VISUAL Carlow Jun to Sept 2015 Programme

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Programme June— September 2015

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Welcome to the Summer Season at VISUAL

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Summer Season kicks off with a bang during Carlow Arts Festival with a surfeit of riches — explore cutting-edge technology and dystopian futures in the galleries; spell-binding theatre, from CLT’s Dancing at Lughnasa to George Bernard Shaw’s love life; the unmissable dj-fuelled live drawing battle that is the Great VISUAL Draw-Off; and summer nights of live music with Eric Butler, Blaise Smith and Honor Heffernan. Plus summer camps, workshops, Carlow African Film Festival and much, much more!

Support & Funding

Getting Here

VISUAL is situated in Carlow’s town centre, on the grounds of Carlow College complex. A pedestrian entrance is located on College Street, beside Carlow Cathedral.

GALLERY AND BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS Monday: Closed Tues – Sat: 11am – 5.30pm Sunday: 2pm – 5pm

By car: Leave the Motorway at Junction 4. VISUAL is located on the Old Dublin Road in the centre of town. Town Council pay parking (including Disabled parking and coach parking) is available onsite, and free after 6.30pm.

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By public transport: Carlow is an hour from Dublin by train, with frequent daily services. VISUAL is a 5 minute walk from Carlow Train Station. Bus Eireann and JJ Kavanagh Coaches operate frequent services daily. VISUAL is a 10 minute walk from Carlow Bus Park.

VISUAL relies on the passion and commitment of our wonderful VOLUNTEERS in the delivery of our programme and we are very grateful for their support in the gallery and the theatre spaces. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP! VISUAL’s volunteers enjoy free membership of our film club, special discount offers, previews, gallery talks and cultural day trips. For a unique insight into art and culture, great company and the chance to contribute, contact info@ visualcarlow.ie or call the Box Office to find out more.

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June – September 2015

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Summer Season Exhibitions Opening 7pm Carlow Arts Festival: Solo to Orchestra 8pm Family Sunday Art Workshops 3pm Carlow Arts Festival: All in the Timing 8pm

Tues 2nd Wed 3rd Thurs 4th Fri 5th Sat 6th Sat 6th Sun 7th Sun 7th Sun 7th Tues 9th Wed 10th Wed 10th Thurs 11th Sat 13th Sun 14th Tues 16th Wed 17th Sat 20th Sun 21st Wed 24th Thurs 25th Fri 26th Sat 27th Sun 28th Sun 28th

Carlow Arts Festival: Puss in Boots 10.30am & 12pm Theatre €5 Parent and Toddler art class 11am Visual Art €5 Carlow Arts Festival: Dancing at Lughnasa CLT

8pm Theatre €16/13 Carlow Arts Festival: Dancing at Lughnasa CLT 8pm Theatre €16/13 Bedwyr Williams – Performance, Main Gallery 3.30pm Visual Art Free Carlow Arts Festival: Dancing at Lughnasa CLT 8pm Theatre €16/13 Gallery Tours with Bridget Flannery 3pm Visual Art €2 Family Sunday Art Workshops 3pm Visual Art €5 Carlow Arts Festival: Dancing at Lughnasa CLT 8pm Theatre €16/13 The Last Banshee 8pm Theatre €10 Parent and Toddler art class 11pm Visual Art The Last Banshee 8pm Theatre €10 The Last Banshee 8pm Theatre €10 Red Hurley 8pm Music €29.50 Family Sunday Film: Batteries not Included 3pm Film €5 Cinema @VISUAL: Still Life 8pm Film €7/5.50 Parent and Toddler art class 11am Visual Art €5 Jason Byrne: There’s a Grand Stretch in the Evenings 8pm Comedy €22/20 Family Sunday Art Workshops 3pm Visual Art €5 Parent and Toddler art class 11pm Visual Art €5 VoiceBox 7.30pm Visual Art € 5 Marie Cashin Dance School: Dressed to Dance 8pm Dance €12/7 Marie Cashin Dance School: Dressed to Dance 8pm Dance €12/7 Gallery Tours with Bridget Flannery 3pm Visual Art €2 My Fair Ladies, starring Des Keogh see special offer!

8pm Theatre €20/18

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Artist’s Notebook with Bridget Flannery 2 days 11am–4.30pm Visual Art €45 Artist’s Notebook with Bridget Flannery 2 days 11am–4.30pm Visual Art Summer Nights @ VISUAL Eric Butler see special offer! 7.30pm Music €12/10 Family Sunday Art Workshops 3pm Visual Art €5 Cinema @VISUAL: Mr Turner 8pm Film €7/5.50 The Whistling Girl, Honor Heffernan see special offer! 8pm Theatre €17/15 Family Sunday Film: Pinocchio 3pm Film €5 Little Robots Summer Camp 10.30am-3.30pm Visual Art €75 Little Robots Summer Camp 10.30am-3.30pm Visual Art €75 Little Robots Summer Camp 10.30am-3.30pm Visual Art €75 Carlow African Film Festival Various Film Various Carlow African Film Festival Various Film Various Performing Arts Summer Camp 10am-3pm Workshop €75 Performing Arts Summer Camp 10am-3pm Workshop €75 Performing Arts Summer Camp 10am-3pm Workshop €75 Performing Arts Summer Camp 10am-3pm Workshop €75 Summer Nights @ VISUAL: The Great VISUAL Draw Off 8pm Visual Art €5 Performing Arts Summer Camp 10am-3pm Workshop €75

Visual Art Music €18/14 Visual Art €5 Theatre €14

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PROGRAMME continued Mon 10th Tues 11th Tues 11th Mon 17th Tues 18th Thurs 20th Sun 23rd Fri 28th

Equinox Summer Camp 10am–4pm Equinox Summer Camp 10am–4pm Cinema @VISUAL: Love is strange 8pm Equinox Summer Camp 10am–4pm Equinox Summer Camp 10am–4pm VoiceBox 7.30pm Family Sunday Art Workshops 3pm Summer Nights @ VISUAL: Blaise Smith see special offer! 7.30pm

Workshop €96 Workshop €96 Film €7/5.50 Workshop €96 Workshop €96 Visual Art €5 Visual Art €5 Music €12/10

Sat 5th VISUAL Talks: Exhibition Models 3pm Visual Art €5 Sat 5th Separated at Birth, PJ Gallagher & Joanne McNally 8pm Comedy €19/17 Fri 11th VISUAL Talks: introductions to Augmented Reality 10am–4pm Visual Art €40 Fri 11th Pen Fest: Declan Gorman, Dubliners Dilemma 8pm Theatre €16/14 Sat 12th Pen Fest: Peter Sheridan, 44 Seville Place 8pm Literature €16/14 Tues 15th Cinema @VISUAL: Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter 8pm Film €7/5.50 Fri 18th Christy Moore Doors 7.30pm / 8pm start Music €35 Sat 19th Christy Moore Doors 7.30pm / 8pm start Music €35 Sat 26th Charolais by Fishamble 8pm Theatre €16/14 Thurs 1st OCT Emma Martin Performance Preview TBC Dance €TBC

All programme details correct at time of going to print. Please see www.visualcarlow.ie or phone Box Office on 059 917 2400 for more information.

Booking Information The Box Office opens one hour prior to shows. Booking is easy and tickets can be collected at the Box Office or posted to you (for a €1.50 fee).

A booking fee of €1 per ticket applies to all card transactions whether purchased online, via telephone or in person, to a maximum of €10. Please note tickets cannot be refunded after purchase. In the unlikely event of a performance cancellation, tickets must be returned to the box office to obtain a refund. Latecomers can only be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. Admission cannot always be guaranteed.

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VISUAL ART

ECHT ↘ Main Gallery May 29th – Sept 13th Image: Courtesy Glasgow International. Photo Tim Morozzo

ECHT VISUAL Carlow presents ECHT by Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams.

Bedwyr Williams is interested in the worst, worst-case scenarios and the people that get caught up in them; average sized people in over-sized situations.

ECHT presents a full size diorama of such an encounter- trees are upended, a bus has been abandoned and people’s possessions lie scattered. This immersive installation envelops visitors in a dystopian future, a tale of societal greed, where kings are hoarders and status is based on conspicuous consumption.

Associated Events: Artist performance and artist’s talk with Bedwyr Williams (musical accompaniment by Blaise Smith and the Aristotle Trio).

Sat 6th June, 3.30pm, Free Places are limited, reserve at Box Office 059 9172400

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VISUAL ART Gimme More ↘ Digital Gallery May 29th – Sept 13th Image: Courtesy Thomas Eberwein, Ghosts, 2014.

Post–Electric Summer Season of installations & events exploring overlapping physical and digital worlds

Gimme More In collaboration with EPFL+ECAL Lab Switzerland, VISUAL presents two works from the ground-breaking ‘Give Me More’ exhibition, exploring the link between the physical and digital worlds via augmented reality-based immersive installations. The exhibition was awarded the DMY International Design Festival Berlin Prize 2010, and previous incarnations have travelled to London, Milan, Paris, San Francisco and New York. In these works, the public is more than an audience; through their presence they become participants.

Exchange(AR) ↘ Upstairs Lobby Gallery May 29th – Sept 13th

Post–Electric Summer Season of installations & events exploring overlapping physical and digital worlds

Exchange(AR)

humanising innovation policy society industry

Exchange is a design research project using augmented reality (AR)1 and exploring the fault lines between audience and institution — co-produced between VISUAL, designCORE, Institute of Technology, Carlow, and Blippar UK2. The project will launch in VISUAL on Thurs 4th June, as part of FAULTLINES, a conference on Irish Design Research led by designCORE and Institute of Technology, Carlow. This event will also include the launch of ITERATIONS, Ireland’s first Design Journal, in association with Design Factors, University of Limerick, and supported by ID20153.

1 Augmented reality (AR) refers to the technology that offers a real-time view of one’s immediate surroundings, altered or enhanced by computer-generated information.

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Blippar is a browser enabling people to ‘blipp’ any object and instantly receive information about it via smartphone. Using proprietary, best-in-class technologies including image recognition and augmented reality (AR), Blippar unlocks interactive digital content experiences in real time. Determined to steer the growth of the AR industry, Blippar acquired Layar in June 2014, a pioneering AR company founded in the late 2000s.

The combined user base (50m+), data and technology makes Blippar the world’s most influential AR company. Download the Blippar app to unlock the content.

3 2015 has been designated Year of Irish Design, and ID2015 has been convened under the patronage of President of Ireland Michael D.Higgins and the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

To experience a blipp, download the blippar app for iphone, ipad or android, and scan this page!

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VISUAL ART: POST–ELECTRIC

↑ Gimme More Ghosts, 2014

↑ Gimme More Beatvox, 2014

↑ Exchange AR designCORE, IT Carlow

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VISUAL ART

Database David Ebner and Tobias Zimmer ↘ Foyer Gallery Space May 29th – Sept 13th Image: Courtesy of the artists.

Post–Electric Summer Season of installations & events exploring overlapping physical and digital worlds

Database Database consists of a continuous loop of equipment, which detects the faces of visitors to VISUAL, prints the image with date, time and number, then deletes the digital image file. The gathered data prints out, accumulates, is shredded and then recycled, referring to the constant invisible and unnoticed collection, use and storage of personal data in the world around us.

Database was created by David Ebner and Tobias Zimmer, University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany.

Associated Events and Activities: Family Art Workshop Sun 31st May, 3pm – 4.30pm, €5 (materials included) Build a robot figure from recycled materials with Artist Saidhbhín Gibson Little Robots Summer Camp 20th – 22nd July, 10am – 3.30pm, €75. Ages 6 – 11 Over three days, campers will learn basic code and electronics to design and build robots and create short cartoons about the robot characters that they have developed, with Coderdojo Carlow.

VISUAL talks – New Realities Fri 11th September, 10am – 4pm, €40 New Realities; introductions to AR, with case studies from artists and institutions, (in-cluding a hands-on session building your own easy-peasy virtual reality viewer!)

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Carlow Arts Festival presents: AIB Éigse Open Submission 2015 ↘ Link and Studio Gallery May 29th – Sept 13th Image: Untitled, 2012 (13cm×18cm) by Micky Donnelly

AIB Éigse Open Submission 2015 This annual exhibition and art prize invites artists working in Ireland to submit new or recent works. The exhibition also features work by invited artists Eilis O’Connell, Kathy Prendergast, Willie Doherty, Siobhan Hapaska and Micky Donnelly. This year’s selector is Lewis Biggs curator of the Folkestone Triennial, former artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial, and director of Tate Liverpool.

The AIB Éigse Award of €5000 for Visual Arts will be presented for the ‘most outstanding work in any medium’ at the opening of the Festival on Fri 29th May. Associated Events and Activities: Gallery Tours Sun 7th June and 28th June, 3pm, €2 Places limited, book with Box office at VISUAL Guided exhibition tours exploring artist’s techniques and approaches, with Artist Bridget Flannery.

Family Art Workshop Sun 21st June, 3pm – 4.30pm, €5 (materials included) Portrait drawing in response to works in the Open Submission exhibition, with Artist Saidhbhín Gibson.

VISUAL talks – Keeping an Artist’s Notebook Sat 4th July and Sun 5th July, 11am – 4.30pm, €45 This two-day workshop will take place in the galleries at VISUAL. Facilitated by artist and educator Bridget Flannery, participants will explore colour techniques, sketching and the value of notebooks and journals in an artistic practice. The workshop will include a tour and discussion on the approaches and techniques of works on display.

VISUAL talks – Exhibition Models Sat 5th September, 3pm, €5 Places limited, book with Box office at VISUAL An informal and participatory session on Open Submission exhibition models and what they offer to artists and community.

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SUMMER CAMPS 2015

↑ Little Robots Little Robots Summer Camp Facilitated by Mairéad Kealy 20th –22nd July 6 – 11 yrs: 10am – 3.30pm €75 per person Register by contacting VISUAL Box Office: 059 917 2400

Performing Arts Summer Camp Facilitated by Carlow Youth Theatre 27th – 31st July 7 – 9 yrs: 10am – 12pm 10 – 12 yrs: 1pm – 3pm €75 per person Register by contacting VISUAL BOX OFFICE: 059 917 2400

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Little Robots

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Technology Summer Camp

For Summer Camp 2015 at VISUAL, our young campers will have the chance to think and play with some of the technologies that surround us in our everyday lives. During the three days, campers will work with Coderdojo Carlow, learning some basic code and electronics, design and build imaginary robots with special personalities and powers, and create short cartoons about the robot characters that they have developed. This fun few days will involve lots of play, imagination and making. Facilitated by Mairéad Kealy.

Performing Arts

Summer Camp

Are you aged 7 – 12? Do you like to act, draw, play games, and build things?

Then this just might be the summer camp for you! Come on a story-making adventure that will see us make everything from giant paintings to creating our own characters from scratch. We will draw, paint, write, dream, create and explore, and everything we do will be part of a great Summer Arts Camp Exhibition!!! Facilitated by Eimear Cheasty and Sile Pinkert of Carlow Youth Theatre, supported by Carlow Local Authority Arts Office.

Equinox Theatre Inclusive Theatre-Making Workshops

Equinox Theatre

10th & 11th August and 17th & 18th August 10am – 3pm (lunch 12 – 1pm) €96 per person

KCAT’s Equinox Theatre Company is an inclusive theatre company that recognises we all have different abilities and disabilities. If you would you like to see what this feels like, Equinox are bringing a slice of KCAT to Carlow, with acting workshops specially designed for participants of all levels of ability, no experience necessary. Workshops will involve group work, improvisation, movement and clowning and will be led by Medb Lambert, the Artistic Coordinator of Equinox Theatre Company alongside members of the Equinox ensemble. Join us for fun, games, and a bit of hard work!

Register by contacting VISUAL Box Office: 059 917 2400 For a Parent Information Sheet for all Camps, drop in to VISUAL or email info@visualcarlow.ie

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FAMILY SUNDAYS Family Art Workshops 3pm – 4.30pm €5 (materials included)

Family Art Workshops For children aged 6 – 12 and their adult companions. An afternoon of creative making and play, in the galleries at VISUAL. All workshops are inspired by our current season of exhibitions and include a short gallery tour.

Places limited, book with Box office at VISUAL

31st May Build a Robot 7th June Drawing from life with dancer Emma Martin and artist Saidhbhín Gibson 21st June Portrait drawing in association with the AIB Carlow Arts Festival Open Submission 23rd August Bright futures! Create imaginary landscapes for the future with Saidhbhín Gibson.

Batteries not Included Director: Matthew Robbins Language: English/106mins, Cert PG Sun 14th June, 3pm €5

Pinnochio Director: Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske Language: English/88mins, Cert G Sun 19th July, 3pm €5

VISUAL Parent & Toddler class Wednesdays, 11am from 3rd June – 24th June €5 (1 adult + 2 toddlers or 2 adults + 1 toddler) Places are limited and must be booked in advance.

Family Sunday Films

Batteries Not Included When their New York apartment block is threatened with demolition, elderly couple Frank (Hume Cronyn) and Faye Riley (Jessica Tandy) pray for a miracle. This duly arrives — in the form of space aliens in tiny flying saucers, who set about helping the Rileys fight the demolition order.

Pinnochio This legendary masterpiece has been give a new lease of life through stateof-the-art digital restoration. The richly detailed animation, unforgettable award-winning music (“When You Wish Upon A Star’’) and adventure-filled story come to life like never before. Join Geppetto’s beloved puppet on a thrilling quest that tests Pinocchio’s bravery, loyalty and honesty, virtues he must learn to become a real boy.

Parent & Toddler Class Parent and toddler runs right to the end of June! Facilitated by educator and artist Mairead Kealy, this is a morning of fun art and play for parents, guardians and their toddlers. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided for the grown-ups. Always popular so don’t forget to book in advance!

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FAMILIES @ VISUAL

Continuing to bring you the best in European and classic film, the VISUAL cinema club membership represents fantastic value at only €20 for 4 screenings, temporary memberships available on the night for €7/5.50 per screening.

Still Life Director: Uberto Pasolini Language: English/87 mins, Cert: CLUB

Still Life

Tues 16th June, 8pm €7/5.50

Mr Turner Director: Mike Leigh Language: English/149 mins, Cert: 12A Tues 14th July, 8pm €7/5.50

Love Is Strange Director: Ira Sachs Language: English/94 mins, Cert: 15A Tues 11th August, 8pm €7/5.50

Mr Turner

A poignant tale of life, love and the afterlife.

Meticulous and organised to the point of obsession, John May (Eddie Marsan) is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to start living life at last. A great cast brings charm and depth to this strong effort by Uberto Pasolini, director of the critically-acclaimed Machan.

Mr Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.

Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Love Is Strange Ben and George are a New York couple who have decided to get married after being together for over 20 years. They mark their union surrounded by devoted friends and family, but when there are unforeseen consequences to their nuptial celebrations, there is only scant, reluctant support from those who cheered them at their wedding. These men may be too old and set in their ways to adapt to new circumstances, but that is exactly what they will have to do if they are going to spend the rest of their lives together. With notable performances from John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as the couple confronted with an unexpected struggle, the latest film from Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On, Forty Shades of Blue) is a funny, beautifully observed critique of faux liberal attitudes and a touching celebration of enduring love. Notes by Michael Hayden.

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CINEMA @ VISUAL Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter

Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter Director: David and Nathan Hunter Language: English and Japanese/ 105 mins, Cert: Club Tues 15th September, 8pm €7/5.50

Office worker Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi, Babel) leads a melancholy existence in Tokyo, forcefully encouraged by her boss to move on, harangued by her mother for being unmarried and childless, and friendless but for her rabbit. Painfully shy and withdrawn, Kumiko obsesses over a videotape of the Coen Brothers’ Fargo (1996), watching repeatedly the scene in which Steve Buscemi buries a briefcase of money by the side of the road. Fooled by the film’s claim to be based on a true story, and believing she knows the location of the briefcase, she travels to Minnesota on a quixotic quest, hindered and helped by the people she meets along the way, most notably a kindly police officer (director David Zellner).

Kikuchi is superb as the mumbling, bedraggled Kumiko, endearing a difficult character to the audience in an eccentric fairy tale.

Family Sunday Films

Batteries Not Included & Pinnocchio Sunday 14th & Sunday 19th July See page 11 for details.

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CARLOW ARTS FESTIVAL May 29th – June 7th See www.carlowartsfestival.com for a full schedule and information about events throughout Carlow town and County.

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The Carlow Arts Festival enters its 36th year championing culture across one of Ireland’s least known and most beautiful counties, offering a vibrant and dynamic arts programme which culminates in a ten-day celebration every Summer.

Don’t miss: Secret Soul Shack with Emma Martin Dance — contemporary dance meets nightclub; innovative movement artist Sinéad Cormack’s performance, One; The Piano Has Been Drinking — The life and music of Tom Waits, performed by Eric Butler and band; violinist Andreea Bouros’ Lunchtime Recital; Mahler’s Symphony No.2 Resurrection — performed by RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fergus Sheil; The Games People Play — Winner of Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, directed by Brian Burroughs; and Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, Fri 5th – 7th June, Borris, Carlow (www.festivalofwritingandideas.com).

Museum Opening Hours June – August: Mon–Sat 10am – 5pm Sundays & Banks Holidays 2pm – 4.30pm Admission is free College Street, Carlow Town (2 minutes walk from Visual) Tel: 059 9131554 Email: museum@carlwococo.ie

Carlow County Museum See what you’re missing!

Explore Carlow’s rich history in Ireland’s County Museum of the Year.

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CARLOW ARTS FESTIVAL

↑ Solo to Orchestra Carlow College of Music Solo to Orchestra Sat 30th May, 7.30pm €18/14 All Tickets from www.carlowartsfestival.com or 0599172400 Made possible with the assistance of Carlow Local Authority Arts Office.

↑ All in the Timing by David Ives

Solo to Orchestra A twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the Carlow College of Music Featuring numerous special guests including Micheál O’ Suilleabháin This gala recital of classical and contemporary works from the extraordinary talents that have emerged from the Carlow College of Music over the past 25 years will feature alumni who have gone on to have very prominent careers within the Arts, as well as professional musicians that have influenced, inspired and taught there, and an impressive youth orchestra accompanied by the exceptional Mícheál O Súilleabbháin.

Lead by Majella Swan, Carlow College of Music is 25 years old, and has created a legacy of music tuition and inspiration across the South East of Ireland.

All in the Timing

by David Ives Sun 31st May, 8pm €14 All Tickets from www.carlowartsfestival.com or 0599172400

Masterclass Thurs 4th and Fri 5th June Various times All Tickets from www.carlowartsfestival.com or 0599172400

All in the Timing Performed by University of West Florida’s Department of Theatre Eight immensely talented actors from The Sunshine State cross the Atlantic with this David Ives collection mastered for a single performance in Carlow. This side-splittingly funny series of 14 short one-act plays lampoon everything from chimpanzees to romantic couples, David Mamet to miniature golf.

Masterclass University of West Florida Irish Conservatoire and Carlow Little Theatre Building on a flourishing partnership with Carlow Little Theatre, VISUAL Carlow has curated a series of masterclasses for the students that will introduce them to top Irish practitioners including Carlow born Bryan Burroughs (The Lir), Donnacadh O’Brien (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Maisie Lee (The Abbey).

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CARLOW ARTS FESTIVAL

↑ Puss in Boots Lyngo Theatre Puss in Boots Tues 2nd June, 10.30am & 12pm €5 A show by Marcello Chiarenza .

Adapted and performed by Patrick Lynch.

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Dancing at Lughnasa

by Brian Friel Thurs 4th – 7th June, 8pm €16/13 All Tickets from www.carlowartsfestival.com or 0599172400

↑ Dancing at Lughnasa Carlow Little Theatre

Lyngo Theatre

Puss in Boots (Ages 4+) Would you trust a talking cat? You never know, he might turn you from a pauper to a prince just like the hero of this story, brought to vivid life by Patrick Lynch from Cbeebies. With smoke and mirrors and hidden trapdoors he’ll show you how this sure-footed feline fools both the King and the Ogre to put his master at the top. With a host of puppets, a working windmill and an avalanche of fruit and nuts come and see this classic furry tail, it’s the cat’s whiskers!

Carlow Little Theatre

Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel’s colossal tale of a family in chaos in Ballybeg Village, Donegal, in 1936 is one of the most enduring works of theatre this country has known.

Carlow Little Theatre Society, whose recent productions of The Kings of Kilburn High Road (2014/5), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (2014), Calendar Girls (2013/4), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2012/3) brings this masterpiece to their hometown theatre.

Starring Keelin McDonald, Gillian Doyle, Aoife Reddy, Paula Drohan, Larry McNally, Irene Kane, Keith Whelan and Gary McHugh. Set design by Charles Houghton and lighting by Ann Nolan.

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VISUAL EVENTS Jason Byrne – There’s a Grand Stretch in the Evenings Sat 20th June, 8pm €22/20 “A Comedy God” – The Mirror

Jason Byrne — There’s a Grand Stretch in the Evenings Summer is coming to Ireland. Celebrate slightly less rain and slightly smaller gas bills with an evening in the company of ‘The outright King of live comedy’ (The Times). The Star of ‘Wild Things’(SKY1) and ‘Jason Byrne’s Snaptastic Show’ (TV3) performs a handful of intimate shows to get everyone in the mood for the holliers.

The Last Banshee Tues 9th – Thurs 11th June, 8pm €10

Gaelscoil Cheatharlach presents

The Last Banshee Come and hear the tale of the last Banshee, an evening of drama and song brought from the heart of Irish folklore. Join the Banshee on her journey and enjoy the enormous talent and hard work from all the students of Gaelscoil Caeatharlach, from Junior Infants up to 6th Class.

Red Hurley Sat 13th June, 8pm €29.50

Red Hurley Red Hurley and his band take to the stage for what promises to be a great night’s entertainment. Once the King of Ireland’s Pop Music Scene in the 70s and early 80s, he has of late been enjoying a huge career resurgence in Ireland and the USA. In 2010 He celebrated over 40 years in show business with a sell-out tour of Ireland.

Keep your eyes peeled for some special local additions to this enjoyable show!

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VISUAL EVENTS Voice Box Thurs 25th June, 7.30pm €5

SUMMER NIGHTS @VISUAL presents

Voice Box

Ten speakers have 5 minutes each to tell us why they do what they do. Come along to cheer them on and enjoy a fun and inspiring evening with Carlow’s creative forces. Free bottle of O’Hara’s for the first 30 tickets on the night.

With Cornelia McCarthy as MC and speakers including Stephen O’Briain, Furniture Maker: John McHugh, Lecturer, Carlow College: Majella Swan, School of Music: Colin Deevy, Design Core, IT Carlow: Blaise Smith: Visual Artist and Musician.

Dressed to Dance Fri 26th and Sat 27th June, 8pm €12/7

Marie Cashin School of Dance presents

Dressed to Dance The Marie Cashin School of Dance returns this year with a brand new exciting showcase of talented students. The programme has something for all ages, from modern to contemporary to musical. Families — early booking is advised as tickets sell out fast!

My Fair Ladies Sun 28th June, 8pm €20/18 SPECIAL OFFER buy tickets for My Fair Ladies and The Whistling Girl for only €28 per person! Offer available until 15th June.

Patrick Talbot Productions presents

My Fair Ladies Following the phenomenal world-wide success of his show The Love-Hungry Farmer

by John B. Keane, legendary Irish actor Des Keogh brings his magic touch to this hugely entertaining new play about the life and loves of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw was the author of Pygmalion, which became the universally acclaimed film My Fair Lady.

Join us for a special evening of wit, passion and humour.

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VISUAL EVENTS Eric Butler Fri 10th July, 7.30pm €12/10

SPECIAL OFFER buy tickets for both Summer Nights @ VISUAL MUSIC events for only €18 per person!

SUMMER NIGHTS @VISUAL presents

Eric Butler

Carlow born Eric Butler is a singer/songwriter and interpreter of music and song from genres such as Irish Traditional, Folk, Blues, Classical and Jazz. His instruments include his voice, ranging from a soft whisper all the way to a full on bluesy roar. Whichever mood you happen to catch him in on a given day, he never fails to dazzle.

The Whistling Girl

the poetry of Dorothy Parker

Sat 18th July, 8pm

The Whistling Girl

€17/15

SPECIAL OFFER buy tickets for My Fair Ladies and The Whistling Girl for only €28 per person! Offer available until 15th June.

Composer Trevor Knight and singer Honor Heffernan present The Whistling Girl, featuring new musical settings of the poetry of the great Dorothy Parker. A band of top Irish musicians will be fronted by internationally acclaimed vocalist, Heffernan. Audiences can expect a darkly sardonic evening’s entertainment in which the American wit and critic’s words are given a sonic face-lift fusing ‘dirty’-cabaret, electronic-vaudeville, rock and jazz.

“I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn!” — Dorothy Parker

www.visualcarlow.ie

Booking; 059 917 2400

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CAFF 2 0 1 5 Carlow African Film Festival Fri 24th and Sat 25th July Various times VISUAL is delighted to host the Carlow African Film Festival (CAFF) during our summer season.

CAFF provides an annual platform to celebrate the beauty and diversity of Africa through film, honour excellence in African film-making and promote cultural integration in Ireland. This special summer edition will feature great movies, storytelling and much, much more. For programme information and prices visit www.carlowafricanfilmfestival.com

VISUAL Programme of Events

June – September 2015

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VISUAL EVENTS

The Great VISUAL Draw Off Thurs 30th July, 7.30pm €5

SUMMER NIGHTS @VISUAL presents

Great VISUAL Draw-Off: Technological Meltdown Following the success of last year’s Great VISUAL Draw-Off, we’re taking to the drawing boards again and pitting some mighty talents against each other in a live gallery performance! Pencils, markers, paint and spray paint to the ready, each drawing team will have one hour to create a masterpiece.

The winning team will be voted for by you, the discerning audience, and will receive the Great VISUAL Draw-Off Trophy. This year’s theme is ‘Technological Meltdown’.

Teams include; Carlow Youth Services and past winner Derry Dillon, Stephen Myndhardt, Mark McGreevy and Carl Doran, The Pure Thinking Community Group, with more to be confirmed.

Live music on the night by DJ James Strain.

www.visualcarlow.ie

Booking; 059 917 2400

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VISUAL EVENTS Voice Box Thurs 20th August, 7.30pm €5

SUMMER NIGHTS @VISUAL presents

Voice Box

Ten speakers have 5 minutes each to tell us why they do what they do. Come along to cheer them on and enjoy a fun and inspiring evening with Carlow’s creative forces. Free bottle of O’Hara’s for the first 30 tickets on the night.

With speakers including Edward Byrne, (Building Conservation Specialist); Tom and Pam Butler (authors of Common Sense, 2014); Pauline O’ Connell (Visual Artist); Eric Butler (Musician).

Blaise Smith Fri 28th August, 7.30pm €12/10

SUMMER NIGHTS @VISUAL presents

Blaise Smith

SPECIAL OFFER buy tickets for both Summer Nights @ VISUAL MUSIC events for only €18 per person!

Blaise Smith leads his Post-Bop modern jazz trio through a selection of standards, latin classics and Funky fusion pieces with a couple of originals thrown in. Music by Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Coltrane and modern masters like Pat Metheny, Kenny Wheeler and Enrico Pieranunzi. Perfect mojito music!

VISUAL Programme of Events

June – September 2015

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VISUAL EVENTS

Separated at Birth Sat 5th September, 8pm €19/17

UMCK Productions in association with Lisa Richards presents

Separated at Birth

The Lighter Side of Adoption by two Comedy Orphans.

Having spent most of his life coming to on hospital gurneys, sometime in 2002 PJ Gallagher finally decided to unearth his medical history and dig up his DNA. Inspired by her close friendship with PJ and desperate to find out why she can't pull off a fringe, Joanne is finally ready to meet her biological parents. She just has to find them first.

Separated at Birth is the love child of renowned Irish comedian PJ Gallagher (Naked Camera/Meet the Neighbours) and Ireland's fastest-rising star Joanne McNally (Singlehood/Concussion/The Commute). Borne out of a gluttonous penchant for multiple parents, Separated at Birth is a hilarious and moving look at how the opposing pair navigate the highs and lows of growing up adopted in Ireland.

The Dubliner’s Dilemma Fri 11th September, 8pm €16/14 “Gorman holds the audience enraptured throughout with a truly mesmerising performance... a brilliant introduction for newcomers!”

– Metro Herald

Bachelors Walk Productions presents

Dubliner’s Dilemma

Based on Dubliners by James Joyce, adapted and performed

by Declan Gorman.

James Joyce is regarded worldwide as one of the greatest and most recognised literary figures of the 20th century. So how did this unknown Irishman emerge from the obscurity of his native city to achieve international renown? It might never happened, had it not been for an Englishman with a troubled conscience. Join David Gorman for this ingenious and enjoyable exploration of the birth of a literary legend, as part of Carlow Library’s writing festival, Pen Fest.

www.visualcarlow.ie

Booking; 059 917 2400

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VISUAL EVENTS 44 Seville Place

by Peter Sheridan Sat 12th September, 8pm €16/14 “Marvellously funny and loving stuff.”

– Time Out “You will rejoice in this wild song of a book…”

– Frank McCourt

Christy Moore Fri 18th & Sat 19th September, 8pm Doors 7.30pm €35

44 Seville Place A one man show written and performed

by Peter Sheridan As the 1960s begin, so does this wonderful, funny, warm and poignant portrait of a Dublin working-class family, drawing us into their lives and relationships in an unforgettable way. Through the journey of young Peter, it shows us an individual and a society on the cusp of profound change. It featured on RTE's Book of the Week and was nominated for an Irish Times Literary Award.

Presented in collaboration with Carlow Library’s writing festival, Pen Fest.

SUMMER NIGHTS @VISUAL presents

Christy Moore There is little that needs to be said, short of the familiar tum-tee-tum of this man’s name, to fill an auditorium. Christy Moore will take to the stage with an intimate show, arriving without a set list, but instead leafing through his song book as the night unfolds.

From Nancy Spain to Ride On, Lisdoonvarna to The Voyage, Don’t Forget your Shovel to Ordinary Man, this will be a sublime night in the company of... an extraordinary man.

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June – September 2015

VISUAL EVENTS Charolais Sat 26th September, 8pm €14/12 SPECIAL OFFER EARLY BIRD TICKETS €10 UNTIL 30th June “I watch him pull the cow from the ditch with his bare hands, her big eyes rest on me dead calm as he leans into her and she gives in all trust. I hate that fuckin’ cow”.

Fishamble Show in a Bag presents

Charolais

Siobhan is looking for love and very determined but there are obstacles to her achieving what she craves. One of which happens to be a terribly beautiful Charolais heifer, who appears to be vying for the affections of Siobhan’s fella. This is a muddy place of simmering desire minced with a loneliness that cuts to the bone. If you are fond of cows and dark humour, this is the show for you! A surreal comedy of love, longing and one woman’s intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer.

www.visualcarlow.ie

Booking; 059 917 2400

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SAVE THE DATE! Emma Martin Dance Thurs 1st October

Emma Martin Dance Dance Artist in Residence and choreographer Emma Martin will show a preview of her new work this October, a dance piece for five dancers exploring pleasure, recklessness and purity.

Embracing the notion of the human soul as a madhouse (Fernando Pessoa) the piece is an exploration of dance as dissonant pleasure and the fearless expression of the soul. In partnership with Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s foremost contemporary music ensemble, Emma has commissioned composer Andrew Hamilton to write a score for piano, percussion and cello. This residency is in collaboration with the local Authority Arts Office.

Star of the Sea Wed 7th October, 8pm €18 / 16 A bilingual production, accessible to non-Irish speakers.

Beidh fáilte roimh chách, daoine ar bheagán Gaeilge ina measc.

Moonfish Theatre and Strollers Network presents

Star of the Sea Bunaithe ar an úrscéal le Joseph O’Connor

It is the winter of 1847, and the Famine-ship Star of the Sea sets sail for the Promised Land… heart-breaking and lyrical, Star of the Sea moves seamlessly between Connemara, London, and the confines of the Famineship in a gripping story of revenge and forgiveness. “I am going to America shortly and will never come home again, so I want to say what follows and hope ye and yeer men act on it.”

Insíonn Star of the Sea scéal na gcarachtar óna n-óige i gConamara go dtí aimsir an Drochshaoil. Ag an am céanna, leanann sé an meath a tháinig ar na tionóntaí bochta, ar bhásaigh na milliúin acu, de bharr an Ghorta.

Tugann an dráma le chéile an fhoireann chéanna a cheap an dráma Tromluí Phinocchio, a bhuaigh Gradam Stewart Parker in 2013. I gcomhar leis An Taibhdhearc, Amharclann Náisiúnta na Gaeilge, tá bealaí nua á lorg ag Moonfish chun amharclannaíocht na Gaeilge a chruthú.

“Níor chuala mé a leithéid de chiúnas marfach ar fud na talún reoite riamh roimhe sin. Bhí sé mar a bheadh an domhan ar fad ag fáil bháis go ciúin.”

VISUAL Programme of Events

www.visualcarlow.ie

Centre for Contemporary Art and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre ↘

Front Cover Image Courtesy Carlow Arts Festival. Image by Michael Legris, 2014

Programme June— September 2015