(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...
Events
International Women’s Day Festival
International Women’s Day Festival
Waterford Women’s Centre, celebrating 25 years, since 1995, working with women and children in Waterford, presents the annual International Women’s Day Festival 2020. Tomorrow (Wednesday) a Civic Trust Blue Plaque will be unveiled to the Daly Family at 11am in Arundel Lane where Mai, Debbie and their mother, Margaret...
Waterford Women’s Centre presents International Women’s Day Festival
Waterford Women’s Centre presents International Women’s Day Festival
Waterford Women’s Centre, celebrating 25 years, since 1995, working with women and children in Waterford, presents the annual International Women’s Day Festival 2020. The festival hosts a number of free events beginning with an International Circle Dance workshop, led by Kate Crotty and festival launch on...
Midnight Run at Coastguard Cultural Centre, Tramore
Midnight Run at Coastguard Cultural Centre, Tramore
(Friday January 24th) Originating in the Gateway of the Great Smoky Mountains, Midnight Run began its journey in February of 2015, at the Ole Smoky Moonshine Distillery in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where they became a permanent staple of everyday life at the distillery. Midnight Run is a high-energy, Tennessee-based...
Blackwater Babble
Blackwater Babble
A good old session at Garter Lane If there’s one thing the people of Ireland know, it’s a good late-night session. Whether it be a lock-in, or they type of impromptu gathering of old friends and family that only a wedding or a funeral can ignite, the session is the seed that grew Blackwater Babble, the first big...
South Kilkenny woman turning Vancouver green
South Kilkenny woman turning Vancouver green
Eoghan Dalton Reports Slieverue woman Áine Coady has carved out a niche for herself in Canada. As director of the Vancouver Irish Film Festival, she is responsible for bringing the best of Irish cinema to the city, which has become a destination for Irish emigrants in recent years. “The Irish are known as a nation of...
QWEEN ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
QWEEN ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
(Project, Friday December 20th) There has been a resurgence of love Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock frontmen of all time, and his band Queen due in no small part to the brilliant movie ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ which won four Oscars. All the big hits featured in the movie as they do in the setlist of Qween,...
Justice in Iran
Justice in Iran
Waterford Adventurer Michael Whelan presents another fascinating instalment from his travels On Tuesday November 5, Central Arts welcomes Waterford adventurer and mountaineer Michael Whelan back to its stage, as he gives what promises to be another captivating chronicle from his travels to some of the world’s...
Return of the Lit Festival
Return of the Lit Festival
Local young readers and creative writers rejoice, we are less than two weeks away from the third annual ‘Lit Young Writers Festival’ (A Reading and Writing Festival for young people that’s run by young people) which is back with a bang this Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th of November, with two fun filled days...
CATS at Theatre Royal
CATS at Theatre Royal
Southeastern Theatre Group Waterford make a welcome return to Waterford’s Theatre Royal stage for five nights only from Tuesday 29th October to Saturday 2nd November at 7.30pm nightly with their production of the sensational Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical “CATS”.Southeastern Theatre Group are the award winning and...
Imagine Arts Festival October 18th – 28th.
Imagine Arts Festival October 18th – 28th.
A variety of over 80 events are on offer for the 18th annual Arts Festival which takes place this October from 18th to 28th.55 per cent of the programmed events are on offer free of charge. Three of Waterford’s finest festivals are rolled into one under the umbrella of the Imagine Arts Festival, including the...
A Haunting Experience
A Haunting Experience
Loud screams in the dead of night, terrifying apparitions spotted on the cobbled streets and the sound of laughter? – Returning this October is Waterford Youth Arts and the Imagine Festival’s most spooky event – Horrible Historical Trails. Running from Wednesday the 23rd to Saturday the 26th of October...
