SEPT 21 FRI OFFALY CULTURENIGHT.IE

2018 CULTURE IS CATCHING Culture is catching with venues and public spaces across Offaly as our doors open to host a programme of FREE entertainment as part of a national celebration of arts and culture. Now in its eight year, Culture Night Offaly brings you a spectacle of song, music, visual arts, dance and so much more.

Full Wheelchair Accessibility Part Wheelchair Accessibility Suitable For Children FULL PART KIDS

BIRR BIRR THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE IN-SITES/ÓN CHEAPACH (Open Night)

7.00pm – 8.15pm FULL

A touring exhibition featuring artists, Monica de Bath, Lisa Fingleton and Gareth Kennedy exploring how, in different ways, they address our relationship with a constantly changing environment. New and existing work reflects on the role of art and ecological practices in highlighting historical and contemporary complexities ©Xiaolian of land use. Curated by Denise Reddy. You are invited to join the In-Sites artists, SOIL-FOOD-SOUL along with local photographer Tina Claffey (Music, Performance, & Tai Chi) to discuss their works. The talks will be The Growery followed by a screening of the film Post (rear of 1 Oxmantown Mall) Colony by Gareth Kennedy. 4.00pm – 6.30pm *Booking required, call 057 9122911 KIDS

A unique event in Birr’s ‘social garden’ The Growery includes Paul Seery performing Irish tunes and Indian classical music on his homemade sarods and a mezmerising introduction to Tai Chi and Daoist practice with Yov ngyuav n Lóng Tàorén, a Tao monk from Qīxīng Tàijí TàoTemple and Monastery 七星太極殿. Light food and refreshments available.

©Monica de Bath CLAREEN IRISH-AMERICANA Leap Castle 8.00pm – 10.00pm A not to be missed evening of folk music inspired by the historical influences of Irish traditional music in America with banjo player and vocalist, Greg Cotter and button accordionist, Mary Flanagan. *Booking required, email [email protected] or call 057 9357400 CRINKILL ART THROUGH CHILDREN A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION The Thatch PART 7.30pm – 9.30pm KIDS Come and curate an Open Air Virtual Art Exhibition drawing on the works of Crinkill National School. With the exhibition projected from a 1940's style Phone Box - ‘Step In - Select ©Julie Spollen Step Out - Enjoy!’. Organised by Crinkill Tidy Towns.

SONIC POLLINATORS BALLYBOY by Karen Power TRAD MANIA featuring Quiet Music Ensemble 8.30pm – 9.30pm Dan & Molly’s Traditional Thatched pub

FULL 9.00pm KIDS A performance by Quiet Music Ensemble A great night in store with Ballyboy - employing their unique skills as Comhaltas playing up a storm with lively improvisors, listeners and interpreters, music, song, story telling and all things trad. to create a musical dialogue with composer, Karen Power’s composition of live recordings of bees, plants and their surrounding habitats in Offaly. RHODE A synthesis between music and nature’s THE BEST OF TRAD pollinators. WITH RHODE COMHALTAS A Creative Ireland co-commission Ballybryan National School organised by Offaly and Laois County FULL 6.30pm – 8.30pm KIDS Councils. Talented musicians, youngsters and *Booking required, call 057 9122911 oldsters share with you the best in traditional tunes. TULLAMORE

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SONIC POLLINATORS (Short Film)

9.30am – 7.00pm FULL

A short film created by artist, Julie Spollen ©Offaly County Council Choir documenting the work of composer Karen Power who made multiple visits to Offaly in 2017 to listen and make full frequency CHORAL CAROUSEL recordings of bees, plants and their surrounding habitats and the resulting live 4.00pm – 7.00pm FULL performance featuring Quiet Music KIDS Ensemble. An extravaganza of song to lift the hearts of the county with a showcase of school, workplace and community based choirs, including Banagher Trinity Gospel Choir; Le AUTUMN IN BEAUTIFUL PRAGUE Chéile Singers (Tullamore); HSE Tullamore 9.30am – 7.00pm Staff Choir; Offaly County Council Choir and FULL St. Joseph’s National School Choir (Tullamore). Tullamore Camera Club explore through Assembling the talent of some of Offaly’s photography the city of Prague with an choirs - one unique performance of choral exhibition of the visual gems of the ‘City of a delights with classical, pop, rock and gospel. Hundred Spires’. In October 2017, members of the Club visited Prague and were inspired by its sights and architecture, capturing the vibe of the city. Offaly Arts Strategy Inspire-Imagine-Involve 2018-2022 will be launched at 4pm. All welcome!

VR MOVIES VRparty, Sragh Business Park, 10.00am - 10.00pm FULL KIDS The midlands only VR studio present the incredible world of Virtual Reality / 360° short films with the award winning Aurora from Pink Kong Studios; Allumette by Penrose Studios, a sad tale loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, The Little Match Girl. In addition, a 360° sneak peak of Faoladh, a tale of a Celtic boy in the late 9th century Ireland with an impending Viking invasion, and ©Mary Theresa Clancy

Image credit: Le Chéile Singers VR MOVIES VR Party, Sragh Business Park, David Whelan’s Titanic, an an immersive anthology, which also publishes the original experience of the doomed ship through Kavanagh poems, by kind permission of The the eyes of a survivor. Kavanagh Estate Trustees. Published by *Booking required, call 057 9360544 Fiery Arrow Press. Partly funded by South Dublin County Council and Offaly County Council.

© Pink Kong Studios POP-UP TRAD Chocolate Brown 4.00pm – 5.00pm Galvin For Men 5.00pm – 6.00pm FULL KIDS A pop-up of reels, jigs, hornpipes, waltzes,

marches, songs, & dances with Killeigh McCloskey © Paul Comhaltas performing in Chocolate Brown and Galvin For Men. HIP HOP DANCE WITH SONYA CUDDY Kilbrook Community Centre, Clonminch Rd. FULL 4.30pm – 5.30pm KIDS CULTURAL WORLDS Charleville Castle A fun-filled Hip Hop Dance workshop for ages 5 – 11 in Breakdancing, Locking and 8.00pm KIDS Popping. An exciting programme of transnational culture with Dublin-based Eastern *Booking required, email [email protected] European dance group Step by Step of or call 057 9357400 Elona Dance School with expositions in BOOK LAUNCH Tango, Paso Doble, the Twist and Rhyth- mic Modern Dance. Rakila and Lelumie Tullamore Library performing from Lithuanian Community 4.30pm FULL Dance Groups and Tullamore poet, Offaly writer, Eileen Casey is editor of The Roseanna Tyrell presenting a selection of Lea-Green Down, an anthology marking her works. From 9pm, dance, song, Patrick Kavanagh’s fiftieth anniversary since stories and tunes from the talented his passing and also, attempts to evaluate members of Rahan Comhaltas. his legacy and his influence on contempo- rary poetry. Over 60 poets feature in the *Booking required, email [email protected] or call 057 9357400 CURIOUS TASTER’S JOURNEY Tullamore D.E.W. Visitor Centre 7.00pm & 8.00pm BANAGHER

FULL DAVID ROONEY AT HOUGHS Step through the doors of the Tullamore D.E.W. J.J. Hough, Main St. Old Bonded Warehouse and get up close and 8.00pm ‘til late personal with our history and of course our PART whiskey, on this journey for the curious taster’s among you. Discover Ireland’s original triple blend with a tour of the Old Bonded Warehouse and a tutored tasting of three expressions of Tullamore D.E.W. Glasses Up! *Booking required, email [email protected] or call 057 9325015 MUSICAL INDIA Shishir, 31 High St.

8.00pm PART A performance by Paul Seery with his melodic homemade sarods, inspired by North Indian classical lutes. A unique evening of Indian music and Irish tunes. ©David Rooney

A fascinating look into the world of artist, LOUGH BOORA David Rooney talking about his illustration work spanning three decades; the screening MICHAEL BULFIN AT BOORA of a series of videos combining original Lough Boora Discovery Park music/songs and artwork; a performance of Visitor Centre songs from his debut album Bound Together;

6.30pm – 8.00pm PART and artwork samples from 1916 - Portraits and Lives, The Royal Irish Academy.

For a unique perspective of Boora, join artist, Michael Bulfin on a walk through its nature and landscape, focusing on his artwork ‘Sky Train’ and his creative response to Boora’s natural and industrial heritage. Bulfin is a renowned Irish artist with a body of work that constantly explores, interprets and defines facets of interconnectivity with the natural world. *Booking required, call 057 9340010 ©Aedan Coffey evening of music&song. Music Generation programmes for an brings together young people involved in work of theEdenderry Rockers . This event present anopen micnight showcasing the (Midlands) andtheEdenderry Youth Café partnership withYouth Work Ireland OffalyWestmeathMusic Generation in –7.30pm6.00pm Edenderry Youth Café FIND YOUR VOICE the Eden School of Music . accomplished students andteachers of Enjoy the musicalexploits of the 8.00pm Eden School of Music SNAP, CRACKLE &POP! storytelling. with thebest of traditional music, songand senior players willget your feet stomping Edenderry Comhaltas withitsjuniorand 7.00pm –9.00pm O’Donoghues, FrKearns St. LIVE TRAD EDENDERRY

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KIDS KIDS KIDS *Booking required, call0879366247 of alltimes! musical favourites withthebest show tunes Songs fromtheMusicals–anevening of Award winningClara Musicalpresent Society –10pm 8.00pm Tullamore Rd. Friends MeetingHouse, SONGS FROM THE MUSICALS or call0579357400 *Booking required, [email protected] of HipHop. for allandwillgive aninsight into theworld learn something new, caters thisopportunity Whether you are anold pro orjust wanting to this HipHopDanceworkshop for ages 12 -17. Learn how to Pop, Lock andBreakdance in –8.00pm 6.30pm Centre Clara Community&FamilyResource WITH SONYA CUDDY HIP HOP DANCE CLARA

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All Shook Up: Clara Musical Society Culture Night Offaly Friday 21 September 2018

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The Growery SOIL-FOOD-SOUL 4.00pm – 6.30pm (rear of 1 Oxmantown Mall), Birr (Music, Performance, & Tai Chi) Birr Theatre and Arts Centre *IN-SITES/ÓN CHEAPACH 7.00pm – 8.15pm Birr Theatre and Arts Centre *SONIC POLLINATORS by Karen Power 8.30pm – 9.30pm featuring Quiet Music Ensemble Leap Castle, Clareen *IRISH-AMERICANA 8.00pm – 10.00pm The Thatch, Crinkill ART THROUGH CHILDREN (Exhibition) 7.30pm – 9.30pm 8.00pm Dan & Molly’s, Ballyboy TRAD MANIA 9.00pm Ballybryan National School, Rhode BEST OF TRAD with Rhode Comhaltas 6.30pm – 8.30pm Áras an Chontae, Tullamore SONIC POLLINATORS (Short Film) 9.30am – 7.00pm Áras an Chontae, Tullamore AUTUMN IN BEAUTIFUL PRAGUE (Exhibition) 9.30am – 7.00pm VRparty, Sragh Bus. Park, Tullamore *VR MOVIES 10.00am – 10.00pm Áras an Chontae, Tullamore CHORAL CAROUSEL 4.00pm – 7.00pm Chocolate Brown & Galvin For Men POP-UP TRAD 4.00pm – 6.00pm Kilbrook Community Ctr, Tullamore *HIP HOP DANCE with Sonya Cuddy 4.30pm – 5.30pm Tullamore Library BOOK LAUNCH 4.30pm The Lea-Green Down, Eileen Casey (Editor) Charleville Castle, Tullamore *CULTURAL WORLDS 8.00pm Tullamore D.E.W. Visitor Centre *CURIOUS TASTER’S JOURNEY 7.00pm & 8.00pm Shishir, 31 High St., Tullamore MUSICAL INDIA 8.00pm Lough Boora Discovery Park *MICHAEL BULFIN AT BOORA 6.30pm - 8.00pm J.J. Hough, Main St., Banagher DAVID ROONEY AT HOUGHS 8.00pm ‘til late Edenderry Youth Café FIND YOUR VOICE 6.00pm – 7.30pm O’ Donoghues, Edenderry LIVE TRAD 7.00pm – 9.00pm Eden School of Music, Edenderry SNAP, CRACKLE & POP! 8.00pm Clara Com. & Family Resource Ctr. *HIP HOP DANCE with Sonya Cuddy 6.30pm – 8.00pm Friends Meeting House, Clara *SONGS FROM THE MUSICALS 8.00pm – 10.00pm

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Culture Night is brought to you by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Creative Ireland Programme in partnership with Offaly County Council.