riverbank arts centre september listings

Crooked Mice Children’s Drama Workshop Every Saturday @ 10pm
Course fee: €100 per term
Catering for 3 age groups ranging from 5 to 13, Crooked Mice meets every Saturday morning. The programme develops and channels children’s innate skills of storytelling, play, performance and collaboration in a year long programme (with three terms) delivered by children’s drama facilitators.

Community Dance Friday 15th & 16th September
The Laban Guild Community Dance Leaders course, Level 1 which commenced in 2006, continues throughout 2007 in Riverbank Arts Centre. Co-ordinated by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the 11 week course attracts artists, teachers and drama facilitators from across Ireland.

MOVIES

Howl’s Moving Castle
Saturday 1st September @ 2.30
Admission: €5
Half WW2 siege, and half Tolkien magical play, this film plays on dreams and wonderfully created characters which appeal to adults and children alike.

MUSIC

The Dublin Guitar Quartet
August 15th @ 8pm
Admission €15/12
The Dublin Guitar Quartet is a quartet with difference. The structure of the group is unique in that Bolger and Brunnock play eight and eleven-string guitars.

Country Legends
27th September @ 8pm
Admission €20
For all fans of Country music and great music this is a night out full of all your favourites!

Abba
28th September @ 8pm
Admission €20
From “Waterloo” to “Dancing Queen” every favourite is here. Not to be missed.
The finest ABBA show you will ever see!

COMEDY

Maeve Higgins
23rd September @ 8pm
Admission €18/€16
"A master of edgy comedy" - The Sunday Times
Maeve featured in the hit show Naked Camera on RTE2, where along with PJ Gallagher and Patrick McDonnell, she tricks unsuspecting members of the public, then feels bad, but keeps doing it anyway because it is fun. Enjoy her comic stylings in Riverbank.

DRAMA

Ma’s Last Word
Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd September @ 8pm
Admission €20
George McMahon known to the nation as “Mondo” in Fair City has written a hilarious and provoking new comedy with his onscreen dad Mick Nolan.
Its a Dublin comedy but with a dark underside playing and provoking questions about the Irish male and what makes a family and “who you are exactly”?

Visual Arts

Based on Dreams
Katarzyna Gajewska
Thursday 9 August to Thursday 6 September
Irvin Welsh; “Katarzyna's paintings are haunting and emotional, all the more visceral due to her methods of painting. The fact that she uses her hands gives the paintings an amazingly powerful primitive feel. The figures feel as if they are emerging or disappearing. They occupy a peripheral world like ghosts and this gives them a stunning intensity and power"

An Fómhar Lynda Tobin-Howes
In(ter)dependant Fifi Smith
Thursday 13 September to Wednesday 10 October
Riverbank Arts Centre is hosting two artists, whose work, although very different at first glance, have, at a basic level links and connections.
Tobin-Howes works with glass and creates a new visual world using the reflective and light transmitting qualities of glass. Using movement, light and shadow Smith explores the relationship between the individual and the crowd.