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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Thank you for all your great support throughout the years
Mission Statement Elemental 2014 Another Great Year Welcome to year three of Elemental, Limerick’s Arts & Culture Festival. We are bringing you three days of fun, colour, imagination and entertainment, all the ingredients required to bring out your creative side and put a smile on your face. We are joined this year by some old friends who have been there from the start, along with some new friends, to bring plenty of diversity to the programme, with what we hope you will agree is an exciting selection. We are hugely appreciative of your support. Whether by buying a ticket, attending a workshop or being part of a free event, you are ensuring the festival is a success. Your involvement is what gives Elemental its spark. Using public spaces, historical buildings and a host of unusual locations in between, Elemental will be accessible right throughout the city. We’re really looking forward to seeing you there!
Jennifer Allen Artistic Director Elemental Arts & Culture Festival
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Thank you for all your great support throughout the years
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Axis Ballymun Bernadette Kenny Brid Finn City of Culture Office Colm O’Brien Dave Curtin David O’Brien Dominique Bouchard Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Helen O’Donnell Irish Film Board Jacinta Khan ‘Joseph’ Jacob Stack
Karl Wallis Katie Day Laura Ryan Lily & Pius McGrath Snr Louise Donlon Maeve Butler Margaret Ferguson Mark Nixon Marty Mannering Mary Conroy Mayor Michael Sheahan Mike Finn Molly Lynch Myles Breen
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Nadine Buttery Niamh NÌ Chonchubair Nigel Dugdale O’Mahony’s Booksellers Patricia Haselbeck Patricia Roberts Pauline McDonagh Peter O’Brien Ruth Crean Savoy Hotel Sinead McDonnell Tara Doolan The Arts Office & all our fantastic volunteers!
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Launching
Launching Thursday, 11th September - running until 19th Sept
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A wonderful opportunity for an up-close view of a selection of photographs by acclaimed photographer Mark Nixon of these unique characters.
69 O’Connell Street, Limerick “I put the call out for people to bring in their much-loved teddies—the more loved, unwashed, and falling apart the better—to be photographed. It soon became apparent that the idea appealed very much to adults, and that many of them were still very attached to their teddies. It was as though they had been keeping a long-held secret and could finally tell someone what their teddies really meant to them.”
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Time: 7pm launch Child-friendly: Yes Wheelchair access: Yes
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Location: Citywide
Times: Friday 12th Sept at 1pm sharp and 5:30pm sharp Sunday 14th Sept at 1pm sharp and 5.30pm sharp Walking Around Like We Own the Place is a series of performance walking tours. Artist Naomi O’Kelly has been walking around like she owns the place for years, and this Summer she’ll collect the paths and stories of other people. How do different folk walk around town? What’s the secret poetry of these buildings and streets, for a variety of people?
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September
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Timeless, majestic clocks have become the beautiful signature of many buildings and streets of our historic city. Limerick’s Life has created a short video display to tell of the history of some of these clocks, from the famous clocks that are no longer there to the less well known and more modern clocks. To accompany this video is a treasure hunt which can be played by all ages. The instructions to the treasure hunt can be collected at any time over the course of the festival at No 1 Pery Square Boutique Hotel.
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12th-14th Free Event
Time: 10am - 4pm Daily Child-friendly: Yes Wheelchair access: Yes
Elemental Festival Present Friday, 13th September / 11 to 12 o’clock and from 2 to 3 o’clock
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Theatre, Art, Poetry, Audio & Street Citywide at various venues
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND These bite-sized performances, lasting only five to ten minutes, are turning up at a shop or café near you. Make sure you don’t miss them! This year, we have added a taxi theatre. For full details: go to fb: /elementalartslimerick /TWITTER
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Friday, 12th September
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69 O’Connell Street
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Time: 10:30 am sharp Wheelchair Accessible Enquiries: info@elementalfestival.com or tel 0873442858
Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time. Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering commitment to protecting Nature, the characters in this story are complex, flawed, post-modern heroes for whom stemming the tide of environmental destruction fades in and out of view – part mirage, part miracle.
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The Bookshop Band are unique. They write songs exclusively inspired by books. They formed as part of the author events at multi-award winning independent bookshop, Mr Bs Emporium Of Reading Delights, in Bath. The events at Mr B’s remain the core of the band’s songwriting, but the songs and their performances have taken the band all over the UK, as well as overseas to Ireland and mainland Europe. They are regularly featured on the BBC, and their songs are starting to grace the airwaves in Europe, Canada, Australia, the US and Mexico.
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Saturday, 13th September
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A fun and diverse selection of music and dance from Limerick’s local communities. Bedford Row
Time: 12pm to 4.30pm Child-friendly: Yes Wheelchair accessible: Yes Free event For further details, see C/elementalartslimerick
Senmaru & Kyouji City Centre Senmaru & Kyouji are performers of “Daikagura”. The original purpose of “Daikagura” was to serve as a talisman for the people, chasing away evil on behalf of the gods of the shrines. Thus, Daikagura was originally a very sacred and serious performance. Today, the performance is becoming people’s entertainment. Senmaru & Kyouji wear “kimono” and perform Japanese traditional tricks. Don’t blink. It’s amazing!
Time: 12pm & 2pm Child-friendly: Yes Wheelchair accessible: Yes Free event
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Saturday, 13th September
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Roo’d
City Centre
Giant kangaroos on amazing bouncing stilts? That’s ROO’D. Jumping a metre off the ground and two metres in a bound, they’re a phenomenal sight with their cheeky blend of outback macho and inner city punk savvy — always Roo’d but never offensive.
Times: 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3pm Child-friendly: Yes Wheelchair accessible: Yes Free event
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Saturday, 13th September
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Traditional Hur ley Makers
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Wool Spinners
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Limerick Lace Makers
Sharing the Knowledge
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Hunt Museum, Rutland Street
Meet master craftsmen and women at their work in the grounds of the Hunt Museum. A great opportunity to purchase topquality, hand-crafted items.
10 am until 3pm Child-friendly: Yes Wheelchair access: Yes
See tattooing at its best meet the art of cutting-edge technology. Paul Bullman, of Bullman’s Tattoo Studio, will create a live tattoo while a 3-D printer generates a 3-D physical model of the tattoo!
In collaboration with FABLAB Time: 3pm-4pm See Facebook for location /elementalartslimerick
Elemental Festival Present Friday, 13th September / 11 to 12 o’clock and from 2 to 3 o’clock
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Build an Elemental Doodle Bot! In Collaboration with Elemental Festival, Fab Lab Limerick would like to invite children of 6 years and up to build their very own Elemental-themed doodle bot. The doodle bot is a small robot that does random doodles/drawings. The children will build it under the guidance of the Fab Lab team. They will be involved in arts and crafts and some basic electronics.
Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm Duration: 30 - 40 mins Child-friendly: 4 years + Booking: Essential, go to - elementalfestival.com Children must be accompanied by an adult for the entire duration of the workshop.
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Theatre, Art, Poetry, Audio & Street 69 O’Connell Street Citywide at various venues
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Star of stage, screen and poetry slams, Carlos Andrés Gómez will be performing from his book ‘Man Up: Cracking the code of Modern Manhood’. ‘Man Up’ provides a different model of manhood, re-imagining what it means to tell a guy to “man up”. Gómez exhibits that there are other ways for men to interact, express their feelings and emotions, and, ultimately, be better men. ‘Man Up’ is a celebration of positive change,
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Saturday 13th September / 11 to 12 o’clock and from 2 to 3 o’clock
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Citywide at various venues
Times: 11 to 12 o’clock and from 2 to 3 o’clock
Back by popular demand! These bite-sized performances, lasting only five to ten minutes, are turning up at a shop or café near you. Make sure you don’t miss them! This year, we have added a taxi theatre. For full details, go to C: /elementalartslimerick L : @elementallmk
Featuring
A new ballet piece inspired by the Elements - Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Metal - created especially for this year’s festival by Limerick’s Just Breathing Dance Company. Catch this at various locations throughout the city. Photo Abercrombie Photography.
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INFORMATION Time & location see Facebook for details
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Saturday 13th September
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Coach House at Culture House, No.2 Pery Square Grey Heron Media and Limerick’s Buzzing have collaborated on this very special, newly composed sound experience which will run throughout Saturday. Step into a uniquely immersive sonic world and relax into a deckchair as you float away on the nostalgic whispers of a summer’s day. Feel the remembered heat on your face once more as it’s evoked by a soundscape of jangling
ice-cream vans, sizzling barbecues, sliothars on ash, crashing waves, the hum of the bee-loud glade. But our summers are changing - there are silences amidst the sounds. Throughout the day a number of other special events will also take place in the space, exploring our relationship with the natural world through sound, with a particular focus on wild bees’ role in making our summers sweeter:
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10:30am - 5pm - “We Bring The Summer with Us” sound installation 12.30pm – Lift it up to the Sun: Sound selections from the field(s) 3pm - Bee Experimental: Practical things you can do to help bees buzz 5pm - A Life with Bees: A Conversation with added sound
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Saturday 13th September
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“Now where did that one come from?” The Stormy Teacup, Fox’s Bow CLUB c.1200, “thick stick used as a weapon,” from Old Norse klubba, variant of klumba, related to clump. The social club (1660s) apparently evolved from this word from the verbal sense “gather in a club-like mass”, then as a noun in 1640s to mean an “association of people” Elemental invites you to gather with us in a club-like mass, bringing along your favourite words and their origins to share. Or perhaps you have a word about which you’ve always wondered “Now where did that one come from?”
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INFORMATION Time: 2-3:30pm Excellent tea & coffee available to purchase
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Saturday 13th September
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Thomas Street A little piece of Nature right in the heart of the city. Come take part in a flag-making workshop, learn about the magic of flowers , help make the city a more colourful place and a few more surprises! Morning and afternoon event. Flag-making workshop duration: running for 2 hours, from 12 until 2, drop-in.
Date: Saturday 13th September Location: The George Boutique Hotel, Shannon Street Time: 12 until 2 Description: A selection of Irish short films. Supported by the Irish Film Board. Wheelchair accessible Free event
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“I like to draw, make pictures, and find stuff....then drawing on the stuff I find.” Jacob has been doing lots of drawing on stuff for Elemental Arts & Culture Festival. We couldn’t fit it all here in the programme, so we highly recommend you treat yourself to a good look at the originals. For location details, see Facebook
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Date: Saturday 13th September Time: 12-4pm
Limerick is proud to have the only bicycle manufacturing facility in the Country with The Irish Rover & The Cailin being hand built in Cappamore Co Limerick by the Highnelly Bike Company. The Irish company is proud to take the HighNelly name across the seas to the rest of the world. Because of their Dragon’s Den success, the hand-built bicycles are sought after near and far and will be on display for the festival.
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Elemental Arts & Culture Festival Presents Sunday 14th September
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OF UNCHLDREN’ S B OO K CHI by Emma Fisher & THOREY MJALLHVIT
Out of the Blue, the Milk Market Limerick Sail through the water, fly through the sky, land on a mountain to free the stars and along the way make friends with giraffes, turtles and acrobatic flying children. Accompany Ciaran on a magical adventure through his imagination, with his faithful friend Piedva the spider and his trusty bath tub. Book launch with reading of ‘Spun’ with hot chocolate, followed by a puppet workshop where you make your favourite character from ‘Spun’.
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Time: 10am, 12pm, 2pm duration 1 hour Child-friendly: Yes. Workshop aimed at 4 years of age and older. Reading is suitable for all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult for the entire duration of the workshop. Wheelchair access: Yes Free event, donations welcome towards cost of materials. Booking required: Yes. Contact beyondthebarktheatre@gmail.com to book your spot.
Performance of the show based on the book ‘SPUN’ as part of LIMERICK’S CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL - Dates: 14th October 7pm, 15th / 16th October 10am and 12 noon. Venue 69 O’Connell Street. Booking www.limetreetheatre.ie / or 061-774774
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Helena Enright Curragower Boat Club The River Shannon Project is once again delighted to feature as part of Elemental. This year, a screening will take place of Helena Enright’s new play, The River. The project has also been receiving photographs of the river Shannon from members of the public. A selection of these photographs will be exhibited in the Curragower Boat Club over the weekend. Helena’s audio walk, Shannon’s Way, will also be available to download from the Elemental website.
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Location: Curragower Boat Club Day: Sunday 14th September Time: 2pm Duration: 1 hour
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Elemental Elemental ArtsFestival & Culture Present Festival Presents Friday, 13th Sunday September 14th September / 11 to 12 o’clock and from 2 to 3 o’clock
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Happenings run instant pop-up, inspirational, cultural events to bring people together in public spaces, at a low cost to us all and our environment, for people’s sake.
to bring beautiful open-air events to the parks and green spaces of Limerick. It’s all part of Limerick City of Culture. Think about it - cinema, music, food, theatre, performances… These performances, only five outbite-sized in the open air in the lasting beautiful When there’s fine weather, Happenings organise instant outdoor to ten green spacesareofturning Limerick minutes, up atCity! a shop or café cinema events in parks and public near you. Make sure you don’t miss them! spaces. This Summer, Happenings Thiswww.happenings.ie/limerick year, we have added a taxi theatre.
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Date: Sunday 14th September Child-friendly: Yes Cost: Free event
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Elemental & Culture Festival Presents Elemental ArtsArts & Culture Festival Presents Sunday 14th September / Theatre at o’clock the Savoy Friday, 13th September / 11 to 12 and from 2 to 3 o’clock
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It is February 1941. London is being ravaged by the Blitz. In the basement of the BBC a radio play is about to be broadcast to celebrate the life of the legendary 18th Century actor, Charles Macklin, who rose from humble origins in Donegal to a triumphant career on the London stage. Quarrelsome and hot-tempered, Macklin was dogged by controversy, including an infamous backstage killing.
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Time: 8pm sharp (no admissions after 8pm) Booking essential - limericktheatre.com Price €12 (incl glass of wine / soft drink)
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