EntertainingSligo
TYPE
Calling all drama enthusiasts and actors. There’s a great opportunity to participate in an exciting new creative partnership at the Hawk’s Well Theatre this August. Theatre maker Kellie Hughes, will be developing a new theatre show; TYPE, at the Hawk’s Well this August, in collaboration with Italian movement specialists Oscar Valsecchi and Valentina Temussi, German composer/musician David Stalling and Irish visual artist/ scenographer Michael Cummins.
All those interested in acting and drama can become part of the theatrical experience as the creative team present a first sharing of this new work-in-development this August. TYPE engages with our past, present and imagined future relationship with the workplace. Starting with the routine of everyday life in an office, TYPE will present two office workers journeying simultaneously through their working day and life, delving into the tragedy, comedy, ritual, laughter, frustrations, daydreams and politics of the workplace along the way.
If you are interested in getting involved and participating in the creative process or one or more of the drama workshops please contact the Hawk’s Well Theatre box office on 071 9161518 or email boxoffice@hawkswell.com.
FREE THEATRE WORKSHOPS You are invited to be part of this theatrical experience by joining the production team in a series of creative exploration workshops.
WORK IN PROGRESS SHARING & AFTER SHOW TALK, TUES 29 AUG | 8PM
CREATING THEATRE WORKSHOP | TUES 15 AUG | 6-9PM Explore ways to develop new work using a variety of literary and visual sources as inspiration.
MOVEMENT & PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP | TUES 22 AUG | 6PM-9PM Develop skills in physical storytelling, movement clarity, articulation and prop manipulation.
JUNIOR MUSIC SESSIONS
Junior Music Session continues every Saturday night through August. Fiona Doherty along with Coleman Centre musicians invite young musicians to showcase their talent in music, song and dance. This show will entertain audiences with a wide variety of Irish traditional music, song and dance. Audience participation is welcome. Visitors from home and abroad can get a taste of the real Ireland! All shows commence at 8.30pm. Booking and enquiries 071 9182599 or www.cole- manirishmusic.com.
JACK B YEATS: LIVES
This exhibition at The Model will enable audiences to trace the development of key characters in Jack Butler Yeats’ work, through an exploration of his illustrations, pencil sketches, watercolours and the iconic oil paintings of his later mature period. In a practice that spanned seven decades and displayed a wide variety of styles, it is interesting to note that Yeats’ subject-matter changed very little from his earliest work to his latest.
The characters he encountered in the west of Ireland – the sea-farer, the market-trader, the street balladeer – became the mainstay of his artistic life. The meaning of this cast of marginal characters however, changed significantly over the years. As romantic depictions of rural people and ordinary life gave way to more gritty and realistic representations of Irishness, so too, in turn, did this give way to a more expressionistic treatment of the human figure in his later work.
CALRY PARISH CHURCH 3 MILE FUN RUN
This is the 8th Annual Race, taking place on September 9 th. There will also be children’s races at 2pm on The Mall, Sligo. Registration for both the 3 mile race and the children’s races are from 12.30 pm in The Catacombs on The Mall. Entry Fee is €10 Seniors / Veterans, €5 Juniors and €2 for the children’s races
Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Senior, Veteran and Junior Male & Female Runners, 1st Walker and prizes will also be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Boy & Girl in the various categories in the children’s races. There will also be numerous spot prizes awarded on the day.
Tea & Refreshments and the prizegiving will take place after the race in The Catacombs on The Mall.
AAI Licence Permit has been approved and granted since the 21st July 2017.
INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
Celebrate the 70 th Indian Independence Day in Sligo today (Tuesday) from 9.30am at The Showgrounds.
Councillor Hubert Keaney, Mayor of Sligo, will be the guest of honour at the event.