Ballina Arts Centre Events

Events for 23 May 2022

15:00

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. ...

13:00

Bealtaine: The Secret Scripture film finished

(Dir: Jim Sheridan, Ireland¸ 2016, 108 mins) After an eclectic range of films in recent years, Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) returns to Irish themes and material with this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s acclaimed novel. The elderly Rose (the inimitable Vanessa Redgrave) is the last patient remaining in a psychiatric hospital, firmly refusing to transfer to another facility. Dr William Grene (Eric Bana) is called in, and his sympathetic approach leads Rose to recount the story of how, as a young woman (Rooney Mara) in Sligo, she met and fell in love with Michael McNulty (Jack Reynor), arousing ...