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An Odd Job

A job centre for artists of all ages

5 June - 31 August 2025

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Lunchtime Exhibition Tours

Take a break and explore 'Dreamtime Ireland' up close with a relaxed, conversational tour led by our programming team.

Tuesdays, 1 July - 26 August 2025, 1pm

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Family Workshops: Dreamtime Ireland

Join us for a series of special family workshops inspired by the exhibition, Dreamtime Ireland.

Tuesday mornings, 1 + 8 July, 19 + 26 August | Wednesday mornings, 2 + 9 July, 20 + 27 August, 10am

Art Club 5

Ukrainian Art Club

Art afternoons for children in Carlow | мистецький клуб для дітей

Saturdays; 21st June - 5th July 2025, 3pm

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The Straight Story

A biographical drama film directed by David Lynch, known for its gentle, heartfelt narrative about an elderly man's cross-country journey on a lawnmower to reconcile with his ailing brother.

Sunday 13 July 2025, 7.30pm, Age Rating: G

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Do The Right Thing

This 1989 American comedy-drama film explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension culminating in tragedy and violence on a hot summer's day.

Wednesday 23 July 2025, 7:30pm, Age Rating: 18

Art & Ideas

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The Lumpies

Erica Van Horn

Responding to Deirdre O'Mahoney's exhibition Between A Rock and A Hard Place, artist and writer Erica Van Horn presents a diaristic text reflecting upon landscape, infrastructure, and living in rural Ireland.

Kingdom

Irenosen Okojie

Written in response to Dominique White's exhibition Cinders of the Wreck, author Irenosen Okojie presents a specially-commissioned piece of speculative fiction, giving an powerful imagined history to the sculptural assemblages on show at VISUAL.

All this will feel impossible soon

Sophia Al-Maria

In this text, the artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria responds to Amie Siegel’s video installation Asterisms. The text is written in the style of a voiceover, taking its cue from Werner Herzog’s 1992 documentary on the burning oil fields of Kuwait, Lessons of Darkness.

News

Artworks Award 2025 Winners Announced

VISUAL and Carlow Arts Festival are delighted to announce the recipients of the Artworks Award 2025, part of this year’s annual open call exhibition presented under the theme Dreamtime Ireland.