Artist/Title
Artform
Venue
Time
Tickets (+ booking fee)
Spoken Word
Borris
All Day
www.festivalofwritingandideas.com
Music, food, family fun
14 Graiguenamanagh/Tinnahinch, 15 Goresbridge
from 6.30 each evening
FREE
Barges on the Barrow. Featuring Little John Nee (Sparkplug Callaghan) & Friends *
Music
Carlow town park
from 6.30
FREE
Festival HQ Pavilion opening featuring SG Groovinrhythym and Blackwing Bird
Party, DJ, live music, food village, craft beer, cocktails
Festival HQ Pavilion and grounds
From 6pm
FREE
Steve Maher - Follow me up to Carlow
SITE WORKS Visual Arts (Performance)
Carlow Castle Grounds
7pm
FREE
Grainne Mulvey - Reflections
Contemorary Music
Deighton Hall
7pm
€16/€14 concessions
Festival Launch, ART WORKS prizes
Party
VISUAL
8pm
FREE - All Welcome
Tenner Thursday featuring Black Wing Bird, Treelan and BARQ
Music
Festival HQ Pavilion
9pm and 11pm
€10 for full evening
Loitering Theatre - Truffaut’s Code
Visual Arts
Brownshill Dolmen
9.15pm
FREE limited and ticketed,
FESTIVAL CLUB @ Tully’s Bar featuring Little John Nee
Music
Tully’s Bar
From 11pm
FREE
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Film
GB Shaw Theatre
11.30pm
€5
Cora Murphy - Abstracting the Arboretumn *
Art workshop
Arboretumn, Leighlinbridge
10am -4pm (also Sat 18)
€195 early bird. €225 full
Glen Austin/RTE Contempo - New Airs
Music
St Mary’s Church
7pm
€19/€17
David Kitt
Music
Festival HQ Pavilion
8.30pm
€15/€13 conc
Happenings - Grease
Cinema
Festival HQ Grounds
10pm
€5
Aindreas de Stack - Man from Moogaga
Comedy/Theatre
Festival HQ Pavilion
11.45pm
€15/€13 conc
FESTIVAL CLUB @ The Castle Tavern. Harbouring Oceans/Hawk/Maria Kelly
Music
Castle Tavern
From 11pm
FREE
Louise Swords - Clayotics *
Clayotic Modelling Workshop (Children)
Festival HQ Grounds
1 /3pm (also Sun 2/4pm)
€5
Fussy Galore - Victory Rolls *
Victory Rolls Hair w/shop
Festival HQ Grounds
2pm/3pm/4pm/5pm (also Sun)
FREE
Historical Society*
Walking tour
Meet @ Gate Lodge, Carlow College
2pm (also Sun)
FREE booking required
Irish Modern Dance Theatre - Heroes
Opera/Dance
Deighton Hall
3pm
FREE booking recommended
SG Groovinrhythm
DJ
Festival HQ Grounds
from 2pm
FREE
Pure Thinking/Aspiro/David Ayers - Note on a Wall
Music/Visual Arts
College Street
5pm
FREE
Human Library *
Performance/Spoken Word
VISUAL
2-6pm (also Sunday)
FREE
Breach & Quinn - SCORE
Theatre/Music
GB Shaw Theatre @VISUAL
7pm
€16/€14 concessions
Carlow Choral Society - Amadeus the Genius of Mozart
Music
Carlow Cathedral
8pm
€20
Foil Arms and Hog - Skiddlywup
Comedy
Festival HQ Pavilion
8pm
€15/€13
Fidget Feet - Firebirds and Fireworks
Spectacle
Festival HQ grounds
10.15pm
FREE
Le Galaxie
DJ set
Festival HQ Pavilion
11.15
€8
FESTIVAL CLUB @ Carpe Diem
Music
Carpe Diem
From 11pm
FREE
Music Generation Carlow - Early Childhood Music
Music Workshops Children
VISUAL
10.30 11.30 12.30
€8
Lovesick Poachers
Wandering Musicians
Festival HQ and Town
All day
FREE
Bee in Your Bonnet
Tea Party for Kids
Festival HQ Grounds
2-3pm
FREE
Irish Modern Dance Theatre - Proclamation
Film
VISUAL
All Afternoon
FREE
Dublin Ukelele Collective
Music
Festival HQ Pavilion
3pm - 4pm
FREE
Catherine Ireton/Farnham Maltings (UK) - In Good Hands
Theatre
Hair by Damien
2pm 4pm 6pm
€16/€14
Fiddles and Vittels - Sunday afternoon Hootenanny
Music
Festival HQ Pavilion
4.30pm
€20/€18
The Guild of Great Ideas, curated by John MacKenna
Spoken Word/Music
Deighton Hall
7pm
€15/€13
Abandoman
Comedy
Festival HQ Pavilion
7.30pm
€15/€13
Hothouse Flowers and Lisa Lambe
Music
Festival HQ Pavilion
9.30pm
€28.50/€25
FESTIVAL CLUB@ Festival HQ Pavlilion
Party!
Festival HQ Pavilion
From 11pm
FREE
ART WORKS Exhibition
Visual Arts
VISUAL & Carlow College
See Page 7
FREE
Pop-up Galleries
Visual Arts
See Map
Various - check web
FREE
Clodagh Emoe - Crocosmia
SITE WORKS Visual Arts
Carlow Town Park
ALL DAY
FREE
Angela Fulcher - Banner
SITE WORKS Visual Arts
The Orchard, Carlow College
11-5.30pm. Late Thurs and Fri 8pm
FREE
Little ART WORKS
Children’s Art Workshops
VISUAL
visualcarlow.ie for details
€2 per child
FESTIVAL OF WRITING AND IDEAS * - BORRIS 10-12 JUNE Festival of Writing and Ideas *
BARGES ON THE BARROW 14/15 JUNE Barges on the Barrow. Featuring Little John Nee (Sparkplug Callaghan) & Friends *
THURSDAY 16
FRIDAY 17
SATURDAY 18
SUNDAY 19
ALL WEEK 10 - 19 June