Kildare Arts Collective – ART FEEDS… the video artists

ART FEEDS… by Kildare Art Collective & Friends is a collaborative project developed as a platform to process and document our lives throughout these strange times, while creating an opportunity for communication, conversation and crossover between disciplines. 31 participating artists worked collaboratively exchanging ideas and working together using alternative methods of communication such as email, letter, carrier pigeon, phone calls, …

Some ‘deadly’ Hallowe’en Art with Marta

Riverbank Arts Centre invited artist Marta Golubowska to design  some ‘deadly’ Hallowe’en Arts and Crafts for families to try. Each video is about 15 minutes and suitable for a variety of ages – join Marta to make Mexican-inspired printed Sugar Skulls, Guatemalan Kites, Tinfoil Monsters and A Haunted House Lamp. Marta Golubowska is an artist living and working in Kildare. …

SCHOOLS: Riverbank Arts Centre’s WHITEBOARD programme

This Autumn, we’ve launched a WHITEBOARD Schools programme – a series of interactive arts broadcast to the schools throughout Kildare featuring leading children’s writers, illustrators and theatre-makers. In 2019, 6,500 children from 41 schools attended events at Riverbank Arts Centre as part of a school trip. We are committed to programming for primary and secondary schools in an innovative way this Autumn, despite the …

Pure Mental by Keith Walsh on National Tour!

++Due to the introduction of Covid 19 Level 5 restrictions, this tour will now take place in Summer 2021++ Riverbank Arts Centre presents the world premiere of Keith Walsh’s debut play,  Pure Mental,  originally due on national tour in November 2020, the world premiere and tour will now take place in Summer 2021. Having finished up a 5-year stint presenting, …

Kildare Readers Festival 2020 – all online!

Kildare Readers Festival is brought to you every year in October by Kildare County Library and Arts Service, culminating in busy closing weekend of events and activities at Riverbank Arts Centre.  The festival aims to connect readers with authors and artists, working to bring the very best from the world of literature to audiences through the provision of exciting, innovative …

Announcing our Momentum Award recipients

Announcing the five recipients of the very first Riverbank Arts Centre MOMENTUM AWARD (well, nine actually as two residencies are collaborative ones!). Congrats to all the artists/practitioners listed below – and also huge thanks to all the applicants and to our panel of independent assessors. The standard of the residency proposals was exceptionally high. We look forward to working these …