Upcoming

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Our World View (Through the Looking Glass): Ridgepool Training Centre Artists Group exhibition

Our World View (Through the Looking Glass): Ridgepool Training Centre Artists Group Official Opening: Wednesday 9th January, 1pm Our World View (Through the Looking Glass is an exhibition of works by artists from the Western Care Ridgepool Training Centre, and is the culmination of a three-month project as part of Mayo County Council’s UPSTART disability arts scheme. Under the guidance of experienced printmaker Claire Griffin, the group explored styles and techniques which suited them individually and the project has a theme of ‘identity and community’. The theme came from the group themselves, and forms the basis for the works. In ...

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Reports of a Crash: Fergus Sweeney exhibition

Reports of a Crash: Fergus Sweeney Official Opening: Saturday 12th January, 4pm Mayo filmmaker, Fergus Sweeney, was the successful recipient of the Film Mayo Creative Ireland Residency Award in partnership with Ballina Arts Centre. Film Mayo is a Mayo Arts Service, Mayo County Council initiative. On the 14th March 2017, Fergus was setting in for a quiet evening as an Irish coast helicopter came into ear shot when it passed over his home village of Blacksod. Moments later that helicopter would crash. A search for the missing crew would last 42 days and Fergus would find himself reporting on the ...

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Climax film

Climax (Dir: Gaspar Noé, France, 2018, 95 mins) Language: French, English Starring: Sofia Boutella, Kiddy Smile, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Claude Gajan Maull With Climax, Gaspar Noé, enfant terrible of French cinema returns with perhaps his most critically-acclaimed work yet. Following a successful and visually dazzling rehearsal, a dance troupe set about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the dancers soon begin to turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy. Starring Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Atomic Blonde) and featuring a pulse-pounding score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin ...

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Landscapes of the Gamhanraidh in Erris and Beyond: Táin Bó Fliodhais – The Cattle Raid of Mayo exhibition

Landscapes of the Gamhanraidh in Erris and Beyond: Táin Bó Fliodhais – The Cattle Raid of Mayo Official Opening: Friday 1st February, 8pm Artist Diana Taylor paints in a relatively loose, impressionistic style using the medium of oils on canvas with a knife. Her inspiration for this exhibition was to seek out and depict the locations and 2,000 year old remnants of the ring forts of the Iron Age inhabitants as described in the story of the Táin Bó Fliodhais and paint those landscapes as you find them today. Through the series of paintings, the story of the Táin ...

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Take Me Home, Colleen music

Take Me Home, Colleen Written & Performed by Brendan Farrell A story of love and loss, hope and resilience... Take Me Home, Colleen is a collection 12 original songs and stories, backed up by a cinematic visual experience, which tell the story of two young lovers and their struggles to survive the so-called Irish ‘Potato Famine’. It is 1845 and the people of Killala in North Mayo are faced with the mot desperate of realities. Sean Óg Gaughan will have to fight to save his family, while Colleen will have to fight to save her dreams. Written, directed and performed ...

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Ven_ture music

Ven_ture Friday 15th February, 8pm Ven_ture is a traditional music trio - Anne Brennan (vocals); Joseph McNulty (violin); and David Munnelly (accordion) – which came about by way of a conversation about working on some new arrangements and ideas for the voice and simple and unconventional accompaniment. The trio loves the process of planning new arrangements for old music and even composing new melodies keeping in mind the unique bare sound produced by accordion and fiddle but playing non-conventionally and creating new sounds in the process. Also to accompany songs with the non-conventional instruments you associate with song arrangement Belmullet ...

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Michael Harding: On Tuesdays I’m a Buddhist literature

Michael Harding: On Tuesdays I’m a Buddhist Join best-selling writer and raconteur Michael Harding as he reads from his latest memoir, ruminates on the difference between psychotherapy and religion, and relates the story of his pilgrimage to Skellig Michael, in his ongoing search for meaning. “Harding’s latest attempt to find meaning in life is searingly honest, funny and self-deprecating” – The Irish Times “A spell-binding and powerful book about the human condition, the narratives we weave around the self, and the ultimate bliss of living in the present moment.” – Books.ie Tickets: €20 / €18. Early booking advised.

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Rosie film

Rosie (Dir:Paddy Breathnach, Ireland, 2018, 86 mins) Tuesday 19th February, 8pm From the pen of Roddy Doyle and directed by Paddy Breathnach (Viva), Rosie is the story of a family without a home. Rosie (Sarah Greene) a mother of four, alongside her partner John Paul, do everything in their power to protect their children and maintain their dignity as the Irish housing crisis threatens their families safety and unity. With grace and tenderness, Rosie balances the care of her four children alongside the increasingly futile and frustrating search for a new home. Set over an intense 36 hours, Rosie struggles ...

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The Playboy of the Western World theatre

The Playboy of the Western World By John Millington Synge Riverside Theatre Group Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th February, 8pm Ballina’s Riverside Theatre Group return with their production of John Millington Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World. A small community in North Mayo is thrown into turbulence with the arrival of Christy Mahon, a mysterious stranger claiming to have killed his father. The local men aren’t sure if he’s a danger and the local women find him fascinating. Michael James Flaherty the local publican takes a shine to him, and his daughter Pegeen Mike finds his ...

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