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CULTURE NIGHT 2024 will take place next Friday, 20 September, with a jam-packed lineup of events planned in locations around the country.
It will follow last year’s success, where 1.2 million people participated in over 1,700 free cultural events.
This year, Culture Night is aiming to be more inclusive, accessible and diverse while showcasing the best of both the traditional and evolving arts in Ireland.
Here are some of the fun free events in store.
The Dublin Ink Tattoo Culture Experience will provide an opportunity to experience the art of tattooing in a unique and fun way as the talented artists at Dublin Ink share their skills and show visitors how to tattoo.
Don’t worry! Bananas will be used as the subjects.
The event starts at 7pm. No booking is required.
‘A Stitch in Time’ upcycling workshop will give tips and skills to get the best out of clothes and household fabric items.
Attendees can bring along three to five items of pre-loved clothing or textiles to be repaired, upcycled or recreated into something new.
All other materials are supplied and no sewing experience is necessary.
The event starts at 5:30pm.
This event, ‘Spark a Love of Stories with Ireland’s Children’s Book Artists’, invites you to join Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde and some of Ireland’s finest children’s authors and illustrators for an evening of live-storytelling in the window of Dubray Bookstore on Grafton Street.
While you’re there, you can visit the Children’s Books Ireland free Book Clinic and have a chat with expert Book Doctors who will prescribe your next great read.
This drop-in event runs from 5pm to 7pm.
The Marine Institute’s headquarters in Oranmore, Co Galway, will host an evening of marine-themed music, drama, art and poetry from 7pm.
Oranmore’s drama group, Bualadh Bos, will perform the one-act play ‘Adrift’ by George Infini. This comedic play centres on three men set adrift at sea after a failed mutiny, who must set aside their differences and await rescue.
There will also be poetry readings, live musical performances, and exhibitions on display.
September is traditionally a time for Polish digging. Both nations, the Irish and the Poles, like potatoes in various forms.
This drop-in event, running from 4pm, will show you some of the history and traditions associated with potatoes.
You can also sample Polish cuisine, with potato pancakes prepared for tasting on site.
Potatoes will also be used for artistic activities.
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Ireland really is developing into a multicultural nation, which is wonderful, it really is super to see people of all cultures and backgrounds coming together to enjoy themselves
@Mowler Duffy: It’s long overdue, we’ve been so poor for so long it’s really only the last 30 years where the place has been perceived as ‘liveable’ by those looking for space and time.
@Mowler Duffy:
More culture in a tub of yoghurt!
The auld ones are the best!!
Joeseph Goebbels once said ” Whenever anyone mentions culture, I reach for my revolver”, he wasn’t all bad so!
@Brian Hunt: whenever anybody mentions Goebbels I reach for the sick bag
@Brian Hunt: Murdered his kids.
@Brian Hunt: Inane comment.
@Brian Hunt: hard to swallow that this comment is not percieved to be toxic.
@Brian Hunt: hard to swallow that this comment is not perceived as toxic.
@Brian Hunt: The comment is often attributed to Goering, but originates in the 1933 play Schlageter by the German dramatist Hanns Johst.
@Karin Ahlers: It’s not at all surprising that Brian is a philistine.
@Brian Hunt: Another low IQ comment …
@Thesaltyurchin: Hearsay!!
Kyle Hayes gets away with a tap on the wrist again. I’m guessing he has to actually k1!! someone to get more than a suspended sentence
@Jennifer Kennedy: is he suspended from Culture Night?
@Mowler Duffy: Well he should be in prison so he should be suspended from culture night but alas no, he isn’t.
@Brian D’Arcy: I see, he seems a bad sort alright
That’s not culture,. Culture is getting me pony and going sulky racing on the dual carriageway . Culture is getting me lurchers and going into a random farmers field lookin for hares to chase and catch and if his animals end up in the ditch, it’s notin to do with me boss! Culture is loading me ford transit (low top) up with cheap Chinese tools and flogging them to auld lads for 10 times there value, I’ll even bring them down to the post office, if the haven’t a car. . Culture is meeting up with the cousins at a funeral for bit of bare knuckle then heading into the pub for a discriminatory drink!
@P. V. Aglue: And this isn’t considered toxic?
@P. V. Aglue: you wouldn’t say that to Mr Joyce
Ah yes Goebbels, the propaganda God, so influential he was copied by the russians
emulated by the Left and praised by members of a certain religion..very dangerous man whose practices persist to this day, MSM comes to mind
@Finbarr Norris: He didn’t say it, though.
Other things come to my mind, e.g. Trump and the far right.
@Finbarr Norris: Edward Bernays was far more successful and influential imo. In terms of propaganda there is an irony to your comment, being that the Church are probs the biggest proponents historically.
@Finbarr Norris: Propaganda was created by a Jew named Edward Bernays. He was related to Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and also related to Marc Randolph, the Jewish founder of Netflix, which promotes propaganda.
@Science: That’s some serious antisemitism. I bet you hate science too.
@Brendan O’Brien: Dunno if it is given the context (we’re talking about Nazis) but would argue it’s incorrect given Propaganda has been around as long as we have, he certainly repurposed very neatly into PR tho.
@Science: propaganda wasn’t created by anyone, it’s a manipulation tool used by those in power. Been going on a long time
Not much culture going on if it can be crammed into one night. Maybe a culture week or even a culture month would be more appropriate.
@Brian Hunt.
The quote is both inaccurate and mis attributed.
It is from a play, although one written by a nazi sympathiser.
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