10th August
Family Workshops:
Castle Yard at Kilkenny Design
Reflecting the layered skirts and crinolines in the Behind the Scenes exhibition, sculptor Jean Conroy will construct a woven willow installation in the Castle Yard. All are welcome to drop in and weave part of the skirts.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company (UK)
Castle Yard at Kilkenny Design
After last year's sell-out run in the Castle Yard, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre return to Kilkenny with an uproarious production of As You Like It.
Connections
Butler House
MADE is a collective of 28 professional craftsmen and women working in textiles, millinery, ceramics, jewellery, candle-making, leatherwork, basketry, printmaking, glass and stone carving.
Connections
Blackstack Studio
Seven Blackstack Studio artists explore the idea of the 'link'.
Connections
The Friary
A show of existing work and commissioned new work by two Kilkenny-based painters whose practices find synthesis in the pace and character of the local landscape.
Costume: Future Fashion
National Craft Gallery
Focusing on innovators of fashion and sculpture for the body, Future Fashion explores the work of fashion, jewellery and shoe designers who are embracing – and transforming – craft skills and techniques through innovative design thinking, sculptural aesthetic, and cutting-edge technology and materials.
Costume: Behind the Scenes
National Craft Gallery
Turning the traditional idea of a costume exhibition inside out, Behind the Scenes focuses on the undergarment, demonstrating that these complex, functional pieces are beautiful objects in their own right.
Connections
The Watergarden, Ladywell Street, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Earthworks presents a series of drawings based on the observation and interpretation of the rural landscape.
Sir Edwin Longbottom (Ireland)
The Parade
Sir Edwin Longbottom would be delighted to present to you his world-renowned football juggling act!
Make a Movie in 3 Hours!
Want to make it to the Oscars? As part of their 21st anniversary celebrations, Young Irish Film-Makers are calling all budding film-makers (aged 13-16) to join them at their studios for a film workshop with a difference.
Hakuna Matata (Ireland)
Rose Garden, Kilkenny Castle
This acrobatic duo performs mind-boggling manoeuvers and unbelievable acrobatics with huge infectious smiles.
James Shapiro & Fintan O’Toole:
The Parade Tower
In this special event to celebrate the staging of The Taming of the Shrew, leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro joins Fintan O’Toole to explore the surprising ways in which Ireland works its way into Shakespeare’s imagination.
The Hubert Butler Lecture: AC Grayling
St Canice’s Cathedral
This year's Hubert Butler Lecture brings one of the UK's leading public intellectuals to Kilkenny to explore the ways in which great literature can enrich all our lives.
Family Workshops:
National Craft Gallery
Design and craft imaginative costume pieces and bodywear using simple pinning techniques inspired by Úna Burke’s scuptural leather work. This playful workshop explores form and structure through mixed-media experimentation.
Crash Ensemble Kilkenny Arts Festival Residency 2013:
The Heritage Council
Curated by Kate Ellis, co-artistic director of Crash Ensemble, Soundsworks is a bespoke installation presented as part of Crash's residency.
Architects of Air (UK)
Kilkenny Castle Park
Architects of Air are bringing one of their most magical creations to the Castle Park. If you’ve never been inside a luminarium, now’s your chance!
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
Butler Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith shows a number of works that explore the importance of culture and art in society, from a letter to Michael Gove (British Minister for Education), to pieces that pay tribute to women artists.
Phisqa (Ireland)
Cleere’s Pub
This young quintet's blend of jazz and Peruvian rhythms has made them one of the most exciting new jazz ensembles in Ireland.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
The Heritage Council
Smith invites you to explore Arendt’s work and life through her own and others’ writings, as well as costumes, wigs and props!
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band (UK)
Set Theatre
The multi-talented poet, novelist and musician brings his wildly infectious grooves to the Set in the company of the Spasm Band.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
The Heritage Council
Join Bob and Roberta Smith and curator Josephine Kelliher for a Kilkenny walkabout, taking in some of the artistic sights of the city.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
Rothe House
Smith reinvents Rothe House as a space for meeting and discussion, provoking and encouraging visitors literally to get on his Soap Box and start a debate.
Costume
National Craft Gallery
Curator Angela O'Kelly explores the world of Costume with Niamh Lunny, head of costume at the Abbey Theatre, and artists Úna Burke, Ana Rajcevic and Andreia Chaves.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
Bateman Quay
Vivid banners displayed in the heart of the city pose a series of thought-provoking questions.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
The Heritage Council
Bob sets up a temporary art school, complete with easels, drawing boards, desks and art materials.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
County Hall
Bonfire is a collection of precious artworks, stacked in a seemingly haphazard manner, celebrating creation and destruction in one towering, fiery pyre.
Banter on Music
Set Theatre
In the first of our three Banter panels, Jim Carroll's guests explore everything from the Seattle grunge scene to the story of 'My Lovely Horse'.
junk ensemble (Ireland)
The Watergate Theatre
Commissioned by Kilkenny Arts Festival - World Premiere Dusk Ahead
Multi-award-winning collective junk ensemble celebrate the festival’s 40th birthday with the world premiere of a specially-commissioned piece, co-produced by Kilkenny Arts Festival and Project Arts Centre.
