Christmas is on its way at the Ardhowen Theatre with festive shows and workshops
THE Ardhowen has a fantastic fun-packed programme lined up for the festive season.
On Friday, November 18 at 8pm, Music In Fermanagh, in association with Moving On Music, presents The Fidelio Trio and Cillian Vallely.
Fidelio Trio perform a suite of newly-commissioned music in a unique collaboration featuring uilleann piper Cillian Vallely (of Lúnasa renown).
Celebrated Irish composers who have created new music for this project include Linda
Buckley, Niall Vallely and Rose Connolly (commissioned by Moving On Music) and Shaun Davey, Neil Martin and Irene Buckley.
Each piece of music has been directly inspired by J. B. Vallely’s art and will be accompanied by visuals of the artist’s work.
A loan exhibition of paintings by the artist is now on show at the Ardhowen until Monday, November 28.
Enniskillen Light Operatic returns to the Ardhowen stage with their first full musical since 2019, presenting Disney’s smash-hit musical, ‘The Little Mermaid’, running from Thursday, November 24 to Saturday, December 3 at 8pm.
Follow the trials and tribulations of beautiful young mermaid Ariel as she falls in love with dashing Prince Eric and makes a deal with the evil sea witch Ursula to become human – but at a terrible cost ...
It promises to be a fantastic family show with wonderful
Disney songs, including ‘Under The Sea’, ‘Kiss The Girl’ and ‘Part Of Your World’.
From music to art, and the Creatives School of Art team facilitate their second week of Creating Christmas on Canvas workshops on Saturday, November 19, where participants can paint their very own seasonal masterpiece.
Open to young artists aged 7 to 14 years, all materials will be supplied and guidance will be given by artists, Gail Turner and Gergana Nikolova.
The Ardhowen is offering more seasonal crafts in the Christmas Card-making workshop on Saturday, November 26 and Christmas Decorations
Workshop on Saturday, December 3, both at 2.30pm.
The workshops are facilitated by local artist Genevieve Murphy and are suitable for children aged five to eight years of age.
Genevieve is back with the Christmas Treasure Boxes workshop, for children aged seven to 10 years old, on Saturday, December 10.
Centre Stage Theatre
Company presents ‘Santa’s
Sooty Christmas’, a fun family show from Wednesday, December 7 to Friday 9.
All seats are sold for acclaimed Eagles tribute, Talon, on Friday, December 9 but there is plenty more fantastic music on offer with
Anthony Toner performing in the Gallery Bar on Saturday, December 10; Human Touch: Springsteen – A Tribute on Sunday, December 11; Paul Kelly and Friends on Thursday, December 15; ABBA tribute, The Bjorn Identity, on Friday,
December 16; and Christmas Crooners on Saturday, December 17.
On Sunday, December 18, father and son, Frank and JJ Mcnamara perform together in The Apple & The Tree; Fermanagh School of Music and
Performing Arts present two showcase events on Monday, December 19 and Wednesday, December 21, and Declan Nerney returns on Thursday, December 22.
Jake O’kane on Thursday, December 29 and the Pure Country show, on Friday, December 30 will provide some fabulous live entertainment.
The Ardhowen, in association with Fermanagh Film Club, presents ‘Compartment No. 6’ (Cert 16A) on Wednesday, December 14 – Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s tale of adventure, self-discovery and human connection.
On Tuesday, December 20, the film club presents ‘Benediction’ (Cert 12A), the story of Siegfried Sassoon.
Added to all this are two special Christmas film screenings on Saturday, December 10, with ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ at noon, and ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ at 5pm.