Thursday: Victor Sloan: Drift and L’Elisir d’Amore

ART

Victor Sloan: Drift

FE McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge, Co Down Until Feb 28 femcwilliam.com

Victor Sloan is known for his photographic works on the troubled recent history of Northern Ireland. Drift explores a related though distinct area, tracing the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who settled in Craigavon in 1979. Sloan got to know some of these immigrants, and he has rekindled his friendship with one of them, Ka Fue Lay, now living in Salisbury. In a video piece, Sloan recounts his memories of Vietnam and Northern Ireland. AD

OPERA

L’Elisir d’Amore

Táin Theatre, Dundalk, Co Louth antain.ie €25-30

OTC is currently bringing Donizetti's comic opera in two acts (The Elixir of Love, above, but of course you knew that) around the country. Tonight it's in Dundalk's Táin Theatre, but you can also catch it before that in Kilkenny on Sunday. Fergus Sheil is conducting, with Oliver Mears directing.

Feel free to join in the singing; they love it at the opera when you do that.

Laurence Mackin