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Adult Art ClassesCommencing Autumn/Winter Term: Fri 7 Oct – Fri 9 Dec 10am – 1pmEvery Friday for 2 x 5 weeks terms. Facilitator: Tina Mouritzen. Cost: €40 a term or drop in rate €10 per session.Contact Tina for further details and bookings : 087 6561303

Life DrawingCommencing Autumn/Winter term Wed Oct 5thThe Life Drawing group meet on the 1st Wednesday of the monthfrom 1:30pm – 4:30pmSessions untutored. For Further details and session dates . ContactRoisin Flood on: roisflood@hotmail.com or 087 9305180

Art Spark—Children's art workshopsCommencing Autumn/Winter Term Saturdays 1 October – Saturday10 December for 2 x 5 weeks termsNo Workshop on sat 5 NovemberBookings through the Courthouse ONLINEOr phone 0402 38529 or bookings@courthousearts.ieIgnite your child’s creativity! Fun classes designed to de-velop yourchild’s art skills. Facilitator: Tina Mouritzen10 – 11.30am Age Group 7 – 9 yrs Cost €45 – 5 weeks or drop in rate€10 per session12-1:30pm Age Group 10-12 yrs Cost €45 – 5 weeks or drop in rate€10 per session

Tinahely Womens ChoirCommencing Autumn/Winter term Wed 14 Sept. 10-11:30am. Allwelcome. Choir meet every Wednesday in the Courthouse. Facilita-tor: Ann Keary. Cost €5 per session

The Courthouse Writers GroupCommencing Autumn/Winter Thurs 1 SeptemberThe writers group meet on the 1st thurs of the month from 7:30pmNew members always welcome. Contact Robert Duffy :robtduffy@gmail.com

MeditationCommencing Autumn/Winter term Wed 7 SeptemberHeld in the Courthouse on the 1st Wednesday of every month, be-ginning 7.30 – 8:30pm. No fee, donation.

Workshops & Groups

The Courthouse Arts Centre is a non profit organisation dedicated to creativeexpression and cultural diversity. Special thanks to all our Friends and Sponsors

Courthouse Christmas Concert, ticket price includes aglass of mulled wine.

Katherine Hunka (violin), Dermot Dunne (accordion) and MalachyRobinson (double-bass)

Leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra violinist Katherine Hunka andthe extraordinary accordion player Dermot Dunne have been playingtogether since 2007. They have toured Ireland and China playingeverything from Baroque to Piazzolla. They are delighted to be joinedby Ireland’s most sought after and versatile double bassist MalachyRobinson for performances packed with musical gems.

In this concert The Far Flung Trio will take you on a whirlwind touraround Europe in their inimitable style. Starting with the rhythmicallyexhilarating rhythms of Bulgarian folk dances, they will continue withthe trio's version of Liszt's celebrated Hungarian Rhapsody No.6. Thenostalgic charm of the film music from 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'The Um-brellas of Cherbourg' provide a moment of calm before the frenziedbuild-up of a set of Klezmer tunes - the traditional wedding-bandmusic of Eastern European Jews. Finally a trip to Russia with a selec-tion of raucous Gypsy tunes to round off the night! Their performancesare very much enjoyed by audiences with whom they engage in anentertaining way.

The Lambert Harpists are:

The Lambert Girls

Sisters Miriam and Bernadette Lambert and their cousin Bríd havebeen playing harp together for the past thirteen years. Classically andtraditionally trained, they have played at many events countywide, in-cluding World Aids Day at the Mansion House. In 2011 they performedfor then president Mary McAleese. As well as playing at many charityconcerts the girls also regularly play at weddings and masses. CurrentlyMiriam is studying in Queens University, Belfast. Bernadette and Brídare studying in Trinity College Dublin. Despite the distance the girls al-ways find time to play together when they are home.

Concert - Far Flung TrioWith support from The Lambert HarpistsDate: Saturday 17 December Time: 8:30pm Adm: €18/€16

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Mary Coughlan is one of our greatest female singers. At over tenalbums she’s made the most mature, uncompromising, wholly personaland utterly universal music. She has taken the classic standards of jazzballadry and the recent gems of rock and Irish songwriting, shakenthem and offered them up new, like jewels dripping from the deep,strewn on black velvet.

Mary Coughlan released her latest album ‘Scars on the Calendar’ inMay 2015 with lead single “Blood”. Reuniting with long-timecollaborator and producer Erik Visser, ‘Scars on the Calendar’ isCoughlan’s first album of new material since 2008. Mary Coughlan’sbrilliance as a singer was summed up in The Financial Times when itsaid: “Coughlan is an unlikely but transfixing performer. No one shouldwish her heartbreak, but everyone should envy her power to transformit”.

The stage is where Mary survives – in front of a handful or a thousandspeople, she emotes, purges, atones, reminisces, eulogises and laments,and you can’t hear the very best until you’ve heard her story recited inevery note.

Based on the Booker-shortlisted best-seller by novelist Emma Donoghue,the highly anticipated Room, fromIrish director Lenny Abrahamson(Frank, What Richard Did), tells theharrowing and moving story of youngmother Ma and her five-year-old sonJack, held captive in a small shed forseveral years and their struggle toadapt to normal life after managingto escape.

Celebrated trumpeter Tomos Williams brings together some of Wales’and Ireland’s finest jazz musicians to celebrate the work of Miles Davisthrough a collection of music composed by and associated with the jazzicon. Davis embodied the essence of jazz by constantly evolving as anartist with his well known working bands from the cool swing of ‘Kindof Blue’ to the fiery fusion in ‘Bitches Brew’. The quintet of renownedmusicians have chosen and arranged some of Miles’s best know andbest loved pieces and arranged them to produce a show of excitinginterpretations, classic be-bop and explosive swing spanning the careerof one of jazz’s true legends.

Tomos Williams – trumpet (UK) Adam Nolan – saxophone (IRL) DaveJones – piano (UK) Andrew Csibi – bass (IRL) Kevin Lawlor – drums (IRL)

“The title track is a beautifully languorous fusionsuggesting Miles Davis, as does Williams’ trumpet…The 10-minute ‘Wedi Tresaith’ even evokes Miles Davis’classic 1960 quintet.” PLANET MAGAZINE

Concert - Mary CoughlanDate: Saturday 5 November Time: 8:30pm Adm: €20/€18

Film - RoomDate:Thurs 10 Nov Time: 8pm Admission:€6/€5

Merry Christmas dramatises a storythat touched three of the nations whowent to war in 1914. We areintroduced to the key charactersincluding French soldier Audebert(Guillaume Canet), Scottish priestPalmer (Gary Lewis) and Berlin Operasinger Nikolaus Sprink (BennoFurmann). All of them have family ties,home front responsibilities or lovedones who will be abandoned as theyheed the call to arms.

Film - Joyeus NoelDate: Thurs 8 Dec Time: 8pm Admission: €6/€5

Jazz - Tomos William’s Tribute to Miles QuintetDate: Friday 25th November Time: 8:30pm Adm: €14/€12

Leslie Dowdall & Mike Hanrahan have been performing togethersince 2009 while Luan Parle & Clive Barnes have been performingtogether since 2014.  Leslie & Mike, Luan & Clive will becollaborating to bring you an eclectic and exciting mix from fourof Ireland's finest Singer Songwriters.

Front-woman of legendary Irish band In Tua Nua, Leslie Dowdall'ssolo career began in earnest with the release of her first album in1997, the artfully entitled 'No Guilt, No Guile'. Mike Hanrahan’s firstsolo recording 'Someone Like You' featured the timeless classic 'WeHad it All' a song later recorded by Ronnie Drew, Eleanor Shanleyand Mary Coughlan.

Clive Barnes has been gaining a worldwide reputation as one of thefinest songwriters and guitarists on today's scene. Having playedand recorded with Joe Cocker, Taj Mahal and Eric Bibb to name buta few, Clive has won various awards including Album of the Year inthe US magazine 'Acoustic Guitar'. Meteor and Tatler Award winnerLuan Parle's top 10 hit single 'Ghost' spent 3 months in the IrishCharts and was one of the most played songs on radio that year.

Concert - DuetaDate: Sat 10 Dec Time: 8:30pm Adm: €18/€16

Peter Ennis, from Annacurra, was the Caretakerof Liberty Hall from 1912 until his death in 1927.He served three giants of Irish Labour History,Jim Larkin, James Connolly and William O’Brien,in over a decade of revolution. His place in thehistory of Liberty Hall is entwined in the 1913Lockout, the Easter Rising and the War ofIndependence.

Peter Ennis is buried in Killaveny, Tinahely,alongside his beloved wife Mary Kate.

1916 LecturePeter Ennis : The Man Who Kept Liberty HallDate: Thursday 17th November Time: 8pm Adm: €6/€5

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