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Kilkenny Arts Festival 04 - 14 August 2022
  • Programme 2022
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Programme 2022

  • Free
  • Live Performance
  • Installation
  • Exhibition
  • Lunchtime series
  • Ticket bundle discount
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Opera
  • Spoken word
  • Visual Art
  • Literature
  • Craft
  • 3rd
  • 4th
  • 5th
  • 6th
  • 7th
  • 8th
  • 9th
  • 10th
  • 11th
  • 12th
  • 13th
  • 14th
  • Indoors
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Rothe

Secret Garden Music

  • 6 — 14 August 2022
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Doyle Stephen Portrait of a Family Exterior

Stephen Doyle

Self Identity: An Exploration
  • 6 — 14 August 2022
  • KAF Gallery, ST KIERAN’S COLLEGE, VIA NEW ST
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No Bones About it 2016 Pauline Cummins 6

MATRIARCH

  • 4 — 17 August 2022
  • Various venues
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Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle
  • 6 — 11 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
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Kevin Atherton with Signature Piece 2018 Landscape2

Kevin Atherton

in conversation with Sonia Shiel
  • 7 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
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Stephen

Stephen Doyle

in conversation with Anna O’Sullivan
  • 7 August 2022
  • Parade Tower
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Carducci String Quartet

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 2
  • 7 August 2022
  • St. John's Priory
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Irish Baroque Orchestra

Irish Baroque Orchestra and Tara Erraught

The Trials of Tenducci
  • 7 August 2022
  • St. Canice's Cathedral
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Ye Vagabonds

Marble City Sessions
  • 7 August 2022
  • Set Theatre
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Myles O' Reilly

Rollercoaster Sessions
  • 7 August 2022
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Loosysmokes In Rhythms 8114

Loosysmokes 'In Rhythms' Bus

from Kilkenny City to Callan (return)
  • 5 — 7 August 2022
  • From the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel to Callan (return)
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Handel's Semele

Handel: Semele

with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in partnership with Sestina
  • 4, 5 and 7 August
  • Watergate Theatre
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Gessen

Masha Gessen

The Hubert Butler Annual Lecture
  • 7 August 2022
  • St Canices Cathedral
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Loosy

Loosysmokes

In Rhythms
  • 5 - 7, 10 - 13 August 2022
  • The Warehouse, Callan, R95 D237
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