A night of song & traditional music from West Kerry & Clare with Kate Purcell and Brendan Begley with guitar accompaniment Bréanaínn Begley
The Honeyfitz Theatre, Lough Gur
Sunday May 23rd 8pm
Tickets: €20
087 285 2022
Childrens Drumming workshop in the Honeyfitz theatre, Lough Gur
May 8th 11am-1pm
Drumming workshop…introduction to the skills of traditional hand drumming
€7 per child
Bookings 087 285 2022/ 061 385386
More details on www.loughgur.com
Inspiring Touring!
Rural Arts Network is organising a series of quality arts and cultural tours across a range of art-forms to be hosted by local community and voluntary promoters around the country in the coming years. Over time, these will include events which will specifically promote widespread community involvement, increased arts participation, include some high profile performers, target young promoters and where possible bring new art forms to local communities and also celebrate existing cultural activities.
To start we are looking for interested individuals, groups and communities who would like to host an event in October to get in touch. We are applying to the Arts Council for funding for a new Touring Award and are teaming up with the Galway based theatre and street performance group The Gombeens and renowned storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy to apply for funding for a performance and workshop tour in October 2010.
The tour will be structured in such a way that the majority of costs will be funded and only some local costs such as accommodation and food will need to be covered locally and these can be paid for out of box-office income which should be more than sufficient to cover them. The intention is that the box office income will remain the sole property of the local group once those costs are covered. (If the arts council funding is insufficient or if they advise us to proceed in a different way we will inform people and discuss alternatives but you are under no obligation to proceed if you are not satisfied).
The proposed double bill will feature the Gombeens performing their show ‘Stories of a Yellow Town’ which is based on a collection of real-life personal stories/observations recorded by interviewing Irish & Brazilians in Gort documenting when Brazilians first arrived in Gort to the present day. The second-element of the programme will include storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy who will present her own magical mix of tales. The performers will stay in the local communities and where possible will deliver local workshops in consultation with the local community.
For enquiries and further information email Conor O Leary artsnetwork@gmail.com
