Early September at Hunt
HUNT Museum, host to free daily talks on local history for Heritage Week, will play its part for Elemental Arts and Cultural Festival on September 15. This brisk pace of community integration continues with a medley of activity for various ages, most of it free.
Consider the Kids Arts and Crafts Club on Sunday 2 with a theme of ‘Working with Stencils’. Admission is free and you should book in advance: email [email protected].
Limerick Pride will have its own calendar at Hunt Museum from Tuesday September 4 to Sunday 9. Again, you can book in advance for Queer Tours on September 4 and 6 at 2pm, this time using email address [email protected]. Pride Arts and Crafts is scheduled for Sunday 9 from 2.30pm to 4pm.
Meanwhile, a Vikings workshop for kids, exploring ancient Norse culture and industry through museum’s artefacts as well as parent-child activity is current. Ongoing until Friday August 31 at 11am, as is a daily discovery trail 2.30pm-4.30pm (pay museum admission for the trail).
Che do Bheatha
THE second annual ‘Che do Bheatha’ festival in Kilkee will run this weekend, Friday 28 to Sunday 30. Expect Cuban music, Salsa dancing, Latin American food, cigars and “all things wonderfully Cuban” for this “superb three day celebration of Latin-American and Irish cultures and the close links between the two”. High five to Snr Guevara who stayed in Kilkee in 1961, inspiring Irish artist’s Jim Fitzpatrick’s iconic image of the revolutionary. See www.kilkeefestival.com.
Lime Tree ploughs
Autumn furrow
LIME Tree’s 510-seat theatre at Mary Immaculate College has given us a glimpse of what its Autumn programme will present.
The season begins mid-September with a Tom Barry play, ‘Guerilla Days of Ireland’ and go on to host performances with ‘Steel Magnolias’ with Mischa Barton, Limerick Jazz Festival, Cecilian Musical Society’s ‘West Side Story’, Kilfenora Céilí Band, Brendan Grace and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ which will be Limerick Panto Society’s Christmas panto.
According to theatre manager Louise Donlon, ex-Island and Druid Theatre Companies, Lime Tree’s official opening song will be The Abbey Theatre production, ‘The Plough and the Stars’ in October.
