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SUMMARY:Objects and Oscillations- Brian Hegarty
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by Brian Hegarty presented by Droichead Arts Centre in association with Drogheda Arts Festival 2022. \nHegarty’s practice is an exploration on the transverse between the visual and sound\, using a combine of collage\, appropriation and audio elements. Over the last few years the vinyl lp cover has become his medium of choice\, folding together an interest in cultural imagery and a love of music. While past works were a direct recontextualizing of appropriated images from the record sleeves the new work aims to open up the narrative and delve into a psychological reworking of the source material pushing the work into a more abstract terrain. \nThere is a symbiotic relationship between my experience of music and the visual language of my work. Structures and strategies found in music where the idea of inverting and juxtaposing creates new possibilities has become an underpinning within my work” \nThis exhibition will also feature aspects from ‘thirtythree-45’ a crossover project in Brian’s practice where he promotes underground music\, runs a D.I.Y music label\, publishes photo zines and streams an internet radio station. \nOpening 4pm on 30 April.Running until Sat 18 June.
URL:https://droghedaartsfestival.ie/event/objects-and-oscillations-brian-hegarty/
LOCATION:Droichead Arts Centre
CATEGORIES:All Events,Upcoming
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SUMMARY:Unique Voices in Poetry
DESCRIPTION:*Due to circumstances beyond our control Unique Voices in Poetry will now be moved to an online event!*\nKeep an eye out for more details TBA\nJoin us for an intimate event with two poets published by independent west of Ireland publisher Doire Press. The themes of love\, sensuality and the body feature heavily in the work of Dimitra Xidous\, while Moyra Donaldson’s collections Carnivorous and Bone House explore myth\, motherhood and grief. Both poets will read from their work and will be interviewed. The evening will be moderated by award winning poet Jessica Traynor. \nDimitra Xidous is a poet and writer living and working permanently in Ireland since 2011. In 2019\, she was awarded a Markievicz Bursary for (S)worn State(s)\, a poetry collaboration with Kimberly Campanello and Annemarie Ní Churreáin. Her poems and essays have appeared in gorse\, The Stinging Fly\, Room Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her collaboration with Irish-based artist and printmaker Ria Czerniak-LeBov\, (M)other\, M(other)\, is forthcoming from gorse editions. Keeping Bees\, her debut poetry collection\, was published by Doire Press in 2014 and Μηδέν | Oὐδέν was published in 2020. \nMoyra Donaldson is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet and creative writing facilitator from County Down. In 2019 she was awarded a prestigious Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She has published seven collections of poetry\, including a Selected Poems\, and her awards include the Women’s National Poetry Competition\, The Allingham Award\, Cúirt New Writing Award\, North West Words Poetry Award and the Belfast Year of the Writer Award. She has also been widely published in magazines\, journals and anthologies in Europe\, Australia and the USA. Her poems have featured on BBC radio and television\, on American national radio and television\, and she has read at festivals in Europe\, Canada and America. Her collections Carnivorous and Bone House are published by Doire Press.\n \nJessica Traynor is an award-winning poet\, creative writing teacher and dramaturg from Dublin. Her debut collection\, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press\, 2014)\, was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award and was named one of the best poetry debuts of the past five years on Bustle.com. In 2019\, she co-edited book Correspondences: an anthology to call for an end to direct provision with actor Stephen Rea\, bringing together asylum seekers in Ireland’s direct provision system with Irish writers.
URL:https://droghedaartsfestival.ie/event/unique-voices-in-poetry/
LOCATION:Online TBA
CATEGORIES:This week events,Upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20220501T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20220501T213000
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SUMMARY:Nós Nua - Louth Youth Folk Orchestra\, Mohsen Amini and Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Drogheda Arts Festival is delighted to host this world premiere of specially commissioned work “Causeway”\, performed by Nós Nua – LouthYouth Folk Orchestra\, composed in collaboration with Multi-Award Winning musician Mohsen Amini\, who will also perform a concert with special guests on this double headed bill. \n“Causeway”\, is inspired by the story of the Giants Causeway\, and the cultural connections between Scotland and Ireland.  Nós Nua\, is made up of youth musicians from across Louth\, Meath\, Monaghan\, Cavan & Armagh. The Causeway project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland\, through the Young Ensemble Scheme. The project has been delayed by two years due to the Covid-19 Pandemic with much of the preparation taking place on zoom\, with in person rehearsals commencing in January 2022. \nScottish Multi-Award Winning Folk musicians Mohsen Amini and Benedict Morris have just returned from a 5 week tour of America\, performing in 14 states with their band Talisk and will be joined by Mohsen’s bandmate from Ímar\, Ryan Murphy (pipes & flute) and virtuoso guitarist Shane McCartan for this exclusive performance. \nNós Nua began in 2017 and is a joint initiative of Music Generation Louth and Oriel Centre\, Dundalk Gaol (Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann regional centre for the northeast). \nNós Nua was the first folk orchestra to perform at the Festival of Youth Orchestras in the National Concert Hall\, Dublin. They have performed on TG4’s Fleadh TV\, at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Drogheda and recently recorded music for John Creedon’s Atlas of Ireland. The young people have worked with artists and composers such as Zoe Conway\, Dónal Ó Connor\, Martin Power and Scottish based supergroup Ímar. \nVIEW PROGRAMME
URL:https://droghedaartsfestival.ie/event/nos-nua-louth-youth-folk-orchestra-mohsen-amini-and-special-guests/
LOCATION:The Barbican
CATEGORIES:All Events,Upcoming
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20220501T213000
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SUMMARY:The Morning Side of the Mountain
DESCRIPTION:Upstate Theatre Project presents The Morning Side of the Mountain\, in association with Drogheda Arts Festival. \nUpstate\, Visual Artist Vivienne Byrne and musician/composer Breifne Holohan introduce you to story tellers Peadar and Kathleen Elmore and their home in the Cooley peninsula. Their life story is presented and told through pre-recorded audio conversations with the couple\, projected family photographs and film footage of the Cooley landscape along with music especially composed and performed live.  \nThrough recorded conversations\, the couple tell tales of endurance through the upheavals of World War II\, the trials of the Troubles and the delights in the finer things of a simple life in rural Ireland\, lived in the beautiful surroundings of Cooley.  \nIn 2019 Upstate Theatre Project in partnership with the Carlingford Heritage Trust undertook a series of recorded conversations with members of the Cooley peninsula\, resulting in the first oral history archive of the Cooley region. \nAmongst the many voices recorded were the couple Peadar and Kathleen. Both have sadly passed away due to Covid-19. This project pays tribute to a wonderful couple who’s stories of a long life\, was shaped by landscape\, time and culture.   \nThe Company \nUpstate Theatre Project was initiated in 1997 as a community-centred performing arts organisation. The company has developed a unique methodology rooted in community arts and has evolved a participatory and collaborative ethos and practice that is celebrated locally\, nationally and internationally. Upstate Theatre Project assisted in the development of the Drogheda Arts Festival and its evolution. The company has contributed as a programmer and artistic contributor over the arts festival’s history with particular emphasis on community-centred performances. \nVivienne Byrne \nVisual Artist and cultural activist\, Vivienne’s work traverses the many boundaries of visual mediums working as an illustrator\, videographer\, graphic designer. She also incorporates drawing\, painting\, print\, sculpture\, performance as well as video editing\, projections and digital technologies in her solo work. She is a founding member of Borrowed Ground Artist Studio and Chairperson of the Droichead Arts Centre.  \nBreifne Holohan \nBreifne is a musician and composer from Drogheda. As both a composer and musician he has won a number of awards including the Bill Whelan International Music Bursary for Young Composers. He released his debut\, Eastern Passages\, an album of original compositions for electric guitar and electronics. He has written scores for The Dream Work\, a Collaborative Artists Company production\, and Kelley-Abbott Dance Theatre productions. He has produced albums and recordings for My Fellow Sponges\, Roisin Ward Morrow and Sean Matthews. He is founding member of fusion/ambient project\, six-string drum and is guitarist in traditional Irish duo\, Uisneach. \nJohn McGovern \n\nJohn McGovern is the Technical Manager for the Droichead Arts Centre and Production Manager for a number of Upstate Theatre Project’s public presentations including\, Lighting and Set Designer for Urban Oratorio\, Lighting Designer and Production Manager for Lysis a built audio/visual installation. John also collaborated with Vivienne Byrne on Light Boat at High Tide a sculptural installation in Ship Street\, Drogheda.\n\n\nBOOK NOW
URL:https://droghedaartsfestival.ie/event/the-morning-side-of-the-mountain/
LOCATION:Droichead Arts Centre
CATEGORIES:All Events,Upcoming
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SUMMARY:ROGU Double Bill - an evening of fire\, mystery and magic
DESCRIPTION:Drogheda Arts Festival is proud to present ROGU Double Bill – two street performances in the stunning surroundings of Millmount – an evening of fire\, mystery and magic. \nMeet Riuchi – a warrior and alchemist at once. Riuchi emerged from a mystical Eastern land and is inspired by the performers Asian cultural roots and by Japanese animation\, dreaming of jumping high while launching fireballs at imaginary assailants. Follow Riuchi through his adventures of struggle and triumph\, crafting a visual realm that defies logic\, gravity and expectations mixing traditional and contemporary magic techniques through martial arts\, to produce an unexpected sense of wonder. \nRiuchi has received several awards and became one of the winners of Ireland’s “New Emerging Artists” for 2016. \nElement – join two of Cork County’s finest fire and circus performers who bring us on a journey of transformation as they invoke the primal power of the flame to deliver an inspiring and empowering spectacle fire performance. \nFlames\, sparks and movement paint spectacular spellbinding scenes and invite the audience to another world of possibility. A visually stunning experience of fire and movement that is suitable for audiences of all ages. Experience ROGU’s unique vision of the art of fire and light. \n“An intriguing Synthesis of technology and a skilled and imaginative performer” The Irish Times \nLIT awards best video performance 2022 Finalist \nROGU  \nA fire\, light and movement arts performance and education company based in Ireland. By fusing the spectacular nature of circus and fire performance together with the illusions of magic and object manipulation along with expressiveness of dance and theatre ROGU focuses on creating shows that push the boundaries of what fire and light performance can be.  \nPlease note this is an outdoor performance – dress comfortably 
URL:https://droghedaartsfestival.ie/event/rogu-double-bill-an-evening-of-fire-mystery-and-magic/
LOCATION:Millmount
CATEGORIES:All Events,Upcoming
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