Exterior of North Star Hotel Single Premier Room Executive Single Premier Club Lounge

Friday, April 6, 2012

Five Lamps Arts Festival 2012


The Five Lamps Arts Festival, an initiative of Marino College of Further Education, will take place from the 19th to the 26th of April 2012. This festival, which is in its fifth year, is run by volunteers who want to promote the arts in this area of the city. It is supported by the Arts Office of Dublin City Council and Marino College of Further Education CDVEC.

This year's festival is again an eclectic mix of music, theatre, visual art, puppetry, community events.Highlights this year include Jinx Lennon, Mairtin O Connor and Steve Cooney, Five Lamps Theatre company's Dear Frankie, a new performance of Handel's Cantata Apollo and Daphne featuring soprano Cliona Cassidy and Baritone Brendan Collins, Visual Art on the Canal 'The Free Seas', The Orchard Theatre Company's Five Kinds of Silence and much much more.


Traditional Session

Sunday 22nd April, 4-6pm, The North Star Hotel Bar

The North Star Hotel was the venue for traditional musicians for many years. Every Sunday night a group of Clontarf musicians met for music and craic and the festival this year is holding a session to bring back the tradional session in the North Star for one afternoon only, Sunday 22nd April at 4pm to continue for a couple of hours.

The festival will welcome participants from Reels on Wheels, Ceoltoiri Cluain Tarbh and many other groups

ADMISSION FREE

For more info http://www.fivelampsarts.ie/

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