union’s Peace IV Programme; managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Easter Crafts Easter Monday for Children Funday

Come along and make a great range of Our annual Easter Monday Funday will feature Easter themed crafts, from cards and paper egg painting and other Easter crafts, magic decorations to Easter chicks and bonnets! shows and children’s entertainment.

Date Time Date Time Saturday 11 April 1pm – 4pm Monday 13 April 12pm – 4.30pm

Venue Admission: Venue Admission: Down County £3 Down County Museum Museum

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Join the Friends of Down County Museum

The Friends of Down County Museum Membership brings you the following benefits: was founded in 1989 to help the Museum • Invitations to exhibition openings and other in various ways – raising money for special events Museum projects, acting as ambassadors • Talks and tours arranged during the year • Social events within the community and lobbying on • Opportunities to participate in special projects the Museum’s behalf when required. • 10% discount in the Museum shop.

Over the last 30 years we have bought Annual membership: paintings and many other objects for Single Rate: £15 the collection, purchased conservation Reduced Family Rate: £20, special rate and photographic equipment and assisted for this year only payable by 1 January. with the cost of research, exhibitions and publications. If you are a new member joining between September and December your subscription will last until the end of the following year. Contact the Museum for further information or the Secretary, Lesley Simpson [email protected] www.downcountymuseum.com Down County Museum Programme January – April 2020

Birthday Parties at Down County Museum

Why not celebrate your child’s birthday at Down County Museum? We run Viking themed, Victorian themed and craft themed birthday parties for boys and girls aged from 6 years upwards.

Your birthday party will include:

• Themed games and trails through the Museum • Dressing up in replica costume • Themed craft activities • You can also mix and match activities from each of our themed parties.

For further details or to book a birthday party please contact Down County Museum on 028 4461 5218

NEW Group Tours Available

New tour packages now available for groups. Contact us to find out more about our Discover Early Christian Down and our Discover the Old Gaol of Down tours.

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Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday: 10am – 4.30pm Room Hire Sundays: 1.30pm – 5pm Admission: Admission to the Museum is free of charge. There is however a small charge for some special events and for guided tours. Accessibility: The Museum is fully accessible for families with young children, visitors with mobility difficulties and wheelchair users. Toilets for visitors with disabilities and baby changing facilities are available also. Visitor Facilities: The Museum shop has an excellent range of The Museum is an ideal venue for conferences, books on local history, items of local crafts, meetings or staff development days. children’s goods and souvenirs. Located on the top floor of the restored Contact: cell block and fully accessible by lift or stairs, The Mall, Downpatrick we have a large conference room capable of Co Down, BT30 6AH comfortably seating 100 people theatre or T: 028 4461 5218 lecture style. The room can also accommodate [email protected] 30 people seated around tables in a variety www.downcountymuseum.com of formats. Facilities include WiFi, PA system (including loop-system), slide projector, overhead projector, screen, flip chart and Friends of Down County Museum PowerPoint system.

A smaller meeting room located downstairs Education Services in the restored cell block, can accommodate 30 people theatre or lecture style and 15 Down County Museum provides seated around tables. A large screen can be curriculum linked learning sessions for used for PowerPoint and dvd. Foundation Stage, KS1, KS2 and KS3 pupils. Our hands-on education programmes are Both conference and meeting rooms are designed to meet the areas of The World available for hire during Museum opening Around Us, Language and Literacy, hours as well as out of hours. For full details the Arts, Religious Education, PDMU. on our conference and meeting facilities and for information on rates of hire, contact us For more details contact on 028 4461 5218. [email protected] www.newryandmournemuseum.com Newry and Mourne Museum Programme January – April 2020

Tours: FREE tours of the main exhibitions are available each Sunday at 3pm. Numbers are limited to 20 and pre booking of places Welcome to is advisable. For more information please Newry and contact 028 3031 3178 or 028 3031 3182. Audio Guides: Mourne Museum For visitors who just wish to take a stroll through the galleries, the Museum provides FREE audio guides in English, Irish, French Newry and Mourne Museum first opened in and German, which offer more information 1986 in Newry Arts Centre and moved to larger on the Castle and exhibits. premises at Bagenal’s Castle in March 2007. Children’s Audio-tour A tour aimed at children in the age range The Castle’s exact location was lost over the 7-12 is now available in English and Irish. years due to constant adaptation of the building, not least when the premises were purchased Opening Hours: by Arthur McCann Ltd in 1894 and converted into a bakery. Monday–Saturday: 10am–4.30pm Rediscovered in 1996 when McCann’s sold Sundays: 1.30pm–5pm the site, the Castle has been sympathetically restored. During the restoration process, Admission: drawings from a survey of the Castle completed Admission to the Museum is free of charge c.1568 allowed archaeologists to uncover many original features of the Castle and these have been interpreted for the visitor.

The main exhibitions in the Museum include prehistoric material, Newry as a merchant town, the working life of the area and modern experiences of living in a Border area.

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Exhibitions

In addition to the three main galleries, there are two temporary exhibition galleries, which have a vibrant programme of exhibitions.

Gallery 1

Displays tell the story of Newry and Mourne from the prehistoric period up to the 16th century. Artefacts on display include a grave slab from a pre-Norman monastic foundation in the area and a stone carved with a human head and a heraldic animal from the medieval Cistercian abbey at Newry. New highlights will include a range of artefacts such as pottery from the Neolithic to post medieval period, excavated in 2011 at Carnbane, near Newry.

Gallery 2

The commercial and cultural heritage of Newry and Mourne in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries is explored. New highlights will include a late 16th century portrait of Sir Nicholas Bagenal, who developed the Carlingford Peninsula in the second half of the 16th century. He also played an important role in the political events of the period, and was Marshal of the Army in Ireland.

Gallery 3

An eclectic range of artefacts is used to trace the impact of political, economic and cultural events on Newry in the 20th century. A section of the gallery is also devoted to the farming, fishing and domestic life of the area. New highlights include paintings by Newry-born artist, Margaret Clarke, one of the most significant figures in the history of early 20th century Irish art. An accomplished portrait painter, Margaret also ran her husband, Harry Clarke’s stain glass studios in Dublin after his death in 1931. www.newryandmournemuseum.com Newry and Mourne Museum Programme January – April 2020

Temporary Exhibition Programme

War Declared: The Local Impact of World War II

The United Kingdom declared war on Germany The exhibition also considers the effect of on 3 September 1939 and this major exhibition the war on the local economy, especially in marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak the context of a border community, and the of World War II by looking at the impact of the legacy of war in the area in the later 1940s conflict on Newry and Mourne. and early 1950s. Key themes in the exhibition include These themes are also explored through the preparations for war in the area during the memories of local people, which highlight the late 1930s, Civil Defence, local recruitment impact of World War II on individuals, families in the armed forces, evacuees, rationing and and communities. Many such stories are often smuggling, regiments stationed in the area undocumented elsewhere. and the arrival of American troops and airmen in 1942. Date: Venue: On display until Newry and 26 April 2020 Mourne Museum

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The Reside Collection – Exploring Aspects of Local History

Reflecting the working lives and interests of This exhibition is curated to provide a glimpse Samuel Wilson Reside, his son, Gerald Wilson of the treasures and highlights of this unique Reside, who were both architects in Newry, and local history archive and to demonstrate its Margaret Reside (née Fisher), a Newry solicitor, research potential to local and family historians, the Reside Collection comprises c.12,000 ranging architects and engineers. Additional documents in date from 1708 up to the 1990s. Documents not included in the exhibition are available on include estate records (rentals, maps and an interactive visual display, which will also leases) from the Kilmorey Hall and Downshire incorporate a brief history of the Reside family. estates and other minor landowning families, architectural and engineering drawings, Land Commission and Boundary Commission papers, legal papers, newspaper cuttings relating to The Troubles and miscellaneous material relating to the history of the Newry and Mourne area. Date: Venue: On display until Newry and 31 August 2020 Mourne Museum www.newryandmournemuseum.com Newry and Mourne Museum Programme January – April 2020

Costume Every six months Newry and Mourne Museum changes its costume display to Case Displays showcase items from its costume collection.

Post-War Fashion – Dresses belonging to Margaret Reside

This display will be an insight into local post-war fashion by featuring two dresses worn by Margaret Reside (1906-1999), a solicitor with the Newry legal firm, Fisher & Fisher. In 1947 Margaret Reside married Major Gerald Reside, an architect in Newry, and for this occasion, she wore a purple wool crepe dress which is an example of a wartime economy dress. Accompanying this will be a 1960’s day dress probably worn at home and at informal social occasions.

As one of the first women solicitors in the United Kingdom, Margaret Reside’s legal career will also be briefly explored as part of this display.

Date: On display until 26 April 2020

Venue: Newry and Mourne Museum

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Events St Patrick’s Day Acylic Art Class with Orla Barry

Join us at the Museum for a clay arts and Have you ever wanted to paint using crafts workshop. Dress for mess and have acrylics? Well now is your chance to try out fun making your own designs and pendants. this medium. Inspired by Newry-born portrait artist, Margaret Clarke, participants will have Children must accompanied by an adult. the opportunity to view some of her works Numbers are limited and pre-booking that are on display in the Museum, and be is advisable. inspired to recreate their own work of art. Suitable for ages 4 –11. To book contact Declan Carroll: 028 3031 3178

Date Admission: Date Time Tuesday 17 March Saturday 1 February 1pm – 4pm

Venue Guidance: Venue Admission: Newry and Mourne Newry and Mourne £5 per person Museum Museum www.newryandmournemuseum.com Newry and Mourne Museum Programme January – April 2020

Lectures Memories of Life in the The Built Heritage of Newry Area in the 1940s South Down: Philip Smith

This is a unique opportunity to hear two Philip Smith is a historian who has worked well-known local residents, Billy McAlpine in the field of historic buildings throughout and Charlie Smyth, reminiscence about life Ireland for over 22 years. He is the author of in the Newry area during World War II and ‘An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage the 1940s. You are welcome to share your of County Wicklow’ (2004) and ‘Buildings own memories of this period with Billy and of South County Down’ (2019). He currently Charlie or to ask questions about living in the works for the Department for Communities’ area eighty years ago. This promises to be an Historic Environment Division. interesting and enjoyable occasion and will Using local examples he will talk about be recorded as part of the Museum’s oral the process of researching historic buildings history archive. in the context of his book.

Date Time Date Time Thursday 20 February 7.30pm Thursday 5 March 2pm

Venue Admission: Venue Admission: Newry and Mourne Newry and Mourne Museum Museum

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Reminiscence Loan Box Service

This service is free and the boxes can be borrowed for a two week period. Museum staff can provide brief instruction on how the boxes can be used. A new box has been added which will allow the participants to recall memories of showbands, dramas, feis, dance, movies and music. Themes include:

• The 1940s and 1950s • School Life • Household • Earning a Crust • Rural Life • Grooming and Fashion • The 1970s and 1980s • Christmas • The Performing Arts

Pre-booking is essential. To reserve a box contact: T: 028 3031 3178 E: [email protected] www.newryandmournemuseum.com Newry and Mourne Museum Programme January – April 2020

Touring Exhibition Programme Travelling exhibitions are available free of charge from the Museum.

The current exhibitions available, which each comprise of five pop-up stands, are: Newry and The Great 1916 Farming Mourne in Famine and After in the Local

the Great Provides an overview Themes explored Area of how the famine include local figures War Explores the affected the local associated with the development of area, with reference Easter Rising of 1916, Tells the local story farming, with aspects to Newry, Forkhill, how it was reported of the impact of such as agricultural Warrenpoint, in local newspapers the First World War, shows and farming Downpatrick and its impact on with references to co-operatives in and Crossgar. local politics. Bessbrook, Jerretspass, Newry, Loughbrickland, Kilkeel, Newry, Rathfriland and Newtownhamilton, south Armagh. Rostrevor and Warrenpoint.

To check availability and to book a travelling exhibition or reminiscence box call: 028 3031 3178 or 028 3031 3182 24 – 25 Newry and Mourne Museum Programme January – April 2020

Opening Hours: Room Hire Monday to Saturday: 10am – 4.30pm Sundays: 1.30pm – 5pm

Admission: Admission to the Museum is free of charge. There is a charge for some workshops, lectures, special events and guided tours.

Education Services The Museum provides a wide range of workshops based on the history of the Newry and Mourne area. Events and activities usually cost £1 per child. Workshops can be arranged There are two rooms available for events and according to your school timetable, please activities that complement the Museum’s ethos email us at [email protected]. e.g. lectures, workshops, seminars, community events and meetings. Family Events and Lecture Programme On the second floor of the 16th century Bagenal’s Castle there is a Banqueting Room, A varied programme of events, courses, with original features. On the ground floor of the activities and lectures are available. Warehouse, with the former McCann’s Bakery To find out what is scheduled this spring shop frontage, there is a Meeting Room and summer and to join our mailing list, To check availability, conditions of hire, price contact us by phone or email. Events are and to book a room please contact Museum posted on Facebook. Reception at 028 3031 3175. Contact: Newry and Mourne Museum Bagenal’s Castle, Castle Street Newry, Co. Down BT34 2BY Research Weekdays: 028 3031 3175 or 028 3031 3178 Weekends: 07554 772523 Resources [email protected] www.bagenalscastle.com The Museum contains significant archival collections, including the Reside Collection and the Hugh Irvine Collection, which are important sources for anyone researching social and family history in the area. The Museum also has an important Nationalist political collection, relating to Eamon Donnelly. newryandmourneArtsMuseum To view a document in our Reading Room @nandmmuseum please contact us by email or phone.