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Solarus Rocks Roscommon
Saturday 4th September | 8pm | Early Bird: €10 (valid until 1st Sept) Standard Ticket €13
Local band Solarus formed in The Melting Pot Mix return to the arts centre with support band 'Spiral Force' from Belfast.
Fans of classic rock will love this gig. Not to be missed! This show is set to rock Roscommon!
Quantum Theatre presents Alice Through the Looking Glass
Saturday 24th July | 12pm | €9/€7 (Family of Four Ticket: €28)
Follows Alice’s fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her sitting-room fireplace. As she crosses a giant chess board she meets some of Lewis Carroll’s most memorable and fantastical characters: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Walrus and the Carpenter, The Lion and the Unicorn and the Jabberwock.
Alice Through the Looking Glass is a summer delight, to be enjoyed by children of all ages from five to one hundred and five. A captivating mix of fantasy, songs and stagecraft; a theatrical treat for all the family.
Songs of Percy French
with Toni Walsh
Wednesday 21st July | 8pm | €12 / €10
Toni returns to the Percy French Summer School following her hugely popular and remarkable performance at Roscommon County Library last year. She will be accompanied by harpist Teresa O’Donnell.
Toni Walsh is an award-winning soprano who, since 1997 has worked as assistant lecturer in the Department of Vocal, Operatic and Dramatic Studies at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. She has performed in venues including the Hugh Lane Gallery and in the National Concert Hall Summer Opera Series playing leading roles in Operatic Scenes, including Mozart’s Così fan tutti, and A.J.Potter’s modern opera The Wedding. She has also toured with Opera Theatre Company.
Fading not Ending
Maggie Madden
Friday 9th July - Thursday 5th August | viewing during centre opening hours | Opening Reception: 9th July, 5.30pm - 7pm
Maggie Madden has a preference for time-consuming and intricate processes creating works that reflect on the relationships between urban and rural landscapes. The objects born of these processes are crafted out of discarded and humble materials and often have a fragility that teeters on the brink of collapse. These detailed constructions have the potential for endless expansion, to grow outward from densely ordered space and continue boundlessly. In the works there are open ended references to our networked world, communication and transport systems, infrastructures of contemporary life in modern cities.
A wide range of accumulated materials and fragments are transformed through simple yet careful tasks of cutting and gluing. Scale plays an important role in the work in trying to capture vastness in the delicately minute. A Lilliputian sense of scale sometimes brings a playful nature to the work.
Originally from Connemara, (b.1976) Maggie now lives and works in Dublin. She studied Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design and received an MFA from NCAD in 2006. Recent exhibitions include Light and Dark, Cake Contemporary Arts, 2010, Preponderance of the Small, Off Site Gallery 3 project, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2009, Make, Shift and Bend, CGP London. In 2008 she participated in Triangle Arts International Workshop, New York. Fading not Ending is her first solo exhibition.
Summer Singing Camp
Choral Academy Ireland
Monday 5th - Friday 9th July | 10am - 4pm Daily | €120
Following the success of last summer’s camp, Jim Maley returns with the 2nd annual Singing School. It continues to be a huge success with a dedicated qualified team of tutors covering a wide programme of songs and music that appeal to all ages.The Singing School aims to give young people who enjoy singing, the chance to learn and develop their talents with qualified and experienced tutors. Participants will be encouraged to sing as part of a group in harmonies and solos and also receive a specialised singing lesson to cater for the individual needs of their voice. Family and friends will also get a chance to see a showcase performance by participants on the final day of camp and they’re guaranteed to be stunned at what can be achieved in a week.Suitable for ages 10+. Young people from first, second or third level are welcome to join.
The Miser
Lyric Theatre Belfast
Friday 25th June | 8pm | €18 / €16
This classic costume comedy is an uproarious tale of true love between a man and his money. Set in the 17th century, ‘The Miser’ tells the story of Harpingon, a wealthy but stingy man. When old widower Harpingon decides to marry off his children against their will, he sets the entire family scheming to steal his fortune. With forbidden romance in the air and the family treasure buried in the backyard, it's a race to see who will come out on top. Can Harpingon stay a stride ahead and hang onto his beloved hoard—getting himself a hot young bride to boot? Or will his kids succeed in foiling his selfish plans? One of the funniest love stories ever told...about a man and his money! Contains strong language, we are delighted to welcome the Lyric Theatre to Roscommon.
The Reel Thing presents Tiarnan O'Duinnchinn & Laoise Kelly
Strokestown Park House
Thursday 24th June | 8pm | €14 / €12
Strokestown Park House
Tiarnán is an award-winning uilleann piper from Monaghan who started playing as a child in the Armagh Pipers Club. A four-time Fleadh Ceoil All-Ireland winner and has two Oireachtas titles, he has been touring and performing professionally at home and abroad for the last fifteen years and has often played and presented radio and television programmes. Tiarnán will be joined by harpist Laoise Kelly who is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s most acclaimed traditional harpers. She has pioneered a new style of traditional harping which has seen her represent Ireland at the World Harp Festival and perform for dignitaries including President Mary McAleese. This months Reel Thing programme continues in the galley kitchen of Strokestown Park House.
His & Hers
Access Cinema
Friday 18th - Saturday 19th June | Friday 18th; 8pm. Saturday 19th; 6pm & 8pm | €8
Ireland l 2009 l 80 minutesDIRECTOR : Ken Wardrop
PRODUCER: Andrew Freedman CINEMATOGRAPHY : Kate McCullough, Michael LavelleEDITING : Ken WardropMUSIC: Dennis Clohessy
Interviewing 70 women from the Irish Midlands in their own homes, including Strokestown’s Miriam Gunn and Nuala McGowan, ‘His & Hers’ is cut precisely in short, individual bursts, even if the overall effect is gentle. In effect, it’s a cradle-to-grave look at women, from a red-haired baby in a cot to a 90-year-old lady staring out of the window of a nursing home. An enchanting portrait of Irish women as they share in a frank, funny and gracious story of their relationships with men from childhood to dating and marriage to old age.
“A man loves his girlfriend the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Old Irish ProverbFrom kitchens, living rooms, and hallways across the Irish midlands, His & Hers delightfully combines observation and charm to tell a 90-year-old love story through the voices of 70 women. This intimate gender and cultural snapshot explores a woman’s relationships with the men in her life—father, boyfriend, husband, son. Following sequentially from little girl to old woman, each character portrait is woven with the others into one perfectly crafted cinematic quilt.
His & Hers is an enchanting and affectionate appreciation for woman in all her versatility. Award winning short film director Ken Wardrop (Undressing My Mother, The Herd) has applied his signature style, marking an accomplished feature debut.Over 80 minutes, the short interviews come in waves: from the little girl who would like a dog but tells us ‘my daddy prefers fish because they don’t make any noise’, and on to the teenager whose father is teaching her to drive. ‘I haven’t knocked no-one down yet’, she says proudly. It’s only after you’ve left their front rooms, their cosy pine kitchens, that you realise you have watched the whole of life fly by, with its biggest hopes and dreams there, naked to the eye. These capable women, the ladies of the Irish midlands, are an easy lot to be around. One elderly lady talks about what she’d do if she won the lottery, before admitting, ‘well, I can’t win the lottery, because I don’t do it’.Winner “Best Irish Feature", Galway Film Fleadh 2009Winner “World Cinema Cinematography Award”, Sundance Film Festival 2010Winner “Audience Award”, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010Winner “Critics Choice Award”, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010Winner “Feature Documentary”, Irish Film and Television Awards 2010
