VISUAL May-August 2019

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Programme May—August 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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Local Arts Music Comedy Cinema Local Arts Cinema Theatre

Sive We Are What Gives Us Strength Deirdre O’kane: A Line Of O’kane The Lonely Battle Of Thomas Reid Treasure Island The Favourite The Water Boys

8pm €16/€14 6pm&7pm Free 8pm €21 8pm €8/€6 7.30pm (Sat.2pm) €18/€15/€60 8pm €8/€6 8pm €12/€10

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3rd June 4th June 4th June 7th June 7th June 8th June 15th June 15th June 16th June 18th June 21st June 28th June

Cinema Festival Workshop Festival Festival Festival Theatre Family Cinema Cinema Music Theatre

The Favourite Kitt Philippa Aic Scheme Information Session Carnivore Our Carnal Hearts Lords Of Strut: Absolute Legends Brothers Of The Brush Crínniú Na Nóg 2019 Delirious Rhythm, 193–-2017 At Eternity’s Gate Date Night Weighing-In

8pm 8pm 2–4pm 6.30pm 7pm 6.30pm 8pm 10am 4pm 8pm 8pm 8pm

6th July 9th July 20th July 22nd–26th July 23rd July 25th July

Music Cinema Workshop Performing Arts Cinema Music

Blues Folk Soled And Healed Ii On The Basis Of Sex Carnival – The Workshop Summer Camp Extravaganza All Is True Summer Country Show

8pm 8pm 12pm 10am&1.30pm 8pm 8pm

6th August 20th August 24th August 25th August 25th August 29th–31st August

Cinema Cinema Family Family Cinema Local Arts

Wild Rose A Private War Carnival – A Work-In-Progress Performance International Rohingya Remembrance Day Trigger A Dance/Film Summer Youth Theatre Project

8pm 8pm 3pm All Day 2pm 7.30pm

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ARTWORKS 2019: Dearly Beloved

F Main Gallery & Studio Gallery, 4thJune – 1st September F Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here Today

Link Gallery, 4th June – 1st September You Are Seeing Things

F Digital Gallery 4th June – 8th September

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Welcome to our Summer season at VISUAL

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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.

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VISUAL ART

F Main Gallery & Studio Gallery 4th June – 1st September 2019 ARTWORKS 2019 is generously sponsored by Hotron Left image: TITLE TBS Centre image: Mairead MacLean, No More (film still, 2013) Right image: Breda Lynch, Seance (Printer’s proof)

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The Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow presents

ARTWORKS 2019: Dearly Beloved Featuring selected works from the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection.

Selected Artists: Marian Balfe, Colin Crotty, Mark Cullen, Gabhann Dunne, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Jane Fogarty, Helen Hughes, Jo Kimmins, Breda Lynch, Jonathan Mayhew, Paul Mosse, Oisín O’Brien, Tom O’Dea, Laurence O’ Toole, Jane Queally, Joanne Reid, Amanda Rice, Emma Roche, Joan Sugrue, Chanelle Walsh, Linda Conroy, Fiona Reilly, Sinead Ní Mhaonaigh. For ARTWORKS 2019 artists were invited to respond to the lyric: “Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today, To get through this thing called LIFE. Let’s go crazy,” – Prince. Purple Rain 1984 Includes work from the IMMA Collection by artists: Pierre Huyghe, Mairead McLean, Mark O’Kelly, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Daphne Wright.

This year’s open call invited artists to submit work that comments on the trials of our post truth world and the potential of collective energy. Time, labour, love, loss, coping mechanisms, and space for imagining for the future, these are some of the themes that are explored in ARTWORKS 2019.

Presenting work in film, sound, performance, painting, sculpture, new media and photography, ARTWORKS celebrates contemporary visual art and its potential to stir ideas and reflect on LIFE. In recent years ARTWORKS has established two art prizes, The HOTRON Award for an outstanding piece of work and the Éigse Prize for work by a recent graduate. Both prizes are sponsored by Hotron Ltd.

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4th June – 2nd September 2019 CREDITS: Curated by Emma-Lucy O’ Brien Production Manager: Anthony Walsh Technical Support: Stephen Aylin and Jimmy Snoddy

Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here Today Tom Watt & Tadhg Mcsweeney VISUAL commissioned artists Tom Watt and Tadhg McSweeney to design and build a space for people to gather, rehearse and perform in the Link Gallery. This flexible space reflects on the support structures that exist at VISUAL for the creation of art and creative projects; and the artists and publics that gather to bring these activities to life.

Over the course of the summer our Link Gallery will play host to performances, workshops, and artistic residencies.

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F Digital Gallery 4th June – 8th September 2019 Image: You Are Seeing Things (2016)

by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Estas Vendo Coisas (Courtesy: Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro.)

You Are Seeing Things Three films by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca VISUAL Carlow are delighted to present the first exhibition of artists Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin De Burca’s work in Ireland. YOU ARE SEEING THINGS, a triptych of films Faz Que vai / Set To Go(2015), Estás Vendo Coisas / You Are Seeing Things (2016) and Terremoto Santo / Holy Tremor (2017).

These three short, narrative works blend fiction and documentary. Through music, dialogues and dance the artists evoke the complex interconnectedness in Brazilian popular culture of class, gender, race, religion and the economy.

Together these films bear witness to the powerful do-it-yourself culture in Northeast Brazil that is helping to shape a new collective identity through new music and dance cultures, and emergent religious movements.

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VISUAL RESIDENCIES January – December 2019 Education and Learning This residency has been made possible with the kind support of the Carlow County Council Arts Office.

Artist in Residence Clare Breen VISUAL are delighted to host artist Clare Breen as Artist in Residence working in education and engagement at VISUAL for 2019.

Clare Breen’s practice has material, relational and pedagogical strands that inform and nourish one another. She incorporates a range of collaborative and individual artistic forms to produce objects, meals, conversations, exhibitions and collaborative workshops, that occupy a hybrid space between art and engagement.

For this residency Clare is exploring the relationship between VISUAL and its young audiences. She is developing and facilitating workshops for young people in the galleries throughout the year.

If you would like to book a workshop with Clare, or have any queries about these events please contact galleries@visualcarlow.ie . All groups are welcome including groups with diverse needs.

F Link Gallery Starts June 10 9.15 – 0.30am (Mon–Tues for 6 weeks) €95 for 2 classes per week for 6 weeks/€15 per class

Yogi Summer Residence Connie Byrne VISUAL welcomes Connie Byrne as Yogi in residence for the summer season.

These classes will take place in the light filled Link Gallery Space.

A traditional yoga practice where Connie will support you on your journey of breath movement and rest, celebrating inner strength and focus. Yoga connects mind body and spirit so we can be free, focused and balanced...

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PERFORMANCES Saturday 11th May 8PM €16/€14 Local Arts

Forth Wall Drama Group presents

Sive

Fourth Wall Laois Theatre Group’s production of SIVE brings a contemporary credibility to J B Keane’s timeless tale of young love, materialism, family life, and women’s place in the world. Though set in the sixties, this carefully casted drama demonstrates that these enduring themes and contrasting emotions are as relevant today.

Direction by David Corri is faithful to the tragic-comedy elements of the play and employs the rural background of the talented actors to fashion an authentic and memorable production.

Saturday 18th May 6pm & 7pm Free Link Gallery

Aspiro Choir presents

We Are What Gives Us Strength To celebrate 21 years singing in Carlow, Aspiro Youth Ensemble perform the World Premiere of We Are What Gives Us Strength.

Over a series of creative workshops, the singers worked alongside Elaine Agnew (Composer), Bryan Burroughs (Movement Director and Writer) and Dermot O’Brien (Photographer) to create an original text, explore setting the text to music and decide and design the format and content of the accompanying visuals. Aspiro’s commissions never fail to challenge and push the boundaries of choral music.

Supported by The Arts Council’s Young Ensembles Scheme (YES).

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PERFORMANCES Saturday 18th May 8pm €21

Outlaw Management presents

Deirdre O’Kane A Line of O’Kane Deirdre has really hit her stride; footloose from a glittering turn on Dancing with the Stars and revelling in her return to stand-up, don’t miss Deirdre at her hilarious best in a straight-talking look at twelve frantic months in the life of this tango-tripping, family-minding, telly-making, house-moving, comedy dynamo.

Don’t miss A Line of O’Kane, Deirdre O’Kane’s hilarious new stand-up show.

“Unique star quality” – The Guardian

Monday 20th May 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid Thomas is a 55-year-old Irish farmer who lives and works the farm of his ancestors. Threadbare clothes, self-cut hair and tough, weathered hands reveal a life of land and toil.

His next-door neighbour is the world’s largest manufacturer of computer microchips; their site is almost fully developed, and rumours abound that more land is required for expansion.

Thomas refuses all approaches to sell his farm but finds his world in turmoil as forces conspire to remove him. After he fails in a court action to overturn the compulsory purchase of his house and lands, we follow him to the final court of appeal where he stands on the brink of losing everything.

What begins as a story of one man’s struggle to hold on to his way of life and land, transforms into a universal exploration of a battle between principle and power.

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PERFORMANCES Thursday 23rd – Saturday 25th May 7.30pm (Saturday Matinee 2pm) €18 / €15 / Family of Four €60 Local Arts

Slapdash Productions presents

Treasure Island “Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottel of rum!”

Before there was Jack Sparrow, there was Long John Silver and his crew of mutinous mates...

Upon finding a treasure map in his parents’ inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a rag tag crew of buccaneers on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure.

With treasure maps, planks to be walked, black spots, crosses and double crosses, parrots, eye patches, one legged men and of course, plenty of rum...

Join us as we bring the original swashbuckling pirate adventure story to the stage and discover if ‘X’ really does mark the spot!

Friday 31st May 8pm €12 / €10 Theatre

Equinox Theatre Company presents

The Water Boys Jim and Gary have a double life. They are actors by day, but by night (and most weekends) they are...The Water Boys for Carrickshock hurling team.

As kids they dreamed of raising an All-Ireland hurling trophy in Croke Park. Their bodies may have prevented them from playing for their club, but nothing will stop these striped crusaders from following their team.

The Water Boys is an extraordinary, real-life story about learning to walk, learning to fall and learning to follow your dreams.

Created by Shane O’Reilly, Jim Rohan, Gary Comerford and Donal Gallagher Equinox Theatre Company is part of KCAT Arts Centre in Co. Kilkenny. The Water Boys has been developed with support from Arts & Disability Ireland; Kilkenny Arts Office; Visual, Carlow and The Arts Council of Ireland.

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PERFORMANCES Monday 3rd June 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

The Favourite An outrageous period comedy with an enviable assemble cast of Emma Stone, Oliva Colman and Rachel Weisz, The Favourite is a distinctly black comedy. Early 18th Century, a frail and capricious Queen Anne (Colman) sits on England’s throne. Her confidant and de facto ruler of England, Lady Sarah (Weisz), is soon to be usurped by a new servant to the Queen, Abigail (Stone).

4th June 8pm €10 Music

Carlow Arts Festival presents

Kitt Philipa

Award-winning multi-instrumentalist for whom “Impressive is too weak a word” according to Hozier.

Who is Kitt Philippa? They are human, they are searching and in music they find hope. An organ scholar and an experimentalist, KP plays piano, guitar, clarinet, prayer bowl and bicycle wheel. Although raised on classical, the songs are strangely urban and often conveyed with digital sleight. “full of sparse, graceful, elegantly pitched wonder. There’s a beautiful minimal soulfulness”– The Irish Times “Kitt Philippa is very talented and thoughtful singer and musician who performs in an open and honest way, unburdened by external pressure and it shows” – Nialler 9

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PERFORMANCES Tuesday 4th June 2-4pm Free Workshop

Create in Assocation with Arts Council presents

AIC Scheme Information Session Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers Artist in the Community Scheme grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects. The scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts.

The scheme is open to artists from any of the following artform disciplines: architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts. The aim of the scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists.

The information session is about answering any questions you might have about making an application to the Scheme. Further to the AIC info session, Create are also offering group and individual advice and mentoring on topics such as finances, Garda vetting, self-evaluation of a project, project management and programming. These sessions will take place between 4 and 5 pm following the AIC information session.

Tuesday 4th June 6–10pm FREE

Carlow Arts Festival presents

PIG A large transparent pig. Inside is a sign that reads: “This is a community fund, you can contribute to it if you like, and when you’ve agreed how to spend it you can open me and spend it.”

Find #ThePig at different locations around Carlow Town throughout the festival.

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PERFORMANCES Friday 7th June 6.30pm FREE Dance

Carlow Arts Festival presents

Carnivore Luke Murphy-Attic Projects Award winning international choreographer Luke Murphy and renowned sculptor Alex Pentek collaborate on this provocative, atmospheric and energetic dance performance examining the nature of touch, contact and the electricity of our skin.

Through a sophisticated marriage of imagery and movement Carnivore interrogates contemporary notions of beauty, identity, communication, intimacy, worth and self.

Friday 7th June 8.30pm â‚Ź15 Theatre

Carlow Arts Festival presents

Crave #2 Performance artist Eja DueIn exposes her own body and invites you, the audience, into the intimate space where sex work takes place; but also out in the public sphere where the normative truths about sex work forms certain images of what a prostitute is.

It is interactive, provoking, intimate and site specific performance art, where the opinions of the audience are challenged.

The performance can be experienced in two different versions, as a one-to-one performance and as a performance lecture as a part of a small group.

Strictly over 18.

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PERFORMANCES Friday 7th June 7pm €15

Carlow Arts Festival Presents

Our Carnal Hearts A Welcome! To you and to me and our spikey, sticky, shameful bits!

A raucous chorus of original music, Rachel Mars and 4 belting female singers in a gleeful, dark show about the hidden workings of envy - part symphony, part exorcism. A thrilling and murky celebration of desire, competition and all the times we screw each other over. Sold out UK and US tours. Winner Total Theatre Award.

“Wickedly funny... soothing and sharp-edged at the same time.” **** – The Stage “not just honest... very funny, too, and streaked with regret” **** – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

Saturday 8th June 6.30pm €15 Adults / €8 Kids €38 Family Dance

Carlow Arts Festival Presents

Lords Of Strut: Absolute Legends THISISPOPBABY & Lords of Strut (co-production) All their lives they wanted to be famous. To get there they need to make the perfect dance routine, but they need your help.

In this dance fantasy adventure brothers Sean and Seamus rock out some banging moves, run into trouble, have a few tantrums, cause a teensy bit of mayhem and find out if fame is really what they’re looking for after all.

Street Performance World Champions, unlikely heroes of smash hit RIOT and Britain’s Got Talent favorites, Lords of Strut deliver their most ridiculous and sublime family show to date Riproaringly funny, fantastically bizarre, and absolute legends.

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PERFORMANCES Sunday 9th June 4pm Free Theatre

Carlow Arts Festival presents

An Murúch (A Work in Progress) Janice de Bróithe and Sinéad Cormack tell the thrilling story of the Murúch - a sea creature from Irish legend that has the ability to move between the sea and land using a magical red cap. On discovering a terrible truth, the Murúch must decide which is more important: leaving her children on land and returning to her true home beneath the waves, or remain with them and turn her back forever on her true identity?

Development of this work kindly supported by VISUAL Lab

Saturday 15th June 8pm €18 / €16 Theatre

Verdant Productions presents

Brothers of the Brush Jimmy Murphy It’s exactly twenty-five years since the original production of Brothers of the Brush appeared in Dublin. A new production of this classic, tells the story of three house painters, making a meagre living, overseen by an arrogant and shifty boss who is running a small business. Underneath the humour and playfulness of the relationships, a tough world is emerging, where workers are losing faith in old ways.

Brothers of the Brush is both entertaining and thought provoking.

Stephen Jones as Heno (Love Hate & Red Rock & Dublin Old School), Stephen Cromwell as Lar (Red Rock), Gerard Byrne as Jack (Malachy from Fair City) and Luke Griffin as Martin (Band of Brothers).

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FAMILY DAY Saturday 15th June 10am – 4pm Free Family

VISUAL presents

Crínniú na nÓg 2019 This year at VISUAL we welcome children and young people for an entire day of free events to celebrate creativity and play throughout the building. There will be face painting, piniatas, paper-making, a storytelling corner and an epic dance battle!

Children of all ages are welcome with their adults.

Paper making workshop Ages 5yrs + Jane Fogarty, an artist who experiments with paper and colour and VISUAL’s artist in residence Clare Breen, will facilitate a day-long papermaking workshop.

This will be a hands-on activity in the gallery, making beautiful handmade paper from used paper collected in the building, including drawings made in workshops and documents from the VISUAL offices. Bring an old drawing or painting along to blend up and add to the paper pulp.

Image Credit: Artist Jane Gorgarty, sm no.4(s), (Dimensions: 91x24x20cm, Medium: Paper, crepe paper, glue, jesmonite, pigment).

Dance Battle Ages 8yrs + Join Carlow native dance artist Tobi Omoteso and his dance crew for a day long dance battle workshop. Spend the day hanging out in our galleries with the Top 8 dance crew and DJ. Dancers will showcase an open cypher were anyone willing can participate or observe the exchange between the dancers!

Tobi and his crew will teach the participants foundation streetdance steps and the participants will then be encouraged to exchange moves between each other using the foundation steps they have learnt! This will be an engaging and participatory workshop were participants will come away with a sense of reward and achievement.

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PERFORMANCES Sunday June 16th 4PM €5 Cinema

aemi in partnership with Access Cinema presents

Delirious Rhythm, 1936–2017 Films selected by Vivienne Dick Curated on the occasion of ‘93% Stardust’, Vivienne Dick’s major retrospective at IMMA in 2017, ‘Delirious Rhythm’ comprises a personal selection of films that inspire her internationally acclaimed experimental film work.

The films chosen for this programme are about anarchic moments, about being alive to music, to rhythm, and the value of staring into space. In an era obsessed with targets and prescriptive living, the significance of daydreaming and dawdling is often overlooked. This programme serves as a reminder of the important role played by chance interaction and sheer nerve in creativity.

Featuring works by Len Lye, Helen Levitt, Masha Godovannaya, Vivienne Dick, D.A. Pennebaker, Moira Tierney, Bev Zalcock & Sara Chambers, Sarah Pucill and Chantal Akerman, this exhilarating programme foregrounds films that relate to the street, the domestic and the unconscious.

Tuesday 18th June 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

At Eternity’s Gate Julian Schnabel’s ravishingly tactile and luminous new film takes a fresh look at the last days of Vincent van Gogh, and in the process revivifies our sense of the artist as a living, feeling human being. Schnabel; his co-writers Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, also the film’s editor; and cinematographer Benoît Delhomme strip everything down to essentials, fusing the sensual, the emotional, and the spiritual. And the pulsing heart of At Eternity’s Gate is Willem Dafoe’s shattering performance: his Vincent is at once lucid, mad, brilliant, helpless, defeated, and, finally, triumphant. With Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu Amalric as Dr. Gachet, Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux, and Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest.

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PERFORMANCES Friday 21st June 8pm €20 / €18 Music

Outlaw Management presents

Date Night with Niamh Kavanagh & Paul Megahey (The Illegals) Join Niamh Kavanagh for a retrospective of special songs highlighting memorable moments from her decades-long career. Expect familiar favourites interpreted in Niamh’s inimitable fashion and accompanied by guitarist Paul Megahey.

Date Night Second Base presents an acoustic set list featuring hits from the Commitments, Prince, a tribute to the one and only Aretha, and of course the Eurovision-winning ‘In Your Eyes’. An intimate evening of gorgeous sounds awaits, with a sprinkle of chat and craic for good measure!

Friday June 28th 8pm €19 / €17 Theatre

Dolmen Productions present

Weighing-In A Play by Ger Gallagher Weighing-In is a fast-paced comedy play about life, love and dieting - and how we all need to adjust the scales to find the right balance.

This topical play deals with the modern obsession of dieting. Set in the EasiSlim diet club we meet the highly driven Pam (Isobel Mahon) and the motherly Breda (Rose Henderson). Both attend the weekly clinic for the weigh-in and strike up an unlikely friendship.

Easi-Slim’s recent new member - upwardly mobile Pam McGowan has cruised into town in her soft top sports car. Pam has reached her target weight and has only signed up to maintain, and brag about the four stone she’s lost. Breda has diligently attended the Easi-Slim meetings but just can’t manage to win the battle of the bulge– until Pam comes along to power-walk her into shape.

“Pacey, tender and packed with laughs, Weighing-In is a calorie-free treat” –Sunday Times

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PERFORMANCES Saturday 6th July 8pm €20 Music

Blues Folk Soled & Healed II Eric de Buitléir and Band Eric de Buitléir is currently studying for a Bachelor of Arts in jazz performance and contemporary music at DCU. In this-the second incarnation of “blues folk soled and healed”- will be a mixture of original material, folk, blues and jazz with a twist.

Tuesday 9th July 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

On the Basis of Sex The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a ground-breaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination.

This feature film premieres in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg’s 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.

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PERFORMANCES Saturday 20th July 12pm Free Workshop

United Fall Dance Company / Emma Martin in partnership with Visual Carlow presents

Carnival – The Workshop Join us for an exciting workshop with choreographer and director Emma Martin as she delves into the world of her new work Carnival, a dance show for young people aged between 4 and 8 years.

Carnival is about a child who creates the future through the power of their own imagination. This workshop invites children into an open rehearsal and gives them the opportunity to share their expert opinions with the artists involved in making the work. The young people will be able to explore the themes and ideas that are emerging at this early stage of the show’s development.

Participating children and their accompanying adult will get to see a rehearsed version of this new dance and they will be given the opportunity to give the artists feedback.

This work is currently being developed by Emma Martin, as part of her Artist in Residency at VISUAL Kindly supported by an Artslinks Bursary from Carlow County Council. United Fall is funded by the Arts Council.

Monday 22nd–Friday 26th July 10am–12.30pm & 1.30pm–4pm Ages 7–10 years and 11–13 years €65 per child or Family rate €100 for two siblings.

VISUAL in partnership with County Carlow Youth Theatre present

Performing Arts Summer Camp Extravaganza County Carlow Youth Theatre are excited to be embarking on more adventures in drama this summer in VISUAL. Explore drama, theatre making, storytelling and story making while having lots of fun and making new friends.

County Carlow Youth Theatre is an initiative of the Arts Office of Carlow County Council. It provides a safe and fun space for the young people of Carlow to explore their creativity with a programme of weekly workshops and innovative projects.

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PERFORMANCES Thursday 25th July 2019 8pm €27.50 Music

JMG Music Group presents

Summer Country Show Join 6 of Ireland’s top Country stars for an unmissable Summer Country Show featuring the legendary Brendan Shine, Patrick Feeney, Tipperary Country Queen Louise Morrisey , the prince of Country John Hogan, the popular Michael Collins and the hilarious Gary Gamble with his surreal impressions of Daniel O Donnell.

Each artist will perform their biggest hit songs in the company of Ireland’s top backing bands Keltic Storm . This is a show you certainly won’t want to miss!

Tuesday 23rd July 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

All Is True Returning to Stratford Upon Avon in 1613 after a fire destroys his beloved Globe Theatre, a devastated William Shakespeare struggles to mend broken relationships with his neglected wife and daughters, and finally come to terms with the death of his son.

Having seen his family intermittently during his time working in London they are surprised but not pleased by his return. As Shakespeare is forced to examine his own failings as husband and father the simmering family tensions gradually surface.

Featuring a powerhouse cast which includes Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh’s All is true is a warm family drama that reflects on the cost of a life dedicated to art.

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PERFORMANCES Tuesday 6th August 2019 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

Wild Rose Kerry native and BAFTA Rising Star nominee, Jessie Buckley (Beast), stars as Rose-Lynn Harlan, a single mother of two, fresh out of jail, whose dream is to leave her native Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mum Marion (Julie Walters) has lost her patience with Rose-Lynn and would love for her daughter to settle down and to create a home for her family.

The effervescent and cheeky Rose-Lynn possesses a raw, powerful and talented voice. Buckley whose natural singing voice shines in this boisterous story of self-discovery, played to the tune of three chords and the truth. Wild Rose is an enchanting story about how growing up does not mean giving up on one’s dreams.

Saturday 24th August 3pm Ages 4–8 years Free Family

United Fall Dance Company / Emma Martin in partnership with VISUAL presents

Carnival A Work-in-Progress Performance Join us for a work in progress performance of Carnival, a new dance show for young people between the ages of 4 and 8 years. Get a sneak peak of Carnival, before anyone else!! The audience will be invited to have a chat with the artists after the show.

This work is currently being developed by Emma Martin, VISUAL’s 2019 dance artist in residence, in collaboration with designer and maker Orla Clogher, dancer Kevin Coquelard, composer Dunk Murphy and lighting designer Stephen Dodd.

Kindly supported by an Artslinks Bursary from Carlow County Council. United Fall is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

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PERFORMANCES Tuesday 20th August 8pm €8 / €6 (Early Bird) Cinema

VISUAL Cinema presents

A Private War Sharp-minded Marie (a bewitching performance by Pike) had a fearless approach to capturing human stories in war zones. Widely recognised by the eye patch she insouciantly sported, the result of a grenade attack during an interview with Tamil Tiger rebels, Marie was a striking figure in London culture circles in the 2000s – as much at home with a Martini at a party as she was confronting Muammar Gaddafi in an interview shortly before his death.

Aided by resplendent, visceral cinematography by Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight) and elegantly adapted by Arash Amel from Marie Brenner’s Vanity Fair article ‘Marie Colvin’s Private War’, Oscar-nominated Heineman has created a devastating portrait of a complex, brilliant woman. In every scene, Pike fiercely inhabits Colvin – occasionally arrogant, but also deeply compassionate and committed – who sacrificed her own safety and happiness to bear witness to the very human cost of armed conflict: ‘the people who have no voice’.

Sunday 25th August All Day Free Family Event

International Rohingya Remembrance Day International Rohingya Remembrance Day will take place on Sunday August 25 at 2pm in the grounds of Carlow College St. Patrick’s. The family-friendly day - organised by Rohingya Action Ireland, Carlow College, Carlow County Development Partnership, Visual Theatre, Carlow Regional Youth Services and Carlow Cricket Club, come together to commemorate members of the Rohingya community who have been killed, attacked and displaced and suffer ongoing Human Rights Abuses at the hands of the Myanmar military.

2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the Rohingya community in Carlow. It will be a day of celebration to acknowledge Rohingya ethnicity, share stories, and demonstrate solidarity with the Rohingya people. Food and snacks will be served, including Rohingya cuisine, arts and crafts, face painting, music, dance and a cricket game’

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PERFORMANCES Sunday 25th August 2pm Free Cinema

VISUAL in partnership with Carlow County Development Partnership presents

TRIGGER A Dance/Film Join us on International Rohingya Remembrance Day for a very special screening of TRIGGER a dance film created by Dance Artist Cathy Coughlan and Film Maker Anne Maree Barry in collaboration with women from Carlow’s Rohingya community.

Using traditional Rohingya spices as a catalyst, this film explores how taste and smell can be used to trigger memory. The group work together to transform these memories into gesture, movement and dance which has been captured on film.

TRIGGER is produced by Visual Carlow and co-commissioned by Carlow County Council and Carlow County Development Partnership.

Thursday 29th – Saturday 31st August 7.30pm €5 Local Arts

County Carlow Youth theatre presents

Summer Youth Theatre Project Directed by Ursula McGinn, the senior members of the youth theatre ensemble will explore classic theatre with a contemporary twist. Following on from the success of previous projects ‘How To Live’ directed by Liam Halligan and ‘You Can’t Fell What You Feel’ with Yvonne McGuinness, this is one show not to be missed!!

Sunday 25th August 3pm Free Dance

John Scott/ Irish Modern Dance Theatre presents

Bloodlines Bloodlines is a performance/installation the centres around the idea of Sand Mandalas: a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made of coloured sand. It is the creation of a beautiful dance work using memory and personal history.

For this particular event Choreographer John Scott will work with a group of Carlow’s Rohingya Community to develop new dance material that will be incorporate into the performance on the day of the event.

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VISUAL Fortnightly Cinema Club Enjoy a fantastic range of films this season with a special Members’ ticket price, plus all these other great benefits!

Purchase your VISUAL Fortnightly Cinema Club Membership today (Season Membership €35).

Membership Benefits: – A ticket to every film screened over the entire season – Bring a friend and they will receive 30% off the standard ticket price – Free pre-screening tea and coffee – Pre-screening discussions with other members – Post show talks and discussions with directors, film critics and industry professionals.

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