Tickets are still available for the final event of the arts-based mental health festival First Fortnight. Featuring rising stars of the Dublin music scene We Cut Corners and Le Galaxie, the gig is at the Button Factory, Dublin, tonight at 8pm (€12). The other main festival event, Pat Kinevane’s play Silent at the Smock Abbey Theatre, is sold out.
For those who haven’t yet caught the annual Turner exhibition at Dublin’s National Gallery, tomorrow offers a chance for an extra insight into the watercolour landscape master with a free public lecture. The talk on “Papers and Pigments: Turner’s Prints and Watercolours” will be given by Ranson Davey of the gallery at 3pm. The gallery’s Turner watercolours are on view until January 31st, admission free.
After the presidency visit of EU commissioners this week, the aptly titled Circus Europe exhibition opens in the Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery in Co Clare today. It features large collages by Dutch artist Machteld van Buren looking at the struggle for survival in European countries. Dutch and Irish poets have also interpreted the images.
[ Ennistymoncourthousegallery.blogspot.ie ]
The first Cork Young Performers Festival concludes this weekend in the Cork Arts Theatre. Tonight Lightbulb Youth Theatre and Dramatricks School take to the stage and there is a solo performance from Máiréad Tyers. Dramatricks closes the festival tomorrow night. Shows are at 8pm and cost €10; family tickets (two adults and two children) are €30.
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