Culture Night Kildare 2014
Welcome to Kildare’s Culture Night programme for 2014. Now in its fifth year in the county, the Culture Night programme has gone from strength to strength and is packed full of workshops, tours, talks, performances, exhibitions and other arts and culture events. Events take place throughout the county and are being presented by a range of professionals and community artists – this is a fabulous opportunity to survey and explore the rich arts and culture living in Kildare. There is something for all ages and tastes and interests. Every event listed here is free of charge, so there is no reason to stay at home. So stay local or go somewhere new – Explore, Experience and Enjoy all that Kildare has to offer !
ALL EVENTS LISTED HERE ARE FREE!
The Signworks Project
Tel: 045 448 318
Email:
Web: www.kildaresignworks.wordpress.com/
www.briancreganphotography.com
Kildare County Council Arts Service seeks good homes for a number of artworks previously commissioned by the service and created by designer John Mangan. The works are life-size metal signs and would make a unique installation hanging in a home, garden or studio. Project curator Brian Cregan invites artists and artistically minded people to make an expression of interest, in the form of an artwork, as to why they would like to receive one of these road signs. Project participants who receive a road sign will be expected to be photographed with the sign in their own environment.
The project will be launched online on Culture Night 2014.
KILCOCK
Kilcock Art Gallery
Irish Wildlife and Landscape – An exhibition of oil paintings by Sarah Corner
Time: Friday 19th September 6pm – 8pm
Address: Kilcock Art Gallery, School St., Kilcock
Email:
Tel: 01 628 7619 or 086 257 8283
Web: www.kilcockartgallery.com
The Gallery was established by Breda Smyth and opened by George Campbell R.H.A. in 1978. It is a treasure trove of both new and established artistic talent, catering to all tastes. This Culture Night we are delighted to present, an exhibition of wildlife paintings by Sarah Corner. Taking inspiration from the landscape around her, Corners paintings reflect a passion for painting the natural world.
Artist Peter Curling, an admirer of her work, says:
“Sarah’s paintings show a remarkable feel for the Irish landscape, wildlife and all animals in their natural surroundings. Her unique handling of oil paints and her subtle palette give her paintings a special light and help her to capture the stillness of the quiet corners she chooses to paint. Her affinity with nature comes across strongly and the smaller details in her paintings have been closely observed, giving the work an authenticity which is rarely found.”
Peter Curling
Larchill Arcadian Gardens
Open Evening
Time: Friday 19th September 4pm – 8pm
Address: Kilcock
Email:
Tel: 01 628 7354
Web: www.larchill.com
Larchill Arcadian Garden is a unique 18th century Ferme Ornee parkland garden set within a rural landscape with lake, tree lined walks, follies and a formal walled garden. Visitors are welcome to enjoy a peaceful stroll through the embellished natural landscape and wildlife. Picnics are welcome, so bring a basket full of treats and explore all the gardens have to offer!
Gates close 8.00pm and visitors may stay until 9.00pm.
Kilcock Community Library (will need stock image)
Comhaltas
Time: Friday 19th September 8pm – 10pm
Address: Kilcock Library, Butler's Lane, Kilcock
Email:
Tel: 01 628 4403
Web: www.kildare.ie/Library/Library/KilcockLibrary/
Kilcock Community Library will host a Traditional Evening of music, song, stories and dance, featuring our local Comhaltas group.
MAYNOOTH
Russell Library
Tours of the Library’s Collection
Time: Friday 19th September 3pm – 7pm (hourly tours, with the last tour starting @ 6pm).
Address: The Library, NUI Maynooth
Email:
Tel: 01 708 3890
Web: www.library.nuim.ie/russell
This beautiful library is home to a unique collection of manuscripts, archives and early printed works and a fine example of Pugin architecture. Join a guided tour of the Russell Library and admire the beautiful work. Make your way to the library early as tours are on a first-come, first- served basis. (Max 30 per tour).
Maynooth Film for All presents The Princess Bride
Time: Friday 19th September 6pm
Where: Physics Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth
Email:
Tel: 045 448 328
Web: www.kildare.ie/film
A film for all the family - The Princess Bride tells the story of Buttercup and the love of her life, Westley. Rob Reiner's classic fairy tale from 1987 has swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess, and yes, some kissing! And, its as good as you remember.
The screenings is in association with access>Cinema. Booking recommended
Maynooth Film for All launches Maynooth Experimental
When: Friday 19th September 8pm
Where: Physics Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth
Email:
Tel: 045 448 328
Web: www.kildare.ie/film
This is definitely a first for Maynooth ! Artist Fifi Smith invites you to delve into the strange world of experimental short movies. Join her as she traces both the origins and the diversity of this off-beat area of film making. An illustrated talk featuring examples of the best experimental short films of the last one hundred years followed by Q&A
Explore @ The National Science Museum
St. Patrick’s College Maynooth
Time: Friday 19th September 7pm – 10pm & Sunday 21st September 2pm – 6pm
Address: St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Email:
Tel: 087 915 2003
Web: www.nuim.ie/museum
Home to the largest collection of historical scientific instruments in Ireland, the National Science Museum offers visitors the chance to explore the collection which includes the instruments of Nicholas Calla, Marconi and Yeates & Sons, manufactures and exporters of scientific apparatus all over the world from 1880 to 1920.
The museum is also home to a large collection of religious artefacts including vestments, penal crosses and silver plate. Highlights from the vestment collection includes gold garments presented by the Empress of Austria in 1880 and the death mask of Daniel O’Connell.
Maynooth Community Library
Jack Flash Magic Floor Show
Time: Friday 19th September 11.30am – 12.30pm
Address: Main Street, Maynooth
Email:
Tel: 01 628 5530
Web: www.kildare.ie/Library/Library/maynoothLibrary/
The whole family is invited to come down to the library and see Jack Flash perform his fabulous Magic Floor Show. Come along and be razzle dazzled !
Advanced Booking Required
WISH CLASH
An Exhibition by Mark Durkan
Time: Friday 19th September 6pm
Address: Carton House, Maynooth
Email:
Web: www.markdurkan.com / www.cartonhouse.com
WISH CLASH will see Mark transform the Morrison Room in Carton House into a futuristic fantasy world. In this fantasy, the artist imagines a fate where human population has dramatically decreased, making material opulence abundant and renewing a ritualistic emphasis on the acquirement of vital resources. Using principles of interior design and elements of survival skills, he explores a newly emergent symbolic order. Role-playing within this world, he collects this future’s abandoned goods and reuses and revalues them as relics and raw materials for a new age.
Mark has a First Class BA from NCAD. He has exhibited widely, including Pixxelpoint Slovenia, The Lab Dublin, The Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and Visual Carlow. He has also exhibited in Tokyo, Milan and Berlin.
LEIXLIP
Leixlip Community Library (Lucina Image)
The Kildare Biennale at Leixlip Community Library
Time: Friday 19th September from 7.30pm
Address: Leixlip Community Library, Captain's Hill, Leixlip
Email:
Tel: 01 606 0050
Web: www.kildare.ie/library/library/leixliplibrary/
This exhibition is a celebration of the quality and diversity of art in Kildare. It brings together a group of eight Kildare artists chosen by the art-historian, Maebh O'Regan for her book entitled Studio Secrets: Art in Kildare, which will be launched on Culture Night.
The artists represent a range of media and approaches in their work as they respond to different issues: Martin Gale: figure in a landscape, Janet Colgan: the built environment, Philippa Bayliss: painting from the motif, Cathy Callan: modern portraiture, Jarlath Daly: public sculpture, Sarah Browne: socially engaged art, Joe Butler: creating sculpture from found objects, Chara Nagle: exploring the horse industry in Ireland. The Kildare Biennale is a heady mix of traditional craftsmanship and innovative thought.
The official launch of the exhibition and Maebh’s book will take place on Culture Night followed by a guided viewing of the exhibition with Maebh. Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome
The exhibition will be available to view during Library Open Door times until Sat 4th October.
Platform4 Audio and Digital Media Studio
Recording Time in the Studio
Time: Friday 19th September, all day
Address: Leixlip Community Library, Captain’s Hill, Leixlip
Email:
Tel: 045 448 328
Web: www.kildare.ie/platform4
With our House Sound Engineer, professionally record your own song in an intensive one hour slot and leave the session with your song on CD/USB (USB must be provided).
This opportunity is suitable for:
* Singer/songwriters who want to record an original song.
* Singers who want to record a single vocal track.
* Singer/songwriters who want to record a vocal and a guitar track.
(Under 18’s must be accompanies by an adult)
Advanced Booking is Essential
Leixlip Youth and Community Centre
Culture in Your Local Community
Time: Friday 19th September 7pm – 8.30pm
Address: Leixlip Youth & Community Centre, Newtown House, Captains Hill, Leixlip
Email:
Tel: 01 624 7435
Web: www.lycc.ie
A showcase of the very best of Youth drama, arts, and performance at your local community Centre.
Open to all members of the public young and old, no booking necessary. Groups who are interested in taking part should contact the Centre.
CELBRIDGE
Celbridge Community Library (will need stock image)
Abbey Art Group
Time: Friday 19th September from 7pm
Address: Celbridge Library, St. Patrick’s Park, Celbridge
Email: mail
Tel: 01 627 2207/ 087 954 3310
Web: www.kildare.ie/library
Abbey Art Group will hold an Art Exhibition of its members work for one night only! The Abbey Art Group is a society of local artists who come together one evening a week in Scoil na Mainistreacht to paint. The group was established in the early 1980s and is still going strong.
The Liffey Valley Orchestra
An Evening of Light Orchestral Classics
Time: Friday 19th September 7pm – 8pm
Address: The Orchard Home and Garden Centre, Celbridge
Email: /
Tel: 087 281 5007
Web: www.liffeyvalleyorchestra.com / www.theorchard.ie
The Liffey Valley Orchestra and the Orchard Home and Garden Centre invite all the family to an early evening concert of light orchestral classics. Established in 1991, The Liffey Valley Orchestra caters for players of all ages and musical ability. This concert will be indoors. Booking is not required and seating is unallocated, so arrive early to ensure a seat !
Maynooth Gospel Choir @ the ACRE Centre
Time: Friday 19th September 8pm – 9pm
Address: The ACRE Centre, Salesian College, Maynooth Road, Celbridge
Tel: 045 448 328
Web: www.maynoothgospel.com
The fabulous Maynooth Gospel Choir will perform an intimate concert in the ACRE project. Always a hit wherever they play, The Maynooth Gospel Choir leave audiences uplifted, enthralled and entertained with their infectious Gospel sound and positive attitude.
The ACRE is an eco-friendly community garden and resource area developed by the community for intergenerational projects. This beautiful, inspirational space has free parking and wheelchair access.
Advanced Booking Required
Celbridge Community Centre, The Mill
Harvest Festival Variety Night 2014
Time: Saturday 20th September 7.30pm
Address: The Function Hall, Celbridge Community Centre, The Mill
Email:
Tel : 01 628 8556
Web: celbridgemillcommunitycentre.ie
A variety showcase from the many talented arts and cultural groups who use our facilities. This jam packed programme includes performances by Acting the Maggot Theatre Company, Playacting School of Speech & Drama, Orla Gildea`s Speech and Drama, Performing Arts Academy, Irish Dancing, Wholly Idle, Celbridge Youth Drama, Tanya Michelle School of Dance, the Winners of Celbridge Youth Café Battle of the Bands, Bollywood Dance, a Children’s Colouring Competition Display with special guests The Celbridge Straffan Gospel Choir.
Galway Tenors @ Castletown House
Time: Friday 19th September 8pm
Address: The Hunting Room in the Stable Wing, Castletown House, Celbridge
Email:
Tel: 01 628 8252
Web: www.castletown.ie
Galway tenors, Sean Costello and Frank Naughton, present ‘Duo Vocis’, celebrating the Great Irish Tenors. The show collectively honours John McCormack, Josef Locke and Frank Patterson, with songs such as ‘The Town I Loved So Well’ and ‘I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen’. This promises to be an evening filled with nostalgia and humour from a time not long past.
Castletown is Ireland’s largest and earliest Palladian style house. It was build between 1722 and 1729 for William Connolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Castletown is now managed by the OPW. The transfer to State ownership has paved the way for a major programme of restoration and conservation work.
Pre-Concert Supper in the Courtyard Café from 6pm. T: 01 6279498; E :
Advanced Booking Required
The Performance Corporation
The Story of Castletown – Audio Tour and Talk
Time: Friday 19th September 6pm – 6.45pm
Address: The Hunting Room in the Stable Wing, Castletown House, Celbridge
Email:
Tel: 01 628 8252 or 086 856 7094
Web: www.theperformancecorporation.com / www.castletown.ie
Explore the secrets of Ireland’s only true palace with this interactive audio tour. Featuring dramatic reconstructions and the voices of those who lived and worked in this great house, this is the fascinating story of lords and ladies, rock stars and rebels, presidents and prima donnas ... and even the devil himself makes a brief appearance. The tour was created by theatre company The Performance Corporation and commissioned by OPW. Writer Tom Swift will also give a short presentation on the making of the tour.
Advanced Booking Required
Derrybeg Farm
An Introduction to Derrybeg Farm
Time: Friday 19th September from 5pm
Address: Derrybeg Farm, Moortown, Celbridge opp. Salesians College on old Maynooth Road
Email:
Tel: 087 619 5518 (Nathan)
Web: www.derrybegfarm.ie
Derrybeg Farm is an example of community-supported agriculture (CSA), a community who contract the work of growing food to a young local grower, Nathan Jackson. Building a direct relationship between the farmer and the members who consume the food produced, these members pay in advance, thereby ensuring a regular payment for the grower. If the harvest is good, the members get some extra food, if the harvest is poor, the members get less, but the grower still gets paid.
Growing at Derrybeg commenced only in April 2014, but are nevertheless providing food each week for over 30 households. We have room to grow and spaces for more members.
Come for a walk around and meet some of the members. Experience the work involved in running a holding of this size, see the layout, the food as it grows, the tools used, the modern and age-old solutions that are employed. Bring wellingtons in case it's mucky ! Suitable for all ages.