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City of Men - Film
Paulo Morelli Brazil 2007 106 minutes Cert: 15A
Tuesday 13th January
Times: 8pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €25 per season for 9 films. (€6 per screening)
Language: Portuguese
Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) are turning 18-years- old, and have grown up together in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Acerola feels the pressure of being a husband and having a child too soon, trapped by his circumstances and wanting to escape. While Acerola tries to be a good father, Laranjinha is troubled that he never got to know his own dad, and sets about tracking the man down. |
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Come and Gone - Visual Arts Exhibition
A solo exhibition by Aileen Lambert
Wed 14th Jan - Sat 14th Feb
Times: 10am - 5pm
Venue: Gallery - Stockwell Street
Tickets: Free
Age Group: Free guided tours are available for pre-booked school and/or community groups.
Come and Gone is a solo show by Aileen Lambert featuring video, sound and performance work. Lambert's practice is concerned with the relationship which the body has with its environment, and often represents a claiming of space. Much of the work is concerned with a futile attempt to preserve something which is intangible, and uses the voice, breath and shadow as metaphors to explore archetypal notions of life and death, and the passing of time. |
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Traditional Music Workshops for Young Adults
Wed 14th Jan - Wed 11th Mar
Times: 10.30am-12.30pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €10
Age Group: 14+
These workshops are targeted at young adults who are involved in traditional music i.e. learning a traditional music instrument. The aim is to nurture and develop their skills and provide the opportunity to play within a session environment with highly skilled musicians. Teachers who feel this is something that would benefit students in their school, should contact Grainne Rafferty, Community Arts Officer for further information on 041 9833469.
This is a two hour workshop followed by a 40 minute lunchtime performance.
Dates:
Wednesday, January 14
Wednesday, February 18
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Louth Laughs with Neil Delamere - Comedy
Thursday 15th January
Times: 9pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: Adm: €22.50/€20
With a platinum-selling DVD, star of RTE's The Panel and BBC's The Blame Game, the unstoppable star of Irish comedy Neil Delamere, is one of the top headline acts on the international circuit. Neil featured in the series Liffey Laughs and RTE's stand-up show in 2005 and 2006 as well as The World Stands Up for Paramount.
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Mrs Henderson Presents - Silver Screen Film Club
Dir: Stephen Frears UK/USA 2005 102mins 15A
Tuesday 20th January
Times: 2pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: Free
Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Kelly Reilly & Christopher Guest.
Set in pre-World War II London, Mrs Henderson Presents tells the remarkable true life story of one of England’s most prominent and eccentric society figures, Lara Henderson (Judi Dench) who founded the historic Windmill Theatre. |
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Caramel - Film
Dir: Nadine Labaki Lebanon 2007 95 minutesCert:PG
Tuesday 20th January
Times: 8pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €25 per season for 9 films. (€6 per screening)
Starring: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel Language: Arabic / French
In her gorgeous and love-affirming feature debut – which was the sleeper hit of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival – Nadine Labaki finds gold in the hot goo used to strip body hair. Set in and around a Beirut beauty salon, Caramel stirs together the smooth and the crunchy of five women’s lives. There is a new kind of film coming from Lebanon, one that looks past war and politics to the eternal truths of love and passion. |
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Happy to Meet/Sorry to Part
with Len Graham (voice), Cormac Breatnach (whistles), Brian Fleming (percussion)
Thursday 22nd January
Times: 8.30pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €15/€12
Presented in conjunction with Music Network , this performance heads across the Irish Sea to explore the Scottish roots of traditional music, exploring the countlessaffinities between people and places, language, music, songs and lore. |
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Old Shoes and Broken Walls
A Short film and exhibition of work by Artist Frank Kelly
Fri 23rd Jan - Fri 27th Feb
Times: 10am-5pm
Venue: Small Gallery Stockwell Street
In old shoes we step through broken walls into the past and remember a once thriving industry where people made their lives, their friends, found love and then, with the sudden close of many of these factories, lost it all again. Now these factories stand derelict, crumbling before us. Before they are lost forever we should remember the part they played in our local history.
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Priceless - Film
Dir: Pierre Salvadori France 2006 104 minutes Cert: 12A
Saturday 24th January
Times: 8pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €25 per season for 9 films. (€6 per screening)
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gad ElmalehLanguage: EnglishA gold digger on the French Riviera unexpectedly meets her match in a mild-mannered bartender in Priceless. Director Pierre Salvadori serves up an enjoyable riff on genuine romance versus the pay-as-you-go variety. |
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Before the Devil Knows Your Dead - Film
Dir: Sidney Lumet USA 2007 117 minutes 16
Tuesday 27th January
Times: 8pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €25 per season for 9 films. (€6 per screening)
This dark comedy is inspired by interviews with a group of men struggling to break the cycle of petty crime and imprisonment. It’s a funny, touching, portrait of the human face of the underworld. |
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Love, Peace & Robbery - Theatre
presented by Meridian Theatre Company
Wednesday 28th January
Times: 8.30pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €15/€12
Age Group: 18+
This dark comedy is inspired by interviews with a group of men struggling to break the cycle of petty crime and imprisonment. It’s a funny, touching, portrait of the human face of the underworld. His characters may be ‘dangerous to know’ but they’re also shrewd, witty survivors of a lifetime of self-abuse, still trying to go straight - sort of. Warning shocking content and strong language. |
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No Crows - Music
Friday 30th January
Times: 9pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €15/€12
An eclectic gathering of musicians from different cultures and influences. Mallorcan guitarist Felip Carbonell with his flamenco/manouche style guitar provides the engine for the band's exciting and stylish music. The quartet's melodies arrive on the wings of the violin, mandolin and cello. Combining Felipe Carbonell, Steve Wickham, Eddie Lee and Anna Houston; No Crow's repertoire is truly global, for their music ranges from Portugal to Moldova, from Brittany to Russia, from Argentina to Athens and beyond. |
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My Brother is an Only Child - Film
Dir: Daniele Luchetti Italy 2007 108 minutesCert: 15A
Tuesday 3rd February
Times: 8pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €25 per season for 9 films. (€6 per screening)
Language: ItalianBased on Antonio Pennacchi's bestselling novel, Il Fasciocomunista and written is as lively, witty, funny and intelligent a meditation on Italy's Fascist inheritance as we're likely to get. |
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Hansel & Gretel - Theatre
by Lyngo Theatre Company in collaboration with The Egg, Theatre Royal, Bath.
Tue 3rd Feb - Wed 4th Feb
Times: 9.45am & 11.30am on both days
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €8
It’s easier to feed two mouths than four and the poor woodsman’s empty stomach goes to his head. He gives in to his bony wife and Hansel and Gretel have to be left in the forest, not just once but twice and the second time there won’t be any moonstones to follow back home. Instead they follow their noses to the sugary heart of darkness. Hansel and Gretel’s journey takes them from a house with empty cupboards and a mother who doesn’t like children to a house made of sweets and someone who just loves children – on toast. |
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Honor Heffernan - Music
Friday 6th February
Times: 9pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €18/€15
Honor Heffernan has been both critically and publicly acclaimed as a singer whose versatility and superior vocal ability means she is comfortable singing anything from Jazz and Blues to Rock and Folk, earning the reputation as Ireland’s leading jazz singer. Her trio, led by pianist Phil Ware with Damian Evans (bass) and Kevin Brady (drums), are highly energetic and musically exceptional. |
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Silver Wedding - Theatre
by Aisteoiri Na Boinne Theatre Group
Mon 9th Feb - Sat 14th Feb
Times: 8pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €10
Silver Wedding is a hilarious comedy set in Dublin in the 1960s. It tells the story of Josephine and Ned Foley, a working class couple who don’t expect the trials and tribulations that emerge during their Silver Jubilee celebrations. Do come along and join them for their celebrations! ! |
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Inherit the Wind - Film
Dir: Stanley Kramer USA 1960 128mins CLUB
Tuesday 17th February
Times: 2pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: Free
Inherit the Wind portrays, in partly fictionalized form, the famous and dramatic courtroom "Monkey Trial" battle (in the sultry summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee) between two famous lawyers (Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan) who volunteered to heatedly argue both sides of the case (over 12 days, including two weekends) |
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Lunchtime Traditional Music Performance
with Mick Dunne, Harry Bradley (Flute) & Emmett Gill (Uilleann Pipes)
Wednesday 18th February
Times: 1.10pm-2.50pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: Free
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Louth Laughs with Jason Byrne - Comedy
Thursday 19th February
Times: 9pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €22.50/€20
One of the most exciting comedy performers and hailed by both the national press and public alike, Jason Byrne is the ‘must see’ comedian for the new Millennium. Jason’s inspired, original brand of high-energy lunacy ensures that there is no other comedian presently like him. His fast, freewheeling style, fused with an array of offbeat props, makes his act a helter-skelter of a show – where the audience is promised the ride of their lives
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Luka Bloom - Music
supported by Eugene Donegan
Saturday 21st February
Times: 9pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €20/€18
Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Luka Bloom celebrates the release of his twelfth album ‘Eleven Songs’. Luka has enjoyed eighteen years of successful worldwide tours, and in his new studio album he returns to the raw live sound of his earlier records, reminding us why he is such a master of the concert stage. His incredibly gifted electro-acoustic guitar playing guarantees an impassioned live performance of his inspiring and sumptuously melodic new and old songs. |
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Eddi Reader - Music
Friday 27th February
Times: 9pm
Venue: Stockwell Street Theatre
Tickets: €20/€17
Eddi Reader’s rare blend of meltingly true vocals and towering romanticism combine with an astute and pragmatic nature to make her a unique and powerful figure in contemporary British music. Pulling all elements of her musical life together, Eddi Reader creates a new style - not traditional or contemporary or singer/songwritery or anything, she says!! The sense of fun and the amount of sheer love for music of all genres that Reader has, coupled with the craft with which she performs makes her one of Scotland's greatest national treasures and most vibrant natural resources. |
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The Change of Mame Fadden
presented by Duleek Drama Group
Mon 2nd Mar - Sat 7th Mar
Times: 8pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €10
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Aesop's Fabulous Foibles and Fables
by Theatre Makers/Working Actors Workshop
Tue 3rd Mar - Wed 4th Mar
Times: TBC
Venue: TBC
Tickets: €8
Age Group: 5+
From the ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ to ‘Dog in the Manger’, ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ to ‘The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ you know them all, Aesop’s incredible cast of sometimes foolish characters. Through his stories he parades before us a circus of human characteristics as colourful and as varied as the menagerie of animals (including the human) that he uses to communicate them. Suitable for age 5 and over. |
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39 Steps
Silver Screen Film Club
Tuesday 10th March
Times: 2pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: Free for over 55's
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock UK 1935 86mins CLUB
Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearre
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence. |
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Emma's Bliss - Film Club
Dir: Sven Taddicken Germany 2006 99 minutes Cert: 15A
Tuesday 10th March
Times: 8pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: Adm: €25 per season (9 films) or €6 per screening. Students, OAPS, Friends €20. Family season ticket €45
Starring: Jördis Triebel, Jürgen Vogel, Hinnerk Schönemann
Language: German
Rural and urban ways collide, quite literally with beguiling results in this acclaimed, fable-like romance. The unlikely protagonists are a sexually frustrated farming woman and a terminally ill car-dealer: Emma whose pig-and-hen smallholding is about to be repossessed by creditors; and Max who steals a stash of money from his employers and absconds in one of the firm's Jaguars. Losing control of the vehicle at night, he crashes through the fence surrounding Emma's property waking hours later, dazed but unhurt, in one of the farmhouse's comfy beds. The ever-resourceful Emma has, meanwhile, ‘confiscated’ the cash and set fire to the car. |
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The Good Father - Theatre
by Livin’ Dred Theatre Company
Thursday 12th March
Times: 8.30pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €15/€12
A love story. Tim & Jane are from different sides of the class divide but after a random meeting at a New Years Eve party leads to an unexpected pregnancy they attempt to form a relationship against all the odds.
By Christian O’Reilly Directed by Padraic McIntyre |
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The Diversus Guitar Ensemble
Director: Brendan Walsh Ensemble leader: Ross O'Farrell
Friday 13th March
Times: 8.30pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €15/€12
Formerly known as the Maynooth Guitar Orchestra, The Diversus Guitar Ensemble is one of Europe's most exciting guitar ensembles. Quality guitarists from around the world make up the ensemble but its core performers are Irish. Primarily the six string classical guitar is played, however the group also features, Contra Bass guitars, Soprano guitars and Steel String Acoustic guitars. The ensembles repertoire is unique to say the least and in the past has included the music of Haydn, Mozart, Debussy, Shostakovich, Radiohead, Hendrix, and Bjork amongst others. |
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Little Duke’s Dance Xpress
Sun 15th Mar - Sat 21st Mar
Times: 8pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €10
A dance and music display from students at the Drogheda School of Performing Arts |
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Post Horn Gallop by Derek Benfield
presented by Donore Rosnaree Drama Group
Sun 22nd Mar - Sat 28th Mar
Times: 8pm
Venue: Theatre - Stockwell Street
Tickets: €10
This farce centre’s on Chester Dreadnought on the run from the gangsters Capone and Wedgewood who seek refuge in Elrood’s Castle. As its run by his in-laws, Chester thinks he will be safe there, but unknown to him, the Lady of the Manor has opened it to the public allowing for all sorts of funny situations and plots to happen. With all the wonderful characters, the audience is sure to enjoy it. |
