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Culture Night: Moonfish Fantastical Time-Travelling Library Bus

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Following its premiere in May, the Fantastical Time-Travelling Library Bus returns to the Riverbank for Culture Night. This is no ordinary Library Bus. The books in this bus are doorways to the past – open one, and you never know where you might end up! Moonfish Theatre transform an ordinary Library Bus into an extraordinary

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Culture Night: The Table

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Performance Corporation presents The Table by Tom Swift In 100 years things will taste very different. Award-winning theatre-makers The Performance Corporation present a darkly comic new play about taste, food, human survival and the future. The Table is part of a suite of new work titled Expedition, developed by The Performance Corporation with Canadian

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CULTURE NIGHT – KYT present Karamazoo

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Karamazoo is a 25 minute monologue for a young performer written in 2003 by London writer Philip Ridley. It is one of the most perfect pieces of writing for a young actor, combining fresh storytelling and comic characterisation that slowly reveals an unflinching critique of a failed social policy through the savage grief of a

CULTURE NIGHT SCREENING: Cobain – Montage of Heck

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate music documentaries, this fully authorised portrait of famed music icon Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck tracks the artist from his earliest years in Aberdeen, Washington through to the height of his fame with Nirvana and explores his final unhappy unravelling with depth and understanding. Directed by

VISUAL ART: QUARANTINE PROJECT by Patricio Cassinoni with Nyree Yergainharsian

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

70 photos in 70 days, made entirely at home while in lockdown during a global pandemic. Quarantine Project is a time capsule from one of the most unique periods of recent history. We never imagined we would be making more than a handful of images, assuming any ‘lockdown’ may last two or three weeks. As

CULTURE NIGHT: Fighting Words Creative Writing Workshop

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Interested in writing? Want to explore different worlds and characters? Join Fighting Words Kildare in Riverbank Arts Centre on Culture Night, for an adult creative writing workshop. Fighting Words workshops are full of creativity as you will write original stories collectively and individually with the help of Fighting Words mentors. Warning: you will have a

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CULTURE NIGHT: Under the Palms Music Workshop

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Under the palms is a rhythm workshop using Brazilian instruments, to include agogo, caxixi, pandeiro, surdo and many more. The workshop will be led by two Brazilian percussionists, Marcio Tarktarov and William Kanela, and a jazz drummer Miles Ronayne. No prior music experience needed. Artists: Marcio Tarktarov, William Kanela, Miles Ronayne. Duration: 45min Part of

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CULTURE NIGHT: Brazilian Jazz with Kasia Eliasz & Her 9-Piece Band

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Kasia Eliasz brings her  Brazilian Jazz Quintet, Ta Tum Tum!, a Jazz harpist and a sax/flute player to one place at once! Extremely energetic, fun and musically rich group will be taking you for a journey to Brazil through Samba, Bossa Nova and Jazz! Brazilian rhythms have its roots in Africa and are one of

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CULTURE NIGHT: Super Paua Listening Party

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Cześć, fáilte isteach, bem-vindo! Join us for a series of listening parties- where a story meets a creative workshop. We will listen to stories and make our own together. These events are a part of the Super Paua Stories audio installation in our Children’s Gallery. 5:30pm Klosz Listening Party- We will start with a bilingual listening

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CULTURE NIGHT: Drop-In Exhibition Tours

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This Culture Night, join us for an evening of Visual Art, with Virtual and Augmented Realities; an immersive experience into Gavin Casey’s art exhibition SOUND | CODE | IMAGE. It will be a multi-sensory experience for all ages. Highly encouraged for anyone looking to learn more about the overlap between art and the digital realm!

Free, drop-in