Justine Dwyer Rumours are rife this week that Waterford is gearing up for a royal visit from the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall on March 24th- despite no confirmation being forthcoming from the British Embassy or Waterford City & County Council. However, several local councillors confirmed that they had...
Events
BVOF/RIAM Next Generation Awards
BVOF/RIAM Next Generation Awards
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and the Royal Irish Academy of Music have announced a transformative new music prize to support the studies of two Masters students every year at Ireland’s National Music Conservatoire. The largest bursary of its kind in Ireland, the BVOF/RIAM Next Generation Awards will select...
Opera hits new high notes for 2022- Free open-air recitals and programmes for schools
Opera hits new high notes for 2022- Free open-air recitals and programmes for schools
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival – Ireland’s Summer Opera Festival – returns for 2022 with Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice -conducted by Peter Whelan and directed by David Bolger, from 31 May – 6 June in Lismore, Co. Waterford. This year’s opera production will feature new artistic collaborations with the acclaimed Irish...
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing (February 7th to 12th)
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing (February 7th to 12th)
The countdown is on to this year’s Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing which opens on Monday next in Waterford and online and continues until Saturday, February 12th. Well features an inspirational line-up of fun, free, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages. Early highlighs include Doodling for Wellbeing...
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations set to return to Waterford
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations set to return to Waterford
Following a two year hiatus Waterford City and County Council is delighted to announce that March 2022 will see the return of the much loved and dearly missed St. Patrick’s Day Parade. While official celebrations were postponed due to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, the most anticipated event on the national calendar is...
WELL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND WELLBEING 2022
WELL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND WELLBEING 2022
Fancy a lift?, Doodling for Wellbeing and Small Acts, Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2022 programme has been launched with the Festival running ffrom Monday, February 7th to Saturday, February 12th. Well features an inspirational line-up of fun, free, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages. In this,...
Art Exhibition at GOMA – BREAKING BORDERS
Art Exhibition at GOMA – BREAKING BORDERS
Liam Murphy GOMA (The Gallery Of Modern Art) Lombard St, is first into new exhibition mode with a 2021 Emerging Curator Awardee show. In partnership with the Theatre Royal and funded by Waterford City and County Council and The Arts Council, Valeria Ceregini was the successful applicant. Her selection for this...
ELPIS Retrospecitve exhibition of work by Ben Hennessy
ELPIS Retrospecitve exhibition of work by Ben Hennessy
(Exhibition Art Trail opening November 25th) ELPIS –The Exhibition will celebrate Ben Hennessy’s achievements in painting and give an overview of the artist’s work to date. It will trace his development from his prodigious appearance on the public stage with his first solo exhibition while still a student in 1981,...
Winterval returns to Waterford City
Winterval returns to Waterford City
Winterval, Ireland’s largest Christmas festival, has returned to Waterford and runs over 19 magical days across five weeks with its most festive nineteen-day programme of events for all ages. Brought to you by Waterford City and County Council, this winter’s festival integrates the old and the new, with festival...
All Together Now line-up revealed
All Together Now line-up revealed
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Sinead O’Connor are among the headline acts in the freshly announced line-up for next summer’s All Together Now festival. After two years of cancellations, the event is scheduled to take place at Curraghmore Estate in Portlaw from 29-31 July, 2022. It will be the third staging of the...
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...
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...
