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For two nights only, Ballina Arts Centre will host John Breen’s contemporary Irish classic rugby play Alone It Stands on Tuesday, October 29th and Wednesday, October 30, at 8pm.

Do not miss the multi-talented Rónán Ó Snodaigh at Ballina Arts Centre on Friday October 4; he is one of Ireland’s best and most innovative bodhrán players and a highly original singer songwriter, poet, and lead vocalist in one of Ireland’s most celebrated world music bands, Kila.

Friday, October 11 sees Ballina Art Centre hosting Beatle Mal - a one-man show written and performed by Nik Wood-Jones, a life-long Beatles fan. This play provides great entertainment and is perfect for lovers of Beatles music and 1960s pop culture. The meteoric rise to fame of the Beatles began in 1963, so exactly 50 years on it is quite appropriate that this new imaginative drama, with original music, should be presented to a wider audience.

The latest survey in the Anti-Litter League by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) shows Ballina and Castlebar have both lost their cleaner than European norms status in this round, with both now classed as moderately littered. Of 42 towns and cities surveyed this summer, Ballina and Castlebar have dropped from fourth and fifth place respectively to 34th and 35th. IBAL has warned that vacant properties in towns are a growing concern, despite continued progress on litter nationwide.

Friday, September 20 sees the return of Culture Night – the annual nationwide celebration of arts and culture whereby cultural organisations and institutions stay open late into the night, presenting a wide-range of events and activities for all to enjoy.

Throughout the month of September, Ballina Arts Centre will be part of the Mayo Arts Collaborative, presenting work by Niamh O'Malley. The exhibition project features thrilling and elegiac work by the Crossmolina native in five different arts venues around the county.

Mayo Youth Theatre (MYT) will have an open evening on Tuesday September 10 from 6pm to 8pm in Ballina Arts Centre, Barrett St, Ballina, for anyone between the ages of 14 and 22 who would like to be part of MYT.

In September Mayo born artist Niamh O’Malley will return to her home county for a unique exhibition featuring recent examples of her work in five different venues around the Mayo region. Creating a cultural trail through some of Ireland’s most stunning landscapes, visitors are encouraged to engage with Niamh’s work in exhibition spaces in Belmullet, Ballycastle, Ballina, Castlebar and Westport.

In September Mayo born artist Niamh O’Malley will return to her home county for a unique exhibition featuring recent examples of her work in five different venues around the Mayo region.