Irish Catalan Cultural Long Weekend
		         		         Start Date:  October 23, 2014 
		         		         		        End Date:  October 26, 2014  
		        		        Time: 10:00 am				to 11:59 am 
Description
Sitges Performers &
Overview of Calendar of Events
 
  
  
 
Download the full programme here and festival map here. Performers profiles can be accessed from links on left of this page. Travel & accommodation info/deals available here

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Sitges Festival Ticket Outlets:
L’Avinyet, C/Jesús 12, Sitges
Bonita Bonita, Carrer Major 17, 08870, Sitges
This event is produced by Artscope, Ireland
Thursday October 23rd
| Time | Event | Venue | Cost | 
| 10.00pm | Creative Connexions Meet & Greet Join participants, visitors and festival supporters for an informal Creative Connexions welcome! | Casablanca, c/Pau Barrabeig 5 | FREE | 
Friday October 24th
| Time | Event | Venue | Cost | 
| Daily/Various times | Sitges Sessions Informal music sessions in bars throughout Sitges, come along and enjoy, or take part! | Musicians welcome. Please check session map for times & venues | FREE | 
| 7.30pm (open daily during festival) | Jon Berkeley Exhibition & Festival Launch  | Galeria Àgora 3 | FREE 
 | 
| 9.30pm | Kaleidoscope Gig Colm Keegan, Xavi Rota, Desi Wilkinson, Donal O’Connor, Mossie Martin, Bernard Flaherty, Fionnán Mac Gabhann, Francesc Sans & Corrandes són Corrandes (Christian Simelio, Gerard Diaz & Anaís Falcó). A kaleidoscopic night showcasing the best of Irish and Catalan music, poetry, song and dance performed by Creative Connexions festival participants.  | Bonita Bonita | €5 | 
| 11.00pm till late | Late Night Festival Club @ Casablanca      | Casablanca, c/Pau Barrabeig 5 | FREE | 
Saturday October 25th
| Time | Event | Venue | Cost | 
| During gallery opening hours | Jon Berkeley Exhibition Will run daily throughout the festival | Galeria Àgora 3 | FREE | 
| Various times | Sitges Sessions Informal music sessions in bars throughout Sitges, come along and enjoy, or take part! 
 | Musicians welcome. Please check session map for times & venues | FREE | 
| 10.30am | Creative Writing Workshops Adult session with Katie Donovan & Teenage session with Colm Keegan | Hotel Romàntic | Adults €10 Teenagers €8 booking recommended: info@creative-connexions.eu | 
| 11.00am | Family Events – Irish and Catalan Dance Workshop, learn an Irish & Catalan dance in this in this fun-filled workshop with Jim Monaghan (Ireland) & La Agrupacio de Balls Populars de Sitges. – Informal Irish Bodhran and Catalan Gralla Workshop | Mont Roig | FREE | 
| 
 12.00 noon 
 
 1.00pm | Creative Connexions @ Museu Romàntic – Irish/Catalan Folk Music Discussion & Concert Ellen Cranitch, Fionnan Mac Gabhann, Angel Laguna, Cumann na nÓg, Minairons and special guest Denise Kelly (harp) – First Irish : First Catalan Nacho de Castro, C. A. Devine, Jacqueline Hurtley, Colm Keegan, Arnau Martorell, presented by JR Armadàs | Museu Romàntic | €5.00 for 2 events | 
| 5.00pm | Young Musicians Platform Craobh Phiarais | Palau de Maricel | FREE | 
| 7.00pm | A Celebration of the Poetry of W.B.Yeats – through reading, music and song. Jacqueline Hurtley, Katie Donovan, Geraldine Plunkett, Denise Kelly, Ellen Cranitch, Fionnán Mac Gabhann, Francesc Sans & Sitges Canta! 
 | Palau de Maricel | €10.00 | 
| 9.30pm | Liam Ó Maonlaí in Concert with special guest Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill supported by TraDITum 
 | Palau de Maricel | €12.00 | 
| 11.00pm till late | Late Night Festival Club @ Casablanca      | Casablanca, C/ Pau Barrabeig, 5 | FREE | 
Sunday October 26th
| Time | Event | Venue | Cost | 
| During gallery opening times | Jon Berkeley Exhibition Will run daily throughout the festival | Galeria Àgora 3 | FREE | 
| Various times | Sitges Sessions Informal music sessions in bars throughout Sitges, come along and enjoy, or take part! 
 | Musicians welcome. Please check session map for times & venues | FREE | 
| 12.00 noon | Catalan Ceilí – A Music and Dance Spectacle 
 | Mont Roig | FREE | 
| 12.30pm | Poetry Corner : Poems Old and New Katie Donovan, August Bover & special guest readers Join a host of Irish and Catalan poets and supporters of poetry for a reading of their favourite old and new poems. Enjoy a glass of cava and entertainment by some of the festival musicians, and special guest Eulàlia Ara (soprano and cello). | Bonita Bonita | €5 | 
| 5.30pm | Publishing Poetry Today in Ireland & Catalonia – Found in Translation With special guests Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press) & Francesc Parcerisas, presented by John McAuliffe | Palau de Maricel | FREE | 
| 7.00pm | Irish and Catalan Poetry Reading Peter Fallon, Cèlia Sànchez-Mústich, Francesc Parcerisas, John McAuliffe & Sara Berkeley 
 | Palau de Maricel | FREE | 
| 9.30pm | Creative Connexions Festival Bands: Bruel (Catalunya), Coisir Ceol (Ireland) Bruel: Anaís Falcó (fiddle & voice),Xavi Rota (guitar), Angel Laguna (gaites), Coisir Ceol: Danny Diamond (fiddle), Desi Wilkinson (flute & voice), Martin Quinn (accordion) & Fionnán Mac Gabhann (Uilleann pipes) 
 | La Cava Club (El Retiro) | €10 | 
| 11.00pm till late | Creative Connexions Festival Party El Pony Pisador and more …….. | Hotel Romàntic – all welcome! | €5 | 
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