THERE is so much happening in Killarney for Culture Night 2018 and with events commencing at 5pm at the annual Kerry Visual Artists Showcase in Government Buildings on New Road which will be a significant exhibition of work by artists in Kerry.
It will feature Kerry the creations of Deirdre McKenna, Dermot McCarthy, Jaqueline O’Driscoll, Marie Kelliher, Tina Reed, Kathy Hurley, Martine Moriarty, Mieke Vanmechelan and Rebecca Carroll. Art works selected this year include paintings and photography, mixed media and drawings and the show will be opened by the Mayor of Kerry, Cllr Norma Foley.
A commissioned event titled The Landed Gentry and the Help takes place at Killarney House at 7pm and it will be delivered by musician and composer Criostóir Ó Loingsigh who will bring the audience through a history of music that was listened to by the owners and workers at Killarney House throughout the centuries.
In The Brehon on the Muckross Road, performer and vocalist Grace Foley and pianist Jayme Linehan will take to the floor for an intimate performance at 7.00pm followed by a Site-Specific Theatre piece that will use four bedrooms in the hotel where four writers with local connections create four scenes as audience members can watch the dramas unfold.
Four of Kerry’s finest writers will dramatise four mini plays, set within the walls of a hotel bedroom. Bernard Casey, Donal Courtney, Jessica Leen and Ray O’Sullivan have each created a bespoke piece of theatre set within the universally familiar walls of a hotel bedroom. The audience will movs between all four rooms to watch the drama unfold.
Tickets for Four Walls at The Brehon are free but are strictly limited and must be booked through the INEC Box Office by phoning 064-6671555.
Elsewhere, Eleanor McEvoy will be in concert at Muckross Schoolhouse and while tickets are free, they must be pre-booked by calling 064-6630804. A Voices for Women writing workshop with writer Fiona O’Connor will take place at the Killarney Plaza Hotel at 6.00pm and it will recreate forgotten characters from recent history. This will be followed by Kampala to Killarney, an Afro Trad Ireland musical journey, in St Mary’s Church of Ireland at 8.00pm.
Kerry Film Festival and Cinema Killarney will present The Silent Child and Little Bird, two short film screenings, at 6.30pm while DB O’Connor will present PURE, a journey through sean-nós and its impact on Irish music at the Killarney Cultural Centre on East Avenue Road at 8.00pm. This will be followed at 9.15pm by Still in the Dreaming, a series of readings from a new anthology by Kerry writers edited by Kerry Writer in Residence Annemarie Ní Churreáin.
St Brigid’s Secondary School will have a showcase of student work at the school from 5.00 to 8.00pm and KDYS will host an evening of music, dance and performance from 6.00pm at Fairhill.
There will be an art exhibition and art demonstrations from 6.00 to 8.00pm at the Art House Studio and Gallery in Upper Park Road and will feature Cork based artists John Flynn.
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