Join us for the launch of How We Stand… How We Breathe, a powerful series of seven new music “interventions” created by composer Brian Irvine and writer-director John McIlduff (Dumbworld) in collaboration with the Ulster Orchestra and an extraordinary range of groups from across Northern Ireland. Recorded live over three days in Ulster Orchestra’s new home back in March, this …
Over the last few years because of Covid Pandemic restrictions, walking re-emerged as an important ritual. Often being the only way it was possible to assemble or it was the only moment of respite from being kept indoors. People re-discovered the places they lived through the act of walking. Re-discovered the nature that itself was …
Let a magical sphere take you on an outdoor sonic adventure to a secret location, guiding you by sound alone. Seemingly possessed of its own mind it guides you through familiar and unfamiliar terrain. Can you keep the sphere ‘happy’ by going in the right direction? In return the orb will lead you on a …
“Lying on our backs, we look up at the night sky. This is where stories began.” – John Berger Join us as we celebrate a wildly diverse, cosmos-crossing sound and vision experience for one weekend only! As the Our Place in Space trail comes to a close, you are invited to extend your journey into Bangor’s Court …
The project began in 2016, with an extended period of organized conversations, which took place all around the county of Meath and involved groups and individuals of young children between 7 and 11 and older people over 75. The transcripts of these conversations were then used by John & Brian to inspire and create entertaining …
The piece emerged from the desire to respond to an important contemporary moment in time – the largest migration of human beings since the second world war – an event that forces us to examine aspects of displacement, home, diversity, social integration, race, tolerance, culture, borders etc. The production aims to explore the invisible and …
For chamber orchestra and 100 singers of all ages from Carlow. Commissioned by Carlow County Council and Wide Open Opera.
Blending interviews, historical research and verbatim opera this unique work tells the story of our attempts to find the oldest woman in Limerick in Limerick and the people met along the way. A moving portrait of a town and of the 20th Century.
Set in a world where bingo, bubbles and giant rabbits conspire to create unmeasurable happiness the opera follows the lives and struggles of several interconnected individuals: Shirley, a bingo caller distributing toasters nightly and seeking solutions in the random arithmetic of bingo numbers, Morris who tries to fnd purpose and hope in the making of endless ‘to do’ …