About this event
In 2020 Butler Gallery moved to its new location at Evans’ Home on John’s Quay, Kilkenny. This momentous occasion has afforded the gallery the chance to reach out beyond its walls to invite and welcome a vast array of communities and audiences to take part in a new chapter of life for the gallery. June is Pride month and to mark this special occasion the gallery is teaming up with Kilkennny Leader Partnership to programme a series of events and activities which will be just the start of a prolonged process of mutual cultural and artistic engagement with LGBTQ communities across Kilkenny and further afield.
âLife happens between our plans,â says Elena Cristofanon, whose latest project,
Contatto, shares the words and stories of a new generation of artists in Ireland. For centuries, the Irish experience of multiculturalism mostly took place abroad. Sometimes we assimilated; on other occasions we established deliberately green enclaves. But it has never been binary: all contact generates change, from subtle to seismic.
Similarly, culture is never static. Even were it possible (never mind anything approaching desirable) to remain culturally isolated, people, custom and belief evolve and shift. Each generation learns from and reacts to the ones that came before, a process that is enriched by different viewpoints, not least because they enable one to see life from new angles.
Longford s FeliSpeaks and Tullamore s Tolü Makay a massive hit with Tommy Tiernan Show viewers
Watch FeliSpeaks reciting her poem For Our Mothers which is on the Leaving Cert curriculum
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Presenter Tommy Tiernan having the craic with Longford s Felicia Olusanya (FeliSpeaks) and Tullamore s Tolü Makay );
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Longford s Felicia Olusanya (FeliSpeaks) and Tullamore s Tolü Makay proved to be a massive hit with viewers of the hugely popular Tommy Tiernan Show on RTÉ One.
Twitter and social media platforms lit up with praise from people who were bowled over by the pair s talent, energy and enthusiasm, and many were calling for the state broadcaster to give them their own chat show!