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Kilkenny Arts Festival 10 - 20 August 2023
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Programme

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  • Live Performance
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  • Music
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Timisien

Timisien

  • Fri 11 – Sat 19 August
  • Kilkenny Castle Parklands
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The Local

The Local

Asylum & Kilkenny Arts Festival in association with Once Off Productions & Watergate Theatre
  • Thurs 10 - Sat 12 & Mon 14- Sat 19 August
  • Sheridan's, Ennisnag, Co. Kilkenny R95 YT93
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The Local

The Local Bus

  • Thurs 10 - Sat 12 & Mon 14- Sat 19 August
  • The Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde Street, Kilkenny
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Deirdre Frost

Deirdre Frost

Big Crush
  • Fri 11 - Sun 20 August
  • Festival Gallery, St Kieran's College, via New Street
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Colm MacAthlaoich. Sprinting woman, right to left. Acrylic, oil on canvas (Detail)

The Art of Sport

Curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery Director
  • 12 August — 8 October 2023
  • Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home
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KAF50 Ex Web

KAF50 Exhibition

Echoes of a Festival: Celebrating 50 Years of Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 11 — 20 August 2023
  • The Ormonde Cleaners, High Street
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Unfold

Exhibition by Craig Carry celebrating 25 years of Crash
  • 11 — 20 August 2023
  • The Ormonde Cleaners, High Street
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Returning to Earth Deirdre O Mahony

Returning to the Earth / Ag Filleadh ar an Talamh

Curated by Shannon Carroll as part of Kilkenny Arts Office Emerging Curator Development Programme
  • 11 August 2023
  • Rothe House
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ICO Phil Selway

Philip Selway

with Irish Chamber Orchestra
  • 11 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Taken for a ride

Taken for a Ride

Radical Acts and the Banshees
  • 10 — 11 August 2023
  • Starting point: Bus stop opposite Kieran’s College, College Road, Kilkenny
Sold Out
Liz Nugent and una Mannion

Liz Nugent & Úna Mannion

In conversation
  • 11 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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John Scott's Migration Sonata

Migration Sonata

Irish Modern Dance Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 11 — 12 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Donal Dineens Backstory

Dónal Dineen

Dónal Dineen's Backstory
  • 11 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Camerata

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme I; Bach, Purcell & Clérambault
  • 11 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Light Up the Castle

Light Up the Castle: In Good Hands

  • 10 — 13 August 2023
  • Kilkenny Castle
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