VISUAL September 2018 - January 2019

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Programme September 2018— January 2019

Opening Hours

Monday: Closed Tues – Sat: 11am – 5.30pm Sunday: 2pm – 5pm

Booking

Book Online: www.visualcarlow.ie Phone: 059 9172400 Book In person from our Box Office

Spaces

GALLERIES: VISUAL has five dedicated gallery spaces: Main Gallery, Studio Gallery, Link Gallery, Lobby Gallery, and Digital Gallery. All are accessible by both stairs and lift.

PERFORMANCE SPACE: Our performance space is a 335 capacity tiered seating with access for wheelchair users.

Support & Funding

VISUAL is funded by Carlow County Council and Arts Council.

Our cinema screenings are presented in association with Access Cinema and IFI Education.

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Cover image: Still from Remnants of the Future, Uriel Orlow, 17’18” 2010 – 2012

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September

14th September 21st September 26th September 28th September

October

1st October Schools Theatre 4th October Schools Theatre 6th October Music 9th October Music 10th October 11th October Conference 12th October Music 13th October CInema 14th October Theatre 25th October Theatre 27th October Dance 28th October Local Arts 30th October Cinema

Jeramee, Hartleby agus Oooglemore 10.30am & 12pm An Triail 10.30am & 12pm Donna Taggart 8pm Jules Maxwell 7pm Mind Over Matter 9am – 5pm Town Planners 10am Frankies Guys 8pm Carlow African Film Festival 7.30pm Hughie 8pm Frank Pig Says Hello 8pm Luke Murphy 8pm Dance Republic 12pm/3.30pm & 7.30pm Halloween Screening 8pm

November

2nd November 7th November 10th November 11th November 15th November 17th November 22nd November 23rd November 28th November

Comedy Theatre Music Festival Theatre Comedy Schools Screening Theatre Cinema

Pat Shortt 8pm Before 8pm Don Baker & Rob Strong 8pm Polish Poetry Festival Holy Mary 8pm Colin Murphy 8pm IFI French Screening Keeper 11am The Matchmaker 8pm Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 8pm

December

AT A GLANCE

1st December 5th December 6th – 8th December 6th December 12th – 16th December 13th December 18th – 20th December 21st December 22nd December 23rd December 29th December 30th December

Music Schools Theatre Festival Theatre Local Arts Theatre Theatre Ballet Music Cinema Music Cinema

ABBA Forever 8pm Little Prince 11am & 12.30pm Culinary Christmas All Day Faulty Towers Dining Experience 7.30pm Cinderella 2.30pm & 7.30pm Faulty Towers Dining Experience 7.30pm To Kill A Mockingbird 8pm The Nutcracker 8pm Phil Coulter 8pm It’s a Wonderful Life 4pm Mary Coughlan 8pm The Greatest Showman 4pm

September 2018 – January 2019

Theatre Festival Cinema Theatre

Looking Deadly 8pm Culture Night 6.30pm Edie 8pm The Mental 8pm

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Welcome to our Autumn season at VISUAL

This season, artist Marjetica Potrč invites you to come and be part of her exhibition in the Main Gallery. Our Link Gallery hosts Ali Kirby’s new solo exhibition Planes, whilst Uriel Orlow’s haunting film Remnants of the Future will be on show in the Digital Gallery. Town Planners continues their exploration of Carlow’s built environment in the Studio.

Artist in residence, Clare Breen, will be working with schools throughout county Carlow over the coming months, with plenty of opportunities for children to participate, in what promises to be, an exciting season at VISUAL. In the theatre we’ve got the best of local and national talent, a brilliant programme for schools and young people — plus lots of seasonal shows this December. We look forward to welcoming you here!

Gallery Tours F Every Saturday and Sunday Did you know that we offer free tours of our galleries at VISUAL every Saturday and Sunday?

Our Gallery Guides will take you through our gallery spaces; introducing you to the works of this seasons artists.

We also offer group tours, subject to availability.

For more information and to book a tour, contact galleries@ visualcarlow.ie or phone 059 9172400.

Volunteers Our volunteers are an integral part of the experience at VISUAL. Their dedication and passion ensures our programme of activities and events are enjoyable for all our patrons.

If you would like to join our volunteer programme or to find out more information email galleries@visualcarlowe.ie or phone 059 9172400. www.visualcarlow.ie

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F Main Gallery 21st September 2018 – 13th January 2019 Image: Nomads Inhabit Islands, Settlers Build Walls, 2016, Marjetica Potrč (ink on paper, 76 × 56cm).

Image courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin.

Shelter: Closed & Open Marjetica Potrč Marjetica Potrč is in an artist and architect based in Ljubljana and Berlin.

Through architectural case studies and socially-influenced sculptural installations, her work explores how we live, share resources and coexist alongside one another. Responding to the theme of Shelter, her installation in VISUAL creates a hybrid house structure which contrasts the architecture of two very different societies, one open and one closed. These are accompanied by a series of large-scale wall drawings, plus work stations set up for printing and for clay-making. Through the course of the season, Potrč invites groups and communities to use the space and add their contributions to the exhibition, thinking of how and where their community finds shelter together.

If your group would like to come in and use the gallery space during the season, please contact galleries@visualcarlow.ie This exhibition is programmed and funded in collaboration with Carlow County Council Arts Office

About the Artist: Marjetica Potrč’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, including in such major exhibitions as the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2009), the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006), and Skulptur: Projekte in Münster, Germany (1997). Recent projects include the Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art in Basel (2012), the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin (2013, 2018), the PAMM Perez Art Museum Miami (2015), the Kunsthall Trondheim (2017), and the FLORA ars+natura in Bogota (2017).

September 2018 – January 2019

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F Main Gallery 21st September 2018 – 13th January 2019 Image: Florestania (No.10 of 12 drawings), 2006, Marjetica Potrč (ink on paper). Image courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin.

Carlow: Open House

Community Participation The work of Marjetica Potrč explores how we live together in communities; for the Autumn season, the artist invites groups into the gallery space to reflect on ideas of shelter – how our belonging in communities and groups offer us shelter; and how the exhibition – and VISUAL – offers a place of shelter. Groups and individuals are free to use the space and create their own artworks to add to the exhibition, or simply to use it as a place to meet. If you would like to book a group in to the gallery space during the season, please contact galleries@visualcarlow.ie.

Thanks to funding from Creative Ireland Carlow, VISUAL is also collaborating with County Carlow Development Partnership to deliver four artist-led community participation projects with groups who experience barriers to accessing art and culture. The outcomes of these projects will be added in to the gallery exhibition over the course of the season.

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F Main Gallery 21st September – 8th December 2018

Artist Residency Clare Breen Clare Breen will undertake a residency throughout the season, exploring the relationship between VISUAL and its young audiences. Clare will work directly with children and schools to explore the Main Gallery exhibition by Marjetica Potrč, looking at themes of home, shelter, belonging and community. This activity will take place through a series of workshops in the gallery space.

If your school would like to book a workshop with Clare, please contact galleries@visualcarlow.ie This project has been kindly funded by Creative Ireland Carlow.

About the Artist Clare’s practice and research is relational, with a long-term focus on developing opportunities for open dialogue with and through art, and facilitating access to contemporary art for everyone, especially children.

Clare completed a Masters in Education in the Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute in the Netherlands (2016) and worked as a member of the Chorus at documenta 14 in Athens (2017). She has recently developed workshops and schools programmes with Wexford Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, EVA International Art School, Rua Red Arts Centre and the RHA.

September 2018 – January 2019

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F Link Gallery 21st September 2018 – 13th January 2019

Planes Ali Kirby A new site responsive work Plane – noun – A flat or level surface – A longitudinal section through the axis of a column – Any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing Ali Kirby creates sculptural assemblages and installations that physically respond to the built environment. Ordinary construction materials are re-used to create seemingly solid structures that reveal their fragility upon closer inspection.

For the Autumn season Kirby responds to the architectural space of the Link Gallery.

About the Artist: Born in Dublin, Ali Kirby received a BA in Fine Art from LSAD in 2014, specialising in Sculpture & Combined Media. Recent exhibitions include Recalling Familiar Entities (2018) 126 gallery, Galway, Thinking Living Dwelling (2017) the Dock, Leitrim, Futures, Series 3, Episode 1 (2017) Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

She was a recipient of the Arts Council Next Generation Bursary award in 2017.

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F Digital Gallery 21st September 2018 – 21st January 2019 Image: Still from Remnants of the Future, Uriel Orlow, 17’18” 2010 – 2012.

Remnants of the Future Uriel Orlow Part-documentary film, part sci-fi, Remnants of the Future portrays the precarious existence in a post-Soviet ghost-town – a modern ruin that is still waiting to fulfil its utopian ambition of communal living. It is set in Northern Armenia in a vast, unfinished housing project called Mush, built on the orders of Mikhail Gorbachev to house the people displaced by the 1988 Spitak earthquake. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 abruptly halted the ambitious housing development and it has since remained in a ghostly unfinished state, inhabited only by migrating birds and isolated human scavengers who salvage scrap metal out of the hollow shells of concrete and live in parts of the big, skeletal housing blocks.

Cinemascope video with stereo sound 17’18”, 2010 – 12.

About the Artist: Uriel Orlow lives and works between London, Lisbon and Zurich. He studied at Central Saint Martins, the Slade School of Art and the University of Geneva, completing a PhD in Fine Art in 2002. Orlow’s practice is research-based, processoriented and multi-disciplinary including film, photography, drawing and sound.

Recent exhibitions include the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), 8th Mercosul Biennial, Brazil (2011), Aichi Triennale (2013); Manifesta 9 in Genk (2012); Bergen Assembly (2013), Qalandia International (2014) EVA International (2014, 2016), 13th Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), 7th Moscow Biennial (2017).

September 2018 – January 2019

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VISUAL ART 2nd October 2018 7.30 – 9.30pm

Community Think-in VISUAL will be 10 years old in 2019! It’s been a rollercoaster ride of a decade, which has produced some extraordinary exhibitions, performances and events and welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, from near and far.

This Autumn, we would like to invite YOU to come in and share your favourite moments from the last 10 years, and your vision for our next 10 years. We’ll provide the refreshments, Chris Chapman will facilitate – come and help us dream up the next decade of creativity together!

All are welcome to attend. More details available on visualcarlow.ie

F Main Gallery 17th – 23rd January 2019

The Aesthetics of Labour Mick O’Kelly In January 2019 artist Mick O’Kelly will examine what it takes to produce and present art in a public gallery space like VISUAL. The artist invites the public to witness the epic behind-the-scenes repair and painting of VISUAL’s Main Gallery between exhibitions, and to take part in conversations about artistic labour and the value of the cultural institution.

These timely discussions take place as VISUAL begins its 10th anniversary year; a year that will celebrate the value of the institution as a civic space where art is a means of exploring and sharing different ideas and perspectives about the world we live in. Contact Box Office to book a discussion.

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F Studio Gallery Runs until December 2018

Town Planners Town Planners examines our sense of civic space, the principles of planning and our relationships to the built environment and the world around us.

To date, the gallery space has accumulated a civic plaza imagined for lingering, designed by Todo Por La Praxis, Paul Bokslags’ vinyl floor and wall drawing inspired by road marking patterns; information panels from Bí URBAN, a social enterprise based in Dublin’s north-west inner city promoting well-being through the use of neglected resources; Bí URBAN’s wax and botanical products alongside beehives and knowledge shared by Carlow Beekeepers Association; and an interactive Manifesto and Map – a series of positive ideas to improve the natural and built environment of Carlow town generated by young people through workshops with schools and a Summer School at VISUAL, led by Workhouse Union with Ita Morrissey and Michelle Browne.

In the autumn season, artist Ruth Lyons will develop a project exploring natural habitats and shelter within the townscape of Carlow, informed by the Youth Manifesto and the knowledge of Carlow Beekeepers Association.

Town Planners is co-produced by VISUAL Carlow and Workhouse Union and funded through the Arts Council Engaging with Architecture Strand.

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CONFERENCE Thursday 11th October 10am – 4.30pm €25/€12 student/unwaged (lunch and refreshments included)

Town Planners: People, Place and Participation Bringing together inspiring examples of creativity, civic engagement and placemaking in urban and rural planning and design, this conference looks at how communities, local authorities and agencies can work collaboratively to create vibrant shared spaces and civic infrastructure.

Image credit: Studio Weave, Thames Walk Pavilion, London, 2019

Speakers include Arts Action Group, Take A Part Carlow; Je Ahn, Studio Weave (UK); Michelle Browne, Artist; Kaethe Burt-O’Dea, Bí URBAN; Shem Caulfield, Thomastown Community River Trust; Ian Doyle, The Heritage Council; Helena Fitzgerald, Architect; Free Market, Architect; Emma Geoghegan, DIT; Alison Harvey, Heritage Council; Etaoin Holahan, Fennelly’s of Callan; Hollie Kearns, Butler Gallery; Eilis Lavelle, Workhouse Union; Rosie Lynch, Workhouse Union; Marjetica Potrč, Artist and Architect; Martin Rafter, Kilkenny Leader Partnership; Dr. Allister Roy, University of Lancaster.

Town Makers Sessions will focus on case-studies and practical examples of making it happen.

Discussions and Workshop topics include sustainable and democratic solutions for living together; craft and storytelling as tools for design; health, wellbeing and the role of nature in the city; Tools and approaches to community engagement in planning; and funding and creative planning processes. *This Conference is approved for IPI CPD credit.

Friday 12th October 11am – 3pm €10/€8 student/unwaged (lunch and refreshments included) Limited spaces available. Open to conference attendees only.

Resilient Towns: Workshop with Marjetica Potrč This workshop aims to bring together a diverse group of people developing creative social environments and situations including community groups, urban planners, artists and architects. The event will be coordinated in a world café style, facilitating a range of conversations and interests. Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Berlin, Germany and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work documents and interprets contemporary architectural practices and the ways people live together.

Lunch time food will be a Breadfellows’ meal by staff and artist-in-residence at VISUAL Clare Breen. Breadfellows’ Chats is a practice of collaboratively making ceramics and using them to share food. It foregrounds talking, making together and sharing food, as intimate gestures of care.

Town Planners: People, Place and Participation is co-produced by VISUAL Carlow and Workhouse Union and funded through the Arts Council Engaging with Architecture Strand.

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21st September – 25th November 2018 Reception, Bar and Theatre Corridor Image credit: Mohammed Rafique, Bangladesh Camp, 2018

The Stateless On the 26th of August this year the United Nations Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar officially declared the violence against Rohingya Muslims in northern Myanmar to be a campaign of genocide.

This acknowledgment comes after decades of persecution.

The Stateless is an archival exhibition at VISUAL that documents the journey the Rohingya community in Carlow have taken, and reflects on the tragic inhumanities that continue to be inflicted on the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Photographs taken by Mohammed Rafique in 2017 show the suffering endured by the Rohingya in Myanmar and the camps in Bangladesh; drawings and paintings reflect on the communities cultural identity and an archive of information about the Genocide of the Rohingya calls on the public to witness and be aware of this crisis, and the lives of those who have been displaced, persecuted, murdered and tortured.

The Rohingya Community in Carlow came in 2009 after they were resettled from refugee camps in Bangladesh by the United Nation Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The refugees were part of the 250,000 Rohingya who fled their native land Burma [Myanmar] during the Burmese Military in 1991/2 in an operation known as Operation Pyi Thaya or Operation Clean Nation. 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh causing a disintegration and displacement of a community. The “clearance operations” constituted a human rights catastrophe.

This exhibition has been created in collaboration with Haikal Mansor, Mohammed Rafique, members of The Rohingya community in Carlow and Carlow based Rohingya Action Ireland which is made up of both local and national support networks.

For further information on the Rohingya and this campaign of genocide visit stateless.com and rohingya.ie Supported by Carlow College, Carlow County Development Forum, the Stateless, Rohingya Action Ireland.

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JOIN IN AT VISUAL

Monday 10th October 9am – 5pm €75

Mind Over Matter Carlow Proven to improve performance, reduce costs and increase value, open your business to the value of Design on October 10th with Mind Over Matter.

A national day of creativity in aid of mental health awareness, Ireland’s top Brand, UX, Product, and Graphic Designers are donating their time for a €75 fee; all of which goes straight to Aware.

Taking place at The Visual Carlow, this is a unique opportunity to talk business and raise money for a great cause!

Book your consultation at idimindovermatter.ie from August 25th. Booking closes October 7th.

VISUAL Carlow is delighted to partner with IDI on this initiative.

11th – 18th November 2018 Festival

EUREKA Science & Technology Festival VISUAL is delighted to join with our educational partners from Institute of Technology Carlow and Carlow College for EUREKA, a week-long celebration of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Maths) across Carlow, Wicklow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois and Wexford.

The week will help young and old alike explore, question, and think creatively about our world and the innovative approaches that can be taken.

Full programme of events to be launched in October.

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PERFORMANCES

Friday 14th September 8pm Theatre €15/€12

Looking Deadly A wedding is the craic, birthdays are grand but you can’t beat a good Irish funeral.

Yeah it’s sad… but ya know what’ll help with that? Kind words, hang sangwiches, a glass of warm porter, milky tea, a bad ballad, a snog with that cousin you know you shouldn’t fancy and a fight over who thought more of the dearly departed.

Now you’re ready for the three day wake!

Having sold out around Ireland, Foystown’s two rival funeral directors are back with the rollercoaster that is the battle for the funeral of local legend, Big Tom McCarthy. Looking Deadly will make you laugh and cry, just like any decent funeral should and Big Tom will rest in peace... eventually.

Friday 21st September 6.30pm Tickets: Free

Culture Night Join us from 6.30pm for the opening of VISUAL’s Autumn Season. The night will include an artist talk with Ali Kirby, performances from Aspiro Choir with Carlow Ukulele Orchestra, and Carlow Youth Orchestra.

Our new seasons exhibitions will be opened including work by Marjetica Potrč (in collaboration with Carlow Arts Office), Uriel Orlow and Ali Kirby.

September 2018 – January 2019

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PERFORMANCES

Wednesday 26th September 8pm Cinema €8/€6

Edie Edie (Sheila Hancock) has spent 40 years trapped in a colourless life in England, tending to her controlling husband (Donald Pelmear) after his stroke. When he passes away and her daughter tries to send her to a care home, she packs an old camping bag, leaves her life behind and embarks on an adventure she never got to have - climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland.

Joined by Johnny, a reluctant local guide, Edie travels to the beautiful village of Lochinver in the Scottish Highlands. Despite the misgivings of Johnny’s girlfriend and flatmate, Edie and Johnny form an unlikely friendship. The journey to the summit will be long and difficult, but Edie is determined to prove to herself and everyone else that it’s never too late.

EDIE is an unforgettable, immersive visual journey through the unspoiled wilderness of the Scottish highlands.

Friday 28th September 8pm Theatre €16/€14

Mend & Makedo Theatre Co presents

The Mental

The Mental, written by John MacKenna, is the final part of The Barrow Trilogy, three plays set in the Barrow valley.

Set in a psychiatric hospital in 1990, the year when patients were being moved out of hospital settings and reintroduced to the community, the play focuses on the life of John Salter, a man who has spent four decades in psychiatric care for doing a good deed.

The Mental grew from an imagined story fleshed out through interviews with former staff and patients of a number of psychiatric hospitals but it is very firmly rooted in the landscape of Carlow and south Kildare.

A warm, gentle, sometimes heart-rending and sometimes hilarious play about one man and his eagerness to embrace life despite everything.

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PERFORMANCES

Saturday 6th October 8pm Music €22.50

Celtic Lady Productions presents

Donna Taggart Having enthralled audiences in Ireland and the UK with her debut tour in 2017, Donna Taggart gained international recognition with her release of Jealous of the Angels which has now achieved Multi-Platinum status with well in excess of 100 Million streams.

Just back from the USA after touring with legendary singer/songwriter Phil Coulter, Donna’s distinctive emotional singing style has drawn comparisons with the likes of Eva Cassidy, Mary Black and Alison Krauss. A night not to be missed.

Tuesday 9th October 7pm Music €12/€10

Jules Maxwell & Deleyaman Irish composer and songwriter Jules Maxwell makes a rare but welcome return to Ireland for what promises to be a wonderful night of music.

Maxwell, whose music has featured in the work of Foy Vance, Duke Special, Iain Archer, Dead Can Dance, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, will be joined on the tour by Normandy based band Deleyaman who have recently been collaborating on a feature film with the French actress and director Fanny Ardant.

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PERFORMANCES Friday 12th October 8pm Music €25

Zac Global Promotions presents

Frankie’s Guys Celebrating the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Following a sold-out run at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin, this fast-paced, energetic production paying tribute to the legendary music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons comes to VISUAL Carlow for one night only. Putting their charismatic stamp on timeless classics such as ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Walk Like A Man’, ‘Sherry’, and ‘Oh What A Night’ the boys take you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane and remind you exactly why The Four Seasons sold over 100 million records and earned themselves a place in the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

With slick choreography, charm, charisma, brilliant audience participation, and amazing live vocals, it’s clear to see why Frankie’s Guys are receiving standing ovations up and down the country.

Saturday 13th October 7.30pm Cinema €6

African Film Festival Now in its 14th year Carlow African Film Festival continues to provide an annual platform to celebrate the beauty and diversity of Africa through film, honour excellence in African filmmaking and promote cultural interaction in Ireland.

This year’s screening is Half of A Yellow Sun, a movie based on a novel of the same name written by Chimamanda Ngozi. It’s a love story where two wealthy Nigerian families take wildly different paths in life, however both get caught up in the outbreak of the Nigeria civil war.

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PERFORMANCES Sunday 14th October 8pm Theatre €15/€13

Eugene O’Neill International Festival of Theatre presents

Hughie

by Eugene O’Neill

In the theatre world, Eugene O’Neill is famously known for his extensive and detailed stage directions that sometimes go on for pages. Late in his career, O’Neill wrote Hughie, the tale of two lonely strangers grappling to make sense of their lives, their relationship and their responsibilities to each other. The play has some of the most elaborate stage directions in the O’Neill cannon, that director Eric Fraisher Hayes has re-imagined it with the stage directions becoming a third character. This fresh take on the play offers audiences a chance to find a new appreciation for O’Neill. Between lines of dialogue, a rich inner life is revealed about the characters and their author.

Thursday 18th – Saturday 20th October 8pm Theatre €17/1€4

Carlow Little Theatre presents Harper Lee’s

To Kill A Mockingbird

by Christopher Sergel When a well-respected lawyer mounts a vigorous and compelling case for the defence of Tom Robinson, a poor black man accused of the rape of a young white girl, an idyllic world of childhood is changed forever.

Through the drama of the trial and its aftermath comes a searching examination of freedom, justice, honesty, and hypocrisy.

A compelling, deeply moving story told with warmth and humour, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill A Mockingbird is an allegory for the universal truths of human sensibility that will resonate with everyone.

School matinees: Thursday 18th and Friday 19th October, 11am.

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PERFORMANCES Co-Motion Media presents

Thursday 25th October 8pm Theatre €16/€14

Frank Pig Says Hello

by Pat McCabe Desperately funny and yet deeply tragic, FRANK PIG SAYS HELLO is one of the great classics of modern Irish theatre. It tells the story of Francie Brady growing up in a small Irish town in the 1960s and his descent towards a brutal act that shocks his community.

Featuring mesmerising performances by actors Darragh Byrne and John Ruddy, the play is regarded as one of the most vivid, hilarious and heartbreaking evocations of an Irish childhood and adolescence gone wrong. From the opening live trumpet notes over an image of a happy, comical boy acting the piglet, to the breathtaking depiction of a dark deed, this is theatre at its most entertaining and gripping best.

Ages: 13+

Saturday 27th October 8pm Dance €15/€12

Attic Projects/Luke Murphy presents

The Milkyboy Kid Follow his wildly successful 2015 solo Your Own Man/Mad Notions, award winning international choreographer and performer Luke Murphy returns with a new one man show on the chameleon nature of performers and performance and his own blurred lines of fiction and reality.

The Milkyboy Kid – This is much easier when its not just me up here…I want to start or maybe just run away, or bear my soul, or go get a pint, or keep performing because “it’s the only time I feel alive” or I because I crave attention, or maybe I’m just really scared all the time, or maybe I don’t have the answer just more maybes, maybe some questions are best left unanswered?

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Sunday 28th October 12pm, 3.30pm, and 7.30pm Local Arts €15/€10

Dance Republic Our Show 2018 Our show will feature students from our branches in counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Kildare, Wicklow, Laois and Wexford.

A 90 minute showcase of talent, technique and creativity we look forward to our students taking to the stage and doing what they love to do most, dance.

Tuesday 30th October 8pm Cinema €8/€6

Surprise Screening Join us for a Spooktacular surprise screening this Halloween’s eve. We’ll be heading to the deepest, darkest crevices of the VISUAL cinema archive to unearth a classic chiller to frighten your souls.

Join us from 7pm in VISUAL Bar for some ghoulish treats and terrifyingly good music. Dressing up is encouraged.

September 2018 – January 2019

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PERFORMANCES Friday 2nd November 8pm Comedy €29/€27

Pat Shortt Hey! Following the sell-out successes of The Hall, Selfie, and How’s Tings? and fresh from starring roles in the hit play A Skull In Connemara and the film The Belly of The Whale, Pat Shortt, one of Ireland’s best loved comedians, takes to the road with his latest quirky look at Irish life.

Featuring all brand new material and sketches, this new show is a rogue’s gallery of odd ball characters, bizarre situations and even a song or two! Hey! delivers a peculiar take on modern life that only the unique imagination of Pat Shortt could conjure up.

Wednesday 7th November 8pm Theatre €29

Fishamble: The New Play Company presents

Before by Pat Kinevane A new play with much music Before is a new play with much music, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store shuts – for good. Pontius is inside, trying to choose a gift for his estranged daughter, whom he hasn’t seen for almost 20 years. He will meet her in an hour. This father’s journey is both beautiful and strange, from the isolation of his Midlands home, to the madness of O’Connell Street. Some folk are impossible to buy for…

From the award winning team that brought you Forgotten, Underneath, and Silent.

Before was commissioned by Fishamble and has been in development with the support of the Arts Council, National Theatre Studio (London), Pavilion Theatre, and The Strollers Touring Network.

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PERFORMANCES Saturday 10th November 8pm, Music €21

Pat Egan Management presents

Don Baker & Rob Strong Two of Ireland’s best ever rock/blues musicians, Don Baker and Rob Strong are celebrating 50 years on the road with their new show Brothers In Arms.

Don Baker is known as a prolific singer/songwriter/musician for over 50 years and Rob Strong, from Derry, on bass guitar and lead vocals, is another of Ireland’s Living Legends, who also has been performing for more than five decades.

Don, Rob and the band, guarantee a great night of real rock n’ roll Live! No backing tracks, no sound effects, not even lip-sync – just pure raw talent that has stood the test of time – over 50 years on the rock n’ roll road in Ireland, the country’s finest ever exponents of Soul, Rock and Blues!

Sunday 11th November 11.30am Literature

Polish Educational Society in Ireland presents

4th Polish National Recitation Contest Students from over 40 Polish Schools in Ireland between the ages of 5 and 19 will participate in the 4th annual contest which falls, this year, on the 100th anniversary of Polish Independence.

The event is coordinated by Marta Szutkowska-Kiszkiel (PESI Director) and Małgorzata Higgins from Paul Edmund Strzelecki Polish School in Wexford.

The event is cofounded by The Embassy of the Republic of Poland.

September 2018 – January 2019

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PERFORMANCES

Thursday 15th November 8pm Theatre €18/€16

Breda Cashe presents

Holy Mary

by Eoin Colfer Holy Mary is the story of two nine year old girls on the days leading up to the social occasion of the year: Their First Holy Communion. Mortal enemies since baby infants, things have gotten even worse since Mary’s daddy moved in with Majella’s mammy. Searching for a way to insult each other, Majella thinks she has found a weak spot when she realises that Mary’s Communion dress one that she donated to the Vincent de Paul. Will Majella use this information to publicly take down her nemesis? Or will she realise that maybe she and Mary are not so different after all?

A hilarious and heartbreaking tale of Communion, confusion, and consternation. ‘funny and appealing…’— Sunday Independent

Saturday 17th November 8pm Comedy €17/€15

Colin Murphy The Bald Ambition Now in his 25th year as a stand-up, Colin Murphy’s newest show, the Bald Ambition Tour, is delivered with the razor sharp timing that has made Murphy a household name.

Best known for his TV appearances on the award-winning BBC NI show The Blame Game, RTE’s The Panel and The Blizzard of Odd, Colin has performed his stand-up all over the world from Montreal to Melbourne, Beijing to Ballybofey.

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Friday 23rd November 8pm Theatre €22/€20

The Matchmaker

by John B. Keane The play follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn from all parts of the country. At the centre of this celebrated production is John B. Keane’s marvellous and mischievous wit coupled by his unparalleled way with words.

John B. Keane takes us back to a simpler time, when even phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders.

Wednesday 28th November 8pm Cinema €8/€6

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society London is invited to travel to the Channel Island of Guernsey to carry out research for a new book. Whilst there she meets the delightfully eccentric members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a mysterious literary group formed during the Nazi occupation.

Based on the beloved historical novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society weaves a romantic story of love, courage and loyalty where the power of books can bring people together and provide refuge in their darkest times.

September 2018 – January 2019

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Christmas at VISUAL

We’ve a packed programme of events for young and old this festive season. From music to panto, cookery demonstrations to cinema, we’ve got it all!

For those looking to pick up a gift for someone special, we will have several early bird tickets for our 2019 programme available from mid November. We also have the option of a VISUAL Gift Voucher, which are available in multiple denominations and valid for 12 months, giving the recipient plenty of choice!

Saturday 1st December 8pm Music €22

ABBA Forever Despite forming over 45 years ago, ABBA is still one of the most played bands on radio across the globe and is synonymous with Christmas parties and great nights out.

ABBA Forever will take you on a happy sing-along-journey through hits such as Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, S.O.S, and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.

Expect a dazzling, fantastic performance including the most iconic hits from the past four decades. Get your glad rags on, brush up on the lyrics, don the dancing boots and come to the best party in town!

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CHRISTMAS at VISUAL Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th December 2018.

Festival

Carlow County Council Local Enterprise Office presents

Carlow Culinary Christmas Carlow Culinary Christmas sets its festive table for the 4th year in Visual to showcase festive Food & Drink of County Carlow.

Featuring nightly food stalls, giveaways, and food demonstrations from nationally known chefs, with plenty of great tips to use over the festive season. Highlights this year include Carlow Culinary Christmas Cook-off (2 well-known comedians, two local food producers, one judge and a mystery bag for each) and our new Family Food Events Day. County Carlow has a vibrant Food & Drinks industry and this event, hosted

by Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office in partnership with VISUAL, has been designed to celebrate the best that Carlow has to offer.

Supporters of the festival include Carlow Tourism, Carlow Farmers Market and Kenny McGuire Demos.

Thursday 6th & Thursday 13th December 7.30pm Dinner Theatre €49 – includes a 3 course meal

Interactive Theatre International presents

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience at Woodford Dolmen Hotel First produced over 20 years ago in Australia, this globetrotting show has sold out in places like Edinburgh Fringe and Sydney Opera House. The show returns to Carlow after a sell-out show in 2017.

Chaos greets audiences as soon as they walk through the door. In this fully immersive experience, the audience become diners in the infamous ‘Faulty’ restaurant, served a 3-course meal by Basil, Sybil and Manuel.

Expect lashings of laughter, huge bowls full of spontaneity and as much participation as individual audience members want. And with 70% of the show improvised, no two performances are ever the same.

This is the perfect Christmas night out for friends, family or work mates!

September 2018 – January 2019

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CHRISTMAS at VISUAL Wednesday 12th – Sunday 16th December 7.30pm, 2.30pm (Saturday & Sunday) Local Arts €19/€15 Family of 4 €65

Striking Productions presents

Cinderella Cinderella (Sarah Stafford) is adjusting to life living with her new stepmother and toxic stepsisters. The eligible Prince is on the lookout for a wife and has decided to throw a Christmas disco ball to find a suitor. Enter the Fairy Godmother, and her apprentice.

With a dash of magic and some bibbidi-bobbidi-boo, the impossible becomes possible, and the beautiful Cinderella is transformed into a princess for one night only!

The comedy double act of the Royal Gardaí is sure to keep the humour going.

With the sprinkling of fairy godmother magic, audiences will leave truly feeling that anything can happen…

This show is packed with sparkle, lively dance routines and showstopping songs. It is the perfect complement to Christmas magic for all the family.

Friday 21st December 8pm Ballet €25/€20 €12.50 Child (12yr or under) Family of 4 €70.

Ballet Ireland presents

The Nutcracker Ballet Ireland is delighted to bring The Nutcracker, one of the world’s favourite ballets, to VISUAL Carlow.

This Irish production of the festive classic, performed by an international cast of world-class dancers, appeals to audiences of all ages, with its fairy tale magic, Tchaikovsky’s beloved & sumptuous score, beautiful costumes, and a tale of wondrous adventure – combining to form one of the most delectable Christmas confections imaginable.

This holiday season, experience the beauty and magic with the whole family.

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CHRISTMAS at VISUAL

Saturday 22nd December 8pm Music €30/€27.50

Phil Coulter Gold & Silver Days Phil’s long career as a songwriter, producer and recording artiste has been recognised over the years with so many gold discs that the theme is totally appropriate.

Very few in the music business can boast of having chart entries in every decade since the sixties. Even fewer can match the range of Phil’s output – from Eurovision winners to folk classics, from tender ballads to sporting anthems, from Luke Kelly to Elvis Presley!

His new show, Gold & Silver Days, will feature Phil’s personal favourites as he trawls through his 50 years of creativity. An original retrospective on the work of one of our finest, it’s a show for every lover of good music.

Sunday 23rd December 4pm Cinema €4

It’s a Wonderful Life This moving and beautifully told film is a true masterpiece of cinema. A tale of rivalry and despair at thirty, the story finds George Bailey (James Stuart) in turmoil, having been framed by his arch rival, torn between his own desires and aspirations, but struggling to always do the right thing.

In classic Hollywood style, Heaven sends a guardian angel to remind him how worthwhile his life has been and to treasure the good times when the going gets tough.

September 2018 – January 2019

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CHRISTMAS at VISUAL Saturday 29th December 8pm Music €23/€21

Mary Coughlan Known to be one of Ireland’s greatest female singers, Mary Coughlan is celebrated for her classic standards of jazz balladry fused with Irish and rock.

Mary has drawn from her inspiration and idols: Billie Holiday’s teary outpourings of heartbreak, the sultry amours of Peggy Lee, Van Morrison’s soulful cries, and the bold offerings of Edith Piaf. The secret to Mary’s soulful performances lies in her unique delivery. Mary, makes every song her own with bare honesty.

She sings in the voice of the wrong and wronged woman and she makes us think what it is men make of women and what women have to do to make do, reciting the story of every song effortlessly, with passion and emotion in every note.

Sunday 30th December 4pm Cinema €8/€6

The Greatest Showman Step right up and into the spellbinding imagination of a man who set out to reveal that life itself can be the most thrilling show of all. Inspired by the legend and ambitions of America’s original pop-culture impresario, P.T. Barnum, comes an inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a dreamer who rose from nothing.

Gracey braids together original songs by Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) with a multi-talented cast headed by Academy Award nominee Hugh Jackman to immerse audiences in the very origins of mass entertainment and mega-celebrities.

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Schools at VISUAL

VISUAL has an education programme for primary, secondary, and third level across all our disciplines.

For our Visual Arts programme we run in-depth explorations and behind-the-scenes views of how the exhibition programme is built within the galleries. These can be tailored to suit the needs of the students.

Our theatre programme includes performances and screenings which form part of the syllabus.

If you would like more information for your school/college contact galleries@visualcarlow.ie or phone 059 9172400

Monday 1st October 10.30am & 12.00pm Schools Theatre €10

Fíbín presents

Jeramee, Hartleby agus Oooglemore Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore are at the seaside. Things happen – Hartleby spends a lot of time being bossy and trying to find the perfect spot. Oooglemore does some crazy dancing, shows off a bit, hits the shuttlecock too hard, loses it, spoils the game. Hartleby goes off in a huff. Jeramee makes it all OK. Baineann Jeramee, Hartleby agus Oooglemore sásamh agus só as a soineantacht álainn agus as a n-amaideacht aoibhinn féin. Tagann an triúr seo le chéile agus neart le rá acu ach gan ach trí fhocal acu lena rá.

September 2018 – January 2019

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SCHOOLS at VISUAL Thursday 4th & Friday 5th October 10.30am & 12.30pm Schools’ Theatre €14.50

Fíbín presents

An Triail Fíbín presents its highly acclaimed version of the modern Irish classic, An Triail

by Máiréad Ní Ghráda as you have never seen it before!

Fíbín addresses issues highlighted by both teachers and students alike, by bringing a seeming outdated plot into the context of modern society using, puppets, masks, engaging visuals and physical performances to appeal particularly to a younger audience, making it current and more accessible.

This production goes beyond the black and white nature of the dialogue and helps to overcome these obstacles to learning in a snappy, engaging and humorous show.

Thursday 18th and Friday 19th October 11am Local Arts

Carlow Little Theatre presents Harper Lee’s

To Kill A Mockingbird

by Christopher Sergel When a well-respected lawyer mounts a vigorous and compelling case for the defence of Tom Robinson, a poor black man accused of the rape of a young white girl, an idyllic world of childhood is changed forever.

Through the drama of the trial and its aftermath comes a searching examination of freedom, justice, honesty, and hypocrisy.

A compelling, deeply moving story told with warmth and humour, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill A Mockingbird is an allegory for the universal truths of human sensibility that will resonate with everyone.

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SCHOOLS at VISUAL Thursday 22nd November School Screening Ages: 15+

VISUAL in association with IFI Education presents:

Keeper This year’s French film choice for schools is the sensitive, realistic story of Maxime and Mélanie, a teen couple in love. Maxime is a talented footballer and likely to be selected for trials. Life is good but when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked. Their parents’ responses are very different, and as the pair try to decide what to do, they feel pressure coming at them from all sides. An honest and heartfelt drama about young people thrust into adulthood, it poses rich questions for discussion such as ‘who am I’, ‘how do I make decisions’, and ‘who do I want to be?’

Please note: film contains some strong sexual references.

Wednesday 5th December 11am & 12.30pm Schools’ Theatre €7

A Morgan Creative Production

The Little Prince Starring: Seosamh Duffy, Alex Hughes The Little Prince is a fantastical adventure that explores growing up and how the imagination we are all born with can save us. Antoine, the narrator of the tale, is spending a few days repairing his airplane engine when he is visited by a boy that comes from another planet. In his bid to help Antoine survive the lonely days in the dessert, the Little Prince recounts his experiences hopping from one planet to the next, and in doing so, makes some startling revelations on adulthood, and what it means to live in this crazy, wonderful world of ours.

The production is family friendly and is most suitable for 7 – 12 year olds.

September 2018 – January 2019

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September 2018 – January 2019

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