Upcoming

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Travelling in Meditation: Ann Conlon exhibition

Throughout the months of August and September, Ballina Arts Centre will present 'Travelling in Meditation', an exhibition by Sligo-based artist Ann Conlon. “Travelling has always been a passion of mine. In my travels I am often drawn to the city limits, the areas the tourist rarely visit, places where everyday life happens. This work began because of an urge to be on the move again. To ease this compulsion I decided to allow my mind to travel, and paint as in meditation the places I find. Having travelled alone on occasions it was easy to detach from the conscious world ...

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Embers Children's Film Festival - The Fox and the Child film

The Fox and the Child (Director: Luc Jacquet / 2008 / 92 mins / Cert G) Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back. The festival returns for a fourth year with a programme of films from all over the world with something for children of all ages. Curated by Sara English, the programme includes live-action, animation, and feature films. French-made children's feature from the producers of March of the Penguins. Narrated by Kate Winslet, the film revolves around a little girl who encounters a fox on her way to school. The chance meeting marks the beginning of an ...

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Away film

Away (Director: Gints Zilbalodis/Latvia/2019/75mins/ Cert G) Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back. The festival returns for a fourth year with a programme of films from all over the world with something for children of all ages. Curated by Sara English, the programme includes live-action, animation, and feature films. AWAY is about a boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reﬂects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part reality, AWAY ...

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The Neverending Story film

The Neverending Story (Director: Wolfgang Petersen/USA/ 1985/Cert G.) Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back. The festival returns for a fourth year with a programme of films from all over the world with something for children of all ages. Curated by Sara English, the programme includes live-action, animation, and feature films. The Neverending Story is about a withdrawn, bookish boy called Bastian (Noah Hathaway), who fears his bullying schoolmates and an impending test, steals a mysterious book and reads it in the school attic. He is drawn into the fantasy to such an extent that it soon becomes clear he is ...

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Abominable film

Abominable takes audiences on an epic 2,000-mile adventure from the streets of Shanghai to the breathtaking Himalayan snowscapes. When teenage Yi (Chloe Bennet, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) and Peng (Albert Tsai), name him “Everest” and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead of Burnish (Eddie Izzard), a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and ...

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Pete’s Dragon film

Pete’s Dragon (Director: David Lowery/ USA/2016/103mins/Cert PG.) Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back. The festival returns for a fourth year with a programme of films from all over the world with something for children of all ages. Curated by Sara English, the programme includes live-action, animation, and feature films. For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than ...

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Pinocchio film

Pinocchio (Director: Matteo Garrone/2019/125mins/Cert 12A.) Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back. The festival returns for a fourth year with a programme of films from all over the world with something for children of all ages. Curated by Sara English, the programme includes live-action, animation, and feature films. In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Gepetto (Roberto Benigni), fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio (Federico Ielapi), who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However his dream is ...