by Rose Rushe
Marching home
A FAVOURITE son of Limerick returns to these pastures on Friday October 25. Johnny Duhan comes marching home, invigorated by winning his legal battle against a solicitor’s firm. Duhan tells Arts page that his Lime Tree concert will “be a solo show based on my hymn to Limerick, ‘Just Another Town’, which is a song cycle of 17 songs and stories based on my hometown upbringing.”
Book ahead on www.limetreetheatre.ie
Exciting week at Hunt
THE Hunt continues to impress as an all weather venue for the community, and there’s no age barrier to the fun.
Throughout Heritage Week, The Hunt Museum will host a series of public lunchtime lectures exploring diverse aspects of national and local heritage including archaeology, architecture, wildlife, historic collections, music and historic landscapes.
Heritage Week from Monday 19 next to Saturday 24 at 1pm. Free in, as with so much at this venue.
Take note, too, of guided tours this Saturday 17 and Saturday 24 at 2pm with the focus being a history of Ireland in 10 representative objects in the Hunt Collection. A donation of €3 would be welcome but a workshop titled ‘800 Years of Fashion’ on Saturday 24, 2pm, is free. Learn about clothes from the past and the societies that wore them. There’s even a dress up opportunity as either Elizabethan nobility or medieval serfs.
‘800 Years of Fashion’ will run parallel with an interactive performance staged by Iryshe Tudor Companye for which characters costumed from different eras engage our attention. From 2pm to 4pm and again, it costs nowt to step back in time.
Askeaton arts call
ASKEATON Contemporary Arts has made an open call to identify an artist to work with during the scheme’s 2014 programme. The selected one will live in Askeaton throughout March and produce an artwork during that time.
According to curator Michele Horrigan: “Close support from the ACA staff and the local community will be given, along with an artist fee and a materials budget that can be specifically tailored around your proposal. All transport, accommodation and sustenance costs will be catered for.”
A site visit for artists to Askeaton is scheduled for September 7 at noon for two hours. Registration is required before September 5 by e-mail to askeatonarts@yahoo.ie; applications in by September 30.
