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photo: Ebru Yildiz Despite being locked down in Ireland for the past year, Rhiannon Giddens has still, to no one’s surprise, managed to juggle multiple things at once. She’s the host of Aria Code, a podcast that takes listeners behind the opera curtain. She’s the artistic director of Silk Road, a collaborative arts organization founded by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. And she’s the doting mother of two children, one of whom is currently making faces with a banana stuffed into his mouth. “He likes to photo bomb my Zoom calls,” she says with a shrug. Giddens, who grew up in North Carolina, and her partner, the Italian musician Francesco Turrisi, also found time in a Dublin studio to make ....
At the end of a year when the arts provided a shining light and solace in the most difficult of times, An Tain Arts Centre staged an innovative project which reached out to townspeople with a walking tour and an art installation in the windows of the Town Hall. Taking the title Ghost Light, it echoed the long-standing theatre tradition that has become particularly poignant this year, explains An Tain s director Paul Hayes. By leaving a single bulb burning on stage whenever a theatre is dark, we light the way for friendly spirits, keeping them happy and contented. The light is also a symbol of our intention to soon return to the stage. For us, the light represents creativity, collaboration, and community; an energy that can never be dimmed. ....
While An Tain Arts Centre can t invite audiences inside for live performances, director Paul Hayes is working hard to ensure that they are reaching out to audiences of all ages, providing entertainment through the darkest days of winter. He has enlisted the well known Dundalk actor Paudie Breen, who would normally be busy with panto rehearsals this time of year, to perform stories from the collection of the National Folklore Archive. Paudie is reading these stories live on An Tain Arts Centre s Facebook page at 7pm every evening until Saturday, December 19. The stories are linked to the visual arts project Ghost Light: Scéalta ón Lú Trí Sholas (stories of Louth through light) which runs from Sunday December 20 to Sunday January 10. ....