Upcoming

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By Hand: Laura Jean Zito exhibition

By Hand: Laura Jean Zito. Official Opening: Friday 5th July, 8pm Having been once encouraged by the great John B Keane to “photograph the farmers, they’re a dyin’ breed,” Laura Jean Zito did just that and that became the inception of this particular series. These nostalgic images show the seeds within of present day ‘turmoils’: plastics in the environment, gun control, fascism, injustice, fraud, harassment, homelessness, migration, energy, religion, Brexit, generation gap, education, resources, water. Hi-Tech filters are replacing the personal touch, affecting our relationships to everything. We’ve gained velocity, but lost veracity. Out with the ‘Town Crier’, and in ...

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Damnatio Memoriae exhibition

Artist Conor O’ Grady was born on Ireland’s west coast and lives in County Donegal. He studied at the National College of Art and Design and DIT, and his work has been shown in public and private exhibitions throughout Ireland, the UK, Europe and Australia. Previous exhibitions in Mayo include Kathleen Lynn: Insider on the Outside. Conor’s latest installation features a collection of sculptures, moving imagery and drawings which examine the culture and visual languages of particular violent, criminal, marginal or sectional sub-groups within Irish society. Damnatio Memoriae refers to the ancient Roman practice in which a person is punished ...

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TWO theatre

TWO Loose Tea Company Saturday 7th September, 8pm Written by Jim Cartwright in 1989 but still astonishingly real today, much loved two-hander Two waltzes the audience through a spectrum of human emotion, weaving a rich tapestry of life through intimate insights into the lives of the colourful pub regulars. Taking place over the course of one evening in the local pub and featuring fourteen diverse characters brought to life by just two actors, Two is funny, poignant and incredibly human. Each character or couple acts like a fragment of shattered glass reflecting back at us as the play mines the depths of the human experience. Performed by Niamh ...

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Tonight's the Night - The Ultimate Rod Stewart Tribute music

Tonight's the Night - The Ultimate Rod Stewart Tribute Friday 13th September, 8pm Ireland's No.1 Rod Stewart Tribute show ‘Tonight's the Night’ has been selling out theatres and filling ballrooms across Ireland and the UK and is rapidly becoming the most sought after tribute act in either country. With the best, most natural ‘Rod voice’ in the world, great costume changes and songs from every era of Rod Stewart's huge catalogue, front man Lee Hedley with his seven-piece band and backing singers will have you dancing in the aisles and singing along from the first number. Tickets: €20. Early booking advised.

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Preab Meadar music

Preab Meadar Saturday 14th September, 8pm After its Sligo premiere, this ground-breaking show of dance-songs had everybody buzzing about the incredibly catchy music (Bernard Clarke described it as “boundary transcending”on Lyric FM) and explosively percussive dance moves. Traditional composers Lorcán Mac Mathúna and Daire Bracken have created a whole new music genre based on the rhythms of bardic poetry and in this performance they have teamed up with sean-nós dancers Liam Scanlonn and Caoimhe Ní Mhaolagáin, devising new steps suited to the unique rhythms of Preab Meadar. With complex time signatures of 15/8, 24/8, 7/8, and 5/8, see and hear ...

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My Dad’s Blind theatre

My Dad’s Blind Written by Anna Sheils-McNamee Wednesday 18th September, 8pm Centring on a dysfunctional relationship between a blind father and his sighted daughter, My Dad’s Blind uses audio recordings, irreverent comedy and real-life memories to explore a father-daughter relationship and all the awkward, embarrassing and ridiculous ways the two of them struggle to navigate a sighted world... with the help of a guide dog which has just had a stroke. Starring Steve Blount and Anna Sheils-McNamee. Directed by Gemma Aked-Priestley. Winner “Best Production” - Dublin Fringe Festival 2018. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland. "At its core lies ...

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Leah Hilliard: Knowledge Flow exhibition

Leah Hilliard: Knowledge Flow Official Opening: Friday 20th September, 8pm This family-friendly interactive exhibition explores the ways in which knowledge flows between people and generations in today’s digital society. The wall pieces are accompanied by an audio track accessed through the use of discovery pens. Audience members who are visually impaired can use the discovery pens to acquire additional information. Leah Hilliard was awarded the Digital Transformations Bursary to support the production of this work. Digital Transformations proposes a radical new relationship between arts, technology, education, policy and society. It is based in the west of Ireland and fosters arts-centred ...

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3 Hail Mary’s theatre

3 Hail Mary’s Written by Tommy Marren Crokey Hill Players Friday 25th & Saturday 26th October, 8pm Set in an Irish nursing home in 2016, ‘3 Hail Mary’s' is a rip-roaring comedy with dozens of hilarious one-liners that will have you in tears of laughter. The three Marys have lived together for over ten years but are now being moved to separate nursing homes. Mary O’Toole is devoted to Our Lady of Knock. Mary O’Neill is a Londoner who met and subsequently married a Kerry man. Mary O’Brien is a retired nurse. The play is set around their last few hours together, as they laugh, ...

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Shackleton theatre

Shackleton Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Tuesday 29th October, 8pm "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold . . . safe return doubtful." Ireland's longest running theatre ensemble, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, perform Shackleton, the story of County Kildare-born explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's failed voyage to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. It's a visually spectacular re-telling of perhaps the greatest survival story ever, and features an ensemble cast, supported by original footage and clever puppetry. Director Niall Henry says that in almost thirty years of making theatre with Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, 'Shackleton' has been the show with ...