Category: Events 2023

8pm The Gap Theatre @ Ballythomas School – ADMISSION: €12

Building on the skills learned in the 2016 the Gap Festival Mobile Device Film Making Project, Terence White developed and facilitated this unique short film project. Shot by ten people on their phones, from 12 to 60 plus – primary school students, a pizza-serving publican, a local priest – it is a unique record of daily lives in the community during the Lockdown restrictions.  

Edited by Terence White and Rua de Faoite. Produced by Garrett Keogh  

Filmed by: Stephan Rooney, Kaylisha Leonard, Nessa Last, Nicholas Colfer, Paddy Browne, Éadaoin Kinsella O’Neill, Mary Fleming, Chris Hayden, Fionn de Faoite

6.30pm The Gap Pub – ADMISSION: Free

A graduate of Gorey School of Art, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design, and the National Film School, after Lockdown, Aisling returned to art classes. She studied lino printing with Elaine Tobin and developed her practice in creative studio space in The Gorey Art Collective.
Central to the planning and production of the Gap Arts Festival since it began in 2011, Aisling represented Ireland at the European Festivals Association’s Atelier Academy in Valletta Malta in March 2019.
Inspired by the festival environment, she created over the last number of months. This work for this her first solo exhibition is rooted in the Ballythomas community and surroundings. She is particularly drawn to the Giant Puppets developed in the Gap workshops last year.

Anyone who saw the Gap’s Giant Puppets in the Patrick’s Day parade will be excited to hear that the puppet designer, Caoimhe Dunn, will perform at the Picnic@TheGap in the Community Field. Ballythomas, on Sunday Aug 13th. 

The Gap Festival weekend will host live theatre, music, art workshops, family-friendly late-night outdoor movies.

We started the Picnic@TheGap to deal with live performance and bringing people together during the lockdown/s. The combination of live music, pageant, the Inflatable Cinema, circus acts and circus workshops proved so popular that we ran the event again in 2022 – with such as the Stilt Lady and the Polar Bear (See pic)

Caoimhe and Dominic will entertain the crowds with a walkaround performance – and their beautifully designed Snail.

https://isacs.ie/member-news/a-snails-tale-on-the-road/ https://spraoi.com/acts/a-snails-tale/