Sound & Vision – Culture Night 2022

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Lorcan’s broadcasts Classic Drive live with guests from the Hunt Museum Study Room, under the gaze of St Lucia and Sean Keating, among a few of the amazing objects.  Cultural sounds for your ears while you immerse yourself in visions of the future with Robots and AI from Confirm mixed in with Apollo dancing using AR, Riding a Flying Fish or two if you missed it last year, or playing the Truffles – the Three Muses Game of Limerick.  The Captains Room is then taken over by the Limerick New Music Ensemble for the rest of the evening, while the Polish Arts Festival have a moving theatre performance with Simon Thompson starting in the Courtyard.  Meanwhile Cross Connect is being conducted by Gorm Media and Guests in the Garden Gallery.  

Lorcan Murray - Classic Drive

Lorcan Murray’s Classic Drive – The perfect music soundtrack including some sounds from the Limerick and County Youth Theatres who created a Gregorian Chant using the Medieval Handbells recorded by Eoin Callery of the University of Limerick and some classic Limerick phrases such as Aboy the Kid and Chicken Hut Gravy is unreal.  

Robots & AI (RAFF & Truffles) with Confirm

Peek into robotics and the how of Artificial Intelligence, sensors, virtual reality, the Internet of Things that the Hunt Museum is using or considering using to make the museum objects come alive. A vision of the future is presented by CONFIRM, the Science Foundation Ireland funded research centre for smart manufacturing based in UL.  Looking to inform and educate society about new and emerging technologies and have some discussion and debate around their impacts on our society and our culture. Researchers and staff from CONFIRM  are holding a drop-in session, giving everyone the chance to learn about and play with technologies such as robotics, internet of things, sensors and more!  Also for playing  is Truffles the Treasure Hunting Pig. A brand new Limerick game produced by 5 students from South East Technological University in Carlow,  using objects from the Limerick City Gallery of Art, the Limerick City Museum and the Hunt Museum ages 7 and up!  And our favourite god.. Apollo… is boogieing in his Alternative Reality form alongside a chance to revisit Ride a Flying Fish using our VR Headsets.  

Limerick New Music Ensemble - The Dining Controversy

LNME presents a concert of work by Irish composers under the direction of Fiona Linnane. Formerly performing under the name CoMA Limerick, this vibrant ensemble features Limerick based musicians exploring experimental new music from living composers at The Hunt Museum on Culture Night.  The ensemble will perform from 8.15-8.45pm and 9.15-9.45pm. Tickets are free but booking is advised.

Elemental Tales Polish Arts Festival

‘Elemental Tales’ is  a promenade performance consisting of four multi-disciplinary pieces set in various locations within the Hunt Museum Garden, The performance combines Slavic Folk Tales with Irish Fairy Tales and draws parallels between the similarities of both traditions. Bringing the characters to life through, dance, theatre and mask the Polish Arts Festival will take you on an imaginative journey through the four elements of Water, Air, Earth and Fire.

Performance duration 30 mins 

Rocking

ROCKING is an interdisciplinary performance-made-for-film in a creative collaboration between Early Music and Contemporary Dance. This project explores lamentation, love and loss through a feminist lens and is inspired by the music and text of Tarquinio Merula’s sacred lullaby “Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna”, featuring Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord & artistic direction), Aisling Kenny (soprano), Sarah Groser (viola da gamba), and Isabella Oberländer (dance & choreography). 

The Hunt Museum top floor study room

4pm Premiere of ROCKING (film is 13 minutes), 4:20 Q&A

5pm–10pm ROCKING will loop throughout the evening every 13 minutes