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From Wednesday August 5 to Tuesday August 11, the Feakle Traditional Music Festival will celebrate its 22nd year with a vibrant programme of traditional music, song, and dance.

Huge crowds are expected to attend this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival which takes place from today, Friday August 7, to August 16.

Labour Party councillor and chair of the Kilkenny Heritage Forum Ann Phelan has welcomed the publication of a report commissioned by the Arts Council which has highlighted the economic value of culture and heritage.

Council Arts Office, South Tipperary County Council Arts Service and the Irish Museum Of Modern Art, supported by the Arts Council, which will open at the Ballina Arts Centre on Thursday August 13 at 7.30pm.

For one night only, the Young Irish Film Makers, in association with Office of Public Works, Kilkenny Castle, will present an intimate, dramatic reading of the seasonal classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Children’s arts festival Baboró will host an international conference on the provision of arts for children under six as part of this year’s festival in October.

Altered Images, a ground-breaking, multi-sensory accessible visual arts exhibition, which aims to introduce new ways of seeing and experiencing art for both disabled and non-disabled people opened in the Ballina Arts Centre yesterday evening and will run until September 30.

THIS YEAR is the bicentenary of Robert Schumann’s birth and Music For Galway is marking the occasion in style with Fantasies and Fairytales, a weekend of selected chamber works by Schumann, running over four concerts from January 22 to 24 at the Town Hall Theatre.

FOR THE last 12 years Galway city and county has been alive with the sight and sound of thousands of children and families attending shows, workshops and other activities during Baboró.

A very lively meeting of almost 100 artists and arts workers from Mayo took place at the Linenhall Arts Centre last week as a local response to the national campaign for the arts. The result was the establishment of the Mayo Campaign for the Arts.