Hullabaloo!Offaly's Children's Arts Festival

Hullabaloo!Offaly's Children's Arts Festival

Wed 1 Nov - Sat 4 Nov

Birr Edenderry & Clara

Info: Booking Opens Thursday 5 October @ 3pm:

Four days of incredible art making activities/workshops and live performances during Halloween half term break. The festival introduces children up to the age of 12 to a range of different art forms. Visit www.hullabaloofestival.ie for all the events and booking.

Launch of Exhibition Head Full of Dreams

Thurs 19 Oct @ 2.30pm

Arás an Chontae, Tullamore

Info: Offaly County Council is pleased to host a unique and fun exhibition called Head Full of Dreams by the students of St Mary’s Secondary School, Edenderry. The students have worked maticuously to create spectacular and extremely imaginative hats of all shapes sizes, materials and texture. Exhibition continues until Monday 6th November.

Cost: Free

Contact: arts@offalycoco.ie or (057) 9357400

Crime writers Andrea Carter and Jo Spain

Thurs 2 Nov @ 6.30pm

Tullamore Library

Info: Reading from their perspective books

Cost: Free.

Contact: Tel: 057 9346832 Email: Tullamorelibrary@offalycoco.ie

Mind Over Matter - A national day of design in aid of mental health

The Junction Business Innovation Centre, Tullamore

Thurs 2 Nov

Info: This is a national day of design in aid of mental health; it aims to raise awareness around mental health and has a goal to raise in excess of €50,000 with all proceeds going to Aware. Consultations are open for booking, so if your business is in need of some design this is a perfect opportunity for you to meet and get consultancy advice from some of Ireland’s best design talent.

Cost: €60 Booking essential

Contact: https://idimindovermatter.ie/get-involved/

Romantic Turmoil performed by The Delmaine String Sextet

Sun Nov 5 @ 8pm

Birr Theatre & Arts Centre

Info: A performance of the Sextet No.2 in G major by Johannes Brahms, accompanied by readings from the letters and journals of Brahms, Clara Schumann and Agathe von Siebold.

Brahms Second Sextet is a rich, romantic and complex work which reflects the composer’s confused emotional life in the preceding years. This special performance is accompanied by readings which explore Brahms’ lifelong struggle to escape loneliness and to find love. It also features two of Brahms’ achingly beautiful songs of unrequited longing.

Performed by The Delmaine String Sextet with Michael James Ford, Bairbre Ní Chaoimh and Ava Dodd (soprano).

Cost: €15/12 €8 (students)

Contact: www.birrtheatre.com Box Office (057) 91 22911

Tullamore Library Film Club - Becoming Jane

Tullamore Library

Thurs 9 Nov 5.30 – 7.45pm

Info: Showing a film about author Jane Austen

Cost: No charge. All welcome

Contact: Tel: 057 9346832 Email: Tullamorelibrary@offalycoco.ie