6th August

Strand 2 Craft: Grennan Mill Craft School Exhibition
My first festival

Strand 2 Craft: Grennan Mill Craft School Exhibition

Sat 7th Aug - Sun 15th Aug

Grennan Mill Craft School presents an exciting range of work from six artists.

Free

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Antti Siirala
My first festival

Antti Siirala

One of the outstanding pianists of his generation, Antti Siirala presents a breathtaking programme climaxing with Chopin’s Ballades, some of the most challenging pieces in the piano repertoire.

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The Magic Cube

The Magic Cube

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 8th Aug
The Watergate Theatre

Two clowns discover a strange world made only of cubes in this wonderful clowning performance featuring horses, motorbikes, trains, castles, battles, love, laughs and even some tears.

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Ale Möller Band
My surprising festival

Ale Möller Band

Fri 6th Aug
Set Theatre

Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller brings his cosmopolitan band to the Set Theatre for a potent mix of folk songs from all over the world, infused with drama and played with passion.

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Where did it all go right?
My first festival

Where did it all go right?

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 8th Aug
The Left Bank

ponydance, Belfast’s champions of comedy dance theatre, serve up an outrageous confection of moves and movement to a soundtrack of garish music and nervous tension. You’ll laugh and cringe!

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The Smile Off Your Face
My surprising festival

The Smile Off Your Face

Fri 6th Aug - Tue 10th Aug
Rothe House

The Smile Off Your Face offers a totally unique experience, for one person at a time. Everything happens only in your head, and yet it doesn’t…

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Victor and Gord
My first festival

Victor and Gord

Fri 6th Aug - Tue 10th Aug
Cleere’s

You know those friends you grew up with? Went to school with? Laughed, cried, partied and pulled with? D’you ever wonder, sometimes, if they’d ever just f**k off?

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Joseph O’Connor & Philip King
My first festival

Joseph O’Connor & Philip King

Musician and broadcaster Philip King and author Joseph O’Connor explore balladry and fiction in a delightful evening filled with stories and song.

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Visual Art Strand 2: KCAT Thirteen
My first festival

Visual Art Strand 2: KCAT Thirteen

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 29th Aug

A vibrant exhibition featuring work by thirteen local artists.

Free

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Visual Art Strand 2: Maria Van Kesteren
My first festival

Visual Art Strand 2: Maria Van Kesteren

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug

An exhibition of new work by the artist who introduced woodturning to Ireland.

Free

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Visual Art Strand 2: Gerard Casey, Eamon Colman, Patrick Pye
My first festival

Visual Art Strand 2: Gerard Casey, Eamon Colman, Patrick Pye

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug

Featuring graphic work and paintings by three of Ireland's foremost artists.

Free

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Visual Art Strand 2: Guerrilla Girls
My alternative festival

Visual Art Strand 2: Guerrilla Girls

Fri 6th Aug - Fri 24th Sep
Kilkenny County Council Arts Office

New works by internationally-renowned feminist arts group the Guerrilla Girls.

Free

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Willie Doherty
My first festival

Willie Doherty

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
Rothe House

Twice Turner Prize nominee Willie Doherty's photography and video work draws on his native city of Derry to explore themes of individual and collective subjectivity, memory and responsibility.

Free

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William McKeown
My first festival

William McKeown

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
11 Patrick Street

"The paintings that I will be showing at Kilkenny have developed out of the theme of immersion that has preoccupied me for many years."

Free

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Eithne Jordan
My first festival

Eithne Jordan

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
11 Patrick Street

Eithne Jordan, one of Ireland’s leading figurative painters, explores the hidden and forgotten spaces of Europe's great cities.

Free

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Declan Clarke
My first festival

Declan Clarke

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
Rothe House

Declan Clarke's Cologne Overnight considers the development of 20th century Western ideals through the ruins left in their wake.

Free

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Michael Coleman
My first festival

Michael Coleman

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
11 Patrick Street

"Around the Park is a series of twelve watercolours based on my time as an artist-in-residence in the Phoenix Park, Dublin."

Free

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Stephen Loughman
My first festival

Stephen Loughman

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
11 Patrick Street

Stephen Loughman's series The Fisherman’s Widow investigates the notion of an artwork as witness to a crime.

Free

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Ciarán Walsh
My first festival

Ciarán Walsh

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
Rothe House

Ciarán Walsh’s recent work investigates the legacy of maligned psychotherapist and scientist Wilhelm Reich.

Free

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Eoghan McTigue
My first festival

Eoghan McTigue

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
Kitchen Corridor - Kilkenny Castle

The photographs in Eoghan McTigue's series Aerial Plane have a strange, otherworldly feel, like dark, monochromatic paintings.

Free

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Dennis McNulty
My first festival

Dennis McNulty

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
Ormonde St. Car Park (Top Floor)

Dennis McNulty creates ‘situations’, space-specific sound performances or site-related installations, which he characterises as points of intersection between flows of various kinds – time, site, sound, narrative and audience.

Free

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Fergus Martin
My first festival

Fergus Martin

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
11 Patrick Street

"In my painting and sculpture, I try to find a shape that gives a feeling of ‘holding’ as much as possible. I often think of tanks filling up with water, of rivers rising to the brim."

Free

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Susan Phillipsz
My first festival

Susan Phillipsz

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug
Kilkenny Castle Park

Turner Prize nominee Susan Philipsz's sound installation in Kilkenny Castle Park pays tribute to Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce and a passionate (but now forgotten) dancer.

Free

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surface & reality
My first festival

surface & reality

Fri 6th Aug - Sun 15th Aug

An exhibition of eleven contemporary artists in five locations through the city, including work by Turner Prize nominees Willie Doherty (nominated 1994/2003) and Susan Philipsz (nominated 2010).

Free

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