February - May 2020 GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN LEITRIM - WWW.THEDOCK.IE - The Dock

February - May 2020
GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN LEITRIM
       WWW.THEDOCK.IE

VISUAL ARTS
Cillín
Tommy Weir
18th January – 14th March

                          Cillín, Ballydawley, Sligo, 2018, Pigment print on Hahnemuehle Rag, 110 x 81.5cm.

Cillín, an exhibition of new work by photographer Tommy Weir at The Dock, was
exhibited in the RHA Gallery in Dublin last autumn and will travel to Uillinn in
Skibbereen later this year. From the 7th Century, through the Middle Ages and
continuing to the late 20th Century, unbaptised children were rarely buried in
consecrated ground. Denied access to the graveyard, they were buried in cillíní
instead. These unofficial graveyards form a part of the Irish landscape, numbering
several thousand across Ireland.

Weir has collaborated with poet, Una Mannion and archaeologist, Dr. Marion Dowd
on this body of work, bringing together photography, science and poetry, looking
at the Irish relationship to death and ritual over the centuries. Tommy Weir is a
photographer based North West of Ireland. Originally from Dublin, Weir has had a
career spanning the arts, from visual art through publishing, design, theatre, film
and photography.

Cillín Exhibition Associated Events

                                                                                      VIS UAL A RTS
Wednesday 12th February, 6pm
Readings by Una Mannion
Renowned author Una Mannion will join us and read from her work. This reading
will also feature selected work from the students in the Writing+Literature degree
in IT Sligo and be followed by an author Q&A.
Una Mannion has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy
Emerging Poetry Award and the Doolin, Cúirt, Allingham and Ambit short story
prizes. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Irish Times, The Lonely
Crowd, Crannóg and Bare Fiction. She edits The Cormorant and is programme
chair of the BA Writing + Literature at IT Sligo. Her debut novel will be published
by Faber and Faber in 2021.

Saturday 7th March, 8pm. €15/12
Stone upon bone:
The archaeology and folklore of cillíní
(children’s burial grounds) in Ireland. Dr. Marion
Dowd and Susan McKeown in conversation.
Dr Marion Dowd is an archaeologist and lecturer at IT Sligo. Her research focuses
primarily on how people have engaged with caves in Ireland over the past 12,500
years. Her first book, The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015, Oxbow), won the
Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2016, and the Tratman Award 2015. Marion
has also published on the interplay between folklore and archaeology.

Susan McKeown is a Grammy winning vocalist, songwriter, producer and arranger
from Dublin. She is also the founder and director of Cuala Foundation, a nonprofit
organisation that works with youth and communities in U.S. and Ireland to
transform disadvantage into advantage through culture.

TULCA Festival of Visual Art,
Galway 2020 and The Dock present

Threads
Austin Ivers
Gallery 2: 28th March – 16th May

                                                                     Threads, Austin Invers

TULCA, marking its 18th year, has invited three alumni curators – Sarah Searson,
Gregory McCartney and Helen Carey – to examine our challenging and irreplaceable
world, working with Irish and European artists in Galway and other locations. The
Dock will be showing Galway based artist Austin Ivers. Ivers has assembled a
new body of work consisting of ‘The World at War’, a new multi screen video
work, photography and installed objects along with a programme of screenings,
readings and a publication to document these events. In these works and activities,
Austin considers the psychic effects and the embodied materials of the Cold War
on popular culture.

Austin Ivers is an artist working in a variety of media, including, video, photography
and installation. Austin has exhibited extensively including several solo shows in
Ireland as well as participating in group exhibitions in 126 Galway, RHA Dublin,
Belfasts Catalyst as well as in Graz, Kiev, Philadelphia, & Friedrichshafen.

Film Screenings include showing of Threads (Mick Jackson 1984)
Quatermass (Piers Haggard 1979). Further details at www.thedock.ie

Threads Exhibition Associated Events

                                                                                         VIS UAL ARTS
Saturday 28th March, 8pm
Film Screening of Threads
In 1984, Threads was aired on the BBC and shocked tens of millions of UK viewers.
Four months later it was broadcast in America and became the most watched
basic cable program in history. This graphic and haunting docudrama shows the
effects of a nuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield, England as the
fabric of society unravels. Now fully restored from a 2K scan for the first time ever.
Director: Mick Jackson. Duration 1h 32mins

Saturday 9th May, 7pm
Readings by Ian Maleney, Cathy Sweeney and
Pat McCabe in response to Threads
Film Screening of The Quatermass Conclusion
The Quatermass Conclusion is a separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters,
parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. The story set in the near
future involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor
Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular and
sinister cult “Planet People” that “performs raptures”.
Director: Piers Haggard. Duration 1h 42mins

Saturday 16th May, 8pm
Film Screening of Babylon
The 1980 cult classic U.K. Babylon was filmed on the streets of Deptford and
Brixton, London. The story centres on sound system culture and themes of police
racism, violence against blacks, poverty and disillusion with lack of opportunities.
Director: Franco Rosso. Duration 1h 35mins

Saturday 28th March, 2pm
Exhibition Opening & talk with artists Austin Ivers,
Louise Manifold & Jamie Cross

Louise Manifold
Gallery 1: 28th March – 16th May

                                                                       Louise Manifold

Louise Manifold graduated from Central St Martins College London and the
Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland. She has exhibited extensively
throughout Ireland and internationally. Upcoming projects include AerialSparks
in collaboration with the Irish Marine Institute for Galway’s European Capital of
Culture Program 2020.

Free Gallery Tours
Here at The Dock we offer free tours of our exhibitions for primary, post-primary
classes and additional-needs pupils and their teachers on a year-round basis. Tours
offer a great opportunity for pupils and teachers to explore and engage with the
arts outside the classroom, offering great food for thought and inspiration for
further exploration.
Tours must be booked at least two weeks in advance by contacting Laura Mahon
T: 071 9650828 E: lmahon@leitrimcoco.ie

Associated Events

                                                                                   VIS UAL ARTS
Saturday 9th May,
11am - 4pm. €25
Chop N Gripe
workshop
with Louise Manifold

The workshop is based on
the popular Stitch ‘n’ Bitch
group, this is a coffee table
session designed to engage the
participant with the traditions
of cut out designs as a form of
protest.

Saturday 9th May,
6 - 7pm
Performance
with Elizabeth Hilliard
Elizabeth Hilliard is one of Ireland’s
leading exponents of contemporary
vocal music. She will perform a live
rendition of sonic work developed
as part of Louise Manifold’s video
work Escape Wheel. Artist Louise
Manifold and Elizabeth Hilliard
worked together to create sonic work designed as an opera performance for
the Jaquet Droz Automata, a set of three doll androids, who have performed to
audiences all over Europe for over three hundred years.

In the film the androids become the audience: Elizabeth reworks their actions
and gestures as a performance for them. Elizabeth will also perform other recent
works for voice and electronics by Ian Wilson and Rachael Lavelle.

Jamie Cross
Gallery 3: 28th March – 16th May

                                            Jamie Cross
                                            Printscan 1

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh
29th May - 18th July

                                            Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh
                                            Untitled, oil on canvas

Saturday 29th May, 2pm
Exhibition Opening & talk with Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh

2020 MUSIC ARTISTS

                                                                                      V IS UAL A RTS /2 020 M U S IC ARTISTS IN R E S ID EN CE
IN RESIDENCE
Mick Donohoe
Mick Donohoe is a music producer and DJ based in Wicklow.
A production method he has developed involves travelling to
a country or city to search for records in shops, thrift stores
and on the streets, in particular the locally produced music
and records brought by migrants to the city. On returning to
his studio, these records then provide the source material for his sample based
productions. He is regarded as the foremost collector of music from the tropics
in Ireland and is a working DJ performing every weekend in Ireland, around
Europe and beyond. As artist in residence in the Dock he will focus on creating
a new collaborative audio/visual installation project based on the commonalities
found in different musical cultures. He plans to expand on his existing technique
of music production - using unauthorized sampled music from disparate
sources, to producing new work with musicians from different ethnic and
musical backgrounds, but keeping within the framework of sampling culture.
Siobhán Cleary
Born in Dublin in 1970, Siobhán Cleary’s music has been
performed and broadcasted throughout the world.
Her concert music has been performed and broadcast widely
in Europe, Australia and USA and much of her music has
being released on CD. Siobhan’s film work embraces many
genres from restored art house movies and contemporary
docudramas to thriller and sci-fi features. Her opera Vampirella
based on Angela Carter’s radio play was premiered in Smock
Alley Theatre in Dublin in 2017 to much critical acclaim and a sold out house
for its four night run. It has since been optioned as a film and will be going into
production later this year under the title The Lady of the House of Love.

Stephen Doherty
Stephen Doherty hails from Foxford, Co. Mayo in the West of
Ireland, he began learning music at the age of 4 and through
his teenage years began to accumulate numerous all-Ireland
medals on whistle, bodhrán, drums, accordion and is a two
time All-Ireland winning Champion on Melodeon and is a
senior All-Ireland Champion on the flute. He has toured and
recorded extensively in America & Europe with Gráda, Ragús,
Slide & Atlantic Steps performing in over 20 countries.
In the past few years he has shared the stage with artists like, Lúnasa, Sean
Keane, Dolores Keane, We Banjo 3, Dougie MacLean, Michael McGoldrick,
Dermot Byrne, Slide, Sharon Shannon and has had recording sessions in
Nashville with Alison Brown and Tim O’Brien. For his most recent project - Both
Sides of the Lough - he has worked with Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo and The
Dock on a shared project to commission and produce an exciting music project
across Sligo and Leitrim.

COMMUNITY
Traditional Music Classes with Pádraig Sweeney
Wednesday afternoons. 4pm - 5.30pm
Pádraig teaches whistle and flute and is a very popular teacher.
To book a place please contact Pádraig directly on 0868112871.

Writers Space with Gerry Boland
Saturdays, 12 noon - 1.30pm
These are informal weekly workshops with author and poet Gerry Boland for
those who would like to improve their writing skills. These are popular sessions so
please contact Gerry in advance of turning up for your first session, just to check
that there are spaces available.
You can reach Gerry at: gerry.boland@gmail.com or at 087 639 7557.
There is a cost of €5 towards room rental costs.

Circle Dancing
Monday mornings, 11am - 12.30pm. €12
Derrie teaches circle dances from all over the world as well as her own
choreographed dances, to beautiful and inspirational music. The aim always is to
experience the joy of dancing with others and to create a sense of well-being and
togetherness. No dance experience is needed. The teaching of simple steps and
dancing happens in a supportive, fun and relaxed atmosphere. New dancers are
always welcome. For details about dancing or to confirm dates contact Derrie on
087 275 2192 or circledanceireland@gmail.com

The Nightingals – Ladies Choir
Wednesdays, 1pm - 2.30pm. €30 per month
A fun-loving group of ladies led by energetic professional Ilse Lubbers. The
Nightingals sing a varied repertoire in two- or three-part harmony. Anyone is
welcome to join, the only requirement is enthusiasm. Practice is Wednesday
mornings in The Dock 1pm to 2.30pm.
Contact Ilse Lubbers on 087 1830711.

Sing Together with Sarah Garden
Thursdays, 7 - 9pm. 12 yrs+
If you love singing in the shower or the car then this is for you! Join a friendly
group of people to learn new songs taught by ear from a variety of genres; jazz,
pop, gospel, world and ballads (we do a bit of everything). We do a bit of harmony
too. No-one sings alone & no previous experience is necessary. Build confidence,
strengthen your voice, help your breathing, meet new people and have FUN.
For details: 087 7620523 or email sarah@sarahgarden.ie

Word Corner Cafe
Free

                                                                                       CO M M U N I TY
Do you have a story to tell, some poetry or short prose written in a notebook
that you would like to get some feedback on? Could you offer feedback to other
writers? Word Corner Café is an informal monthly get together for sharing stories,
poetry and other word-works with other people. If you want feedback you can get
some but, if not, people are just happy to hear your work in a friendly constructive
atmosphere. If you would like to take part, just come along. Everyone is welcome.
Please contact The Dock for details.

University of the Third Age
1st & 3rd Thursday of the Month
U3A is a worldwide movement which seeks to encourage older people to take
part in educational and cultural activities and help them to teach and learn from
each other in a friendly and informal setting. Members are encouraged to see
the value and take pleasure in learning for its own sake. The Dock is delighted to
host regular meetings of the U3A here and would encourage anyone interested to
come and join the group.
Contact Linda Morgan 086 407 6312

Adult Yin Yoga with Tara Killeen
Wednesday mornings at 11am. Duration 60 mins.
€60 for 6 weeks
5th February for 6 weeks
1st April for 6 weeks
Yin yoga is the class to choose if you want to calm the mind and stretch the body.
It is great for people who want to gain flexibility in a relaxing mindful class.
For bookings call Tara directly on 086 1526833.

Toddler yoga
Saturday 15th February, 11am - 11.30am. €8 per child
Come along with your amazing toddler & let’s have fun with some animal yoga
poses, story time & singing! Ages: waking to 4 years.
Book through the Dock Box Office.

Adult Yoga/Art workshop
Saturday 7th March, 11am - 1pm. €45
Art & Yoga fusion workshop with Tara Killeen & Kate Murtagh Sheridan. A fun,
relaxed workshop where you will learn a variety of brain gym excersise, gentle
yoga poses, meditation & colour/art, creative play. This workshop includes tea/
coffee and a scrumptious scone from our Jury Room cafe. Book through the Dock
Box Office.

EDUCATION/
WORKSHOPS
Exploring the Contemporary Irish Short Story
with Gerry Boland
Saturday mornings, 10.15 – 11.45am
15th, 22nd, 29th February, 7th, 14th, 21st March
€85 (includes a complimentary copy of STINGING FLY STORIES anthology)
In his new series of writing workshops, author Gerry Boland turns his attention to
the contemporary Irish short story. Each session will include a close reading of a
short story by a contemporary specialist in the form. In what way is the modern
Irish short story different from its predecessors? What are these gifted writers
writing about? These and other aspects of each short story will be analysed and
discussed. There will be time for some writing exercises at each session. The
workshops are ideal for anyone who has an interest in the short story form, even
if they have never written a story themselves.

Baby & Toddlers Mornings
Thursdays 20th Feb, 19th March, 9th April & 14th May
11am - 12:30pm. €8 baby & adult
A creative space for babies to explore. One of
the most popular and thoroughly enjoyable
regular events at The Dock is the Baby and
Toddler mornings with artist Naomi Draper.
Using the exhibition programme as a starting
point Naomi designs wonderfully original and
immersive activities that keep both toddlers
and parents alike enthralled and engaged in
creative fun together. Our workshop room is
transformed into a place of magic, wonder
and laughter. Book in advance as spaces are
limited. Each workshop runs for 90 minutes.

A Time to Play, Photography workshop
Saturday 29th February, 11am - 12:30pm. €8. Age 8+
Engineers Week is on its way and what better way be part of it than to take
technology that we already use every day and find new ways to use it. Inspired
by Tommy Weir’s photography exhibition Cillín in The Dock, Anna Leask will show
you how to use your photography in a creative way by creating light paintings.
These can be incredible fun to make and turn you into the kind of superhero you
never knew you were. Anna will show you how to create light painting from a
smart devices, as well as DSLR’s.

Trad Babies
Saturday 21st March, 11am & 1pm. Age 0-5years

                                                                                   ED U CATIO N/ WO RKS H OPS
€8 per child, €4 per adult
Our popular music series, especially for smallies,
in association with Hawk’s Well Theatre
& Roscommon Arts Centre.

Join us for an unforgettable concert featuring
traditional Irish music that will delight and
enchant babies, parents and grandparents alike.
In this rich musical experience, babies will be
introduced to a gentle selection of traditional
tunes. Fiddle player Mossie Martin and singer/
flute player Noelle Carroll are rooted in the north Connaught music tradition.
They have been performing together since 2008 as members of the All-
Ireland winning Dartry céilí band and are well-known exponents of the classic
combination of fiddle and flute, Sligo style.
Duration of concert 45 mins

In with the Old, In with the New Workshop
Saturday 28th March, 11am - 12:30pm. €8. Age 10+
In this photography workshop with artist Anna Leask we will discover forgotten
processes of photography using both analogue and digital photography. Inspired
by the exhibition ‘Threads,’ Anna Leask will be showing you how to turn your
digital photos into tactile cyanotypes. Cyanotype was the process used to create
the very first photography book in the 1800’s. This process has recently become
popular again to create monochrome artwork, clothing and designs.

Ann Quinn Oil Painting Weekend
28th and 29th March
11am – 4 pm both days. €80
Ann Quinn’s oil painting master-classes are hugely popular and suitable for
adults of all levels of skill. Through demonstrations, Ann will cover many different
painting techniques and ways to use artist mediums - getting outside the
traditional method of only painting with a brush. Ann uses her own photographs
as preparatory sketches and references, which bring enhanced clarity to what
she sees and paints. This weekend focuses on how photography can be used
as a source for developing memory and imagination. Participants should bring
photographs that are meaningful to them as a starting point to create their own
personal painting. For further inquiries, please call the box office.

Bongo Babies
Saturday 18th April, 11am & 1pm. Age 0-5years
€8 per child, €4 per adult

Our popular music series, especially for smallies,
in association with Hawk’s Well Theatre & Roscommon Arts Centre.

A collection of drums from around the world will fill The Docks theatre for a
rhythmical global journey of music with Peter Crann. Accompanied by groovy
funkster Jaimie Carswell on double bass, this “larger than life’ duo play songs
from, Africa, Brazil, Cuba, America, France, Spain, Germany, Scotland and Ireland.
Infectious beats and rhythms will have your smallies bopping and bouncing so, be
sure to bring your dancing shoes (and booties).
Duration of concert 45 mins

ED U CATIO N/ WO RKS H OPS
Light Bulb Moments Workshop
Saturday 25th April, 11am - 12:30pm. €8. Age 8+
Have fun and play with light by experimenting with old technology and take
inspiration from the different objects and elements of our exhibition Threads.
Laura McMorrow will show you how to make marks on photographic slides and
cut out colourful perspex shapes. Learn how to experiment with projectors and
lenses to see how the wonderful marks, shapes and how colours appear magically
on a bigger scale on the wall.

Chop N Gripe workshop with Louise Manifold
Saturday 9th May, 11am - 4pm. €25. Details in Visual Arts

National Drawing Day at The Dock 2020
Saturday 23rd May, 11am - 2pm. Free. All ages
Drawing stations and events will be set up around The Dock for you to explore
varied ways to make and think about drawing, unlocking hidden talents in the
process. This day is a free opportunity for families and individuals to draw together
for national drawing day. We will have a number of drawing activities for all ages
and abilities. National Drawing Day is a nationwide initiative which is coordinated
by the National Gallery of Ireland. The Dock and artist David Smith will provide a
range of drawing materials, ideas and new techniques for you to DRAW out your
creative side.

David Smith is an artist based in Sligo. He has exhibited in group and solo shows
in Ireland, Europe, The US and Hong Kong. He has lectured at a number of art
colleges including recently at the Savannah College of Art & Design in Hong Kong.

PERFORMANCES
FEBRUARY
Different Rhythm
with DJs Mick T-Woc and DJ soFa
Friday 7th, 10pm till late. €10
Artist in Residence Mick T-Woc will be joined by Brussels
based DJ & producer DJ soFa to take you on a sonic
journey through multiple musical genres and non-genres.
soFa has been digging tirelessly through a large spectrum
of musical genres since the late last century. Without limits
in time, genre or space, this rare-record-detective delights
the most curious ears. Seducing with flowing eclectic mixes
and adapting to people while playing mostly unheard tunes
is his leitmotif and speciality.
Mick t-woc is regarded as the foremost collector of
music from the tropics in Ireland. He founded the widely
acclaimed ‘Disco e Cultura’ project, exploring musical
connections between Latin America, Brazil, West Africa &
the Caribbean, through regular vinyl only parties.

Blue Raincoat Theatre Company present
Tintown
Saturday 8th, 8pm. €18/16
‘It’s a wonderful sobering production, terrifically
directed’ E O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

In the late 1930’s Bernard Carroll, a young Dubliner
traumatised by his childhood memories of the War of
Independence, joins the IRA. For many revolutionaries,
the IRA is their only hope to overthrow the ‘fascist’ Irish
government and establish a utopian socialist Republic.
But with the outbreak of WW2, the Irish government
introduces internment without trial for all suspected
IRA members, and Bernard is swept up with hundreds
of others and held in a ramshackle internment camp on
the plains of the Curragh. The camp is packed with left-
wing revolutionaries, civil war veterans, and republicans,
all held without trial. There’s one catch – they can
leave any time they want, provided they are willing to
renounce violence and take an oath of loyalty to the Irish
government. They stay.

Classic Cinema: Gregory’s Girl

                                                                                      P E RFO R M ANC ES - F EBRUA RY
Tuesday 11th, 11.30am. €5. 90 mins
In this charming and frequently hilarious comedy, an
awkward Scottish schoolboy is hopelessly in love with
the independent female goalie who replaced him on
the school soccer team. Luckily, he has a 10-year-old
sister to whom he can turn for advice on love!

€5 includes tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival. Should
any member of your party have mobility issues please
inform box office when booking.

Music Network presents
The Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet
Thursday 13th, 8pm. €18/16
Alina Bzhezhinska, harp
Tony Kofi, saxophones
Larry Bartley, double bass
Joel Prime, drums / percussion

If you think the harp is for angels then Alina Bzhezhinska and her quartet will set
you right. She brings a new perspective to this supposedly dainty instrument,
taking the ground-breaking work of Alice Coltrane in the 1960s as a stepping-off
point for her own flighty improvisations and sonic adventures. Capable of high-
octane lapel-grabbing statements, she can also create extraordinary lyricism and
soul within her own compositions and this versatility and curiosity has marked
her out as a pioneer in the field of Jazz Harp. Now there’s two words you don’t
often hear in the same sentence, but let’s get used to them because this musician
is here to stay, constantly challenging the notion of boundaries in music, roughing
up the harp with tones and textures that would ruffle many an angel wing.

Living in a Leitrim Landscape Talk Series:
Eamonn P. Kelly
Saturday 15th, 8pm. €10/8
Our monthly talks on Living in A Leitrim Landscape
curated by Padraig Meehan continue with Eamonn P. Kelly,
former Keeper of Irish Antiquities.
Folktales collected from Co. Leitrim in the twentieth
century, on behalf of the Irish Folklore Commission,
preserve elements derived from ancient mythology
that arose out of the religious cosmology of early Indo-European society. It is an
oral tradition that extends back for over five thousand years, linking Ireland with
various cultures that extended as far afield as Northern India, Egypt and Eastern
& Northern Europe. In an illustrated talk that will draw on local Co. Leitrim folklore
and folk traditions, as well as on archaeology and placename evidence, Eamonn
P. Kelly will investigate key elements of the widespread mythology of the Cow
Goddess and he will discuss her role and significance in the pantheon of ancient
Indo-European deities. The goddess is referred to in early Irish mythology as the
goddess Bóand and is preserved in modern folktales under various names such
as the Old Cow (Sean Bó); the White Cow (Bó Finne) and Glas Ghaibhleann -
called Glas Gaibhnann in Scottish tradition. In Welsh tradition she is called Fuwch-
Gyfeilioru and she is the powerful goddess Hathor in ancient Egyptian belief.

The Conor Guilfoyle Octet: The Birth of The Cool
Friday 21st, 8pm. €16/14
An old-school “little big band” inspired by Miles Davis’s and Gil Evans’s Birth of
the Cool ensemble

Drummer and educator Conor Guilfoyle has form when it comes to whipping horn
sections into shape. His superb Latin jazz bands in the 90s were a proving ground
for generations of Dublin musicians, delivering authentic Afro-Cuban grooves and
tightly arranged horns to adoring audiences. The Dun Laoghaire percussionist’s
latest project is an old-school “little big band” inspired by Miles Davis’s and Gil
Evans’s Birth of the Cool ensemble, which wowed audiences at the Bray Jazz
Festival last month. The tight-as-a-drum horn section includes saxophonist Peter
Dobai and trumpeter Bill Blackmore (see also Tuesday), along with saxophonists
Yuzaha O’ Halloran and Kelan Walsh, trombonist Paul Frost, pianist Darragh
Hennessy and bassist Barry Rycraft.

P E RFO R M ANC ES - F EBRUA RY
Frankie Gavin, Paddy Keenan & Dermot Byrne
Saturday 22nd, 8pm. €20
Join us for a night of superb Irish Traditional music with three of Ireland’s most
outstanding musicians. Paddy Keenan is one of Ireland`s finest pipers, best known
as a founding member of the Bothy Band, one of Irish music’s most influential
bands of the 1970s, with whom he played in venues all over the world. Frankie
Gavin is one of Ireland`s greatest ever fiddle players immediately associated
with the group De Dannan. Dermot Byrne is one of Ireland’s most outstanding
traditional accordion players. For many years a member of Altan, Dermot
performed, recorded and toured extensively with the group along with artists like
Donal Lunny, Steve Cooney and Stephane Grapelli.

The Breffni Players present
Juno and the Paycock
Tuesday 25th - Saturday 29th, 8pm. €16/14
Sean O’ Casey’s masterpiece has been produced throughout the world with much
acclaim. The play is a tragic comedy in which O’Casey in his masterful style aligns
comedy with tragedy to produce a humourous drama about a Dublin tenement
family on the 1920’s. This pro9dcution by The Breffni Players is directed by Angus
Dunne with a star studded cast of 16. It’s a show not to be missed so book early!

MARCH

Strong Women Science                                   SCHOOLS
                                                        SHOW
Thursday 5th. €10
10am (Primary Schools) and 1pm (Secondary Schools)
For Engineer’s Week 2020 we welcome a circus science show starring two
women scientists turned circus performers! Ever wanted to know how you
balance a chair on your chin, if you can juggle liquid, or how circus performers
eat fire? Strong Women Aoife and Maria reveal the scientific secrets behind their
astounding tricks. In a fun, lively and fast-paced family circus performance, find
out how jugglers, acrobats and hula hoop artists use science to create their
amazing acts. Strong Women Science doesn’t only illustrate scientific facts. It
seeks to promote enquiry, inventiveness and accessibility in science, making it
open to all, in particular young women and girls. In addition to demonstrating
scientific principles in fun and accessible ways, it looks at the worth of failure and
the power of teamwork, both shared by science and circus. Because when science
meets circus, anything’s possible.
40-minute performance followed by 20-minute hands-on circus science
experiment activities. StrongWomen Science was developed with support from
the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Songs & Tall Tales of Jerry Fish
Friday 6th, 8pm. €20
Jerry returns to The Dock to bring you his
enchanting “Songs & Tall Tales of Jerry Fish.”
Every show a unique live theatrical experience
that dissolves all boundaries between performer
and audience. Mr. Fish’s genre bending and
idiosyncratic style of entertainment has made
him a household name within the Irish Music
industry. With two Platinum selling solo albums,
an MTV award and IRMA Music Award, and a
solid reputation as a supreme and spectacular
showman. We invite you to join Jerry Fish to
‘Celebrate’ the life of Ireland’s Greatest Showman.

A Miscellany of Women’s Voices
Sunday 8th, 2.30pm.

                                                                                   P ER FO R M ANC ES - M AR CH
Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with an afternoon of Music and
Storytelling. #eachforequal

Classic Cinema: Housekeeping
Tuesday 10th, 11.30am. €5. 1hr 56mins
Directed by Bill Forsyth whose work includes Gregory’s
Girl and Local Hero. Set in the Pacific Northwest in the
1950s, the film follows two orphaned sisters who live
with their eccentric aunt. The period detail perfectly
grounds this whimsical film, described by Jonathan
Rosenbaum as “a feminist Huckleberry Finn, a film to
be savoured rather than gulped.”
€5 includes tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival. Should any member of your party
have mobility issues please inform box office when booking.

Kieran Goss & Annie Kinsella
Thursday 12th, 8pm. €22.50
Veteran Irish songwriter Kieran Goss and
singer Annie Kinsella released their debut duo
album: ‘Oh, the Starlings’ on 1st March 2019.
Goss has long been considered one of Ireland’s
greatest songwriters. Together with singer
and artist Annie Kinsella, who has joined him onstage on his recent tours, they
have enchanted audiences with their live performances and won rave reviews.
With songs, stories and harmonies that transport the listener to another world,
this is music from the heart, for the heart… A show to make you laugh and cry…
A show to move you with its honest beauty… A show not to be missed.

‘Crime Spraoi’ with Declan Burke
Friday 13th, 8pm. €10
Author Declan Burke’s most recent novel The Lammisters
has been described as “a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic
brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 and
was selected as one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2019.
Set in Hollywood, 1923, The Lammisters is a comic novel
that will, in the author’s words, likely be declared a wholly
original comedy classic by anyone who has yet to read
Flann O’Brien, Jane Austen, PG Wodehouse or Laurence
Sterne. Declan will join us in The Dock for a special evening
that will include a classic film from the era, smooth jazz and
a reading from and talk about The Lammisters as comic crime fiction, the
influence of the surreal humour of Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, Laurence
Sterne, Jonathan Swift and others, and why he thinks they’re the ideal literary
models for the world we’re living in today.

GAZA
A film by Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane
Wednesday 18th, 8pm. €10. 97 mins
A beautiful portrait of Gazan citizens, leading
meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial
conflict. GAZA brings us into a unique place
beyond the reach of television news reports
to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient
characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching
portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of
perennial conflict This elegantly shot and masterfully crafted portrait of Palestinian
life offers a rare chance to be immersed in the heart of Gaza, as we glimpse behind
the walls of this misunderstood land to get to know the real people who inhabit it.

The Wonders of The Wake with The Henry Girls
Friday 20th, 8pm. €20
The Wonders of the Wake is a unique celebration
of one of the oldest rites of humanity, the Irish
Wake: in song, music, bardic poetry and
story-telling. From the ancient Neolithic graves
on Achill Island on the Atlantic seaboard, to the
plains of Troy and Homer’s Iliad, to yesterday’s
funeral, the Irish Wake still teaches us all how to live,
love and die. The Wonders of the Wake
in keening, music, song and word celebrates the
craic, the joy, the prumsaí, and the haunting
lament of a traditional Irish Wake.
Artistically, Wonders of the Wake is a collaboration between the world
renowned harpist Joleen McLaughlin and her sisters Karen and Lorna
McLaughlin of the Henry Girls and the BAFTA winning writer Kevin Toolis.
Wonders of the Wake is based on Kevin ‘s bestselling book My Fathers’s Wake:
How the Irish Teach us to Live, Love and Die.

The Curious Ensemble presents
Maura Laverty – This Was Your Life
by Yvonne Quinn and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh
Thursday 26th, 8pm. €17/15
Maura Laverty, the multi-talented broadcaster, cookery expert,
agony aunt and controversial writer, who was a household
name in Ireland for three decades, is spirited back from
the dead to face a live and online audience on a surreal TV
show called This WAS Your LIFE. She will cook recipes from
her iconic cookbook, Full And Plenty, and talk about her
rollercoaster life. The host will get her to reveal some of her
darker secrets and the price she paid for her success.

APRIL

                                                                                        P ERFO R M ANC ES - M ARC H /APR I L
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh,
Donal O’ Connor
& Gerry O’Beirne
Wednesday 8th, 8pm. €18/16
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh is an award-winning traditional singer and musician from
Corca Dhuibhne, Co.Kerry. A leading exponent of the sean nós style, her repertoire
also includes songs from a wide variety of folk and contemporary sources.
Donal O’ Connor is fiddle player and a multi-instrumentalist of world renown.
He has played and recorded with Liam Ó Maonlaí, Duke Special, Davy Spillane &
Moya Brennan to name but a few.
Gerry O’Beirne is a self taught master of the six and twelve string, slide guitar and
ukulele and other stringed instruments.

Anakronos - The Red Book of Ossory
Friday 10th, 8pm. €18/16
Fourteenth century Ireland was a time of invasions, war,
lawlessness, famine and plague. In 1317 Richard de Ledrede
arrived in Kilkenny as the new Bishop of Ossory and
immediately set about challenging the secular authorities
and making a name for himself as a zealous moraliser and “scourge of heresy”.
Throughout Ledrede’s forty-three years as Bishop of Ossory he continued to court
controversy for the sake of ecclesiastical power. He was also the author of some
sixty Latin verses which he intended to be sung by the priests and choristers of St.
Canice’s Cathedral. These verses, collected in The Red Book of Ossory, were set
to popular tunes of the day. Anakronos is a new ensemble devoted to exploring
ancient music from a modern perspective, featuring some of Ireland’s foremost
exponents of medieval music, contemporary classical, traditional and jazz.

Living in A Leitrim Landscape
Finding Fionn Mac Cumhail: The Mythology and
Archaeology of the 1931 Sheebeg Excavation
Saturday 11th, 8pm. €10/8
Talk series with Donna Gilligan and Ken Williams. Curated by Padraig Meehan.
During Christmas week in 1931, a local schoolteacher and a landowner began an
amateur excavation of the prehistoric tomb on the hill of Sheebeg in Kiltubrid,
South Leitrim. The tomb was locally believed to contain the remains of the
legendary figures of Fionn Mac Cumhail and his wife Grainne. This talk explores
the story of the amateur excavation and its discoveries, and explores the overlaps
in Irish mythology with archaeological monuments and artefacts.
Donna Gilligan is a museum archaeologist, material culture historian, and heritage
educator who has worked in the Irish museum and heritage sector for the past
fourteen years.
Ken Williams is a photographer and researcher from Drogheda specialising in the
prehistoric art and monuments of Western Europe.

Leitrim Dance Week
Monday 13th - Friday 16th April
Leitrim Dance Project promotes engagement with
percussive dance and promotes pathways for
emerging and/or professional percussive dancers,
locally, nationally and internationally.

Junior Development and Adult Dance
Development Programmes
Monday 13th - Saturday 18th, 10am - 5pm
The programme is designed for dancers who want to further their development
in percussive dance or have hopes to make dance part of their career. The course
combines skills development alongside a programme of talks and workshops with
leading dancers and dance organisations and an informal dance club held each
evening. Note: Youths must be between 10 - 14 years.

Adult Programme - €290 which includes daily lunch at the Dock Monday -
Thursday and a weekend pass to the Lough Allen Dance Weekend 17 - 19th April.
​Youth Programme - €70 which includes a weekend pass to the Lough Allen Dance
 Weekend 17 - 19th April.

Cape Breton comes to Carrick Monday 13th, 8pm. €16/14
A unique night of tunes, dances and stories from Cape Breton with Leitrim Dance
Week musicians and dancers in residency Mairi Rankin, Mac Morin & Melody
Cameron visiting from Cape Breton Island, Canada.

Music & Dance on Film Tuesday 14th, 8pm. €12/10
John Scott, Edwina Guckian & Myles O’ Reilly of Arbutus Yarns discussing and
showing their current works.

Dance Dialects Thursday 16th, 8pm. €18/16
An acoustic Night at The Dock, Carrick on Shannon. featuring performances from
Liam Scanlon, Áine McGeeney, Mairi Rankin, Melody Cameron, Mac Morin, World
Academy of Music & Dance Students, Áirc Damhsa and Leitrim Dance Week
Dancers 2020.

Lough Allen Dance Weekend
Friday 17th April - Sunday 19th April €50
The festival continues in the Lough Allen Hotel, Drumshanbo with dance
workshops given by Ireland’s best known dance teachers: Gerard Butler, Martin
Hughes, Úna Ní Fhlatharta, Mary McGuiggan, Joe McGuiggan and special guest
Melody Cameron. Live music by Stephen Doherty, Cathal Ó Curráin & David
Doocey, Mark Burke, Brian Donnellan, Salamanca Céílí Band, Alan Woods, Caoilte
Ó Cuanaigh, Ryan Owens, Conor McDonagh plus music & dance sessions, sean stíl
dance event, céilí mór and much more.

Classic Cinema: Rebel Without a Cause

                                                                                    P E R FO R M ANC ES - APR I L
Tuesday 21st, 11.30am. €5. 1hr 47mins
Rebel Without a Cause, released in 1955, tells a
classic tale of teenage rebellion and angst. The
movie featured James Dean in one of his final roles;
he died one month before the release.

€5 includes tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival. Should any member of your party
have mobility issues please inform box office when booking.

The Bridge with Ahmed and Eduardo
Saturday 25th, 8pm. €18/16
When Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas first heard the music of fellow
countryman Eduardo Martín he felt euphoric. Martín’s style has an expansive sense
of freedom that taps into pre Columbus traditions, jazz, flamenco, pop, Afro and
traditional Cuban. The guitar is his favored instrument to mirror the melodic and
rhythmic intricacies of the Americas’ cultural diversity. The famous composer and
guitarist Eduardo Martín joins the renowned young guitarist Ahmed Dickinson
Cárdenas to create this duo that masterfully addresses the diverse tendencies
and styles of the Cuban contemporary music scene.

MAY
Axis Ballymun presents
The Windy Lady
By Pom Boyd
Tuesday 5th, 1pm. €12/10
A lesson in laughter and life The Windy Lady invites
you to share the contents of her mind, her
shopping bag and her biscuit tin. Original, anarchic
and very funny The Windy Lady dances at the crossroads where Stand Up and
Theatre meet in this very special show - where you’ll be welcomed into her madcap
world of hairnets, turkeys, the healing power of a cuppa and Vladimir Putin. Witty,
warm and delightfully irreverent, Pom Boyd’s The Windy Lady is a subversively
witty and charming celebration of animals, old-womanhood and ordinary life.

Ceol Connected presents                     SCHOOLS
                                             SHOW
The Far Field
Thursday 7th, 10am and 12noon €6
One Spring day, Lonán the farmer discovers a magical
whistle hidden in a hare’s nest. Suspecting that it
belongs to the fairy folk who live at the edge of the
farm, Lonán decides that the whistle should be
returned to its rightful owners. Join Lonán on his
quest filled with magical music, puppetry and storytelling.
“… so gentle and magical my kids and I were spellbound for the entire show.”
Karen Walsh, St. Patrick’s Festival
Ceol Connected brings the realm of fairies and folklore to life in this captivating
performance led by musicians Thomas Johnston (whistles/vocals) and Cillian
Ó’Dálaigh (guitar/vocals) alongside puppeteer Emma Fisher. Supported by the
Arts Council.

Classic Cinema: A Streetcar named Desire
Tuesday 12th, 11.30am. €5. 120mins
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams,
this renowned drama follows troubled former
schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she
leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her
sister, Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), and her husband,
Stanley (Marlon Brando), in New Orleans. Blanche’s
flirtatious Southern-belle presence causes problems
for Stella and Stanley, who already have a volatile
relationship, leading to even greater conflict in the
Kowalski household.
€5 includes tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival. Should any member of your party
have mobility issues please inform box office when booking.

Music Network presents
10 String Symphony

                                                                                       P ER FO R M ANC ES - M AY
Thursday 14th, 8pm. €16/14
Christian Sedelmyer, fiddle/vocals
Rachel Baiman, fiddle/banjo/vocals
Take ten strings, add two seductive
voices, one shared sense of social
justice and that all tots up to a
dynamic duo in the best tradition
of Guthrie and Seeger. Christian
Sedelmyer and Rachel Baiman are
artists whose roots are firmly in the
old-timey Americana tradition, but whose musical explorations take them
fearlessly into the present and beyond, creating songs and sound worlds that are
immediate and compelling. These are musicians whose prime inspiration is our
world and how we live in it. Their engagement with life, with art, with nature, with
global challenges, is delivered with stunning musicianship, wit, humour and warm
communication. They are champions of change and though just two in number,
their sound and impact is massively amplified by their bright and brilliant use of
technology and clever arrangements. These are truly musicians of our time.

Iron Mountain Literature Festival presents
Richard Ford in conversation
with Vincent Woods
Saturday 23rd, 8pm. €15/€12.50
“In America, one cannot – must not – ever discount the
lowest sort of political urgings, and must never
overlook race prejudice as a motive for most anything.”
- Richard Ford, The Guardian, 2016.
Continuing in its exploration of place, home and identity
and the role of literature in shaping an understanding
of history and human experience, the Iron Mountain
Literature Festival is delighted to welcome celebrated
American author Richard Ford to The Dock. Born and raised in Mississippi, Richard
Ford is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded
the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the
PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. He now lives in New York and
Maine. Ford’s best known titles are The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay
of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You. His latest book of short stories Sorry
For Your Trouble reflects his time and experiences in Ireland. Arising from the
John McGahern seminar which ran from 2007 for eight years, the Iron Mountain
Literature Festival was established in 2016, reframed in a wider context involving
writers, artists and thinkers from many perspectives. For 2020, the festival has
partnered with Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, whose themes of
language, landscape and migration align closely with that of the festival.
Further details of the 2020 Iron Mountain Literature Festival programme, which
will this year be held on Oct 3rd & 4th, will be available at the event.

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                               The Memory of Water
                               Reception launch Friday 31st January 6.30pm
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