Date: 12th November @ 9pm – 1:30am Location: Coppers Bar and Venue Marty Guilfoyle is one of Irelands best known DJs, so make sure you come and join us for what is sure to be a night that you won’t forget in a hurry More info: https://www.facebook.com/coppersbarportlaoise
Kundalini Yoga & Sound Bath
Date: 12th November @ 11am – 1pm Cost: €17.93 Location: Inch House Attend our spiritual Kundalini Yoga Class and nature Sound Bath, this event will include congregation & setup, opening sound gongs, deep meditative sound bath of Greek gongs. Tea, Coffee and biscuits and a gentle farewell More info: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/kundalini-yoga-sound-bath-tickets-458238302097?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Farmers Market
Date: 12th November Cost: FREE Location: Solas Eco Garden Shop Farmer’s Market Our weekly Farmers’ Market includes a range of over 20 stalls selling Fresh Vegetables and Fruit, Bread and confectionary, Fish and Meat, Artisan Foods & Ethnic treats from local suppliers More info: https://ecogardenshop.ie/events/
Abbeyleix Heritage House Escape Room
Date: 12th November @ 9am – 5pm Cost: €5 Location: Abbeyleix Heritage House This family-friendly puzzle solving experience is designed for children of all ages, and will test the knowledge, critical thinking and puzzle solving skills of the participants. The entrants will need to walk around the museum, solving riddles about the museum and its artefacts. Solve all the riddles and find the key to win the game More info: https://www.facebook.com/heritageabbeyleix
Whiplash – Tribute To Metallica
Date: 11th November @ 9:30pm – 11pm Cost: €13.20 Location: Kavanagh’s Bar and Venue Whiplash are Ireland’s No.1 Metallica Tribute band. We perform professional Metallica shows with the live vibe, energy and sound that Metallica are famous for. Experience the next best thing to a real Metallica show and see and hear the music of Metallica played the way it should be played More info: https://www.universe.com/events/whiplash-tribute-to-metallica-tickets-FXS2JL
Leaves 2022 Main Event: Claire Keegan In Conversation With Edel Coffey
Date: 11th November @ 8pm – 11pm Cost: €12 – €15 Location: Dunamaise Arts Centre An intimate evening of reading and conversation with acclaimed author Claire Keegan and novelist, journalist & broadcaster, Edel Coffey. Accompanied with music by Harpanno. Claire Keegan’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Best American Stories and are translated into thirty languages. Edel Coffey is an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. She began work as an arts journalist and editor with the Sunday Tribune. Harpanno members Dale McKay, Aisling Lyons and Conor Broderick fuse Irish Traditional Music with the ambient sound of the Handpan, creating a unique new sound. More info: https://dunamaise.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873630588
Leaves 2022: Claire Keegan Writer’s Workshop/Masterclass
Date: 11th November @ 12pm – 4pm Cost: €20 Location: Dunamaise Arts Centre A writer’s workshop for Adults, with author Claire Keegan. Claire Keegan’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Best American Stories and are translated into thirty languages. She had won several important prizes like: Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories, Ambassador’s Prize, the Kerry Prize for Irish novel of the year and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction – and is nominated for the Booker Prize. More info: https://dunamaise.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873630589
Leaves 2022: Standing Our Ground – Salmon Women’s Writers’ Event
Date: 10th November @ 8pm – 10pm Cost: FREE Location: Dunamaise Arts Centre Join Mary Dorcey, Jean O’Brien, Rita Kelly and Louise C. Callaghan for an evening of poetry celebrating 40 years of Salmon Publishing, as part of Leaves Festival 2022. Salmon Poetry, taking its name from the Salmon of Knowledge in Celtic mythology, was established in 1981 as an alternative voice in Irish literature. The Salmon, a journal of poetry and prose was a flagship for writers in the west of Ireland, and Salmon’s first books, Gonella by Eva Bourke and Goddess on the Mervue Bus by Rita Ann Higgins broke new ground for women poets. More info: https://dunamaise.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873630586
Parent & Baby Coffee Meet Up
Date: Every Thursday Cost: FREE Location: Bob’s Bar We have decided that there was such a good response to the last event that it would become a weekly event for the winter. This would give parents the chance to meet new people and share some of their stories with other parents. More info: https://www.facebook.com/theyardatbobs
Woodland (Silvopastural) Farming Workshop With Fiorbhia In County Laois
Date: 9th November @ 12pm – 2pm Cost: FREE Location: Bloom HQ This workshop will cover a different variety of items ranging from, reducing costs by wintering pigs and cattle using the forest as a natural shelter. Extra income generating potential. Farming biologically (no chemical inputs). More info: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/woodland-silvopastural-farming-workshop-with-fiorbhia-in-county-laois-tickets-435558716847?aff=ebdssbdestsearch