May 2023 Events & Exhibitions

A blue bird artwork from an irish artist
 
Upstairs Gallery

Linda Condon Exhibition 

Making Your Way Home May 1st – 30th

A dual exhibition of screen printed images exploring places of “Home” in the Waterford & Wexford areas near the river Suir. Plus a series of images journeying through what a sense of home means on a personal level.

Cafe Art

Sean Walsh Exhibition

Flights of Fancy April 30th – May 27th

An exhibition of Acylics on canvas and Leaded Painted glass that is structuralist in nature, that is to say the core of each work has at its base a skeleton of lines & curves carefully chosen and and placed in an age old system called Phi D’Or.


April 2023 Events & Exhibitions

Upstairs Gallery

Maggie Chapman & Betty Power contine their March exhibition “All Kinds of Everything” in the Upstairs Gallery

Cafe Art

Svetlana Tchaikovskaya-Dunnes Watercolours, Pencil Sketches and Prints remain our Cafe Art focus for April

Evening Entertainment

Another exciting local drama production planned for the end of April – full details below ……..

When Harry Met Sally
Friday April 28th  8pm SOLD OUT

The hilarious classic 80’s rom-com is back! Presented by the always funny and ever talented Theatre Vamps Derek Flynn & Nicola Spendlove, this promises to be two very entertaining nights of fun, innuendo and yes….that memorable scene. 

Tickets available on Eventbrite : 

When Harry Met Sally | Eventbrite

March 2023 Events & Exhibitions

EVENING ENTERTAINMENT

The Midnight Hotel
3 NIGHTS SOLD OUT

March 31st & April 1st @8pm / April 2nd @ 7pm

Tickets: The Midnight Hotel Tickets, Fri 31 Mar 2023 at 20:00 | Eventbrite

Written by Derek Flynn of Theatre Vamps and directed by James Power of Stagemad, The Midnight Hotel tells the story of a musician who arrives to perform in the small Irish village of Carraig Dubh. He discovers some ghosts that the locals would rather stay dead and realises that small towns never give up their secrets!

UPSTAIRS GALLERY

Maggie Chapman & Betty Power
“All kinds of Everything”

A collection of Oil on canvas & board

March 5th – April 1st

CAFE ART

Svetlana Tchaikovskaya-Dunne

A selection of watercolours and pencil drawings with prints available

March 5th – April 1st

February 2023 Events & Exhibitions

EVENING ENTERTAINMENT

Sarah McQuaid

February 11th @8pm

SOLD OUT

Sarah McQuaid’s lush, chocolatey voice combines with her endearing personality, “subtle mastery onstage” (Huffington Post) and “brilliant musicianship” (fRoots) on acoustic and electric guitars, piano and (occasionally) drum to create a truly immersive experience.

THE TUG OF THE MOON                                    Sarah McQuaid @ the Coastguard Cultural Centre reviewed by Liam Murphy

I first heard the Cornwall-based singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid in the Theatre Royal over a decade ago, and her distinctive soprano voice had a celestial quality. She shapes words as if giving them new meaning with her gentle and evocative style. Her contemporary folksongs echo a beautiful sense of being at one with her landscape, her journey, and her inner harmony.
She finished her Irish tour at the Coastguard Cultural Centre, a wonderful, intimate venue, and her rapport and empathy tugged at the hearts of an appreciative audience. Outside, the darkness settled on Tramore Bay, and the moon was shrouded, but musically you could feel the elemental tug of the moon, a sharing and reaching out across a crowded venue.
The stage was set, and her manager and tour audio, Martin Stansbury, eased down the lights, and the room was filled with ‘Sweetness And Pain’ and walking into a coastal mist with ‘Walking Into White’. The folk tune ‘Sprig Of Thyme’ echoed universal myths and foolishness. Her family stories and her children’s inspiration struck a chord with her audience. 
She plays acoustic and electric guitar, tomtom and keyboards, and for ‘One Sparrow Down’, she got the audience to sing out animal noises. Her version of Micahel Chapman’s ‘Rabbit Hills’ was a beautiful introduction to an eccentric folk artist who produced several of her CDs. It is worth looking  Chapman up on your choice of platform.
‘So Much Rain’ was a topical end to the first part.
After the interval, the ‘Silence Above Us’ was a meditation on ‘what is this world coming to’. Another song, ‘Yellowstone’, about volcanoes and earthquakes, reminded the audience how lucky we could be in our sheltered bubble of happiness. Finally, ‘The Tug Of The Moon’ reminded us of our life’s journey around the sun and how we are slowing down each year, if only by milliseconds.
Bob Dylan’s ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ was beautiful at “keep on, keeping on”. There is a lovely sense of change in this song, “There was music in the cafes at night, and revolution in the air’.
Her version of John Martyn’s ‘Solid Air’ was achingly beautiful, and her voice trembled in the air. The Ewan MacColl song ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ was sublime, and her encore after a standing ovation was a tender lullaby, bridging three generations – ‘Last Song’.

CAFE GALLERY

Emma Power

Oil on Canvas

February 6th – March 4th

“There is so much beauty in this world of ours, crashing waves backlit with sunlight, a small child hunting in rockpools, shadows cast by clouds scudding across fields. Every scene is there but a moment and then gone. To capture these transient moments on canvas so that the memory of them is preserved is the challenge.”

January Exhibition

UPSTAIRS GALLERY

Students of Ardscoil na Mara

January 11th – March 3rd

Officially opened by MEP Grace O’Sullivan, the students of Ardscoil na Mara present their colourful art and ceramic pieces for the months of January & February. Showcasing a wide variety of art styles and forms curated by Head of Art Ms Sinead Driver, this exhibition will excite you with it’s energetic emerging talent.

FOYER GALLERY

Katie Gaudig Ceramics

January & February

Katie’s series of framed ceramic art is colourful, whimsical and more than a bit fishy! But in such a good way……