Upcoming

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T O U C H A B L E: Caren Van Herwaarden exhibition

T O U C H A B L E: Caren Van Herwaarden 14th May – 25th June Official Opening: Saturday 14th May, 3pm Caren van Herwaarden makes watercolors, drawings, collages and sculptures. In her work she is looking for the meaning of fellow - humanity, physicality, suffering and eroticism. This leads to works that find strength in vulnerability, softness in mercilessness and comfort in dejection. Human or horse: she is concerned with the naked being, without facade or embellishment. In conflict situations where there is no control and the world is no longer socially engineered, we are dependent on others. ...

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Ballina Comedy Club: Edwin Sammon, Danny Ryan and Siobhan Brosnan theatre

Offaly native Edwin Sammon has established himself as one of the most popular comedians in the country over the last few years, his unpredictable and crowd pleasing style saw him win the Tedfest Golden Toilet Duck award in 2011 and led to him supporting the likes of Jason Byrne, Phil Jupitus and Ardal O’Hanlon while performing at major festivals and comedy clubs across Ireland and the UK. He went on to appear on RTE’s New Comedy Awards and in 2013 he was part of the sold out nationwide Lads of Comedy tour. Edwin has also starred as Fr. Gabriel in RTE’s latest ...

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The Mournful Croon: A Celebration of Mayo Folk Song music

The Mournful Croon: A Celebration of Mayo Folk Song Friday 27th May 2022, 8pm The Mournful Croon: A Celebration of Mayo Folk Song will be a music concert featuring a number of Mayo’s established and experienced singers of folk and traditional Irish songs. The songs will come from the rich repertoire of Mayo folk songs and the concert will feature the performers singing as well as talking about the origins of, the songs. The concert is presented by Ballina Arts Centre in partnership with the Ballina Fringe Festival, as part of the Home to Mayo: Ballina weekend. The event will ...

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Home to Mayo Tradfest Gala Concert in association with Mayo Manchester music

Saturday 28 MayDoors 7.30pm show starts 8pm After an absence of almost three years Mayo Manchester returns again to Ballina to stage another one of their legendary sell out shows.This flagship Home to Mayo Tradfest Gala concert is to celebrate the month long ‘Home to Mayo’ festival. It will feature a host of Mayo and Manchester’s premier Irish musicians, singers and dancers.The evening will be hosted by Alan Keegan, the voice of Old Trafford at Manchester United Football Club. Performers include the award-winning Fianna Phadraig Irish Pipe Band, the Turley Duggan Irish Dance Academy, Irish Musicians and Singers from Centre ...

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The Nutcracker dance

Morrison School of Dance Sunday 29th May, 2.30pm Morrison School of Dance is excited to be back on the stage of the Ballina Arts Centre. This year's show is The Nutcracker Ballet with children from the schools in Swinford and Ballina. The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act ballet, with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from ETA Hoffmann's 1816 short story ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’. Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. The complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies around the world. The ballet's ...

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Bealtaine: Introduction to Printmaking with Marianne Heemskerk workshop

Printmaking Workshop for older people as part of the Bealtaine Festival This workshop will introduce printmaking to older people. Participants will – under the guidance of Marianne Heemskerk – be working with techniques of drypoint and carborundum on aluminium plates, and monoprinting; working from their own designs; and experimenting with print techniques and colour. No previous experience required. Marianne Heemskerk is a locally-based visual artist. Originally from Holland, Marianne has been living in Ireland for many years and has extensive experience in the practice and teaching of printmaking. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and her work is in a ...

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Blackbird theatre

Blackbird by David Harrower Decadent Theatre Company Decadent Theatre Company continues to forge a theatrical path to venues around Ireland with a national tour of David Harrower’s award-winning drama, Blackbird. Directed by Andrew Flynn, it comes to Ballina Arts Centre on Thursday 2nd June as part of an extensive tour running from April to June 2022. Blackbird was an adrenaline jolt to critics and audiences alike when it premiered at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival. It has since received productions around the world including in the West End where it won the 2007 Olivier Award for Best New Play and on ...

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Sean Lysaght: New Leaf book launch literature

Join us for a reading and get-together to celebrate the publication of Seán Lysaght’s latest poetry collection, New Leaf (Gallery Press). Seán will be reading from and talking about his new book, including celebrations of the living world, both in Mayo and farther afield. Seán Lysaght is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Mouth of a River (2007) and Carnival Masks (2014) from Gallery Press. He has also published two prose accounts of Mayo’s wildlife and landscape, Eagle Country (2018) and Wild Nephin (2020). He lives in Westport. Adm: free. All welcome.

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Shirley Valentine theatre

Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine Starring Norma Sheahan Following its sell-out run at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre in October 2021, treat yourself to an evening of laughter and triumph, as Norma Sheahan, one of Ireland’s leading dramatic actors, breathes new life into Willy Russell’s effervescent and iconic character... SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Trapped in a dreary marriage and humdrum life, Shirley wonders when she lost her hopeful, youthful self. With no support from her demanding husband, snooty neighbour, or self-absorbed teens, Shirley resorts to full-blown (although somewhat one-sided) conversations with her kitchen wall. So, when a divorced friend asks Shirley to ...

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Tom Meskell: Moy Dreaming - Lantern-Making Workshop workshop

Saturday 11th, 18th and 25th June 10.30am-3pm In this series of workshops for children (aged 10 – 12 years old) i Tom will create a host of lantern creatures and forms inspired by the river Moy and the dreams the Moy has when it sleeps! Using only wire, tissue, glue and tape the young artists will be guided in the basics of lantern-making which will result in an installation of lantern sculptures. The workshops will be guided and facilitated by Tom but the creatures will be decided by the participants, creating a truly participant-led installation. These workshops will give the participants a chance to be part of ...