Upcoming

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Doubt by Shane Clyne exhibition

Mayo-based painter Shane Clyne’s exhibition of new paintings opens at the Ballina Arts Centre this January. Titled Doubt, the exhibition explores the presence of uncertainty in both our everyday lives and, more crucially, in the artistic process. Through a series of paintings, Clyne demonstrates that by embracing doubt and its correlative fears we open the door to the creation of something new. Without risk, the artistic work becomes too familiar. By surrendering to doubt during the creative process, we allow ourselves to unconsciously edit and deliver a finished piece that is inherently new. Runs until 29th February. Admission: Free. All ...

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Danny O'Brien: Reformer event

What happens when a touring stand-up comedian can no longer stand up? After a near career-ending knee injury O' Brien is too young for pilates and too unbalanced for yoga! After a hugely successful year touring his 2018 show 'Lock-In', the award-winning performer brings you his brand-new hilarious hour of stand-up where self-destruction and self-discovery meet! The show completely sold out its month-long run of shows at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Galway International Arts Festival, Wexford Spiegeltent Festival and a host of European dates. Following in the footsteps of Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran, Danny was handpicked this year to perform as part of the ...

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ABBA Sensations music

One of the leading ABBA Tribute Shows in the UK and Ireland, ABBA Sensations brilliantly perform ABBA’s timeless classics, bringing you the authentic ABBA sound … with stunning live vocals, beautiful harmonies, musicianship and musical arrangement. This superb show features choreographed ABBA-esque dance routines, fabulous replica ABBA costumes, as well as authentic lighting and production. Incorporating tongue-in-cheek Swedish humour together with audience participation in an electrifying and dynamic performance, this is a fantastic show, thrilling audiences throughout the UK and Ireland with their stunning tribute to ABBA. Tickets: €15. Early booking advised.

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Tintown theatre

The Blue Raincoat Theatre Co. Present Tintown. Tintown is a one-man-show written during a Theatre Artist Residency in Sligo’s Hawk’s Well Theatre. It's about a Dubliner who joined the IRA as a young man in the 30’s, was interned during WW2 and bore witness to the IRA’s decline and eventual collapse within the Curragh Camp. Meticulously researched through access to rare internee interviews, Tintown encompasses our violent past, the development of socialism and fascism within Ireland, and the political contradictions and absurdities of the time. Written and performed by Bob Kelly and Directed by Niall Henry “Mesmerising” Eoin McNamee, Irish Times. Tickets: €18 / ...

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The Poet's Bar theatre

Tommy Cooke presents a play set in a bar in the 1960s where stories are told in verse and song during a night of music, song, recitation and storytelling, encompassing home, coming home, leaving home and the characters of home. Featuring a variety of local performers, this is a show not to be missed! In aid the The Garda Tony Golden Community Park. Tickets: €15 . Early booking advised.

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The Importance of Being Earnest theatre

Celebrating its 125th anniversary, The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed in London on 14th February 1895 to great acclaim. No doubt there will be the same acclaim for this production from our own Riverside Theatre Group! Oscar Wilde’s brilliant comedy The Importance of Being Earnest takes a satirical look at the lives of two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the utterly reliable John Worthing J.P who lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, and ...

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Crowman theatre

Crowman is a dark comedy starring Jon Kenny (D’Unbelievables), written and directed by Katie Holly (Marion, Sharon), about one man’s loneliness – and his pathological hatred of crows. Dan is a man on a mission; to scatter, maim or kill every crow that has ever blighted his land and his life. However he gets distracted easily by flights of the imagination and memories of events from his past and a weekly schedule of funerals and masses he must attend, imagined conversations with his beloved sheepdog, and a stream of racing commentators, TV chefs and David Attenborough - all so that ...

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Wanted - One Body theatre

The Windmill Players present an hilarious murder-mystery farce, set in 1921 in the dilapidated mansion of the recently departed, but not greatly lamented, Charles Barraclough. On the stormy night that the will is read to the family and household staff, we learn that the bulk of his fortune has been split between the servants, setting the house in turmoil and uproar. Charles’ devious daughters are furious and plot and scheme to try to hang on to ‘their’ fortunes. But something evil is afoot! There are murders, sliding panels and howls in the night. The plot thickens and twists and turns! Tickets: ...

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KCAT Presents Together Now exhibition

Together Now (in Ballina Civic Offices) is an exhibition of painting, drawing, installation and sculpture by artists from the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (KCAT), in Callan, Co. Kilkenny and artists from very different practice contexts from all over Ireland, who have been working together in residencies and other forms of engagement since 2014. The work on show has been made as a result of their collaborations and conversations, involving performance, installation and a variety of media from film and video to very un-traditional interpretations of traditional media such as painting and sculpture. The exhibition is curated by Catherine Marshall and runs ...

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Beyond Drawing: Group Exhibition exhibition

Beyond Drawing is a celebration of contemporary drawing, exploring how artists use drawing to examine themes including identity, place and memory, pushing the boundaries of the medium further than ever before.The Artists featured in the exhibition are: Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Marisa Rappard (all from the Netherlands); and Kiera O’Toole, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Felicity Clear (all from Ireland). Beyond Drawing is curated by Dutch artist Arno Kramer (from the Netherlands), who curated Human Chain, a drawing exhibition with Ballina Arts Centre in 2017. This collaboration is part on ongoing relationship between Arno and Ballina Arts Centre and runs until 25th April. FREE ...