Culture Night - Taking place in venues all across Kilkenny city.
On Friday September 23rd Kilkenny?s galleries, venues, studio and theatre will open their doors late into the evening offering FREE events for all to enjoy as part of Culture Night 2011. So please take this opportunity to experience and enjoy a diverse range of fun and entertainment, including music, visual art, craft, stories, poetry and plays. The only difficulty will be deciding what to do first!
An evening with Katie Kim and band will take place in the Hole In The Wall. Katie Kim is the pseudonym of Katie Sullivan when she performs and records her Slowcore, ethereal, ambient folk/pop. Paired with vocals that have been compared to Zola Jesus, CoCo Rosie, Cat Power and Joanna Newsome , the music revolves and swims around layers of fuzzy drips and murky clouds but always seems to come to an elegant conclusion.
Following Katie Kim is Jeffrey Gormly?s play ?Play3some?. With tones of Beckett mixed with hip-hop ?Play3some? is a play about love, romance and confusion. Appealing to anyone whose ever been in a relationship or looking for one, it is funny, shocking, cheeky and tender. It pushes the boundaries of theatrical expectation during an hour long interactive playreading where audience members are invited to read from the script and become vocally entangled with the other players. (Please note: not for under 16. Contains moderately explicit content.)
Everything is a Remix at the Butler Gallery with a ?smoke and mirrors? viewing of Ian Burn?s Supreme Fiction exhibition. Experience a host of talks, screenings, performances and ?interruptions? programmed by curatorial collective. Additional activity on the night platforms the Gallery?s work with audience groups including an exhibition of children?s work from Solas workshops, a display of Hedge School sketchbooks and input from their youth group, Red Square.
Enjoy a Crafty Culture Night at the National Craft Gallery for an eclectic and eccentric mix of music, performance and making in celebration of Culture Night and Year of Craft 2011. Enjoy hourly Guided Tours of the ?Modified Expressions? Exhibition where artists who work with the manipulation of books and paper respond to the work of authors participating in the Kilkenny Arts Festival literature strand. You can also take the opportunity to participate in a paper-making workshop or make your very own bespoke hat for Crafted Cabaret with milliner Rebekah Patterson.
Hosted by the Kilkenny Writers Group, you are invited to come and celebrate at ?Let Down Your Hair?, a subtle blend of culture and art in the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle. The evening will a guest poet read from their own collection and share valuable insight. Come along, stay and be entertained while you have a drink and get to know your local voice.
The Watergate will open its doors for audiences to see ?The Crucible?, Arthur Miller?s classic portrait of one man?s struggle toward grace is set in the scorching context of the 17th-Century Salem witch trials.
Blackstack Studio will host an evening of workshops and demonstrations to give an insight into the processes involved in fine art printmaking. The workshops will focus on drypoint printing and aim to give a brief introduction to intaglio printmaking. Suitable for all levels.
And there is so much more!?..
The Heritage Council of Ireland presents an evening of atmospherically lit music recital; the Blackbird Gallery will open its door to the public late into the evening; Treasures of Kilkenny can be seen at Kilkenny Borough Council, City Hall providing the public with an opportunity to see selected items from Kilkenny City Archives, including the Liber Primus and the charters of 1608 and 1609 and Kilkenny City Library will celebrate Polish Culture with music, dance, storytelling, art, reading and samples of Polish cuisine. Hosted by the Irish Conker Championship committee, the book reading ?Old friends: The lost tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill? by Tom O?Neill at St. Lachtain?s Church in Freshford.
Finally, at MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre Deirdre Harte will host ?Up-Cycling Demonstrations?, giving an insight into the processes of how to upgrade your old clothes into amazing outfits using skills such as simple stitch, embellishment and embroidery. In using fashion, clothing and textiles as a medium to create art these demos engage the public and spread the message that the fashion industry and our choices in general can and should be better. The audience will be taken through the basic skills needed to embrace reinventing and rethinking textiles and items of clothing.
ALL CULTURE NIGHT EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE! So make the most of it with family and friends and enjoy a night of entertainment, discovery and adventure in Kilkenny.
Brochures and maps will be available at the following venues: *Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, no. 76 John Street, *County Hall, *City Hall, the *Butler Gallery, the *National Craft Gallery, *Rothe House, *St. Canices Cathedral, the *Tholsel, the *Hole In The Wall, the *Blackbird Gallery, the *Watergate Theatre, *MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre, *Blackstack Studio,*Libraries and the Tourist office.
Contact details regarding further details of the individual events are on the brochures. You can also contact Kilkenny County Council Arts Office at 056 779 4138 or sheenagh.green@kilkennycoco.ie / niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie
Culture Night is an initiative co-ordinated by Temple Bar Cultural Trust and supported by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in partnership with Kilkenny County Council.
Source: http://kilkennyevents.ie/2011/culture-night-2011-kilkenny-events/
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