Waterford County Event Guide

WITHIN + WITHOUT is an exhibition of recent work by eight local artists at the Tramore Coastguard Arts Centre. It will be opened by Margaret Organ, County Waterford Arts Officer, on Tuesday November 15th at 7pm.

Artists include: Pat Carri, Kevin Connolly, Róisín Kinsella, Darragh Lyons, Pat McArdle, Chris O’Brien Shanahan, Conor Rush and Milia Tsaoussis-Maddock.

OPENING HOURS: Monday to Friday: 10.30am to 4.30pm | Saturday: 11am to 5pm | Sunday: 1pm to 5pm

“Within and Without” is a common theme linking the artwork, and explores the reality of an inner and outer realm. A wide range of styles reflects the artists' individual interpretations of this concept. The artwork includes painting, photography and sculpture, in both ceramic and wood, and offers something for everyone.

For more information contact the co-curators: Conor Rush 085 120 7357 and Chris O’Brien Shanahan 087 819 7378, or Martin Kerins at the Tramore Coastguard Arts Centre 051 391 656 | coastguardstationarts@gmail.com

1st annual Deise Doggy Surf Day sponsored by Tramore Surf Shop and School - Taking place Sunday 1st September, Tramore. Fun for all the family, helping to raise funds for Deise Animal Sanctuary

Our aim for this year is to raise €3,000 for Deise Animal Sanctuary. To help raise this, we've got a fun-packed day planned!

• 9:30 am Sponsored Fancy Dress Surf. €25 per person, all proceeds go to the sanctuary. Prize for best dressed! Pre-booking is essential as this is expected to sell out incredibly quickly - to reserve your place call Bernie on 087-756-3993.

• 12pm Dog Show in the pavilion. €3 each category entered. Categories are as follows:
1. Happiest Golden Oldie (8+)
2. Cutest Puppy (0-2 years)
3. Friendliest Dog (All ages)
4. Best Rescue (All ages)
5. Best Surf-Themed Dog (All ages)
6. Deise’s Dog Of The Year 2013 – sponsored by Pet World, Waterford
All dogs get a prize for entering. Each category has its own winning prize!

• 1:30 Dog Surf Competition. €5 to enter. Lifeguards and surf instructors on stand-by! Lifejackets are available for all competitors. In shallow water only! Surf instructors are judging. Happiest Dog in the Water prize/award (for the non-surfers). Every dog who enters gets a prize!

Other features of the day:
• Pet World Feeding/Water Station
• Deise Animal Sanctuary Info Corner
• Bric a Brac stall throughout the day in pavilion
• Apple Brown Betty is offering a very special offer for the day - a dog shaped cookie with every tea/coffee!


All profits from the day go to Deise Animal Sanctuary. For more info, go to www.deiseanimalsanctuary.ie

Deise Doggy Surf Day Facebook

Klub muzik is hosting a picnic in the Tramore Coastguard Station on june 22nd from 2pm-6pm. Including live bands from klub muzik, bbq ,entertainment and the Irish Falconry Club will also be there
No admission fee.

Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye by Jim Nolan

‘Pearse, Connolly, McDermott and the rest of their merry men; they died for a Republic. But we don't live in a Republic. We live in an economy.'

Very, very funny, a little provocative and with the occasional swear word, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye by Jim Nolan is now in its third and final week at Garter Lane Theatre, and coming to St Michael's Hall, Ballyduff Upper, Co Waterford for one night on Wednesday 30th March at 8.15pm. The response from critics and the audience is extraordinarily positive, with Dermot Keyes reporting in the Munster Express saying ‘Jim Nolan’s work lit a fire under me in the best manner possible’ giving the world ‘a genuine glimpse into what life is really like in the Irish regional newsroom.’ The Irish Times says the play ‘essentially a meditation on the shape of the nation as it celebrates the Rising, is lightly metaphorical and stealthily topical.’ And in the Sunday Independent, Emer O’Kelly says ‘Jim Nolan has an unapologetic affection for small-town life. But it never blinds him to its dangers and its faults.’

Directed by the author, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a topical and provocative contribution to the forthcoming Easter Rising Centenary Commemoration and to the wider debate on the challenges and complexities of remembering. Set in a provincial newspaper office in the Irish Midlands in the run up to Easter 2016, the privately owned Inishshannon Chronicle has just been acquired by a media conglomerate and the new brush is about to sweep clean. As the newspaper’s staff adjust to radical changes in its structure and ethos, the town it serves prepares to celebrate a tenuous connection to the Easter Rising. The revelation that this connection is not quite what it seems puts the Chronicle’s editor on a collision course with both his new bosses and the local business and political community.

Produced by Garter Lane Arts Centre with the support of Waterford City & County Council, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a timely reflection on the distance between the vision of 1916 and the presiding political and cultural ethos of contemporary Ireland. The production which stars Michael Hayes, Garrett Keogh, Jenni Ledwell, Ema Lemon and Ciaran McMahon, includes set design by Dermot Quinn, lighting design by Richard Collins, sound design by Rachel Corcoran and costume design by Jeannine Storan. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye runs until Saturday 26th March at Garter Lane Theatre, and then moves to St Michael’s Hall, Ballyduff Upper, Co Waterford for one night on Wednesday 30th March. Remaining tickets on 051-855038 or www.garterlane.ie

Something civilised in Ardmore.

Join the West Waterford Festival of Food from 20-22 April in #Dungarvan to Celebrate Our Farmers #FromTheLandAndSea #ÓMhuiragusóThír with another mouth-watering programme http://www.westwaterfordfestivaloffood.com/events/ Tickets on sale Wed 28 Mar, 2pm - #wwfof18- bigí linn!

The West Waterford Festival of Food from 20-22 April in #Dungarvan celebrates Our Farmers #FromTheLandAndSea #ÓMhuiragusóThír with another mouth-watering programme http://www.westwaterfordfestivaloffood.com/events/ Tickets on sale Wed 28 Mar, 2pm - bigí linn!