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dlr LexIcon Studio (beside café),
Friday 20 May, 7.30-8.30pm
Oxytocin- what I love in my life? is a very special live performance that will include pop music and digital projections created by a team of musicians and artists with intellectual disabilities.
Supported on the night by Electric Dreams from award winning arts and disability service That's Life, Brothers of Charity Services Galway.
Oxytocin are led by musician Jonathan Reynolds with guest musicians Honor Heffernan and Marc Aubele. Visual projections are by artist and filmmaker Eoin Heaney. The group was funded through our Performing Arts Commissions to respond to the local need for better access to cultural activities for people with disabilities.
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Royal Photographic Society Exhibition
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Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon
11 May - 22 June
We’re delighted to host the prestigious 158th International Print Exhibition from the Royal Photographic Society. This is the world’s oldest and longest-running exhibition of its kind, held almost every year since the Society was founded in 1853. Striking images of a huge variety of subjects by international photographers, from portraits to landscapes to wildlife, will capture your imagination.
photo: Lise Ulrich, Queen of the Deep Blue Sea
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Printed - photography competition
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This May the 158th International Print Exhibition from the Royal Photographic Society will come to the Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon.
To celebrate this we’d love to see your photographs inspired by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County.
We will select some of the images that you send us, print and display them in part of the gallery.
There will be a special junior section as well.
For more details and entry requirements please email artbookings@dlrcoco.ie or phone (01) 2362759
Image credit: Jan Klos, Nelsons Head (2014)
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The Pale Project presents…The Last Salon
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dlr LexIcon Studio
Wednesday 4 May, 8pm
Writer-in-Residence, Selina Guinness, presents the last of her Salon Nights at the dlr LexIcon Studio. Members of The Pale Project reveal the imaginative territories they have made their own while Selina Guinness reflects on what the Project has meant for her residency with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
Free but booking recommended
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Sebastian Adams – Musician in Residence
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dlr LexIcon Studio
Tuesday 10 May, 7pm
A recital of new viola works written for Sebastian Adams by composers including Finola Merivale, Daniel Barkley, Jonathan Nangle, Tom Lane, Garrett Sholdice and Tyler Gilmore.
Free but booking recommended
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Music in Monkstown - presents
"A Monkstown Miscellany"
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Church of Ireland Parish Church, Monkstown Village
Saturday 7 May 2016, 7.30pm
A series of readings written and presented by Leo Cullen.
Interspersed with well-loved songs and interludes from the Baroque performed by Clodagh Kinsella, soprano; Conor Hastings, baroque cornetto; David Adams, harpsichord and organ.
All tickets €20 Available from Hewett’s Newsagents or at the door.
Music in Monkstown is supported by a dlr Arts Grant
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Dublin County Fleadh Cheoil
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Dalkey 10- 15 May
A series of cultural events entitled ‘Commemoration & Celebration’ will mark this year’s 1916-2016 centenary as part of the Dublin County Fleadh Cheoil which will be held in Dalkey from the 10-15 May 2016.
Concert peformances by some of Ireland’s best known musicians, singers and dancers will be staged including a special orchestral performance of REQUIEM 1916, the highly acclaimed newly composed requiem for orchestra, choir and sean-nós, composed by Odhrán Ó Casaide.
The events are being organised by the Craobh Chualann branch of Comhaltas, Monkstown, with the aid of main sponsors Foras na Gaeilge and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to coincide with the Fleadh Cheoil competitions.
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