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VISUAL ART: The Labyrinth – An Exhibition by Ulrike Liebetrau

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This exhibition is an immersive installation inviting you to “get lost in art” and to enter an illuminated space filled with rich colour and light. The pieces are inspired by

FREE

VISUAL ART: A Hint of Gray – Della Cowper-Gray and Brad Gray

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This combined exhibition offers a glimpse into the work of artists Della Cowper-Gray and Brad Gray -  Daughter and Dad - and features a small selection of their recent work.

FREE

FAMILY: The Speks

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Speks present a lively show of nursery rhymes and sing-along songs set to acoustic Irish music which will have adults and kids jumping in their seats! Their hand-clapping, toe-tapping,

€10

CINEMA: The French Dispatch

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Set in a fictional French city called Ennui-sur-Blasé, the writers and staff of The French Dispatch, a widely circulated American Magazine, gather to discuss potential articles for the next edition.

€7 – €9

Special Screening for UKRAINE: Olga

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Olga (Anastasia Budiashkina) is a talented 15-year-old gymnast with a bright future that might take her all the way to the Olympics. Given the chance to train in Switzerland, she

€7 – €9
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Drawing Workshop: Invisible Cords with Clodagh Kelly

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

We now live in very different communities since Covid, with different social norms, what are the Cords that keep us separate or together?  In this series of drawing workshops with

€10

FAMILY: Fall and Float

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Fall and Float is a new dance performance for audiences aged 4 years and over.   In this highly visual show, two dancers create a magical world to explore childhood, adventure,

€8 – €28

MUSIC: Don Baker Blues Man

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Just turned a young 70 and 55 years on the road, Don has had an amazing career. Harmonica player, singer- songwriter and actor he has headlines with Tom Jones and

€25

COMEDY: Callan’s Kicks Live

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Oliver Callan brings his huge cast of characters to the stage for the first time in seven years. It’s the first live Callan’s Kicks show in the age of Co-Teeshes

€30

CINEMA: Doineann

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Tomás, a busy Irish-language TV producer, is a private man, who likes to keep things quiet and ordered. He takes his wife Siobhan and their beloved baby son Oisín to

€7 – €9

THEATRE: Snapshot

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Set in the early days of the first lockdown, Snapshot is a story of two sisters trying to connect in a disconnected world and finding their footing in a changing

€14 – €16

LOCAL ARTS/YOUTH THEATRE: CONNECTIONS

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Connections Kildare Festival is taking place 14th and 15th April in Riverbank Arts Centre. The festival will be hosted by Crooked House Theatre Company and will be attended by Ardclough

€5 – €10

Workshop Week: BrickFlicks Stop Motion Animation

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In this special BrickFlicks Stop Motion Animation Camp, learn how to make your own mini Lego movie! "Wizards & Spells" or "Superheroes in Action" ? What will you choose to

€120

FAMILY CINEMA: Clifford – The Big Red Dog

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

WhenEmily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little red puppy, she never anticipates waking up to find a giant ten-foot hound in

€4

BOOK LAUNCH: Secret Poets by Darren Donohue

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Secret Poets is the eagerly anticipated debut poetry collection from award-winning poet and playwright, Darren Donohue.  Published by Turas Press, Secret Poets charts the poet’s journey through illness and his

FREE, booking advised
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SCHOOLS: Fighting Words – Creative Writing Workshop

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge is the Kildare Partner of Fighting Words. We present creative writing workshops for primary and secondary schools. Fighting Words workshops are always free of charge to

CINEMA: House of Gucci

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and

€7 – €9

SCHOOL SCREENING: Petit Pays/Small Country: An African Childhood

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Brand new French language film set against the backdrop of the Rwandan conflict. Gabriel is a happy young boy living in Burundi during the 1990s with his French father, Rwandan

€6

SCHOOL SCREENING: Los Lobos/Wolves (Spanish)

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Migrant family tale, imbued with a sense of magic, innocence, and poetry to yield a wonderful story of hope. In a rundown apartment in New Mexico, Lucia and her two

€6

COMEDY: Des Bishop – Mia Mamma

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

I am often asked “where do you get your material from?” The truth is really that I try to see the funny in everything. My mother died in March 2019

€25

WORKSHOP: Exquisite Portraits – Tactile Insects with Jennifer O’Brien

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Exquisite Portraits: our world’s tiniest creatures show their many faces! Taking inspiration from the magical world of insects we will explore their many innovative and often colourful adaptations to life

€10

VISUAL ART: The Ballad of a Care Centre

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A visual art and audio installation by Kildare artist John Conway, translated from his innovative theatre work of the same name, The Ballad of a Care Centre weaves together the

FREE

LOCAL ARTS: The Life and Songs of John McCormack

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Kildare tenor Philip Scott is delighted to bring his show "The Life and Songs of John McCormack" to  Riverbank Arts Centre. Philip brings a programme of John McCormack songs such

€18 – €20

VISUAL ART: Dwellings – Gráinne Bath Enright

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

D W E L L I N G S  is a new print exhibition in our Foyer Gallery, by artist Gráinne Bath Enright. Gráinne's artwork explores a sense of place

free
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Drawing Workshop: Invisible Cords with Clodagh Kelly

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

We now live in very different communities since Covid, with different social norms, what are the Cords that keep us separate or together?  In this series of drawing workshops with

€10

MUSIC: EIMEAR CREHAN

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Eimear Crehan is a well established songwriter, community musician and facilitator who loves to share her music with her audience. She is currently touring after the release of her second

€18 – €20

COMEDY: Pat & Faye Shortt WELL

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This comic Father and Daughter duo have written and performed two hilarious online shows The Wellness Hour with Paaah and Sile and Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads. Now the pair bring their

€30

CINEMA: Petite Maman

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Director Céline Sciamma (Portrait of A Lady on Fire) latest is a delicate, wonderfully beguiling tale about the power of memory and imagination. Following her grandmother’s death, eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine

€7 – €9

LOCAL ARTS: Stormy Surprise by Dave Tiernan

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Paul thought he’d planned the best surprise birthday party for his wife June when he hired an old remote cottage in the woods, but the shabby shack isn’t up to

€10 – €12
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SCHOOLS: Fighting Words – Creative Writing Workshop

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge is the Kildare Partner of Fighting Words. We present creative writing workshops for primary and secondary schools. Fighting Words workshops are always free of charge to

CINEMA: One of These Days

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In a small Texan town, a local car dealer holds the “Hands on a Hardbody” competition every year. In this contest, participants selected by lucky draw stand around a brand

€7 – €9

SCHOOLS: Ger Carey: A Comic Journey Inside the Teenage Mind

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ger Carey is back with his hilarious stand-up comedy show for transition year students. By secretly observing his subjects in their natural habitat, such as leaning on lampposts, in chippers,

€11

SCHOOLS: StrongWomen Science

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

StrongWomen Science is a circus science show for children starring two women scientists turned circus performers. Aoife Raleigh is an engineer, Maria Corcoran an environmental scientist. Ever wanted to know

€6

COMEDY: Jason Byrne: On Your Marks, Get Set… Gig!

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Jason Byrne has been On His Marks since March 2020. Now he’s Set and ready to explode on to the stage. “The Outright King Of Live Comedy” (The Times) is

€22

COMEDY: Dirtbirds – No Filter

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In a world where women are expected to have the patience of Mother Teresa, the arse of Jennifer Lopez, the social media profile of Kim Kardashian and the BMI of

€20 – €22

FAMILY: National Drawing Day – Drop-in Workshop

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Join us this National Drawing Day on Saturday 21st May. We’ll have a drop-in workshop, focusing on observational drawing and facilitated by visual artist Paul Woods. Drawing is fun and

FREE, drop-in

FAMILY CINEMA: The Aristocats

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In Paris in 1910, millionairess Madame Bonfamille, wills her fortune to her cat Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Toulouse and Berlioz. Edgar, the butler has other plans, but with

€4

MUSIC: The Illegals with Niamh Kavanagh

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Let us take you back to 1980: … Eagles and Fleetwood Mac served-up two of the best live double-albums of all time. Widely regarded as one of the best live

€22

LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group presents Canaries by Bernard Farrell

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Bernard Farrell's Canaries was first performed on stage at the Abbey Theatre in October 1980.  Since then it’s been a great hit with many audiences. Set in the Canary Islands we

€12 – €15

CINEMA: Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit)

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The exquisite latest film from writer-director Sebastian Meise, Great Freedom paints a stirring portrait of gay resistance and resilience in post-war Germany. Sensual yet arresting, Austria’s official submission to the 2022 Academy

€7 – €9

VISUAL ART: PopUpArt Newbridge

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

PopUpArt Newbridge will be popping up all over Newbridge, including an exhibition in the Foyer Gallery at Riverbank Arts Centre,  to coincide with June Fest . "We are delighted to

Admission Free
Recurring

SCHOOLS: Lúminaria

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

There is an emergency in the village of Lúminaria and only Lúna can save them. Join Lúna on an adventure into the sky as she tries to find the light

€6
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SCHOOLS: Lúminaria

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

There is an emergency in the village of Lúminaria and only Lúna can save them. Join Lúna on an adventure into the sky as she tries to find the light

€6
Recurring

Drawing Workshop: Invisible Cords with Clodagh Kelly

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

We now live in very different communities since Covid, with different social norms, what are the Cords that keep us separate or together?  In this series of drawing workshops with

€10

MUSIC: JuneFest presents Conor Mahony & Friends

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Conor Mahony; musician, songwriter and singer will be returning to performing live to coincide with the release of his upcoming album "Strange country", written with fellow musician Alan FitzGerald with

€12