Culture Night 2010 - Friday Sept 24th

georgem25

Same as last year. All events free!

http://www.culturenight.ie/otherculturenights.asp?id=73

Limerick City Gallery of Art – Off site
City Hall, Merchant’s Quay, www.gallery.limerick.ie
5pm-8pm
The Woods: The exhibition at Istabraq Hall is a selection of works from the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing and artists from the Creative Limerick initiative. Works by David Godbold, Patrick Hall, Seamus Heaney, Alan Keane, Paraic Leahy, Alice Maher, Eoin McHugh, Laura McMorrow, Clive Moloney, Mary Moloney and Garrett Phelan are included.
5pm & 7pm
LCGA Medieval Quarter Trail: a walking tour of LCGA exhibitions at The Hunt Museum, Istabraq Hall, The Jim Kemmy Municipal Museum and King John’s Castle. Starting at The Hunt Museum at 5pm and 7pm.
8pm
Musical performance by Karl Burke at Istabraq Hall, City Hall, Merchant’s Quay
His music can be described as acoustic, ambient electronic. Karl Burke is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose practice includes sculpture, sound, installation, photography and film. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, his work is concerned with our relationship to, and perceptions of, the three dimensional world. It endeavors to form a physical and emotive relationship between the art, the place and the viewer.

Daghdha
John’s Square, www.daghdha.ie
5pm - 6pm
Join us for 'Contemporary Chaos' with dance artists, an hour of fun contemporary dance for all the family - from toddler to teenager, parent to grandparent.
6.30- 7.30pm
This will be followed by dancers of the Daghdha/Garvey Initiative and their unique performance style, with dance artists
7.30pm onwards
The evening will culminate in an ongoing contemporary dance installation by Daghdha's Artistic Director Michael Klien in close collaboration with dance-artists

Limerick City Library, The Granary
The Granary, Michael Street, www.limerick.ie/library
Session 1: 6.30-7pm (4-8 year olds)
Session 2: 7-7:30pm (9-12 year olds)
As part of the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Community Engagement Programme, ICO Education Officer, Kathleen Turner works with many groups of all ages and abilities citywide. The emphasis on each project is to enable participants to realise their ability to make music.
In this ‘SINGular Sensation’ workshop, Kathleen invites children (4 – 8 years) and their parents to make music together in the easiest way possible – with their voices. Fun warm-ups, rhythm games, movement and songs from around the world help to make this singing session extremely accessible and enjoyable. No experience is necessary – only the desire to have a go and more importantly, to have fun.

The Hunt Museum
Rutland Street, www.huntmuseum.com
5.30 – 9.30pm Children’s Art Workshop
5.30 – 9.30pm Drawing in the Gallery – ‘French Connection’ Exhibition
6pm ‘Highlights Tour’, The Hunt Collection
7pm Recital
7pm Guided tour, ‘French Connection’ Exhibition
7.30pm Costume Workshop
8pm Presentation/Talk on, LCGA Collection in Prologue Room
8pm ‘Highlights Tour’, The Hunt Collection

Tweak Festival
6pm – 10pm
Limerick School of Art and Design, Clare Street, www.tweak.ie
Tweak is an interactive art festival aiming to promote the understanding of the use of technology in our lives. This years tweak consists of an exhibition, cinema, talks, music performances and a week long workshop and lots more in between

Limerick City Museum
Castle Lane, www.limerick.ie/citymuseum
Late opening until 10pm
Limerick’s award-winning museum traces the history of Limerick City from the Stone Age to the present day. The ground floor displays Limerick silver, lace, archaeological artifacts, objects relating to the struggle for Independence and much more. The first floor space has been given over to be used by Limerick City Gallery of Art while the Carnegie Building is closed for redevelopment, and currently houses a display of prints.

Walk the Walls of Limerick
Start at 5pm: Meet at King John’s Castle Visitor Centre
The walk will be led by Dan Tietzsch-Tyler a specialist in the area of archaeological and historical reconstruction drawing. The walk will take approximately 1.5 hours. There are thirteen extant stretches of the City Wall, which will be explored on the walk.

The Georgian House and Gardens
2 Pery Square, www.georgianhouseandgarden.ie
Late Night opening until 10pm
The Georgian House is one of a terrace of six houses building c.1830 by the Pery Tontine Company. It has been fully restored by the Limerick Civic Trust. Exuding the flavour of early 19th century living, the original marbled walls and period stairs link the grandeur of upstairs living with the plainness of the downstairs service areas. There are sixteen rooms on show.

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery
4 Robert Street, www.limerickprintmakers.com
5-8pm Monoprinting workshops for kids in our Gallery and Studio on Robert Street. Kids can create their very own print to take home. Refreshments included!
8-10pm Our Artist Members will be giving printmaking demonstrations that all the family can watch and see how artists create some of their work. Refreshments will be provided

Belltable Arts Centre
36 Cecil Street, www.belltable.ie
5pm – 6.15pm
Fresh Film Festival Sceening Award Winning Films for 2010
Fresh Film Festival will screen a selection of winning films from Ireland's Young Filmmaker Awards 2010. The programme will include films made by young filmmakers from both the Junior (7 - 12yrs) and Senior (13 - 18yrs) categories and will include an informal information sharing session where young people can find out more about the festival's activities and events. It will be a fun evening's entertainment suitable for a family audience. Young filmmakers are particularly welcome
6.30pm – 8.30pm
Mask Making Workshop
As part of Culture Night a Mask Making Workshop with Daragh Bradshaw for everyone, aged 6 and upwards at Belltable offsite @ Cecil St, materials will be provided. Just bring yourselves. The workshop is free to all. We look forward to seeing you there.

Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT, Clare Street
Clare Street, www.lit.ie
6pm – 10pm
Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT welcomes all to visit and tour our wonderful Clare Street Campus between 6 and 10 pm on Friday 24th September. Home to almost 700 students of Art and Design where specializations offered include Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture and Combined Media in Fine Art and Visual Communications, Fashion Design and Ceramics in the Design disciplines. Tours will be facilitated by the Students Union.

King John’s Castle
King’s Island, www.shannonheritage.com
Late opening until 8pm
King John’s Castle is one of Ireland’s best examples of a Norman Castle. When the castle was built between 1200 and 1210, its cutting edge design was ahead of its time. You can find out why in the visitor centre, where an exhibition details the castle’s history. Other attractions include a mock medieval courtyard, and the undercroft to the officers’ quarters, excavated in the 1990s. Walk the battlements to enjoy far reaching views of Limerick City

Thomond Park, Museum
Thomond Park, www.thomondpark.ie
5pm to 9pm
The new stadium has incorporated a spectacular interactive museum that showcases the proud history and heritage of Munster Rugby including an impressive range of memorabilia such as the match ball from the famous victory against the All Blacks in 1978 and the 2006 Heineken Cup trophy. The Museum also contains fantastic interactive displays and touch screens suitable for all ages with a specially commissioned film titled “We are Munster” that portrays the tradition & history of the club and the unique bond that it shares with its loyal supporters

Conradh na Gaeilge
Halla Íde, 18 Thomas Street, www.cnag.ie
5pm-10pm
An informal session of Irish traditional entertainment in "An Chistin". Musicians, singers and dancers will be introduced to our visitors by the "bean an tí" (woman of the house) and of course the traditional "cupán tae" will be provided. This will be a bilingual informal occasion and you can come and go at any time between 5pm and 10pm.
Beidh fáilte is fiche roimh gach éinne sa Chistin chun taitneamh a bhaint as an gceol agus as an gcomhluadar. Buail isteach chugainn am ar bith

Bottom Dog Present 2 Workshops at The Loft Venue
George’s Quay, www.bottomdogtheatre.com
Two one-hour workshops
6-7pm Introduction to Improv Comedy workshop with Myles Breen
7- 8pm Drama workshop with Liam O'Brien

Spiritstore
www.spiritstorelimerick.blogspot.com
SpiritStore’s 'Poetry Depot ' in association with Inkstorm.
A Poetry Depot is a pop-up poetry shop. A place where poets compose personalized poems for you on the spot, based on topics, themes or forms suggested by you. Commission a poem for someone, about someone or commission a poem for yourself about anything!

Occupy Space
Thomas Street, www.occupy-space.blogspot.com
6pm – 10pm
Culture Night 2010 at Occupy Space will be a hive of activity; kids, teens and adults will learn the tricks of the trade to replicate masterpieces in a Creative Con-artist Workshop. Drop-in from 6.30-9pm where you will learn to cheat, fraud and forge your favourite art-work, receive your official Con-artist certificate and exhibit your piece in the gallery.
On Culture Night visit Yo llo mmot a dynamic exhibition by Californian artist Jim Ricks which re-creates a series of works by Tom Molloy. Through a replication process Ricks pays homage to Tom Molloy’s solo show Yo lo vi. These approximations made on a reduced budget, are based on Molloy's exhibition catalogue, and in this process of re-interpretation take on a new layer of meaning. The project focuses on art history, institutional critique, boundaries and ownership, but primarily it investigates the origins of creativity.
Chat with the artists who set-up Occupy Space and enjoy refreshments at Meet the Artists Social from 6-10pm. Occupy Space is an artist-led initiative, supported by Creative Limerick, which incorporates a dynamic gallery with a new experimental project space.

Association of Irish Choirs
Sing….sing a song…..
Milk Market
5pm – 5.45pm
6pm – 6.45pm
Have a go at something new…at The Milk Market from 5 to 7 enjoy a song with choral workshop leader, Liz Powell from Association of Irish Choirs. No previous experience necessary! Two sessions: from 5 to 5.45p.m. & from 6 to 6.45 - Can’t sing? Come anyway…
Led by musical director Liz Powell, Limerick’s Culture Night Choir invites participants to experience an enjoyable session of learning to sing some fun music, learn some vocal techniques and celebrating Culture Night in Limerick. Singing in a group stimulates high energy, can improve relaxation and mood, and can help to increase self-confidence and feelings of well-being.

Open Artists Studios
5pm-10pm
Faber Studios, Catherine Street
www.faberstudioslimerick.blogspot.com
Faber Studios will hold an open studio from 5pm to 10pm, including a drinks reception. The open studio will give the general public the opportunity to see artists create process and finished work first hand and further strenghten our relationship with the public

Contact Studios, Mulgrave Street
A rejuvenated Contact Studios, newly refurbished with a grant from the Arts Council, opens its doors to the public as a Gallery space for the first time. New works from the studios 15 members will be on show with official launch and wine reception at 7pm.
Opening times will be 5-10pm, Current members - Ciaran O'Sullivan, Carl Doran, Gerry O'Mahony, Maurice Foley, Nuala O'Sullivan, Vivienne Bogan, Sheila Stone, Clare Butler, Cathriona Moran, Michael Delohery, Rory Prout, Joanna Hopkins

Wickham Street Studios, Wickham Street
Wickham street studios will be open to the public between 5-10pm on culture night. It will provide the public with the opportunity to meet the members and engage with some of the ideas and processes being undertaken by them. The 12 members are Ramon Kassam, Kevin O Keeffe, Tom Prendergast, Aoife Flynn, Aislinn O’Keeffe, Paraic Leahy, Gerry Davis, Paul Rathigan, Emmet Kierans, Noelle Collins, Sean Guinan, Jane Sugrue and Eóin Francis McCormack

Raggle Taggle Consortium, Henry Street / Sarsfield Street Corner
www.raggletaggleconsortium.blogspot.com
Raggle Taggle Consortium is a collective of recent graduates. RTC aim to create and facilitate a forum for artists, students and the public to critically evaluate art practice and production. The nine artists working in our studio are currently responding to the concept entitled 'Thank Heaven for Small Mercies'. This group show, comprising multidisciplinary work, will be open to the public and the artists will be available to meet and greet any visitors to the gallery.

kilburn

Looking forward to this will bring a great bit of buzz into the city. I hope they advertise it widely online and in the papers we might get an influx of tourists for it.

Insect Overlord

Really disappointed, I'm going to be missing this
Turns out the Blasket Islands are doing their annual festival the same weekend, and I've been roped into going to that.

I hope it goes well anyway, and I'm sure there'll be the usual supply of photos here afterwards.

Reaganomical

Some great stuff on there...the guided tour of the walls of Limerick stands out for me.

georgem25

schnellimbiss wrote: »

Some great stuff on there...the guided tour of the walls of Limerick stands out for me.

I did this before. Its very interesting. There are photos on last years post

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055690186&highlight=culture

georgem25

Bump... this is on tomorrow evening

phog

Thanks for the heads-up, I might try the City Walls walk and the Georgian House, Pery Sq.

kilburn

ok folks try and get to something and rate it later on.