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CATHERINE Young Dance will present the Palestine-inspired Floating on a Dead Sea at glór on Thursday, October 31. It features two interconnected works, a documentary recorded from the perspective of a choreographer, which will be shown first, followed by a powerful live performance. Both pieces weave movement, film, live music, and text to illuminate Palestinian daily life. Floating on a Dead Sea is a chance to look and listen more deeply, especially to those whose voices are often unheard. Catherine says that her perspective on Palestine was changed utterly after she made her first ever trip. “In 2016 I was working on something called the Welcoming Project with asylum seekers and refugees in Kerry,” she said. “One of the dancers in the group was from Gaza and he taught us the Palestinian dabkeh dance, their traditional dance. We put it in the show, we had African dance, Irish dance, whoever was there we tried to accommodate. “When we remounted the …

MENOPAUSE is a natural transition and the more we talk about it and educate ourselves the better we will manage says Ennis doctor Máire Finn ahead of a free event in Ennis to mark World Menopause Day next week. Clare County Council, Creative Ireland and Healthy Clare are encouraging individuals to “Live Well Through the Menopause” by supporting the event in glór on Thursday October 17, the day before World Menopause Day. The event aims to provide valuable insights, support, and resources for people in perimenopause and menopause, with doors open from 9am. This informative morning will cover essential topics such as health and wellbeing, mental health, diet, nutrition, physical activity, sexual health, and pelvic floor health, with a keynote address from Dr Finn of Centric Health Ennis. Highlighting the importance for individuals to have access to accurate information on signs, symptoms and treatments at this time of change, Noeleen Fitzgerald, Director of Finance and Support Services, Clare County Council, …

Clare clinical psychologist, Dr David Coleman, is aiming to help parents and those working with children to develop a toolbox for the growing problem of anxiety. David will be in glór early next month to kick off a nationwide tour entitled ‘Helping Children and Teenagers Cope with Anxiety’ in which he aims to reframe anxiety as a normal part of the lives of young people that can be regulated rather than something to be eliminated. He hopes that this new tour will help those living or working with children to understand anxiety better, as a feeling rather than an illness or mental health issue. He says that we all need to be able to get anxious to stay safe, but sometimes teenagers and children can get so anxious that it prevents them from doing regular things in their everyday lives. “I’ve long realised that anxiety in this age-group is a problem that only ever seems to be growing. In recent …

JACK Walsh brings his one man show Welcome to Ireland: Meltdown of an Irish Tour Guide to glór on July 25. Over the years Jack has appeared on hit shows like Killinascully and Kin, but the show tells the story of a stressful time in his life, when he was working but facing homelessness. “It’s basically a dramatised version of part of my own life. I’m an actor and have been for decades. About ten years ago I was happily divorced, so to speak, and like many divorced men I was living in private rented accommodation. “I realised that with the rent going up and up I was going to have to do something to add to my acting income. Acting income, it’s great when it arrives, but you can’t depend on it always. I started tour guiding, I did a Fáilte Ireland training course and everything. “Actors are great at telling stories so it was a natural fit. But …

COMEDIAN and environmentalist Diane O’Connor will bring her show The Accidental Activist to glór on June 28. Diane didn’t grow up expecting to be an activist, it just sort of happened, one minute she was holding a pint in the pub the next it was a placard at a protest. A quick-witted comedy show about a woman trying to find her place in the midst of this mess. The Accidental Activist doesn’t pull any punches but provides a consistent thread of hope and resilience for anyone worried, angry or eager to do more about the climate crisis we’ve been thrown into. “It’s about the climate crisis, but more about my perceptions coming at it as an activist. I didn’t set out to be an activist, it just kind of accidentally happened,” she said. “I was one of those annoying people, talking about the environment, climate, plastic, and I realised that people didn’t want to engage in conversation about the climate …

GLÓR has announced the programme for the third Lasta National Arts Festival, a festival of events programmed for young people by young people, which will take place between Tuesday, June 4 and Saturday, June 8. It is one of seven venues nationwide who have teamed up to present this exciting event in cities and towns across the country. The Lasta programme for glór has been curated by two young Clare-based curators – Ciara Miesle and Rowan Watson Bradshaw, selected through an open call in 2023. Since then, the two have had the opportunity to meet up with curators from other venues nationwide. They received mentoring from industry professionals in marketing, touring and venue management and learned about negotiating deals, how to approach artists and companies, and how to manage budgets. Ciara and Rowan have now pulled together an ambitious programme taking inspiration from casual nerd culture. “The artistic scene can be a daunting world for uninitiated youths. However, in casual, …

Bringing together six trailblazing artists, Stone Drawn Circles will perform in Ennis next week. Described as an Irish new music ‘supergroup’ at their début performance at the international Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Stone Drawn Circles have embarked on their In Formation tour which includes a concert in glór on Thursday, May 9. Artist-led, the ensemble features players from groups including Eighth Blackbird, stargaze, Crash Ensemble, and Ergodos. Stone Drawn Circles are a collective of Lina Andonovska on flute, Nathan Sherman  on viola, singer Michelle O’Rourke , Alex Petcu on percussion, Caimin Gilmore on double bass and Úna Monaghan on harp and sound design. They are bringing new works by four composers who are making waves within the global new music scene: Canadian composer Nicole Lizée, Northern Irish composers Úna Monaghan and Brian Irvine, and Australian composer Cat Hope. ‘In Formation’ by Úna Monaghan investigates three things: how a musician comes to be, what we carry with us and band dynamics in a humorous way. Part concert work/ part melodrama, the fourth wall is dropped in this interactive exploration of relationships within …

THE land, water and sky at Ballyalla Lake on the outskirts of Ennis provide the inspiration for the latest solo exhibition by local artist Evelyn Sorohan. Change of Climate is the title of the body of work which is on view at glór until Thursday next, April 25. “My exhibition is mixed media and it explores the climate emergency and biodiversity loss and I aim is to challenge viewers to understand why we must take stock of what we stand to lose unless we act now. If we don’t take corrective measures right now, species that are under serious threat will disappear completely,” warned the environmental artist. While recovering from illness, swimming in the natural ecosystem of Ballyalla Lake was her go to by way of therapy. The flowers, dragonflies, butterflies, swans, birds, and geese that she saw gave her a lift and she thought deeply about their status in the ecosystem. She undertook research through the National Biodiversity Data …