Cycles Screening

Carlow Arts Festival and Carlow Sports Partnership invite you to join us on Wednesday the 27th of November at 7pm at VISUAL for a special screening of two film works about the Cycles project and a short performance by Carlow Community Choir.

Cycles is an arts participation project created by Carlow Arts Festival that has been taking place across Hacketstown, Rathvilly, Graiguecullen and Tullow, exploring language, history, landscape and cycling led by artists Michelle Browne and Eszter Némethi. We have been looking back 100 years to 1923 and imagining our future in 2123 through a series of workshops, talks and discussions.

Patrick Bramley of ULAB Studios has been following the Cycles project from its beginnings to the final collective cycling event in July, 2024. This short documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes process of developing this project with artists Michelle Browne and Eszter Némethi, the communities in Rathvilly, Hacketstown, Graiguecullen and Tullow, and partners Carlow Sports Partnership, Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Road Cycling Club, Carlow County Council, Carlow An Garda Síochána and Carlow Community Choir.

Photographer and filmmaker, Ros Kavanagh has been working closely with Michelle Browne to develop a film work that captures the experience of the collective cycle on the 14th of July, 2024 that began and ended at Ducketts Grove. This will include the special audio experience that was developed from texts written by the community groups during the series of Cycles workshops.

After the screening, Carlow Community Choir, led by Mary Amond O’Brien, will sing Follow the Crows -a song written especially for this project by Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn of Ye Vagabonds inspired by the texts written by the community groups.

All are welcome, booking is recommended. Refreshments will be available on arrival.

Cycles is part of ART:2023, a Decade of Centenaries programme, presented by The Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. This project has been supported by Carlow Sports Partnership, Sport Ireland via the Dormant Accounts Fund, Creative Ireland Carlow, Carlow Arts Office, Carlow County Development Partnership and Healthy Ireland.