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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
Contact the Box Office to be added to the waiting list
The Local

The Local Bus

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

Bench Tales

Barnstorm Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • Mon 14 - Sat 19 August
  • Meeting point is the Duck Pond in Kilkenny Castle Parklands
Contact the Box Office to be added to the waiting list
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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Secret garden

Secret Garden Music

  • 12 — 20 August 2023
  • Various Venues
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DCCI gallery

Made in Kilkenny/Made Local:

A celebration of excellence in craft
  • 12 August — 28 October 2023
  • National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: Beowulf

Mary Clayton with Olivia O’Leary
  • 16 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme IV; Glass, Ravel & Piazzolla
  • 16 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Crash Ensemble Diamanda and Sam Amidon

Crash Ensemble with Diamanda La Berge Dramm & Sam Amidon

  • 16 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Sweeney

Sweeney

RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Iarla Ó Lionáird & Ciarán Hinds
  • 16 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Aoife Ni Bhriain And Colin Dunne

Aoife Ní Bhriain & Colin Dunne: Open Rehearsals

  • 16 — 17 August 2023
  • Barnstorm Studio at The Home Rule Club
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