FRI 22 SEPT CULTURENIGHT.IE LETTERKENNY CO. DONEGAL 2017 FRIDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2017 FRI 22 SEPT CULTURENIGHT.IE DONEGAL 2017 VENUE 1 VENUE 3 FRI 22 SEPT CULTURENIGHT.IE PINEHILL STUDIOS LETTERKENNYDONEGAL TOWN 2017 PARK FRI 22 SEPT FRI 22 SEPT CULTURENIGHT.IE Pinehill Business Park, Mountain Top. DONEGAL 2017 FRITOWN 22 SEPT PARK ART CULTURENIGHT.IE T: C086U 7900554LTURENIGHT.IE DONEGALOpen 2017 from 6pm W: pinehillstudios.ie Performances at 7.30pm & 9pm Culture Night 2017 DANCELE PERFORMANCETTERKENNY & WORKSHOP It’sCO. Open Night DONEGAL at Pinehill Studios 2017 where Letterkenny, County Donegal instructors from the studios collaborate and Friday, September 22nd. 6pm – 10pm. invite you all to come along and enjoy student Showcase Performances in Dance (6.30pm – Culture Night provides a terrific opportunity for families to sample aspects of Irish Culture 7.15pm) and an Open Dance Workshop for all and Heritage. This extraordinary night of cultural festivities has grown each year since its ages (7.15pm – 8pm). inception in 2006 with inspiring commitment from local authorities, cultural organisations and community collaborators throughout the country. The dance workshop will give parents, friends, dancers or anyone curious enough to take part, This will be Letterkenny’s 9th occasion to take part in Culture Night and the programme for an idea of what it’s like to be part of the ever- 2017 offers 39 diverse events in 24 venues that celebrate our unique local cultural identity. extending opportunities available at Pinehill This year’s event takes place in the context of the Creative Ireland programme, a government Studios. This open invitation is extended to Inishowen Carnival - The Ancient Ones, initiative leading the engagement of every citizen with our arts and culture. We are pleased everyone to participate for one evening - join 7.30pm & 9pm to acknowledge the support and assistance of Creative Ireland in the presentation of this us for a fun-filled time to celebrate the art of The Inishowen Carnival Group presents The year’s Culture Night programme in Letterkenny. dance and performance. Ancient Ones, spirits plucked from the pages of ancient Irish mythology. This walkabout and dance performance will feature performers The programme delivers a night-time experience of all types of culture - visual art, music, VENUE 2 from across Donegal with the Aisling Academy theatre, sculpture, spoken word, dance, moving image and more. Your trail through Culture LETTERKENNY UNIVERSITY and Dynamic Waves, along with two immense Night Letterkenny will lead you all over the town, with indoor and outdoor events in diverse HOSPITAL puppets. Come and meet Dagda the Forest Spirit, places from the Donegal County Museum to the Letterkenny Town Park taking in the The a half-stag / half-human symbol of life and Swell Festival, North West Words and the Cathedral Quarter along the way. You can explore Arts Corridor Exhibition Space, fertility and The Morrigan Crow Spirit, a symbol of all sorts of happenings presented by the Regional Cultural Centre, An Grianán Theatre, entrance via new Emergency Department, fate, death and the eternal cycle of life. The Central Library and Donegal County Council Heritage Office - to name but a few. Kilmacrennan Road. Full venues, programmers and events are listed throughout this programme. T: 074 9125888 SpaceScape, 6pm – 10pm The SpaceScape team led by artists Seamus P.S. Share the Culture Night Love! Don’t forget to hashtag your pictures with STAFF ART EXHIBITION & CHOIR RECITAL MacManus & Siobhán McGranaghan will Exhibition 6pm – 9pm, Choir recital 6pm. @culturenight / @culturenightdonegal! present an outdoor illuminated art installation inspired by the peaks of Donegal. Letterkenny University Hospital Arts www.culturenight.ie www.facebook.com/culturenight Committee present the ‘Art at Work’ exhibition, Children’s Workshops, 6pm – 9.30pm featuring works from staff members Families are invited to co-create the Town Park Culture Night is brought to you by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the throughout the hospital. The Arts Committee experience this year! Facilitating artists will Gaeltacht and the Creative Ireland Programme in partnership with aims to involve the arts in a healing process so deliver art-making sessions in our special arts Donegal County Council (Cultural Services). as to promote the wellbeing of patients, staff and crafts tent throughout the evening. Come and visitors to the hospital and to increase the and make illuminated lanterns and sculptures levels of access to and participation with high An Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta a dhéanann comhordú ar an to guide your adventures through the park. quality art programmes. The LUH Choir was Oíche Chultúir, i gcomhpháirt le Comhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall ( Seirbhísí Cultúrtha ). established in 2016, members include staff Presented by Donegal County Council Arts from many Services/Departments throughout Service. the hospital. 03 | CULTURE NIGHT 2017 PROGRAMME FRIDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2017 FRI 22 SEPT CULTURENIGHT.IE VENUE 4 Collection; The Workhouses of Donegal; VENUE 5 DROP-IN, HANDS-ON ART-ROOM DONEGAL 2017 FRI 22 SEPT The GAA in Co. Donegal; Exotic and Eccentric 6pm – 10pm, ProcessCULTURENIGHT.IE Room, 1st Floor DONEGAL COUNTY MUSEUM REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE DONEGAL 2017 Donegal; Donegal Archives of Emigration; Maps FRI 22 SEPT FRI 22 SEPT FRI 22 SEPT CULTURENIGHT.IE High Road, Letterkenny. of Donegal; Elections & the Electorate; and Port Road, Letterkenny. The RCC has onceDONEGAL 2017 again created a large-scale, FRI 22 SEPT Ladies of Donegal. CULTURENIGHT.IEhands-on, art-room curated by Harriet Purkis. T: C074U 9124613LTURENIGHT.IE T: C074U 9129186LTURENIGHT.IE DONEGAL 2017 W: donegalcoco.ie/culture/countymuseum W: regionalculturalcentre.com The 2017 room was created in partnership The purpose of the exhibition is to showcase with Eamon O’Kane and is based on his Frobel EXHIBITION:LET A VANISHEDTERKENNY WORLD – the variety of interesting and attractive archival EXHIBITION:LET EXPLORINGTERKENNY ARCHITECTURE: studio project. Children and families have the collections held by the service and to introduce opportunity to experiment with a range of ideas THE LANDED GENTRY OF DONEGAL EAMON O’KANE archival material to as wide an audience as and materials. 6pmCO. – 10pm DONEGAL 2017 6pmCO. – 10pm, DONEGAL Main Gallery, 1st Floor2017 possible. It aims to increase awareness of local archives and local history and demonstrate Curated by Donegal County Council’s Museum EXHIBITION: JOHN SOFFE: RCC LIVE their inherent value. and Archives Services in association with 2007 – 2017 the Heritage Office, this exhibition explores 6pm – 10pm, Foyer Gallery, Ground Floor the world of the landed gentry in Donegal TRADITIONAL BUILDING SKILLS 6pm – 8pm in the decades before the foundation of the Spectacular photographs of live music concerts State. From the social whirl of parties to at the RCC since it opened in July 2007 to mark Join Sean Brogan of Tir Conaill Conservations the management of lands and gardens, the the building’s 10th Anniversary. The exhibition and Ivor Kilpatrick, a thatcher from Raphoe exhibition tells the stories of those who lived includes a number of photos previously shown who will demonstrate traditional building skills and worked in the vanished world of Donegal’s in 2014 together with a series of new images of the construction of a traditional slate roof big houses. from the past three years. and the thatching of a traditional vernacular cottage roof. EXHIBITION: A TREK THROUGH TIME – EXHIBITION 6pm – 10pm, Foyer Gallery, Ground Floor IMAGES FROM DONEGAL COUNTY SERVANTS REQUIRED! ARCHIVES 6.30pm & 8.30pm Building plans, models, photographs and 6pm – 10pm A mid-career partial retrospective of the work reviews of the award-winning RCC building, The Countess of Leitrim has a number of open of the Donegal born, Danish based artist, designed by MacGabhann Architects. It includes positions in her house. Please make your way comprising of work in a range of media on the the ‘Rising from the Ground’ photographic essay for interview and to learn the rules of servant subject of architecture. Eamon O’Kane is a by Declan Doherty. life in a Big House to the County Museum. prolific artist who has exhibited all over the Only those who are clean living, honest and world during the past 20 years. VENUE 6 industrious need apply. DONEGAL MUSIC EDUCATION GALLERY TALK PARTNERSHIP @ RCC COMHALTAS CEOLTÓIRÍ ÉIREANN 8.30pm – 8.45pm, Main Gallery, 1st Floor TRADITIONAL SESSION Regional Cultural Centre, Port Road, 8pm – 10pm Gallery talk on Eamon O’Kane and the Letterkenny. ‘Exploring Architecture’ exhibition by his father, T: 074 9176293 Specially for Culture Night, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí the artist Eddie O’Kane. W: donegaletb.ie Boyd Wedding, Castlegrove House Éireann Lettterkenny in conjunction with the Donegal County Museum, will present a ‘Night EXHIBITION & ART WORKSHOP: of Traditional Music, Song and Dance’ which PERFORMANCE This touring exhibition from the Archives BOTHÓG: CATHAL MCGINLEY will feature a performance by the branch’s 6.30pm – 7.30pm: Main Gallery, First Floor Service of Donegal County Council consists 6pm – 10pm, New Gallery, Ground Floor Senior Grúpa Ceoil. The Letterkenny branch of 12 pull up display stands, each with text has been in existence since 1957 and hosts a Tutors and students of the DMEP in and striking and colourful images based on Cathal McGinley, RCC artist-in-residence weekly traditional session on Tuesday nights at