WEEKEND EVENTS
@ The Irish Workhouse Centre
Art Exhibition (from 4-17 September, Opening: 3 September, 5-7pm)  |  Free
Dark Shadows by Kieran Tuohy  |  Free
Otherworldly Wonders of our Bogs & Wetlands Photography Exhibition by Tina Claffey  |  Free
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@ Portumna Castle Gallery
Junk Kouture  |  Free
The Exam Collection  |  Free

@ Portumna Castle
Taking A Walk Exhibition by Portumna Camera Club & Portumna Pen Pushers  |  Free

@ Portumna Dairy Services, Patrick St.
​Mural of St. Dympna  |  Free
THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER
Taking a Walk Exhibition Launch (Portumna Pen Pushers / Camera Club) with Strings & Things  |  11am  | Free
FILM: Writing Home  |  2pm  |  €7
Launch of Home from Home by Luke Morgan  |  4.15pm  |  Free
Strings & Things - Festival in a Van  |  5pm  |  Free
FILM: Shorts  |  5pm  |  €7
A Gramaphone Concert with Peter Browne  |  8pm  |  €15
FRIDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER
Use of Egg Tempera and Oil Demonstration with Artist Fergus A. Ryan  |  11am  |  Free
Comhrá & Ceol (Portumna Library)  |  11.30pm  |  Free
Bog Bodies - Festival In A Van (for residents and carers at Portumna Retirement Village)  |  2pm  |  Free
FILM: Documentary: Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini with Q&A  |  2.30pm  |  €7
Bog Bodies - Festival In A Van  |  4pm  |  Free
FILM: Shorts  |  5pm  |  €7
Songs and Stories of Percy French  |  6pm  |  €15
SOLD OUT!   Cathy Davey in Concert  |  9pm  |  €20   SOLD OUT!  
SATURDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER
Herb & Plant Walk with Leslie Maya Souchere  |  10am  |  €7
Poetry Writing Workshop with Anne F. O’Reilly  |  10am  |  €15
Rushwork Workshop with Gerardine Wisdom  |  10am  |  €15
Freeing the Natural Voice with Speaking Voice Coach Angela Metzler  |  10am  |  €25
Circus Skills with Little Top Stars  |  various times  |  €5
Children’s Mixed Media Art Workshop with Hayley Aldous  |  11am  |  €10
Jay Ryan of Pignut Productions - Monsters & Things/The Flea Circus  |  various times  |  €5
Magical Mayhem with Tony Baloney  |  various times  |  Free
Why I haven’t met Oprah, Yet written and performed by Dee Keogh  |  1pm  |  €10
Otherworldly Wonders of our Bogs & Wetlands with Tina Claffey  |  2.30pm  |  Free
The life and works of Thomas Butler Stoney (1885-1917) with David Broderick  |  2.30pm  |  Free
Western Words with Poets Amy Barry, Noelle Lynskey & Luke Morgan  |  4pm  |  €10
FILM: Shorts  |  5pm  |  €7
A Century Of Brendan Behan with Donal Fallon & Fergus Whelan  |  6pm  |  €15
FILM: Writing Home  |  7.30pm  |  €7 MOVED TO FRIDAY @ 6.30PM
SOLD OUT!   In Concert: Ye Vagabonds  |  9pm  |  €25   SOLD OUT! 
SUNDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER
Mindful Movement – 5 Rhythms® with Jenny Fahy  |  10.30am  |  €15
Lines Learned by Heart  |  11.30am  |  Donation
Sunday Stories & Tunes with Doire Press  |  2pm  |  Free
FILM: Who We Love  |  2.30pm  |  €7
What a Wonderful World - An Afternoon Recital hosted by David Kennedy & Friends  |  3.30pm  |  €15
FILM: Shorts  |  5pm  |  €7
Invisible Threads - In Conversation with Marguerite MacCurtain  |  5.30pm  |  €10
The Ballad of Mossy Flood by Seamus O’Rouke  |  8pm  |  €15
SCHOOL EVENTS
Writing Workshop with Clara Kumagai
Circus Skills with Little Top Stars
Home From Home Literary Project Exhibition with Luke Morgan (Portumna Library)
Reading & Writing Workshop with Luke Morgan
Strings & Things - Festival in a Van
Tribal Spirit Drumming with John Bowker
Bog Bodies - Festival in a Van
Poetry Competition
​Book Fair