Programme

Timisien

• Fri 11 – Sat 19 August
• Kilkenny Castle Parklands

Ben Judah

• 20 August 2023
• St Canice's Cathedral

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman

• 20 August 2023
• Set Theatre

Martin Hayes & Friends

FESTIVAL FINALE

• 19 August 2023
• St Canice’s Cathedral

Manchán Magan & Other World

Slí na Samhlaíochta

• 19 — 20 August 2023
• Watergate Theatre

Broken Chanter

• 19 August 2023
• Cleere's Theatre

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

The Local Bus

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

Bench Tales

Barnstorm Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival

• Mon 14 - Sat 19 August
• Meeting point is the Duck Pond in Kilkenny Castle Parklands

Poetry Masterclass

Kwame Dawes leads a masterclass for poets

• 19 August 2023

Poetry Ireland Review Launch

• 19 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Deirdre Frost

Big Crush

• Fri 11 - Sun 20 August
• Festival Gallery, St Kieran's College, via New Street

The Art of Sport

Curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery Director

• 12 August — 8 October 2023
• Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home

KAF50 Exhibition

Echoes of a Festival: Celebrating 50 Years of Kilkenny Arts Festival

• 11 — 20 August 2023
• The Ormonde Cleaners, High Street

Unfold

Exhibition by Craig Carry celebrating 25 years of Crash

• 11 — 20 August 2023
• The Ormonde Cleaners, High Street

Where We Bury the Bones: a round-table discussion

Dumbworld

• 19 August 2023
• Parade Tower

The Dance of Life

A KCAT Trio exhibition by Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne & Sinéad Fahey

• 3 — 25 August 2023
• KCAT Arts Centre, Mill Lane, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, R95 XN35

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

Made in Kilkenny/Made Local:

A celebration of excellence in craft

• 12 August — 28 October 2023
• National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny

Philip Selway

with Irish Chamber Orchestra

• 11 August 2023
• St Canice's Cathedral

Oumou Sangaré

• 10 August 2023
• St Canice’s Cathedral

Taken for a Ride

Radical Acts and the Banshees

• 10 — 11 August 2023
• Starting point: Bus stop opposite Kieran’s College, College Road, Kilkenny

Liz Nugent & Úna Mannion

In conversation

• 11 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Migration Sonata

Irish Modern Dance Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival

• 11 — 12 August 2023
• Watergate Theatre

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize 2023

• 13 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Carducci String Quartet

Programme 1: Haydn & Beethoven

• 13 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Cormac Begley & Friends

• 12 August 2023
• St Canice's Cathedral

Dónal Dineen

Dónal Dineen's Backstory

• 11 August 2023
• Set Theatre

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme II; Bach, Purcell, Couperin & Franz Biber

• 12 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme I; Bach, Purcell & Clérambault

• 11 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Deirdre Frost

In conversation with Cristín Leach

• 12 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Iarla Ó Lionáird, Cormac McCarthy & Matthew Berrill

• 13 August 2023
• Set Theatre

Martin Hayes & Kate Ellis

• 14 August 2023
• Watergate Theatre

Barry Douglas

Schubert & Liszt

• 14 August 2023
• St Canice's Cathedral

Carducci String Quartet

Programme II; Mendelssohn & Haydn

• 14 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Heaney Translations: The Testament of Cresseid

Vona Groarke with Olivia O’Leary

• 14 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Fergus Cronin with Kevin Doherty

Night Music

• 13 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Chamber Choir Ireland

In Paradisum; Pärt, Clarke & Shaw

• 15 August 2023
• St Canice’s Cathedral

Katie Kim & Elaine Howley

• 15 August 2023
• Set Theatre

Dave Holland

Wicked Little Atoms in the Fragments of the Long Waves

• 14 — 15 August 2023
• Cleere's Theatre

Lixsania Fernández

• 15 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Heaney Translations: Beowulf

Mary Clayton with Olivia O’Leary

• 16 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Carducci String Quartet

Programme III; Clarke, Shaw & Dvořák

• 15 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Carducci String Quartet

Programme IV; Glass, Ravel & Piazzolla

• 16 August 2023
• St John's Priory

Crash Ensemble with Diamanda La Berge Dramm & Sam Amidon

• 16 August 2023
• Watergate Theatre

Sweeney

RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Iarla Ó Lionáird & Ciarán Hinds

• 16 August 2023
• St Canice’s Cathedral

Ichiko Aoba

with Crash Ensemble

• 17 August 2023
• Set Theatre

Encounters

• 15 — 17 August 2023

Josienne Clarke

• 17 August 2023
• Cleere's Theatre

Aoife Ní Bhriain & Colin Dunne: Open Rehearsals

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

Crash Ensemble with Andrew Hamilton

Friendly Piece

• 18 August 2023
• The Watergate Theatre

Malcolm Proud & Darren Cornish-Moore

Dowland, Sweelinck, Jeep, Bull, Byrd, Pierluigi da Palestrina & Farnaby

• 19 August 2023
• St Canice’s Cathedral

Irish Chamber Orchestra

with Thomas Zehetmair

• 18 August 2023
• St Canice's Cathedral

Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet Launch

• 18 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Ta Tum Tum!

• 18 August 2023
• Barnstorm Studio at the Home Rule Club

Benched

Created and performed by Tink Flaherty

• 18 August 2023
• Cleere's Theatre

Brìghde Chaimbeul

• 18 August 2023
• Tudor Kitchen, Rothe House

Heaney Translations: The Midnight Verdict

Peter Fallon with Olivia O’Leary

• 18 August 2023
• Parade Tower

Kwame Dawes in conversation with Olivia O'Leary

Poet in Residence

• 18 August 2023
• Parade Tower

The Art of Sport - Artist Panel Discussion

With Colm Mac Athlaoich, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Mandy O’Neill

• 15 August 2023
• Parade Tower