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CULTURE NIGHT HAS rolled back around and once again there are a feast of events across the country – from photography exhibitions to pig parades and more.
Wherever you are, there’s something happening and this week TheJournal.ie will be highlighting the best events around the country. We’re starting with the South and the East – although we’re being slightly flexible with geography.
So with only a few days to go, there’s no better time to start curating your own Culture Night.
Where: School of Music, Cork Institute of Technology
What: Young musicians representing the CIT Cork School of Music in the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year 2019 competition will perform their classical and contemporary programmes in a concert.
Where: Riverside Park Hotel Macroom, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
What: Mad about Macroom? A new film called Sullane Stories, made by local, young filmmakers, will premiere on Culture Night.
Where: St Iberius Church, Wexford at 6.30pm
What: Know your violin from your viola? Then there is no better to place to head than St Iberius Church this Culture Night. The church, famous for its acoustics, will play host to several musical groups including James and Rebecca Warren playing a selection of classical favourites.
Where: Presentation Primary School, Tralee, 8pm to 10pm.
What: A night of world céilí dance music sounds like an opportunity you shouldn’t pass up. Catherine Young’s dance work ‘It Takes a Village’ will kick things off, followed by African dance and drumming, as well as a bit of Palestinian dabke dance. More familiar with the Siege of Ennis? You’ll still be more than welcome.
Where: Limerick School of Art and Design, Clare Street campus, 6pm to 9pm.
What: From fashion displays to film and digital portrait workshops, the lads at Limerick School of Art and Design will be showing off their talents on Culture Night.
Where: Limerick City Council Headquarters, Limerick, 6pm to 10pm
What: Is film your thing or are you still plotting your path to Oscar glory? You could do worse than pay a visit to this workshop by young Limerick filmmakers who’ll be producing a short documentary all about Culture Night.
Where: Limerick City, 7pm to 8pm
What: ”Pig Parade”. No, it’s not a sequel to Butcher Boy. Instead, expect a parade made up of that most natural of partners – brass bands and butchers. We’ve been promised puppets, street performers and real-life piglets. No word yet on whether candlestick makers or bakers will be joining in on the action.
Where: Athy College, Athy 6.30pm to 9pm
What: Free food has been promised, which is never a bad thing. Even better, you’ll be able to try food from around the world cooked by locals with space provided by the Women’s International Network. If you find the Great British Bake Off too stressful, be warned – there will be prizes for the best cooks on the night.
Where: Fairgreen Holistic Clinic, 33 South Main Street, Naas
What: Laughter yoga sounds like the dream way to spend an evening. No special poses, just breathing exercises, stretching and a bit of good-natured giggling.
Where: Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, 7pm to 7.30pm
What: If you’re looking for the next Seamus Heaney, head to Kilkenny this Culture Night. The Watergate Theatre will showcase the Rhyme Rag Ensemble – a group of local writers aged 13 to 18 – who’ll share their poetry with the audience.
Where: 321 Kerry Down Syndrome Shop High Street, Tralee
What: Literature with Lámh with see readings from author Antony Garvey and the Kerry Rose all interpreted with Lámh sign language, catering for children and adults with special needs and Down Syndrome.
Where: Carlow Institute of Technology, Carlow, 5.30pm to 7.30pm.
What: Francis Bacon? Louis Le Broquy? If you’re a fan of the best of Irish art, head to Carlow IT to check out their incredibly impressive art collection.
Where: Glory Glory Art Studio, Old Deerpark Ballyfin, 7pm to 9pm.
What: If you’ve ever wanted to step inside an artist’s studio, now’s your chance. Artist Kevin McCann will open up his studio to visitors, giving you an opportunity to see how he sculpts using clay and wood.
Tomorrow we’ll be previewing Culture Night events in Dublin.
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Great negotiation skills by a so called world leader.
@Tony Gordon: T’was those same great negotiation skills that got the pharmacy industry to lower their prices after he met up with them 2 years ago.Oh,wait…
@Francis Mc Carthy: yep. Pharma prices to increase in January https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drugpricing-exclusive/exclusive-big-pharma-returning-to-u-s-price-hikes-in-january-after-pause-idUSKCN1OJ01E
@Francis Mc Carthy: Nothing of the sort. It was the public outcry. Then he goes and screws his red necks with messing about with health care.
@Francis Mc Carthy: prices lowered? Who are you kidding? Someone just died in the US because they couldn’t afford their insulin.
@Francis Mc Carthy: sorry missed the sarcasm the first time…
What a very strange system of government the Americans have. One man can shut down services and affect peoples livelihoods over a wall. Very strange indeed.
I like the system
@Toby Fish: Troll?
@Toby Fish: you could always back your bags. Go live in Russia
@Darren McCormack: technically he can’t. Republicans are just cowards. All 100 Senators agreed to a deal funding the government over a month ago. Trump says he will veto that deal but guess what? A veto can be overturned by a 2/3 majority in the House and Senate. Both of whom could easily do this if they wanted. Long story short, Pelosi will now start passing individual bills for individual federal entities to get back to work and either get them to the Senate and passed or make McConnell refuse to reopen the government and adding another name to keep Don company in the title of this shutdown.
@Picture This:or America
@Darren McCormack: yes, it is a troll, best ignore it
@Darren McCormack: There’s a government on the island of Ireland that’s been closed for two years, glass houses and all that…
@James Wallace: I can’t like the American president without being a troll? You have a warped mind
@Paul Darby: Power gets transferred to Westminster and public services continue. Totally different, bud.
No one has ever sat down in front of him and said No until now and he can’t handle it.
Crazy can be medicated, ignorance can be educated, but there ain’t no cure for stupid.
@Pius Flynn: isn’t a not, ain’t no
Incredible to think worlds greatest power doesn’t understand the concept of a Ladder.
@iohanx: or a tunnel. Or the ocean. Or a plane. Cartels have even used a makeshift catapult on the back up a pickup to launch drugs over the border
@iohanx: Or a tunnel.
He’s an utter embarrassment at this stage.
This is typical behaviour for a bully who is used to getting his own way. Usually if you disagree with him you get fired, but he can’t fire Democrats.
Leave him call his so called emergency, it’ll result in him taking over 5billion out of the military budget which they will be pissed at, which in turn will make republicans pissed at him.
Oh and it’ll also fail horribly as both Democrats and republicans will take cases to court to stop him.
Even republicans will want him out of the job once they see he’s over stepped his mark.
@Barry Somers: oh I’d say the Republicans already want him gone.
@Barry Somers: And it was never an emergency the previous 2 years when they had control. The fool.
@Paul Furey: They didn’t have a two thirds majority in the senate. But I won’t call you a fool.
@Shane Dignam: they still don’t so offer that as a reason for the timing is foolish
@Paul Furey: By calling for the funding now, Trump can blame the Democrats for not getting it.
@Gerard McDermott: he always could. Democrats had massive gains in the midterms and they all ran on opposing the wall.
USA is arguing over a useless wall while it abandons its friends
@trebloc01: Trump hates democracy, he shuns democratically elected leaders and admirers dictators like Kim Jong-Un.
Trump is an embarrassment to his country and a danger to the world
@Dotty He shouldn’t have made peace with rocket Man. The continuous nuclear testing and threats were much better
@Dotty Dunleary: Would you like to show me some examples of genuine democracy in the West please? And how is Trump any different than Obama, or May, Macron, Merkel (3 M’s?), or any other Western head of state that feel they can invade a sovereign nation to achieve its own agenda?
I’m all for calling out fools, tyrants and despots, but let us be consistent and unbiased, lest we lose credibility.
@Toby Fish: the tests didnt stop, Trumps summit with N K was a failure, but he still claims it was a success
@James Wallace: when was the last one? Do you know something everyone else doesn’t?
The GOP controlled both the Senate and congress for the first two years of his presidency, so why didn’t he try to obtain the funds then? Why wait until he had lost control of the house?
@Paul Quinlan: because his election promise was that Mexico would pay for it. He got no traction there so no he is looking inward to the American tax payer to fund his vanity project.
@Paul Quinlan: so he can blame someone else for his failure
He passed out candy… I don’t know if that’s better or worse than walking off in a strop
@thomas patrick: what’s worse again is Pence using the candy as proof that Trump came in good faith. “No, we won’t find your wall” “But I brought candy, surely tha…” “NO” “But, but, but, but the candy”
The democrats are as much to blame. They would rather increase foreign aid to other countries rather than protect own border. Takes two to tango.
@Jack Simpson: There’s only one boss. The buck stops with the boss.
@Jack Simpson: There was over 303,000 border apprehensions in 2017 alone,it’s already well protected.
The Democrats offered plenty of money to the ‘great negotiator’ early last year,& the ‘great negotiator’ only went and turned it down (twice) .So don’t go blaming the Democrats for that guys ‘yuge’ failures.
@Jack Simpson: The “two to tango” argument has already been ripped to shreds. Keep up (and Google “false equivalency”).
@Jack Simpson: Do you think you’re convincing anyone with that nonsense?
The Budget was passed 100-0. Trump refused to sign it because Fox news called him names.
The only reason it’s not getting voted on again in the Senate is because the same people that voted for it the first time know it’ll annoy Tango Palpatine and he’ll again refuse to sign.
Mitch McConnell says that he won’t bring to the Senate any shutdown resolution (that Congress passes) that the president isn’t committed to sign. Basically he is allowing Tango Palpatine to hold the country to ransom for a ridiculous wall. E-Verify would have been a better hill to die on if he REALLY cared about immigration!
@Francis Mc Carthy: Huge
@Juan Fangio: So that removes democrats from any responsibility? The president is not a dictator. He requires support from democrats on this issue. Border security was one of the reasons why he was elected. Dems appear to be engaging in political theatrics like with Russiagate.
@Francis Mc Carthy: How many potential border apprehensions were missed due to inadequate security? Don’t border guards support Trump on this? I’d believe them over Francis McCarthy any day.
@Kem Trayle: How has it?
@Jack Simpson: You say the president is not a dictator, I think someone needs to explain this to him. Border security was one of the issues that got him elected, another was his great experience in business, you probably know he “wrote” a book, “The art of the Deal”, what a joke, he was going to make great deals for America around the world. He can’t even do a deal with his own government, storming out of meetings like a spoiled child.
@Jack Simpson: Have you got any idea on how many people have got in to the US due to inadequate security ? Maybe you should e-mail the border security guards and ask them what they believe the numbers to be ?
ps; I don’t care if you believe them over me.xxxoooxxx
@Shane Dignam: that’s what she says.
@Francis Mc Carthy: When she said “huge knob” last night, I don’t think she meant what you think.
@Shane Dignam: your hearing is bad.Your eyesight is worse :p
It’s my way or no way
The US really is a failed state at this stage.
Finally a leader we can trust. A man of integrity. #MAGA
@michael smith: Trust to shut the nation down.
@michael smith: Why are Americans targeting Irish websites now???
And yet he’ll get re-elected USAUSA
He’s backed himself into a corner on this-His primaries campaign only really took off when he started banging in about the wall (and lock her up, another failed promise).
He’s a man who has used to getting his own way all the time, so expect the mother of all tantrums and deflection in the next few weeks.
Dude is obsessed with walls!!
It’s funny how an event can be perceived in different ways and how you see it depends on your preconceived notions. Was he playing hardball or throwing his toys out of the pram? Maybe it depends on the final outcome. But it seems like a silly game to play.
Samalia pirates can board a moving tanker in open water the size of multistory car park with rope and bamboo and this fool thinks nobody can scale a wall.
Trump is a developer, I wonder who gets the contract to build this wall he is so desperate to get built
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: If you think the Wall is suspect you should look at his Infrastructure plan…. all private companies getting huge tax breaks and they would then own what they build.
“How much more American blood must be shed”
Is he for real.i don’t have any figures to back this up but I’m pretty confident that more Americans are killed by Americans using guns in the USA than immigrants crossing the border.sort your gun problem out first before you build any stupid wall.
@Tony Hanratty: Illegal immigrants should not be in the country in the first place. That’s what makes crime by this demographic so hard to swallow.
This wall idea is nonsense and simply a campaign pledge that Trump wants to tick off but illegal immigration and the drugs/crime that come with it has to be tackled.
Whataboutery regarding America’s gun culture won’t make this separate issue go away.
Obama, Biden, Clinton, Pelosi are all on record calling for stronger border controls/barriers until Trump came to power. Then they suddenly change their tune.
Partisan politics is destroying America and Trump is not solely to blame for this.
@Tony Hanratty: You really should’ve stopped after “i don’t have any figures to back this up”
The Art of the Deal. Lol
So now he’s holding 800,000 employees hostage and he wants to negotiate?
Right..
Time for yellow vests
Headline is completely incorrect according to the majority of the meeting.
It’s funny how it’s the democrats refusal to work with trump on anything that he proposes that caused the shutdown, and now their hope is that people will blame trump out of impatience… but no it’s all trumps fault. Don’t be sheep, do your own research.
He’s like a child!
Sick of hearing about this fool everyday.. YAWN..
Trump claimed that he is some kind of world class deal maker and negotiator ..except now when it comes down to it he is being exposed for the fraudster that he really is ..the guy is an absolute charlatan..he has no skill in solving problems rather he just creates them
He was elected on a campaign promise to build this wall, the new trade deal with Mexico pays for the wall, all these democrats opposing him are on camera saying they need to build a wall a few years ago, 100s of miles of wall was built during Obama administration. He is right to walk out, he already told them there’s no deal without the wall, border security want the wall. Ye haven’t a clue.
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