A vibrant multi-disciplinary centre in Drogheda, housed over two buildings, providing an extensive curated arts programme of theatre, music, film, visual arts, opera, dance, comedy, literature, family/children, outreach and festivals.
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DRAWDA | Drogheda Urban Art and Audio Trail
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- Date: 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2023
- Time: All Day Event
- Cost: Free Event
Drogheda Urban Art Trail – Embracing our mythological past
DRAWDA - a curated multidisciplinary public arts programme, launched in Drogheda between November 2021, and April 2022, culminating in an Urban Art Trail throughout Drogheda that focuses on key figures and moments from our mythological past.
Six murals that focus on key figures and moments from mythology, with an Audio Trail! Pick up your printed map from Droichead Arts Centre, Love Drogheda BIDS or local business’ or view it digitally online below. Then, take a stroll throughout Drogheda following the trail, and use your smart device to scan the code and listen to the mythological stories behind the murals!
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A Christmas Carol
Suitable for: Everyone Recommended age: 7+
Date: 7/12/2023 – 9/12/2023
Time: 19.00
Cost: €10/ €35-Family(2 adults, 2 children)
A Christmas Carol is the playful, physical storytelling, stage adaptation of Charles Dickens much loved novella, adapted and devised by award-winning actors Aaron Monaghan & Bryan Burroughs
Devised straight from Dickens classic text, two actors of Ireland’s most-loved performers Bryan Burroughs and Manus Halligan - dressed in snazzy suits - play all the characters at break-neck speed using an array of colourful hats, scarves and an Ikea coat-rack!
The famous cautionary tale tells the story miserly Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by ghosts who take him on a journey through his past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve.
This production is funny, slightly scary, utterly heart-warming and features a surprise special guest appearing as Tiny Tim...
For Family Tickets please choose your 4 seats, then on the drop down menu, choose family ticket, and then confirm, and your family discount ticket will be applied.
Image by Ros Kavanagh. Use by kind permission of The Ark.
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To Shape and To Form
Date: 18/11/2023 – 20/01/2024
Time: All Day Event
Cost: FREE
All three artists in this exhibition have shaped and formed their own vision and language using organic and natural shapes and images as their starting points.
Suzanne Carroll’s work in the Cooley mountains and her experimentation with materials, processes and colour - painting, printing, layering, cutting – have resulted in semi abstract compositions in which the tension between the interplay of her source materials and processes are evident.
Emma Ray’s detailed skill-full oil paintings draw attention to and explore with clarity the fore shore that is so familiar to us yet with which we seldom give the time to fully consider. An assiduous keeper of notebooks Gina Petrea’s diverse practice includes working with found building site materials and myriad source material.
Curated by Droichead Curator in Residence Dorothy Smith
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Droichead Arts Centre
Municipal Centre
26-28 Stockwell Lane
Drogheda
Co. Louth
A92 FXC6