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Anyone who has been to a Hen Party in Kilkenny will know that Kilkenny is a place to be for fun, anyone who
went to Kilkenny for a Stag Party is probably still there. Kilkenny Arts
Festival is like a big party, loads of activities, loads of people and loads of
fun.
We’re going to be at the
Kinsale Arts Festival on July 13 and we’ll also be back in Derry for the
Culture TECH festival in September, but we’re also heading to the Kilkenny Arts
Festival in August for not one, not two but three very special Banter sessions
over the course of a week.
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The idea of doing some
Bantering in the Marble City first came about at last year’s festival and, with
huge thanks to festival director Rosemary Collier and her team, we’ve managed
to put together a damn good programme, including one or two sessions which
we’ve been hoping to do for ages, for the festival’s 40th anniversary. Stag Party
Banter On Music Hen Party in Kilkenny
Set Theatre, John Street;
Saturday August 10
Everybody Loves Our Town
When it comes to the story
of the Seattle grunge explosion, Mark Yarm’s fantastic oral history Everybody
Loves Our Town is one of the definitive reads on that fabled city and such
bands as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney and more. The
Guardian called it “a Herculean work of interviewing and editing which gives
everyone a voice, from the biggest stars to the lowliest foot soldiers”. Mark
joins us at Banter to talk about the book, the Seattle scene and the grunge
legacy. Stag Party
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Around the same time as
Seattle was blowing up, Kilkenny was having its own moment in the sun thanks to
a host of local bands, a brilliant dive venue called the New Park Inn and a
host of other factors. Cormac Battle (Kerbdog, 2fm), Canice Kenealy (Engine
Alley) and Malcolm Noonan (Jerusalem Taxis) rewind the city’s musical legacy.
The Neil Hannon
Retrospective in 35 Minutes Stag Party
The story of Neil Hannon,
The Divine Comedy, “My Lovely Horse” and the Duckworth Lewis Method in 35
minutes . Kilkenny Hen Party Packages
Banter On Music will also
feature special guest performances during the course of the afternoon. Stag Party
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National Craft Gallery,
Wednesday August 14, 7pm
What the hell is Irish
style? Kilkenny Hen Party Packages
It’s our favourite kind of
Banter panel – one with a lot of questions. What is Irish style? Is there such
a thing? How does it manifest itself in Irish fashion? Is Irish style bright
orange in colour? Do Irish men know anything about style? What does Irish style
look like in the future? Our panel for this walk down the catwalk: Angela
Scanlon (TV presenter, fashion writer and stylist) and Sonya Lennon (RTE Off
the Rails, Lennon Courtney).Stag Party
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The Parade Tower at Kilkenny
Castle, Saturday August 17, 2pm Stag Party
State of the art Stag Party
The Kilkenny Arts Festival
turns 40 this year so it’s timely to look at the past, present and the future
of the arts sector in Ireland. Colm Tóibín (novelist and playwright), Maureen
Kennelly (arts producer, programmer, curator of the Mountains to Sea DLR Books
Festival and former director of the Kilkenny Arts Festival and Cúirt
International Festival of Literature), Donnacha Dennehy (composer and Crash
Ensemble founder) and Willie White (Dublin Theatre Festival artistic director
and chief executive) discuss what we’re learned over the last 40 years, the
issues which the arts sector believe should be sorted out today and where
things go from here.
Political reform Stag Party
It is the great cry of the
political chattering classes: we need reform! Yet as various opinion polls have
showed, the Irish electorate place the need for reform very far down on their
list of priorities. Just how serious are we about reforming how our political
system works – or doesn’t work? Is it merely a case of some politicians paying
lip service to the idea to score points or is there an actual hunger for
meaningful, pragmatic change? a conversation with some interested parties,
including Harry McGee (Irish Times) and Sarah O’Neill (Dailwatch) about the
real issues behind the clarion call for reform. Hen Party in Kilkenny
Tickets are now on sale for
all three Banter sessions from the festival box-office. Admission is €13 and
€11 or you can buy a special Banter bundle for all three Banters for €30. Stag Party
Of course, there’s a ton of
other stuff besides Banter happening in Kilkenny over the course of the
festival including some superb work from Bob & Roberta Smith, a performance
from Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band, local boyo Jeremy Hickey AKA R.S.A.G,
a discussion on the birth of the Irish trade union movement to mark the
centenary of the 1913 Dublin lockout, the luminarium from Architects of Air and
AC Grayling giving the Hubert Butler Lecture on how great literature can enrich
all our lives. Hen Party in Kilkenny
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Kilkenny Hen Party Packages