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Preview Limerickcityofculture.Ielimerickcityofculture.Ie 3 Limerickcityofculture.Ie Please Note, Times and Locations Are Subject to Change Preview Message from the Chairman Message from Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Our programme aims to unlock and reveal Heritage and the Limerick’s cultural potential, to turn the city into a year- long national stage hosting acts, arts and Gaeltacht events from the intensely local and community based to international acts which will perform for it gives me great pleasure to welcome the first time ever in ireland. the launch of the programme for The edgy, urban and contemporary will blend with Limerick National City of Culture 2014. the traditional to reveal the rich cultural diversity The Limerick culture and artistic limerickcityofculture.ie limerickcityofculture.ie and heritage of the Treaty City. community has clearly grasped the opportunity to showcase the extraordinary wealth of cultural talent there is in the city and county with this exciting limerickcityofculture.ie This year will be a chance to shine a light on programme. it is a compelling invitation next year to people from across the Limerick and to lift the lid on the best that we have country and abroad to visit a city that is undergoing an economic and cultural to offer as ireland’s premier cultural venue in 2014. renaissance. Tabhair cuairt agus aimsigh na rúin. i wish all involved in Limerick National City of Culture 2014 every success and look forward to being here many times next year to enjoy the best of local, national and Pat Cox international culture as it plays out on this great stage Chairman Message from Kathleen Leddin, Mayor of Limerick and 2 John Sheahan, Cathaoirleach, Limerick 3 County Council 2014 will be an eventful year for Limerick. Administrative borders will disappear as the City and County merge. Against this backdrop Limerick will become a stage for local, national and international culture through Limerick National City of Culture Limerick City of Culture 2014 Board Members 2014. The very significant financial investment of public funds in culture and the arts in Limerick is welcome and timely. it allows us to bring international performances to ireland and also allows Limerick artists and performers to display their cultural wares to national and international audiences. 2014 will be a year of celebration for Limerick. it will be the beginning of our next chapter as the Treaty City, the City of Culture. L-r Tim O’Connor, Dave OHora, Neil Pakey, Bill whelan, Paul O’Connell Conn Murray Brian Mcenery Orlaith McBride Niall Ó Donnchú Please note, times and locations are subject to change. For up to the minute details, see limerickcityofculture.ie Streets Streets 20:14 New Summer iriSH PreMiere Year’s eve! NoFit State Circus BiANCO Limerick rings in the New Year at 20:14 on the banks of the Shannon to celebrate its An irish premier and with exclusive irish designation as the first irish performances, BiANCO is seductive, thrilling and National City of Culture . The enchanting, and is the new spectacular by NoFit State, New Year celebrations will mark the UK’s leading contemporary circus company, the first event of the year with performed in their iconic big-top tent. family friendly activities taking limerickcityofculture.ie limerickcityofculture.ie place in locations across the city BiANCO is a return to the company’s roots and iconic including the Milk Market. A immersive, promenade work. An all consuming spectacular light parade will theatrical experience combining intoxicating live make its way around King music, gravity defying circus and stunning costume John’s Castle and Thomond design in a constantly evolving environment. Bridge. A special concert will be hosted near the Potato Market, Directed by Firenza Guidi, BiANCO brings together with the stunning St Mary’s the best UK and worldwide performers with a broad Cathedral as the backdrop for a range of circus skills: swinging trapeze, aerial straps star studded line up featuring a and rope, cloudswing, dance trapeze, trampoline, host of top musicians. juggling, hand-balance and acrobatics. with television coverage NoFit State Circus is the UK’s leading large-scale broadcasting live from the contemporary circus company, producing event, a special ringing out of professional touring productions and a wide variety the Bells of St Mary’s will signal of community, training and education projects for the new year celebrations and people of all ages. The company still lives, works and the start of Limerick National travels together, united by a passion for the circus arts City of Culture 2014. and a bond that brings their community together into something special and gives their work its unique heart and soul. 4 5 www.nofitstate.org Streets May CiTY OF CULTUre COMMiSSiON Stage Denis Tricot - January rendez-vous de Terre et Mer riverdance French artist Denis Tricot gently transforms the riverside with his elegant Of all the performances to emerge from ireland - sculptures into a temporary art gallery. inspired by the immediate in rock, music, theatre, film - nothing has carried surrounding, his installations weave their way through the landscape, the energy , the sensuality and the spectacle of highlighting its beauty and sculpting the air around, creating dynamic riverdance. connections between the water, the land and the architecture. 20 years ago in May 1994 riverdance was first performed as the interval act in the eurovision His method is simple, yet monumental. He uses 3m lengths of poplar wood Song Contest in Dublin before being developed and creates the sculptures there and then. He builds curves, lines and into a full length stage show. arches that flow through this beautiful part of the city. The vistas on with its fusion of irish and international music castle, city and countryside, the ever changing waterscape and sturdy and dance, the show broke all box office records limerickcityofculture.ie limerickcityofculture.ie bridges provide a rich canvas. His sculptures draw on this landscape during its world premiere run in Dublin in early around the river Shannon's edge, where the irish land meets the sea. 1995 and has since become a global phenomenon, being performed over 12,000 times to a live Artist: Denis Tricot audience in excess of 23 million and with three Sculpture Assistant: Mathieu Harzo companies on tour at any one time. Produced by ArtsAgenda To mark the Anniversary of this incredible production, riverdance comes to Limerick before embarking on its 20th Anniversary tour. it will be Limerick City of Culture’s inaugural flagship event and the homecoming for Limerick born composer, Bill whelan. The production will take place from the 16th-19th January 2014 at the Sport Arena in the University of Limerick and tickets can be obtained from the University Concert Hall Box Office on 061 331 549. www.riverdance.com 6 www.Denis-Tricot.com 7 August CiTY OF CULTUre COMMiSSiON CiTY OF CULTUre COMMiSSiON is Your Horse Outside? Light Moves – international is your Horse Outside? is a large community arts project which will take place Festival of Screendance across the city. A collaborative project that brings professional artists, community groups and groups of artists together, ‘is your Horse Outside’ (which The Light Moves – international Festival of Screendance is an exploration and takes its name and influence from The rubberbandits original song) pays tribute celebration of the vibrant field of screendance and dance film-making. Centred to the city’s rich and intrinsic history with horses and their relationship with the around ‘Dance Limerick’, the Daghdha Space will be transformed into a thrilling City of Limerick. The project will see the development of original design large surround sound cinema presenting over 30 films, international guest speakers sculptural horses, that will then be developed and painted by groups across the and a host of events, workshops and masterclasses. Light Moves is ireland’s first city culminating in a large horse parade and sculptural trail. international festival of its kind with artistic direction and curation by director/choreographer Mary wycherley and composer Jürgen Simpson. The festival is a collaboration between Dance Limerick and the Digital Media & Arts research Centre (UL). Stage wOrLD PreMiere Stage Fishamble The New Play Company, presents: Underneath Autumn iriSH PreMiere written & performed by Pat Kinevane Faust Following the runaway international success of Forgotten and Silent in recent years, Fishamble will premiere Pat Kinevane’s third solo play, Underneath, directed National Theatre ‘Radu Stanca’ Sibiu by Jim Culleton, as part of Limerick City of Culture. This new play explores beauty, or the lack of it, and the prejudice that haunts both. Directed by Silviu Purcǎrete This world Premiere will be part of Fishamble’s residency in Limerick city, including a programme of workshops and discussions. what would you do to achieve absolute enlightenment? Meet the man who makes the ‘So ravishing that you're almost ‘Without Fishamble, Irish theatre would be anaemic’ Brian Friel ‘passionate one-man show…carefully wrought production…Kinevane [is] an ultimate sacrifice in his search for infinite knowledge. prepared to sell your soul to the Meet Faust. And meet him in Hell. artist of the theatre’ Ben Brantley, New York Times [on Silent] limerickcityofculture.ie limerickcityofculture.ie devil to keep the succession of lush Obsessed by a fear of growing old and driven by a images coming.... a mighty vampire-like lust for life, Faust makes a pact with the www.fishamble.com bizarrely androgynous Mephistopheles. The Devil. spectacle... that makes you feel as if Silviu Pucǎrete’s wild adaptation of this iconic tale is you've fallen into a waking dream – on a massive scale not seen in ireland since his or a nightmare.’ May MADe iN LiMeriCK Danaides at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1995. The Guardian Over 100 actors and musicians conjure up a world iCO and Ballet ireland: beyond imagination, accompanied by industrial music, ‘Quite the most blisteringly pantomime and remarkable staging.
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