1. art and entertainment
2. dance

9pm Upstairs at Dolans
€10
Brad Pitt Light Orchestra
Christmas Shindig
Brad Pitt Light Orchestra
Christmas Shindig takes
places Upstairs at Dolans
following their thoroughly
cultural year during
Limerick’s tenure as National
City of Culture culminating
in producing the world
premiere of ‘The Unlucky
Cabin Boy’, a musical
theatre project which saw their songsmith, David Blake, write
songs and lyrics for the show alongside scriptwriter Mike
Finn and the band performing and acting onstage. The BPLO’s
Christmas show promises to be a joyful night to remember.
Tickets from Dolans on www.dolans.ie
all day
Tell Me Something
Describe #Limerick2014
in one word and send
to Tell Me Something,
Cleeve’s Chimney by visiting
tellmesomething.today
/ texting 0876445950 / or
tweeting @CleeveFactory
to have your one word
description beamed across
Limerick from Cleeve’s
Chimney by Andrew Kearney’s
provoking installation.
admission
THE MILK MARKET 12PM-4PM
CARNIVAL
EXTRAVAGANZA
free
• Fidget Feet Aerial Dance and Street
Theatre Stilt walkers, flamethrower & aerialists
• Owen & Moley ó Súilleabháin
• Scoil Uí Ruairc Irish Dance
• Limrockerz Crew & Bazzy Burke
• Limerick Gospel Choir
• Ras Mikey C: Taste of Africa
• Little Tents
• Godknows & Mynameisjohn
• Drum Circle
Saturday 27th December 2014
Further information
Further information on the Limerick Winter Carnival
from www.limerickcityofculture.ie
Family friendly event
10am, 1pm & 4pm LSAD Gallery
FREE
Disney Frozen Sing-A-Long
SOLD
OUT
Disney and Limerick
City of Culture present
Disney Frozen Sing-Along a special sing-along
event which will take
place in the Limerick
School of Art and Design Gallery in celebration of the release
of the sing-along edition of the world’s biggest animation of
all time. Three screenings will take place at 10am, 1pm and
4pm with the famous Limerick Children’s choir Cantettte
singing along with the movie for one of the showings, and the
other two showings performed by Limerick’s own animator
extraordinaire Norma Lowney.
Sing your heart out to the most popular musical movie of
all time. Enter a Frozen winter wonderland and get your
face painted, hair braided, colour in your favourite Frozen
character, or get your photo taken with them. Then settle in
and get ready to raise the roof!
12pm - 4pm Milk Market
Carnival Extravaganza
circus, dance, street
theatre and song
A free family-friendly Carnival
Extravaganza is taking
place at the Milk Market
from 12pm till 4pm with
circus, dance, street
theatre and song.
Arrive early to take
part in the opening
FREE
to call into flight the aerial dance company Fidget Feet as
they transform the iconic Milk Market tent into a flying
dance spectacular, and see the Snow Queen fly through the
air. Then MCs Owen and Moley Ó Súilleabháin will host a
parade of talent on stage, from African chant and dance,
jazzy sing-along classics, break-dancing, beatboxing and Irish
Dubstep-dancing, all gelled together with family-friendly DJ
vibes. Performers include Drum Dance Ireland, God Knows and
MynameisjOhn, Bazzy B and the Limerockers Crew, Ras Mikey
Courtney and O’dyke Nzewi, and the award-winning Scoil Uí
Ruairc dance school.
4pm - 6pm St John’s Pavilion, Mulgrave St
Are You Dancing?
FREE
If you missed Are You Dancing?
earlier this year, you have another
opportunity to participate at St. John’s
Pavilion on Mulgrave Street from 4pm
to 6pm. This is the perfect venue for
this showband-era ballroom dancing
event, as it has been associated with
dancing for over 70 years.
from 5pm Creative Nature Garden
LANDLOCKED
FREE
outdoor projection
portrait of Limerick
LANDLOCKED an outdoor video
projection by artist Christina
Gangos, a series of documentary
video portraits of Limerick
residents, screening in the Creative
Nature Garden, on the corner of
Thomas Street and Anne Street.
€20
SOLD
Phoenix Rising OUT
8pm St Mary’s Cathedral
Join Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and
the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for
Phoenix Rising, in celebration
of Limerick City of Culture, at
the iconic St Mary’s Cathedral.
Expect this culminating concert
to bring together exhilaration and
emotional depth. With special
guests including the Monks of
Glenstal Abbey, Kenneth Edge
(sax), Brian Kennedy (voice),
Nóirín Ní Riain (voice), Pádraic
Keane (uilleann pipes), Liz Doherty and Donegal Fiddles, Irish
World Academy musicians and singers.
8pm Dolans Warehouse
Rubberbandits
Christmas Fistfight
Rubberbandits critically
acclaimed Christmas Fistfight
takes place at Dolans
Warehouse, described as
“Rampant and unhinged…
Wild and winning” by The
Guardian, “Leaves you
growling for more” according
to Metro, “A knockout punch…
mirth and mayhem” by the
Times, the reviews go on.
Tickets from Dolans on
www.dolans.ie
€15