Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery, celebrating 70 Years in 2010 - EVENTS

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JANUARY/FEBRUARY	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	EXHIBITION - GENERATIONS – Group show, artistic families at The Kenny Gallery. Including works by Brian Ballard, Lisa Ballard, John Behan, Nessa Behan, Pauline Bewick, Holly Melia, Poppy Melia, Margaret Irwin, Katharine West, Thelma Mansfield, Michael Morris, Kenneth Webb and Susan Webb.	From Saturday 23rd January 2010. Official opening by John Concannon, Fáilte Ireland at 2.00pm. Continues through February.
	PAINTING DEMONSTRATION - Kenneth Webb, in aid of Cancer Care West	Saturday 30th January, at 2.00pm
MARCH	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	EXHIBITION – Barry Herniman, Watercolours	Saturday 6th March, at 2.00pm - continues for two weeks
	PAINTING DEMONSTRATION - Marja van Kampen, in aid of Cancer Care West	Saturday 20th March, at 2.00pm
	EXHIBITION – Seasons by Paul Guilfoyle	Opens Saturday 27th March, at 2.00pm. Continues for four weeks.
APRIL	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	CONCERT – ConTempo Quartet, Galway’s Ensemble in Residence	Saturday 17th April, at 2.00pm
	The Poet’s Colloquy: From Manuscript to Published Poem. The panel will consist of Pat Boran (Dedalus Press), Elaine Ní Chuilleanáin (Cyphers Magazine) and Caitriona O Reilly (Poetry Ireland Review). This will be an open discussion in the hope that there will be positive results in having work published. Contributors will be given the chance to read the work and all are welcome. It is hoped that this Poet’s Colloquy will be the first of many such editing workshops. During Cúirt Festival of Literature	Saturday 24th April, at 12 noon sharp.
	EXHIBITION – Padraic Reaney, a major exhibition on the theme of the Famine	Opens Saturday 24th April, at 2.00pm. Continues for four weeks.
MAY	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	PAINTING DEMONSTRATION - Jerry Marjoram, in aid of Cancer Care West	Saturday 8th May, at 2.00pm
	EXHIBITION - Manus Walsh	Saturday 22nd May, at 2.00pm, continues for four weeks
JUNE	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	EXHIBITION – Jane Reeves and Mike Flannery	Opens Saturday 19th June, at 2.00pm. Continues for four weeks.
JULY	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	SEÓDA – a major group exhibition for Galway Arts Festival – Contemporary Irish Sculpture	Opens Saturday 10th July, at 2.00pm. Continues for four weeks. In association of James Adam, Fine Art & Auctioneers, Dublin
AUGUST	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	EXHIBITION – Irish Craft Portfolio 2010: Galway – Ireland’s finest Craftwork in association with the Crafts Council of Ireland	Opens Saturday 14th August, at 2.00pm. Continues for four weeks.
SEPTEMBER	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	EXHIBITION – It Is About Time To Have A Good Time, Seventy works by Gertrude Degenhardt, in her 70th year as Kenny’s celebrate our 70th birthday.	Opens Saturday 11th September, at 2.00pm. Continues for four weeks.
	Historians Round Table - Join LISA HYDE from Irish Academic Press, ANTHONY TIERNEY from Four Courts Press, MARY FEEHAN from Mercier Press, GERARD MORAN and RAYMOND GILLESPIE of Maynooth University to discuss how to develop the Manuscript or Thesis relating to Irish History into a published book. This event may be of considerable interest to the budding Historian...	Saturday 25th September, at 11.00am
	PAINTING DEMONSTRATION – Jim McKee, in aid of Cancer Care West	Saturday 25th September, at 2.00pm
OCTOBER	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	PAINTING DEMONSTRATION - Grace Cunningham, in aid of Cancer Care West	Saturday 16th October, at 2.00pm
	Book Treasure Hunt - during Babóro Children's Festival - details to be announced	Sunday 10th October
	"Human Writes" - Round table with Prof. William A. Schabas, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway	Monday 18th October, from 10.00am
	As Dublin's Blue Door Studio closes, an exhibiton at The Kenny Gallery celebrates their 35 years of inspirational teaching. Including the work of: Tim Allman, Clare Cryan, Margaret Halliden, Joan Keogh, Pat McGloughlin, Sara Sue McNeill, Pamela Pierce, Joan Webb, Kenneth Webb, Susan Webb and others...	From October 30th and continuing for four weeks
NOVEMBER	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	CONCERT – ConTempo Quartet, Galway’s Ensemble in Residence	Tuesday 16th November (time T.B.A.)
	PAINTING DEMONSTRATION - Ben Maile, in aid of Cancer Care West	Saturday 20th November, at 2.00pm
	The Big Bithday Bash… Kennys 70 today! A day of events to celebrate the old girl.	Saturday 27th November
DECEMBER	EVENT	DATE/DETAILS
	EXHIBITION - New Paintings by Thelma Mansfield. We are delighted to announce the addition of Thelma to our line-up in the run up to Christmas, with a selection of her beautiful and increasingly sought after oils.	From Saturday 4th December, at 2.00pm
	BOOK SIGNING - Galway Writers	Saturday 18th December, at 12.00 noon
	CONCERT – ConTempo Quartet, Galway’s Ensemble in Residence	Saturday 18th December, at 2.00pm