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Kilkenny Arts Festival
10 - 19 AUGUST 2007
www.kilkennyarts.ie
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WELCOME TO OUR 34th FESTIVAL, 10 DAYS OF ENCHANTING ARTISTIC
DELIGHTS FOR ALL! FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON ALL EVENTS, PLEASE
DROP INTO OUR BOX OFFICE, LOCATED THIS YEAR AT THE ST FRANCIS ABBEY
BREWERY, PARLIAMENT STREET (OPPOSITE ROTHE HOUSE).
Kilkenny Arts Festival Box Office
Tel +353 (0)56 775 2175
www.kilkennyarts.ie
Email info@kilkennyarts.ie
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Fergus Cronin (chair), Susan Proud, Donna McGreevy,
Maureen Kennelly, Anna O’Sullivan, Conor Langton,
Thomas O’Toole, Michael O’Toole, Isabell Smyth,
Emer Foley, Orla Kelly
Festival Team
CEO Geraldine Tierney
Administrator Colette Power
Interim Administrator Áine Dennehy
Programme Co-ordinator Rebekah Patterson
Production Manager Michael Burke
Assistant Production Manager Orla Burke
Programme Editor & Publicity Co-ordinator Maeve Butler
Technical Consultant Eamonn Fox
Marketing Consultant Jane Russell
Marketing Assistant Aisling Comerford
PR Kate Bowe PR
Friends & Volunteer Co-ordinator Niamh Duffe
Artist Liaison Rebecca Reynolds
Merchandising Manager Jacqui Dempsey
Box Office Team Tracy Power (Manager)
Lilian Burke, Ami Burke, Liz Nolan, Nicola Young
Graphic Design A&D
Web Design Pixel Design
IT Support Tectrix
Web Maintenance Spot On
Programmers
Theatre/Dance & Street Theatre Jimmy Fay
Classical Music Catherine Leonard
Music Gerry Godley
Literature Colm Tóibín
Visual Art Hugh Mulholland
Children’s Events Emer McGowan
Street Spectacle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 02
Theatre/Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 05
Festival Image Saturio Alonso
Classical Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 09
Thanks to our amazing team of volunteers,
especially all our regulars - we could not do
this without you.
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 19
Thank you to all our sponsors and friends your generosity makes this happen.
Day-by-Day: Main Programme . . . . . . . . » 32
To our programmers and artists –
your passion and commitment inspires us.
To everyone who gets involved –
thank you.
Special thanks to Íde Deloughry, Karen Hanratty,
Caroline Magee, Brian Tyrrell, Tony Walsh, Kathleen
Moran, Ger Cody, Mary Butler, Annette Stapleton,
Peggy Murray, Fintan Blake Kelly, Donal Gibbons,
Denis O’Reilly, Superintendent Pat Mangan, Alison
McGrath, Alexandra Meldrum, Dean Norman Lynas,
Johnny Holden, Winifred Lee Long, Róisín
McQuillan, Eamonn Walsh, Sharon O’Gorman,
John Ryan, Errol Delaney, Brian Kiely, Michael
Lynch, Grace Marshall, Anne Teehan, Frank
Kavanagh, John Purcell, Colm Hogan, Majella
Byrne, Lisa Bourke, Fr William Dalton, Bridget
O’Brien, Betty Brennan, Dalton TV, Michael Gannon,
Maria Comerford, Fiachra de Róiste, Elizabeth
Keyes, Sunniva O’Flynn, Kasandra O’Connell, Julia
Crampton, Marion Acreman, Annemarie O’Meara,
Grace Kearney, Esther Mullins, Gabrielle Hickey,
Blaise Smith, Malcolm Proud, The Cat Laughs,
Tom Watts, John Clarke, Richard Hennessy,
Sammy Geoghegan, Philip Edmondson, Vincent
Dempsey, Sergeant Gary Gordon, Kilkenny College,
Mary Blanchfield, Martin Brett, Michael Brett.
Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 30
Film (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 34
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 35
Visual Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 40
Meet the Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 51
Children’s Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 52
Children’s Art Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . » 57
Kilkenny People Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 58
Day-by-Day: Children’s Events . . . . . . . . » 59
Business Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 60
Booking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 62
Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 64
Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 65
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street » 03
spectacle
Isséo!
COMPAGNIE DU MIRADOR (Belgium)
A tender love story, charmingly told through a delightful display
of aerial theatre. A mélange of circus, dance, humour, poetry
and foolishness, this sensitive and funny performance will
re-awaken in us the wonder and joy of life.
WINNER OF THE GRAND JURY PRIZE
AT THE GHENT INTERNATIONAL
STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL
The Ark
TEATR ÓSMEGO DNIA (Poland)
This event is free of charge,
but ticketed. Please be sure
to collect your free tickets in
advance from the box office
to reduce queuing time at
the venue.
Buses leave from The Parade
at 9pm, €2 (return).
Car parking on site.
Award-winning experimental theatre company Teatr Ósmego Dnia has carved a
role as an artistic collective creating large-scale outdoor spectacles, forging
theatrical experiences rich in imagery and expression and seizing opportunities
to address the destinies of those often forgotten in the vast machine of the world.
Please note that this is an
outdoor event - please bring
warm clothes/rain wear.
Following the success of last year’s parade, the festival is delighted to bring
this exciting and stunning theatrical spectacle to the people of Kilkenny.
Sunday 12 August
9.45pm
The Hub at Cillín Hill
Carlow Road, Kilkenny
Admission free BUT TICKETED
Bus €2 (return)
The unmissable highlight of the festival’s outdoor events!
Tomasz Kizny
This free public event is kindly
supported by Kevin Moore
Building Contractor Ltd.
THE EMBASSY OF POLAND
“seized the hearts
of the audience”
A large ship, metallic sails glittering in the night, a symbol of hope in the dark…
The Ark is a place of celebration, dance and joy… or a temple for worship…
or a haven where memories come to life… A powerful and visually thrilling
spectacle, The Ark tells the turbulent stories of ordinary people thrown into war,
where their only refuge is this great, graceful, benevolent ship, gliding through
the crowd, spreading its sails, drawing in the weary and the war-torn, and
charting a course to their promised land.
Sunday 19 August
1pm & 4pm
The Peace Park (beside James
Stephens’ Swimming Pool)
LIBRE BELGIQUE
Marvel at the fearlessness and skill of these two engaging performers
as they create a scene in the sky to enthral. So warm and charming
are the characters, they win over the hearts of audiences of all ages.
So skilled are they in acrobatics and gravity-defying movements, they
make this funny, poetic aerial “dance” seem easy. An absolute joy.
Regis Leroy and Ingrid Swaelens trained in Brussels and Antwerp and
spent many years touring with Cirque du Soleil and Féria Musica, two
of the world leaders in physical and circus theatre.
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KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL
presents the world première of
MABOU MINES (US)
production of
Oyster
Opera
Duo (UK)
theatre » 05
Fri 10 & Mon 13 Aug, 9pm
Sat 11 Aug, 6pm & 9pm
Sun 12 Aug, 8.30pm
Friday 17 & Saturday 18 August
Market Cross Shopping Centre
& Streets of Kilkenny
“Their duets were of
the highest quality…
almost transcendent”
THE TIMES
Buí Bolg
(Ireland)
Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 August
& Streets of Kilkenny
Tom LeGoff
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
Admission €20/€18
When was the last time you were invited to waltz along to Verdi’s Brindisi?
Or pounced upon by a man-mad mezzo? Or serenaded at close range by a
stunning soprano? Oyster Opera is a unique double act, combining wonderful
singing with lots of fun and a healthy helping of audience participation.
Chancing to hear a beautiful operatic voice on the street can have a truly
surprising… and magical effect!
Mayhem returns to the streets of Kilkenny this summer, courtesy of internationally
renowned street theatre company Buí Bolg, who are back in town with their larger
than life, unpredictable but lovable characters. The Mad Hatter is looking for his
tea party but he better watch out for the Queen of Hearts!
Poor Maud and Bill, the lovable grandparents. The weather’s lovely but if they
could just find somewhere for a little nap…
But if you’re looking to work off those summer ice-creams, keep an eye out for
the Aerobics Instructors; they’ll have you running around Kilkenny in no time!
And still wandering around three months after the Rhythm and Roots Festival
are the Hillbilly Brothers… Can you help them find their way home?
Co-directed by
Lee Breuer & Dodd Loomis
With
Nic Novicki
A Prelude to a Death in Venice
(Harvey’s Version)
A Prelude to a Death in Venice is a “west coast concept”, referring to
Venice Beach California, awash in organic salads, sun splash tie-dye
and acid tabs – every John’s Place in the Sun.
Lee Breuer is one of the most extraordinary and visionary directors working
in theatre today. From his roots in late sixties radical political theatre, to
recent and now legendary productions such as The Gospel at Colonus
(starring Morgan Freeman and the Blind Boys of Alabama) to the vertically
challenging Dollhouse, Breuer has remained true to his unique and
subversive vision.
Mabou Mines is one of the most adventurous and extraordinary avant-garde
theatre companies of the last forty years, defined by a deep understanding
of the collaborative process, their work emphasising the truly theatrical,
a theatre of fusion where all the arts are given equal consideration.
In an organic and quirky mix of drama, puppetry and film, A Prelude to a
Death in Venice (Harvey’s Version) is a mythological passion of animal and
man that rivals Tristan and Isolde in its iconic impact on western culture.
MARKET CROSS
SHOPPING CENTRE
Trust us: you have never seen anything quite like this before. Be brave.
Public interview with Lee Breuer
& Jimmy Fay, Curator of the
festival theatre programme
Saturday 11 August 3pm
The Parade Tower
Admission €5
Screenings of Mabou Mines’ 1975
The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett
Sat 11 Aug - 12 noon, 1pm & 2pm,
Sun 12 Aug - 12 noon, 2pm & 3pm
Medieval Room, Kilkenny Castle
Admission Free
A rare opportunity to see a valuable
theatrical/video document of the
legendary production, original score
by Philip Glass.
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Nouvelles Folies
FIAT LUX (France)
Sunday 12 - Tuesday 14 August
Sun & Mon 7pm, Tues 6.30pm
The Watergate Theatre
Wednesday 15 August
6.30pm
The Carlton Ballroom
Chapel Lane, Kilkenny
An uproarious performance by the leading French theatre ensemble Fiat Lux,
Nouvelles Folies tells the story of a smart young city couple, in search of a
holiday from the frenetic pace of urban life. On arrival in a remote village by
the sea, they find the behaviour of the fun-loving local fishermen less than
helpful. Misunderstandings, cultural differences, gender clashes… nothing is
spared in this fresh, light-hearted and humorous production.
Choreographed by
Sara Rudner
Performed by
Sara Rudner & Company
Music
William Catanzaro
Jerome Morris
Lighting
Eric Würtz
Colourful, inventive and bursting with energy, this wordless spectacle from
the masters of French physical theatre promises an evening of clowning,
absurdity and mischief-making of the highest order.
Following the sell-out success of Strike last year, Kilkenny Arts Festival
is delighted to welcome back the hilarious burlesque theatre company
Fiat Lux with their brand new show.
“exuberant comedy…
a delight from start
to finish”
THE STAGE
“terrific… a
tremendous
source of comedy”
THE SCOTSMAN
“It would be
absurd to miss it”
THE HERALD, EDINBURGH
This Dancing Life
World Première
IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE (Ireland)
A celebration of dance and dancers, a marathon installation in non-theatrical
time and space, breaking down the distinction between dance as performance
and dance as a way of life… Structured like a massive orchestral work, with
a cast of 20 dancers and two musicians, and lasting for four hours, the
audience is free to come and go throughout the event.
“I do not address why we dance but rather, that we dance. The very effort
holds meaning and significance for those who participate and, hopefully, for
our witnesses.” Sara Rudner
Sara Rudner is a living dance legend, revered as a choreographer and dancer.
Her dance performances include the Milos Forman films Ragtime, Hair and
Amadeus and the lead in David Byrne/Twyla Tharp’s Catherine Wheel. Her
choreographies include Heartbeat for Mikhail Baryshnikov and major work for
the leading European festivals Dance Umbrella, Festival D’Automne and the
Salzburg Festival.
John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre is dedicated to creating new work
and expanding the experience of dance theatre for audiences and performers.
The company has toured extensively worldwide.
“To watch a Rudner dance
is to see a constant
interplay of impulses… a
rich, witty lyricism that is
at once intoxicating and
as natural as bird song”
NEW YORK TIMES
“Tenderness, feistiness,
craziness and wit mingle
in this banquet of
dancing”
THE VILLAGE VOICE
Beginnings - Workshop
Intro to modern dance,
suitable for 14 yrs+
Tuesday 14 August
6pm
The Carlton Ballroom
Admission €10
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classical » 09
music
Oedipus Loves You
PAN PAN THEATRE COMPANY (Ireland)
Director
Gavin Quinn
Written by
Simon Doyle & Gavin Quinn
Design
Andrew Clancy
Lighting Design
Aedín Cosgrove
Costume Design
Helen McCusker
Music
Gordon is a Mime
“wickedly funny and
wonderfully theatrical”
Based on and inspired by the Oedipus the King plays of Seneca and
Sophocles and Sigmund Freud’s The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex,
Pan Pan Theatre Company’s fearless production presents a sensational new
take on an ancient story. Set in a contemporary, imaginary suburbia
inhabited by Oedipus, Antigone, Creon, Terisias and Jocasta, this powerful
performance maximises the use of visual imagery, live music and remote
control direction to enhance the seething dramatic tension surrounding the
telling of a “complicated” family history and the taboo subject of sexuality
within the family politik.
Conductor
Adrian Leaper
Pan Pan Theatre Company creates and produces contemporary live
performances in diverse locations, exploring new forms and approaches
and experimenting with time, space and music, with the aim of finding
their own idiosyncratic, individual step.
Ulster Orchestra
With Gina Moxley, Ruth Negga, Ned Dennehy,
Derrick Devine and Dylan Tighe.
Enriching life through music, the mission statement of the
Ulster Orchestra, is a clear articulation of the goals and
dreams of this major symphony orchestra whose
achievements display extraordinary passion and commitment.
Based in Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra is the cornerstone of
cultural life in Northern Ireland and fulfils a significant
ambassadorial role for the region through its extensive tours
of Europe, Asia and the United States.
(Northern Ireland)
“fearless theatre…
a bold modernisation”
EDMONTON JOURNAL,
CANADA
“funny and intelligent”
THE GUARDIAN
“a rocking, rolling
soap opera”
THE GLASGOW HERALD
Photos Ros Kavanagh
THE IRISH TIMES
Conducting the Orchestra’s Kilkenny programme will be the
internationally-renowned Adrian Leaper, who brings to this
concert an exceptional reputation for musical integrity and
intensity of interpretation. The guest appearance of the
exciting and dynamic American cellist Ani Aznavoorian for
the Dvorák concerto promises to be a rare treat.
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NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 11 August
8pm
St Canice’s Cathedral
Are we more interested in survival than truth? Exploring the historical
curiosity of the Oedipus myth and its relevance for our anxious age,
Oedipus Loves You exposes the violation of taboos in our society, which we
observe almost every day, but are unsure how to deal with at the moment
of discovery of the truth…
The festival is particularly delighted to welcome the
Ulster Orchestra in its 40th anniversary year to perform
this wonderful repertoire in the glorious surroundings of
St Canice’s Cathedral.
Soloist
Ani Aznavoorian
PROGRAMME
BRAHMS
DVORÁK
BRAHMS
ˆ
Thursday 16 - Sunday 19 August
8pm
The Watergate Theatre
Hungarian Dance No.1
Cello Concerto
Symphony No.2
“A consistent and
joyful pleasure”
THE IRISH TIMES
“A fantastic night
of music”
BELFAST TELEGRAPH
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(IRELAND)
PROGRAMME
BRAHMS Ten songs
DEBUSSY Fêtes Galantes I
FAURE
Three Verlaine
settings
MOZART Non temer
amato bene –
With violinist
Catherine Leonard
DEBUSSY Fêtes Galantes II
FAURE
Three De Lisle
settings
HUGHES Selection of Irish
folk songs
RTÉ LYRIC FM WILL RECORD
THIS CONCERT FOR BROADCAST
AT A LATER DATE.
“full-hearted
and free… made
the spine tingle”
& Julius Drake
(UK)
THE TIMES
Distinguished pianist Julius Drake has
collaborated with many of the world’s
leading artists at major international music
centres including Carnegie Hall and The
Lincoln Center in New York, and the
Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna.
Passionately interested in song, Julius has
devised song series for the BBC, the
Wigmore Hall in London and the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and his
comprehensive recording resumé includes
Gramophone and Edison award-winning
collaborations with Ian Bostridge.
PROGRAMME
Nicholas Daniel (UK),
Julius Drake (UK)
& the Carducci
String Quartet (UK & IRELAND)
A unique stage performer, the irresistible
Irish soprano Ailish Tynan has a “lyric
voice of delicious purity” (Opera Now), a
commanding stage presence and a charm
that utterly delighted Kilkenny audiences
at last year’s festival. Ailish has performed
leading roles at the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, with Welsh National Opera
and Opera Ireland, and made her United
States debut earlier this year as Zerlina in
Don Giovanni for the Seattle Opera.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest exponents of the oboe in the world,
Nicholas Daniel is also a distinguished and charismatic performer, an
increasingly successful conductor and an important ambassador for music
and musicians in many different fields. He has enjoyed a long and fruitful
collaboration with fellow chamber musician and illustrious pianist Julius
Drake, a combination which has been described as “one of the most
satisfying in British chamber music: vital, thoughtful and confirmed in
musical integrity of the highest order”. THE INDEPENDENT
Here they are joined by one of Europe’s top young string ensembles, the
exceptional Carducci String Quartet, for this exquisite programme of
classics from the chamber music repertoire.
Neil Libbert
Sunday 12 August
8pm
Tuesday 14 August
8pm
Neil Libbert
Ailish Tynan
Tricia de Courcy Ling
music
Sonata in F, K376
Three Miniatures
for Oboe and
Piano - Orientale;
Chansonette;
A la Campagne
BLISS
Oboe Quintet
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in
E flat, Op. 44
MOZART
HARTY
NICHOLAS DANIEL:
“a formidable virtuoso”
THE GUARDIAN
JULIUS DRAKE:
“a pianist of strength,
character, exquisite
precision”
TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL
CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET:
“splendid in a variety
of moods and
styles. The audience
loved it all”
“stunning… musicians
of high intelligence”
THE TIMES
NEW YORK TIMES
AT A LATER DATE.
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music
PENDERECKI Cadenza for
solo viola
RAVEL
Sonata for violin
and cello
MOZART
Oboe Quartet
in F Major
CATHERINE LEONARD:
“a conspicuously gifted
player”
SANTA BARBARA NEWS PRESS
NICHOLAS DANIEL:
“a formidable virtuoso”
THE GUARDIAN
ANI AZNAVOORIAN:
“a true artist”
NEW YORK CONCERT REVIEW
JENNIFER STUMM:
“outstanding”
THE STRAD
Tricia de Courcy Ling
PROGRAMME
A Musical
Crescendo
(IRELAND, UK & US)
Violinist Catherine Leonard has captured the
attention of audiences and critics across the
world for the musical integrity and interpretive
insight she brings to standard repertoire and
newly composed works alike. In this
performance she leads a unique ensemble of
extraordinary talent in a performance of some
of the finest examples of contemporary and
classical European chamber music.
Nicholas Daniel is a distinguished and
charismatic performer and is widely regarded
as one of the greatest exponents of the oboe in
the world. One of the foremost cellists of her
generation, the dynamic Ani Aznavoorian is a
young musician to watch, while a unique
musical voice and a commanding stage
presence have earned worldwide accolades
and awards for violist Jennifer Stumm.
The Carducci
String Quartet
(IRELAND & UK)
One of Europe’s top young string ensembles, the Carducci String
Quartet is blazing a trail on the international stage. In addition to winning
an impressive array of international competitions, including the Kuhmo
International Chamber Music Competition in Finland, the Bordeaux
International String Quartet Competition, the London International String
Quartet Competition and the Osaka International Chamber Music
Competition, these superb musicians have also studied with members of
the Amadeus, Vanbrugh and Chilingirian quartets, and most recently with
Gabor Takacs in London, as well as Paul Katz of the Cleveland Quartet
and composer György Kurtág in Paris. With such a burgeoning career,
Kilkenny Arts Festival is delighted to welcome the Carducci String Quartet
for this year’s festival. Catch these stars in the ascendant.
Thursday 16 August
1.10pm
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
PROGRAMME
HAYDN Op.20, No.4
KURTÁG Moments Musicaux
DVORÁK “American” quartet
(String Quartet No. 12
in F, Op. 96)
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Wednesday 15 August
1.10pm
Jack Liebeck
music
“stunning…. musicians
of high intelligence”
A feast for the senses.
THE TIMES
Catherine Leonard is the Curator of the
classical music programme of Kilkenny Arts
Festival 2007.
“The best of the nation’s
young, professional talent”
LONDON EVENING STANDARD
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music
Leon McCawley
(UK)
Friday 17 August
8pm
One of Britain’s finest young pianists, the eloquent Leon McCawley
has performed with many of the leading British and international
orchestras including the London, Royal, Netherlands and Malaysian
Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Vienna, Cincinatti, Dallas and
Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.
In addition to his New York recital debut at the Frick Collection last year,
Leon has also recently performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the
Wigmore Hall in London, Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin,
Prinzregententheater in Munich, Musikverein in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zurich,
Rudolfinum in Prague, Kennedy Center in Washington DC and at the Miami
International Piano Festival.
Thursday 16 August
8pm
PROGRAMME
Fantasie in C minor,
K475
BEETHOVEN Sonata Op. 27 No. 1
“Quasi Una Fantasia”
CHOPIN
Fantasie in F Minor,
Op. 49
SCHUMANN Drei Fantasiestücke in
C Minor, Op. 111
SCHUMANN Fantasie in C major,
Op. 17
MOZART
A former BBC Young Musician of the Year, Leon’s expressive and poetic
style has led him to collaborations with the Belcea and Emperor Quartets,
Gautier Capuçon, Thomas Carroll, Natalie Clein, Steven Isserlis, Emma
Johnson, David Pyatt and Matthew Trusler, and his many CD recordings
include works by Barber, Beethoven, Schumann, Hans Gál and Mozart.
PROGRAMME
Amour, Tourments & Plaisirs Airs de Cour, Cantatas and
Suites from the French Baroque,
featuring works by De Chancy,
Charpentier, Marais and
Montéclair.
Ensemble
Wanda Landowska
(FRANCE)
Legendary French Baroque musician Sébastien Marq brings to the Ensemble
Wanda Landowska a depth of passion and breadth of expertise that is truly rare.
Featuring the exceptional talents of soprano Elizabeth Dobbin, cellist Emmanuel
Balssa and harpsichordist Raphaël Collignon, this concert at St Canice’s Cathedral
promises to be an extraordinary experience.
THE IRISH TIMES
“a lyrical and heartfelt
performance”
A leading light in the internationally renowned early music ensemble Les Arts
Florissants, Sébastien Marq also performs with Marc Minkowski and Jordi Savall,
and is a member of L’Ensemble Mezza Luna. Founder of the jazz-baroque ensemble
Ximproviso, he is also a professor at The Hague Conservatory of Music.
Elizabeth Dobbin performs as a soloist with various baroque ensembles in Europe,
including L’Arpeggiata and the Academy of the Begijnhof. Emmanuel Balssa is a
member of ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande and the
Ricercar Consort. Raphaël Collignon has performed with the European Union and
the Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestras, Ensemble Sirocco and Laterna Magica.
NEW YORK TIMES
Benjamin Ealovega
AT A LATER DATE.
“consistent intelligence”
KINDLY SUPPORTED BY
ANNE O’DRISCOLL
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music
Chamber
Masterpieces
Saturday 18 August
8pm
(IRELAND, UK & USA)
Saturday 18 August
1.10pm
Bringing together the extraordinary talents of pianist Leon
McCawley, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, violist Jennifer Stumm,
the Carducci String Quartet and violinist Catherine Leonard
creates a world-class international collective for an
unmissable performance of two of the masterpieces of the
chamber music repertoire. A thrilling finale to the classical
music programme of Kilkenny Arts Festival 2007.
PROGRAMME
SCHUBERT Piano Trio in E Flat,
Op.100
BRAHMS String Sextet
in B Flat Major,
Op. 18
PROGRAMME
“an elegant sensibility…
instantly engaging”
Michael McHale
(IRELAND)
One of the leading young Irish pianists of his generation, Michael
McHale graduated in Music from Cambridge University and went on to
study piano with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music as
holder of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Scholarship.
Sheila Rock
MOZART Sonata in C Minor,
K457
BARBER Excursions, Op. 20
WILSON For Eileen, after rain
LISZT
Après une lecture
de Dante
THE TIMES
“sincere and
unaffected playing”
THE IRISH TIMES
A former student of John O’Conor and Réamonn Keary at the Royal Irish
Academy of Music, Michael won the Brennan and Field Prizes at the
2006 AXA Dublin International Piano Competition and was the 2004
Camerata Ireland Musician of the Year.
Featured as a ‘rising star’ in International Piano magazine following his
performance with the Hallé Orchestra at the Piano 2006 Festival in
Manchester, Michael has also performed with Barry Douglas and
Camerata Ireland, and with the Ulster Orchestra.
Though early in his career, this intelligent and hugely talented musician
has performed throughout the UK and Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany,
Hungary and the US, including several broadcast performances for BBC
Radio 3 and RTE Radio. Catch this rising Irish star while you can.
CATHERINE
LEONARD:
“magical
interpretation…
an artist of
international
stature”
LEON McCAWLEY:
ANI AZNAVOORIAN: JENNIFER STUMM:
CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET:
“lyrical and
heartfelt”
“a true artist”
“outstanding”
“stunning”
NEW YORK
CONCERT REVIEW
THE STRAD
THE TIMES
NEW YORK TIMES
AT A LATER DATE.
THE SUNDAY
TRIBUNE
Waterford Institute of Technology
INSTITIÚID TEICNEOLAÍOCHTA PHORT LÁIRGE
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music
Saturday 11 - Sunday 19 August
10.30am - 5pm (Mon-Sat)
12 noon - 5pm (Sun)
Rothe House, Parliament St
Admission free
Please note: As Rothe House
is an historical building, access
for wheelchairs and pushchairs
is restricted.
CONCERT
Friday 17 August
2.15pm
Rothe House, Parliament St
Admission free but ticketed.
Limited availability.
Tickets & further info from
The Contemporary Music Centre
01 6731922 / info@cmc.ie
Please note, access to the
exhibition is restricted to ticket
holders during this performance.
“Without a doubt, hers
is the most original
compositional voice to
emerge in Ireland in the
last 20 years.”
MICHAEL DERVAN, IRISH TIMES
Mingus Dynasty
The Art of Sound
(US)
A GLIMPSE INTO THE
CREATIVITY OF A SELECTION
OF IRISH COMPOSERS
When Charles Mingus passed away, he left a unique body of work and a legacy
of compositions that embraces bebop, the blues, gospel and the avant garde, in
itself a kaleidoscopic road trip through American music of the 20th century.
Controversial and outspoken to the last, his passionate views on civil rights
were an ever present theme and they’re still resonating today, largely through
the work of Sue Mingus and her projects dedicated to Charles’ music.
The Contemporary Music Centre presents a photographic and multimedia
exhibition which brings to life Irish composers and their music. The exhibition
features Irish photographer Eugene Langan’s dramatic and perceptive
photographs of each composer, alongside original manuscripts and graphic
scores. An audio-guide narrated by Eamon Lawlor of RTÉ Lyric fm brings to
life the personalities of the composers and the music on display, leading to a
truly unique and rich experience for the visitor.
The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland’s
national archive and resource centre for
new music, supporting and developing
the work of composers throughout the
Republic and Northern Ireland.
www.cmc.ie
CONCERT
Jennifer Walshe
Notations
Award-winning avant-garde composer
and vocalist Jennifer Walshe will present
a variety of compositions for solo voice,
with visuals, which demonstrate the wide
variety of notation used by composers today.
OPERARIA
Soprano Sinéad Blanchfield will perform a selection of renowned arias at
Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre. The world premiere of a solo version of Vide Con Meum
by Patrick Cassidy will also be performed.
Friday 10 August at 8pm Tickets & further info from The Book Centre, Kilkenny (056) 7762117
Of these, The Mingus Dynasty is perhaps closest to the late bassist’s own
conception on landmark recordings like Blues & Roots and Mingus Ah Um.
Since its first performance shortly after Mingus’ death in 1979, The Dynasty
has had a rolling roster of New York’s finest musicians gathered to pay tribute
to his genius, and this latest inception is no different, with saxophonists Donny
McCaslin and Abraham Burton, the extrovert trombone of Kuumba Frank
Lacy and incendiary trumpet of Alex Sipiagin, and a hard swinging rhythm
section of bassist Joe Martin, drummer Johnathan Blake and pianist George
Colligan. Together, they provide compelling evidence that Mingus still moves
people, his music as relevant today as when first conceived in his own
turbulent times. Better get it in your soul.
Friday 10 August
8.30pm
Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel
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FRANKIE GAVIN’S
Hibernian Rhapsody
(IRELAND)
Saturday 11 August
1.10pm
Vyvienne Long
(IRELAND)
There’s something idiosyncratic and engaging about the music of
Vyvienne Long, be it her three cello frontline, the intelligent
arrangements, or her left of centre choice of material, and it’s all delivered
in a voice that insinuates with every new airing.
It’s an approach honed during the lengthy hours on the road with Damien
Rice, with whom she has toured the world and collaborated in the studio.
With the release of her own debut EP Bird Talk, she has signalled a desire
to be celebrated as a solo performer in her own right, and justly so. The
momentum is building behind this very individual Irish musician, including
performances at last year’s Electric Picnic and RTÉ’s Other Voices, filmed
in St James’ Church in Dingle.
Our own St Canice’s Cathedral equally seems an apt location for
Vyvienne’s gentle hybrid, where she’ll be heard with fellow cellists Mary
Barnecut and Jane Hughes, and her empathic rhythm section of pianist
Cian Boylan, bassist Charlie Foley and drummer Guy Rickarby.
Is there a more prodigious talent in the world of Irish music than Frankie
Gavin? Certainly, there are few creative summits that remain unconquered
for this fiddler extraordinaire.
From his first TV appearance as a precocious seven year old with a tin
whistle and the many fiddle and flute prizes that followed, then on into
adulthood and sixteen albums with Dé Danann, his seven solo albums,
and the collaborations with everyone from Yehudi Menuhin to The Rolling
Stones, Frankie Gavin has been to the top of the mountain and carved his
name into the rock face of traditional music.
His reputation has been built on a foundation of innate musicality, an
uncompromising commitment to the purity of the fiddle, a meticulous
attention to tone and pacing, an easy way with an audience and a
palpable joy in music making that burns brightly yet.
It’s a reputation that’s set to be further enhanced with Hibernian Rhapsody,
Gavin’s latest vehicle, featuring guitarist Tim Edey, pianist Carl Hession,
accordionist Derek Hickey and singer Michelle Lally.
Saturday 11 August
10.30pm
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
(NORWAY)
It’s apposite that Tord Gustavsen hails from The Land of the Midnight Sun,
for this jazz pianist has fashioned a musical concept that radiates the
character of Norway’s enigmatic landscape. This is graceful, persuasive
music, at once gentle and robust, performed by a seamless group that
captures the essence of the acoustic piano trio.
Silverio Pessoa
Sunday 12 August
10.30pm
Please note this is a
standing only performance
(BRAZIL)
When it comes to music, Brazil is more than a vast country. It is a state of
mind, a magical place, where music courses through the veins of its citizens
without impedance, insinuating itself into every facet of life. Nowhere is this
more apparent than in Pernambuco in the northeast, where they play a
powerful roots music called Forró, the region’s feisty riposte to the genteel
bossa of Rio and Sao Paulo.
It’s enjoying a revival, too, and Silverio Pessoa is the man driving it onward.
A veteran of Recife’s invigorating Mangue scene of the early 90’s, which
fused the region’s powerful traditional maracatu rhythms with hip hop, he has
carried that aesthetic into Forró, the music of his childhood. Pessoa grew up
in the zona da mata, Pernambuco’s extensive sugar plantations, and Forró is
the music of the hardworking men and women who cut the cane.
In that sense, it’s a first cousin of the blues. This is music of protest about
life’s travails but also of celebration when the day is done, with some
addictive Brazilian rhythms thrown in, of course!
Monday 13 August
8pm
Gustavsen’s songs are hymnal meditations, coloured with the ephemera of
the blues and that yearning melancholia that typifies the Nordic sound.
Bassist Harald Johnsen and drummer Jarle Vespestad, who are
distinguished Norwegian musicians in their own right and veterans of groups
like Supersilent and Bugge Wesseltoft’s New Conception, provide an
impressionistic pulse for Gustavsen’s wash of seductive hues from the piano,
in a three-way dialogue that is masterful in its discipline and economy.
With Being There, their third ECM release, they have further refined their
sense of purpose and conceptual rigour, without sacrificing the intense
lyricism that is already the trio’s hallmark.
AT A LATER DATE.
NORWEGIAN EMBASSY
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Eivør Pálsdóttir
(FAROE ISLANDS)
Tuesday 14 August
10pm
You’re likely encountering Eivør for the first time. If so, you’re about to meet
a remarkable young singer who demonstrates that the world and its music
still has the capacity to surprise and stimulate our aural sensibilities.
Her part of the world is certainly enigmatic. Born and reared in The Faroes,
the hardy island community of just 48,000 souls nestled equidistantly
between Iceland and The Shetlands, its splendid isolation has left a deep
impression on this striking artist. From her childhood grounding in
unaccompanied Faroese hymns and song, Eivør has developed a style that’s
anything but insular, aided by a glorious vocal instrument that eclipses the
range and dynamics of even her famous Icelandic neighbour Bjork. Still in
her early 20’s, she’s already a household name in The Nordic countries, with
a resumé that includes jazz and opera, as well as a brace of gorgeous folk
inflected CDs with Canada’s Bill Bourne.
Human Child is her latest, produced by Donal Lunny and recorded in
Dublin with the cream of Irish musicians. The eminent bouzouki player
is back to support her in performance, along with Anto Drennan
(guitar), Graham Henderson (keys), Chris Herzberger (violin) and
Jason Duffy (drums).
Patrick Street
(IRELAND)
It’s twenty one years since Patrick Street first convened, during that
seminal mid-80s period for Irish music. Initial plans were for a one-off
tour to the US, but the chemistry was undeniable and Patrick Street
went on to create a significant body of work both on stage and in the
studio, and their place in the annals of Irish music seems assured.
The band’s original members all brought something individual to the
table, from Sliabh Luacra polkas to Quebecois reels, and that stylistic
approach is inspiring young musicians still. Today, the original masters
are back, augmented by fiddler John Carty, a previous recipient of
TG4 Musician of the Year, and guitarist Ged Foley, ex of The Battlefield
Band and now filling the chair previously occupied by Arty McGlynn.
They join Jackie Daly, Kevin Burke and Andy Irvine, the stellar trio
from which Patrick Street was conceived, for a night of memorable
music that reels back the years. With special guests Dul Amú.
Thursday 16 August
9.30pm
Hotel Kilkenny
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Nanko
(NETHERLANDS)
Vs
Zoid
(IRELAND)
Kilkenny’s favourite room for intimate acoustic music gets a digital makeover
in this fascinating encounter between leading electronic musicians from
Ireland and The Netherlands.
Thursday 16 August
9pm
Cleere’s, Parliament Street
Back to Balkan!
(EUROPE)
Last year’s world music knees-up was all things Asian and in
2007 we’re also looking East, but this time to some of Europe’s
most vivacious traditional music and dance.
It starts with Yurodny, featuring the bravura gypsy violin
of Oleg Pomanerov, and bringing you dance tunes from
Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Transylvania,
Greece and Romania. Along with North Strand Klezmer
Band and The Polska Dots, Yurodny have been fairly
lighting up the Irish music scene with their individual
take on the rich musical traditions of Eastern Europe’s
gypsy and Jewish diasporas.
Appropriately, Rotterdam’s Nanko Huisman and Dublin’s Dan Jacobsen, aka
Zoid, met on MySpace, where fertile common ground was much in evidence.
Both play guitar and electronics, both are influenced by a broad span of
music from improv, contemporary and electronica spheres, and both are
exploring new techniques for the organic performance of electronic music.
Friday 17 August
8pm
Hotel Kilkenny
Between them, they’ve already amassed a considerable reputation within this
thriving musical sub culture, and Zoid, whose debut album gets a D1/Diatribe
release in September, has just returned from Melbourne’s Red Bull DJ
Academy, while Nanko is already a mainstay of leading festivals like
Amsterdam’s Sonic Acts, the Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival and The
Hague's State-X New Forms.
Respectively they’re representative of the musician’s new breed, straddling
acoustic and electronic music without impediment, and the result is a
musical terra incognita of exhilarating beats, guitar
psychedelia and atmospheric soundscapes.
From Newcastle come The Baghdaddies, exploring similar
terrain but with some Arabic spices thrown in, plus a liberal
sprinkling of mischievous northern humour. Not men to take
themselves overly seriously, these Tyneside rogues nonetheless
have a reputation for leaving audiences in a cold sweat with a
high octane set that also flirts dangerously with ska grooves, and
they’re UK festival regulars, including Glastonbury.
Sapping your last few calories on the dancefloor is Belgium’s
Gaetano Fabri, resident DJ at Divan Du Monde (Paris) and
Crammed Discs, the influential Brussels label that’s home to
iconic Balkan acts like Kocani Orkestar and Taraf De Haidouks,
both of whom he has remixed. If it’s all too much, let yourself be
seduced by The Habibi Babes, shimmying you into the night with
tribal and traditional belly dance styles that wind their way down
The Black Sea. Consider yourself Balkanized!
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Fay Claassen
(THE NETHERLANDS)
The great jazz saxophonists of the past, men
like Lester Young and Dexter Gordon who
knew a thing or two about lyricism, often
referred to singers as a source of inspiration.
If they were playing today, they’d be mightily
taken by Holland’s Fay Claassen.
Saturday 18 August
10pm
Kilkenny River Court Hotel
The comparison seems apt, for this is a singer
who swings as hard as any saxophonist, with
the bell-like tone for which a trumpet player
might yearn. She has repaid the compliment
and her 2005 release Two Sides of Chet
Baker, a deeply personal homage to that late
jazz icon, has seen her star firmly in the
ascendant on both sides of the Atlantic.
She is defiantly, unashamedly, a singer of
standards, the immortal Broadway show tunes
of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin et al, but this is no
exercise in nostalgia. When Claassen brings
her elegant vocal instrument to bear on these
old songs, it’s as if the ink has just dried on
the manuscript. Celebrating the songs with
her are Paul Heller, tenor saxophonist with
Cologne’s feted WDR Big Band, joined by
pianist Francesco Turrisi, bassist Damien
Evans and drummer Kevin Brady.
Sunday 19 August
7pm
The Bulgarian Voices
Angelite (BULGARIA)
Drawing on a tradition of sacred and vernacular music that pre-dates
the Middle Ages, The Bulgarian Voices Angelite will envelop you in the
plaintive melody and close harmonies that are so richly evocative of life in
The Balkans. It’s an affecting sound, replete with delicate timbres, subtle
dissonance, asymmetric rhythms and the signature vibrato that
characterises Bulgaria’s unique choral music.
The Bulgarian people prize their songs as the highest pinnacle of human
expression, and the nineteen women of Angelite have elevated the
tradition to unparalleled heights of vocal artistry. This tradition has its roots
in the ancient civilization of The Thracians, and draws its nourishment
from folk music handed down through countless generations. From the
shores of The Black Sea to the mountain ranges of Macedonia and
Rhodopes, the choir draws on the region’s many dialects and faiths to
create music of a deeply spiritual and universal resonance.
Bringing the festival’s music programme to an uplifting close, these
daughters of Orpheus sing songs of love and sorrow, of toil and sweet
recreation, of feasts and mourning, of faith and deliverance.
Koninkrijk
der Nederlanden
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The festival film
programme is
sponsored by
MacDonagh Junction
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Friday 10 August
7.30pm
Watergate Theatre
METROPOLIS
film » 31
3epkano
(Ireland)
LIVE MUSIC ACCOMPANIMENT
TO CLASSIC FILMS
Eclectic music ensemble 3epkano present original and innovative live music
accompaniment to two groundbreaking movies from the silent film era.
Following their sell-out performances over the last two festivals, this year’s
screenings take place at the bigger venue of The Watergate Theatre, an entirely
appropriate move, given the theatre’s original role as Kilkenny’s main cinema.
Embassy of
The Russian
Federation
It’s summertime in Kilkenny, home of the reigning All-Ireland
champions. How could the festival not include, in some way,
the national pastime and local religion of hurling?
All-Ireland Hurling
Championship Final 1957
KILKENNY VS WATERFORD
(1925) DIR. SERGEI EISENSTEIN
In this fascinating footage from the 1957 final, with
commentary by the legendary Mícheál Ó hEithir, we see how
the Black and Amber, under the leadership of team captain
Mickey Kelly, had to draw on all their resources to match their
southern neighbours in one of the most fiercely contested
finals of the 1950s.
Hugely influential in the history of cinema, Battleship Potemkin brought its
director Sergei Eisenstein to world attention, being banned as subversive in
England and receiving a restricted circulation in the US. Conceived as part of a
cycle of mythmaking films intended to tell the story of the Russian Revolution,
the entire film, and the Odessa Steps massacre in particular, contain some of
the most powerful, best known and often emulated images of political violence
realised in film.
This performance is the world première of 3epkano’s new score for
Battleship Potemkin.
Metropolis
(1927) DIR. FRITZ LANG
“3epkano offer
cineastes a rare and
unmissable treat”
THE IRISH TIMES
ALL-IRELAND DOUBLE-BILL
Battleship Potemkin
Saturday 11 August
5pm
Watergate Theatre
keyboards/organ
Richard McCullough
cello
Lioba Petrie
drums
James Macken
viola
Karen Dervan
bass guitar
Laurence Macken
electric guitar
Cameron Doyle
Matthew Nolan
Hurling at the Movies
A monument to director Fritz Lang’s artistic vision and film craftsmanship, this
German futuristic film, inspired by the towering Manhattan skyline, presents an
apparently utopian society of wealthy inhabitants living a palatial existence,
supported from underground by armies of a subhuman species of slaves.
Lang’s recurring themes of psychological conflict, paranoia, fate and moral
ambiguity contributed significantly to the emergence and evolution of the film
noir genre in American cinema.
From the pre-match parade with the Artane Boys Band and
the Black Raven Pipers, to the lifting of the McCarthy Cup,
this special archive screening will engage hurlers and
historians alike. A wonderful opportunity to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of this historic match.
Rooney
(1958) DIR. GEORGE POLLOCK
Dustman and All-Ireland hurler James Ignatius Rooney moves
into new digs in the snobbish lower-middle class O’Flynn
household, where he soon falls for the unassuming Máire,
much to the chagrin of Mrs O’Flynn. Things take a turn for the
worse when he unwittingly gives her a necklace which turns
out to have been stolen…
A comic classic, the domestic squabbles, the
misunderstandings and the hilarious scenes with Rooney and
his fellow dustmen are all played out against the backdrop of
the build up to the All-Ireland. The film uses authentic footage
of the 1957 Kilkenny-Waterford final for the All-Ireland
scenes, with “Dublin” playing in Black and Amber!
Programme presented by Kilkenny Arts Festival in association
with the Irish Film Archive of the Irish Film Institute.
Wednesday 15 August
8pm
Langton House Hotel,
John Street
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FRIDAY 10
WATERGATE THEATRE
»30 3epkano 7.30pm
main programme » 33
SATURDAY 11
»30 3epkano 5pm
MONDAY 13
SUNDAY 12
»06 Nouvelles Folies 7pm
»06 Nouvelles Folies 7pm
TUESDAY 14
WEDNESDAY 15
»06 Nouvelles Folies 6.30pm
THURSDAY 16
FRIDAY 17
SATURDAY 18
SUNDAY 19
»08 Oedipus Loves You 8pm »08 Oedipus Loves You 8pm »34 John McGahern on
Screen, from 11am
»08 Oedipus Loves You 8pm
»08 Oedipus Loves You 8pm
STREET &
MARKET CROSS
SHOPPING CENTRE
PARADE TOWER
»05 A Prelude to a
Death in Venice 9pm
»04 Buí Bolg
»04 Buí Bolg
»05 The Lost Ones
12 noon, 1pm & 2pm
Medieval Room
»37 Claire Keegan &
Jonathan Coe 1pm
»04 Oyster Opera Duo
»38 Edmund White 6pm
»05 A Prelude to a
Death in Venice 9pm
»05 Interview Lee Breuer &
Jimmy Fay 3pm
»05 The Lost Ones
12 noon, 2pm & 3pm
Medieval Room
»05 A Prelude to a Death
in Venice 6pm & 9pm
»05 A Prelude to a
Death in Venice 8.30pm
»10 Ailish Tynan &
Julius Drake 8pm
ST CANICE’S
CATHEDRAL
»36 Colm Tóibín &
Eavan Boland 6pm
»20 Vyvienne Long 1.10pm
KILKENNY
ORMONDE HOTEL
»19 Mingus Dynasty
8.30pm
»21 Hibernian Rhapsody
10.30pm
»22 Silverio Pessoa 10.30pm
»18 The Art of Sound
10.30am - 5pm
12 noon - 5pm
ROTHE HOUSE
»09 Ulster Orchestra 8pm
»39 Samantha Power 6pm
»03 Isséo! 1pm & 4pm
The Peace Park
»04 Oyster Opera Duo
»13 Carducci String Quartet
1.10pm
»35 De Valera Statesman 6pm
COLOUR GUIDE
»23 Tord Gustavsen Trio 8pm »11 Nicholas Daniel, Julius
Drake & Carducci String
Quartet 8pm
»12 A Musical Crescendo
1.10pm
»14 Ensemble Wanda
Landowska 8pm
»15 Leon McCawley 8pm
»16 Michael McHale 1.10pm »29 Angelite 7pm
Street Spectacle
»17 Chamber Masterpieces
8pm
Theatre/Dance
»24 Eivør Pálsdóttir 10pm
10.30am - 5pm
10.30am - 5pm
10.30am - 5pm
10.30am - 5pm
10.30am - 5pm
10.30am - 5pm
»18 Jennifer Walshe 2.15pm
12 noon - 5pm
Classical Music
Music
UPSTAIRS BAR AT
MORRISSON’S
THE HIBERNIAN HOTEL
»51 Meet the Visual Artists 1
11am
»51 Meet the Musicians 1
1.10pm
»51 Meet the Musicians 2
1.10pm
Film
»51 Meet the Visual Artists 2
3pm
Literature
OTHER CITY
VENUES
»02 The Ark 9.45pm
The Hub at Cillín Hill
»07 Dance Workshop 6pm
Carlton Ballroom
»07 This Dancing Life 6.30pm »26 Nanko Vs Zoid 9pm
Cleere’s
Carlton Ballroom
»31 Hurling at the Movies
8pm
Langton House Hotel
VISUAL ART VENUES
»41 ST JOHN’S PRIORY
»41 ST FRANCIS ABBEY BREWERY
»42 CILLÍN HILL CENTRE
»43 GRENNAN MILL CRAFT SCHOOL
»44 CASTLECOMER DEMESNE
»45 BUTLER HOUSE
Bill Viola
Factotum
Jesper Just, Amar Kanwar, Mark Orange
Eithne Jordan
Marie Hanlon
Cerith Wyn Evans, Maud Cotter, Antonio Riello
»25 Patrick Street 9.30pm
Hotel Kilkenny
STRAND 2 »46 NATIONAL CRAFT GALLERY
»46 BUTLER GALLERY
»47 KILKENNY COUNTY COUNCIL
»47 KCAT AT THE FRIARY, CALLAN
»47 CALLAN 800 AT KCAT
»27 Back to Balkan!
8pm ‘til late
Hotel Kilkenny
»55 Dervish (family event)
4.30pm
»41 Factotum Choir 9.45pm »28 Fay Claassen 10pm
Kilkenny River
St Francis Abbey Brewery
Court Hotel
»48
»48
»49
»49
SCULPTURE AT KELLS
GRENNAN MILL CRAFT SCHOOL
THE WORKHOUSE, CALLAN
THE OLD MART
End of Festival Party!
Langtons 9.30pm
All welcome. Adm €8
Visual Art
Children
VERGE »50 CASTLECOMER DEMESNE
»50 BOSTON BAR & STEAKHOUSE
»50 THE WATERGATE THEATRE
34 » film
literature » 35
The Rockingham Shoot
De Valera - Statesman
(1987) DIR. KIERAN HICKEY
59 MINS
Set in rural Ireland in the 1950s, the
central character of this original work
for screen by John McGahern is an
intensely nationalistic teacher with an
entrenched loathing for British society.
PROGRAMME
11am
Introduction by
Colm Tóibín
11.20am A Private World
12.20pm The Rockingham
Shoot
One of Ireland’s greatest writers, John
McGahern was the author of six highly
acclaimed novels and four collections of
short stories. He was the recipient of
many awards and honours, including the
Society of Authors, the American-Irish
Award, the Prix Etrangère Ecureuil, the
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres and was short-listed for the
Booker Prize.
This season of John McGahern films has
been selected by Colm Tóibín, as an
homage to his fellow Irish writer whose
untimely death occurred last year.
BREAK 1.20pm – 2.30pm
2.30pm Wheels
2.55pm Korea
A Private World
(2005) DIR. PAT COLLINS
59 MINS
In this intimate documentary, John
McGahern speaks of the family events
that inspired his 1974 novel The
Leavetaking and brings us to the
landscape of his County Leitrim farm,
where he lived and wrote until his death.
The legacy of Eamon de Valera, who dominated Irish politics for more than
four decades, remains complex and controversial. While his domestic policies
have been subject to serious scrutiny, his role as a statesman, establishing
Ireland’s position in the outside world as an independent state, and his
contribution to Ireland’s foreign policy in the 1930s, remain subjects which
are only now beginning to be fully understood, mainly through the work of a
new generation of Irish historians. The festival is delighted to welcome a
leading group of these historians to discuss de Valera’s role as statesman in
an emerging Ireland.
Dr. Diarmaid Ferriter: Historian, broadcaster and commentator; Author of
best-selling The Transformation of Ireland, 1900-2000; Presenter of RTÉ
radio programme What If?
Wheels
(1976) DIR. CATHAL BLACK
21 MINS
Adapted from a short story, Wheels tells
the story of a farmer’s son who has a
difficult and disappointing visit home to
the midlands from the city.
Korea
(1996) DIR. CATHAL BLACK
80 MINS
This feature-length drama of a short
story adaptation follows the relationship
of a fisherman and his son when the
father tries to force him to leave the rural
lakelands and emigrate to America.
Programme presented by Kilkenny Arts Festival in association with
the Irish Film Archive of the Irish Film Institute.
Professor Eunan O’Halpin: Professor of Contemporary History, Trinity
College, Dublin; Author of Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies
since 1922; Co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy.
Eamon de Valera at League of Nations, 1932. UCD Archives Dept.
Saturday 18 August
From 11am
Watergate Theatre
Admission €15/€13 (full day)
€10/€8 (2 films)
John
McGahern
on Screen
SYMPOSIUM
Dr. Deirdre McMahon: Lecturer in History at Mary Immaculate College,
Limerick; Author of Republicans and Imperialists: Anglo-Irish Relations in
the 1930s.
Dr. Michael Kennedy: Executive Editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy;
Author of Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-46; Co-editor (with Deirdre
McMahon) of Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations,
1955-2005.
(Chair) Catriona Crowe: Senior Archivist at the National Archives of Ireland;
Co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, President of Women’s History
Association of Ireland.
Thursday 16 August
6pm
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
Dr. Diarmaid
Ferriter
Professor
Eunan
O’Halpin
Dr. Deirdre
McMahon
Dr. Michael
Kennedy
Catriona
Crowe
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literature » 37
Claire
Keegan
Friday 10 August
6pm
(IRELAND)
REVIEWS FOR COLM TÓIBÍN’S
THE MASTER:
“audacious, profound
and wonderfully
intelligent”
THE GUARDIAN
“artful, moving and very
beautiful novel”
Colm Tóibín Eavan Boland
(IRELAND)
(IRELAND)
A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford,
Colm Tóibín lived in Spain for many
years. He has been a fellow at the
Center for Scholars and Writers at
New York Public Library, Stein Visiting
Writer at Stanford University and a
visiting professor at the University
of Texas at Austin. His novels include
The South (1991), The Heather
Blazing (1992), The Story of the
Night (1996), The Blackwater
Lightship (1999) and The Master,
which was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize in 2005 and won the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award last year. A collection of short
stories, Mothers and Sons, was
published in 2006. He is a member
of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.
Eavan Boland studied in Ireland,
London and New York. She has taught
at Trinity College and University College
Dublin, at the University of Iowa and is
currently Mabury Knapp Professor in
the Humanities at Stanford University,
California. A pioneering figure in Irish
poetry, Boland’s previous works include
The Journey and other poems (1987),
Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land
(1998), Code (2001) and her latest
collection Domestic Violence (2007).
Her poems and essays have appeared
in magazines such as The New Yorker,
The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and
American Poetry Review. She divides
her time between California and Dublin
where she lives with her husband,
the novelist Kevin Casey.
NEW YORK TIMES
EAVAN BOLAND:
“this imagery stuns with
intellectual as well as
sensory clarity… she is our
pre-eminent poet of
experience…”
THE IRISH TIMES
Colm Tóibín is the Curator of the
literature and film programme of
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2007.
Raised on a farm in County Wicklow,
Claire Keegan lives in rural Ireland.
Her first collection of stories,
Antarctica, won the Rooney Prize for
Irish Literature and was a Los Angeles
Times Book of the Year. Her stories
have won the Olive Cook Award, the
Kilkenny Prize, the Martin Healy Prize,
the Macaulay Fellowship, the William
Trevor Prize and the Francis McManus
Award. She was also a Wingate
Scholar. Walk the Blue Fields, her
long-awaited second collection of
stories, was published this year to
widespread critical acclaim.
Jonathan
Coe
(UK)
Jonathan Coe is the author of eight
novels, including What a Carve Up!,
winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys
prize, and The Rotter’s Club, which
was adapted as a series for BBC
television. He has also written a
biography of the experimental novelist
BS Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant,
which won the 2005 Samuel Johnson
prize for non-fiction. His forthcoming
novel, The Rain Before It Falls, marks
a departure from the topical and
comic nature of his previous work.
Sunday 12 August
1pm
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
CLAIRE KEEGAN:
“a writer already
touched by
greatness”
DECLAN KIBERD
“shrewd and
penetrating
observation…
bracingly
unsentimental”
THE IRISH TIMES
JONATHAN COE:
“brilliant, funny,
apposite, informed
and unflaggingly
truth-seeking”
THE EVENING STANDARD
“a pleasure to read”
THE GUARDIAN
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Edmund White
(US)
Born in Cincinatti, Ohio, Edmund White grew up in Chicago, worked
as a journalist in New York and spent many years living in France.
Monday 13 August
6pm
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
A BOY’S OWN STORY:
“American literature is
larger by one classic
novel.”
THE WASHINGTON POST
BOOK WORLD
His best-known work, A Boy’s Own Story, was the first volume of an
autobiographical-fiction series that continued with The Beautiful Room
is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, describing stages in the life of
a gay man from boyhood to middle age.
Other novels include Forgetting Elena (1973), Nocturnes for the King
of Naples (1978), Caracole (1985), The Married Man (2000) and
Fanny: A Fiction (2003), a historical novel about Frances Trollope and
Frances Wright. His 2006 play Terre Haute portrays discussions that
take place when a prisoner based on Timothy McVeigh is visited by
a writer based on Gore Vidal.
Influential as a literary and cultural critic, particularly on gay issues,
Edmund White has received many awards and distinctions; among
these, he is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
a Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Officier de
l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
THE INAUGURAL HUBERT BUTLER
ANNUAL LECTURE
His latest novel, Hôtel de Dream, is published by Bloomsbury in
August 2007.
(IRELAND-US)
Wednesday 15 August
6pm
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
Samantha Power
Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership
and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her
book, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded
the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics
Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations’
Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy.
THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY:
“gives voice to a life
of uncompromising
individuation and
reaches a depth of
compassionate
tolerance rare in
any writer”
Power’s New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan won the 2005
National Magazine Award for best reporting. She was the founding executive
director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002), and from
1993-1996, she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for
the US News and World Report, The Boston Globe, and The Economist. Power
is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from
Inspiration to Impact.
THE TIMES
B Confino
She spent 2005-06 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama. Her political
biography of the UN’s Sergio Vieira de Mello will be released in February 2008.
Samantha Power will be introduced by Fintan O’Toole, writer, political
commentator, cultural critic and Assistant Editor of The Irish Times.
The Hubert Butler Annual
Lecture has been established to
honour the Kilkenny writer,
historian and broadcaster
whose remarkable consistency
of vision and clarity of mind
made him unique among Irish
essayists and whose work
evinced an unsurpassed moral,
political and literary integrity.
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© Bill Viola. Courtesy Haunch of Venison.
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Bill Viola (US)
Visual Art at
Kilkenny Arts
Festival 2007
Bill Viola is one of the world’s leading exponents of video art, whose work
references diverse art and historical traditions, as well as the history of
human societies and cultures. In his work Four Hands (2001), exhibited in
the tranquil surroundings of St John’s Priory, he depicts four sets of hands
– those of a young boy, two middle-aged people and an elderly woman –
run through a gamut of gestures; some are familiar and others rhetorical,
some are associated with prayer or supplication, while others resemble
Hindu and Buddhist mudras.
St Francis Abbey Brewery
Parliament Street
HUGH MULHOLLAND, CURATOR
Friday 10 - Sunday 19 August
10am-6pm
Various locations
In programming the Visual Art element of the Kilkenny Arts
Festival this year, I wanted to see if it were possible to bring
to Kilkenny work which I felt could contribute something to
the location in which it was exhibited, not site specific, but
site sympathetic. Having said that, and even taking into
consideration Kilkenny’s rich heritage with its wide range of
historical buildings and landmarks, this has not always
been possible.
In the end, I have reached a balance between those works
which are located in spaces where the history, architecture
or function of the venue contributes to our viewing of the
work, and those works or projects which have been sited in
a range of commercial and public buildings which, though
not specific to the particular environment, have been just as
carefully selected in order that the environment does not
detract from our appreciation of the work, but offers the
best physical space for its presentation.
St John’s Priory
John Street
Factotum
(NORTHERN IRELAND)
An exhibition about the history of an experimental local choir with
galactic ambition and varied talent. A journey through fifty years of
musical adventure.
The original Factotum choir was nothing if not eclectic, embracing
socialism, satanism, pagan ritualism, folk and psychedelic performance art.
This exhibition features a behind-the-scenes film of rehearsals of their
1985 multimedia performance about Cúchulainn, original drawings from the
folk opera No Joy for Henry and explosive footage of their infamous pagan
actionist ritual, Die Orgiegeheimnisse, performed in London in 1971.
Friday 17 August 9.45pm
The revived Factotum choir
will perform, at the St Francis
Abbey Brewery, a series of
songs from its repertoire,
including its new songbook
of national anthems.
This event is free, but ticketed.
Please collect your free tickets
from the box office.
Numbers strictly limited.
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Cillín Hill Centre
Mark Orange
(NORTHERN IRELAND)
Cillín Hill Centre
Mark Orange’s Rise and Fall (2006)
takes as its subject the Federal Office
Building in Lower Manhattan. Built in
1967 and currently home to the US
Immigration and Naturalization
Service, it has been described as the
“modern Ellis Island” and is
synonymous with impenetrable
bureaucracy and overbearing
security. Since 9/11, the building has
also gained a controversial reputation
for on-the-spot deportations.
Jesper Just (DENMARK)
Danish artist Jesper Just taps the universal power of music to create
lushly filmed, seductive works that challenge the traditional notion
that masculinity is incompatible with external displays of emotion.
Just’s critically acclaimed mix of tenderness, humour, and tongue-incheek incongruity is exemplified by No Man is an Island II. In this
video, the emotional walls between the denizens of a dimly-lit strip
joint suddenly crumble when a young man unexpectedly breaks into
a heartfelt rendition of Roy Orbison’s tear-jerker classic Crying.
Cillín Hill Centre
Amar Kanwar (INDIA)
Amar Kanwar is an independent film maker, living and working from New
Delhi. His films respond to conditions in contemporary India and primarily
concern issues relating to violence, politics,
ecology and sexuality. Kanwar’s film A Night Of
Prophecy (2002) explores poetry in contemporary
India through multiple poetic journeys that seek
to unravel history, time and the future.
Eithne Jordan
(IRELAND)
Eithne Jordan’s recent paintings
are explorations of landscape
inhabited by the monumental forms
of the contemporary world. Calling
these paintings “monumental still
lifes”, Jordan investigates the
relationship between modern
man-made structures and the
natural environment in which they
have been placed. The absence
of the human figure in the work
creates an atmosphere of
stillness and emptiness.
KINDLY SUPPORTED BY ANNE O’DRISCOLL
Grennan Mill Craft School
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For Maud Cotter, our domestic spaces
are charged spaces; charged by the
simple fact of our having used them
and the objects they contain, often
unthinkingly, day in, day out. Maud’s
piece draws on the history of Butler
House and other grand houses, their
occupants and the rules and etiquette
by which they lived.
Cerith Wyn Evans (UK)
Maud Cotter (IRELAND)
Antonio Riello (ITALY)
Castlecomer Demesne
Marie Hanlon
(IRELAND)
Marie Hanlon’s abstract paintings
have an austere quality which belies
their refined and subtle beauty. In
recent years, Marie’s interest in strict
formal structures has given way to a
new element of randomness, allowing
the viewer to appreciate the sensual
experience of paint.
Cerith Wyn Evans, Maud Cotter and Antonio
Riello all deal with the phenomenology of time,
language and perception. Their work is at first
glance in keeping with the architecture and
social function of Butler House but on closer
inspection there is something which is unsettling
and at odds with the genteel environment.
CERITH WYN EVANS,
MAUD COTTER &
ANTONIO RIELLO
Cerith Wyn Evans’ sculptures evoke
notions of otherworldliness.
© Cerith Wyn Evans. Photo: Stephen White. Courtesy Jay Jopling/White Cube (London)
Butler House
Antonio Riello’s concerns shift
between criticism and mockery of the
‘big’ concepts of popular culture: sex,
religion and family. Speaking about the
inspiration for his work Riello says
“I find real artistic fascination in the
popular forms of culture: in all its
aspects, even the most inferior,
modest, commonplace and morbid –
actually, by these more than any of
the so-called Low Culture”.
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KILKENNY COUNTY COUNCIL
strand 2
NATIONAL CRAFT
GALLERY
Castle Yard, Kilkenny
Mon - Sat, 10am-6pm
Sun, 11am-6pm
A Life in Colour
1 August - 7 October
GALLERY TALK:
John ffrench & Peter Lamb
Sunday 12 August, 12.15pm
The Light Fantastic
11 August - 30 September
GALLERY TALK:
Mary Boydell & Audrey Whitty
Sunday 12 August, 11.30am
BUTLER GALLERY
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
11 August - 30 September
9.30am-6pm daily
A Life in Colour
John ffrench, Irish Ceramic Artist
A Retrospective Exhibition 1951-2007
The Crafts Council of Ireland honours John ffrench - the
pioneer of Irish contemporary ceramics - with their first
ever lifetime achievement, solo exhibition. Works from
1951 to the present day will be gathered together from
many distant locations including India, Ireland and
America. Curated by Peter Lamb.
The Light Fantastic
Irish Stained Glass Art
Honouring Ireland’s proud tradition of stained glass art and
today’s practitioners who continue to move it forward, this
exhibition features stained, painted and etched glass for the
domestic interior. Artists: Donna Coogan, Debbie Dawson,
Nora Duggan, Eva Kelly, Peadar Lamb, Carin MacCana,
Mary Mackey, Sandra Miley, Patrick Muldowney, Killian
Schurmann, Peter Young, George Walsh and Elke Westen.
Curated by Mary Boydell, President, the Glass Society of
Ireland and Audrey Whitty, Curator of Applied Arts, National
Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
Barry McGee
Acclaimed for his work in the street as a graffiti
artist named Twist and for his painted installations
in galleries, museums and art festivals around the
world, Barry McGee crafts a unique visual
language. Fusing together found and invented
imagery, tags and assorted objects, McGee’s poetic
works communicate the artist’s strong empathy
with people who have been left behind by
contemporary society.
A San Francisco native, Barry McGee is represented
by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, Deitch
Projects, New York, and Stuart Shave/Modern Art
Inc., London. This is his first exhibition in Ireland.
No. 72 John Street
30 July - 31 August
Mon - Fri, 9am-1pm
2pm-5pm
Sat & Sun, 10am-6pm
Olmo/Leamhán/Elm
Saturio Alonso/
Alan Counihan/
Derek Whitticase
Three sculptors from Spain,
Ireland and England use the near
disappearance of a tree species as
an opportunity to engage in a
reflection about death, space, myth,
topography and ecology in an
exhibition originally staged in Spain.
Exhibition supported by Kilkenny
County Council Arts Office,
Ayuntamiento de Soria (Spain)
and Glasgow City Council.
Saturio Alonso
Saturio Alonso is a sculptor
preoccupied with the mechanics
of representation and the secret
narratives that are generated by
the undercurrents of the aesthetic
experience. His work is
characterised by a diversity of
materials and concepts.
Alan Counihan
For twenty years Alan Counihan
worked almost exclusively with
stone in the making of large works.
In more recent times he has been
exploring other media creating
pieces of more intimate dimensions.
This exhibition, Olmo, marks his
first engagement with wood.
Del Whitticase
This project developed from the
artist’s interest in exploring the
relationship between nature and art,
in work which connected the land
and the sky and which played with
scale, deliberately seeking to confuse
notions of use and decoration.
KCAT
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The Friary, Callan
10 - 19 August
10am-5pm daily
The Friary
Revisited
Artists from the KCAT studio
will return to the Friary in Callan
for the duration of the festival
with a group show featuring
powerful works in a variety of
media and dimensions. Don’t
miss the opportunity to
experience this visual feast.
KCAT Art & Study Centre, Mill Lane, Callan
10 - 19 August, 10am-5pm daily
Tony O’Malley &
Jane O’Malley - A Union
Selected by Anna O’Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery
Tony O’Malley, the renowned Irish artist, was born in
Callan in 1913. To celebrate Callan’s 800th anniversary, a
selection of his work and that of his wife Jane O’Malley,
also a highly regarded painter, will be seen together for
the first time in Callan, a special place in the hearts of
both artists.
Organised by Callan 800 in association with KCAT Art &
Study Centre and the Butler Gallery.
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GRENNAN MILL CRAFT SCHOOL
SCULPTURE AT KELLS
Grennan Mill Craft School
10-19 August, 10am-6pm
Kells Priory, Kells, Co Kilkenny
12 - 19 August
Peter Wenger
strand 2
Endangered Open Studios
The Workhouse, Callan, Co Kilkenny
11 - 19 August, 11am - 6pm daily
The studio is the environment of the artist and
the chances for the public to access these spaces
are few. In a rare opportunity to view practitioners
at work and see the spaces in which artists
develop and investigate their individual practice,
the Endangered artists invite you into their space.
Witness artists engaging with materials and
processes both traditional and unique
through painting, drawing, pigments,
encaustic and found materials, and
experience art in the making.
“The Javanese definition of batik: ‘a point of light in the
dark’, was virtually at the beginning of my interest in art.
It had such a powerful impact on my imagination that
subsequently all my work has derived directly from it.
Throughout the years, my work has been a continuous
investigation into the aesthetic properties unique to resistpainting methods. This concern provides me with endless
inspiration, resulting in work which aims at representing
the visual phenomena of resist-painting as clearly and as
concisely as possible in all their varied forms”.
Artists: Patrick O’Connor, Helen
Comerford, Etaoin Holahan, Steven
Aylin, Alan Raggett, Jean Conroy
and Richard Coghlan.
David Beattie (Ireland)
Karl Burke (Ireland)
Marie-Dorothee
Neugebauer (Austria)
David Hastie (Wales)
Nina McGowan (Ireland)
Re-Produced
Re-Produced presents wild alternative
experiences of untamed, bizarre and
curious art. Following the hugely popular
“Re-Production” in 2006, the 2007 event
will be an explosive mix of performance,
contemporary dance, film, visual art, spoken
word, whales and audio/visual DJs and
features artists from Canada, Belgium, the
UK and Ireland. Re-Produced is co-curated
by Louise Allen and Mary Butler.
These exciting, young, contemporary artists, distinct
in character, tone and form, prioritise innate levels
of physical and metaphorical engagement with
their materials. Each has adapted or developed
new works specific to this particular location, using
a number of mechanisms to engage with this
beautiful and unusual setting. Dealing with a variety
of conceptual concerns, from science fiction to
elementary physics, these works cover a broad
range of physical forms, including imposing
sculptures, a billboard size photograph and a
number of more subtle interventions within the site.
Mark Garry (Curator)
Further details: www.butlergallery.com
www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Arts/
GRENNAN
MILL
CRAFT
SCHOOL
ARTISTS
The Old Mart,
Barrack Street
Sunday 12 August
12 noon - Midnight
Jason Oddy - Photographer
Alexis O’Hara - Performance Artist
Gwendoline Robin - Performance artist
Nicky Gogan - Darklight Film Festival
Maria Kerin - Choreographer/Dancer
Oscar Mascareñas - Chanter
Mary Wycherley - Dancer
Mary Nunan - Artist, Choreographer & Performer
Michael McLoughlin - Visual artist
Talking Birds - Theatre
Niamh McCann - Visual artist
Lookandlisten - Visual DJs
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artists
Polly Minett, Paper Artist
VERGE
Floating Forms
A partnership between
Kilkenny County Council Arts
Office and Kilkenny Arts
Festival, the VERGE initiative
seeks to provide a platform
for emerging visual artists
and makers, born or living in
Kilkenny, to exhibit their
work as part of the festival.
This is the fourth year of this
highly successful initiative
and we are delighted to
include these artists in the
2007 programme.
Inspired by Miro’s moving forms and a desire to construct pieces
that could move freely and be viewed from different perspectives,
the exhibition is made up of large three-dimensional moving pieces
of handmade paper formed around cane armatures. The paper is
created from plant and recycled rag fibres and, suspended from a
height, the pieces give the impression of floating…
POLLY MINETT
Castlecomer Demesne
10 - 19 August, 10am - 6pm
GWEN STEVENSON
The Boston Bar & Steakhouse
10 - 19 August, from 10am daily
ECLECTIC
The Watergate Theatre,
Parliament Street
10 - 19 August
Mon - Fri, 10am-7pm
Sat, 2pm-6pm
Polly began papermaking in Japan, going on to Glasgow School of
Art, where she specialised in plant fibre paper, while more recently
she has been creating wearable paper sculptures.
Gwen Stevenson
Out of their places (short film)
Meet the Artists
Upstairs Bar at Morrisson’s,
Hibernian Hotel, Ormonde Street
Admission free
The informal setting of Morrisson’s Bar at the
Hibernian Hotel is the ideal spot to meet some of the
extraordinary artists taking part in this year’s festival.
If you have ever wanted to know how a music
performance, art exhibition or piece of theatre comes
together, this is your chance to ask. Who can forget
the packed and hugely entertaining Meet the Visual
Artists last year!
Sat 11 August at 11am
“At the beginning of the 21st century, we are out
of place all too often as we are culturally and
economically rewarded for enduring the wrong
place. But, what is a ‘wrong’ place as distinct
from a ‘right’ place? Indeed, what is place?
‘Out of their places’ suggests our anxiety about a world where we are
increasingly estranged from our sense of place, home and where we belong”.
Meet the Visual Artists 1
Born in Kilkenny, Gwen Stevenson studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster
and Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design. In 2006, she represented Ireland
at Estudio Abierto, in Buenos Aires.
Meet the Visual Artists 2
Eclectic
Friday 17 August at 1.10pm
Kilkenny born artists Lena Bolger, Sheena Kelly and Amanda O’Dwyer are
recent graduates of Limerick School of Art and Design. Working with very
diverse subjects and media, they have created a show of visually exciting
contrasts. Lena Bolger’s work attempts to expand and deconstruct the concept
of “painting”, and aims to create intriguing and surprising work that will
provoke a reconsideration of artistic
conventions, display and material. Sheena
Kelly’s work is about visual cacophony, explored
through excessive and opulent/naïve imagery,
while Amanda O’Dwyer’s work centres on the
1930’s-1950’s American sideshow, questioning
such facets as humour, strangeness, violence,
trickery and gullibility.
With the Carducci String Quartet (see p. 13), cellist
Ani Aznavoorian (see p. 12), violist Jennifer Stumm
(see p.12) and violinist Catherine Leonard, Curator of
Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Classical Music Programme
(see p. 12).
With artist Antonio Riello (see p. 45) and Hugh
Mulholland, Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Visual
Art Programme and Director of The Third Space art
gallery in Belfast.
Friday 17 August at 3pm
With artist Maud Cotter (see p.45), members of the
Factotum Choir (see p. 41) and Hugh Mulholland.
Meet the Musicians 1
Sat 18 August at 1.10pm
Meet the Musicians 2
With singer Fay Claassen (see p. 28) and
Gerry Godley, Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival’s
Music Programme and Director of the Improvised
Music Company.
ADDITIONAL EVENT
Public interview with Lee Breuer,
Director of A Prelude to a Death in
Venice (Harvey’s Version) (see p. 5)
and Jimmy Fay, Curator of
Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Theatre
Programme and Artistic Director
of Bedrock Productions.
Sat 11 August 3pm
The Parade Tower,
Kilkenny Castle
Admission €5
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Niamh
Sharkey
Lost and Found
(IRELAND)
For children aged 5-11 yrs
Lose yourself in wonderland and find yourself in an enchanted world of colour and
pattern as dancer Megan Kennedy leads you in a quirky game of hide and seek.
Saturday 11 August
11am & 4.30pm
CBS Primary
Stephen St, Kilkenny
Admission €10
Following last year’s sell-out performances of Jacare Jungle, textile artist Tara
Carrigy and the Adaptive Information Cluster at UCD return to this year’s
festival with their latest art and science collaboration. This performance uses
sensor technology with visual projections to create a magical backdrop that
promises to delight and intrigue.
Megan Kennedy trained at Alvin Ailey Dance, NYC and received a BA Honours
from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She has performed with Retina Dance
(London), Bedrock Productions, CoisCéim Dance, Brokentalkers Theatre (IRL), and
Cat in A Cup Theatre (Scotland). Megan co-founded junk ensemble dance theatre
with her twin sister Jessica and their productions include Watch Her Disappear,
Circus Freak, Drowning Memory in a Bowl and The Rain Party.
(IRELAND)
NIAMH SHARKEY
Award-winning illustrator of children’s
picture books Niamh Sharkey was the
recipient of the prestigious Mother
Goose Award as most exciting
newcomer to British illustration for her
first two books, The Gigantic Turnip and
Tales of Wisdom and Wonder. Niamh
also received the Bisto Book of the Year
Award for Tales of Wisdom and Wonder.
Saturday 11 August
3pm
Admission €8
Now writing and illustrating her own picture books with Walker Books,
Niamh’s recent titles include I’m a Happy Hugglewug, The Ravenous Beast
and Santasaurus. She has also designed stage sets and costumes for theatre.
For this special festival event, Niamh will begin with a reading from some of
her recent books, followed by an illustration workshop for all participants.
Catherine Aran
(WALES)
From the wind beaten mountains of Snowdonia comes Catherine Aran, a
Teller of Tales from Wales. She will take you on a journey to meet giants
and fairies, and characters of myth and magic, through stories told in her
unique and colourful style. Once the Official Storyteller of Wales, Catherine
is the author of five books for children published in her mother tongue.
Kilkenny audiences may remember that Catherine was to
perform at last year’s festival, but was unable to
travel. She was determined to make up for this
and Kilkenny Arts Festival is delighted to welcome
Catherine back this year.
Abuelite
Prior to the performance of Lost and Found, there will be a screening of Abuelite,
the award-winning short film by 11-year old Santana Hernandez-Power from
Kilkenny. Abuelite, which tells the story of Santana’s grandmother in El Salvador,
won the Radharc Documentary Award at the Fresh Film Festival 2007.
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Reading and Workshop 60 mins
in total
CATHERINE ARAN
For children aged 3-5 yrs (45
mins) and 6-8 yrs (60 mins).
Monday 13 August
12 noon - 12.45pm (3-5 yrs)
2.30pm - 3.30pm (6-8 yrs)
Admission €8
Tuesday 14 August
12 noon - 12.45pm (3-5 yrs)
2.30pm - 3.30pm (6-8 yrs)
Callan Parish Hall
Admission €8
Wednesday 15 August
12 noon - 12.45pm (3-5 yrs)
2.30pm - 3.30pm (6-8 yrs)
Graiguenamanagh Library
Admission €8
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events
Clelia Murphy
CLELIA MURPHY
Sunday 12 August
Workshop 1: (7-9 yrs)
11.30am - 1pm
Workshop 2: (10-12 yrs)
2.30pm - 4.30pm
16 participants in each
Admission €12
(IRELAND)
ACTING FOR CAMERA
WORKSHOP
Dervish
(IRELAND)
Well-known Irish actress Clelia Murphy
(Fair City) leads this acting workshop for
children, which aims for the participants to
learn a little bit about acting while having bucket loads of fun. Clelia will be
teaching the children through theatre games and improvisation, as well as
pieces-to-camera, to show the children what it is like to act on screen*.
Bring a drink and a snack, and wear old comfortable clothing as rolling,
running and jumping is the order of the day. No acting experience is
required – just your imagination!
*Please note that this will be an in-class exercise only; footage filmed in class will not
be shown publicly.
A CLOUD’S JOURNEY
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 August
3pm
CBS Primary, Stephen Street
Admission €10
Duration 50 mins
Director
Annette D Weber
Stage & Costume Design
Sibylle Gädecke
Music
Benjamin Rinnert
Performer
Jan Single
A Cloud’s Journey
BY ROBERTO FRABETTI
(GERMANY)
Cirrus is a big fluffy cloud, whose favourite thing is
to let the wind blow her across the oceans and
forests, the people and the animals of our world.
One day, Cirrus meets a child who is curious to know
more about that world and so their journey begins…
A theatrical feast for the senses, packed with
magical transformations, colours, secrets and
the flavour of the whole wide world!
“enchanting production…
an unforgettable event”
DIE RHEINPFALZ
The trad musician’s trad band, Dervish is arguably Ireland’s top
trad/roots group whose colourful career has taken them to every corner
of the globe and has seen them share centre stage with such names as
James Brown, The Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, Beck…
A Dervish performance is a myriad of tones and moods ranging from
high energy tunes, played with fluidity and intuitiveness, to beautifully
measured songs, from charming lyrics of life and love, to inspiring
melodies that lift audiences from their seats. Cathy Jordan’s masterful
stage presence brings all the elements together, her stories to the songs
and her interaction with the audience drawing people into the music in
a way other performers can only aspire to…
Dervish brings to the world the joy and excitement of traditional Irish
music. Don’t miss your chance to experience this amazing group in this
once-off family gig, created especially for Kilkenny Arts Festival.
For all the family
Saturday 18 August
4.30pm
Family Music Package €35
(See booking info p. 62)
Duration 60 mins
vocals, bodhrán
& bones
Cathy Jordan
mandola
Brian McDonagh
flute & whistles
Liam Kelly
fiddle
Tom Morrow
accordion
Shane Mitchell
bouzouki
Michael Holmes
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events
MUSICAL WORKSHOPS
For the very young
Tuesday 14 August
Workshop 1: (0-3yrs)
11am - 12 noon
2pm - 3pm
4pm - 5pm
Admission €10
Wed 15 August
11am - 12 noon
2pm - 3pm
4pm - 5pm
Callan Parish Hall, Co Kilkenny
Admission €10
SEASHORESHOW
For families with children
under 12 yrs
Thursday 16 August
12 noon - 1pm
Admission €10
INSTANT ORCHESTRA
For families with children
aged from 3 yrs
Thursday 16 August
3pm - 4pm
Admission €10
Musical Workshops
children’s » 57
events
FOR THE VERY YOUNG
Visual Art Workshops
Musical games, imaginative soundplay, unusual instruments and gentle energy
are the components of these sessions for children, and their parents/guardians,
tailored to the needs of groups of all ages. There will be original and familiar
songs and an opportunity for all to play, regardless of musical experience.
WITH GENEVIEVE HARDEN & DEIRDRE O’REILLY
Seashoreshow
Sound travels faster underwater! Nico Brown and Martin Brunsden invite
families with children aged up to 12 to dive into the sea with them for a gently
participatory hour. There will be musical instruments both strange and familiar,
songs, games, stories… and quite possibly pirates! Seashoreshow has been a hit
at children’s festivals from Fair Head to Mizen Head and in schools nationwide.
Instant Orchestra
The angklung is a tuned bamboo rattle from Indonesia with an exciting and
melodious sound. In this fun hour for families with children aged 3 and up, we will
spend a little time mastering the simple technique of playing the angklung and
then invent our own original compositions. No musical experience is required.
The more players the better!
Insects and creepy crawlies,
butterflies and bugs
All participants should wear
old clothes… just in case.
All materials supplied.
15 participants in each workshop
INSECTS AND CREEPY CRAWLIES,
BUTTERFLIES AND BUGS
Using a range of materials including paper, paint and pastels, participants
will create their very own personal colouredy fantastical creatures and send
them on their wild journeys! What will yours look like? What’s its name and
more importantly… where will it go?
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Here’s an opportunity to take a really close look at yourself… and then,
using oil pastels and mirrors, create your very own self-portrait! Will it be
multi-coloured, monochrome… you decide. Then, to finish it off, we’ll be
using elaborate textured backgrounds as your backdrop - Good enough to
put on your wall!
Age 4-6 years
Monday 13 August
Workshop 1: 2pm - 3pm
VEC Arts Space
Admission €10
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL
Age 7-10 years
Tuesday 14 August
Workshop 1: 11am - 1pm
VEC Arts Space
Admission €10
Instant Orchestras have been formed and acclaimed by people of all ages
nationwide and abroad. Previous participants include entire schools, actors at
The Abbey Theatre, Morbegs, Tellytubbies, theatre festival audiences and
Mrs Mary Robinson.
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Nico
Brown was musician-in-residence at The
Ark, a Cultural Centre for Children, from its
opening in 1995 to 2000. He now regularly
runs workshops for parents and children at
The National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Martin Brunsden (double bass) often
performs with Kíla and has performed in
many shows for children at The Ark and
elsewhere. He currently tours with Pauline
Scanlon, he has duetted with Julia Roberts
and nobody else can play a saw, or indeed
a stepladder, as melodiously.
KIM KAVANAGH (11 YRS), ST COLMAN’S NS, CONAHY
NICOLA CARROLL (10 YRS), SCOIL MHUIRE, CALLAN
EIMEAR STAPLETON (11 YRS), SCOIL BHRÍDE, BALLYRAGGETT
Festival Magic Mural
Hundreds of entries were received for the Festival Magic art competition
held earlier this year. Three prize-winners were selected (see above) and
their works of art will form the basis for the Festival Magic Mural, which
will be brought to life at the Market Cross Shopping Centre by the artists
themselves and other selected entrants. Come and see!
FESTIVAL MAGIC MURAL
Monday 13 - Friday 17 August
MARKET CROSS
SHOPPING CENTRE
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children’s day by day » 59
events
Theatre/
Dance/Visual Art
Wednesday 15, Thursday 16 &
Friday 17 August
10am - 2pm
VEC Arts Space, New Street
Admission €10
Note: 30 participants in each
workshop. Different group of
children each day.
All materials supplied.
Children are encouraged to
bring a small snack.
Sat 11
Mon 13
»57 Festival Magic Mural
Market Cross
Shopping Centre
Come and see!
»53 Catherine Aran
»57 Insects and creepy crawlies,
12 noon-12.45pm (3-5 yrs)
butterflies and bugs 4-6 years
2.30pm-3.30pm (6-8 yrs)
Workshop 1: 2pm-3pm
Workshop 2: 4pm-5pm
VEC Arts Space
Tues 14
Market Cross
Shopping Centre
Come and see!
»53 Catherine Aran
»57 Mirror Mirror On The Wall
12 noon-12.45pm (3-5 yrs)
7-10 years
2.30pm-3.30pm (6-8 yrs)
Workshop 1: 11am-1pm
Callan Parish Hall
Workshop 2: 3pm-5pm
VEC Arts Space
»56 Musical Workshop - for the very young
Workshop 1 (0-3yrs) 11am-12 noon
Workshop 2 (3-5yrs) 2pm-3pm
CBS Primary School
Wed 15 »57 Festival Magic Mural
Market Cross
Shopping Centre
Come and see!
»53 Catherine Aran
»58 Inklings 8-12 yrs
12 noon-12.45pm (3-5 yrs)
Story-making, illustration
2.30pm-3.30pm (6-8 yrs)
& bookbinding 10am-2pm
Graiguenamanagh Library
VEC Arts Space
»56 Musical Workshop - for the very young
Workshop 1 (0-3yrs) 11am-12 noon
Callan Parish Hall, Co Kilkenny
Thur 16 »57 Festival Magic Mural
Market Cross
Shopping Centre
Come and see!
VEC Arts Space
Fri 17
Market Cross
Shopping Centre
Come and see!
VEC Arts Space
Sat 18
»54 A Cloud’s Journey 3pm
CBS Primary School
The Ark is Ireland’s only purpose-built, dedicated Children’s Cultural Centre. The
Inklings touring project has been specially devised as one of The Ark’s flagship
projects for The Year of Childhood 2007, which marks their 12th birthday.
People are the lifeblood of
Kilkenny Arts Festival
You are our inspiration and our
strength. People whose interest,
enthusiasm and commitment
match ours. People whose
participation at events - on the
streets, at a concert, theatre show,
reading or gig - make it special.
our friends
Our
We would like you to become one
of our Kilkenny People Friends.
We do hope that you will consider
joining our scheme which helps
us to bridge the gap between
government grants, sponsorship
and box office revenue. Please
note that the Kilkenny Arts Festival
is a non-profit organisation.
the
Join us and you will enjoy a host
of benefits during festival time and
throughout the year. Your support
will genuinely make a difference,
helping us continue to bring you a
festival of wonder and distinction,
now and for years to come.
Further info tel 056 776 3663,
email info@kilkennyarts.ie
people of kilkenny
Music Workshops/
Performance
»54 Clelia Murphy - Acting for Camera
Workshop 1 (7-9 yrs) 11.30am-1pm
Workshop 2 (10-12 yrs) 2.30pm-4.30pm
Inklings
Kilkenny
People Friends
Acting/Visual Art
Workshops
»52 Lost and Found 5-11 yrs »53 Niamh Sharkey 4-7 yrs
11am & 4.30pm
Reading & workshop 3pm
CBS Primary School
Sun 12
Inklings is a story-making, illustration and bookbinding workshop led by artists Liz
Smith and Laura De Búrca. This four-hour workshop will explore all the elements of
making stories and books, starting with the blank page and following it through to
the finished product. Participants will be inspired to create their own characters,
storyline and artwork on the themes of imagination and experimentation, making
their very own, beautifully produced book to keep forever.
Readings/
Storytelling
»56 Seashoreshow under 12 yrs
12 noon-1pm
CBS Primary School
»56 Instant Orchestra 3+ yrs
3pm - 4pm
CBS Primary School
»55 Dervish 4.30pm
Sun 19 »54 A Cloud’s Journey 3pm
CBS Primary School
CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT AT ALL PERFORMANCE EVENTS.
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Thank you to:
FESTIVAL PARTNERS
Bluett & O’Donoghue Architects
Business Friends of Kilkenny Arts Festival
Every year for ten days in August, Kilkenny comes alive with a
feast of artistic entertainment for all, taking full advantage of the
city’s stunning historic buildings and easily accessible trails.
As a non-profit organisation, you, our friends, are our lifeline,
allowing us to present a festival of distinction that continues to
inspire and delight. Your valuable contribution helps us bridge the
gap between government grants, sponsorship and box office sales.
A cost effective, highly visible sponsorship partnership with
ourselves raises your company profile, fosters goodwill with all
markets and strengthens your cultural ties in the local community.
Further info tel 056 776 3663, email info@kilkennyarts.ie
Your City… Your Festival… Your Point of Difference
the
FESTIVAL ASSOCIATES
Bank Of Ireland
Carroll’s Bar, Thomastown
John C. Minogue
Lacken House Guest Accommodation
Lautrecs
Le Caveau, The Specialist Wine Merchants
Lemonsoul Restaurant
McDonald’s Restaurant
Meubles
O’Connell’s Chemist, High St & Rose Inn St
Paris Texas
Patterson Bannon & Associates Architects
Ltd (Kilkenny & Carlow)
PJT Insurance Services Ltd
Pordylo’s Restaurant
Reidy & Foley Solicitors
Restaurant Café Sol
Ripley’s Steak House
Zuni Restaurant & Townhouse
BUSINESS PATRONS
AIB Kilkenny
Butler Court Guest Accommodation
Chesneau Leathers, Bennettsbridge
(Kilkenny) & Wicklow Street (Dublin)
Club House Hotel
Crotty’s Coffee House
Days Hotel Kilkenny
DNG Ella Dunphy
Dr Colm F. Costello, Patrick St Med Centre
Duggan Steel Group
Erinstone
Finlay Hydrascreens
Fléva Restaurant
H Hair Studio
Jeff Howes Golf Design
John’s Green Medical Centre
Kilkenny Project Engineering
(Architectural Practices)
Murphy Jewellers
Padmore & Barnes
Springhill Court Hotel
State Street International
The Boston Bar & Steakhouse
Uisce Technology Limited
WhazOn
Whites Pharmacy
Willie Duggan Lighting Ltd
arts for all our friends
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Festival Box Office: St Francis Abbey Brewery, Parliament Street (opposite Rothe House)
Telephone & Credit Card Hotline 056 775 2175
Online Booking www.kilkennyarts.ie
Ticket prices include booking fee.
Tickets purchased at outlets outside of Kilkenny are subject to a €2 agents fee.
Tickets purchased online and over the phone by credit card are subject to a credit card booking fee.
Tickets purchased directly from the Festival Box Office are not subject to any additional charges,
unless payment is made using a credit card.
EVENT
Box Office open Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm
Booking opens Wednesday 4 July
Concessions are available and apply to students, senior citizens and
the unwaged. Evidence will be requested at point of purchase.
Student standby tickets available on the door, subject to availability.
25% discount on the production of a valid student card, 15 minutes
before start time.
Concessions are not available for online bookings.
DATE
TIME
NUMBER
PRICE
VALUE
Festival Club Membership is available through the Friends/Patrons
Scheme. Details from the Box Office.
Ticket Packages 10% discount if you buy tickets for three events or more at the same time
10% discount for bookings of ten or more people.
• 3epkano Film Package: Two performances for €25 (p. 30)
• Classical Lunch Time Package: All three lunchtime classical concerts €40
Applies to A Musical Crescendo (p.12), Carducci String Quartet (p.13)
and Michael McHale (p.16)
• Family Music Package: €35 for family of four. Applies to Dervish (p.55)
Booking Form
Postal Bookings to: Kilkenny Arts Festival Administration Office, 9/10 Abbey Business Centre, Abbey St, Kilkenny
Tel +353 56 775 2175, Fax +353 56 775 1704, www.kilkennyarts.ie
NAME
DATE
ADDRESS
TELEPHONE DAY
MASTERCARD
CARD NUMBER
SIGNATURE
TELEPHONE EVENING
VISA
LASER
EXPIRY DATE
Please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope with order. Cheques/POs should be made payable to
Kilkenny Arts Festival Ltd. Please read the booking information carefully and check totals to avoid delays. Whilst
every effort will be made to adhere to the advertised programme, Kilkenny Arts Festival reserves the right to
alter the programme. Please note that latecomers may only be admitted at the discretion of Management.
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