Roscommon Arts Centre hosts Stacey Gregg’s award winning play Scorch on Thursday October 20th at 8pm. Scorch has just returned from a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it picked up no less than five awards, including Best Actor for Amy McAllister. Amy McAllister portrays a troubled teenage girl called Kez that
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Spells Rum and Black Music Club, Ballaghaderreen are hosting an Open Mic night this Friday, October 14th, in aid of the Refugee Camp at Calais. The night will feature Music, song, poems and more. Admission is free but there will be a Raffle and donation Jar available. All funds raised will go towards providing urgent
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Roscommon Arts Centre has enlisted the expertise of professional musicians Alan Kelly and Steph Germia to help establish “R Time” – Roscommon traditional Irish Music Ensemble. Roscommon Arts Centre are looking for 20 young people aged 12 – 19, who are already somewhat experienced traditional musicians and who would be interested in meeting and working
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Roscommon LEADER Partnership will hold a Creativity in Youth Work Fair’ in the Kilbride Community Centre, Four Mile House, this Saturday, October 8th, from 9:30am to 3pm. The Fair will explore the immense potential of entrepreneurship and creativity and the positive/life changing affect these can have on young people. The schedule for the day is
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Roscommon County Council is hosting two free Workshops aimed at providing better habitats for Bees as part of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan. Irish bees, crucial in the pollination of our plants, trees and vegetables, are in decline. This is because we’ve drastically reduced the areas where they can nest and the amount of food our
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Actor Seamus O’Rourke has delighted Roscommon audiences over the last few years with stellar performances in various productions and this Friday October 7th, he returns to Roscommon Arts Centre with Cavan writer John McManus’s latest production DANGER MONEY – a beautiful ‘close-up’ of rural Irish life. Often described as being of the same ilk, John
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Following on from her critically acclaimed success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Maxine Jones is bringing her hilariously funny act ‘Now We Are 60’ to the Trinity Arts Centre, Castlerea. The gig, on Saturday October 15th is part of her nationwide tour and promises to be a night, full of belly laughs, not to be
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Tomorrow’s Lough Key parkrun – the free, weekly, timed 5k event, coincides with International parkrun Day. This is an occasion when every parkrun event worldwide celebrates the first parkrun which took place in Teddington, London on October 2nd 2004. parkrun organise free, weekly, 5km timed runs around the world. They are open to everyone, and
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The 3rd annual Lecarrow Harvest Festival and Exhibition takes place this Saturday October 1st at 12pm on the lands of James & Eleanor Coffey, at Lecarrow Village. The event, which is organised by St Johns Community Centre, is a traditional exhibition with corn being harvested by old fashioned methods to include the hook, scythe, horse
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If it’s October, then its Lollipops month at Roscommon Arts Centre! Their annual, month-long season of events for young audiences boasts aerial dance, music performances, a new show for early years audiences and more workshops with the ever-popular brickflicks gang! We’re targeting schools this year with most of our performances happening during school time. Aerial
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Last Friday the Roscommon Enterprise Office launched a specially curated exhibition of a selection of the very best of Roscommon craft and design at The Leitrim Design House. Picture Credit: Geraldine Beirne The exhibitors include Geraldine Beirne, who is a Textile Artist specialising in bespoke Textile Art pieces. Her work incorporates traditional and contemporary hand
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Don’t miss this opportunity to see the internationally treasured, Tom Hickey perform his celebrated role in Tom MacIntyre’s The Gallant John Joe at Roscommon Arts Centre. The Hickey/ MacIntyre collaborations are an integral part of Irish theatrical history. Together they are responsible for some of the most ground-breaking new writing and performance seen on the
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Top sporting personalities including former Manchester United and England captain, Gary Neville, Irish Rugby defence coach, Andy Farrell and Connacht Head Coach, Pat Lam will line out for Huddle Dublin, a new sport themed performance conference taking place on Thursday, 29th of September at the iconic Aviva Stadium. The one-day performance, leadership and networking event
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Plans are well advanced for the second running of the Darren McGlynn Memorial Tractor Run, which takes place on Sunday next, September 25th. The event takes place from the McGlynn home in Cloonfour, located mid way between Tarmonbarry and Rooskey. It is open to both vintage and modern tractors. The Route Tractors will travel in
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On Saturday last RTÉ’s Celebrity Operation Transformation came to County Roscommon to take part in the weekly Lough Key parkrun and a bumper crowd followed. Actor and Comedian Katherine Lynch, and Operation Transformation Coach Karl Henry joined the regular Lough Key “parkrunners” for a 5k run/walk/jog around beautiful Lough Key Forest Park. Numbers at the
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