BOX OFFICE WEB +44 (0) 28 7138 4444 www.alley-theatre.com The Alley Events Guide Spring/Summer 2018 1 TheJoin Alley Events our Guide e-newsletter... Sign up now to receive our monthly E-newsletter packed with our latest news, top offers, competitions, interviews, features and much more. Box Office Web +44(0) 28 7138 4444 www.alley-theatre.com ALPHA NEWSPAPER GROUP For all your theatre entertaintment see our pages every week Book online www.alley-theatre.com | Sign up now for The Alley Newsletter Spring/Summer 2018 Type Show Date Time Page Exhibitions Various Various Various 4-6 Music Kaz Hawkins 13th April 8pm 7 Entertainment Adrian Knight 14th April 8pm 7 Drama May the Road Rise Up 18th April 8pm 8 Music NWMF 21st April 10am 9 Music Keltic TV Live in Concert 26th April 8pm 9 Music Strabane Chamber Choir 27th April 8pm 10 Comedy Conal Gallen 28th April 8pm 10 Music Saturday Morning Guitar Club 7th April-30th June Various 11 Film Kids Cinema Day 5th May 2pm 11 Music Are You Going For Another Mineral 10th May 8pm 12 Workshop Music to Your Ears III Various Various 12 Comedy It’s Wine O’Clock 11th May 7.30pm 13 Film Children of the Troubles 12th May 8pm 13 Schools Tom Thumb 16th May 10.30am 14 Comedy Bedtime Stories 18th May 8pm 14 Music Dominic Kirwan 19th May 8pm 15 Seminar Mental Health Seminar 21st May 2.30pm 15 Musical Time 25th & 26th May Various 16 Comedy The Blame Game 30th May 8pm 16 Schools Danny Carmo’s Mathematical Mysteries 6th June 10.30am 17 Schools Snoozle & Lullabugs 7th June Various 18 Music Bring Music to Life 7th June 7.30pm 18 Musical Broadway Babes 9th & 10th June Various 19 Music Legends Lost & Found 15th June 8pm 20 Music Dublin City Ramblers 16th June 8pm 20 Music Iron Maiden Tribute 22nd June 8pm 21 Children Woofle 23rd June 2pm 22 ALPHA Children Jo Jingles 30th June 1pm 22 NEWSPAPER GROUP Dance Energy of Light Disco 19th July & 23rd August 7.30pm 23 Dance Mayors Tea Dance 21st July 2pm 23 Entertainment Midsummer Murder Mystery Night 20th July 8pm 23 Music Alley Bar Open Mic Night 26th July & 23rd August 8pm 25 Comedy Andrew Stanley 28th July 8pm 25 Summer School Summer School of Rock 23rd - 27th July 11am - 3pm 26 Summer School Wizard of Oz 30th July - 18th August 10am - 4pm 27 Music Summer Jazz Nights Various 8.30pm 28 Music The Soda Popz 4th August 8pm 28 Music The Hard Chargers 11th August 8pm 29 Children Teddy Bears Sing – A Long 11th August 2pm 29 Music Wookalily 25th August 8pm 30 Music The Four Of Us 1st September 8pm 30 For all your theatre entertaintment Music Tyrone Pipers Day 8th September Various 31 Various Autumn Highlights Various Various 32 see our pages every week Information General Information 33-34 Information Seating Plan 35 3 The Alley Events Guide Exhibitions at The Alley Norah Brennan FREE EVENT Synthesis Monday 16th April – Friday 11th May Norah Brennan is a County Mayo based artist. She is a graduate of GMIT, Galway where she studied printmaking. Since 2010 she has been making collages using a variety of printmaking media. These collages are brought together here for the first time in “Synthesis. Shared Education FREE All Together EVENT Different Monday 21st May – Come and see each school illustrated Wednesday 23rd May involvement with Shared Education, Launch Monday 21st May, 7.30pm through various classroom activities, visits and shared experiences. An exhibition of work by rural schools This project was supported by the through Shared Education. Pupils from EU’s PEACE IV Programme, managed Altishane PS, Donemana PS, Loughash by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). PS, St Joseph’s PS, Glenmornan and St Patrick’s PS, Dunamanagh. Book online www.alley-theatre.com | Sign up now for The Alley Newsletter Spring/Summer 2018 Surestart Presents: FREE The EVENT Developmental Developed in 2007 for children in Programme for their penultimate pre – school year. Focusing on play in group settings to 2 - 3 Year Olds enhance children’s social & emotional development, speech, language Exhibition and communication and encourage Monday 21st May – imagination through play. Strabane Sure Start runs 7 programmes catering Friday 15th June for 80 children. Rozzi Kennedy FREE Kick any Stone EVENT and History Leaps Up at You Monday 25th June – Friday 20th July a series of alternative landscape This is an exhibition by rural artist, paintings. Welcome to another world, Rozzi Kennedy, who believes the land where you might meet sacred cows holds its own spiritual wisdom and or fairy babies in the hills of South quiet memory. Armagh. Informed by neglected places, folklore This exhibition is supported by the National and personal experience, she’s used Lottery through the Arts Council of collage and bold colour to invent Northern Ireland. 5 The Alley Events Guide Triskele Artists Áit Eile – Legends of the Otherworlds Monday 30th July – Friday 24th August Áit Eile is a three person show based on the exploration of ancient myths and legends through art, with North Each artist has their own interpretation – West artists Sinéad Smyth, Stephen using their own style to bring alive Shaw and John Kavanagh. ancient myths and legends through a number of mediums Book online www.alley-theatre.com | Sign up now for The Alley Newsletter Untitled-1 1 11/11/2014 12:23 Spring/Summer 2018 Kaz Hawkins 2018 Irish Duo Tour featuring Sam York Friday 13th April, 8pm // Tkts: £15, £12.50 (con) Multi award winning singer songwriter Kaz Hawkins, is launching her new solo career with an Irish Tour with special guest Sam York on piano and as her support act. Her 2017 album ‘Don’t You Know’ introduced audiences in UK, Wine Promotion on the Night Europe and America to the powerful, emotive new direction PRE -THEATRE MEAL DEAL & TICKET PACKAGE Ticket + Appetiser + Main Course & Side + Glass of House Wine £25 Adrian Knight Saturday 14th April, 8pm // Tkts: £10 Master hypnotist Adrian Knight returns with a completely new show. Adrian holds the audience spellbound with his amazing demonstrations of mind reading and levitation and with his hilarious use of hypnosis Expect to see and experience mind- blowing mentalism and, of course, hilarious hypnotism 7 The Alley Events Guide Lifford Players presents: Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (Produced under license from Samuel French & Co.) Wednesday 18th April, 8pm // Tkts: £10, £7 Schools £5 It is 1936, harvest time in Ballybeg, home from Africa by his superiors and where the five Mundy sisters live, seven-year-old Michael, child of Chris. barely making ends meet. The two Friel evokes the interior landscape of male members of the household are this family trapped in their domestic brother Jack, a missionary priest, sent situation c21 Theatre Company presents: May The Road Rise Up A new comedy by Rosemary Jenkinson. Directed by Stephen Kelly Thursday 19th April, 8pm // Tkts: £12, £10 A fast-paced, comedy rollercoaster about a woman who resolves to live life to the full no matter what it flings at her. When Mia’s boyfriend leaves her, May the road rise up to meet you. she falls into debt and loses her job, (old Irish proverb) but she still stays cheerful throughout our recessionary times. Book online www.alley-theatre.com | Sign up now for The Alley Newsletter Spring/Summer 2018 The North West Music Festival Saturday 21st April, 10am – 6pm // Tkts: £3 each morning/ afternoon session £5 full day The tightly fought world of brass band contesting returns to The Alley when the Brass Band League present their ever popular Spring Festival. With up to 20 brass bands from all over Ireland taking to the stage, audiences will be treated to performances of major works and a light entertainment repertoire. The Stars of Keltic TV THE STARS OF Live in a Concert Live in Concert MUSIC, COMEDY & CRAIC Thursday 26th April, 8pm // Tkts: £20 A fantastic night of music, comedy and DANIEL O’DOUBLE EAMON McCANN GLORIA CURTIS MAGEE craic with some of the biggest stars of Keltic TV on Sky 389 Featuring Eamon McCann, Country TREVOR LOUGHREY PATRICIA MAGUIRE EDDIE CAREY Legend Gloria (One Day at a Time), Music by Eamon McCann and The Pure Country Band Eddie Carey and Patricia Maguire, Gary Presented by Gary Gamble Gamble, Trevor Loughrey and Ireland’s THURSDAY 26th April THE ALLEY THEATRE Strabane favourite entertainer Curtis Magee Tickets £20 from The Alley Theatre Box Office Tel: 028 7138 4444 Book Online @ www.alley-theatre.com 9 The Alley Events Guide Strabane Chamber Choir Friday 27th April, 8pm // Tkts: £8, £6 (con) We are delighted to be welcoming the Strabane Chamber Choir who formed in 2014 by local musician and conductor Gerard Bradley. To date the choir has performed light music most recently achieving runners up in in concerts and sacred pieces such as mixed voice in Sligo 2016 and Derry Faure’s Requiem in two churches. The Choral Festival 2017. The choir’s raisin choir competes in choral festivals, d’etre is to sing for joy. PRE -THEATRE MEAL DEAL & TICKET PACKAGE Ticket + Appetiser + Main Course & Side + Glass of House Wine £20 Conal Gallen Suckin’ Diesel Saturday 28th April, 8pm // Tkts: £22.50 When it comes to comedians there is none better or funnier than the King himself, CONAL GALLEN! Conal brand new stand-up comedy show, “SUCKIN’ DIESEL” is packed full of hilarious jokes, songs and more craic than even Pablo Escobar could ever handle. It is guaranteed to have you in fits of laughter from the very start right through to the very end! Don’t Miss your chance to see the master of Comedy at work and book your tickets NOW!!! 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