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Preparations are underway for a bumper Culture Night this coming Friday. Cathal Noonan

Heading out for Culture Night? Here's what's on in the South

Have you planned what you are doing this Culture Night? Here’s our guide to activities in the South.

CULTURE NIGHT PROMISES promises to see hundreds of venues open their doors for free this Friday night (21 September).

This year there’s printmaking, zorbing on the Shannon and pottery-making to name just some of the events. 

In this evening’s installment of our culture guide we take a look at what’s lined up for the South, while we’ve already looked at Dublin and the East and the Midlands and West.  It’s important to note while all activities are free, some require pre-booking, with many of these booking out fast. You’ll find the full details on the Culture Night website

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Waterford

  • Fancy transforming yourself into a lion, a cat, or a monkey? Head over to the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Lombard Street and explore your creativity with visual artist Ruth Flynn as she invites children and parents to make animal themed masks. From 6pm to 7pm at Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) 6 Lombard Street Waterford.
  • Drop into Garter Lane Gallery for a family-friendly printing workshop for children from 5-12 years. Be inspired to create your own print with artist and printmaker Anne McDonnell. From 5pm to 7pm.
  • Lismore Castle Arts is hosting a guided tour and the launch of a new publication by Juneau Projects featuring linocut illustrations made with members of the local community as part of A Space For Lismore. From 7pm to 9.30pm.

Tipperary 

  • Artist and photographer Vincent Hannon returns to Clonmel to make more portraits of Culture Night participants. Sit for a portrait or watch Vincent make lasting images that people can take home for free. From 4pm 9pm at the Main Guard, Sarsfield Street, Clonmel.
  • Members of the Irish Wheelchair Association are showcasing their artworks in a new exhibition this Friday night. Visitors are encouraged to come along and discuss the work with the artists involved. Centre for Independent Living, Stradavoher Business Park, Thurles.

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Limerick

  • Bedford Row will be a hive of activity on Culture Night with hip hop performances, mini all-ages dance classes, performances by Limerick Music Generation and the Mary Immaculate Community Choir. From 5pm to 9pm.
  • European Warriors of Horseback Archery will be on show at King John’s Castle. Presented by Zoltan Gere, an expert in the ancient martial art of ground archery and horseback archery, visitors will enjoy astounding demonstrations of centuries old horseback archery with shows at 5pm. and 7pm. Booking required.
  • Challenge yourself to walk, run or even just to stand on water in a water zorbing experience. From 5pm to 8pm at Hunt Museum, Back Garden, Nevsail’s hut, Rutland Street, Limerick.

Kerry 

  • Siamsa Tire is hosting a variety of events including the premiere of Ceol sa Chroí, a specially commissioned piece by Neil Martin and artist-in-residence, Conor O’Grady will work with visitors on an interactive project. From 5.30pm to 9.30pm at Siamsa Tire, Town Park, Tralee.
  • A captivating, stimulating and therapeutic workshop based on Innabubble Theatre Company’s multi-sensory show Spirit Of The Forest using music, textures, puppets, lights, sounds and smells. Help the spirits find out what’s wrong with the forest. From 7pm to 8pm at Cahersiveen Library, Market Street, Cahersiveen.

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Cork

  • Anam Cara Writers and Artists Retreat hosts a journey through the process of composing music. From 8pm to 9pm Eyeries, Beara, West Cork.
  • Enjoy Culture Night 2018 at CIT’s Blackrock Castle Observatory where you will find a variety of science and astronomy events for all ages. From 6pm to 10pm.
  • Bere Island Heritage Centre hosts an evening of art on Bere Island, with work from local artists, photographers and islanders. From 5pm to 8pm at Ballinakilla, Bere Island, Co Cork

These are just a small example of the hundreds of Culture Night events taking place across the South this coming Friday. For more details on what’s going on in your area have a look here.  Tomorrow we will look ahead to events in the North.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:10 PM

    Only change will come at the polls … Almost 100 years of same same…

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:13 PM

    @Willy Malone: We’ll still be voting for civil war parties in a 100 years time¡¡¡

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:22 PM

    @Willy Malone:

    One of the most prosperous countries in the world.

    It’s done us quite well.

    Now Venezuela on the other hand. How are they getting on remind us again?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:25 PM

    @James Nellie: Not that prosperous – with a €200+ billion National Debt, having gone albut bankrupt!

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:26 PM

    @James Nellie: “One of the most prosperous countries in the world.”

    Nice to hear that you’re doing well personally james. However, the record number of homeless, children in persistent poverty and people dying waiting for hospital treatment might disagree with you.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:28 PM

    @The Risen:

    Are you disagreeing Ireland is one of the most prosperous countries in the world?

    Have you travelled much?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:32 PM

    @James Nellie: Since the crash, the number of millionaires has more than doubled. During the same period, the number of children living in persistent poverty has also more than doubled, our public healthcare system has been decimated and homelessness is now a national emergency.

    So, it really depends on how you define prosperous. Leprechaun economics or the state of society.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:33 PM

    @James Nellie: Well, we wouldn’t be in the top 10!

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:34 PM

    @The Risen:

    Children in persistent poverty?

    Don’t make me laugh. Who’s fault is that?

    Oh of course it’s the government’s. Not the parents who spend all their money on drink smokes gambling etc.

    No personal responsibility anymore just blame the goverment for everything.

    Even though we have one of the most generous welfare systems in the world.

    We have the highest jobless households in Europe. One generation of leeches just pass it onto their kids. Sure just blame the goverment.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:37 PM

    ^

    Oh, look who’s back…..

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:39 PM

    @James Nellie: Most generous welfare systems! Even the NHS is free – and much better than the HSE who have more trollies than nurses…

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:44 PM

    @James Nellie: Prosperous for who? Vulture funds and their political cronies who never saw a brown envelope they didn’t like? People who work are homeless. Three thousand children are homeless. How is that “quite well”? You government apologist stooges are beyond embarrassing!

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:44 PM

    @Fank Pulman:

    Actually the nhs is in turmoil with waiting lists, lack of doctors, nurses, ambulances etc.

    Don’t know where you get your information.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:46 PM

    @DaisyChainsaw:

    There is homeless people in every country in the world.

    Have you the solution to solve it?

    There is 34,000 homeless people in Sweden. The utopia we are told about many time here.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:46 PM

    @James Nellie: Not nearly as bad as here m8 – and free, even prescriptions. Not many trollies either!¡

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:50 PM

    @Fank Pulman:

    1 in 2 have medical cards here.

    The health system is also free here.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:56 PM

    @James Nellie: Not for me. Yet, no problem seeing a UK doctor, anytime – gratis.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:01 PM

    @James Nellie: the main difference between Ireland and Venezuela was that the EU didn’t want ireland to fail because it would threaten their flawed project, and we got into that situation because of the incompetent idiots we’ve got in our gov.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:05 PM

    @James Nellie: “The health system is also free here.”

    LOL!

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:46 PM

    @The Risen: why don’t you compare child poverty to Venezuela or even Sweden. Both higher. Both socialist utopias

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    Aug 10th 2017, 5:24 PM

    @James Nellie: But according to the “experts” unemployment is nearly down to 5%, yet you say we have one of the highest jobless households in Europe. Methinks more lies from the blueshirts.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 7:00 PM

    @Fank Pulman: As we know that most constituency candidates are selected because of loyalty to the party and electability within the system. They are not interested in selecting the caring Mr nice-guy or the graduate in political science. Iit is more likely to be someone like a teacher or solicitor who knows the form or has relations in the party. I can’t see it changing somehow.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 8:50 PM

    @The Risen: is children in poverty also not the parents fault?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:47 PM

    Of those that are classed as Disabled what % are Junkies? Because they too under our current regime are supposedly “Disabled” and get disability payments from welfare.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:52 PM

    @Mick Jordan:

    Of course we must pander to these poor people.

    Our bloated welfare system is gonna implode in a few years and the do gooders will be scratching their heads where it went wrong.

    20 billion a year on welfare.

    Yeah that’s sustainable for a country of 5 million people.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:09 PM

    @James Nellie: welfare include pension and disability ans what would you like to be spent on welfare 5million?? So €1 per capita … get a grip will you

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:19 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Would you give a person in the throes of an addiction a job?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:59 PM

    @Lisa Dorothy: Can they pick up trash? Can they use a shovel or a pick? Can they grade vegetables? Can they carry timber, blocks or bricks? There are many many functional addicts.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:04 PM

    These statistics seem meaningless unless they tell us what they mean by ‘Homeless’.

    e.g. Am I ‘Homeless’ if I’m healthy and safe but temporarily sleeping in a friend’s flat until I get a new job and can afford to rent a place of my own?

    Or am I only ‘Homeless’ if I ask the state for help getting a place of my own and the state agrees I need some sort of help?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 3:21 PM

    20 billion spent every year on social welfare. Obviously its working. We should bring in millions of migrants as Eamon Ryan says. That will help.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:04 PM

    @Owen Martin: Income inequality is pretty high in Ireland, especially among men. The only reason we manage a medium gini coefficient at all is because of wealth transfers from the well paid to the less well off. Our at-risk-poverty level was 16.9% in 2015 only because of this, without the social transfers it would be at 46.3%.

    To put it another way, the welfare system is working extremely well at keeping literally almost half the country from poverty.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 6:00 PM

    Curious how homeless defined? 123 rough sleepers but approx 7000 homeless. Some in shelters but does homeless include those on housing list? If so would include some questionable cases e.g. living with parents awaiting availability of social housing.

    Would be nice to get more clarity

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    Aug 10th 2017, 3:35 PM

    where were the census forms delivered to homeless people or is this just those in hostels?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:02 PM

    @Shane Hickey: Census enumerators, with the help of organisations like Simon, VdeP also the guards went out on the night to record the people sleeping rough and in hostels.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 11:59 AM

    And this is seen somehow as a good thing by FG?
    Pathetic.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:12 PM

    @Trevor Hayden: the 14% non Irish is bull and we shouldn’t be housing non Irish with Irish tax payers money anyway.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:19 PM

    @Danny foley: Leave them on the street then?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:20 PM

    @Danny foley: we shouldn’t be housing anyone with taxes. Also abolish government regulations and taxes, housing prices will fall and same with homelessness. Are ya on any welfare or rebaits ?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:24 PM

    @Danny foley: No matter which nationality you are danny, if you are contributing to the exchequer, at the very least a roof over your head should be the minimum.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:31 PM

    @Trevor Hayden: LOL, yeah that’s the model that’ll work. LOL

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:43 PM

    @Trevor Hayden: These are Leo’s ‘middle-class’

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    Aug 10th 2017, 7:47 PM

    That just states that even people who are working and earning money are struggling because of the housing crisis, which is horrendous. It’s a shocking indictment of the awful mismanagement of the country by our disgraceful politicians.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:34 PM

    So the postman gives census forms to those sleeping rough? Load of crap

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:32 PM

    So the postman delivers the census forms to those sleeping rough???? What a load of crap

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