The Glens Arts Centre

29/08/2026

Five-day festival across Leitrim and Sligo will celebrate Irish, European and North West filmmaking

26/08/2026

21/08/2026

The Adaptation Film Festival is back!
Leitrim and Sligo, 16th-20th Sept

German Oscar-winning director Volker Schlondorff joins author Colm Tóibín and director Pat Murphy at this year’s Leitrim-Sligo Adaptation Film Festival. There are over ten films shot in the region SLR screening alongside a European programme. There are workshops (see below) and networking events culminating in a public interview with Colm Tóibín and Volker Schlondorff See programme https://cinemanorthwest.ie/

While screenings take place at The Glens Arts Centre Manorhamilton and The Model Sligo, all booking is through:

https://www.theglenscentre.com/

20/08/2026

What are you doing for Culture night?
On the evening of Friday 18th September Leitrim will once more host a programme of free events across the county, showcasing Leitrim’s culture and creativity for Culture Night 2026. Events will be taking place across the county from Ballinamore to Manorhamilton to Carrick on Shannon so start planning your evening now! Places are limited for many events so book early where booking is required. See www.leitrimarts.ie for details

20/08/2026

🎭 Youth Theatre Autumn 2026 Term 🎭

We’re excited to welcome everyone back for a brand-new term of Manorhamilton Youth Theatre, starting Monday 14th September at The Glens Arts Centre, Manorhamilton!

✨ Facilitators:

Treasa Nealon – Writer & theatre maker, co-founder of The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company.

Jay Ryan– Storytelling, puppetry & playful theatre (RTE Junior Living with a Fairy).

⏰ Times:

Juniors (ages 9–12): 4.30 – 6.00 pm

Seniors (ages 13–17): 6.15 – 8.15 pm

New members welcome! Sign up through the link here >> https://www.leitrimyoutharts.com/leitrim-youth-threatre

Come along, make friends, and explore the magic of theatre!

Supported by Youth Theatre Ireland and Leitrim Arts Office.

19/08/2026

🖊️ Play in a Day! Workshop 🖊️
⏰ 6pm to 7.30pm
📅 Thursday 17th of September
📍 The Glens Arts Centre

Do you have an idea for a short play? Have you an interest in playwriting? Do you want to see your work read on stage?

Then take part in Play in a Day! - an exciting Culture Night workshop where you’ll have the opportunity to write a new theatrical masterpiece and see it performed on The Glens Arts Centre stage the very next day! Guided by playwright Treasa Nealon (‘The Back of the Bus’, Fishamble and ‘Homesick’, Dublin Fringe Festival) during an welcoming and creative workshop the evening before Culture Night, you will have until 12pm the next day to submit your plays!

Spaces are limited. Please register your interest with your play idea and a sample of your writing to [email protected] by 5pm Friday 4th September.

A collaboration between The Glens Arts Centre and The Rabbits Riot Theatre Company as part of Culture Night. Funded by Leitrim Arts Office.

📸 Cat Bonner Photography

18/08/2026

Six new plays. Twenty-four hours. One unforgettable Culture Night.

Can you write a play in 24 hours? For Culture Night, The Glens Arts Centre presents Play in a Day!, where six emerging writers create original short plays in just 24 hours.

A collaboration between The Glens Arts Centre and The Rabbit's Riot Theatre Company, this is a celebration of creativity, imagination and the thrill of brand-new theatre.

Guided by acclaimed Leitrim playwright Treasa Nealon, participants begin with a scriptwriting workshop before completing their plays overnight. The following day, professional actors will rehearse each script before presenting them to a live audience in a series of rehearsed readings.

Treasa Nealon's work has been recognised nationally and internationally. Her short play The Back of the Bus was selected for Fishamble's The Navigator Project and was published by Bloomsbury. Her full-length Boom Boom Bang was selected for Druid Debuts, with recent productions including The World is Falling in Around Us (London's Union Theatre) and Homesick (Dublin Fringe Festival).

Whether you're a theatre lover, aspiring writer or simply curious, come experience six brand-new stories created in just one day.

🖊Play in a Day! Workshop🖊
⏰6pm to 7.30pm
📆Thursday 17th of September
🖊Find out more information on how to take part here >> https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompany.com/present-work/play-in-a-day-culture-night-2026-workshop

🎭 Play in a Day! Performance 🎭
⏰6pm to 7pm
📆Friday 18 September
🎫Admission free
🎫 https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompany.com/present-work/play-in-a-day-culture-night-2026

A co-production with The Glens Arts Centre and The Rabbit's Riot Theatre Company. Part of Culture Night. Funded by Leitrim Arts Office.

08/08/2026

A good one coming up in The Glens! 😂🎤

Paddy McDonnell brings his new stand-up show Paddy Power Full to Manorhamilton on Thursday 10 September at 8pm.

We’ve just released 10 Early Bird tickets at €17.

There are only 10 at that price, so if you’re thinking of coming along, get in early. Once they’re gone.

It will be a great night of laughs and fun. Bring a friend.

🐦 Early Bird €17
🎟️ Standard €20

Tickets 👇
glenscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873688899

Who are you bringing? 😂

07/08/2026

🎼Esposito Quartet

📅Friday 23 October at 8pm

🎫Tickets: €20/€18
glenscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873689393

Mia Cooper, violin
Anna Cashell, violin
Joachim Roewer, viola
William Butt, cello

Haydn - String Quartet in E flat major Op.33 No.2 The Joke [1781]

Kevin Volans - White Man Sleeps [1982]

Dvořák - String Quartet in E flat major Op.51 Slavonic [1879]

The wonderful Esposito Quartet has toured in every NSQF season since 2018, always bringing warmth and energy to their music-making.

Haydn’s E flat major quartet The Joke is the second of his revolutionary Op.33 set of quartets, in which conversational ease, rhythmic playfulness and sly humour redefined what a quartet could be. Its famous finale, with its teasing false endings, remains one of Haydn’s most delightful inventions.

Kevin Volans’ White Man Sleeps offers a dramatically different sound world: spare, rhythmic and hypnotic. Drawing on traditional African dance music, the piece was originally written for two harpsichords, viola da gamba and percussion, but Volans was persuaded to re-work it as a string quartet for the Kronos Quartet and it became perhaps his most popular and memorable work.

Dvořák’s E flat major quartet Op.51 is steeped in the warmth, lyricism and rhythmic vitality of Czech folk music. Its flowing melodies and dancing rhythms bring the programme to a joyful conclusion.