Details
FREEDate(s)
Sun, Mar 10, 2019
12:00pm
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Location
Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
and
PAL William J. Duncan Center (right next door!)
Overview
In partnership with Police Athletic League (PAL)
Immerse yourself in Ireland's rich culture at our annual free open house. Visitors of all ages can join in a céilí, have their faces painted, do arts and crafts, learn words as Gaeilge, try a traditional Irish instrument like the tin whistle or bodhrán—or simply grab a seat and delight in the day’s live music and dance performances.
Activities include soda bread-making demonstrations and the U.S. premiere of Cartoon Saloon, Fócas Films, and TG4’s Cúl an Tí series of animated shorts celebrating the Irish song.
“Irish Arts Center's annual extravaganza…an Irish favorite for kids and parents”
—Time Out New York
SCHEDULE
IAC DONAGHY THEATRE
12-12:30pm
Music performance: Irish Arts Center’s resident céilí band
12:30-1:45pm
IAC student performances: From storytelling to set dance—a sample of IAC classes for all ages
2-2:45pm
Music performance: Cleek Schrey (fiddle) and Stuart Jackson (uilleann pipes)
3-4pm
U.S. premiere of Cartoon Saloon, Fócas Films, and TG4’s Cúl an Tí series of animated shorts celebrating the Irish song
IAC GALLERY
12-3pm
Enjoy tea, coffee and soda bread
12:30pm & 2:30pm
Cooking demonstration: How to make soda bread
12-4pm
Danielle Tegeder Exhibition: Drawing Room—The Field Guide to Experimental Irish Literature
PAL (POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE) GYM
12-4pm
Arts and crafts
12:30-3:30pm
Face painting
12:30-3:30pm
Irish instrument petting zoo (try out a fiddle, tin whistle, or bodhrán drum)
PAL STAGE AREA
12:15-12:45pm
Uilleann pipe demonstration and performance with Stuart Jackson
1-1:30pm
Performance and dance lesson by Niall O’Leary School of Dance
1:45-2:15pm
Music performance: Irish Arts Center’s resident céilí band
2:30-3pm
Irish song sing-a-long with Tommy Deegan
3-4pm
Céilí dance lesson, dance, and music (social dance for all ages) led by Jonathan Matthews of Darrah Carr Dance with music by Cleek Schrey (fiddle) and Stuart Jackson (uilleann pipes)
PAL EDUCATION ROOM
12-12:45pm
Irish song circle for all ages with Peadar O’Hici
1-1:30pm
Tin whistle sample class for kids with Kieran McCarthy-Fell
1:45-2:15pm
Tin whistle sample class for adults with Kieran McCarthy-Fell
2:30-3pm
Irish language sample class for kids with Bláthnaid O'Donoghue
3:15-3:45pm
Irish language sample class for adults with Bláthnaid O'Donoghue
Support for this program is also provided by Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Foundation, Knights of St. Patrick, and Society of Friendly Songs of St. Patrick, Westchester County.
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Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
