Culture Journal Ireland

Month: May 2019

Derry turns Japanese

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A flavour of all things Japanese comes to Derry this weekend as The North West Japanese Society kick off their annual On festival. For the first time this year sees the festival extended from a weekend to a whole week with lots to do including Japanese doll making, Haiku poetry workshops and recitals, a Manga art exhibition as well as a chance to try your hand at cooking Japanese cuisine. Also for all the movie fans there is a screening of the 2016 version of the legendery Shin Godzilla. With all these and so much more to do it promises to be a week of fun activities that everyone can…

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Rachmaninov Second by Ulster Orchestra

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Since the Ulster Orchestra has started it’s live on your doorstep series, bringing it away from it’s comfort blanket of Belfast, it has been very warmly received. On this occasion it was lead by virtuoso Pianist Barry Douglas at Derry’s Guildhall. Viewed as one of his most complex, yet most celebrated pieces, Rachmaninov was on a bit of a low when he wrote his second piano concerto; his first having been heavily panned by the critics, he went into a deep state of depression, and there are those who even say that he wrote the piece under a state of severe psychosis. The piece was originally starts with piano alone…

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