Irish Arts Center Spring 2020 Brochure

SPRING 2020

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The Next Chapter Dear Friends, 2020.

How fitting that this should be the year in which our vision comes fully into focus.

Our new building—an endeavor as complex as the New York construction industry and as simple as Peter Brook’s The Empty Space—becomes a reality this autumn. No stopping us now.

It has been a journey of discovery. Of flaring out and honing in. Of seeing and finding our position. Of clarifying our values and ethos. Of trying new things. Of failing. Of succeeding. Of failing better! Of succeeding better!

(Apologies to Mr. Beckett.)

As of this writing, the building is now fully enclosed, its magical balance of intimacy and scale already evident. Its promise so clear, just waiting to be fulfilled. Just waiting for us.

Just waiting for you.

The New Irish Arts Center will reflect Ireland’s emerging position as a modern European country, and build on its legacy as a land of poets. It will provide a home for innovation, collaboration, and development in the world’s cultural capital, a place for people of all backgrounds to come together to celebrate our common humanity in the environment of Irish hospitality for which Ireland—and Irish Arts Center—is renowned.

Our Opening Season—to be announced in the coming months—will be both a culmination and a new beginning. A statement of promise and possibility as a new cultural institution is reborn in New York.

ON THE COVER: New Irish Arts Center Flexible Space in construction 9/28/2019

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We are developing and considering a bounty of offerings that establish deep emotional connections, create excitement, and provide a canvas for innovation and collaboration—while promoting values of inclusion, providing a unique experience for audiences, and projecting the dynamism of today’s Ireland and Irish America. We will bring the new physical properties of the facility to life in an exciting way and engage new audiences.

Between now and then, we are proud to share with you our final few months in our 51st Street home, before it closes temporarily to make way for the new building and prepare for its own Phase Two renovation and restoration planned for 2021.

We invite you to join us at this transformative time.

If you have not yet become a member, please become a member (see pages 41-42).

If you have not yet made a commitment to the capital campaign, please lay your claim to this incredible moment (see pages 3-4).

Support at all levels is eagerly welcomed. We have much work left to ensure the success of the New Irish Arts Center for generations to come.

That future is bright because of the thousands of brilliant, courageous artists whose imagination fills every empty space, and the audiences who must be there for magic to happen.

To the next chapter of it all,

Aidan Connolly Executive Director

Pauline Turley Vice Chair

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What’s Next?

Opening Season and Phase Two After a decade of visioning, planning, and lots and lots of fundraising, together we have raised more than $60 million to make the new building on 11th Avenue a reality, all while more than quintupling our Annual Fund to grow our programming and capacity. Together we dreamed big, looked ahead, aimed high, planned carefully, and achieved one of the largest Irish cultural philanthropic accomplishments in history.

Now comes the really fun part!

With the opening of our landmark 11th Avenue building just around the corner, we invite everyone to make history with us by supporting our campaign at any level that is meaningful for you.

Here are three ways you can join us at this exciting and important moment.

Support or Sponsor an Opening Season Program In a few short months, we will announce the programming for our Opening Season—our first expression of what is now groundbreakingly possible in our new home. Please help us continue to take risks by supporting or sponsoring one of these projects! We have already raised more than $1 million into the Opening Season programming fund, and are aiming to more than double that by summer 2020. We will be providing rewarding recognition opportunities and special experiences for programming sponsors.

Support our 51st Street Renovation As we open our new building on 11th Avenue in fall 2020, we will temporarily take our beloved historic home on 51st Street offline as we prepare for its own renovation to ensure its sustainability as part of the New Irish Arts Center for generations to come. We have already raised more than $5 million for this $8 million project. The sooner we complete that fundraising, the sooner we can complete that renovation and bring the fullness of our programmatic potential to life!

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Support our Growth and Sustainability Fund As we come to the finish line on the Phase One 11th Avenue construction, we are looking ahead to all our future needs—a nest egg for building reserves, capacity building, and programming ambitions. Our Growth and Sustainability Fund will help establish the trajectory of that future—gifts to this fund will have a huge multiplier effect.

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Photo credits: Luca Truffarelli, Mac Smith

The Campaign for the New Irish Arts Center Naming Opportunities Irish Arts Center Signage

Founders Irish Arts Center Signage

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Centenary Circle

OUR NEW THEATRE (11TH AVENUE) $5,000,000

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$250,000 and up

$100,000 and up

HISTORIC THEATRE (51ST STREET) $2,500,000

Our most generous supporters will be commemorated as Founders with a beautiful tribute embedded on the interior brick façade of our new building.

The Centenary Circle will celebrate the history of Ireland and Irish America through a collage of moments, curated by awardwinning author Belinda McKeon, in a beautiful physical feature within the stairwell of the new building.

THE CAFÉ $2,500,000 THE ATRIUM $1,000,000 THE STAGE $1,000,000

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STUDIO $1,000,000 LIBRARY $1,000,000 DRESSING ROOM 1 $500,000

RESERVED

DRESSING ROOM 2 $500,000

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DRESSING ROOM 3 $500,000 DRESSING ROOM 4 $500,000

A Seat in Your Honor

Donor Wall

$50,000 and up

$25,000 and up

By naming a seat in one of our performance venues, you will ensure that generations to come will have access to exciting, high quality cultural experiences that tell our story and create memories to last a lifetime.

Gifts of $25,000 and up will be recognized on an elegant donor wall inside the 11th Avenue entrance of the new facility.

Gifts and pledges at all levels are welcome and encouraged. Please consider making a donation in any amount that is meaningful for you, your family, your company or organization. We invite everyone to play a role and will be glad to tailor the recognition and allocation of your gift to your interests.

All Phase Two gifts and pledges received before July 31, 2020 will be recognized as part of the New Irish Arts Center.

Please contact Barry Ó Séanáin at 212-757-3318 x226 or barry@irishartscenter.org for more information.

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Recent News Spirit of Ireland Gala Our 20th Annual Spirit of Ireland Gala— honoring legendary Grammy-winning songwriter Elvis Costello and Richard J. Daly, CEO of Broadridge Financial Solutions—was one for the ages. The evening, chaired by Bob McCann and Paul Keary, featured performances by Elvis Costello, Nora Brown, Stephanie Coleman, Liam Ó Maonlaí and David Keenan, and raised more than $2 million for our annual fund.

Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Philip King, Gabriel Byrne, Bill Whelan, Elvis Costello, Pauline Turley, and Aidan Connolly

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Photo credits: Erin Baiano, Amanda Gentile, Nuala Purcell

Elvis Costello

Board Member and Gala Chair Bob McCann presents Elvis with the Spirit of Ireland award

David Keenan (center) with band members (L-R) Harry Hoban, Laura Quirke and Claire Kinsella (Lemoncello), Gar Kane, Gareth Quinn Redmond, and Graham Hopkins

Stephanie Coleman and Nora Brown

Liam Ó Maonlaí

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Recent News A Presidential Visit On September 28, 2019, President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins visited the construction site of the New Irish Arts Center.

Our historic 51st Street building will be renovated in Phase Two of our capital project

“Irish culture is not something that is sealed. It is something that is open.

It is something that is continually interacting with other cultures. It’s something that takes on a particular character in relation to a city like New York, a New York that is being remade, and its Irishness being redefined in an entirely new way. The Irish in New York, they will in fact be able to intermingle their stories here.”

—PRESIDENT OF IRELAND MICHAEL D. HIGGINS

Minister of State Paul Kehoe, Executive Director Aidan Connolly, President Higgins, Sabina Higgins, Vice Chair Pauline Turley, and Board Member Bob McCann

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Photo credits: Nir Arieli, Amanda Gentile, Office of the President of Ireland

Author Belinda McKeon and actors Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells Festival poets Martina Evans and Tina Chang

PoetryFest Our 11th Annual PoetryFest opened with a tribute to Seamus Heaney in honor of his posthumously-published collection, 100 Poems. Festival poets and special guests joined Seamus’s daughter Catherine Heaney to read their most loved verses by the Nobel laureate.

Consul General CiarĂĄn Madden, novelist Kevin Holohan, and Board Member Sharon Patrick

Actor Bill Irwin and Aidan Connolly

Writer Zadie Smith, poet and festival curator Nick Laird, and poet Tom Sleigh

Photo credits: Nir Arieli, Rachael Gilkey

Director of Programming and Education Rachael Gilkey and Catherine Heaney

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Recent News David Keenan David Keenan returned to the U.S. in October for a multi-city tour anchored by a week-long, sold-out residency at Irish Arts Center.

Edna O’Brien We presented a lifetime tribute to Edna O’Brien in partnership with Symphony Space and PEN America.

The author is pictured here with (L-R) comedian Maeve Higgins, actors Zainah Jah and Aedín Moloney, writers Richard Ford and Gina Apostol, Rachael Gilkey, and PEN Director of Literary Programs Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf.

Cultural Immigrant Initiative Council Member Daniel Dromm once again awarded Irish Arts Center a Cultural Immigrant Initiative grant to continue our community work at P.S. 69Q in Jackson Heights, Queens.

From January through May 2020, Irish Arts Center will hold a dance residency through which we’ll offer 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders weekly Irish dance classes; supplemental classes in music, visual arts, and social studies; special guest performances; and a public performance by students for their families and the broader Jackson Heights community.

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Photo credits: Kevin McGann, Kevin Yatarola

Colin Dunne Colin Dunne brought to New York his brilliant dance theatre homage to Tommie Potts, Concert, copresented by Irish Arts Center and Baryshnikov Arts Center. Artists Alice Maher, Jean Butler, and Olwen Fouéré were among the hundreds in attendance at the U.S. premiere weekend in November.

Isabelle O’Connell Brooklyn-based “Irish piano phenom” Isabelle O’Connell made her Irish Arts Center debut, performing an enchanting showcase of Gershwin, Missy Mazzoli, Julia Wolfe, Bill Whelan, Seóirse Bodley and Siobhán Cleary, among other 20th and 21st century composers.

An Irish Halloween Families from Midwood to Inwood and everywhere in between joined us in Hell’s Kitchen for another spirited Halloween party inspired by Ireland’s ancient Samhain festival.

Photo credits: Eleanor Wallace, Anthony Mulcahy, Nir Arieli

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VISUAL ARTS

Unapproved Stephen McG JANUARY 29 – MAY 29 Gallery hours by appointment Monday – Friday | 10 AM – 6 PM Please call 212-757-3318

ARTIST TALK AND RECEPTION TUESDAY, MARCH 24 | 6 PM FREE | Reservations encouraged AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

A remarkably candid exhibition of eight 24” x 20” hand-printed photographs that captures the geographical divide between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Stephen McGinn, son of a retired customs officer who patrolled the unapproved roads, returned to Northern Ireland in 2019 to document the Armagh borderland of his childhood. He did so without agenda of persuasion or nostalgia, but simply as he found it: empty and dormant, enduringly ordinary in spite of its extraordinary history and precarious position in the fractured Brexit landscape.

Stephen McGinn was born and raised in Ireland and moved to London at age 19 to pursue a career in photography. Now based in Brooklyn, McGinn works primarily in still life and beauty.

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Roads: Ginn

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MUSIC

Ye Vaga JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 1 | 8 PM

AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

$26 general / $21 members / $20 25 and under In 2012, brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn decamped from their native rural Carlow to Dublin, where they helped catalyze the city’s resurgent folk scene. Their music, an amalgam of original and masterfully resurrected traditional songs, is both homespun and immaculate, plaintive and lush. Over the years, they have toured throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe, opened gigs for Glen Hansard and Lisa Hannigan, ascended the Other Voices mainstage, and swept the annual RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards. They now headline their first stateside concert.

WINNER 2019 RTÉ RADIO 1 FOLK AWARDS BEST G R OU P BEST AL B U M BEST TRAD ITIO NA L T RA CK

KIDS & FAMILY

WINNER 2019 BBC RADIO TWO FOLK AWARD B ES T T RAD I T I O N AL T RAC K

“Ye Vagabonds are a modern expression of a tradition that is truly robust and important to these islands.”

—ROY HARPER

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Ye Vagabonds Family Concert: An Imbolc and Brigid’s Day Celebration SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 | 2 PM – 4 PM $10 general / $8 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER Come ye into the magical world of Irish folk music and storytelling!

Photo credit: Bríd O’Donovan

At our third annual celebration of Imbolc, the Celtic festival heralding spring and honoring the saint and goddess Brigid, Ye Vagabonds perform traditional ballads that conjure the wild and mythical lands of ancient Ireland while visual artist Gregory Corbino illustrates the music with enchanting handpainted crankies (scrolling storyboards). After the concert, we’ll cozy up with hot chocolate and make our own Imbolc-inspired crankies and candles.

CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

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bonds “Folk music that resonates as pure and honest as it has since time immemorial.

In an age where styles have a limited shelf life…Ye Vagabonds make music that honours timeless sincerity with acoustic fireside storytelling that will sound as current a hundred years from now as it has a hundred generations past.”

—MYLES O’REILLY (ARBUTUS YARNS)

Photo credit: Myles O’Reilly

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RECOMMENDS Irish Arts Center is proud to support the St. Ann’s Warehouse presentation of Hamlet St. Ann’s Warehouse presents, in association with Kate Pakenham Productions Gate Theatre Dublin

HAMLET

“Negga is mesmerizing.”

—THE TIMES (IRELAND)

“Ruth Negga plays the Prince with priceless precision… Yaël Farber’s Hamlet offers freshly minted thrills.”

—THE GUARDIAN

Directed by Yaël Farber Featuring Ruth Negga AMERICAN PREMIERE February 1 – March 8, 2020 Presented in association with Irish Arts Center Tickets start at $35 Run Time: 3 Hours and 15 Minutes, One Intermission Academy Award nominee® Ruth Negga makes her “mesmerizing” New York theatrical debut with a passionate, critically acclaimed portrayal, featuring an ensemble of leading Irish actors. Under Yaël Farber’s direction, focus shifts from anguish and identity to the power of resistance.

“Negga is an inspired choice as Hamlet – playful, vulnerable, resilient, radiant.”

—THE STAGE

—THE TELEGRAPH

—FINANCIAL TIMES

—IRISH DAILY MAIL

Production support provided by J.L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust, The Nancy Malone Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Culture Ireland, Chris & Liz Hogbin, Marcia Whitaker, Kathleen J. Yoh, V. Hansmann, Stella Strazdas & Hank Forrest.

ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE Brooklyn Bridge Park 45 Water St dumboBKLYN 11201

AMERICAN PREMIERE FEB 1 - MAR 8, 2020

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LITERATURE & CONVERSATION

Kathleen Donohoe: Ghosts of the Missing Presented by McNally Jackson in association with Irish Arts Center TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 | 7 PM FREE AT MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKSTORE 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012

“A meditation on loss and the power of memory and tradition.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

Kathleen Donohoe (Ashes of Fiery Weather) launches her second novel, Ghosts of the Missing, about the mysterious disappearance of a 12-year-old girl and the reverberations of this tragedy in her small hometown. Kathleen reads, and joins IAC Director of Programming and Education Rachael Gilkey in conversation.

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Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan

NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY

St. Pat’s for All Benefit Concert FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 | 6 PM 6 PM reception, 7 PM performance AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

“St. Pat’s for All has a vibrant and joyful spirit of its own, and is enthusiastically supported by the local community.” —HUFFINGTON POST

Irish Arts Center once again proudly hosts the 21st Annual St. Pat’s for All Benefit Concert supporting the inclusive St. Pat’s for All Parade, which takes place in Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens, on Sunday, March 1.

Led by Ireland’s 2016 Presidential Distinguished Award recipients Kathleen Walsh D’Arcy and Brendan Fay, the parade and concert celebrate the openness and diversity of the Irish and Irish American communities of New York.

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WORDS & MUSIC

Muldoon’s

A mixum-gatherum of words and music

AT IRISH ARTS CENTER $45 general / $36 members

Hosted by Paul Muldoon with house band Rogue Oliphant Paul Muldoon’s beloved monthly gathering returns for an 11th season with another eclectic selection of guests drawn from the worlds of music, fiction, poetry, commentary, comedy, and more.

Based on the late 19th century New York show of the same name, “the Picnic” includes songs written by Muldoon and performed by house band Rogue Oliphant.

Photo credit: Nir Arieli

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s Picnic “Okay, it’s not actually a picnic but a music-and-literature extravaganza.”

—TIME OUT NEW YORK MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 7:30 PM

MONDAY, MARCH 9 | 7:30 PM

Jennifer Clement, author

Christina Courtin, singer-songwriter and violinist

Andrew Motion, poet Zara Phillips, singer-songwriter and author Richard Thompson, singer-songwriter

Steve Earle, musician and producer

MONDAY, APRIL 13 | 7:30 PM Jana Prikryl, poet Roger Rosenblatt, author Ariel Zevon, musical duo

Anne Enright, author Hannah Sullivan, poet

CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

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MUSIC

National Sawdust and Irish Arts Center present Two nights with artists challenging the boundaries of traditional Irish music

Shrines WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 | 8 PM $18 advance / $20 door AT NATIONAL SAWDUST 80 North 6th Street Brooklyn, New York 11249 Shrines—the moniker for Brooklyn-based singer and musician Carrie Erving—mixes dance and visual design elements with ethereal vocals, string arrangements, synth drones, and electronic flourishes in an evening of original compositions and reimagined Irish traditional songs from her debut EP, Release, and new album Our Ship is Ready.

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman FRIDAY, MARCH 27 | 8 PM Nationalsawdust.org for more information AT NATIONAL SAWDUST 80 North 6th Street Brooklyn, New York 11249 The “magnificent” (Irish Times) master fiddlers launch their thought-provoking new album The Fate of Bones, an austere, otherworldly follow-up to their lauded 2014 debut Laghdú.

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DANCE

Passport to Dance:

Hope Hunt and Lazarus and the Birds of Paradise Presented by 92Y Harkness Dance Center in association with Irish Arts Center FRIDAY, MARCH 6 | 8 PM SATURDAY, MARCH 7 | 4 PM & 9 PM Tickets from $25 AT 92Y HARKNESS DANCE CENTER 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128

“Through magnificent inventiveness with space, sound and dress, Doherty evokes a stereotypical young man from the rough neighbourhoods of Northern Ireland…and attempts to find beauty and hope in an oft-ignored group on the periphery.”

—TIME OUT BARCELONA

Fearless Belfast choreographer Oona Doherty performs a distillation of the male Oona Doherty mixes physical and sociological theatricality, the urban dance alphabet, neoclassical ballet memories and the contemporary with an aspiration to the sacred in a riveting solo that barely holds violence at bay.

In this incarnation of the intuitive, Doherty emerges from the trunk of a 1999 Volvo and dances to house music in the street. She then leads the audience through the passageways of 92Y into Buttenwieser Hall, where she dances the acclaimed work that has made waves in festivals across Europe.

A DJ set with performer Ross Carter follows the performance.

Doherty returns to New York following an April 2019 appearance in New Dance Ireland: Choreographers of Nowness, a festival of new Irish choreography co-presented by Irish Arts Center and 92Y Harkness Dance Center.

“One of the

most exciting talents to emerge in contemporary dance.... Her choreography is utterly honest and viscerally intense, [revealing] embedded behaviour borne of prejudice and neglect in Northern Irish society.”

“Riveting and moving… a simply phenomenal performer.”

—THE IRISH TIMES

—THE TIMES, EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL

Photo credit: Luca Truffarelli

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MUSIC

“Celtic Appalachia tops St. Patrick’s Day celebrations—Mick Moloney and Irish Arts Center triumph.”

—IRISH CENTRAL

8th Annual

Celtic Appalachian Celebration FRIDAY, MARCH 13 | 8 PM Premium orchestra: $65 Rear orchestra: $50 general / $40 members Balcony: $40 general / $32 members / $25 students and seniors AT SYMPHONY SPACE Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, New York, NY 10025

Irish Arts Center returns to Symphony Space for this wildly entertaining celebration of the shared lineage and vibrant interplay between Irish and Appalachian musical traditions.

Host Mick Moloney and the Green Fields of America are joined by some of the most elemental forces in bluegrass, old-time, and clogging today—Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass, Nora Brown, Stephanie Coleman, and Megan Downes—for a rousing fête.

Featuring Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, and the Green Fields of America Billy McComiskey, button accordion Liz Hanley, fiddle and vocals Brenda Castles, concertina Niall O’Leary, dance With special guests Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass Danny Paisley, vocals and guitar Ryan Paisley, vocals and mandolin Mark Delaney, banjo T.J. Lundy, vocals and fiddle Bobby Lundy, vocals and upright bass Nora Brown, banjo Stephanie Coleman, fiddle Megan Downes, dance

Photo credits: Amanda Gentile, Soleil Photography

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FAMILY & COMMUNITY Annual St. Patrick’s

“Irish Arts Center’s annual extravaganza…

an Irish favorite for kids and parents.”

—TIME OUT NEW YORK

Open Day G URIN S FEAT DOWNE N A Y MEG ITH CIT S W ER P M STO THE IAC AND MUNITY COM Í BAND! CÉIL

In partnership with Police Athletic League (PAL) SATURDAY, MARCH 14 | 12 PM – 4 PM FREE AT IRISH ARTS CENTER AND PAL WILLIAM J. DUNCAN CENTER A free day of music and dance, films and classes, tea and soda bread!

Each St. Patrick’s season, we open our doors for this celebratory sampler of Irish Arts Center educational programming.

Join us for a variety of professional and student performances, workshops, céilís, films, demos, crafts, and exhibitions in an environment of warm Irish hospitality.

CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

Photo credit: Amanda Gentile

NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY

10th Annual Irish Arts Center

Book Day

KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK

10 YEARS OF FREE BOOKS

Presented in association with the New York City Council, New York State Assembly, and Literature Ireland

TUESDAY, MARCH 17 | 8AM UNTIL THE BOOKS RUN OUT! FREE CITYWIDE This year marks a decade of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with the most cherished of Irish traditions: sharing our stories. The Irish Arts Center family of volunteers and staff, sponsors and supporters—along with our partners at the New York City Council— fan out across all five boroughs for our landmark 10th Annual Book Day to hand out 10,000 free books by Irish and Irish American authors.

Get YOUR free book at one of our dozen Book Day pop-up stations.

Find your nearest location on irishartscenter.org, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram (@irishartscenter).

Get involved! To volunteer, email iacbookday@gmail.com. For publishers and authors wishing to donate books of any quantity, email rachael@irishartscenter.org. #IACBookDay #GetLit CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK

THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK, NEW YORK CITY

Photo credit: Vitaliy Piltser

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COMEDY

Sundays at Seven Curated by Fiona Walsh and Ann Design MARCH 22, APRIL 26 | 7 PM $12 general / $10 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER NYC’s best local comedians come together for a night of stand-up comedy at Irish Arts Center! Fiona Walsh and Ann Design host this long-standing series that’s brought Frank Conniff (Emmy winner, Mystery Science Theater), Charles McBee (NY Comedy Club), Ophira Eisenberg (NPR’s Ask Me Another), Chris Monty (Orange is the New Black), and Moody McCarthy (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) to our stage. Who will turn up next?

LITERATURE & CONVERSATION

ISH #1 IR ELLER S T S E B

Debut Voices: Sinéad Gleeson In conversation with Rachel Syme TUESDAY, MARCH 24 | 8 PM FREE AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

“I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal.

A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.”

How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood?

How do you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland?

In the powerful essays in Constellations: Reflections from Life, Sinéad Gleeson does those very things. Throughout this wideranging collection she also turns her restless eye outwards delving into work, art and our very ways of seeing. Join the author as she takes us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance.

Reading and conversation, with reception to follow.

“Moving, insightful, beautiful.”

—THE IRISH TIMES

“Outstanding... demands to be heard.”

—OBSERVER

“A beautiful and important collection of essays.”

—COLUM MCCANN

Photo credit: Brid O’Donovan

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Féile na Gaeilge / Irish Language Day Oibrithe Le Chéile / Workers Unite SUNDAY, APRIL 5 | 12 PM – 6 PM

EDUCATION & LANGUAGE

SPEAFOR OF KERS LEVEALL LS!

AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

$40 general / $32 members / $25 students Our annual day-long immersion for Irish language enthusiasts of all levels features music, film, and literary workshops honoring the contributions of Irish laborers to the building of New York City.

Learn protest songs, hear about great Irish-born labor leaders like Mother Jones and John Sweeney, and practice your conversation skills with a friendly and diverse Gaeilge community.

Activities for more advanced or fluent Irish speakers include a special translation workshop led by Darach Ó Séaghdha of the Motherfoclóir podcast, presented in partnership with Literature Ireland’s 25th anniversary season.

Admission to Féile na Gaeilge includes a ticket to the evening’s live taping of the Motherfoclóir podcast (see below).

THE IRISH INSTITUTE

KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK

HUMANITIES

Motherfoclóir Podcast: An Irish History of the NYC Subway SUNDAY, APRIL 5 | 5 PM – 6 PM $12 general / $10 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

“An innovative, humorous but substantial project to promote our love and interest in our native language.”

—PRESIDENT OF IRELAND MICHAEL D. HIGGINS

A live audience taping of Motherfoclóir, one of Ireland’s most popular podcasts.

Motherfoclóir is a show about everything, with Gaeilge being the common thread linking its discussions on law, politics, poetry, parenting, history and the future, activism, and nostalgia.

In this edition, host Darach Ó Séaghdha and special guests excavate stories from the development of New York’s behemoth subway system—and the labor and organizing efforts of Irish immigrants that were so essential to its existence.

CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

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MUSIC

Tobin’s Run on 51: Jazz at the Movies A jazz series curated by Christine Tobin and Phil Robson

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 | 7:30 PM $24 general / $20 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER From Quincy Jones’s classic “In the Heat of the Night” and Terence Blanchard’s prolific work with Spike Lee, to countless on-screen appearances by the greats from Elvin Jones to the Count Basie Big Band, jazz has played an outsized role in film since the birth of the “talkies.”

Featuring Christine Tobin, vocals Phil Robson, guitar Steve Wilson, alto saxophone Jed Levy, tenor saxophone Steve Nelson, vibraphone James Genus, bass Clarence Penn, drums

Through live performances, mixed media clips, recordings and stories, we feast on the myriad ways jazz artists have contributed to generations of groundbreaking cinema.

Tobin’s Run on 51 is presented by awardwinning Irish vocalist, songwriter, and composer Christine Tobin and acclaimed jazz guitarist Phil Robson, bringing together some of New York’s best Irish and international musicians to play sets and share film clips and stories about jazz music’s greatest artists and treasures.

Photo credit: MSU Photography

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LITERATURE & CONVERSATION

Person Place Thing

Colum McCann with Randy Cohen WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 | 7:30 PM $25 general / $20 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER A special live podcast of Emmy winner Randy Cohen’s interview show, featuring the celebrated humorist in conversation with international best-selling writer Colum McCann, a National Book Award winner for Let the Great World Spin and author of the new novel Apeirogon.

Person Place Thing, based on the idea that people are most engaging when they speak not about themselves but something they care about, invites guests to talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them.

The result? Surprising stories from great talkers.

“A writer of large and driving vision.”

—THE NEW YORK TIMES ON COLUM MCCANN

“Richly entertaining… a talented satirist.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON RANDY COHEN’S WRITING

Photo credit: Conor O’Mahony

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MUSIC

Ragas to U.S. RE IE PREM

Utsav Lal, piano Sam Comerford, flute Nitin Mitta, tabla APRIL 17-18 | 8 PM $30 general / $24 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

Photo credit: Liz Maney

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“High energy meeting of the East and West...finding areas of commonality and overlap where previously it seemed that none existed.”

—TERRY BLAIN

Reels In a collaboration both cultural homage and discovery, Utsav Lal, Sam Comerford, and Nitin Mitta mine the repertoires of Indian classical and Irish traditional music to create a brilliant metamorphosis of form. Reels and jigs whirl into jhala patterns, slow airs swell into alap phrases, and the roots of the genres are woven to intoxicating crescendos inspired by the polyphonic heart of modern-day Ireland.

Ragas to Reels debuted to acclaim at Ireland’s National Concert Hall in 2009 and later toured to the UK and India, where it was the centerpiece for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Embassy of Ireland in 2014. Ever exploring, the artists introduce new compositions in this U.S. premiere.

KIDS & FAMILY

Ragas to Reels for Kids: Breaking Boundaries SATURDAY, APRIL 18 | 2 PM $10 general / $8 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER This lively adaptation of Ragas to Reels for younger audiences explores the differences and similarities between Indian classical and Irish traditional music through a variety of interactive activities.

Kids and their adult companions discover the instruments of each style through demonstrations by performers Utsav Lal, Sam Comerford and Nitin Mitta, taking turns conducting the artists, creating their own ragas, and more!

A great opportunity to introduce your child to the mind-opening, unifying experience of cross-cultural collaboration.

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LITERATURE & CONVERSATION

Movements: A Conversation with Ailbhe Smyth One of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019 TUESDAY, APRIL 21 | 7:30 PM $24 general / $20 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER Social activist Ailbhe Smyth, who helped steward Ireland’s 2015 and 2018 referendum campaigns for marriage equality and abortion rights, discusses her role in these historic votes and a lifetime of activism with the award-winning author Belinda McKeon.

This is the sixth installment of our Movements series, which brings a wider public context to our cultural programming through conversations with important global voices. Past guests include former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Senator George Mitchell, MSNBC/NBC host and national correspondent Steve Kornacki, Archbishop of New York Timothy Cardinal Dolan, and acclaimed Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole.

CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

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DANCE & COMMUNITY 19th Annual

NYC Irish Dance Festival

FREE AND OPE N TO ALL!

Curated by Niall O’Leary TCRG, ADCRG SUNDAY, MAY 3 | 1 PM – 6 PM FREE AT RIVERSIDE PARK SOUTH Pier I at W 68th Street, New York, NY 10023 Join hundreds of fellow New Yorkers for a day of Irish dance on the pier, opening the city’s Summer on the Hudson arts and culture event series. Our 19th Annual Dance Festival features performances by top Irish dance troupes, traditional music sessions, activity tents, meet-the-dancer opportunities, and everyone-on-the-dance-floor romps.

Performers include the Aherne Sheehan School of Irish Dance, Darrah Carr Dance, Donny Golden Dancers, Niall O’Leary Dance Troupe, Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance, and special guests.

CHARLES LAWRENCE KEITH & CLARA MILLER FOUNDATION

KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK

THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK, NEW YORK CITY

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FILM & MUSIC

This Ain’t No Disco Film screenings and live set with

Junior Brother

“A dynamic showcase of performance,

collaboration and conversation with the scores of under-represented musical visionaries Ireland boasts today.”

—CREATIVE IRELAND ARTICLE

Photo credits: Nicolas O’Donnell, Myles O’Reilly

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 | 7:30 PM Episode 1 plus performance SATURDAY, APRIL 25 | 7:30 PM Episode 2 plus performance AT IRISH ARTS CENTER $30 general / $24 members / $20 25 and under In 2017 Donal Dineen, original host of RTÉ’s seminal ’90s music program No Disco, partnered with filmmaker Myles O’Reilly to build a new platform that would give vital exposure to Ireland’s emerging folk and indie musicians. The result was the web documentary series This Ain’t No Disco, which followed David Keenan, Lisa O’Neill, Junior Brother, and other artists on the verge of breakthrough as they rehearsed, recorded, bantered, and otherwise hustled to make a career of their work.

Join us for special screenings of the first two episodes of the second season— hosted by Dineen and O’Reilly, and starring Rosie Carney, Natalya O’Flaherty, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett, Percolator, Myles Manley, John Francis Flynn, Eilís Uí Thuama & Josephine Cullinane, and Ross Chaney—followed by a live performance from Junior Brother, RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award double-nominee and the Irish Times’s Best Irish Act of 2019.

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THEATRE

“A very funny, poignant, dark, passionate play about a man’s desire

to reconcile his internal divisions. A Night in November mixes polemic and observation in a rich, rewarding

and provocative piece of theatre.”

—SUNDAY TRIBUNE

Irish Arts Center presents Soda Bread Theatre Company

A Night in 25th Anniversary Production Presented in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller and Anita Waxman

APRIL 29 – MAY 17 $40 general / $32 members AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

Written by Marie Jones Directed by Matthew McElhinney Starring Matthew Forsythe

“I am a free man, I am a Protestant man, I am an Irish man.”

Kenneth is a workaday welfare clerk with steadfast loyalties: family, faith, and golf. His life in 1990s Belfast putts along on the easy pleasures and prejudices of the era, until an incident at a local football match shatters his beliefs and sends him hurtling down a path of reckoning and resistance.

Marie Jones’s raucous and iconic one-man show about nation and identity is both time capsule and timeless. First performed in Belfast in 1994, A Night in November has toured internationally, bringing its triumphal story to London, Dublin, Los Angeles, and New York City.

It now returns 25 years later to examine anew one man’s imperfect but exuberant awakening.

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November

By Marie Jones

FROM THE AWARD-WINNIN PLAYWRIGHT OFG STONES IN HIS POCKETS

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HIGHLIGHTS IAC | MUSIC

SPRING 2020 CALENDAR DATE

TIME

DISCIPLINE

TITLE OF EVENT

LOCATION

PAGE

Jan 29-May 29

Various

Visual Arts

Unapproved Roads: Stephen McGinn

IAC

11-12

Jan 31-Feb 1

8 PM

Music

Ye Vagabonds

IAC

13-14

Feb 1

2 PM

Kids & Family

Ye Vagabonds Family Concert: An Imbolc & Bridgid's Day Celebration

IAC

13

Feb 1-Mar 8

Various

Theatre

Hamlet Presented by St. Ann's Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse

15

January

February

pg. 13-14

Ye Vagabonds

Concert and Imbolc celebration JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 1 IAC | LITERATURE & HUMANTIES

Feb 9

1 PM

Master Class

Neo-Irish Harp with Maeve Gilchrist

IAC

37

Feb 10

7:30 PM

Words & Music

Muldoon's Picnic

IAC

17-18

Feb 11

7 PM

Literature & Conversation

Kathleen Donohoe: Ghosts of the Missing

McNally Jackson

16

Feb 19

8 PM

Music

Shrines

National Sawdust

19

Feb 20

6:45 PM

Special Event

10th Anniversary Show Your Love

Mutual of America

42

Feb 28

6 PM

Neighborhood & Community

St. Pat’s for All Benefit Concert

IAC

16

Mar 4

7 PM

Lecture

Intercultural Connections Series with Mick Moloney

IAC

37

Mar 6-7

Various

Dance

Passport to Dance: Hope Hunt and Lazarus and the Birds of Paradise

92Y

20

March

pg. 26

Person Place Thing

Mar 9

7:30 PM

Words & Music

Muldoon's Picnic

IAC

17-18

Colum McCann with Randy Cohen

Mar 13

8 PM

Music

Celtic Appalachian Celebration

Symphony Space

21

APRIL 15

Mar 14

12 PM

Family & Community

Annual St. Patrick’s Open Day

IAC & PAL

22

IAC | MUSIC

Mar 17

8 AM

Neighborhood & Community

Book Day

Citywide

22

Mar 22

7 PM

Comedy

Sundays at Seven

IAC

23

Mar 24

6 PM

Visual Arts

Unapproved Roads: Stephen McGinn Artist Talk

IAC

11-12

Mar 24

8 PM

Literature & Conversation

Debut Voices: Sinéad Gleeson

IAC

23

Mar 27

8 PM

Music

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman

National Sawdust

19

12 PM

Education & Language

Féile na Gaeilge / Irish Language Day

IAC

24

April

pg. 27-28

Ragas to Reels

Utsav Lal, Sam Comerford, and Nitin Mitta

Apr 5 Apr 5

5 PM

Humanities

Motherfoclóir Podcast

IAC

24

Apr 8

7:30 PM

Music

Tobin's Run on 51: Jazz at the Movies

IAC

25

Apr 13

7:30 PM

Words & Music

Muldoon's Picnic

IAC

17-18

Apr 13

Various

Education

Spring Term Begins

Various

34-36

IAC

26

IAC

27-28

APRIL 17-18 IAC | THEATRE

Apr 15

7:30 PM

Literature & Conversation

Person Place Thing: Colum McCann with Randy Cohen

Apr 17-18

8 PM

Music

Ragas to Reels

Apr 18

2 PM

Kids & Family

Ragas to Reels for Kids: Breaking Boundaries

IAC

28

Apr 21

7:30 PM

Literature & Conversation

Movements: A Conversation with Ailbhe Smyth

IAC

29

Apr 24-25

7:30 PM

Film & Music

This Ain't No Disco

IAC

30

Master Class

Fiddle Improvisation in the New York Tradition with Tony DeMarco

IAC

37

Apr 26

pg. 31-32

A Night in November 25th Anniversary Production APRIL 29-MAY 17

Apr 26

7 PM

Comedy

Sundays at Seven

IAC

23

Apr 29-May 17

Various

Theatre

A Night in November

IAC

31-32

1 PM

Dance & Community

NYC Irish Dance Festival

Riverside Park South

29

12 PM

Education

End of Term Party

IAC

36

May May 3

June Jun 7

33

2 PM

EDUCATION

Classes at a Glance Monday 4-5 PM 6-7 PM 6-7 PM 6-7 PM 6-7 PM 6-7:30 PM 7-8 PM 7-8 PM 7-8 PM 7-8 PM 7-9 PM 7:30-9 PM 8-9 PM 8-9 PM 8-9 PM

Introductory Step Dance for Kids: Beginner Soft Shoe Step Dance I: Beginners (Section A) Tin Whistle I: Beginners Fiddle V: Intermediate Beginning Guitar for Singers Irish Language II: Beginners Learning Tunes by Ear Tin Whistle II: Advanced Beginners Fiddle I: Absolute Beginners Step Dance II: Advanced Beginners Storytelling I: Beginners Irish Language I: Introduction (Section A) Fiddle III: Advanced Beginners Tin Whistle III: Intermediate Step Dance III: Intermediate

Tuesday 6-7 PM 6-7 PM 6-7:30 PM 6:30-7:30 PM 6:30-8 PM 6:30-8:30 PM

7-8 PM 7-8 PM 7:30-8:30 PM 7:30-9 PM 8-9 PM 8-9:30 PM

Concertina I: Beginners / Basics Fiddle II: Beginners Guitar Accompaniment for Irish Tunes Bodhrán I: Introduction Irish Language III/IV Combined: Intermediate Playwriting: Inspirations from Contemporary & 20th Century Irish Playwrights Fiddle VI: Advanced Concertina II: Advanced Beginners Bodhrán II: Advanced Beginners Set Dance: Old Style Irish Social Dance Fiddle IV: Early Intermediate Irish Language I: Introduction (Section B)

Wednesday 6-7 PM 6:30-8 PM 7-8 PM 7-9 PM 7-8 PM 7-9 PM 8-9 PM 8-9 PM

Traditional Irish Singing I: Beginners Irish Language V: Advanced Celtic Harp I: Introduction Creative Writing Traditional Irish Singing II: Intermediate Storytelling II: Intermediate Celtic Harp II: Exploring Melody, Chords, and Rhythm Tae agus Comhrá (Tea and Conversation)

Thursday 6-7:30 PM 6:30-7:30 PM 6:30-7:30 PM 7:30-8:30 PM 7:30-8:30 PM

Introduction to the Traditional Irish Session Step Dance I: Beginners (Section B) Mandolin I: Beginners Mandolin II: Advanced Beginners Introduction to Hard Shoe Irish Step Dancing

Meet Our Teachers Growing up in Milwaukee, Anne Johnson was surrounded by opportunities to hear and play Irish music. In her teens, she began listening voraciously to historical recordings of Irish trad artists. She performed solo singing shows at six consecutive Milwaukee Irish Fests, in addition to appearing at the Pike Lake Folk Festival, various Irish pubs in Milwaukee and Madison, and on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Since moving to New York, Anne has earned a Master’s in music history and theory at Queens College. She has worked primarily as a music teacher at universities including Mannes College of Music, Hunter College, and Hofstra University. She is also a music journalist, contributing regularly to PS Audio’s Copper magazine and Classical Voice North America. She can be heard singing at area sessions and at the Rough and Ready performance series held monthly at Alchemical Theatre Studios in Manhattan.

Name something about yourself others would find surprising.

People who know me as an Irish singer and instrumentalist might be very surprised to know that I have published a lot of fiction—seven novels and over a hundred short stories! (If you’re curious, my website is AnneEJohnson.com, or you can look up Anne E. Johnson on Amazon. I even have a novella set in Ireland!)

How did you come to the guitar?

When I was growing up in Milwaukee, I took piano and violin lessons from a very young age. My dad played classical guitar as a hobby, so there was a guitar around the house. He also had a bunch of Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem LPs that I listened to obsessively. Around age 11, I decided I needed to be able to sing and play those songs for myself. I can’t remember exactly how I learned chords (this was before the internet, so they were probably in a book from the library!), but I soon got my hands on a little book of Clancy Bros. songs. As well as I could, I mimicked the guitar strums and fingerpicking patterns that Liam Clancy used on those records. It seemed to come naturally to me, and I quickly expanded into other repertoire such as Joan Baez’s recordings of some of the Francis Child Ballads and the gorgeous songs performed by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill with the Bothy Band. When I was 14, I played my first solo show at Milwaukee’s Irish Fest, where I got the thrill of meeting Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, who were very kind to me!

A day in your life—go.

Ha! You may be sorry you asked. Because my working life has so many moving parts, my weekdays tend to be an amalgam of countless unrelated tasks. In the morning, after a post-breakfast walk, I usually do work related to my freelance editing assignments.

Before lunch, I take an hour or so to practice a couple of songs (with guitar or a cappella/sean-nós) and a few tunes on tin whistle or fiddle. The afternoon is reserved for writing, both fiction and music journalism, primarily the weekly column I write for Copper magazine about recording artists in various genres. I’m the household cook, so after dinner prep and eating (my husband, bless him, does the dinner dishes), I take care of remaining tasks such as class prep, and then settle in for a couple hours of Netflix. Of course, some nights I attend Irish music sessions or teach at IAC! Photo credit: Ken Munch

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EDUCATION MUSIC

Spring Term Classes Bodhrán II: Advanced Beginners Siobhan Egan | Tuesdays | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM $190 general / $160 members

DANCE

TIN WHISTLE Tin Whistle I: Beginners Kieran McCarthy-Fell | Mondays | 6 PM – 7 PM $165 general / $135 members

FIDDLE Fiddle I: Absolute Beginners James Cleveland | Mondays | 7 PM – 8 PM $165 general / $135 members Fiddle II: Beginners Caitlin Warbelow | Tuesdays | 6 PM – 7 PM $190 general / $160 members Fiddle III: Advanced Beginners James Cleveland | Mondays | 8 PM – 9 PM $190 general / $160 members Fiddle IV: Early Intermediate Caitlin Warbelow | Tuesdays | 8 PM – 9 PM $190 general / $160 members Fiddle V: Intermediate James Cleveland | Mondays | 6 PM – 7 PM $190 general / $160 members Fiddle VI: Advanced Caitlin Warbelow | Tuesdays | 7 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members CONCERTINA Concertina I: Beginners/Basics Douglas Barr | Tuesdays | 6 PM – 7 PM $165 general / $135 members Concertina II: Advanced Beginners Douglas Barr | Tuesdays | 7 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members CELTIC HARP Celtic Harp I: Introduction Mia Theodoratus | Wednesdays | 7 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members Celtic Harp II: Exploring Melody, Chords and Rhythm Mia Theodoratus | Wednesdays | 8 PM – 9 PM $190 general / $160 members BODHRÁN Bodhrán I: Introduction Siobhan Egan | Tuesdays | 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM $165 general / $135 members

Tin Whistle II: Advanced Beginners Kieran McCarthy-Fell | Mondays | 7 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members Tin Whistle III: Intermediate Kieran McCarthy-Fell | Mondays | 8 PM – 9 PM $190 general / $160 members GUITAR Guitar Accompaniment for Irish Tunes: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Level Peadar O hIci | Tuesdays | 6 PM – 7:30 PM $175 general / $145 members Six sessions, 1.5 hours per session Beginning Guitar for Singers Anne Johnson | Mondays | 6 PM – 7 PM $165 general / $135 members MANDOLIN Mandolin I: Beginners Ben Engel | Thursdays | 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM $165 general / $135 members Mandolin II: Advanced Beginners Ben Engel | Thursdays | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM $190 general / $160 members

Step Dance I: Beginners (Section A) Betty Sheehan | Mondays | 6 PM – 7 PM $165 general / $135 members Note: Two different class times!

Step Dance I: Beginners (Section B) Michelle Esch | Thursdays | 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM $165 general / $135 members Note: Two different class times!

Step Dance II: Advanced Beginners Betty Sheehan | Mondays | 7 PM – 8 PM $165 general / $135 members Step Dance III: Intermediate Betty Sheehan | Mondays | 8 PM – 9 PM $165 general / $135 members Intro to Hard Shoe Irish Step Dancing Michelle Esch | Thursdays | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM $165 general / $135 members Set Dance: Old Style Irish Social Dance Dan Hunt | Tuesdays | 7:30 PM – 9 PM $165 general / $135 members

EAR TRAINING Learning Tunes by Ear Anne Johnson | Mondays | 7 PM – 8 PM $165 general / $135 members ENSEMBLE Introduction to the Traditional Irish Session James Cleveland | Thursdays | 6 PM – 7:30 PM $165 general / $135 members VOCALS Traditional Irish Singing Level I: Beginners Carrie Erving | Wednesdays | 6 PM – 7 PM $190 general / $160 members Traditional Irish Singing Level II: Intermediate Carrie Erving | Wednesdays | 7 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members All music classes require an instrument.

For information about instrument rentals and purchases please visit irishartscenter.org.

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The Bill Ochs Scholarship Fund The scholarship allows those in need to receive scholarships to participate in Irish Arts Center’s music and education programs. The fund was started by an anonymous donor and is named in honor of our dearly departed friend and educator, Bill Ochs, who taught with us for more than four decades. A limited number of scholarships are available. For more information, email classes@irishartscenter.org.

To learn more about contributing to the Bill Ochs Scholarship Fund, please contact Aida Garrido at 212-757-3318 x224 or aida@irishartscenter.org.

8-week winter term begins January 27, 2020 8-week spring term begins April 13, 2020

EDUCATION

IRISH LANGUAGE

LITERARY ARTS

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

Irish Language I: Introduction (Section A) Siobhán Ní Chiobháin‫‏‬ Mondays | 7:30 PM – 9 PM $165 general / $135 members

Creative Writing Yvonne Cassidy | Wednesdays | 7 PM – 9 PM $190 general / $160 members Six two-hour sessions

Irish Language I: Introduction (Section B) Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáith Tuesdays | 8 PM – 9:30 PM $165 general / $135 members

Playwriting: Inspirations from Contemporary & 20th Century Irish Playwrights Beto O’Byrne | Tuesdays | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM $190 general / $160 members

Introductory Step Dance Niall O’Leary, TCRG, ADCRG Year-round (except holidays) Monday | 4 PM – 5 PM | Beginner Soft Shoe $30 rolling annual registration fee $15 per class

Irish Language II: Beginners Siobhán Ní Chiobháin Mondays | 6 PM – 7:30 PM $190 general / $160 members

THEATRE ARTS

Irish Language III/IV Combined: Intermediate Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáith Tuesdays | 6:30 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members Irish Language V: Advanced Paul Ferris | Wednesdays | 6:30 PM – 8 PM $190 general / $160 members Tae Agus Comhrá (Tea and Conversation) Paul Ferris | Wednesdays | 8 PM – 9 PM FREE

Storytelling I: Beginners Brad Lawrence | Mondays | 7 PM – 9 PM $175 general / $145 members Six two-hour sessions Storytelling II: Intermediate Brad Lawrence | Wednesdays | 7 PM – 9 PM $175 general / $145 members Six two-hour sessions

THE IRISH INSTITUTE

KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK

End of Term Party Enjoy tea and conviviality with friends old and new as instructors and classmates gather to celebrate the end of a wonderful term and share new skills in Irish language, music, dance, and literary and theatre arts.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 | 12 PM – 4 PM | FREE AT IRISH ARTS CENTER

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EDUCATION

Master Classes & Lectures Neo-Irish Harp with Maeve Gilchrist

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 | 1 PM – 3 PM AT IRISH ARTS CENTER $60 general / $48 members, students, and seniors Elevate your practice with master harpist Maeve Gilchrist, whose unique approach to the Neo-Irish harp—the most popular form of the instrument in Ireland today—is rooted in tradition but stretches its harmonic limits and improvisational possibilities. In this class, you’ll use Irish traditional tunes as a vehicle to explore and expand your fluency in rhythm, phrasing, harmony, and ornamentation.

For intermediate to advanced learners of both the lever and pedal harp.

Intercultural Connections Series with Mick Moloney: Celtic Culture and Heritage from Ireland to Galicia WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 | 7 PM AT IRISH ARTS CENTER $20 general / $16 members, students, seniors Celtic identity has been forged historically by a common heritage and history along the wild Atlantic coastline from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man to the continental cultures of Brittany, Asturias, and Galicia. Dr. Mick Moloney explores how in recent decades a remarkable outpouring of art, particularly in the disciplines of music and dance, has amplified and strengthened this extraordinary legacy.

Musician and folklorist Dr. Mick Moloney presents the fourth edition of Intercultural Connections, his popular lecture series exploring the contributions of Irish artists in a global context.

Fiddle Improvisation in the New York Tradition with Tony DeMarco

SUNDAY, APRIL 26 | 2 PM – 4 PM AT IRISH ARTS CENTER $60 general / $48 members, students, and seniors Hear and learn the ornamental techniques of NYC’s fiddle masters! Tony “Tradfather” DeMarco, called the city’s “central figure of the Irish traditional music scene” by the New York Times, discusses and distills the favorite practices of local greats like Andy McGann, Paddy Reynolds, Michael Coleman, and James Morrison. Improve your fluency in bowing patterns, rolls, grace notes, and finger and bow triplets, and create your own variations.

For intermediate to advanced learners.

THE IRISH INSTITUTE

KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK

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Keith J. McCarthy

Martha E. Gifford

John Hasluck

Eileen and Kevin J. Keane

Patrick Layng

Sheila McCarthy

Mary Ellen Gilgan

Joseph Hassett

Mary C. Keane

John Leahy

Larry McCloskey

Benjamin Gillespie

Andrea Haughian

Michael Keane

Judy Leane

Sophie McConnell

Maureen Gillespie

Charlotte Headrick

Melissa and Paul Keary

Kate Lear

Maura McCormack

Mary Pat Gillin and Chet Simunovich

Kara Heffernan

Marty Keating

Ann Leddy

Richard McCoy

Georganne A. Heller

Maureen Keating

Maribel Ledezma-Williams

Sue and Thomas McCrossan

Patricia and John Heller

James F. Keegan

Mark Lee

Alice McDermott

Dianne Hennessy

Tricia and Aidan Kehoe

Gina Maria Leonetti

Kenane and Brendan McDonagh

Deborah and Brian Henry

Carol and Denis Kelleher

Robert Levey

Maura McDonnell

Susan Henshaw Jones

Tara Kelleher

George Lindsay

Maria McElhinney

Chris Hentemann

Brian Kelly

Brett Littman

Patricia and Bernard McElhone

Leslie Herman

Cliodna Kelly

Megan Lynagh

Maureen McGetrick

James Higgins

Julia and Declan Kelly

Katherine Hall and Gary G. Lynch

Geraldine McGinty

Hirschen Singer & Epstein LLP Attorneys at Law

Deirdre and Seán Kelly

Jennifer Lynch and Edmond FitzGerald

Kerry McGlade

Colm Gilmore Mary Jane and Gerard Ginnane Mary Beth Glaccum Stephen Glennon Glenwood Mason Supply Company, Inc. Globegistics, Inc. Regina Glocker Goldman Sachs & Co. Barbara A. Goldstein Christine Goodwin Donna Gordon Bob Gormley Bridget Gormley Christopher Gorzelnik Barbara Gottlieb Christine Gralton Margaret Greenan Leslie King Grenier and Bart A. Grenier Cordelia Grimm Susan Groarke Frances Gully Rich Gumersell Anita and Ram Gupta

Peter J. Hooper Pat and Jim Houlihan Howard Gilman Foundation HSBC Philanthropic Programs Richard Huggard Sophia C. Hughes Kathleen Hughes-Simpson Laura and Brian Hull Shane Humphries Bernadette and Thomas Huvane Insight Companies Inc. International Union of Operating Engineers Irish Echo Newspaper Corp.

Ellen O’Brien Kelly and Peter Kelly Fiona Kelly Holly Kelly and Andrew Lipsky James Kelly Mary and Shaun Kelly Thomas Kelly William M. Kelly Ann Marie Kennedy Brian J. Kennedy Desmond Kennedy John G. Kennedy Kathleen and Timothy Kennon Jean and Sean Kilduff Peter Killeen Rosemary Killeen Noel Kirnon

Edward Haber

Penny and Thomas Campbell Jackson

Carl Hagberg

Elizabeth Jaeger

Karena Knaggs

Barbara Ann Hall and Patrick Mulvey

Bree Jeppson

KPMG US LLP

Hallen Steel & Welding Service Inc. Pamela Halling Sean Halpin Thomas Hamill

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Lisa and Kevin Holohan

Nadine Johnson Jonathan Rose Companies Patricia and William Jordan JP Morgan Kamco Supply Corp.

Emily-Jane Kirwan and Jay Grimm

Carl Krebs Maria Krupit Laborers’ International Union of North America Adam Lamberg

Kathleen Lynch Katie Lynch Joseph Lyons M&T Bank M.C. Electrical NY Inc. James P. MacGilvray Philomena and Sean Mackin Nessa and Michael Madden John Maguire Vincent Maher James F. Mahon III Joseph Mahon Maureen Mahoney Jane A. Majeski John and Kathleen Malast Manhattan Mechanical Contractors Jonathan March Marinoware John Martin Lori Maskovsky Mike Mason Kathleen McCabe and Dana LaForge

Anne McGoldrick Conall McGonagle Judith and Andrew McGowan Martin McGowan Pat McGowan Patricia and Patrick McGowan Margaret and Michael McGrath Kate McGuigan Laura and Peter McGuigan Stuart McGuigan Judith and Ray McGuire Eileen McInerney Paula and Thomas E. McInerney Donal McIntyre Margaret McKenna William S. McKiernan Christina McLaughlin Sarah and Kieran McLoughlin Peter McLoughlin Thomas McLoughlin Noreen and J.P. McManus Moya McManus James F. McShane Maureen McSherry

WITH GRATITUDE TO OUR SUPPORTERS WHOSE GENEROSITY KEEPS IRISH ARTS AND CULTURE THRIVING Meehan Foundation

Francis X. O’Connor Jr.

Paul Power

Gerald Sievers

Conor Twomey

Terence Meehan

William J. O’Connor

Elizabeth Simasek

UBS Group Americas

Corinne Mehas

David O’Donnell

Premier Printing and Mailing Solutions

Clare Smith

United Iron

Anand Mehta

Debra and John O’Donoghue

JoHannah Speltz

United Structural Works

llen Spindler

University College Dublin

Geraldine Stapleton

Urban Foundation Engineering LLC

Howard Steele

Joseph Vaccarino

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc.

Jan Valle

Natasha Stowe

Jimmy Van Bramer

Anne Strauss

Venturewave Capital Limited

Structure Tone

Ana Vilarrasa

Kitty Sullivan

Esther Villamar

Lisa M. Sullivan

Nancy and Steven Vincent

Alanna Sutherland

Kathleen Walsh

Pam and Matthew Sutherland

Peter Walsh

Synchrony Financial

Mark Ward

Brian Tarquinio

Sarah Waters

Techno Acoustics Holdings, LLC

Evelyn Watters

Dannielle Tegeder

Stephanie and Paul Watterson

John Tegeler

Weir Welding Company Inc.

TEI Group

Don Weir

Metro Interiors Distributors Corp.

Doris Meyer Michael Mitsch Honor Molloy Judith Moloney Michael J.S. Moran Nick Moran Nicolas and Nuala Moreau Morgan Stanley Elizabeth Moriarty Dessie Moynihan Jim Mulcahy Terence Mulligan William Mulrow Lisa Muratori Carly and John Murphy Kevin J. Murphy Michael Murphy, M.D. Patrick Murphy Una and William Murphy Seamus Murphy-Mitchell Eileen Murray Mutual of America N. Cheng and Co. Patricia and John Nallen Shane Naughton Chad Newman and Jared Stanisci Duncan and Alison Niederauer Kenneth Nolan Sean Nolan Laurie Norman Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Barry O’Brien Luke T. O’Brien Peg O’Brien Sinead and Peter O’Brien John O’Callahan Bernadette O’Connor and Donal O’Brien

Patrick O’Donovan Mary O’Dowd Marianna and Brian O’Dwyer Ruth O’Farrell and Olena Ripnick-O’Farrell

Maeve Price PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Felice Proctor David Pucino Robert Pugsley Peter Quick

Reidin O’Flynn

Thomas C. Quick

Adele O’Grady Botticelli

Rosemary and Jim Quigley

Anne O’Grady

Mary Lou and Joe Quinlan

Emer O’Hanlon and James D. Murphy

Thomas J. Quinlan III

Michael O’Hara Therese O’Higgins Michael O’Keeffe Susan O’Leary Ellen O’Neill Kevin O’Neill Lynne Sawyer and Peter O’Neill Thomas E. O’Neill III Tommy O’Neill Michael Padraig O’Reilly Noreen Brosnan O’Reily Maureen O’Rourke Mandy Oser Michael O’Shea Rosemary Ostergren Chantal O’Sullivan Joseph O’Sullivan Suzanne O’Sullivan Patrick Owens Package Pavement Co., Inc. Patricia and Michael Paliotta Elizabeth Parks Sharon Patrick Pavarini McGovern Linda Pellegrini Rosemarie Perocchia Wilma Pfeffer PG New York Poly-Flex Corporation

Brendan Quinn Diane and Jim Quinn Kathy and Peter Quinn Emily Raabe Nerissa Radell and Russell Gioiella Glen Radovich Margaret Rafferty-O’Connor Red Lion Lorraine and Patrick Reidy

Lauren Scully

Jean M. and Kenneth L. Telljohann Wesbuilt Construction Managers LLC Teneo Holdings Whelan Brothers Management Emma Terese Brown Group, Inc. The Ireland Funds, America Eugene P. White The Irish Institute of New York, Inc. John White The Jerome L. Greene Foundation Maureen White and Steven Rattner The Knights of St. Patrick Margaret Wiencko The Millennium Group, Inc. Wilfie & Nell The Shubert Foundation Brett Wilson The Society of the Friendly Sons of Thomas G. Wilson St. Patrick Aleta Wolfe Mary Tierney Howard Wolfson Colin Tobias Anne Marie Wright Tourism Ireland Charles Wright Mary Trinity and Dan Barry Robert Yelk Thomas Troy Stefanie Young Patrick Tully

Robert Sechan

Susanne and John Tumelty

Avinash Sharma

Jimmy Tuohy

Kristen Shaughnessy

Eugene Turley

Brian T. Shea

Pauline Turley and Charles Garland

Dianne Sheehan

Bonnie and Terry Turner

Charles and Barbara Reilly Virginia Reilly Jim Richards Daniel P. Romanello Rebecca Rooney Gregg Roth Joseph Ruppe Geri and Frank Ryan Jirina and Jerome Sager Sharon T. Sager Frank Sandie Mary Scanlan Gerard Scavelli Robert Schifellite Alissa Schoenfeld

Donors $100+ from 11/15/2018-12/15/2019

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Become a Member MEMBERS ENJOY THESE BENEFITS Priority booking Ticket exchange privileges 20% discount for one (1) on all regularly scheduled events at IAC $30 off class registration & no fees Name recognition in season brochure 20% discount for two (2) on all regularly scheduled events at IAC

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Free literature, film & comedy events for two (2) A pair of tickets to one (1) regularly scheduled event at IAC One free class Backstage meet-and-greets with select IAC artists Year’s pass to all regularly scheduled events at IAC for two (2) Dedicated concierge service Invitation to VIP receptions & networking events

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Members Nights Reserve your tickets early for our special Members Nights! Enjoy a reception after the show (with a drink on the house) and meet and mingle with other Irish Arts Center members. Bring friends—anyone who becomes a first-time member on a Members Night will get an exclusive discount on signing.

Ye Vagabonds January 31 Muldoon’s Picnic March 9 Ragas to Reels April 17 A Night in November May 14 Irish Arts Center / An Claidheamh Soluis, Inc. is a 501(C)(3) not for profit organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent provided by law. Federal EIN: 51-0244834 Our latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from us or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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“Ireland is one of the best brands in the world, you have to build it and nurture it.” —PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

Claddagh Circle

$2,500+

Claddagh Circle is our most dedicated and loyal group of supporters who provide critical support for more than 200 performances, events, and classes every year. Most importantly, our Claddagh Circle helps to ensure Ireland and Irish America’s cultural and artistic legacy for generations to come.

Membership to Claddagh Circle includes premium tickets to all performances through a dedicated concierge line, plus invitations to opening night celebrations, special concert evenings, behind-the-scenes events, and artist meet-and-greets all year long.

For more information, please contact Pauline Turley at pauline@irishartscenter.org or 212-757-3318 x205.

10th Anniversary Show Your Love THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A very special anniversary of our annual members party, generously hosted

by Mutual of America at their Park Avenue penthouse. This year we are delighted to honor Darrah Carr Dance, Emer O’Hanlon and James Murphy, Grainne McNamara, and Colin Tobias. Tickets from $250 include a full bar and generous buffet as well as a yearlong membership to IAC.

Annual Golf Outing WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2020

Enjoy a spirited day on the greens for our 21st Annual Irish Arts Center Golf Outing. We are welcoming new members of our golf committee!

Claddagh Circle Luncheon JUNE 2020

Our annual luncheon honoring and celebrating the women of Irish Arts.

For more information about IAC corporate or individual membership, please contact Brian Schmidt at brian@irishartscenter.org.

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Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; Howard Gilman Foundation; Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; The Shubert Foundation, Inc; M&T Bank; The Ireland Funds; Northern Ireland Bureau; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; Tourism Ireland; and thousands of generous donors like you.