August 17th, 2010
****** Competition Now Closed ***** On the weekend of 27-29 August there will be a new festival in town – Kilkenny will host it’s first ever gay pride festival, Out For The Weekend. With the intention of promoting inclusion and diversity in all communities through a weekend of fun, the production team behind Out For [...]
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August 9th, 2010
Rothe House, High Street, Kilkenny. Friday 6th August 2010, 8pm. I had read on the Kilkenny Arts Festival website about The Smile Off Your Face and had found it intriguing, particularly “You are blindfolded, you are in a wheelchair, tied up. There is no stage.” What could it be? What would happen to me inside [...]
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August 9th, 2010
If you are interested in music, there is an array of types to choose from at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Matthew Nolan, a member of musical ensemble 3epkano and a lecturer in Dublin Business School is the curator of the Wired strand, an exploration into various musical genres. It is described on the website as [...]
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August 5th, 2010
The visual art strand of the Kilkenny Arts Festival was curated this year by Oliver Dowling, an independent contemporary visual art specialist with comprehensive experience representing Irish artists, galleries and public institutions, offering particular expertise in curating exhibitions, advising on policy and forming collections. Oliver talks here to Ken McGuire about the artists and installations [...]
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August 4th, 2010
So last week I told you all about the upcoming Kilkenny Arts Festival. Well this week we have some tickets to give away to some lucky Culch readers The first tickets we have to give away this week (there will be more) are to two theatre pieces, ‘Victor and Gord‘ and to ‘Susan and Darren‘. [...]
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July 21st, 2010
The Kilkenny Arts Festival is due to start on 6th August next in Kilkenny, marking the beginning of a 10 day festival of Bertie Bassetts – All Sorts! This is the 37th year of the festival and the maturity of the festival shows in the numerous, wide-ranging and quality acts they have lined up for [...]
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July 9th, 2010
There are a huge amount of things going on in Temple Bar this weekend for adults and for kids and all for free for the Temple Bar Summer Sensational. There are film events, music events, workshops, exhibitions, theatre, storytelling, walking tours – all sorts! The events started yesterday with various workshops, circus acts Cliffhanger! and [...]
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July 9th, 2010
So I saw the first Twilight movie but not the second and I haven’t read any of the books. I thought the first one was ok but all the hype and hysteria surely can’t be just for a hot vampire boy can it? This trailer for instance – the official trailer for the new movie [...]
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July 9th, 2010
The Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival will take place from today 9 July to Sunday 11 July in Carrick-on-Shannon (funny enough!). Although I hadn’t heard of it before, this is the sixth annual Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival and it looks like a pretty solid musical line up with all sorts of musical types from classical to [...]
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June 25th, 2010
Indie’Go World Music and Arts Festival will be taking place this August in Ballydarton House, Fenagh, Co. Carlow and is promising a colourful fusion of performance art, world music and workshops. The festival is aimed at families as well as individuals and will have a camping ground for people to stay for the whole weekend [...]
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June 25th, 2010
Via a tweet and a blog post from Eolaí last night, I found out about the next People’s Art Exhibition for 2010. The exhibition takes place from today, 25th June to Sunday 27th June on St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin 2. Artists from all over Dublin will gather to display their work on the railings [...]
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June 15th, 2010
Could you do with a big LOL? A big belly laugh? A giggle, a guffaw, a titter, a chuckle, a chortle, cracking up, bursting yourself, peeing your pants, dying laughing, snickering, in stitches? Well on Saturday 26th June at 7.30pm there is an unrivalled night of comedy and laughter planned for Vicar Street. The line [...]
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June 14th, 2010
Maybe they are completely bonkers but the Street Performance World Championship crew would like to invite you, your family, friends, enemies, neighbours, dog, whoever you want, to be one of 1,500 people to do something completely off the wall for no reason at all next Sunday – bounce space hoppers into the Guinness Book of [...]
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June 9th, 2010
*** Competition Closed *** To celebrate the recent renovation of Dublinia and the opening of a new exhibition, History Hunters, Dublinia and Conway Communications have kindly offered us 3 family tickets (two adults, two children) to give away to three lucky Culch readers. In case you haven’t heard of it, Dublinia is Ireland’s only Viking [...]
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June 4th, 2010
His & Hers is a beautiful and charming Irish-made film. It is not often that those words are used to describe a documentary but this one deserves them and more. Directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman, His & Hers won the Audience award in the Dublin International Film Festival as well as [...]
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