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Irish Examiner
3 days ago
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- Irish Examiner
Five For Your Radar: Leeside DJs, Freakier Friday, Kilkenny Arts
The Weir Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Friday, August 8, to Saturday, September 6 An all-star cast features in the Conor McPherson-directed play The Weir. Brendan Gleeson is joined by a cast that includes Owen McDonnell, Seán McGinley,and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Love/Hate). The makers say The Weir is a testament to the need for human connection, the possibility of hope, and the enduring power of storytelling. DJs: Magic Nights by the Lee Cork Rowing Club, Friday, August 8, to Sunday, August 17 Over the next two weekends, the riverside venue will be transformed into a one-of-a-kind pop-up nightclub, blending the spirit of underground club culture with the charm of a summer evening on the River Lee. Presented by the Good Room, responsible for Live at St Luke's, they've got some great DJs lined up, including, this weekend, Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Shane Johnson (Fish Go Deep) and Martin Roche (Get Down Edits), and legendary local clubnight Sunday Times. Exhibition: Dlúthpháirtíocht Laneway Gallery, Shandon, Cork, Until Sunday, August 17 The poster for Dlúthpháirtíocht. Dlúthpháirtíocht, which means Solidarity in Irish, is a nonprofit, multidisciplinary art collective consisting of Irish and Palestinian artists. Exhibitions take place in London, Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, with funds donated to Dignity for Palestine, a charity based in Alhassiana in Gaza, which was set up by Dr Musallam Abukhalil to establish an emergency food assistance programme. The project includes prominent names in contemporary Irish art as well as Palestinian artists. Festival: Kilkenny Arts Festival Various venues, Until Sunday, August 17 Muireann Ryan and John Doran pictured at Kilkenny Castle ahead of Kilkenny Arts Festival 2025, opening this Thursday. Photograph by Dylan Vaughan The 52nd Kilkenny Arts Festival is under way, with its usual mix of extensive multidisciplinary arts events, from literature to theatre to music. Among the highlights are Light Up the Castle, Because You're Free, an audio-visual show projected onto the walls of Kilkenny Castle; What Are You Afraid Of? by Peter Hanly, in which Hanly explores a years-long crippling bout of stage fright; and, on Friday night, the opera Custom of the Coast, by Indian-American composer Kamala Sankaram, with lyrics from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. Cinema: Freakier Friday General release, Friday, August 8 Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis return as Tess and Anna some 22 years after enduring an identity crisis in the original film Freaky Friday. Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.
Irish Examiner
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
An exhibition of Irish and Palestinian artwork opens in Cork
A cross-cultural exhibition demonstrating solidarity between Irish and Palestinian visual artists is set to debut in Cork on Thursday evening. Dlúthpháirtíocht (jloo-far-chee-uct), meaning 'Solidarity', is described by organisers and curators as a "touring exhibition showcasing the work of Irish, Palestinian, and other international artists, photographers, and filmmakers who share a desire for their work to be representative of their opposition to the apartheid state and the suffering endured by Palestinians". The work of Palestinian artists like Nabil Abughanima and Amal Al-Nakhala features centre-stage, alongside photography from Seamus Murphy of Palestine's GAA team. Meanwhile, work from Irish artists like Spicebag, Council Baby, and Aoife Cawley draws on the urgency of the humanitarian situation in Palestine, and historic parallels between Irish and Palestinian experiences of famine, colonial violence and national struggle. Constance Markievicz, by Aoife Cawley Following exhibitions in Dublin and London, the touring initiative opens at Laneway Gallery, a community visual arts space on Shandon Street. All sales of artwork by Palestinian artists is donated directly to them or their families. Photography of the GAA Palestine team by Séamus Murphy Sales from a collaborative T-shirt with Waterford's Abú Clothing, as well as donations, will go directly to Dignity for Palestinians, a charity run by Dr Musallam Abukhalil of UNRWA, carrying out emergency aid on the ground in Gaza. Funds raised at previous events were used to evacuate a family safely out of Gaza and into Egypt; and to establish an emergency food assistance program, which provided food to 650 people. I'm Afraid of the Dark, an installation by visual artists Spicebag and Council Baby Thursday night's event features a live traditional music session; while an open reading session on Sunday August 10 features a sit-down discussion with poet Daragh Fleming and writer Seán Óg Ó Murchú. Dlúthpháirtíocht opens on Thursday August 7 at Laneway Gallery, Shandon Street, Cork City, running until Sunday August 17. All sales of artwork by Palestinian artists is donated directly to them or their families by curators. All proceeds from donations and merchandise will go to Dignity for Palestinians. For more information, see Read More Izz Café team on their new book, favourite recipes, Cork, and Palestine
