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Second Tuesday of the month
Mapping Group TALK
by Deirdre O'Mahony on artists and Kilnaboy
CANCELLED until January 12th at 8 PM.
Apologies

Kilnaboy Christmas Gathering at the X-PO

Christmas 2008 at the X-PO. Photograph Peter Rees 

Kilnaboy Christmas Gathering 

at the X-PO.

Friday 11th Dec at 8.00pm 

Lighting the Christmas tree, Carol singing, Santa, Refreshments, Set dancing, Mulled wine, tea Mince Pies!

Please Park at the pull-in above the old Kilnaboy Church.

Thanks to: Kilnaboy Community Development Association and the X-PO.

Happy Christmas!

Also: X-PO Mapping Group: Talk by Deirdre O'Mahony on Artists and the Burren.

Next Tuesday 8.00pm all welcome.

New club at X-PO...every second Wed. Sewing, knitting, embroidery, felting all things related to textiles. Come and sign up next Wed 30th. Club starting the following week and runs every second Wednesday.

"Ragairne" Irish conversation group on next Wed 30th, all welcome.

Set dancing starting again on Thursdays- start date Thursday 1st October.

Singers and players Monday 8.30.

Mapping and Tracing Tuesdays 8.30: All the houses  within the parish of Kilnaboy are being named and traced- next step the photographs. If you have photographs of the houses and ruins in the parish please come along and they will be scanned on a Tuesday evening, adding to the archive of local information.

X-PO starts up again Monday Sept 7th 8.30 - singers night
Mapping Tuesday 8th - Coffee Morning Friday 11th Sept

NEW SEASON NEWS SEPTEMBER 09

X-PO Kilnaboy Post Office Cultural Exchange Project – GOING FORWARD
PUBLIC MEETING
THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 8PM @ X-PO - KILNABOY POST OFFICE
There will be a public meeting to discuss future actions/ events at the X-PO and to select action teams to initiate and organize clubs, groups and cultural events in the coming months.
All are welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion on the future of the X-PO.

Clubs start with the X-PO Singers and Players at 8pm Monday 7 September. All welcome.

Activities at X-PO April 2009

X-PO conversation evening, the second Tuesday of every month. 

 Tues. 14th April: Folklore and stories of Kilnaboy. Conversations led by James Neylon. 8.30 pm 

All Welcome.

Set-dancing finishes end of April.

Check blog for clubs and groups summer opening times and activities.

NEXT EXHIBITION BY MICHAEL FORTUNE OPENS SUNDAY 3rd MAY AT 12 NOON.

DEIRDRE O'MAHONY RE-PRESENTATIONS AT THE BURREN COLLEGE OF ART GALLERY.

OPENS SAT 16TH MAY - 12TH JUNE.

Launch 3pm by Jenny Haughton Public Arts Consultant to the Arts Council.

OPEN 12-5 MON - SAT . 

Re-Presentations will include the four archives generated though the X-PO along with Deirdre O'Mahonys investigations and research into the rural landscape.

The Mattie Rynne Archive.

The Mapping Group Archive.

The Rinnamona Research Group Archive.

The Peter Rees Archive.

Launch of Wise Ways and Retrace

Wise Ways

AN EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK BY VISITORS TO RAHEEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DAYCARE CENTRE, East County Clare.

Retrace  BY TERRY O’FARRELL Launch Sunday 15th February at 12 noon. Exhibition runs from 15th February to March  29th 2009. Opening Times: Tues to Thursday: 2- 5pm.          Friday: 10.30 – 12.30 (Coffee Morning) Sunday 2-5pm. Artist Terry O’Farrell will be running workshops with groups from the Kilnaboy Community during 18th-20th of March. The current exhibition and workshops are funded by IMMA and the Raheen Hospital Support Group. In doing these workshops in Kilnaboy the participants will be adding to the Wise Ways collection, and the stories will take on a new life through the event Wise Ways was jointly funded by The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Raheen  Hospital Support Group and The Iniscealtra Festival of Arts.

Holy Wells Talk at X-PO

Francis Whelan of the X-PO Mapping and Tracing Group will be giving atalk on the Holy Wells around Kilnaboy on Tuesday 3rd February at 8.30in the X-PO.
Kilnaboy abounds with Holy Wells, some well known and visited on annual pilgrimages by hundreds, some hidden, some known only from old maps and stories but now lost or very hard to find. Francis has an extensive knowledge of the area and will not only be talking about the wells but gathering information for inclusion in the Mapping group archive.
All Welcome

New Exhibition at X-PO: WISE WAYS and ReTrace

Wise Ways 

and

ReTrace 

by Terry O'Farrell.

Opening on Sunday Feb. 15th 

at 12 noon.

Exhibition runs from Feb 15^th – 29^th March

New Opening Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs: 2 -5 pm. 

Friday Coffee Mornings: 10.30am - 12.30pm.

Sundays: 2-5pm

Workshops: March 18/19/20^th

There is a very exciting exhibition programme coming up at the X-PO in 2009 beginning with Wise Ways. The work was made at Raheen Hospital Day Care Centre by older members of the East Clare community as part the Arts and Education Programme for The Iniscealtra Arts Festival in 2007 and was facilitated by Dublin artist; Terry O’Farrell who is on the panel of artists of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition combines objects made in fired unglazed clay and the ‘story’ connected with each clay work from all of the participants and reflects the memories and creativity of the participants, giving  a unique representation of aspects of rural life in Clare in the past.

It is linked to local folk knowledge, and is of particular importance in these times as it is a reminder of commonsence ways of ‘making do’ from a time when personal possessions  were ment to last a lifetime.

Wise Ways sits well within the ethos of previous work at the X-PO which both privileged and made visible the many overlooked stories of rural life.

The X-PO is delighted to announce that the Irish Museum of Modern Art are facilitating Terry O’Farrell, to do a three day workshop on  March 18/19/20^th with various groups in Kilnaboy.

In doing these workshops in Kilnaboy the participants will be adding to the Wise Ways collection, and the stories will take on a new life through the event.

Terry O'Farrell will also be exhibiting her work ReTrace:

I found a photograph amongst my father’s possessions of a girl in sandals disconnected by time and memory from those that had known her. I traced through the dust and later in the studio retraced the void lost without reference.

 

Terry O’ Farrell. February 2009.