by Rose Rushe
THE all weather museum, education and arts centre that is The Hunt Museum has an especially rewarding series of events scheduled for today Friday 18. This is Ireland’s 10th Culture Night.
Beginning at 5pm, the diary at the Custom House opens with Patterns Dance Collective, a 30minute contemporary dance show directed by Angie Smalis. This takes place in the riverside garden bridging the building with the Abbey/ Shannon river.
Limerick Post has written previously about the professional half-dozen singers coached by Olive Cowpar into Opera Delights. Produced with UCH, this ticketed but free event repeats for half an hour at a time, you choose from 7pm, 8pm or 9pm performances; Michael Young accompanies on piano.
Picture: Keith Wiseman
Then there is a choir workshop scheduled for a full hour outside, 7.15pm to 8.15pm with the Association of Irish Choirs encouraging people to sing out in unison, with pride and harmony.
Meanwhile the essential business of The Hunt Museum is available for inspection with tours of The Hunt Collection for 30 mins beginning at 5.30pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm and 8.30pm. Led by expert guides. Or opt for the painterly majesty and loneliness of the late Jesuit Fr Frank Browne’s photographic portraits and landscapes from the devastated trenches of WW1.
The weather dock on this reporter’s iMac suggests 18C and sunshine for today so foray out into the evening balm to explore the classic car display furnished by Limerick Classic and Vintage Car Club.
This metal park will be enlivened by what the Hunt team is calling ‘Culture Bites’ with street artists, dancers, singers and whatever you’re having doing vocal, visual and actual pirouettes here and there. Be crafty an park the kids in the Education Wing to make things with their hands for 45minute sessions from 5pm to 9pm. Get a ticket first to ensure the queue is orderly.
Photo: Fr Frank Browne
Artists Connolly and Clearly invite us to a Meta-Perception Tour at 5.30pm and to try on helmets over three hours from 6.30pm in an exercise to “explore mysteries of visual perception”.
Finally, Limerick Jazz bring the night to a close from 10-12midnight with the Brian Priestly Quintet playing a (€8 + wine) gig in the Marquee at the river front to round up and finish off the hardy stragglers.
