Roscommon Arts Centre Presents Toni Walsh, July 21

By: Jul. 21, 2010
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The Roscommon Arts Centre announces upcoming events for July. Maggie Madden's first solo exhibition opens on July 9th. Toni Walsh performs on July 21st. ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is presented on July 24th. Roscommon Arts Centre is a vibrant, purpose-built arts space, which is committed to presenting a dynamic and ambitious multi-disciplinary programme of events that creates and develops audiences for the arts and contributes to local arts development in County Roscommon.

Maggie Madden's exhibition "Fading not Ending" opens on Friday, July 9th, with a reception from 5:30pm to 7:00pm, and will run until August 5th. Maggie Madden has a preference for time-consuming and intricate processes creating works that reflect on the relationships between urban and rural landscapes. The objects born of these processes are crafted out of discarded and humble materials and often have a fragility that teeters on the brink of collapse. These detailed constructions have the potential for endless expansion, to grow outward from densely ordered space and continue boundlessly. In the works there are open ended references to our networked world, communication and transport systems, infrastructures of contemporary life in modern cities.

Originally from Connemara, Maggie now lives and works in Dublin. She studied Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design and received an MFA from NCAD in 2006. Recent exhibitions include Light and Dark, Cake Contemporary Arts, 2010, Preponderance of the Small, Off Site Gallery 3 project, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2009, Make, Shift and Bend, CGP London. In 2008 she participated in Triangle Arts International Workshop, New York.

Toni Walsh returns on Wednesday, July 21st at 8pm following her performance last year at the Roscommon County Library. She will be accompanied by harpist Teresa O'Donnell. Tickets are €12 / €10.

Toni Walsh is an award-winning soprano who, since 1997 has worked as assistant lecturer in the Department of Vocal, Operatic and Dramatic Studies at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. She has performed in venues including the Hugh Lane Gallery and in the National Concert Hall Summer Opera Series playing leading roles in Operatic Scenes, including Mozart's Così fan tutti, and A.J.Potter's modern opera The Wedding. She has also toured with Opera Theatre Company.

The Quantum Theatre presents ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS on Saturday, July 24th at 12pm. Tickets are €9/€7 with a family of four costing €28. ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is a summer delight, to be enjoyed by children of all ages from five to one hundred and five. A captivating mix of fantasy, songs and stagecraft; a theatrical treat for all the family.

Follow Alice's fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her sitting-room fireplace. As she crosses a giant chess board she meets some of Lewis Carroll's most memorable and fantastical characters: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Walrus and the Carpenter, The Lion and the Unicorn and the Jabberwock.

For tickets and more information, please visit the Roscommon Arts Centre's website at http://www.roscommonartscentre.ie/.



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