Six days of 6th dance festival
THE 6th annual Gravity and Grace dance festival opens on Tuesday November 17 with the Limerick premiere of Michael Kliën’s landmark dance performance Standing in Ink. Taking place over two nights at 8pm in Daghdha Space, John’s Square, dancers Mark Carberry and Laura Dannequin perform “this radically fresh, mindful and physical duet” by Klein, artistic director of Daghdha Dance Company, host to this six day festival.
Thursday 19 sees God’s Dancehall, created in collaboration with the Garvey Centre for adults with special needs. This is a carefully choreographed evening, exhibiting characteristics of a club-night, a happening and a performance, “ place to socialise, get inspired and jive!”
That Friday 20, sees the welcomed return of Mamuska Limerick at 8pm, predicated on the theme of Senses. This provide the opportunity for evolving works, raw ideas, minimalist perfections, trials and errors, short masterpieces and first steps in an open and accessible platform.
Nothing Fields is the work scheduled for Saturday 21 and Sunday 22, the Gravity and Grace weekend culminating in solos with this dance installation, 7.30pm to 10pm.
Daghdha suggests we anticipate “an elegant and intimate ongoing dance-installation where the audience is welcome to sit, observe, walk or converse, while drinking complimentary tea and coffee”.
December 18 for Handel’s Messiah
“THERE will be many performances of Messiah this year, but only one that combines Ireland’s most dynamic orchestra with the country’s finest professional choir and a world-class line-up of soloists, making this the one not to miss”.
So says Charlotte Eglinton, PRO for Irish Chamber Orchestra, in the run up to the Handel’s Messiah production by the ICO, taking place in UCH on Friday December 18.
The conductor will be Briton Jonathan Cohen and the impressive choice of singers includes Sinead Campbell (soprano), Martha Bredin (mezzo), Eamonn Mulhall (tenor) and Limerick’s Owen Gilhooly (bass). Book at box office in Plassey.
Pocketing original art for €50
PICK yourself up a pocket sized original art work from the gallery at The Hunt Museum, Limerick. Hunt the Postcard is a fundraiser organised by Friends of The Hunt Museum for Saturday November 28 and Sunday 29, which will see the venue lined with hundreds of postcard-sized works of art donated by artists from Ireland and other countries.
Prospecting collectors may buy tickets in the museum for €50 which will then be exchanged in the gallery for the postcard of their choice, by an artist unknown to them at the point of purchase. Each work of art is signed on the back, so that the identity of the artist will be revealed only when the purchase is completed.
You can buy up to four tickets to bring yourself close to works by John Shinnors, Pauline Bewick, Donald Teskey, Thomas Ryan, Michael Finnin, Fergal Flanagan, Michael Gemmell, Liam Belton, John Behan, Imogen Stuart, James English, Neil Shawcross, Tom Greaney, Charles Harper, Martyn Turner and Kenneth King.
Sale runs Saturday 28, 10am to 5pm and Sunday 29, 2pm to 5pm at this Rutland Street institution.
New words for Revival
REVIVAL the poetry journal of the WhiteHousePoets, is calling for submissions from local, national and international poets for the next issue. This will be published in Limerick, January 2010 and the deadline for submissions is: Issue 14 is November 30.
Post to The Editor, Revival, Moravia, Glenmore Ave., Roxboro Road, Limerick and you can email mail: revival1@eircom.net
For submission guidelines you can refer to http://revivalpoetrybook.blogspot.com/2006/07/revival-journal-of-contemporary-poetry.html
