Excellent music and conversations are the backbone of Comhluadar Ceoil, a new music series hosted by Dáithí Ó Sé on TG4. Waterford group Téada were Dáithí’s guest for the third programme in the series which aired on March 28th. Téada, first came to national prominence over 20 years ago and have been travelling and...
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The Speech of Elementals
The Speech of Elementals
James Horan and Denis Lynch Virtual Exhibition from April 7th. The Speech of Elementals is an exhibition brought to you virtually by local artist James Horan and Denis Lynch. The exhibition link will be available and posted at 2.30pm on the 7th of April. James graduated with a Masters degree in Aesthetics and the...
James Phelan receives Waterford’s PLATFORM 31 Artist Bursary
James Phelan receives Waterford’s PLATFORM 31 Artist Bursary
Waterford artist James Phelan has been announced as one of the 31 recipients of the inaugural PLATFORM 31 bursary, A nationwide artist development scheme by the 31 Local Authority Arts Offices, in collaboration with the Arts Council. James Phelan said: “’I am delighted to receive a bursary for my film project...
Paper Lanterns: A new vital literary resource for teen and YA literature
Paper Lanterns: A new vital literary resource for teen and YA literature
Deirdre Power Paper Lanterns Journal for Teen and YA (young adult) literature launched last year, in the most unlikely of circumstances. The journal aims to publish four times a year and seeks to promote teen literature and teen voices. Paper Lanterns was born from a desire to address the lack of printed journals in...
Pretty Yende / La Traviata – Online Vienna Staatsoper Premiere
Pretty Yende / La Traviata – Online Vienna Staatsoper Premiere
Liam Murphy On their own website and app, the Vienna Staatsoper premiered the Simon Stone designed and produced version of Verdi’s La Traviata, possibly the most popular of the ‘big sing’ operas. Starring Pretty Yende as Violetta, the South African soprano, who is establishing herself with the big...
Going Home to Wyoming – John Ennis
Going Home to Wyoming – John Ennis
Liam Murphy The Book Hub Publishing Group have produced another milestone in the diverse and inspirational literary career of John Ennis with, Going Home To Wyoming (Later Selected Poems 2000 – 2020). The work John Ennis has done as a poet and educator (Head Of Humanities at WIT) has marked him out as a...
Girl On An Altar
Girl On An Altar
Online rehearsed reading of Marina Carr’s new play Liam Murphy Marina Carr, the Irish playwright, was commissioned by The Kiln Theatre (previously The Tricycle Theatre) on the London, Kilburn High Road. Her new play, Girl On An Altar, is a re-telling of the ancient myth of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. A girl...
Resurgence 25X For The Arts Webinar
Resurgence 25X For The Arts Webinar
(Wednesday 7th April, 11am) Building on the extraordinary success of the initial Resurgence 25X event in association with Waterford Chamber of Commerce earlier this year, ATPO and Theatre Royal Waterford will present a webinar dedicated to a vibrant recovery for the arts from COVID-19 on 7th April. Resurgence 25X for...
John Bermingham: All That Can Be
John Bermingham: All That Can Be
Jordan Norris When John Bermingham left his job in HR in 2014, little did he know that six years later – he would have achieved some of the things he has. A renowned photographer, digital visual artist and video maker, there is little that Bermingham cannot turn his hand to – in fact, some might even...
Clodagh Bowyer co-produces award-winning film
Clodagh Bowyer co-produces award-winning film
Liam Murphy Niall McKay’s short film, The Ferry, premiered last July at the Galway Film Fleadh, and went on to compete in other world festivals, and made it to the longlist of short films competing for the Academy Awards. The ferry sequences were filmed on the Passage East Car Ferry and location work was...
The Full Monty
The Full Monty
The David Hennessy Musical & Dramatic Society presented The Full Monty, The Stage Musical at the Theatre Royal to noisy and appreciative applause. It is a difficult show for actor/performers requiring almost total nudity, slick timing and chutzpah. The six ‘strippers’ rose to the occasion, encouraged...
The Isolation Organisation Challenge!
The Isolation Organisation Challenge!
https://www.glitterball.ie/ The world has become a very different place since my last article, who’d have thought I’d be writing this, and you’d be reading this in isolation? Like the song says “It’s a mad world”! Nevertheless, life goes on and there are always positives to be taken from a bad situation. In this case...
