Limerick Culture Night 2019 Brochure
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N I P U TURE L CU WRAP FRI 20 SEP CULTURENIGHT.IE LIMERICK 2019 HERITAGE CHILDREN ART & THEATRE POETRY & MUSIC & & FAMILY DESIGN & FILM WRITING DANCE FÁILTE Culture Night is a wonderful night of celebration but it is also an opportunity to challenge ourselves in understanding ‘what is culture?’ With that in mind we are taking on board the Culture LIMERICK Night instructions to the public from the cultural resource centre in Limerick, Ormston House - 2019 1. Check out an art form you don’t usually go to 2. Check out a venue you don’t usually go to 3. Go to something that you think sounds weird So, Wrap Up and enjoy all that Culture Night provides on this night as venues and public spaces across Limerick open their doors to host a programme of free late-night entertainment, as part of an all-island celebration of arts, heritage and culture #weareculture www.limerick.ie www.facebook.com/ culturenight @culturenight @LimerickArts #culturenight #limerick #ThisIsLimerick #weareculture Culture Night is brought to you by the Department of Culture, Heritage and Culture Night Information Hub, Ormston House, 9-10 Patrick Street, Limerick 5pm-10pm the Gaeltacht and the Creative Ireland Programme in partnership with Drop into the Culture Night information hub to find out more about what’s on over the course of the night. Limerick City and County Council and Limerick Culture and Arts Office. Our Culture Night team will be on hand giving out free brochures, badges and balloons and can advise you An Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta a dhéanann comhordú ar an on what events/venues you might like to visit. Oíche Chultúir, i gcomhpháirt le Comhairle Cathrach agus Contae Luimnigh agus Oifig Cultúir agus Ealaíon Luimnigh. Limerick Culture and Arts Office. Limerick City & County Council. Email: [email protected] Phone: 061 557363 / 061 556370. FRI All event details correct at the time of going to print. Some events require advance booking. Please see www.culturenight.ie for up to date event details. 20 Contact the Limerick Culture and Arts Office directly for specific queries. SEP Comhairle Cathrach CULTURENIGHT.IE = Booking/Tickets Required & Contae Luimnigh Limerick City #CULTURENIGHT = Irish Language Event & County Council FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH LIMERICK CITY & COUNTY 7. Limerick Soviet 100: HERITAGE Exhibition, art & talks on Limerick General Strike of 1919 1. Culture Night at King The Gaff, 37 Cecil Street John’s Castle 6pm-9pm King John’s Castle, Nicholas Street History, art and politics collide at this event 5pm-8pm commemorating when Limerick took on an Mosanic Lodge To celebrate the night, doors to the King Limerick Soviet empire. John’s Castle exhibition will be open to We will have an exhibition of showing the public free of charge from 5pm. The 5. 1,000 Years of Maritime historical memorabilia and art and talented Shannon Gospel Choir will give 3. North Munster Freemasons History in Limerick City music inspired by the events, plus talks, a live contemporary performance from North Munster Masonic Centre, Starting point: The Wild Geese Fountain interviews and a Q&A with Mike Finn 7pm-8pm. Castle Street at the rear of Limerick City and Council, author the recent ‘Bread Not Profit’ play 061 711222 5pm-10pm Merchant’s Quay 0868064801 [email protected] Open house with full access to all areas 5.30pm-6.30pm [email protected] www.kingjohnscastle.com including the museum with members John Elliott will lead a guided 1km walk, www.limericksoviet100.ie on hand for explanations as well as two highlighting a millennium of riverine scheduled talks on Freemasonry at 6pm and maritime infrastructure in Limerick, 8. Four Castles of Limerick & 8pm. focusing on the importance of the River 086 8500597 Starting point: Meet on the pavement Shannon in the development of Limerick outside St John’s Cathedral [email protected] City; both past and future. The event is www.freemasonsnorthmunster.com 5pm-6.30pm sponsored by the EU CAPITEN project. This walk, led by Dan Tietzsch-Tyler, 086 3117161 medieval historian and artist specialising 4. Limerick’s Military Tradition www.capiten.eu in archaeological reconstruction drawings, Glazed Street, Limerick City and County will start at St John’s Gate and finish at Council, Merchant’s Quay 6. Limerick Museum Late King John’s Castle. Four stops will look at 5pm-10pm Opening and Guided Tour and discuss three ‘castles’ in Limerick, and Limerick Museum in collaboration Old Franciscan Friary, Henry Street the site of a fourth. The walk will finish in King John’s Castle with: the Organisation of National Ex- 5pm-8pm (Guided Tour 6.30pm) time to permit entry into the castle Servicemen and Women, Royal British Limerick Museum tells the story of (not part of this walk). Legion, Irish Naval Association and Irish Limerick city and county through its 087 2390405 2. A Walk Among the Marks UN Veterans Association, presents the unrivalled collection of Limerick-related [email protected] Surrounding King John’s official opening of an exhibition on the objects. On Culture Night. There will be www.dantt.net service of Limerick men and women in Castle a free guided tour at 6.30pm, given by armies all over the world. Starting point: Bard of Thomond Statue, Dr Matthew Potter, Curator of Limerick 061 557740 Nicholas Street Museum. [email protected] 6pm-7.15pm 061 557740 www.limerick.ie/limerick-museum Limericks oldest quarter is defined [email protected] not just by the ideals of it past but also www.limerick.ie/limerick-museum by the physical marks that signify its hidden history and how the everyday is represented. A short walk with the artist Paul Tarpey explores how these marks combine to identify the area. 086 3752606 [email protected] www.skiptraces.net Military Exhibition Limerick Museum Drawing by Dan Tietzsch-Tyler 4 5 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH LIMERICK CITY & COUNTY 12. 200 Years: A brief history of a Public House CHILDREN & FAMILY Mickey Martins Pub, Augustinian Lane, Thomas St 5pm – late We will be visiting and looking at the 13. Pigtown Pig Parade history surrounding the 200 year Bedford Row anniversary of their little pub which was 6.45pm-7.15pm (Entertainment starts Sarsfield Barracks Gate first licensed in 1819. They will be doing from 6pm, parade leaves 6.45pm sharp) this throughout the day and evening using Be part of Limerick’s Pig Parade and walk 9. Sarsfield Barracks the media of Art, Music, Theatre and with Limericks butchers and famous brass Museum and Walking Tour Historical Discourse all wrapped up in the bands. Help get Limericks giant piggy to the market. There will be puppets, street Sarsfield Barracks, Prospect Hill usual Mickey Martins pageantry. Pigtown Parade performers, and real life piglets. You can 4.30pm - 6.30pm 087 6811828 make your own mask or face painted from (Tours at 4.30pm & 5.30pm) www.mickeymartins.ie 6.30pm before the parade starts 7pm. The military museum in Sarsfield Barracks 086 8368508 allows the 12th Infantry Battalion to [email protected] showcase its proud heritage of military www.pigtown.ie operations both at home and overseas since the foundation of the state. In addition to the visit of the museum, 2 14. Pigtown comes to walking tours of the historical sites of the barracks will be available for members the Milk Market Pigtown Parade of the public at 1630 and 1730. Family The Milk Market friendly. 5pm-8pm 061 314307 This little piggy event goes to the Market. In association with the Pigtown Food and Culture Series Featuring Pig Talks, Pig 10. Tour of St. John’s Cathedral Parade Walk, Street Food,, Music, Market Cathedral Place History Exhibition and much more 5pm to 6.30pm-7pm 8pm. Visit Pigtown.ie and Limerick Milk Guided tour of St John’s Cathedral with Market Facebook for more info on this Fr Frank O’Connor. The Cathedral was Food and Culture Series. designed by architect Philip Charles 087 3348111 Pigtown Parade Hardwick and it has the tallest church [email protected] spire in Ireland. www.milkmarketlimerick.ie 061 414624 [email protected] 11. Harvesting the Hedgerows The Milk Market 8pm-8.30pm Explore the abundant wild and feral foods to be found in our landscape with Ethnobotanist Theresa Storey. 087 9808853 [email protected] www.thegreenapron.ie Pigtown Parade Pigtown Parade St. John’s Cathedral 6 7 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH LIMERICK CITY & COUNTY Overview of the evening: 17. Blacksmith Demonstrations 20. Abbey River Coffee See ancient cooking objects in our Cook’s Arthur’s Quay Park Culture Night Tour of the Hunt Museum 7pm-10pm Potato Market, Merchant Quay Smell & Taste food from 10 different Artist blacksmith Eric O`Neill of Killuragh 5pm-10pm Limerick cultures, cooked by professional Kraftworks and Resident Artist of By day a coffee shop, by night a gathering cooks using recipes of Limerick people Cappamore Arts Studios will give a live of music and art. For Culture Night, forging demonstration of tradition and Serving from 5-9pm (€5 per dish) Abbey River Coffee will be exhibiting local contemporary blacksmithing techniques. artwork and hosting local musicians in Hear the sounds of Ireland and Italy This event offers a unique insight into the the downstairs courtyard at the Potato Touch Culture with our Loan boxes work of a modern day smith and it is an Market. opportunity to see up close, rarely seen Play Polish Arts & Crafts for Kids, African 087 6684270 forging methods and processes live on the Drums, VanGoYourself (become a painting) [email protected] streets of Limerick. [email protected] Not to mention that Lavery & Osborne: www.killuraghkraftworks.com 21. Behind Closed Doors @ Observing Life will be in its last week and Henry Street Garda Station The Culture of Food it’s FREE on Culture Night, there is a Polish Art Festival in the Cafe and much more for 18.