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Carlow Arts Festival 2021

Cutting edge technology collides with culture as Carlow Arts Festival announce our ambitious hybrid programme of live, digital and virtual experiences taking place over 10 days from the 4th to the 13th June – featuring works by international, national and local artists: Ireland, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Europe and Carlow.

Our most ambitious project to date Woman in the Machine co-created with VISUAL in association with Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh, will unfold through film, exhibitions, sound works, light installations, digital native events, a 360 virtual exhibition space, performances, talks and community engagement projects, created in response to Carlow’s landmark former Braun site.

Read a note on this year’s programme from our festival director Jo Mangan here.

Woman in the Machine at the Former Braun Site in Carlow

Browse the 2021 programme…

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All 53 /18+ 0 /2019 0 /2020 0 /2021 0 /4 June, Tuesday 0 /5 June, Wednesday 0 /6 June, Thursday 0 /7 June, Friday 0 /8 June, Saturday 0 /9 June, Sunday 0 /Circus 3 /Circus & Spectacle 0 /Dance 15 /Digital 0 /Digital 2021 0 /Family Friendly 0 /Family Friendly 5 /Film 36 /FREE 0 /In Person 9 /Installation 7 /Interactive 0 /Interactive 11 /Movie 0 /Music 0 /Music / Audio 3 /O'Hara's Free Music Programme 0 /Online 44 /Performance 0 /Performance 10 /SLICES 0 /Sold Out 0 /Theatre 9 /Uncategorised 0 /Virtual Reality 11 /Visual Art 0 /Visual Art 6

SEPTEMBER DAYS

The power of dance and age
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

MOUTHPIECE

Powerful, funny, highly-original feminist cinema
29th April 2021/by Ciara

Short Irish Film Series

Immersive performance in a virtual environment
29th April 2021/by Ciara

DESNUDAMENTO PÚBLICO DAS PAIXÕES

Mini-choreographies of passion
4th May 2021/by Christina Q

The Reverie Engine

A surreal daily audio trip
29th April 2021/by Ciara

KOWLOON FOREST

VR - Up close & personal with 5 strangers in Hong Kong
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

TO ALL MY DARLINGS

Powerful short film drama on contemporary Ireland
2nd May 2021/by Christina Q

ARCHITECTURE ON FILM

A series of architecture films
3rd May 2021/by Ciara

ABOUT QUESTIONS, SHAMES & SCARS

A dance group talk about the enormous inequalities in Brazil
4th May 2021/by Christina Q

THE WOMEN OF THE BAUHAUS

A homage to the forgotten Bauhauswomen
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

(HI)STORY OF A PAINTING

VR - The story of Georges Seurat’s painting La Grande Jatte
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

INVISIBLE OPERA

Immersive walk through operatic installation
29th April 2021/by Ciara

BALLAST

A man struggles with loss
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

LA FUERZA

Seductive film from inclusive dance residency
5th May 2021/by Christina Q

VR CINEMA

To the Edge and Back Again
3rd May 2021/by Ciara

WSTL: EPISTLES

MALAPROP text you once a day
29th April 2021/by Ciara

Native Study – Carlow

Original Public Art by MASER
29th April 2021/by Ciara

Cycle Circus

Every pedal is a revolution!
29th April 2021/by Ciara

LATIN AMERICAN DANCE FILMS

A series of dance films from Latin America
3rd May 2021/by Ciara

DIABLITAS, DIABLITOS Y ALMITAS. DANZANDO LA VIDA Y LA MUERTE

A group of children learn their ancestral dances
4th May 2021/by Christina Q

Street Art Workshop

Street Art Workshop with Maser
3rd May 2021/by Ciara

BATTLESCAR: EPISODE 1

Explores the theme of identity through the immersive power of VR
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

SWAN LAKE – THE GAME

Immersive performance in a virtual environment
29th April 2021/by Ciara

THE TWENTY CLUB

Dublin 1947.

Intrigue. Betrayal. Champagne
29th April 2021/by Ciara

TOPIASKOP

Demolition follows construction follows demolition
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

RUBY

Love, death and strange anniversary gifts
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

ARMOUR OFF

Her kitchen is her stage
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

CREATION 21/22

Artist development programme
5th May 2021/by Ciara

TROIANE

Final role for a forest of trees
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

Prometheus

A Greek myth performed with scale models
29th April 2021/by Ciara

COMMON GROUND

VR - A community fights for their homes
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

DAGMAR RICHTER: INFLUENCING GREAT ARCHITECTURE

Multi-faceted way of making a difference in architecture
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

CHALKROOM

VR work by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

THE FERRY

There are no secrets in a place like this
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

GROW

Jazz hands, tantrums & taking on the system!
29th April 2021/by Ciara

PADDY

London, late 70s: Patrick discovers Punk!
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

Open Mind, Closed System

Art made with your brainwaves
29th April 2021/by Ciara

POSTAL PROJECT

A postal art project sent to you!
3rd May 2021/by Ciara

WOMAN IN THE MACHINE

A 72 hour lost weekend led by women in music, art and technology
29th April 2021/by Ciara

Virtual Festival Campus

Carlow Arts Festival, but in a 360 virtual space
29th April 2021/by Ciara

LIONHEART – THOUGHTS, POEMS, ARCHITECTURE

Poetry, architecture and mental wellbeing
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

THE HOUSE NEVER WINS

Award winning interactive game theatre
29th April 2021/by Ciara

CREATIVE CONTAGION: LA FUERZA TESTIMONY

Testimonial film focuses on the process of the protagonists from La Fuerza
4th May 2021/by Christina Q

DANCEHALL WEATHER

Dance video from Argentina/ France/ Jamaica mixed using algorithms
5th May 2021/by Christina Q

A Handful Of Dreams – SOLD OUT

An aerial explosion of dance and Irish music
29th April 2021/by Ciara

ARTWORKS 2021

The Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow Annual Open Submission and Art Award
29th April 2021/by Ciara

IMPRINTS

An exploration of time through cine reels
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

DRIFTING

Friends find themselves at a crossroads
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

UN DÍA DE CAZA

As funny as absurd, as imprecise as hypnotic
4th May 2021/by Christina Q

SETe

Grua Group explores masculinity and kindness
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

YOUR SPIRITUAL TEMPLE SUCKS

VR - Mr. Chang travels to his ‘Spiritual Temple’ in the afterworld
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

IN THE LAND OF FLABBY SCHNOOK

VR - A little brother asks his big sister how she managed to stop being afraid of the dark
3rd May 2021/by Christina Q

CAILÍN ÁLAINN

Tender bi-lingual drama about a trans teen
30th April 2021/by Christina Q

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