Riverbank Arts Centre Programme April - June 2012

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Welcome to Riverbank April to June 2012 Hello! As is tradition at this time of the year, it seems obligatory to mention the wonderful Spring freshness in the air and the great stretch in the evenings. With this season comes a new energy and we are delighted to add our Spring programme to the mix.

April is a busy month here and a very special one for families as we host The Illustrators, an exhibition curated by the much-loved children’s author Julia Donaldson. Featuring original artwork from Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett and many more, this is a real treat for all the family. Fans of The Gruffalo will delight at the complementary programme of workshops taking place throughout the month including a Gruffalo Disco. So, go on, jump in feet first and enjoy the fun!

In other areas, we have a great line-up in music with RTE Vanbrugh Quartet, Francis Black, Freddie White, Southern Tenant Folk Union, Declan O’Rourke and a very special opportunity to see the The Bad Plus perform their take on the iconic Rite of Spring – unmissable.

In theatre we bring you The Love Hungry Farmer in April – a J.B Keane and Des Keogh combination sure to delight. In May, as part of our Bealtaine Festival Celebrations, we are delighted to host Translunar Paradise, a powerful, award-winning piece of mask & movement theatre, while in June experience early music costumed concert, voodoo & witchcraft with Ex’s Possessed or delight in a 1940s vibe with as Fitzrovia Radio Hour, fresh from acclaimed sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe, this show delivers a comic cocktail of theatre, sound effects & fun!

Our CINEMA programme is as strong as ever, from the Oscar winning silent film The Artist to dry humour of Sean Penn in This Must Be The Place we will continue to show a range of quality film from home and around the globe. And lets not forget to keep laughing- from The Nualas and PJ Gallagher to the Savage Eye’s Patrick McDonnell and John Colleary there’s a gig to keep the Spring in your step.

We do hope you enjoy!

Linda, Alex, Hazel, Damien and all at Riverbank Arts Centre

BOOKING INFORMATION Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5.30pm Saturdays 10.00am - 1.00pm (Open one hour before shows) Closed for Lunch 2.00pm -2.30pm Buy Tickets online Website: www.riverbank.ie

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As always, we want to see more of you at Riverbank Arts Centre. This season we have two special ticket offers: Early Bird Tickets, as you all know the earlier you book the greater the reward. We have a limited number of Early Bird Tickets, so watch out for the Early Bird Logo on selected events and you will be rewarded for early booking. All early Bird tickets are €10 This offer expires on Friday 13th April.

Ticket Bundles, with this offer you can get three selected shows for €30.00. Call the box office now to secure your ticket bundles at 045 448327; A great way to see three fantastic shows at wildly reduced price.

Theatre Tantalisers: €30 The Love Hungry Farmer & Translunar Paradise & Fitzrovia Radio Hour Music Madness: €30 RTÈ Vanburgh Quartet & Hazel O’Connor with Cormac DeBarra & Posessed Killer Comedy: €30 The Nualas & Fitzrovia Radio Hour & John Colleary with Patrick McDonnell More Music: €30 CAN Percussion Trio & Triùir Tair Trùigh Three & Southern Tenant Folk Union Cinema Season Ticket €45.00

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MAy

ApRIl

Page

2nd - 6th

Wonderland Workshops

10am-3pm

160

8

5th

RTÈ Vanbrugh Quartet

8pm

116/114

8

7th

No Strings Theatre presents The Gruffalo & Friends

12pm & 1.30pm

110

9

9th

Artzone

10am & 2pm

150

9

12th

Hotbuckle Productions present Great Expectations

8pm

115/112

9

13th

Movie Making with Create School (8-14yrs)

10am-3pm

135

10

14th

Frances Black

8pm

125

10

18th

Branar Presents Spraoi

12 noon

15**

11

19th

Droichead Nua presents The Good Father

8pm

112/110

11

21st

Create a Character with Adrienne Geoghegan

12-4pm

125

12

21st

The Nualas: Older, Wiser, Heftier

8pm

118/116

12

22nd

Dance Academy presents Coppelia

6pm

114/18

12

27th

The Love Hungry Farmer

8pm

116/114

13

28th

Gruffalo Disco with Michelle Cahill

12pm & 2pm 110

14

28th

The Headline Agency presents Freddie White

8pm

118/116

14

2nd-5th

Newbridge Drama presents Son is Crazy..But Promising

8pm

112/110

15

10th

The Headline Agency presents Hazel O’Connor & Cormac DeBarra

8pm

118/116

15

12th

Southern Tenant Folk Union

8pm

115

17

13th

Celtic Dream

8pm

122/120

17

15th

Dance workshop for over 60’s

11am-1.30pm Free

18

17th

In conversation with Dermot Bolger Deirdre Purcell & Ferdia MaCanna

8pm

15

19

18th

Music Network presents Triùir Tair Triùgh Three

8pm

115/112

19

11-12.30pm

Free

20

19th

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Origami Workshop with Stacia Blake

19th

PJ Gallagher

8pm

120

20

23rd

Carnation Theatre presents CIRCUS!

8pm

Free

21

25th

Theatre AD Infinutum (UK) presents Translunar Paradise

8pm

115/112

22

29th

Note Productions present The Bad Plus, On Scared Ground

8pm

125/ 120

23

30th - 1st

Brian Brady presents Fame

8pm

110*

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CINEMA

VIsuAl ARTs

JuNE

Page

7th

Ex Presents Possessed

8pm

July-24 115/112

8th

Stage Academy presents Broadway & Beyond

7.30pm ***

110/15

9th

Rosie Red Story Time & Card making workshop with Trisha Deery

1pm & 2.30pm

15/16

25

14th

Music Network presents CAN Percussion Trio

8pm

115/112

26

15th

Seabright productions present Fitzrovia Radio Hour

8pm

116/114

26

16th

Dog String Theatre presents The Wishing Tree

2pm

15

27

21st

John Colleary and Patrick McDonnell

8pm

115/112

28

22nd

Declan O’Rourke

8pm

120

28

23rd

Make a monster t-shirt with Chris Judge

11am-1pm

120

29th

Griese youth Theatre : it only ever happens in Movies

8pm

110

September 201125

Free T-shirt

29 30

Sat 26th May Sat 30th June

‘ The Book & Beyond ‘

10am-5.30pm Mon-Fri & 10am-1pm Sat

Free

30

May 19th June 30th

‘Piece work’ An exhibition by Stacia Blake

10am-5.30pm Mon-Fri & 10am-1pm Sat

Free

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Sat 31st Mar Sat 28th Apr

‘Illustrators’ Curated by Julia Donaldson

3pm

Free

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April 14th

The Gruffalo & The Gruffalo Child

2pm

13

10

April 16th

The Artist

8pm

16

11

April 23rd

Shame

8pm

16

13

May 11th

SPECIAL SCREENING: The Lady

8pm

16

16

May 12th

A Cat in Paris

2pm

13

16

May 14th

Carnage

8pm

16

18

May 21st

Dreams of Life

8pm

16

20

May 24th

My House in Umbria

11am & 8pm

Free

May 26th

FAMILy CINEMA : Red Dog

2pm

13

May 28th

Once Upon a time

8pm

16

23

June 11th

Marty Marcy May Marlene

11am

13

25

June 18th

Kid with a Bike

8pm

16

27

June 25th

This must be the place

8pm

16

29

June 26th

SILVER SCREENING: Carousel

11am

13

29

Music Workshops

Theatre

Comedy

Visual Arts

Childrens Event Cinema

Kids Cinema

Literature

Cinema

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(over 60’s go free)

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€3 Coffee & Cake Deal

* Family of four €30 ** (sutiable for junior & senior infants) Monday Movie Deal €3 for Cake & Coffee at Cupcake Café ***(Sunday show at 2pm)

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ExhIBITION DATEs: sATuRDAy MARCh 31sT Ð sATuRDAy ApRIl 28Th

ThE IllusTRATORs CuRATED By JulIA DONAlDsON OFFICIAl lAuNCh: FANCy DREss TEA pARTy ON sATuRDAy MARCh 31sT Time 3pm price Free Admission (All Ages welcome) Come and join us to celebrate the launch of The Illustrators, at a special Fancy Dress Tea Party on Saturday March 31st at 3pm.

This fantastic exhibition, curated by Julia Donaldson, features over 50 original artworks by illustrators Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett and Nick Sharratt, to name but a few! This is your chance to see The Gruffalo, Stickman and Zog as never before, alongside many other wonderful pieces created by the artists who have collaborated with Julia on her best-selling picturebooks over the past two decades. Come dressed-up as you’re favourite Julia Donaldson character to be in with the chance of winning a fantastic prize. Light refreshments will be provided.

A complementary programme of family events will also run throughout April, including a double-bill screening of the award winning animated short films The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Chil (featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, and John Hurt) and puppet shows by master puppeteer Martin Cahill, bringing some of Julia Donaldson’s most popular titles to life.

sChOOl TOuRs Exhibition Tour and Film Screenings Date: Friday 20th and Tuesday 24th April Time: 10am-12.30pm Price: _5 per child (Teachers and accompanying adults free) Age: Junior and Senior Infants.

Junior and Senior Infant teachers are warmly invited to visit the Riverbank with their class and enjoy a guided tour of The Illustrators exhibition, followed by a double-bill screening of The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child. During their visit, children will enjoy a reading from a Julia Donaldson book of their choice, take a closer look at some key pieces on display (including original artwork by Axel Sheffler, Nick Sharratt and Emily Gravett to name a few) and take-part in a gallery treasure-hunt.

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An exhibition of contemporary children’s book illustration curated by Julia Donaldson Jonathan Allen

Deborah Allwright

Debbie Boon

Anna Currey

Thomas Docherty

Karen George

Emily Gravett

Paul Hess

Sam McCullen

Lydia Monks

David Roberts

Axel Scheffler

Nick Sharratt

Pam Smy

Joel Stewart

Charlotte Voake

FANCy DRESS TEA PARTy: SATURDAy MARCH 31ST

The Illustrators exhibition is a partnership initiative between The Park Gallery, Falkirk Community Trust and Artlink Central.

sATuRDAy ApRIl 7Th NO sTRINGs ThEATRE COMpANy pREsENT

ThE GRuFFAlO & FRIENDs

Time 12-1pm (suiTAble For 3-5 yrs) 1.30-2.30pm (suiTAble For 6-8 yrs) price €10 (AccompAnying AdulT goes Free) Are you ready to meet the Gruffalo and his friends? Enjoy the timeless magic of The Gruffalo and other Julia Donaldson stories, in two very special performances by No Strings Theatre Company. Using handmade puppets, master puppeteer Martin Cahill will bring your favourite characters to life, and who knows? you may even get to talk to them after the show! In the second session, older children will have the opportunity to try their hand at using the puppets to create their own performances too. So join us as we take a journey into the deep dark wood… if you dare! sATuRDAy ApRIl 14Th

ThE GRuFFAlO AND ThE GRuFFAlOÕ s ChIlD Time price

2pm 13 (family TickeT of 4 for 110)

The Gruffalo - Dirs: Max Lang & Jakob Schuh / UK & Germany / 2009 / 27 mins Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane and Tom Wilkinson. Language: English The Gruffalo’s Child - Dirs: Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland / UK & Germany/ 2011 / 27 mins Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Shirley Henderson, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane and Tom Wilkinson. Language: English Join us for this magical double-bill of animated short-films, based on the famous children’s books written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The Gruffalo follows the journey of a brave mouse, who one day decides to take a stroll through the woods.

Encountering a series of predators along the way, the plucky mouse needs to rely on his quick wits to survive. In The Gruffalo’s Child, we meet a little Gruffalo, who ignores her father’s warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse. sATuRDAy ApRIl 21sT

CREATE-A-ChARACTER

sATuRDAy ApRIl 28Th

GRuFFAlO DIsCO

wITh ADRIENNE GEOGhEGAN Time 12-4pm (suiTAble For 7-10 yeArs) price T25 Join artist Adrienne Geoghegan for this extended creative workshop, inspired by The Illustrators Julia Donaldson exhibition. Beginning with a gallery tour, Adrienne will explore the many famous characters that appear in the artworks on show, such as the Zog, Cave Baby and Tyrannosaurs Drip. Gathering clues and ideas along the way, participants will then proceed to invent and create their very own LIFE-SIZED character! This can be whoever or whatever yOU want it to be. Perhaps a flamboyant fairy, a remarkable robot or a Mischievous Monster?

We’ll supply the props, if you bring along the imagination.

Those taking part with then have the option to include their cut-out characters in an exhibition of young people’s artistic responses to The Illustrators, which will continue in the children’s space during May.

wITh MIChEllE CAhIll Time 12-1pm (4-6yeArs) & 2-3pm (7-9 yeArs) price T10 (AccompAnying AdulT goes Free) Are you ready to Rumble? Let’s boogie on down through the deep dark wood and dance like you never have before! Michelle Cahill will lead this fun and imaginative session inspired by the loveable Gruffalo and other characters from the amazing Gruffalo Story by Julia Donaldson.

Moonwalk like Mouse! Foxtrot like Fox! Prowl like an Owl and Shake like a Snake! Drawing on the illustration theme, older participants in the second session will explore more contemporary dance styles, drawing patterns in space with their bodies. No experience required, just bring yourself and a whole lot of energy!

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For Kids

Time 10am – 3pm (suitable for 7-13 yrs) Price T60 Wonderland invites 7-13 year olds into its colourful world of drama, music, dance, puppetry, comedy, and theatre design, for a weeklong camp culminating in a fabulous showcase for friends and family.

Wonderland’s workshops uniquely combine a stage school with the work of a professional theatre company. Every workshop leader is also a working theatre practitioner and a part of Wonderland’s success story. Every Wonderland Workshop’s aim is to make friends, to perform, to learn lots too, but most importantly to encourage each young performer to grow and develop through the performing arts - and just as importantly to have the best of fun together. ***** “Quite simply superb! Witty, wonderful, Wonderland…

I have not seen a more promising company since the debut years of Rough Magic The Irish Times

Time: Price

8pm 116/114

Winner of the 1988 Portsmouth International String Quartet Competition, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet is widely regarded as one of Europe’s most successful string quartets.

Presenting the core string quartet repertoire, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet has consistently championed the work of Irish composers in concerts and broadcasts throughout Ireland and abroad, including premières of new works by Gerald Barry, Ian Wilson, Raymond Deane, Donnacha Dennehy, Rachel Holstead, Deirdre Gribbin and Sam Perkin.

Inspired by the Cathedral of Càdiz, there seven meditations serve to enhance and assist in our contemplations during Holy Week. In Haydn’s words, ‘Each sonata is expressed by purely instrumental music in such as way that even the most uninitiated listener will be moved to the very depths of his soul’. This show will feature pieces from Beethoven Quartet No. 4 in C minor, OP.18 & Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross, Op. 15 with poems from Mark Strand read by Philip O’Sullivan.

A wonderful Easter concert with the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet who are the resident string quartet to RTÉ & artists in residence at University College, Cork.

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sATuRDAy ApRIl 7Th

NO sTRINGs ThEATRE COMpANy pREsENT

ThE GRuFFAlO & FRIENDs Time price

12pm (3-5 yrs) 45mins 1.30pm (6-8yrs) 1hrs €10

Are you ready to meet the Gruffalo and his friends? See page 7 for more details.

TuEsDAy ApRIl 10Th Ð F RIDAy y ApRIl 13Th

ARTzONE Time price

10Am -2pm (suiTAble For or 5-7 yrs & 8-12 yrs) T50 The ever popular Art Zone return to Riverbank Arts Centre this easter mid-term. It will be hard to beat the excellent Portfolios and themes previously worked on, but the Artzone teachers love a challenge! Art Zone teachers have worked to design the best portfolio of art, crafts, stories and games yet experienced! This workshop is divided into two groups- 5-7yrs and 8-12yrs.

As always, early booking advised.

For Kids ThuRsDAy ApRIl 12Th hOTBuCKlE pRODuCTIONs pREsENTs

GREAT ExpECTATIONs

By ChARlEs DICKENs ADApTED

By ADRIAN pREATER

Time 8pm price €15/€12 “Memorable, beautiful, stunning, moving, hilarious, heartbreaking – magnificent! “ Novelist and playwright, John MacKenna.

Hotbuckle explodes onto the stage with this new, innovative adaptation of one of Dickens’ greatest novels. With all the comedy, mystery, violent melodrama, suspense and poignancy of the original, it tells of Pip’s journey from boyhood to manhood as he seeks to discover who he is and find his place in an inhospitable world.

It is a story of love and loss, of guilt and shame, of fear and courage and has some of the most vivid and memorable characters in all of English literature.

With the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth in 2012, this electrifying, exhilarating and moving production is a must-see. “….these creative, versatile and visionary actors excel, delighting the audience …… this production is a clever and novel re-birth of a famous classic that does not fail to grip you through its contemporary approach.”

The Public Reviews

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FRIDAy ApRIl 13Th

MOVIE MAKING wITh CREATE sChOOl Time price

10Am – 3pm (suiTAble For 8-14 yrs) T35

Learn how to create and share a music video using mobile devices such as mobile phones, iPads, digital cameras etc. Tips and techniques on capturing, editing and producing quality videos to complement your favourite music as well as advice on how and where to share them.

sATuRDAy ApRIl 14Th

FRANCEs BlACK Time: price

8pm 125

She sings with a conviction and depth of emotion that reflects the inner strength and spirit that has helped her come through the challenges of her own life. Intelligent and articulate, with a keenly developed social conscience, Frances is very politically aware and has strong opinions on many issues. She is renowned for her rendition of “Legal Illegal,” a song by Ewan McColl that powerfully rails against injustice.

The extent of Frances’ popularity and talent has been reflected in the awards and accolades that she has received for her albums and live performances. She has twice been the recipient of one of the highest honours in Irish music, the prestigious Irish Recorded Music Association’s Best Irish FemaleAward, and was also delighted to receive a National Entertainment ”Personality of the year” award, as it has always been vitally important to her to connect with her audiences during a performance. This was evident in her participation in the ablum A Women’s Heart, which went on to become the biggest selling album in Ireland.

In addition, the excellence of her live performances saw her receiving the “Best Solo Artist” and “Overall Winner” accolades at the Celtic Fusion Festival Awards, in conjunction with Irish Music Magazine, from over 40 nominated acts.

Frances’ career in music has been so successful that it posed a dilemma when it came to choosing the 40 tracks for The Essential Frances Black compilation, as there were so many hit singles and songs that audiences loved, to choose from. We hope that this wonderful collection will give hours of enjoyment from the voice of the lady who has captured the hearts of so many people all around the world over the past 20 years.

The Sweetest voice in Ireland – Nanci Griffith

sATuRDAy ApRIl 14Th

ThE GRuFFAlO AND ThE GRuFFAlOÕ s ChIlD

Time 2pm price 13 (family TickeT of 4 110)

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Join us for this magical double-bill of animated short-films, see page 7 for more details

MONDAy ApRIl 16Th RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

ThE ARTIsT

Time price

monday cinema club

cinema

8pm 16

Dir: Michel Hazanavicius / France / 2011 / 100 mins / Cert: PG Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle Language: Silent Travel back to a golden age of cinema in this enchanting, comedic tribute to silent films. It’s 1927, and handsome, witty, and beguiling George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is Hollywood’s biggest movie star. Unhappily married, Valentin has unwittingly stolen the heart of a nobody-turned-extra named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), who dreams of becoming a great actress in her own right. When the studio converts to the “talkies,” Valentin balks at the prospect: who would want to hear actors speaking?

Valentin takes it upon himself to keep the silent era alive, risking his career and his fortune, and stiff competition from his former allies.

Winner of Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director €3 Coffee Oscars 2012 & Cake Deal Winner - Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2011 Winner – Best Film, Best Actor, 2012 BAFTA Awards wEDNEsDAy ApRIl 18Th

BRANAR pREsENTs

spRAOI

Time 12 noon (30 mins) price _5 (suiTAble For junior & senior inFAnTs) Branar in association with Gombeens theatre troupe presents a new production SPRAOI and school programme for 2012 designed for junior and senior infants.

This is a simple story of two boys who arrive at the same place at the same time and they don’t understand what they should do, neither speak the same language or understand the others signals. One likes to play by the rules the other doesn’t have any!!They must learn how to communicate with each other so that they can play together.

Directed by Marc Mac Lochlainn. Performed by Miquel Barcella and Johnathan Gunning This project was developed with funding from Ealaín na Gaeltachta under Scéim Forbartha na nEalaíon 2011 Foras na Gaeilge and Galway City Council.

ThuRsDAy 19Th ApRIl

DROIChEAD NuA pREsENTs

ThE GOOD FAThER

By ChRIsTIAN OÕ REIlly Time price

8pm €12/€€10

“The Good Father” is a warm, tender and funny love story about two people in their 30’s from different social backgrounds. Jane, a lawyer, and Tim, a painter, meet a New year’s Eve party and reluctantly attempt a relationship after she becomes pregnant.

Sarcastic, resentful and still trying to please her parents, Jane would prefer to go it alone. But Tim’s open-hearted honesty and persistence gradually wears her down. Estranged from his own father he is desperate to realise a dream he thought beyond him: to be a good father.

As resistance turns to love, they begin to glimpse a bright future together, but Jane carries a secret that threatens to tear them apart.

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sATuRDAy ApRIl 21sT

CREATE-A-ChARACTER wITh ADRIENNE GEOGhEGAN

For Kids

Time 12-4pm (suiTAble For 7-10 yeArs) price T25 Join artist Adrienne Geoghegan for this extended creative workshop, see page 7 for more details

sATuRDAy ApRIl 21sT

ThE NuAlAs: OlDER, wIsER, hEFTIER

Time: price

8pm 118/116

“*****Kill to get a ticket.” - The Scotsman 3 divorces, 6 children and 200 botox injections later Ireland’s favourite alllady comedy singing sensations are back. The Nualas are new, improved, yet somehow exactly the same. Dark, sharp and surreal, The Nualas reformed the end of last year to great acclaim on The Late Late Show, they have performed to an instantaneous standing ovations and sold out the main marquee of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival in Dublin.

“There wasn’t an empty seat in the house.... It’s easy to see that the daring threesome is delighted to be back after a ten year break... Unexpected sweet harmonisation..... Their personalities, questionable choreography and incredible harmony are not to be missed.” Guide2Dublin “Simply stunning. Bloody brilliant, in fact.”

- In Dublin Magazine

suNDAy ApRIl 22ND DANCE ACADEMy pREsENTs

COppElIA Time: price

6pm 114/18

The Dance Academy is delighted to present its bi-annual charity performances of one of the first comic ballet classics, Coppelia. Pupils from The Edenderry and Maynooth centres aged 4 to 40 are sure to dazzle as they combine to showcase their talents for this performance.

The story concerns a mysterious and faintly diabolical inventor, Doctor Coppelius who has made a life-size dancing doll Coppelia. It is so lifelike that Franz, a village swain, is infatuated with it, and sets aside his true heart’s desire, Swanilda. The mistake leads to 12 intrigue and jealousy in love.

MONDAy ApRIl 23RD RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

shAME

Time price

monday cinema club

8pm 16

cinema

Dir: Steve McQueen / USA / 2011 / 99 mins / Cert: 18 Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie Language: English Shame represents another great feature in one of the best years for British film in living memory. Steve McQueen consolidates his reputation as one of the most gifted and confident directors, following his extraordinary feature debut Hunger. Shame is a mesmerising character drama boasting a superbly orchestrated soundtrack and cinematography and arguably the best performance to date by actor of the moment, Michael Fassbender. Fassbender plays Brandon, an affluent Manhattan based thirty something who plans his life around relentless sexual encounters and conquests until a visit from his wayward sister forces him to reassess his priorities.

Winner - Michael Fassbender Best Actor, Venice €3 Coffee & Cake Deal International Film Festival 2011 Winner - FIPRESCI Award Venice International Film Festival 2011

FRIDAy 27Th ApRIl

ThE lOVE huNGRy FARMER

ADApTED AND pERFORMED By DEs KEOGh FROM lETTERs OF A lOVE-huNGRy FARMER

By JOhN B KEANE Time: price

8pm 116/114

DES KEOGH, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, returns with his hugely successful and award winning show THE LOVE HUNGRy FARMER by JOHN B KEANE. It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a bachelor of ‘indeterminate’ age and according to his own assessment, ‘past his best’ and evidently still a virgin. McLane’s amourous adventures range from the hilarious to the pitiful.

JOHN B KEANE ranks among the great Irish writers. His plays include SIVE, THE FIELD and BIG MAGGIE. His ‘Letters’ series of books were a spectacular success, with The Love Hungry Farmer being particularly outstanding.

‘Des Keogh is superb. A consummate actor wedded to a skilled raconteur, the wine he offers is vintage’ Irish Times ‘Fiercely serious and bruisingly hilarious’ New york Times ‘Keogh is a wonder. A master-storyteller’ Associated Press

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sATuRDAy ApRIl 28Th

GRuFFAlO DIsCO wITh MIChEllE CAhIll Time price

12-1pm (4-6 yrs) & 2-3pm (7-9 yrs) T10

Are you ready to Rumble? Let’s boogie on down through the deep dark wood and dance like you never have before! Michelle Cahill will lead this fun and imaginative session inspired by the loveable Gruffalo and other characters from the amazing Gruffalo Story by Julia Donaldson. Moonwalk like Mouse! Foxtrot like Fox! Prowl like an Owl and Shake like a Snake!

See page 7 for all Gruffalo workshops.

sATuRDAy ApRIl 28Th ThE hEADlINE AGENCy pREsENTs

FREDDIE whITE Time price

8pm €18/€16

Freddie White has long been synonymous with music of the highest quality. Whether interpreting songs by his favourite writers, such as Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt and Guy Clark, or performing his own classy compositions, Freddie’s live performances are nothing short of legendary.

Freddie has been part of the fabric of the live music scene since the 1970’s as a founding member of ‘Scullion. Later he formed ‘The Fake’, regarded as one of the seminal Irish bands of the late ‘70’s. Next came The Freddie White Band formed in 1978, which toured with Eric Clapton that year.

He has since been touring mainly solo and his albums and concerts continue to sell well, amongst his loyal and newfound fan base.

This month will be your only chance to see Freddie live, as he currently lives in Sydney, Australia, come along and hear this legendary voice and listen to his unique guitar style. “…those trademark sharp-toothed guitar licks… smoky, languid voice…there’s still nobody to match White at his best” Irish Times

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wEDNEsDAy MAy 2ND Ð sATuRDAy MAy 5Th NEwBRIDGE DRAMA pREsENTs

sON Is CRAzy...BuT pROMIsING

A MODERN AMERICAN FARCE IN TwO ACTs

By TIM KElly Time 8pm price €12/ €10 Eccentric Bud Granger, Hollywood screenwriter, decides to give up life in the fast lane and buys a lodge in Tumbleweed, Arizona. The Inn has seen better days, but as it’s near the fabled “Lost Dutchman Mine,” Bud thinks he might soon be a reclusive millionaire.

What he didn’t figure on are the very strange permanent residents, viz. undercover FBI agent, foreign spy and UFO aficionado. He also must contend with a gun toting former owner, an emotional mobster and his moll, a cantankerous sheriff, outraged honeymooners, investigative reporter and state lottery official. And to top it all his mother and his Hollywood producer appear on the scene.

Mayhem and confusion ensue but hopefully all will be resolved in the end.

Another hilarious production from Newbridge Drama Group.

ThuRsDAy MAy 10Th ThE hEADlINE AGENCy pREsENTs

hAzEl OÕ CONNOR AND CORMAC DE BARRA up ClOsE AND pERsONAl Time price

8pm T18/T16

Hazel O’Connor sings acoustic-this rock star has returned to her soul folk-roots, live and on-stage at Riverbank Arts Centre.

O’Connor performs with the celebrated Irish harpist Cormac De Barra, in a captivating, intimate - acoustic special performance. ...“Sumptuous songs with a soulful, introspective lyrical depth. The arrangements are largely traditional in feel, helped by Cormac De Barra’s exquisite harp...seamless forays into pop blues and soul, and the familiar silken gravel of O’Connor’s voice” - Irish Times.

Hazel O’ Connor has fast reestablished herself as an artist and performer to be reckoned with. Her husky voice remains charged with passion and her enthusiasm, love of music, and wicked sense of humour, is ever present.

Book tickets online on www.riverbank.ie

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FRIDAy MAy 11Th

Special Screening

RIVERBANK CINEMA spECIAl sCREENING

ThE lADy

cinema

Time price

8pm 16

Dir: Luc Besson / France/UK / 2011 / 132 mins / Cert: 1 Starring: Michelle yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse Language: English Michelle yeoh plays political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi in this biopic from Luc Besson. Focusing on her relationship with British husband Michael Aris (David Thewlis), it tells the story of their enforced separation while the pro-democracy campaigner was under house arrest in Burma. Opening with Michael’s discovery that he has cancer, it unravels the build-up to Suu’s heartbreaking decision not to visit him in Britain, for fear of never returning to the people who elected her their leader. In many ways, it’s the story of the man behind the woman, and terrific performances from both Thewlis €3 Coffee and yeoh help deliver a moving, mature love story.This & Cake Deal is a worthwhile tribute with unforgettable scenes and an awards-worthy performance from yeoh.

BuRMA ACTION IRElAND

We are delighted to announce that Burma Action Ireland will be hosting a pre-screening introduction, starting at 8pm for 20 mins.

About Burma Action Ireland (Gníomhaíocht ar son Bhurma in Éirinn in the Irish language) was set up in May 1996 to raise awareness of the current situation in Burma and the repressive nature of the ruling regime. It is composed of individuals involved in development, human rights and justice issues. The association is non-party political, non-denominational and committed to nonviolent means. It does not take policy positions on issues unrelated to Burma.

sATuRDAy MAy 12Th

A CAT IN pARIs Time price

2pm 13

Dir: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol / France / 65 mins / Cert: TBC Language: English (dubbed from French) Dino the cat leads a dramatic double life; by day he is the only friend of Zoé, a little girl who hasn’t spoken since her father died. At night he leaps from roof to roof with Nico, a burglar looking for jewels. It is Zoé’s curiosity to find out where her cat disappears to leads to an adventure involving her policewoman mum, dastardly criminals and the cityscape of Paris. - BFI London Film Festival 2011 Nominated - Best Animated Feature, Academy Awards 2012

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Time 8pm price 16 Riverbank Arts Centre are teaming up with Jameson Dublin International Film Festival for a surprise screening of one of the films listed at this years, 2012’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. This special screening will be in tandem with other venues across the country.

A truly shared experience for movie lovers, if you are curious and want to come along contact our box office at 045 448327 or join our mailing list online at www.riverbank.ie for further information on what will be a surprise event.

sATuRDAy MAy 12Th

sOuThERN TENANT FOlK uNION

Time price

pENCAITlAND TOuR 8pm €15

The most highly acclaimed folk/bluegrass band in the UK today, Southern Tenant Folk Union have recently released their fourth album ‘Pencaitland’ and since starting out in 2006 they’ve toured their exciting live show all over the UK, Ireland, Netherlands & Germany.

A seven piece all acoustic band with banjo, mandolin, fiddle & harmony vocals the STFU perform with ’soul & beauty’ on their murder ballads & laments and tear it up with their ’Hootenanny sawdust-kickers’ and high energy sound. If you love folk/bluegrass, you will fall in love with this electrically live band.

‘Americana Artist of the Year’ at the British Country Music Awards ‘Smart conflation of Celtic music and bluegrass played with rare intuition’ Uncut Magazine

suNDAy MAy 13Th

CElTIC DREAM Time price

8pm €22/€20

Celtic Dream is one of the most original & authentic shows in the world. This production is a breathtaking myriad of brilliant choreography, phenomenal vocals, astounding musicianship and glittering costumes.

With a selection of the finest dancers, vocalists and musicians from around Ireland, Celtic Dream takes audiences along a breath taking journey of music, song and dance with a kaleidoscope of colour against a backdrop of highly infectious, powerful and spirit invoking music.

Together with a mixture of traditional and modern songs and astoundingly choreographed dance routines, Celtic Dream will leave you mesmerised and wanting more and more.

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MONDAy MAy 14Th RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

cinema

€3 Coffee & Cake Deal

CARNAGE

Time price

monday cinema club

8pm 16

Dir: Roman Polanski / France / 2011 / 79 mins / 15A Starring: Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet Language: English This comic miniature sees Roman Polanski bring his knack for claustrophobic dramas played out in enclosed spaces to French writer yasmina Reza’s play ‘The God of Carnage’, moving the action from bourgeois Paris to middle-class Brooklyn.

It’s a captive, caustic exercise in confinement and hysteria as a couple, Nancy (Kate Winslet), a personality-free, high-flying financial type, and Alan (Christoph Waltz), a harried executive, come knocking at the home of Penelope (Jodie Foster), a self-consciously liberal writer, and Michael (John C Reilly), an amiable peddler of ‘flush mechanisms’, to discuss a fight between their kids. Each couple attempts diplomacy, but words become weapons, prejudices rise to the surface and the evening collapses into a storm of anger, vomit, drunkenness and violence. Brief, brutal and barmy.

Bealtaine is the Irish arts festival celebrating creativity in older age. To mark this occasion, Riverbank Arts Centre in partnership with Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service presents a serious of events and workshops in celebration of the Bealtaine Festival 2012…

TuEsDAy MAy 15Th

DANCE wORKshOp FOR OVER 50Õ s wITh AlICIA ChRIsTOFI-wAlshE Time: 11Am - 1.30pm price free (booking essenTial) After last year’s popular Bealtaine dance workshops, Alicia Christofi-Walshe returns to Riverbank Arts Centre for another dance class for older people! These popular sessions encourage, inspire and motivate people to get dancing. Classes focus on maintaining flexibility, strength, balance and co-ordination all in a social and relaxed environment. All exercises are accompanied by music and participants will learn social dances as well as contemporary dance techniques. Exercises can be done either seated or standing, all abilities are welcome. Come along to meet new people and get dancing!

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wEDNEsDAy MAy 17Th

IN CONVERsATION wITh

DERMOT BOlGER, DEIDRE puRCEll & FERDIA MACANNA Time price

8pm €5

Riverbank Arts Centre in association with Kildare Library and Arts Service are delighted to welcome these three outstanding authors, Deirdre Purcell, Ferdia MacAnna and Dermot Bolger are amongst Ireland’s best known writers. Join with them in an intimate and relaxed setting to listen to a discussion between the writers and hear them talk about the art of writing and read some favourite pieces.

Dermot Bolger is a poet, playwright and novelist who previous visits to the Riverbank have been hugely enjoyable. He is joined by Deirdre Purcell who has written numerous bestsellers including Diamonds and holes in my shoes and Falling for a dancer and currently presents a radio programme for RTE and Ferdia MacAnna who has worked as a television producer/director and script writer.

His novel, Last of the High Kings, was made into a movie starring Gabriel Byrne.

FRIDAy MAy 18Th

MusIC NETwORK pREsENTs

TRIuIR * TAIR * TRIuGh * ThREE TRADITIONAl MusIC TOuR

Time price

8pm €15 / €12

These three ladies with their wondrous voices are touring to celebrate the shared music traditions of the native-language communities in Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The whole gamut of the human condition is here: from achingly beautiful lullabies and heart-rending love songs to humorous tongue-twisters and macaronic mash-ups.

Siân James, born in a small Welsh-speaking village in Powys, has been hailed as the finest singer and harpist of her generation. Singing mostly in Welsh, she is a wonderful storyteller too, weaving tales and legends throughout the music and translating the lyrics as she goes.

Steeped in the traditions Gaeltacht area of Corca Dhuibhne and a founder member of ‘MACALLA’, Ireland’s first all-female traditional band, Seosaimhán Ni Bheaglaoich is renowned for her individual and heartfelt interpretations of both Irish and English songs from her native West Kerry.

Best known for her pioneering work with the metal-strung clarsach and the fantastic Camac electro-harp, Mary Macmaster is also a fine singer of Gaelic and English language songs.

‘The sheer power and beauty of her voice…is stunning.’

Folk Roots on Siân James

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sATuRDAy MAy 19Th

ORIGAMI wORKshOp wITh ARTIsT sTACIA BlAKE

Time 11-12.30pm price Free (booking essenTiAl) Celebrating creativity in older age, Stacia Blake is delighted to share her knowledge of Orgami with you. See page 30 for more details.

sATuRDAy MAy 19Th

pJ GAllAGhER Time price

8pm 120

PJ Gallagher has become one of Ireland’s bestloved comedians. Following the huge success of his role as Jake Stevens and many others in the hilarious and sometimes outrageous hit TV show Naked Camera, PJ rarely has time to be himself these days as he prepares for yet another TV series based in the USA. With appearances on The Late Late Show, The Miriam O Callaghan Show and Tubridy Tonight, you can expect to see a lot more of this brilliant, energetic young comic.

‘For a man who ambushes people as they go about their everyday business, makes them uncomfortable and mines their embarrassment for laughs, there is something strangely appropriate about PJ Gallagher’s route into comedy’ The Sunday Times Culture Magazine

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MONDAy 21sT MAy RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

DREAMs OF A lIFE

Time price

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€3 Coffee & Cake Deal

8pm 16

Dir: Carol Morley / UK / 2011 / 90 mins / Cert: CLUB Language: English Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on.

Director Carol Morley, determined to find out more about Joyce’s life, spent five years tracking down those who knew her by placing adverts in newspapers, on black cabs and on the internet.

Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s life (played brilliantly by exciting new talent Zawe Ashton) Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, multilayered quest. It is not only a portrait of Joyce, but a portrait of London in the eighties - the City, music and race. It is a film about urban lives, contemporary life and how, like Joyce, we are all different things to different people.

Book tickets online on www.riverbank.ie

Bealtaine is the Irish arts festival celebrating creativity in older age. To mark this occasion, Riverbank Arts Centre in partnership with Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service presents a serious of workshops and events in celebration of the Bealtaine Festival 2012…

wEDNEsDAy MAy 23RD

CARNATION ThEATRE pREsENTs REsENTs

CIRCus! Time price

2pm free (booking essenTiAl)

Roll up, Roll up!

The Carnatini Sisters present the incredible, indelible, inedible Circus!

Circus! comes to town, and everyone is all of a dither. The ladies are intrigued by the handsome exotic ringmaster, the men pretend not to care, but really they are rather interested in the agility of the trapeze artists, while children search down the sides of the sofa looking for the few pence it will cost to enter into a fantasy world, populated by big-footed clowns, ferocious lions and candy floss.

This is interactive theatre, where willing audience members will play both circus and towns folk. We discover that the ordinary is not so ordinary and the exotic not so exotic, while at the same time finding inner, hidden, death-defying talents!

Circus! coming to a town near you!

There is an off-site performance of this production at St Vincents Hospital at 11.30 am on Wednesday May 23rd

ThuRsDAy DAy M DA MAy Ay 24 A 24Th Th RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

My hOusE IN uMBRIA

Special Screening

cinema

Time 11Am & 8pm price Free (booking essenTiAl) Director: Richard Loncraine / USA, UK, Italy / 2003 / 103 minutes / Cast : Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Chris Cooper, Timothy Spall Based on the novella by William Trevor, My House In Umbria is set in the sprawling Italian countryside. After a tragic train accident, four survivors find solace in the villa of an English writer, Mrs. Delahunty (Maggie Smith). The other survivors - an American girl (Emmy Clarke), a British general (Ronnie Barker), and a young German (Benno Furmann) - struggle to come to terms with the disaster, as an inspector (Giancarlo Giannini) tries to figure out exactly what happened.

“Visually lush and dramatically poignant, My House in Umbria is a superb adaptation of William Trevor’s novella about four strangers who bond in an Italian villa following a terrorist attack.” – Variety €3 Coffee & Cake Deal

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FRIDAy MAy 25Th

ThEATRE AD INFINITuM (uK) pREsENTs

Time price

TRANsluNAR pARADIsE 8pm €15/ €12

Translunar Paradise takes you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to a paradise of fantasy and past memories, a place far from the reality of his grief. Returning from beyond the grave, Rose revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of love: to help him let go.

Using a live accordion accompaniment this exquisite piece of mask and movement theatre was an award winning sellout at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011.

Translunar Paradise is a co-production with The Lowry, Salford Quays, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) & BE Festival, Birmingham and The Ustinov, Bath.

‘An admirable, infinitely gentle and wordless story of loss and remembrance’ The Times (4 stars)

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sATuRDAy MAy 26Th RIVERBANK FAMIly CINEMA

RED DOG

Time price

2pm 13

Dir: Kriv Stenders / Australia / 2011 / 95 mins / Cert: PG Starring: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Keisha Castle- Hughes, Noah Taylor Language: English Red Dog – an Australian take on “Lassie” - is a great family entertainment that will appeal to anyone between 10 and 100 years old! Adapted from the novel of the same name by award-winning author Louis De Bernières, Red Dog is the true story of one very special dog, a charismatic kelpie who united a mining community in Pilbra area of North West Australia in the 1970s and ‘80s, while searching for his long lost master.

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Why not bring your grandparents with you, for this family friendly screening as part of the Bealtaine Festival.

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MONDAy 28Th MAy RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

monday cinema club

ONCE upON A TIME IN ANATOlIA Time price

8pm 16

Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Turkey / 2011 / 157 mins / Cert: CLUB Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Firat Tanis Language: Turkish Ceylan’s most audacious film yet is a measured, masterly account of a police investigation, Chekhovian in its piercing insights, subtle wit and thematic richness.

Alongside The Tree of Life, Ceylan’s Grand Prix-winner was widely regarded as the most rewardingly audacious film in Cannes last year. The story follows the search by police, prosecutors, a doctor and the alleged culprit for the body of a man buried in the Anatolian after a brawl. Ceylan’s status as a master of cinema has been confirmed. €3 Coffee Winner - Grand Jury Prize at 2011 Cannes Film & Cake Deal Festival

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TuEsDAy MAy 29Th

ON sACRED GROuND:

sTRAVINKyÕ s RITE OF spRING pERFORMED AND ARRANGED By

ThE BAD plus Time price

8pm €25/€20

Over the past ten years The Bad Plus have broken down the walls of jazz convention and created an uncompromising body of work. Few jazz groups in recent memory have amassed such popularity and critical acclaim. While the bulk of their output has been original music, they are equally at home with tunes by Blondie, Bacharach, Nirvana and Aphex Twin.

ON SACRED GROUND sees the piano trio take on Stravinsky’s iconic Rite of Spring. The famed ballet that caused a riot on its premiere opened the door to 20th Century music and animated Disney’s Fantasia. The Rite is a touchstone rooted in tribal and Russian folk music. Virtuoso, playful and visceral, The Bad Plus’ multi-media show, On Sacred Ground, breathes new life into this popular masterpiece.

“It’s about as badass as highbrow gets.” Rolling Stone “If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together.” The Guardian

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wEDNEsDAy MAy 30Th, ThuRsDAy MAy 31sT & FRIDAy JuNE 1sT

BRIAN BRADy pREsENTs

FAME

wRITTEN By lIBBy TRApp Time wed-Thurs 8pm / FridAy 4pm & 8pm price 110 FAmily TickeT oF 4 For 130 A new version of the TV hit show FAME! Written by Naas author Libby Trapp. Libby’s fame is the story of a group of students studing in a New york theatre school. Hits include ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’, ‘Flash-dance’ and the show stopper ‘Fame!’. From Brian Brady youth Theatre, a cast of 30 students wait to entertain with this classic story.

ThuRsDAy JuNE 7Th

Ex pREsENTs

pOssEssED

Time 8pm price 115/ 112 Voodoo, Exorcism, Witchcraft, Satanism, Altered States and Multiple Personalities; possession is one of contemporary culture’s most enduring & compelling themes. Possessed is a staged & costumed concert that explores the ancient universal phenomenon of possession through the prism of music and theatre.

Featuring an international ensemble of renowned early music specialists, Possessed takes audiences on a journey to a realm where Gods, man and the darker powers interact. From Medieval Europe where the mystics Hildegard von Bingen, Theresa de Avila and Joan of Arc have ecstatic visions of Christ to 17th century Salem and the infamous witch trials, from Bahia and an initiation ceremony into the voodoo-like cult of Candombl_, to ancient Sicily where a maiden bitten by the wolf spider is exorcised from her trance with the wild rhythms of the tarantella.

From the company that brought us Shipwrecked, an entrancing evening of music, dance and spectacle that is Possessed.

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FRIDAy 8Th JuNE, sATuRDAy 9Th JuNE & suNDAy 10Th JuNE

sTAGE ACADEMy pREsENTs

BROADwAy & BEyOND Stage Academy Newbridge

Time Fri-sAT 7.30pm / sun 2pm & 7pm price 110/15 The pupils of Stage Academy Newbridge are excited about presenting a selection of their favourite musicals .

Stage Academy Newbridge presents two productions a year in the Riverbank Arts Centre as well as being involved in many other events. Stage Academy believe in giving their pupils every opportunity to tread the boards and they love to see their pupils grow in confidence while developing their talents.

Broadway & Beyond is directed & produced by Brenda Malone & Paula Conlan and it promises to be a show for all to enjoy.

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Sunday 10th June 2pm & 7.30pm

ROsIE RED sTORy TIME & CARD MAKING wORKshOp wITh TRIshA DEERy Riverbank boxoffice 045 433480 Adults Û 10 children & oapÕ s Û 5Ê

Time price

1pm (3-5 yrs) 40 mins 2.30 pm (6-8 yrs) 1 hour €5 (3- 5yrs) €6 (6-8yrs)

Meet author and illustrator Trisha Deery, as she makes her first visit to Riverbank Arts Centre! The day will start with a very special storytime session for younger children, where Trisha will introduce to her charming new character, Miss Rosie Red, as she tries to decide what to wear to her friend’s party. An Astronaut? A fairy?

A dinosaur? Come along and join in the dressing-up fun! Later, Trisha will show budding artists some of the techniques she has developed in making her very own handmade greeting-cards.

Do you know somebody with a birthday or another special event happening soon? This is your chance to make them a personalised card they’ll never forget!

MONDAy 11Th JuNE RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

monday cinema club

MARThA MARCy MAy MARlENE

Time price

cinema

8pm 16

Dir: Sean Durkin / USA / 2011 / 101 mins / Cert: 1 Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Sarah Paulson Language: English A beautiful, emotionally shattered young woman named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) makes a dawn escape from a cult compound in the Catskill Mountains, fleeing to the luxurious home of her married sister and attempts to put her life back together. But with her past spilling into the present, escape from Patrick (John Hawkes), the demented cult leader, might not be so €3 Coffee easy.

Winner Best Director Sundance Festival 2011

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ThuRsDAy JuNE 14Th

MusIC NETwORK pREsENTs

CAN pERCussION TRIO Time price

8pm €15/€€12

Exotic timbres, pulsing rhythms and interlocking melody lines of a percussion ensemble at full tilt is a sound unlike any other.

Add to this the positively viral energy of the CAN percussion trio and you are in for a real treat. It’s the brainchild of Noel Eccles, musical director of the first Riverdance tour, member of folk-rock titans Moving Hearts, former principal percussionist with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and go-to guy for a host of luminaries including U2, Elvis Costello, The Chieftains, Brian Eno and Elmer Bernstein.

Trading blows with Noel are Chris Stynes and Alex Petcu, two of Ireland’s rising percussionists. Both have performed regularly with many of Ireland’s leading professional groups, playing everything from contemporary and classical music to musical theatre, rock and pop. With a repertoire spanning everything from Bach to Steve Reich, and the strangest line up of instruments you’ll see this year, expect a few surprises!

FRIDAy JuNE 15Th

sEABRIGhT pRODuCTIONs

FITzROVIA RADIO hOuR

Time price

8pm 116/114

Recreating the unique spirit of 1940’s radio plays and brilliantly evoking a dinnerjacketed age of casual imperialism and stiff upper lips. The Fitzrovia Radio Hour’s brand new show tours fresh from three critically acclaimed London residencies, and two sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Performed with cut-glass theatricality blending homage and satire, Fitzrovia mixes the chauvinist attitudes of 1940s Britain with sharp contemporary humour to produce a heady comic cocktail. Throughout the plays, sound effects are created live: a Bakelite hairdryer imitates a heating torch, a desk fan becomes an aeroplane, and multiple types of cabbage help to stage a fight scene. Rippingly good fun!

‘Dramatic entertainment redolent of a bygone era. Jolly good show, chaps!’

The Guardian

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‘Absolutely spiffing show that recreates the innocent, clipped, Bulldog Drummond spirit of Forties live radio drama.’ **** Daily Telegraph

sATuRDAy JuNE 16Th

DOG & sTRING ThEATRE pREsENTs

ThE wIshING TREE Time price

2pm €5 (suiTable for 4-8 yrs)

In this production from Dog and String Theatre, two stories intertwine. The Old Woman in the Vinegar Bottle and Cinderella. Storytelling, life size puppets, animated objects and shadow play are used to investigate the way in which our inner vision creates the world around us. _ It takes the audience on a journey of locations involving an obliging fairy and a rather sour old woman. Azal the Artist weaves these two narratives together as he draws what he sees on the shadow screen. His artistic skills transform the everyday objects into characters that come to life and tell their own story. Cinderella is told by the fairy godmother herself incorporating real magic and puppetry.

With extra help from the audience her dreams can be realized. Wishes can come true but if you forget to say thank you, you might end up back where you started!

MONDAy JuNE 18Th

KID wITh A BIKE Time price

8pm 16

Dir: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne / Belgium / 2011 / 87 mins / Cert: 12A Starring: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione Language: French Consistent excellence is rare in cinema, but no film-making team has more regularly swept us away with their poetic insights into ordinary lives than the brothers JeanPierre and Luc Dardenne. The Kid with a Bike, however, does more than keep up the high standard. A hairdresser Samantha takes an interest in 11-year-old abandoned Cyril and offers to foster him at weekends. you might think that an obvious thawing and building of a bond between the two would follow, but nothing so simple takes place. Instead it is the very fragility of tentative connections that is constantly tested as this angry young boy, played by Doret with astonishing intensity, fights for a sense of self-determination. Every shot, every move, every word is honed to its best use, and the Dardennes use music in short bursts for the first time.

Grand Prize of the Jury, Cannes Festival 2011

€3 Coffee & Cake Deal

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ThuRsDAy JuNE 21sT

JOhN COllEARy & pATRICK MCDONNEll Time price

8pm 115/ 112

The Stars Of ‘The Savage Eye’ are coming to Riverbank Arts Centre, one night only for a truly hysterical show. This is a unique opportunity to see two of Irelands finest stand ups performing live together in one explosive show.

John Colleary is a writer and performer of Today FM’s comedy slot ‘Last Orders’, Colleary’s credits also include ‘Stand And Deliver’, ‘Naked Camera, Project Ha-Ha.(RTE2) and popular BBC comedy show ‘One Night Stand’.

Patrick McDonnell seems to have been involved in all that has been good about Irish Television comedy in the last decade. As well as ‘The Savage Eye’, Patrick has created memorable characters in ‘Naked Camera’, ‘Val Falvey TD’, Stew’ and of course ‘Father Ted’, when he brought to life the wonderful Eoin McLove.

“McDonnell’s stand-up routine is a delight, a cynical, angry beast of a set which never loses its comic edge” – The Scotsman ‘John Colleary Delivered what can only be described as a flawless set.’ – GO Belfast.

FRIDAy 22ND JuNE

DEClAN OÕ ROuRKE Time price

8pm 120

Following his two previous sell out shows here, we are delighted to see Declan returning to the Riverbank Arts Centre, on the back of his sell-out Mag Pai Zai tour, having recently completed the Transatlantic Sessions UK tour and a month-long tour of the US. Despite having a keen interest in music and singing from an early age, it was during his teenage years spent in Melbourne that he first got hold of a guitar. O’Rourke was exposed to a different cultural aesthetic at this point which, coupled with his own well-formed cultural identity, may account for his unique style of melody and melancholia.

Declan recently performed ‘A Little Something,’ and ‘Galileo’ from his debut album, at the BBC Last Night of the Proms with the Ulster Orchestra in Castle Park, Bangor.

Word is getting out, slowly but very surely, about Declan O’Rourke’s song writing skills. Don’t be the last to find out.

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sATuRDAy JuNE 23RD

MAKE-A-MONsTER T-shIRT wITh ChRIs JuDGE Time price

For Kids

11Am-1pm €20 (Free T-shirT included)

Award-winning illustrator Chris Judge will lead this one-off workshop where participants will get the chance to make their very own monster t-shirt! The first part of the process will involve creating your very own crazy creature or beastly logo, which will then be used to produce a unique t-shirt design that will make you the envy of all your friends! Price includes a cotton t-shirt that can be taken home after the workshop – please let us know your child’s required size when booking a place.

MONDAy JuNE 25Th RIVERBANK CINEMA pREsENTs

ThIs MusT BE ThE plACE

Time price

monday cinema club

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Dir: Paolo Sorrentino /Italy/France/Ireland / 2011 118 mins / Cert: 15A Starring: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eva Hewson, Kerry Condon Language: English In 2008, Sean Penn, Jury president of Cannes Film Festival, awarded Paolo Sorrentino with the Jury Prize for “Il Divo” and declared he was eager to make a movie with Sorrentino. Three years later, Penn and Sorrentino returned to Cannes together to win the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes this year for “This Must Be the Place” - a moral road movie. The film invokes Wim Wenders’ “Paris Texas” through its melancholy travels and gorgeous cinematography. The score is composed by David Byrne (of The Talking Heads, whose song is the film’s namesake) and accompanies the former idol’s journey. “This Must Be the Place” explores affiliations and cliches through the moving portrait of a sardonic fifty-year-old ex rock star who will never settle for the lifestyle of mediocrity with which the world tries to constrain him.

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Time 11Am price 13 Dir. Henry King / USA 1956 / 128min / Language: English / Cert U Starring: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones and Cameron Mitchell Set in a coastal Maine mill town sometime around 1900, the painful love story brings together itinerant carnival worker Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) and virginal mill worker Julie Jordan (Shirley Jones), who fall passionately in love even though everyone thinks she could do a lot better. Billy Bigelow asks for permission to be sent down “from above” for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. The movie ends, of course, with the soaring “you’ll Never Walk Alone.” €3 Coffee & Cake Deal

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Only Ever Happens In The Movies devised by Mikel Murfi and John Taite along with the cast of NyT 2011 was first performed by the National youth Theatre in the Peacock Theatre in August 2011. The play is about love, teenage love. Sixteen year old Derek is pretty useless with girls, he believes that life and love should happen exactly like it does in the movies. This is a boy meets girl story with the help of Boys and Girls (and a movie star!). Griese youth Theatre take Derek on his quest for Love.

Griese youth Theatre is in existence since 1999 and is committed to producing high quality drama with plays exploring the concerns and passions of young people. Located in the Meeting House in Ballitore village ‘Griese Youth Theatre is doing very important and valuable work in County Kildare, providing wonderful opportunities and creative challenges for young people, nurturing talent and confidence in the young members’ Philip Shepherd National Theatre Connections London 2011.

VISUAL ARTS PRogRAmme april-June 2012

sATuRDAy MAy 19Th TO sATuRDAy JuNE 30Th

pIECE wORK AN ExhIBITION By sTACIA BlAKE Time mckennA gAllery 10Am - 5.30pm mon - Fri, 10Am - 1pm sAT price Free Admission Since 2006 Stacia Blake has been working on PIECE WORK an on going body of work in memory of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in these works Stacia uses a circle to symbolise each of the people who lost their lives. These delicate works may contain anything from 40 to as many as 500 circles.

Stacia has exhibited selected pieces of PIECE WORK in Berlin, Finland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Japan.

This year Stacia will celebrate her 60th birthday. She plans to stay active; creativity, she believes will always remain a part of her life no matter what age she is.

She is delighted to share her knowledge of Origami with others at a workshop in crane making, as part of the Bealtaine festival on Saturday May 19th at 11am until 12.30pm. The workshop is free, however places are limited, so early booking is essential.

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Book tickets online on www.riverbank.ie

VISUAL ARTS PRogRAmme april-June 2012

sATuRDAy MAy 26Th TO sATuRDAy JuNE 30Th

ThE BOOK & BEyOND

wITh sTEVE sIMpsON, ChRIs hAuGhTON, ChRIs JuDGE AND TRIshA DEERy Time mckennA gAllery 10Am - 5.30pm mon - Fri, 10Am - 1pm sAT price Free Admission We all know illustrators as the talented people who bring the characters to life in our favourite picturebooks, but what other things do they use their artistic skills to make? This new exhibition, created especially for the Riverbank’s children’s space, will allow visitors to explore other elements of contemporary illustration practice – whether it be producing beautiful fair-trade rugs, designing funky packaging for food and drink, or developing digital apps that help you learn how to read!

Featuring work by Steve Simpson (Lúlú agus an Oíche Ghlórach), Chris Haughton (A Bit Lost), Chris Judge (The Lonely Beast) and Trisha Deery (Miss Rosie Red).

RefReShmenTS AT RIVeRbAnk A note about CaToCa at Riverbank Arts Centre

CaToCa is the new name of the café at Riverbank Arts Centre. It serves a wide selection of food for breakfast meetings, lunches or a pre theatre bite. The name has been inspired by owner, Liz’s, children. This personal touch is reflected in her work to bring you some of the best cakes, deserts and treats that the café has to offer.

If you’re coming to an event at Riverbank Arts Centre, why not book early and try out the new home made pizza’s with a glass of wine or for Monday Night Movies you can grab a coffee and cake before the screening for just €3

CaToCa do birthday parties too with their own clown ‘Robin’, its fun for all at Riverbank. Combined with a trip to see a show, it’s the perfect party treat.

Why not visit our website www.catocafinefood.com or call to book a table 045 486791.

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Riverbank Arts Centre Address: Main Street, Newbridge, Co.Kildare Phone: (045) 448330 Email: info@riverbank.ie Web: www.riverbank.ie Box Office Email: boxoffice@riverbank.ie Phone: (045) 448327 Book online www.riverbank.ie Free wifi available in the foyer and Cupcake Cafe

Illustrations by Brian Coldrick: www.briancoldrick.com

Design by Mind’s i : www.mindsi.ie tel: 044 9332929