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Farmleigh House Cultural Programme 2022
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Following a hiatus of two years, due to the imposed Covid-19 restrictions, the Office of Public Works (OPW) is delighted to announce the details of the first five events that will take place in Farmleigh House as part of its 2022 cultural programme.
Saturday 26th March 2022 at 7.30pm, €12 (including booking fee)
Royal Irish Academy of Music “Young Artist Programme” concert featuring Sarah Brazil (violin), Lucy Byrne (piano), Charlotte Croke (piano), Adam Joyce (cello), Lelia May (saxophone), Joe O’Grady (piano), Elizabeth Troup (cello) and Margaret Troup (trumpet)
This opening concert of Farmleigh’s 2022 season will feature eight brilliant young students who are currently engaged in the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Featured in the presentation will be music by Haydn, Chopin, Liszt and Piazzolla.
The Young Artist Programme is designed to nurture high potential pre-college talents aspiring to professional training. It targets post-Grade 8 secondary school students aged approximately 15-18 years. Places are allocated by audition and are limited to 25 students at any one time. The programme is for two years with an option to further re-audition if under 18 at the time.
This concerts offers classical music lovers the opportunity of witnessing the very beginnings of the careers of those who will become the outstanding talents of the future.
Tickets can be purchased from the Motor House information centre at Farmleigh or through www.eventbrite.ie
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Saturday 9th April 2022 @3pm, €6 (including booking fee)
Richard Nairn is an ecologist and writer who has published six books on topics ranging from Wild Wicklow (1998) to Wildwoods (2020). During his career he has worked as a nature reserve warden and was the first Director of BirdWatch Ireland. He now manages a native woodland in County Wicklow.
His recent book Wildwoods is a fascinating account of this woodland over a typical year. Along the way Richard visits native woodlands throughout Ireland, observing their wildlife, uncovering ancient roles of trees in Irish life, examining lost skills such as coppicing and exploring new uses of woodlands for forest schools, foraging, rewilding and capturing carbon.
This talk will be of deep interest to anyone who has concerns regarding the global environmental challenges highlighted in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. It will point to actions that can be taken on a personal level as a way of making a contribution to our future climate and environmental security.
Tickets can be purchased from the Motor House information centre at Farmleigh or through www.eventbrite.ie
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An annual staple of the Farmleigh calendar, Japan Day will see the presentation of a wide variety of cultural events relating to the country’s social and cultural life.
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During the 2019 cultural programme at Farmleigh, the renowned uilleann piper David Power and flamenco guitar player John Walsh delivered concert presentations in their separate musical genres. Having taken notice of each other’s performances, they joined forces over the intervening two years, snatching opportunities, during breaks in the imposed Covid lockdown restrictions, to create a new musical marriage of traditional Irish and Spanish flamenco styles.
Added to this fascinating mix are the classical music sensibilities of the brilliant Finnish violinist Marja Gaynor, who teaches at the Cork School of Music. A member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny, as well as being a founder member of the Giordani Quartet, Ireland’s only chamber group specialising in early Classical repertoire using period instruments, Gaynor contributes to the trio’s explorations a deep and rich vein of musical understanding.
Together, Power, Walsh and Gaynor fuse their combined musical genius to create a totally enthralling new sonic landscape in a magical blending of their diverse cultural interests.
Tickets can be purchased from the Motor House information centre at Farmleigh or through www.eventbrite.ie
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The first of the Farmleigh season’s three International Art Talks features Georgina Adam, art market editor-at-large at the The Art Newspaper and art business contributor to the Financial Times and Le Quotidien de l’Art.
Adam is the author of three important books on the global art market, including “Big Bucks, The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century” (2014, Lund Humphries) and “Dark Side of the Boom, The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century” (2018, Lund Humphries). Her most recent publication is “The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum” (Lund Humphries / Sotheby’s Art Institute, 2021) wherein she examines the extraordinary developments in the purchase and presentation of works by major and emerging artists in venues that are financed by wealthy private individuals.
Of the 400 of them around the world, 70% of the private art museums that are devoted to contemporary art were founded in the past 20 years. Whether created as tax-evading vanity projects or as ‘tombs for trophies’, Adam’s has visited over 50 of them across the USA, Europe, China, and elsewhere, enabling her to probe the financial and curatorial logic behind this massive growth and to assess what motivates these collectors to amass and display their private art in public.
The cultural life of a community can be greatly enhanced by the appearance of private museums, allowing emerging artists to be seen and major artists to be re-evaluated, as well as by bringing exciting new energy into previously neglected public spaces. However, at a time of a major funding crisis in the public museum sector, Adam examines the benefits and drawbacks of allowing these private museums step in to fill a gap left by declining state investment in the arts.
As an important examination of the cultural implications of the rise of these private museums, the talk will be of particular interest to Irish artists and collectors who might like to understand more fully the trends in collecting by these personally funded entities and the impact they are having on the global art market and the art world in general.
Georgina Adam lectures at Sotheby’s and Christie’s institutes in London and participates in panels about the market. She is a board member of Talking Galleries, a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), as well as The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA). She is also chair of the membership committee of Cromwell Place, the recently established art exhibition space and art business hub in London.
Tickets can be purchased from the Motor House information centre at Farmleigh or through www.eventbrite.ie