Culture Night 2011
Culture Night will take place on Friday September 23rd 2011, a night of entertainment, discovery and adventure across 20 towns, cities and counties in Ireland.
Arts and cultural organisations open their doors until late with hundreds of free events, tours, talks and performances for you, your family and friends to enjoy.
Following a sucessful series of events last year, Riverbank Arts Centre is delighted to be taking part in Culture Night 2011.
The Lantern Project
A family workshop with Veronica Forsgren
Age: 4-100+
Time: 4pm, 5pm, 6pm
Duration: 40 min each session
Take an active part in the Culture Night Festivities and make an artwork for all to see!
This fun workshop for all the family is inspired by Roisin Coyle’s lightbox and miniature theatre work, which you can see in her exhibition “Myths” in the Children’s Gallery. Using mainly card and tissue paper you will learn how to design and make your own hanging lanterns.
In 40 minutes you will have made two lanterns, one that will be displayed at Riverbank Art Centre and one that you can take home with you.
Veronica Forsgren is an artist and curator based in Dublin with a Masters degree from MAVIS, IADT. In her work she uses play as a method for learning and exploration in order to better understand identity, social rules, locations and materials.
A Sense of Place - Meet the Makers
Time: 7pm
All welcome
This is a perfect opportunity to drop by to view the works by contemporary craft makers Michele Hannan, Eva Kelly and Dara O’Neill. The artists will be here to speak about their work and answer any questions.
For more information on A Sense of Place see listing on Riverbank visual arts pages.
Let’s Dance!
Time 7.30-8pm,
All welcome
As part of Culture Night, Alicia Christofi-Walshe, a founding member of expandance – a cross-Atlantic contemporary dance theatre Company - will lead us in a conversation about contemporary dance, from its beginnings in the U.S. and Europe to how it has developed as an art form here in Ireland. expandance will perform a short physically stunning and emotional dance piece inspired by Pina Bausch's statement, 'I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.'
This live performance will be followed by Wim Wender's extraordinary and thought-provoking film PINA.
Pina
Time 7.30pm
Screening 8pm
Dir by Wim Wenders
Pina is a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders. The feature-length dance film was shot with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and shows the exhilarating and inimitable art of the great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009, inviting the viewer on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: right onto the stage of the legendary ensemble and together with the dancers beyond the theater, into the city and the surrounding industrial landscape of Wuppertal – the place that was the home and center of Pina Bausch's creative life for more than 35 years.
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