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1 GB18 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
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Welcome 3
Culture Ireland GB18 Alongside renowned
is a special year long artists, the Culture Ireland
programme which is GB18 programme will
planned to celebrate and present exciting new
renew the unique cultural artists, born into a world
relationship which exists of global influences. The
between Ireland and Great programme will be spread
Britain. The programme geographically across
aims to showcase Irish England, Scotland and
artistic excellence in partnership with Wales and reach cities and towns
UK institutions, venues and festivals outside of the main culture hubs.
and expand the reach of Irish culture
to new audiences. Covering a range of artforms, the
programme will appropriately
The Government of Ireland places commence with music in Scotland
a strategic priority on culture where Ireland is the focus country
and creativity as the key outward for Showcase Scotland, as part of
expression of our identity and a Celtic Connections, Glasgow. The
critical basis for those wishing to year offers an opportunity to engage
engage with Ireland. Our culture is and participate in theatre, dance,
long regarded as an effective and literature, film, opera, visual arts and
deep-rooted means of articulating our all genres of music. I would like to
values. Historically Ireland has had acknowledge that the programme
a special cultural relationship with would not be possible without
Great Britain and the flow of artists, the commitment of our hosting
ideas and influences across the Irish partners in Britain whose ongoing
Sea has resulted in an enrichment of commitment to the presentation of
culture in both countries. Irish artists is deeply appreciated.
Many Irish artists live and work in I thank all those who are making
Britain achieving high profile careers GB18 possible, especially the team of
and likewise Ireland welcomes artists high quality Irish artists and I wish
from Britain to present their work audiences fun and fulfilment in the
and fuel the Irish imagination. The event packed year ahead. Culture
strengthening of our cultural links Ireland GB18 will, I hope, be the
is regarded as particularly critical start of new relationships and the
in times when Ireland-Great Britain deepening of existing ones with our
relations are undergoing changes closest cultural neighbour.
within a European context.
The Culture Ireland GB18
programme aims to build on existing
relationships as well as forge new josepha madigan, t.d.
connections, which it is hoped will minister for culture,
be further developed in future years. heritage and the gaeltacht
4 January Music January Visual Arts 5
PHOTO: VALERIE BARBEAU
PETER BURNS, ETERNAL NIGHT, OIL ON CANVAS, 2017, 100 X 100CM
The Outside Track Irish Artists
On tour to Peebles, Langholm and Glenfarg in Scotland
at London
Art Fair 2018
Including Gibbons & Nicholas
and Stoney Road Press
6 January—February Music January—February Music 7 Ireland at Showcase Scotland Celtic Connections Ireland Showcase Artists Aoife Scott Wallis Bird Lorcán Mac Mathúna Notify Daoirí Farrell The Young Folk Various venues across Glasgow
8 January/February Music/Theatre February Visual Arts 9
Joanne Ryan
Eggsis-
tentialism
Written and performed
by Joanne Ryan
Arcola Theatre, London
PHOTO: KEN COLEMAN
Martin Hayes Quartet Alison Lowry
On tour to Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow Collect Open 2018
ALISON LOWRY, HOME BABIES, 2017 (DETAIL),
PATE DE VERRE AND FLOCKED CHRISTENING
Saatchi Gallery, London
ROBE. PHOTO: GLENN NORWOOD
10 Feb—Mar Visual Arts/Music March Film 11
Comhaltas
PHOTO: FERNANDO MARCOS, CCÉ
PHOTO: COURTESY OF IFI FILM ARCHIVE
Ceoltóirí Éireann
Echoes of Erin
60 year celebration tour of the UK
Liverpool, Glasgow, Settle, Leeds,
Lemington Spa, London
Contemporary Music Centre
New Music::
New Ireland
A Showcase Performance
featuring music by contemporary
Irish composers
Café OTO, London
Irish Cultural Centre
Series of Irish Master
Musician Concerts
Hammersmith, London
Irish Film Institute INTERNATIONAL
Shane Finan
Little Old New York:
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
SHANE FINAN, APO, INTERACTIVE WORK.
faigh ar ais ar
an fharraige A Cinéconcert
Solo Exhibition
with live musical accompaniment by Morgan Cooke
Rye Creative Centre, East Sussex
Barbican Centre, London
12 March Music March Music 13
PHOTO: ÉIRÍOCHT, LONDON 2018 PHOTO: GREGORY DUNN
Diatribe Serious Music in association with
Éiríocht: New
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Imagining Ireland:
Music from Ireland 21st Century Song
Vortex Jazz Club, London
featuring Lisa Hannigan,
Paul Noonan and guests
Barbican Centre, London
Also supported by the Embassy of Ireland in London
14 March—April Theatre March Literature/Music 15
PHOTO: POETRY CENTRE STAGE AT STANZA © DAVID VALLIS PHOTOGRAPHY
The Abbey Theatre
The Plough
and the Stars
by Seán O’Casey
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London
StAnza Festival 2018
International Poetry Festival featuring
Irish poets including Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,
Rita Ann Higgins and Iggy McGovern
Fife, Scotland
PHOTO: MARCELO BIGLIA
Kíla
On tour to Warwick, Manchester,
Stockton-on-Tees and London
16 March Film/Music March—October Festival/Literature 17
Poetry Ireland
PHOTO: MOVIE STILL – THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921)
PAUL HENRY, MOUNT ERRIGAL
In Dreams Begin
Responsibilities
An evening of poetry
and music presented by
Poetry Ireland at Milton
Court, Barbican Centre in
association with the Irish
Embassy and Reconciliation
OF THE ARTISTS.
PHOTO: SONICA PRESENTS LAKKER AV. IMAGE COURTESY
Unit, Dept of Foreign Affairs
and Trade.
Barbican Centre, London
St. Patrick’s Festival
Reclaiming Ingram
Cryptic
Lakker
A Celebration of film Director Rex Ingram
Irish electronic music duo
HOME, Manchester
performs as part of Sonica
King’s Place, London
PHOTO: CIARAN CARSON
Poetry Ireland
St. Patrick’s Poets in the Cities
Festival
Poetry Ireland presents a six-
day tour of leading Irish poets
London
to Liverpool, Manchester,
Newcastle, Cardiff, Edinburgh,
Oxford in collaboration with
Irish artists performing in all
John McAuliffe and Centre for
of the 33 London boroughs
New Writing, Manchester
across St. Patrick’s Weekend
18 April/December Visual Arts/Music April Architecture 19
GALLERY, LONDON AND KEVIN KAVANAGH GALLERY, DUBLIN.
SEAN LYNCH, WHAT IS AN APPARATUS? 2017. COURTESY RONCHINI
Sean Lynch
Bandits Live
Comfortably in the Ruins
On tour to Cornwall and Southampton
PHOTO: ANTHONY RIORDAN
Ludlow Create
English Engaging
Song Places:
Weekend
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
(WE’VE WAITED YEARS TO
Collaborative Praxis in Art
LOVE) OUT.POST.OFFICE
PHOTO: STE MURRAY(2017) and Architecture
Heart of Glass, St. Helens, Merseyside
Featuring Irish Artists
and Tate Exchange, Liverpool
including Gavan Ring20 April Theatre April—June Theatre/Music 21
MALAPROP BLACKCATFISHMUSKETEER PHOTO (MOLLY O’CATHAIN)
PHOTO: MARS SOCIETY CREW 173
Niamh Shaw
Diary of a
Martian
Beekeeper
On tour to London,
Edinburgh and Cheltenham
Malaprop Tower of London
LOVE+ and Songs of Farewell
BlackCatfishMusketeer featuring Irish Choral Music
Chapel Royal, Tower of London
Omnibus Theatre, London22 May Theatre May Theatre 23
Dead Centre/Abbey Theatre Co-production Fishamble: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY
Hamnet The Humours
of Bandon
By Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd
and William Shakespeare
On tour to Bristol, Glasgow and London
Written and performed by Margaret McAuliffe
Brighton Festival
PHOTO: GEORGE CARTER24 May Visual Arts/Multidisciplinary May Theatre 25
SUFFLO BY DONALD TESKEY, 2017. CARBORUNDUM PRINT
Stoney Road Press
Presents
Irish
Visual
Artists
London Original Print Fair
London Irish Centre
Across Theatre Lovett
The Water A Feast
of Bones
PHOTO: ROS KAVANAGH
A season of work
featuring 100 Irish
artists during 2018
By Frances Kay in collaboration
with Theatre Lovett
Edinburgh International
Children’s Festival, Traverse Theatre
STEPHEN JAMES SMITH26 June Theatre/Dance July/August Music/Theatre 27
PHOTO: LOUIS DECARLO
Dónal Lunny
and his Atlantic
Arc Orchestra
Festival of Voice, Cardiff
COISCÉIM DANCE THEATRE AND ANU
THESE ROOMS Branar Téatar do Phaistí
By David Bolger, Owen Boss and Louise Lowe
Co-commissioned by 14-18 Now, PHOTO: PAT REDMOND
How to Catch a Star
LIFT and Shoreditch Town Hall Adapted from the book by Oliver Jeffers
LIFT Festival, London Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London28 July Music September Opera 29
PHOTO: FRANCES MARSHALL
PHOTO: PAT REDMOND
Chamber LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS AND IRISH NATIONAL OPERA
Choir Ireland The Second
Music from Ireland and the USA
Violinist
Fishguard International Music Festival,
Pembrokeshire, Wales
Created by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh
Barbican Centre, London30 October—December Theatre October Visual Arts 31
UNTITLED (INIS OÍRR) BY MICHELLE BROWNE IN COLLABORATION WITH RIONACH NÍ NEILL, 2013 PHOTO: MATTHEW THOMPSON
ANU Productions Áine Phillips
Helen Future States
Heart of Glass, St. Helens, Merseyside A curated selection of 8 Irish artists,
presenting new performance work
SPILL Ipswitch and Fierce Festival Birmingham32 October—December Dance October—January Visual Arts 33
SOUND AND LIGHT SCENOGRAPHY. INSTALLATION VIEW, VENICE BIENNALE
JESSE JONES, TREMBLE TREMBLE, 2017, FILM, SCULPTURE, MOVING CURTAIN,
CoisCéim DANCE THEATRE
The Wolf and Peter
By David Bolger
On tour to London, Sheffield, Brighton,
Chester, Salford, Bournemouth and Warwick
Jesse Jones
Tremble Tremble
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
MATT SZCZEREK IN THE WOLF AND PETER. PHOTO: ROS KAVANAGH34 35
Culture Ireland
Culture Ireland creates and critical recognition. In addition,
supports opportunities for Irish 169 international presenters and
artists and companies to present programmers travelled to Ireland
their work at international throughout 2017 with Culture
festivals, venues, showcases Ireland to experience the work of
and arts markets including the Irish artists.
Edinburgh Festivals, Celtic
Connections (Glasgow), the Over recent years, Culture Ireland
Venice Art and Architecture has also curated and presented
Biennales, WOMEX World Music a number of special initiatives
Expo, South by Southwest (in including Imagine Ireland, a year
partnership with First Music of Irish arts in North America
Contact), Frankfurt Book Fair in 2011 and Culture Connects,
(in partnership with Literature a culture programme to mark
Ireland), Tanzmesse (Düsseldorf) Ireland’s Presidency of the Council
and Classical: NEXT (Rotterdam). of the European Union in 2013. In
2016, Culture Ireland presented I
Culture Ireland runs a regular Am Ireland, a year-long calendar
funding scheme to support the of global culture events as part
international presentation of work of the Ireland 2016 Centenary
by Irish artists and companies. Programme.
Applications are accepted from
both participating artists and
from international presenters. Culture Ireland
Culture Ireland also operates Department of Culture,
See Here, a scheme to support Heritage and the Gaeltacht
the inward travel to Ireland of 23 Kildare Street
international presenters, curators Dublin D02 TD30
Ireland
and promoters to see new Irish
Tel: +353 1 631 3905, 3906, 3908
work available for touring.
info@cultureireland.gov.ie
In 2017, Culture Ireland
supported Irish artists at over
450 events across 50 countries Full programme details and
with over 4.5 million audience updates are available on:
members and 7 million online www.cultureireland.ie/gb18
viewers. Many of these artists
achieved high profile awards and
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