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Wednesday 10th October 2018 12.00pm

Thursday 11th October 2018 12.00pm

Thursday 11th October 2018 8pm

Price: 
€10
€5 concession for schools and OAPs

Booking fee: online 1.50 / telephone €2
Bookings: 021 450 7487 (Box Office Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

“Did you hear about Pablo?” are the opening words of ‘Bring Me Back Alive’, a thought provoking story about the suicide of a young man in his prime. The words, spoken from one of his friends to another, echo similar conversations being had throughout our society, as a group of six companions battle to make sense of their loss.

The award-winning play by writer Patricia McCann, set in a youth centre in present day, highlights Jessica, Nadia, Jocker, Robyn, Daryll & Peaches attempt to exit the shadow of grief cast by Pablo’s untimely death.

 ‘Bring Me Back Alive’ skillfully straddles drama and comedic storytelling, representative of Patricia McCann’s strong writing style, through the raw truth of her social consciousness.  She does this while all the time reminding us that even in our darkest of hours, where there’s life there’s hope. The play highlights the warning signs to look for in a person contemplating suicide. The main theme is to show there is hope; there is an alternative. The play is written in as light-hearted a way as possible in order to give hope to those who need it most.

Directed by Darren Kelleher

ONLINE BOOKING 

Sunday 14th October 2018 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

Junk Ensemble will work with physical, verbal and non-verbal tasks to create tools for devising in dance theatre. The workshop will focus on creation of individual and group material through choreography and text using music-led exercises. This workshop is open to dance artists, choreographers, theatre practitioners and directors, film directors, dance and theatre students.

Junk Ensemble is an award-winning Dublin-based dance company founded by joint Artistic Directors and identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy to create works of brave and imaginative dance theatre. Previous Artists in Residence at Tate Britain and current Cork Dance Artists in Residence at Firkin Crane, the company have won Best Production Award, Best Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Performer, Culture Ireland Touring Award, Excellence and Innovation Award and are listed a Sunday Times Highlight. Their productions are often created in collaboration with artists from other disciplines to produce a rich mix of visual and performance styles that seeks to challenge the traditional audience performer relationship. This approach has led to productions being created in non-traditional or found spaces as well as more conventional theatre spaces. Junk Ensemble’s work continues to tour nationally and internationally. Junk Ensemble are Project Artists, an initiative of Project Arts Centre. www.junkensemble.com

Monday 15th October 2018 10am

Monday 15th October 2018 12pm

Monday 15th October 2018 2pm

Tuesday 16th October 2018 10am

Tickets: €15
For School Bookings contact Ann Rea on (021) 4507487 or email ann@firkincrane.ie

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 26th October 2018 8pm

Saturday 27th October 2018 8pm

Price: €23

On Valentine’s day 1920, Mamie Smith stepped up to the microphone in the Okeh Company in New York and shouted out “That Thing Called Love”, making the first recording by a black female vocalist. It led to a second recording which sold 75,000 copies in its first month of release and since then artists like Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and Billie Holiday, amongst others have helped transform the Blues from a folk art to a global music form.

 In ‘Ladies in the Blues’ we pay tribute to these women, singing such songs as CC Ryder, St James Infirmary, Black Coffee Blues, I Put a Spell on You, Bring it on Home to Me, Ball and Chain, Piece of My Heart, Feelin’ Good, Little Red Rooster, I’d Rather Go Blind, Ain’t Nobody’s Business and many more.  

This live music show, charting women’s role in the evolution of the blues features singers, Flo Mc Sweeney, she of Moving Hearts fame. Also on board are Clara Rose, Ireland’s songstress of rockin’ blues who has recently toured with the great Don Baker; Bray native, Emma Nicolai and Dun Laoghaire Queen of Vaudeville, Jhil Quin on washboard and vocals.

The show’s ‘house band’ comprises Ed Deane on guitar, James Delaney on keys, Eoghan O’Neill on bass and Kevin Malone on drums. This band, the cream of JJ Smyth’s Irish blues scene, have performed on world stages and have released a single from the show “Jelly Roll”. The album “Ladies In The Blues Live” is set for release this month.

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Tickets available shortly

Friday 9th November 8pm

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 26th October)

Special offers also available for groups of 5 and 10

Booking fee: online €1.50 / telephone €2
Booking (021) 450 7487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Helica is a fusion of movement and music exploring the cyclical nature of life. A flowing, graceful performance that brings us on the emotional journey of the coming and going of the seasons, the constant flux of growth and decay, awakening thriving and returning to rest. Highlighting the need to create centres, within ourselves, between each other and our surroundings to maintain balance and harmony, Helica, meaning spiral, is a colourful, meditative and vibrant dance performance.

Helga Deasy is a choreographer and dance artist based in Cork. She has performed and presented her work nationally and internationally, including Dance Umbrella Festival (UK), Bonnie Bird Theatre (UK), Theater an der Universität Regensburg (Germany), Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement (Northern Ireland) and in Ireland at Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork Opera House, the Firkin Crane and Dublin Dance Festival.

Supported by a Culture Ireland Award Helica toured to New York in June of this year for a performance at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Laban Institute of Movement Studies.

“Helica is such an engaging performance, the combination of the dance and music is intense and emotional.” – Aifric McMahon, audience member (Laban Institute of Movement Studies 40^th anniversary celebration, New York, June 2018).

“Helica really is a ‘total work of art’ (…) with this particular piece of Contemporary Dance, the Choreographer and Director Helga Deasy, had brought together the three things that elude so many performances; movement, sound and sight into a cohesive and unified whole. Each element in the work had been thought through and balanced against the other, leaving the audience immersed in a controlled and engaged experience” – Dermot Browne, audience member, artist & curator (Helica performance at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, October 2017).

Friday 30th November 8pm

Butter Nights, a shared performance platform is an evening designed to exchange ideas, movement and food between artists based in Cork and adjoining counties. This is a unique opportunity to see new movement works or re-designed performance pieces from the five artists: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, Natasha Bourke, Gracie Marshall, Rachel Ní Bhraonáin and Lisa Cahill. The night will be an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and meet with other artists and members of the public over dinner.

Butter nights is made possible by the support of Firkin Crane providing 70 hours of free studio time to create the works as well as technical and design support from the Firkin Crane Dance Team of specialists.

This inaugural event is supported by the Per Cent for Arts Scheme in connection with the publicly funded refurbishment project Re-Imagining Firkin Crane.