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www.junefest.ie /JuneFestNewbridge Event Date Time Venue Price Page Event Date Time Venue Price Page through Heritage Tour & Talk on Gibbieth Rath (1798) May 29th TBC Ceannt NCO Mess €2 3 N/A Various Free 15 Community Swift Nest Box Project june Workshop Anne Rynne - Songs for our Children Fri 1st N/A Scoil Mhuire Junior Closed 3 through N/A Various Free 16 Viaual Arts Ireland, Cead Mile Failte june Official Opening/ Yarn Bomb Fri 1st 7pm Liffey Linear Park Free 3 Visual Art Newbridge Visual Arts Old Masters Art Exhibition Wed 13th 7:30pm Free 16 Visual Art Kildare Art Collective Fri 1st 3-5pm Newbridge Community Library Free 4 Community Library Theatre Riff Raff: The Work of Art 13th-15th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €12/€10 16 Theatre The Successful TD Fri 1st 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €20/18 4 €20 Music A Taste of Jazz Thur 14th 8pm All Seasons Restaurant includes 16 Music Vagabonds & Thieves Fri 1st 6-8pm McDonnells Free 4 food 10am- Sat 2nd Town Hall Free 5 Music Alan Fitzgerald & Friends Thur 14th 9pm Brú House €10/€8 17 Community Cottage Market 2pm Literary Creative Writing Workshop Fri 15th 12-2pm Riverbank Arts Centre Free 17 Music Declan O’Rourke Sat 2nd 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €20/€18 5 Music StereoFusion Sat 2nd 10:30pm McDonnells Free 5 Literary Writers Lounge Open Mic Fri 15th 8-10pm Johnsons Lounge Free 17 Theatre Fresh Ground Sun 3rd 4pm-6pm Chat n’Chew Cafe €5 6 Literary Short Story Competition Fri 15th 8-10pm Johnsons Lounge Free 18 Noel Heavey & Don Dea Fri 15th 10pm Con Cummins Free 18 Music Crackling Vinyl Sun 3rd 9pm Flanagans Bar Free 6 Music Kildare House Hotel Dinner Midsummer Nights Theatre Fri 15th 8pm €48 18 Music Mairead Carroll & Friends Sun 3rd 6:30pm O’Rourke’s Bar Free 6 Theatre Community Community Expo Mon 4th 1pm-5pm Town Hall Free 6 Heritage Irish Citizens of Basque Origin Sat 16th 4:30pm Ubh Cafe Free 19 Community Family Fun Day Mon 4th 1pm-5pm St. Conleths GAA Free 7 Music Newbridge Big Sing Sat 16th 2pm So Deli Cafe Free 19 €14/ Heritage Ancient Irish Cures Wed 6th 8pm Ubh Cafe Free 7 Music Super Extra Bonus Party Sat 16th 8pm Upstairs JRBs €12online 20 Performing Arts St.Conleths’s Infant School Choir Thur 7th 7pm St.Conleths School Hall Free 8 Music Jerry Fish Sat 16th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €20 20 Visual Arts Emil Nolde: Colour is Life Thur 7th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre Free 8 Old Bog Rd Community Community Clongorey & District Field Day Sun 17th 1-5pm Field Free 21 Heritage Irish Military Seminar 8th & 9th TBA Riverbank Arts Centre Free 9 Cinema Lean on Pete Mon 18th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €6/€9 21 Music Sarah Ryan & Emma Langford Fri 8th 8pm Brú House €15 9 Music June fest Opera Gala Tues 19th 8pm Keadeen Hotel €15 21 2:30- Performing Arts Fri 8th Riverbank Arts Centre Free 10 Comedy 10 Dark Secrets of 1798 Wed 20th 8pm Brú House €5 22 Millis 315pm Heritage Living in the Barracks Wed 20th 8pm Ryston €2 22 Well-Being Holistic Treatment Taster Session Sat 9th 11am-1pm Ryston Social Club €20 10 Music Luan Parle & Clive Barnes Thir 21st 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €15/€12 22 Visual Arts Home is where the Art is II 9th-28th Riverbank Arts Centre Free 10 Visual Arts Solstice on the Liffey Thur 21st 10pm Liffey Linear Park Free 23 Visual Art M7 - Exhibition by Michael Holly 9th-29th Riverbank Arts Centre Free 11 Comedy Further Ted Fri 22nd 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €17.50 23 Community June fest & Newbridge Parish Race Day Sat 9th 2pm The Curragh Race Course See pg.11 11 See page 23 for Sat 23rd 12pm €5 23 Music Cambrian Explosion Sat 9th 7pm McDonnells Free 12 Heritage The Inside Track venue details €15/ Music The Birth of a Nation Sat 9th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €10 12 Music Jinx Lennon/ Curly Organ Sat 23rd 8:30pm Brú House €10online 24 Newbridge Community Family Theatre Tom Thumb Sun 10th 2pm Riverbank Arts Centre €8 13 See pg.22 See Workshop Crinniu na nÓg Sat 23rd Library pg.22 24 Heritage Suncroft Ramble Sun 10th 2pm Suncroft Community Centre €5 13 Family Coco Sat 23rd 2pm Riverbank Arts Centre €4 24 Cinema Marlina, The Murderer in Four Acts Mon 11th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €6 14 Cinema Community June fest Pfizer Blue Run 5k Sun 24th 11am Pfizer €10/€20 25 Community Ceol agus Caint Mon 11th 7:30pm Chat n’ Chew Cafe Free 14 Community Picnic in the Park Sun 24th 1-4pm Liffey Linear Park Free 25 St.Conleths & Mary’s Tues 12th 6:30-8pm €5 14 Sport Orienteering Newbridge Primary School Car Park Music Bands on the Bank Sun 24th 4-6pm Liffey Linear Park Free 25

Well-Being An Introduction to Modern CBT Wed 13th 8pm Keadeen Hotel €5 15 Cinema Let the Sunshine In Mon 25th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €6 26 Griese Youth Theatre - Visual Arts South Kildare Photography Club 1st-30th N/A Various Free 15 Fri 29th 8pm Riverbank Arts Centre €10/€7 26 Local Arts See Me Here. See Me Now 1 2 3 visual arts workshop heritage friday 1 friday tuesday 29 TOUR TALK AND RATH GIBBETH ON (1798) mark this occasion with us. with occasion this mark and along come will you hope we massacre, this of anniversary 220th the is this As sides. byboth used weapons and uniforms display to present be will Group Re-enactment Own Edward’s Lord 1798 the Rebellion. during Plains Curragh the on massacre this on talk illustrated an give will Moore Mick 8pm. at May Tuesday on 29th Camp Curragh NCO Mess, Ceannt in place take will Group History Local Newbridge and Society Historical Dara Cill Group, History Local Curragh bythe organised talk commemorative annual The |€2 |8PM CAMP -CURRAGH MESS NCO CEANNT bees, bears and much much more. much much and bears bees, bats, birds, horses, spiders, snakes, for out look and family whole Take the creations. woolly imaginative their with trees decorated have bombers yarn Kildare talented the making, the in months Six Lippspringe. Bad town twin our from visiting ‘Junioren Funkengarde’ by performance adance and Appo and Cummins Sive, Con songwriters singer local from performances ashort be will There areas. surrounding and Newbridge of people the of spirit enterprising and talent creative the showcase to continues festival 2012, in homegrown inception our its Yarnof Since Bomb. launch 2018 official the Fest and June of opening official the for Park Linear the in us Join surprise! abig you’re for in park Linear the to down go you If |FREE PARK |7PM LINEAR LIFFEY YARN OF LAUNCH AND OPENING OFFICIAL BOMB FEST JUNE Waterford. and Galway, Meath, Louth Fingal, Clare, Wexford, Tipperary, Limerick, Kildare, in authorities local and Council County Kildare Dance, and Music of Academy World Irish the NLI, Council, Arts bythe supported is Children’ our for ‘Songs 1st June. Friday on aworkshop during group class asecond to them present will and Wind’, Snow’ and the ‘Rain’, and ‘Frost ‘Granny and ‘Sun’ entitled songs new four composed has Rynne Anne own Kildare’s project the of part As children. for suitable style traditional the in songs new of performance and composition research, the in singers traditional eleven involves project The Fortune. Michael and Lambert byAileen coordinated and devised project song atraditional is Children’ our for ‘Songs |N/A |CLOSED BALLYMANY, NEWBRIDGE JUNIOR, MHUIRE SCOIL WORKSHOP CHILDREN’ OUR FOR RYNNE -‘SONGS ANNE st june th may

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music cinema community Artistic Director, Wexford Festival Opera. Festival Wexford Director, Artistic Agler, David spirits.” high exceptionally in performance a from away you send will and entertainers natural are Rory and Kate, Patrick Rachel, performers. warm and generous also are they voices, excellent with Blessed Ireland. in talent operatic young of fresh, generation of a forefront at the are Artists Opera Irish “The Collins. byDearbhla evening this Accompanied Artists, Opera Irish ensemble the form to together come –have Musgrave Rory Baritone and Hyland Tenor Allen, Patrick Kate Soprano Mezzo Croash, Rachel –Soprano Singers Opera award-winning Ireland’s of Four remember. to evening –an dramatic and passionate, captivating, classics, Opera of programme apacked present to thrilled is JuneFest Book Online at www.riverbank.ie or Phone 045448327 |€15 |8PM HOTEL KEADEEN JUNE FEST GALA OPERA tuesday 19 racehorse. special avery to connection boy’s one of prism unique the through told story moving deeply a comes Haigh Andrew filmmaker acclaimed From Book Online at www.riverbank.ie or Phone 045448327 (EARLY |€6 BIRD)/€9 |8PM CENTRE ARTS RIVERBANK LEAN PETE ON monday 18 day. the on taken be will granny glamorous and dad baby, bonny dapper for Entries more. much and exhibition dancing sports, children’s painting, face bar-b-que, buns, and corner, tea pets turf, of sods throwing, horseshoe trap, and horse run, mouse a-brac, bric- stall, cakes stall, bottles with era abygone to back harks day field The bog. the of edge the on life country celebrate to gather in-betweens W12TN25) and old (eircode young, as Field Community Clongorey to Day, lead Father’s roads all This |FREE –5PM |1PM FIELD ROAD COMMUNITY BOG OLD ASSOCIATION DAY FIELD COMMUNITY &DISTRICT CLONGOREY 17 sunday th th th june june june

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local arts cinema proudly supported performed by Griese Youth Theatre. byGriese performed plays of aprogramme is now’ me See here. me ‘See through. make it me. I’ll assail You limbo. hell, in heaven, in in cannot once at all almost and in-between, the longer. In alittle just last to it willing next the and end the to rushing moment One offended. me. be to Iwon’t difference no makes it it… call you whatever Teenager,lifetime? adolescent, adult, young like a feel it does why So years! six only It’s years! Six Book Online at www.riverbank.ie or Phone 045448327 €10/€7 |TICKETS |8PM CENTRE ARTS RIVERBANK NOW. ME SEE HERE. ME SEE YOUTH THEATRE PRESENTS: GRIESE monday 25 friday 29 a delightful and uplifting finale. uplifting and a delightful with unfolds love for quest Isabelle’s Podalydès), Bruno and Tedeschi Bruni Valeria Beauvois, Xavier Depardieu, (Gérard actors star of aconstellation with and Godard, Agnès cinematographer long-standing byDenis’ lit Exquisitely love. definitive of search in next the to lover one from moves mother, she and as artist divorced unhappily middle-aged, asensitive, Binoche), (Juliette Isabelle of journey romantic the fragments, tell, to in Angot Christine writer with up teams Discourse ALover’s Barthes’s by Roland Inspired Book Online at www.riverbank.ie or Phone 045448327 (EARLY |€6 BIRD)/€9 |8PM CENTRE ARTS RIVERBANK IN LET SUNSHINE THE June Fest is Fest June by th june th june , Claire Denis Denis , Claire 26 acknowledgements a message from the festival sponsor Meehan Family Food Group are both delighted and proud to sponsor such a SPONSORS highly regarded event as June Fest. The festival offers something unique in MEEHAN FAMILY FOOD GROUP BURNS NOWLAN SOLICITORS terms of its level of inclusivity across the community; by staging events that DUBLIN FOOD SALES ERIC MCDONNELLS BAR cross the musical, artistic, cultural and recreational spectrums. COOKE’S CATERING SUPPLIES BRADY BURNS INSURANCE This is our first of three years as festival sponsor, and we look forward to ANDREW HEPBURN FOOD AND LIFE CREDIT UNION providing the support to stage what has now become the largest community PACKAGING KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL ARTS SERVICE festival in the country. SCALLAN’S FOOD SERVICES THE ARTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL We are in the business of supplying food and related products to the restaurants, bars and hotels both in Kildare and across the entire island of Ireland. With over 150 years of business experience in servicing this industry, SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING PARTNERS: we are now the fastest growing independent food wholesaler in the country. RIVERBANK ARTS CENTRE KFM RADIO We hope you get to as many events as possible and maximise your KILDARE GAA MILANO RESTAURANT WHITEWATER enjoyment with the programme of events that is about to unfold. GARDA SIOCHANA JOE BUTLER DESIGN THE CURRAGH RACECOURSE JACKIE TYRRELL DESIGN KEADEEN HOTEL JOHNSWOOD PRESS Yours sincerely, CON CUMMINS KILDARE YOUTH THEATRE O’ROURKES CURRAGH LOCAL HISTORY GROUP Richard Meehan, Owner & CEO JOHNSONS CILL DARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FLANAGANS BAR NEWBRIDGE LOCAL HISTORY GROUP JOHNSONS - THE LIFFEY ARMS BIRDWATCH IRELAND JUDGE ROY BEANS CURRAGH-NAAS ORIENTEERING CLUB RYSTON SOCIAL CLUB CLONGOREY DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY UBH CAFÉ ASSOCIATION KILDARE WRITING CENTRE NANDOS RESTAURANT WHITEWATER THE CIVIL DEFENCE ODEON CINEMA WHITEWATER NEWBRIDGE TIDY TOWNS BRU HOUSE DEFENCE FORCES IRELAND CHAT N CHEW BURNS NOWLAN SOLICITORS RIFF RAFF DRAMA GROUP NEWBRIDGE COTTAGE MARKET PFIZER WHITEWATER SHOPPING CENTRE NEWBRIDGE PARISH NEWBRIDGE COMMUNITY LIBRARY SO DELI CAFE CROSS’ SUPERVALU SUNCROFT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ST CONLETHS PARISH NEWS AND VIEWS GROUP LEINSTER LEADER RICHARD BRABAZON KILDARE POST DOODLEMOOSE DESIGNS

27 28 a message from junefest committee We are delighted to present this 7th year of festival fun. Celebrating Music, Visual Art, Theatre, Cinema, walks and talks and much more besides. Many thanks to our volunteers, artists, performers, sponsors and venue hosts. A special thank you to the people of Newbridge and neighbouring areas who come out enthusiastically to support the events of June Fest.

Yours sincerely

Colm Somers Chairman

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