Nenagh Arts Centre programme jan mar 2014

PROGRAMME

www.nenagharts.comJANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH 2014

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BINGO Every Friday night at 8.30pm unless stated. See page 12 for details

JANUARYThursday 23 January, 8pm Film: RENOIRSaturday 25 January, 8.30pm Music: ANIMAL BEAtS | FUtURISM | ONE SIMPLE WORD

FEBRUARYThursday 6 February, 8pm Film: WE StEAL SECREtS: tHE StORY OF WIkILEAkSSaturday 8 February, 2.30 - 5.30pm Visual Art: PORtRAIt PAINtING DAYSunday 16 February, 8pm: Drama: tOM CREAN – ANtARCtIC ExPLORERThursday 20 February, 8pm Film: tHE SEARCHERSTue 25 - Fri 28 February Drama: NENAGH PLAYERS PRESENt: tHE OUtGOING tIDE

MARCHSaturday 1 March, 8pm Music: ELEANOR McEVOYSaturday 8 March, 9pm Music: SPOOk OF tHE tHIRtEENtH LOCkThursday 13 March, 8pm Film: BLACk ICEThursday 27 March, 8pm Film: BAttLESHIP POtEMkINSaturday 29 March, 9pm Music: MOSCOW MEtRO | BURN tHIS PROMISE

BOOkING INFORMAtIONIn Person Nenagh Arts Centre, Banba Square, Nenagh, Co. TipperaryOpening Hours Mon - Fri: 9am - 5pm; Sat: 12noon - 5pm & one hour before showstelephone Bookings 067 34400 Buy tickets Online www.nenagharts.com

tERMS & CONDItIONS FOR BOOkINGAll reserved tickets must be paid for at least two days in advance of the show. Tickets bought online will be subject to a 6% credit card charge and a 75 cent booking fee (this charge is set by the ticket provider). Cheques should be made payable to Nenagh Arts Centre. We regret tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded unless an event is cancelled by the venue. Latecomers will only be admitted at the discretion of the management.

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HEADSEtS AVAILABLE FOR HARD OF HEARING Please contact the Centre in advance of attendance on 067 34400.

WELCOME tO NENAGH ARtS CENtREWelcome to Nenagh Arts Centre’s Spring 2014 brochure. We’re back in January with the start of our new film programme which features our ongoing season of classic films such as The Searchers as well as films of more recent interest like the Wikileaks story We Steal Secrets and Renoir.

We’re putting a focus on contemporary music this season with shows by up and coming bands Animal Beats and Moscow Metro who will perform alongside local acts. We also have the wonderfully talented Eleanor McAvoy performing in early March.In the theatre, we have the new Nenagh Players show as well as the lauded Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer performed by Aidan Dooley.

Visual Arts is an area we have been slow to explore due to space considerations, however we are holding a portrait painting day in early February, so this will be an opportunity to get down your brushes and acrylics and prime your canvases for what should be an interesting days painting at the Centre.

We look forward to seeing you at Nenagh Arts Centre.

GEt UPDAtES ON tHE ARtS CENtREGet updates on events, shows, workshops and special offers by joining our email list. Simply email [email protected] and ask to be added to the list. Alternatively follow us on Facebook and Twitter or visit our webpage www.nenagharts.com to keep up to date.

SEE 5 MOVIES FOR C30Book in advance for our season of classic/modern films and see all five for C30! Featuring classics such as Battleship Potemkin and The Searchers and modern films such as Renoir. This offer features a short talk before each film on what makes these classics stand the test of time… Limited number of tickets available at this price.

NEW IRISH MUSIC PROGRAMMECheck the ‘new irish music’ logo and get 4 tickets for C30. That’s a discount of C2.50 per ticket. So get your friends together and come on down and be first to hear new music from across the country.

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Nenagh Film Club present

RENOIRDir: Gilles Bourdos | France | 2013 | 111 min

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric biopic Renoir tells the story of the ageing impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and his son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. The elder Renoir embarks on a late period of productivity in his painting life when a young girl arrives on his doorstep and becomes his model. Their beautiful home and majestic countryside grounds reverberate with familial intrigue, as both Renoirs, father and son, become smitten with the enchanting and headstrong young muse.

thursday 23 January, 8pmAdmission C= 8

ANIMAL BEAtS | FUtURISM | ONE SIMPLE WORD Up and coming indie band Animal Beats and local bands Futurism and One Simple Word will play an open format gig in the theatre.

Animal Beats are a Limerick/Dublin-based rock band with indie infusions. Active on the Irish scene, they have gained a reputation as a high-energy, high-entertainment and high-talent rock band showcasing original technique and musicality.

“Taking cues from the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Incubus and A Day To Remember, Futurism have a lot to offer such as beefy guitars, slick drum patterns and razor-sharp vocals” HOT PRESS

Newport’s One Simple Word are an up-and-coming Alt Rock/Post Punk act.

Saturday 25 January, 8.30pmAdmission C= 10 each or four for C= 30

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WE StEAL SECREtS, tHE StORY OF WIkILEAkSDir: Alex Gibney | USA | 2013 | 130 min

In 2006, an Iceland-based group launched the website WikiLeaks.org. Run by Australian Internet activist Julian Assange, the site regularly publishes top-secret documents and covert information, often regarding governments and their respective military operations. Wikileaks eventually went on to facilitate the largest and most damaging security breach in American history.

As leaked intelligence information continues to dominate headlines globally, this documentary offers a chance for us to catch up on the facts and personalities behind this unique 21st century phenomenon.

thursday 6 February, 8pmAdmission C= 8

Saturday 8 February, 2.30pm - 5.30pmAdmission C=25

PORtRAIt PAINtING DAYNenagh Arts Centre presents a day of portrait painting and drawing in the atmospheric surrounding of the theatre. The day will be split into two sessions of portrait painting, with tuition at hand from a professional artist.

This workshop is perfect for those familiar with figure painting and those who would like to try it for the first time.

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tHE SEARCHERSDir: John Ford | USA | 1956 | 119 min

A classic Western regarded by many as the best of the genre, John Ford’s The Searchers stars John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a case-hardened Civil War veteran returning to his brother’s Texas home in 1868. During an violent Indian raid on the house, two children are abducted. The posse continues to search for the girls but turns back as winter settles in. However, Ethan and his companion press on for another seven years, with the Indian-hating veteran becoming ever more fanatical as the hard seasons pass. In his epic meditation on racism, obsession, paranoia, and the myth of the West, Ford explores the ugly underside of a genre that he had imbued with optimism in his early career. Wayne gives perhaps his most powerful performance as the embittered Edwards, but it’s the visual poetry of what are possibly Ford’s most carefully framed, lit, and composed images that shape this masterwork from beginning to end.

Play On Words theatre present

tOM CREAN ANtARCtIC ExPLORER Tom Crean, the intrepid Antarctic explorer and one of Ireland’s unsung heroes, is brought to life in this dramatic and humorous solo performance by Aidan Dooley. Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as one of the few men to serve with both Scott and Shackleton and survive the three famous expeditions: Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 - 1916).This multi-award winning show has now played critically acclaimed sell-out performances throughout Ireland, USA, Australia, Europe and the UK.

“A remarkable and uplifting piece of theatre, gives everything and asks nothing.” Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

Sunday 16 February, 8pmAdmission C=20

thursday 20 February, 8pmAdmission C= 8

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Nenagh Players present

tHE OUtGOING tIDEIn a small cottage on the bank of Chesapeake Bay, Gunner has hatched an unorthodox plan to secure his family’s future but meets with resistance from his wife and son, who have plans of their own. As winter approaches, the three must quickly find common ground and come to an understanding-before the tide goes out.

This new drama hums with dark humour and powerful emotion.

tuesday 25 - Friday 28 February, 8.30pmBooking 089 4994661 or at DK Travel 2-5pm from Monday 17 February

Saturday 1 March, 8pmAdmission C= 18

ELEANOR McEVOYDescribed by Joe Duffy as ‘The Woman who gave her Heart to the Nation’ - Eleanor continues her GIRL IN A BLACK CAR TOUR to coincide with the release of her album If You Leave…

Her performances are intimate, emotional, uplifting affairs in which she explores soul, love and humour, using her own compositions and interpretations from other songbooks, with her unique voice and beautiful playing. Eleanor shot to fame when a label owner heard her play a self-penned song that would give the name to… A Woman’s Heart, Ireland’s best selling album. Signed to Geffen where her debut album went on to sell 250,000 copies. Precious Little was a Billboard hit and Sophie has become a worldwide comfort to millions of people with eating disorders.Her latest album Alone is a collection of her best-loved songs.

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BLACk ICEDir: Johnny Gogan | 2013 | 100 min

A story of youthful misadventure set against the backdrop of a lawless border terrain during the last gasps of the Irish boom – Black Ice charts the story of Alice as she delves into the rumbling world of local boy-racers.

Middle class Alice is seduced by the allure of Jimmy’s slick, black, Nissan Skyline. Racing, dicing, drifting together on the winding back roads, Alice and Jimmy dream of escaping their provincial neighbourhood. However, Jimmy doesn’t believe in playing it straight. He likes the taste of money and he likes to take short-cuts. Despite her brother Tom’s warnings, Jimmy’s criminal behaviour only makes Alice want him more, while the greed that has taken hold of the community is about to claim its price in young lives.

SPOOk OF tHE tHIRtEENtH LOCkNamed after a poem about a haunted canal lock, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock match Irish folk and traditional sounds with more modern experimental rock sounds. With the release of their new album The Brutal Here and Now they have refined their craft, creating melodic folk rock with a dark, modern feel. They veer away from their peers in tracing a line from the Irish 60’s folk revival through progressive, kraut and post rock.

Lyrically springing from English and Irish folk song, the compositions deal with complex themes of personal and national identity, alienation, Irish history and mythology, revolution and the cynical cyclical nature of greed and power. Live they are a powerful five-piece, overlaying intricate folk melodies with swirling squalls of feedback, delay and soaring three-part harmonies..

thursday 13 March, 8pmAdmission C= 8

Saturday 8 March, 9pmAdmission C= 10 each or four for C= 30

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BAttLESHIP POtEMkINDir: Sergei Eisenstein | Russia | 1924 | 66 min

The most famous of all Soviet-era films is Battleship Potemkin; a propaganda piece by Sergei Eisenstein commemorating a pivotal moment in Russian history when in 1905 sailors aboard the battleship Potemkin protested against the Czarist regime, which was keeping them in deprived conditions. This strike prompted local revolt in the port of Odessa and tangentially contributed to the collapse of Czarist rule in Russia.

Eisenstein used Battleship Potemkin to test montage editing techniques which we are now taken for granted in cinema, most notably in the famous closing scene, where Cossack soldiers march on civilians on the Odessa steps. Hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, Battleship Potemkin remains engaging and intense, 90 years onwards from its release.

thursday 27 March, 8pmAdmission C= 8

Saturday 29 March, 9pmAdmission C= 10 each or four for C= 30

MOSCOW MEtRO | BURN tHIS PROMISEDescribed as a band that will “go on to great things” (Goldenplec, 2012), four piece Moscow Metro have a unique style that melds sincerity and aggression in a dense melancholic core. In a time when the music industry is swamped with buzz word indie bands with banal globalised sounds, Moscow Metro instead offer a sound that is “heartfelt and mature beyond their years” (The Magic Bulletin, 2012) in the form of energetic yet skeletal social commentary focused on the city around them and its effect on their lives..

Nenagh’s Burn This Promise won the You Got It music talent competition in 2013.

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Bingo Nights

kELLY’S EYE, MAN ALIVE, LEGS ELEVEN…Eyes down for some bingo fun that that will support Nenagh Arts Centre and Nenagh Celtic Football Club in their work. Games 1 to 9 1 line C=15 | 2 line C=20 | Full House C=50 Game 10 1 line C=15 | 2 line C=20 | Full House C=80Jackpot & flyers sold separately Jackpot Games 1 line C=15 | 2 line C=20 | Full House C=200 Flyer Games 1 line C=15 | 2 line C=20 | Full house C=200Double Books C=9 | Single Book C=5 | Small Book C=4 Jackpot & flyers C=2 each

Fridays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 January, 8.30pm Fridays 7, 14, 21 February, 8.30pmFridays 7, 14, 21, 28 March, 8.30pm

FItNESSZumba: Dance Fitness Class Monday Lisa: 087 6227395Pilates Monday Geri Cantwell: 087 6491725Boxercise Tuesday Lisa: 087 6227395INtERESt Chess Club (NEW!) Date TBC [email protected] AND tEENAGERSkids Yoga Monday Siobhán O’Leary: 087 7549766Urban kicks (Hip Hop Dance) Wednesday [email protected] and toddler Group Wednesday Margaret Powell: 086 3788310CoderDojo Wednesday Twitter - @coderdojonenagh(Computer coding for kids) (Monthly)McLoone O’Meara Thursday and Nikki McLoone: 087 2486384Irish Dancing School Saturday Let’s Learn French (for kids) Friday Fanny Healy: 085 8199291krafts For kids Saturday Jenni Leo: 087 6042220kinder Music For toddlers Saturday Florence Starr: 087 6452103Play Youth theatre Saturday North Tipp Arts Office: 067 44860

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HIRING tHE BUILDINGIf you need a space big or small, for a meeting, class , workshop or a performance Nenagh Arts Centre has the space to suit you. Our theatre has the capacity to hold 216 people seated and with state-of-the-art sound and lighting facilities and additional technical support available, it makes sense to hire space at your local Arts Centre. Groups who have hired space here include; Nenagh Chamber of Commerce, Nenagh Players, Conradh na Gaeilge and the Convergence Festival. To find out more, contact us on 067 34400 or [email protected].

NENAGH ARtS CENtRE IS FUNDED BY

Nenagh Arts Centre is supported by the Department of Social Protection which is funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan, 2007-2013

This Project has been part-funded by North Tipperary LEADER Partnership under The Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 which is financed by the EU through the European Agriculture Fund for Rural

Development and by the National Exchequer through the National Development Plan

HOW tO FIND US NENAGH ARtS CENtRE | IONAD EALAíNE AN AONAIGHBanba Square, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.t 067 34400 E [email protected] W www.nenagharts.com

NENAGH ARtS CENtRE is located in the Old Town Hall in Banba Square across the road from Nenagh Courthouse.

Parking Parking is available on the street or at the Courthouse Car Park.Accessibility Wheelchair access to the Theatre is by a lift in the reception area. Patrons who have specific requirements should contact the box office in advance. Public transport You can get to Nenagh by Bus or Train. For timetables visit www.buseireann.ie, www.jjkavanagh.ie and www.irishrail.ie.

SUPPORt NENAGH ARtS CENtRE Your support will help us to bring more music, plays, discussions, childrens events and films to the Centre and will help us to provide a space where local groups and come to meet, develop and grow. Tax relief is available on donations.

SPONSOR A SEAt IN tHE tHEAtRE Put your, your family’s or your company’s name on a seat at Nenagh Arts Centre. Sponsors will be acknowledged on a display at the reception area.

SPONSOR AN EVENt Pick an event that you or your company would like to be linked to and we can arrange it! Sponsors will receive tickets for their event and an acknowledgement in the Nenagh Arts Centre brochure and all other publicity material.

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Nenagh Arts Centre programme jan mar 2014