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By Michele Browne
8 March - 1st of June: Exhibition of Visual
Art - ev+a - at the Limerick City Gallery of
art in Pery Square.
21 March - at least 4 weeks: The Buddhist of
Castleknock by Jim O’Hanlon was a huge,
sell-out success when first produced by Fishamble
at the end of 2002. It is back due to popular
demand, now playing at Andrew’s Lane Theatre.
The play explores the tensions and prejudices
that are revealed during a family reunion in a
sophisticated Dublin suburb. It is an acutely
well-observed and often hilarious play, complete
with angels, Buddhas and a collapsing Christmas
tree. For more information visit:
www.fishamble.com or call 01 - 6704018
1 – 13 April (Closed Monday 7th): The
Airfield Trust, Dundrum: Out Under The Sky -
Amuigh Faoin Spéir: An exhibition of contemporary
water colours by Pat Pidgeon. It includes
landscapes that vividly capture rich and colourful
views of Counties Clare, Dublin and Mayo - and
more exotic scenes of Korfu. Contact: The
Airfield Trust, Upper Kilmacud Road, Dundrum,
Dublin 14 or visit
www.airfield.ie
2 – 26 April, Focus Theatre presents
Stuck, a Chalmers Literary Award Winner,
written by David Rubinoff and directed by Joe
Devlin. Set in the mean streets of Toronto, the
narrator Jack, played by Sean Power, is a
permanently out-of-work actor ‘stuck’ in a dead
end life. Inspired by the Beat Poets of New York
City, Stuck may be a one-man show, but Sean
Power whirls you through a host of different,
sometimes hilarious characters, from fly
drug-dealers to two lesbians in a laundromat.
For more information contact Focus Theatre,
(off Pembroke Street), Dublin 2 or telephone 01
6763071.
3 April: Gary Hume at the Irish Museum of
Modern Art. One of the most inventive painters
working in Britain today, Hume's work combines a
bright colourful palette with simplified
child-like forms. The exhibition comprises of some
30 works and presents a comprehensive overview of
his work of the past 10 years. Visit
www.modernart.ie or call 01 6129999.
4 - 5 April: Conference at Trinity College
Dublin: "Goethe and Schubert in Perspective and
Performance." Includes a live performance of
the Singspiel "Claudine von Villa Bella" with a
recital of Schubert's Goethe Settings. For further
information visit
www.tcd.ie/Germanic-Studies.
7 April Cork, 11 April Limerick: The Women’s
Human Rights Project is organising a series of
regional workshops to promote greater
understanding of CEDAW – the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women. The workshops will also look at
how we can use this UN Convention as a lobbying
tool in work that promotes the rights and needs of
women. CEDAW is the first UN Convention to
comprehensively address women’s rights within
political, economic, social, cultural, and family
life. For further details on the workshops contact
the Project Co-ordinator, Noirin Clancy at
091-764372 or email:
womenshumanrights@eircom.net
10 - 12 April: Symposium at Dublin City
University School of Applied Languages and
Intercultural Studies: "Multilingualism in
Europe." Telephone 01 - 700 5456.
11 & 12 April: "Franco-Irish Literary
Festival 2003: Ecrire L'Europe.
The aim is, through writers
invited from Ireland and France, as well as from
other European countries such as Italy, Spain,
Germany, Finland and Great Britain, to debate this
“European concept”. The organisers feel that
culture can become a common European language
illustrating the diversity of the countries that
form part of Europe, and that writers and
intellectuals have a large role to play in this.
For full programme visit
www.alliance-francaise.ie or call 01-6761732
14 April: Draiocht Arts Centre, Niall
Crowley from the Equality Authority to launch
“New to Blanchardstown,” a pocket-guide of
local services, and is colour-coded in 3 different
languages to reach as many different communities
as possible. The event also promises international
refreshments, music, information and
representatives of different communities. The
guide also contains the findings and
recommendation of research into the needs of
Asylum Seekers & Refugees in the Dublin 15 area
that was carried out late last year.
19 – 21 April: Samhlaíocht Easter Arts
Festival: Literary event in Kerry to foster a
wider audience for poetry in the region.
20 April: Easter Sunday Egg Hunt,
Aillwee Cave in County Clare.
Let us know about your event: contact Michele
Browne on
mbrowne1@eircom.net
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