The Moot Art and Music Festival

SUNDAY, 7th of JULY, 2013

FILM TRAILERS

WEDNESDAY, 2nd MAY, 2013

TheMootArtGallery.org presents 'The Moot Art and Music Festival'.

On July 12th & 13th, Parliament Street, Kilkenny In the Rep of Ireland, Kilkenny Themootartgallery.org presents The Moot Art And Music Festival. An alternative festival of the arts transpiring in the ancient Medieval Town of Kilkenny. This warm and friendly festival will be ripe with artistic endeavours from many of Kilkennys Artistic inhabitants as well as creativity from those further abroad in other places. Working in conjunction with our favorite little den of iniquity Cleeres Theatre and The Upstairs Gallery, The Moot Art Gallery(.org) hope to bring something uniquely unique to the people of Kilkenny and those further abroad from other places.

12th
Starting off the festival on the 12th of July at 6pm In The Upstairs Gallery we have the Grand Opening of ‘UMPLEK’ an exhibition of wholesome joyous artworks from Scottish Artist Bobby Nixon and Irish Artist Stephen Morton. The exhibition brings together these two young creative delinquents under the roof of The Upstairs Gallery to set up and display a series of creative pieces centred around themes of apocalypse, sexual abuse, extremism, murder, rape and incest that will be rendered tightly for your satisfaction.
Later on over In Cleeres Theatre we have ‘The Moot Film Night’, debuting a host of films by 3 Kilkenny artist and 1 Cork based artist. We have the Kilkenny World Premiere of David O’Reilly’s ‘The External World’ projected onto a screen. An amazing piece of work from one of the worlds most Innovative animators of our times, The External World tells the tale of a boy learning to play piano. One of the main centre pieces of the festival is the premiere of ‘Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep’ a feature length film by Michael Higgins another one of Kilkenny’s great creative practitioners of the arts, the film looks at three character and the thing that makes them one. Then we have the Kilkenny Premiere of Nigel Farrelly’s ‘The Cook’ shot on location In Berlin. Also and then we have Kilkennys Premiere of Kilkenny based artist Stephen Morton and his short film ‘The Kingdom Of Choke’ written and drawn on location In Edinburgh, Scotland and assembled In Kilkenny, Rep of Ireland.

13th
On the 13th of July, the second day of The Moot Art and Music Festival we present ‘The Moot Music Night’ In Cleeres Theatre set in the ancient backdrop of Kilkenny. Headlining the night we have a mysterious duo of creative visual and audio artists who go down under the guise of The Blackheart Nightclub, a wave of dancy fun music and mental quirky visuals ‘The Blackheart Nightclub’ offers something unique and special for the punters to enjoy. Then we have Trumpets Of Jericho, A group of Cork/Kilkenny musicians and rockers who will be belting out a barrage of post punk with a smiggin of 70’s west coast pop and a dollop of attitude. And then also we have Strawk, a set of pulsating scream throws of dilapidated misery set in a mushy quagmire of profoundly riveting wakes. And then also again we have the Kilkenny debut of ‘Replies’ the music of Nigel Farrelly.

Each Night is 5 euros In and the exhibit is free to see.

Visit themootartgallery.org for further information.

Veronica Chang 21/5/13