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OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT – THE COMMITMENTS
Rosslare Community and Sports Centre, July 16, 8 p.m. An outdoor movie night will be held at Rosslare Community and Sports Centre on Saturday, July 16 with a screening of ‘The Commitments’ under the night skies. Moviegoers are invited to bring along a blanket or book one of the VIP seating areas. Gates open at 8 p.m. and there will be live music and family fun before the film starts at 9.30 p.m. Hot food and snacks will be served.
This is Rosslare’s first outdoor cinema night and there is much excitement about the event which is sponsored by Boggan’s Londis. Tickets cost €10 and €15 for a VIP seat. To book, telephone 053 9132202.
CHILDREN’S SUMMER CAMP
Irish National Heritage Park, July 18 to July 20 A summer camp for children run will be held at the Irish National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig on Monday, July 18, to Wednesday, July 20.
The camp will be run by Artmakers with drawing, painting, print-making, construction and creative fun on the agenda. The cost is €50 for each participant with family discounts offered. To book telephone 086 3768204.
EXHIBITION BY YVONNE COOMBER
Gaslamp Gallery, Gorey, July 14 to July 24 An exhibition of new work by the artist Yvonne Coomber will run at The Gaslamp Gallery in Esmonde Street, Gorey from July 14 to 24.
Yvonne who spent a large portion of her childhood in Ireland, where her mother is from, is known for her vibrant, abstract flower paintings and landscape art. In her own words, her ‘rainbow-drenched paintings sing of wild tumbling hedgerows, tangled meadowlands, open moorlands and magical fields’. She uses a mixture of oils, inks, glosses, glazes, fine glitter and gold leaf applied in a multitude of layers with paint brushes, sponges, rags, palette knives and fingers to create a finished piece and she always works outside with the weather often dictating where the paint falls.
Yvonne’s new exhibition is called ‘Tread Softly’.
STOP MAKING SENSE PARTY
Wexford Arts Centre, Saturday, July 23, 8.30 p.m. For every ticket bought to attend a Talking Heads-inspired Stop Making Sense Party on Saturday, July 23, Wexford Arts Centre will donate €1 to the Wexford LGBT Youth Support Group.
The event, with DJs Johnny Moy and Thomas Taste will feature music influenced by or related to New York City in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.
The Arts Centre is working with the Sugar Club, Stop Dancing Cinema and Encore! to bring a celebration of David Byrne’s band Talking Heads on tour.
After four-in-a-row sold-out shows at the Sugar Club, the party is hitting the road and travelling around Ireland for the first time. The music includes every genre from Disco and House to Punk and Funk.
Rare unseen photo selections from the era will play as the DJs run throught he soundtrack of one of the most culturally important cities in the world.
This is not a seated event.
ART IN THE OPEN
Wexford, last weekend of July The organisers of Wexford’s Art in the Open are delighted to confirm that 149 artists from 15 countries including Russia, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and America have signed up for this year’s event which will take place during the last week in July.
There is also an international line-up of tutors for workshops and demonstrations including the Russian award-winning artist Natalia Dik, the Florence-based American artist Marc Dalessio and Roger Dellar who exhibits in American and UK galleries.
In support of the Three Sisters bid for the European Capital of Culture, Art in the Open has spread its wings to the three counties of Wexford, Kilkenny and Waterford this year.
The gala exhibition featuring work created during the festival in locations such as Curracloe Beach, Ballymore Demesne, Inistioge and Tintern Abbey will be held once again in the Old Library building in Wellington Place on August bank holiday Sunday and Monday.
The public will be invited to join in a Charity Quick Draw in Wexford town on Saturday, July 30, with the proceeds donated to Wexford MarineWatch.