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Information Session: Kildare County Council Arts Service – 2019 Grants, Bursaries & Commission Opportunities

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This information session will offer some useful guidance on Arts Grants, Bursary Award and Commission Opportunities available with Kildare County Council Arts Service 2019 for artists, arts collectives and community groups in Co Kildare. All are welcome to this FREE session, but booking directly with Kildare Arts Service through this eventbrite link is recommended.  Opportunities

FREE

CINEMA: Just to be sure

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

When Erwin (Francois Damiens), a bomb disposal expert in his mid-forties, accidentally discovers that his father is not his biological father his world is turned upside down. As well as tracing his dad he has to juggle his daughters unplanned pregnancy and his aspiring relationship with the sparky local veterinarian Anna (Cecile De France), whom,

€6 – €9

THEATRE: THE MATCHMAKER by John B. Keane

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

THE MATCHMAKER stars Mary McEvoy (best known for her role as Biddie in the long-running RTE series Glenroe) and Irish actor and comedian Jon Kenny (part of the Irish comic duo d’Unbelievables). Jon Kenny is also well known for appearing in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. Together they play a myriad of characters in

€18 – €20
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LOCAL ARTS: Kildare Youth Theatre Presents The Penal Laws and The Radicalisation of Abdelaziz Faragher

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

These plays are part of a larger work called The Act of Oblivion which explores the colonisation of Ireland through the lens of scenes from the lives of young people today. The Penal Laws looks at the second-level education system, asking what price do we pay to teach conformity and standardisation? The Radicalisation of Abdelaziz

€6 – €10

SCHOOL SCREENING: The Silent Revolution/ Das Schweigende Klassenzimmer

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Based on true events, Silent Revolution is a captivating Cold War-era drama told from the perspective of two East-German high school students. It’s 1956 and during a visit to West Berlin, Theo and Kurt witness dramatic footage of the Budapest uprising. Back at school in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously stage a silent protest in class. Set

€6

CINEMA: Rosie

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

From the pen of Roddy Doyle and directed by Paddy Breathnach (Viva), Rosie is the story of a family without a home. Rosie (Sarah Greene) a mother of four, alongside her partner John Paul (Moe Dunford), do everything in their power to protect their children and maintain their dignity as the Irish housing crisis threatens

€6 – €9

COMEDY: David O’Doherty – You Have To Laugh

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

++EXTRA DATE ADDED due to popular demand++ Unhook your mindbras. David O’Doherty is back in… with a brand-new show made up of talking and songs played on a crappy keyboard from 1986. As seen on BBC2’s Live At The Apollo and Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. “A beautiful mix of acute

€16 – €18

COMEDY: David O’Doherty – You Have To Laugh

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Unhook your mindbras. David O’Doherty is back in… with a brand-new show made up of talking and songs played on a crappy keyboard from 1986. As seen on BBC2’s Live At The Apollo and Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. “A beautiful mix of acute observation and startling invention” – The Irish

€16 – €18
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WORKSHOP: Patchwork Magic – workshop with Aideen Cross

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This workshop will give children an opportunity to work with fabrics (new & recycled) to make bunting that’s creative, colourful and fun. Designer Aideen Cross, based in Rathangan, is renowned for her dress design and also her creative sewing classes for young people. In this workshop, Aideen will encourage children to explore the lifeskill of

€10

FAMILY CINEMA: Early Man

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day! Early Man is the new prehistoric comedy adventure from four-time Academy Award winning director Nick Park, the creators of Wallace

€4

WORKSHOP: Artzone Mid-Term Camp

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

An Artzone camp is a great way for your child to spend their school break - working on cool art projects, developing their core artistic skills, exercising their creative side in a fun, dynamic environment..with plenty of time for fun and games. Artzone camps are planned and delivered by qualified and experienced art teachers. Monday

€80

CINEMA: Mug (Twarz)

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Jacek is a free-spirited young Polish man with a passion for heavy metal, his girlfriend Dagmara and his dog. When he and Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. Janek enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment, and keeps his muscles toned working on a building site close

€6 – €9

FAMILY MUSIC: Sing to Me with Kyle Riley

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Following on from the success of Little Folk - On Tour, Kyle Riley is back with a brand new show, Sing to Me - an hour of folk and rock music, sure to get you moving! Featuring music from his new album with the same title, songs include the fast-paced 'Astronaut' (a whirlwind tour of

€7 – €24

CINEMA: First Man

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Academy Award® winning team of director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling (La La Land) reunites for this biopic of Neil Armstrong, from his entry into NASA's astronaut program in 1961 to his epoch-making walk on the moon eight years later. Based on the book by James R. Hansen, First Man is a visceral

€6 – €9

THEATRE: Remember To Breathe

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In a pool in post-earthquake New Zealand, recent emigrant Maeve is learning to swim. Self-professed ‘swimaholic’ coach Doreen eggs her on. But as she struggles to stay afloat, Maeve must do battle with the water and an unresolved dilemma with her much-loved father back home. Mixing serious themes with warm humour, Remember to Breathe is

€14 – €16

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SCHOOL SHOW: Ceol Connected presents: Return of Spring

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Every year in Whistleberry Forest, the creatures of the forest look forward to the end of the frosty Winter, and to the beginning of Spring. This year was a little different however, as Springtime had arrived much earlier than usual. All the hibernating animals, except for Huggy the hedgehog, were still curled up fast asleep.

€6

VISUAL ARTS: SEE HOW WE VIEW THE WORLD – exploring animal and human vision

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This exhibition provides opportunities for exploring children’s creative and imaginative potential in Visual Art with a particular emphasis on Visual Art and Science education (STEAM). Four interactive prototype helmets are on display as part of this exhibition, which are a combination of students and children’s ideas coming together to solve a particular problem, in this

FREE
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FAMILY SHOW: Ceol Connected presents: Return of Spring

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Every year in Whistleberry Forest, the creatures of the forest look forward to the end of the frosty Winter, and to the beginning of Spring. This year was a little different however, as Springtime had arrived much earlier than usual. All the hibernating animals, except for Huggy the hedgehog, were still curled up fast asleep.

€8 – €28

CINEMA: The Merger

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Merger is an Australian comedy based on comedian Damian Callinan's critically acclaimed solo show of the same name. Bodgy Creek is a struggling town. The drought won’t let up, jobs are scarce after the mill was shut down, and the Aussie Rules footy team looks like it will have to merge with another club

€9

CINEMA: The Guilty

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Demoted to deskwork and awaiting a disciplinary hearing, Agent Asger is working the night shift in an emergency call room. When he receives a call from a woman who has been abducted his resolve and arrogance are tested, and it becomes a race against time to locate her. Taking place in real time and in

€6 – €9

LOCAL ARTS: Barren Rock Productions presents: An Evening with Oscar Wilde

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Join actor Richard Lynch and share the triumph and tragedy of one of the greatest writers of English Literature, Oscar Wilde. Wilde’s timeless comedy of manners The Importance of Being Earnest made him the toast of London Society. His gripping account of the condemned man’s final days before execution, resonate to this day in his

€12 – €15

SPECIAL SCREENING: The Silver Branch

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Silver Branch is a philosophical exploration of the life of farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, descendant of generations of farmers who have lived off the wild landscape of the Burren. We are immersed in the exquisite texture of the natural world, bringing us a rare glimpse of a disappearing way of life with all its richness

€9
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WORKSHOP: The Science of Seeing- Science-art workshops with Future Makers Collective

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Join the Future Makers Collective for a STEAM science – art workshop exploring perception. We will experiment with optical sciences and explore vision as we craft an environment and tools to help us look at the world from the perspectives of your favourite animals. This workshop will run on the 9th March 2019 for two

€10

SCHOOL SCREENING: Cartoon Saloon Present- Anam an Amhráin

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Award winning singer Iarla Ó Lionáird takes a trip to meet friends and to bring us a lively rearrangement of some of the Irish songs that we all know - including An Gréasaí Bróg, Tá Dhá Ghabhairín Bhuí Agam and Óro Sé do Bheatha Abhaile. Each performance will be enhanced by specially created animations visualising

€6

CINEMA: Shoplifters

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film Shoplifters is a subtle and moving drama about the forces holding a struggling family together. Osamu (Lily Franky), his wife Nobuyu (Sakura Andô) and grandma Hatsue (Kirin Kiki) head the Shibatas, a family living just above the poverty line. When Osamu and his

€6 – €9

SCHOOL SHOW: Manny Man Does the History of Ireland on Stage

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

An Grianán Theatre Productions present:  Manny Man Does the History of Ireland on Stage Based on John D Ruddy’s hit series of books and YouTube videos, An Grianán Theatre brings Manny Man’s History of Ireland to the stage. Watch as Syn (John D Ruddy) and Oppy (Louise Conaghan) romp through thousands of years of Irish

€6

FAMILY THEATRE: Manny Man does the History of Ireland on Stage

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Based on John D Ruddy’s hit series of books and YouTube videos, Manny Man’s History of Ireland is coming to the stage. Watch as Syn (John D Ruddy) and Oppy (Louise Conaghan) romp through thousands of years of Irish history, from the Big Bang to the present day, with the help of illustrated cut-outs and

€8 – €28

MUSIC: Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Grammy Award-winning songstress and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens and Italian jazz maestro Francesco Turrisi take you on a musical voyage of discovery. The duo discovered a shared creative ground after their paths crossed a few years back, spanning gospel, jazz, blues, country and folk. Giddens’ debut album was described by the Guardian as a “solo debut

€12 – €15

COMEDY: Neil Delamere – Controlled Substance

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Fresh from a sell-out tour, the star of BBC's The Blame Game and Soft Border Patrol, Neil Delamere, returns to the Riverbank Arts Centre with a brand new show. This time he thinks he has that whole "illusion of control" idea sussed.Then again he would think that, wouldn't he? 'You'll be hard-pressed to find a

€25

MUSIC: The Whistle Blower Out of Time Tour

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This riveting show will weave the distinct strands of film, live music and images to allow the audience to experience a four-year artistic response by Cormac Breatnach, arising out of a single traumatic event which affected him from the age of 13 into his adulthood. Breatnach’s brother, Osgur, was one of three men wrongfully arrested,

€14 – €16
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WORKSHOP: Dabbledoo Music Workshop

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

DabbledooMusic (Shane McKenna and Killian Redmond) make music more accessible, engaging and fun for all the family, regardless of previous experience or ability. In this workshop you will be provided with instruments and play along to Igor The Octopus (the world's greatest drummer!), learn melody with Jazz Cat and even play an Irish Polka. DabbledooMusic

€7

FAMILY CINEMA: Ralph Breaks The Internet

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Bad guy Ralph and girl-racer-glitch Vanellope are back! John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman return for ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’, the long-awaited sequel to the smash hit original. Ralph and Vanellope must travel beyond Litwak’s Arcade and into the expansive world of the internet, in search of a missing part to save Sugar Rush. Along

€4
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SCHOOL SHOW: Princesses can be Pirates

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Princesses can be Pirates is an energetic dance performance for children which explores gender and playfully questions what is considered ‘typical’ behaviour for girls and boys. Brave or foolhardy, two dancers join forces and travel to unknown territories. In a series of hilarious scrapes and lively escapades, they swap toys, costumes and activities - defying

€6

CINEMA: The Favourite

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Yorgos Lanthimos’s (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) outrageous period comedy stars an enviable assemble cast of Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz. A frail and capricious Queen Anne (Colman) governs an 18th Century England at war with France. At her side is Lady Sarah (Weisz), her carer, confidant, lover and de

€6 – €9

CINEMA: Green Book

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Green Book is the uplifting true story of a friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line, directed by Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary). When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali in an

€6 – €9

MUSIC: Route 66 Big Band – Live in Concert

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Route 66 is a 16 piece Big Band with big sound! Their Live in Concert show has been a huge success with audiences all over Ireland. It takes you on a magical musical tour from the 1940s right up to the present day, with numbers made famous by Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Tom

€20

CINEMA: A Private War

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Having directed acclaimed documentaries about some of the world’s most dangerous places — Cartel Land (2015) and City of Ghosts (2017) — Matthew Heineman makes an apt feature debut with the story of Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent who died in 2012 covering the atrocities of the Syrian war. Rosamund Pike immerses herself

€6 – €9
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SCHOOL SHOW: Hatch by Fidget Feet

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Meet Bláithín “she loves caterpillars, moths and butterflies”. Follow her on her adventurous journey with Uncle Rusty to find Pearl, the most extraordinary butterfly with the most exquisite colourful wings. Learn all about two little caterpillars and their journey to fly as months and butterflies. Hatch is full of Fidget Feet’s unique blend of music,

€6
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FAMILY THEATRE: Fidget Feet present HATCH

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Bláithín loves caterpillars, moths and butterflies... Follow her on her adventurous journey with Uncle Rusty to find Pearl, the most extraordinary butterfly with the most exquisite colourful wings.  Learn all about two little caterpillars and their journey to fly as moths and butterflies. Fidget Feet’s new show HATCH weaves craft workshops, Irish language and Irish

€8 – €28

LITERATURE: European Poetry Festival

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This major event is taking place as part of the 2nd European Poetry Festival, showcasing the energy and innovation of 21st European poetry. Featuring renowned poets from across Europe including readings and performances by Serena Braida, Harry Clifton, Jessica Foley, SJ Fowler, Madara Gruntmane, Katharina Maria Kalinowski, Morten Langeland, Christodoulos Makris, Oana Sanziana Marian,  Endre

Free event

MUSIC: Johnny Duhan- The Voyage

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Following the launch of his autobiography, The Voyage, Johnny Duhan is set to perform a series of solo shows around Ireland, based on some of his most intimate songs and stories dealing with the highs and lows of life. Johnny’s songs are performed worldwide in a variety of languages, thanks to the focus put on

€20

WORKSHOP: Singing workshop with Inni-K

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Join Inni-K for a morning! This workshop with singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Inni-K (Eithne Ní Chatháin) will have participants raising the roof together in full voice as they join Inni-K for a morning. This is a fun group workshop which will interest anyone who enjoys singing, be it in a choir or alone in the

€15

FAMILY CINEMA: Mary Poppins Returns

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The practically perfect nanny returns to the big screen to help the next generation of the Banks family Mary Poppins returns to the Banks household in a spectacular new story. Using her magical skills, she takes the Banks children on an animated adventure, full of unexpected surprises and musical sequences, to help bring joy and

€4