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Group Show: Enter Slowly
Enter Slowly, curated by David Cunningham, features the work of Anna Barham, Cath Campbell, Maud Cotter, Laura Gannon, Alexandra Navratil, and Linda Quinlan.
…- Location: CA
- Dates: January 14 – February 19
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Art Los Angeles Contemporary is an international contemporary art fair held January 27-30, 2011. The fair presents 70 international and emerging galleries from around the…
- Location: CA
- Dates: January 27 – January 30
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
Winner of multiple awards in three countries, Druid’s production of this comic masterpiece is filled with a host of charming characters and unexpected plot twists.…
- Location: MA, DC, MI, IL, CA, PA, SC, CT
- Dates: February 02 – June 19
Cinemagic USA
Cinemagic USA is a film festival for young people taking place in New York, Boston, San Francisco, LA, and includes film screenings and film and…
- Location: NY, MA, CA
- Dates: February 10 – February 26
Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg
Grammy-winning vocalists Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg blend effortlessly in Saints & Tzadiks, a vibrant collaboration of Irish and Yiddish song.
…- Location: TX, CA
- Dates: February 16 – May 22
Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film
Annual Hollywood event which honors the contribution of the Irish to film. “Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film” has become the fun, casual Irish…
- Location: CA
- Dates: February 24 – February 24
Group Exhibition: Wake Amusements
An exhibition of books by 12 Irish artists organized by Curator Matt Packer, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork. Drawing reference to the jovial funerary…
- Location: CA
- Dates: March 01 – March 31
A Reading with Julian Gough, Moderated by Yiyun Li
In his West Coast premiere, Julian Gough, born in London, raised in Ireland, and living in Berlin, will read from his most recent book, Jude:…
- Location: CA
- Dates: March 08 – March 08
‘This is Ireland’ - a St. Patrick’s Day Celebration in music, film and poetry
A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration in music, film and poetry, with special guests Roma Downey and Pierce Brosnan, this will be a whistle stop tour…
- Location: CA
- Dates: March 17 – March 17
Readings with Richard Tillinghast
As an American poet living in Ireland, Richard Tillinghast’s poetry explores questions of homeland and cultural transplantation in this series of readings…- Location: CA, MS, OR
- Dates: March 24 – April 13
Gerald Barry and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest, an opera in three acts commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, will be world-premiered under the baton…
- Location: CA
- Dates: April 07 – April 08
Eamon O’Kane: Broodwork: It’s About Time
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to premiere Eamon O’Kane’s impressive installation “Froebel Eames Studio” to the Los…
- Location: CA
- Dates: April 30 – June 11
LA Times Festival of Books: Irish Authors in the Discover the World Pavilion
Writers Sara Berkeley, Peter Sirr (Sat 11am), Mary O’Donghue, Kevin Power (Sat 2.45pm), Thomas McCarthy, Joe Woods (Sun 11am), Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Kevin Power…
- Location: CA
- Dates: April 30 – May 01
Blinder Films
Blinder Films second feature ‘Sensation’, travels to the Newport Beach Film Festival to partake in a special Irish festival this year. Written and directed by…
- Location: CA
- Dates: May 01 – May 01
Neff Brothers at the L.A .Composers’ Salon
Following their highly acclaimed collaboration with renowned Icelandic composer, Atli Örvarsson, on his score for Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s latest film, “The Eagle,” the Neff…
- Location: CA
- Dates: May 08 – May 08
Group Show: Invite or Reject
‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 13 selected Irish artists -…
- Location: IL, NY, CA
- Dates: June 02 – August 24
On the Road with House of Bees by Stephen Murray
To promote his debut poetry collection ‘House of Bees’, Galway poet Stephen Murray will cycle 8,000km around the USA. He will read from his work…
- Location: WA, OR, CA, TN, IL
- Dates: June 03 – August 30
A Californian Bloomsday
On Monday June 13 at 7pm at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens: Irish writers Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Sinead Morrissey
…- Location: CA
- Dates: June 13 – June 14
As you are now so once were we
Inspired by James Joyce Ulysses, the show depicts the very day of the performance, following the actors through Dublin on their way to the theatre.…
- Location: CA
- Dates: June 14 – June 26
Jesse Jones
REDCAT presents the first U.S. solo exhibition by Dublin-based visual artist Jesse Jones. Jones will exhibit recent works along with a newly commissioned work developed…
- Location: CA
- Dates: July 01 – August 28
Walker and Walker
“Super 8” is an international video exhibition featuring the work of forty contemporary artists at the Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles. Each week of…
- Location: CA
- Dates: July 08 – September 03
Group show: this little bag of dreams…
A group exhibition featuring six contemporary Irish Artists living and working in Ireland. The exhibition will include painting, sculpture, video, and performance. The list of…
- Location: CA
- Dates: July 23 – August 27
Contemporary Irish Writing at the Catharine Clark Gallery
The three contemporary Irish authors, Kevin Barry, Philip O Ceallaigh, and Julian Gough, will read from their work at this public event on August 27…
- Location: CA
- Dates: August 27 – August 27
Screen Directors Guild of Ireland and Directors Guild of America
The Directors Finders Series Award presents an Irish director with an opportunity to screen their film in the state-of-the-art Directors Guild of America Theatre to…
- Location: CA
- Dates: September 09 – September 09
Jessie Lendennie
Jessie will conduct a series of poetry readings in the US to launch her new work, ‘Walking Here’ ; ‘Mad for Meat’ by Kevin Simmonds…
- Location: CA,
- Dates: September 10 – September 16
The Mulcahy Family
The Equinox Festival (produced by CTMS, a respected institution in the American folk arts community) has presented world-class artists from many traditions for 30 years. …
- Location: CA
- Dates: September 10 – September 11
The San Francisco Irish Film Festival
The festival presents the very best in contemporary Irish cinema, celebrating everything from features to documentaries to Irish language films (with English subtitles for those…
- Location: CA
- Dates: September 23 – September 26
Irish Architecture Now
Two groups of three Irish architects each will travel to several U.S. cities. In each city, the architects will participate in symposia, briefly presenting key…
- Location: CA, IL, MA, NY, PA
- Dates: September 26 – November 11
Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Two traditional musicians who have toured the US extensively in different formations are about to tour the US for the third time as a duo.
- Location: CA, WI, MN, WI, IL, PA, NJ, CT, NY
- Dates: October 06 – October 23
Young Ireland: A Generation of Irish Writers at San Francisco’s Litquake Festival
A reading and conversation with five young Irish novelists. Chris Binchy, John Butler, Lucy Caldwell, Claire Kilroy and Belinda McKeon will read from their work…
- Location: CA
- Dates: October 11 – October 11
Nevan Lahart
Nevan will present a solo exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary
An installation at the 18th Steet Arts Centre which is a collaborative…- Location: CA
- Dates: October 15 – April 01
Women’s Voices From Ireland: The Wake Forest Women’s Anthology Tour 2011
Wake Forest University Press will present an American reading tour by some of Ireland’s leading poets, featuring Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain, Caitríona O’Reilly, Rita Ann Higgins…
- Location: NC, IL, PA, NY, CA
- Dates: October 24 – November 03
Watt by Samuel Beckett - Texts from the novel selected by Barry McGovern
Watt is the extraordinary story of an itinerant character who walks one day from a train station to the home of a Mr Knott whom…
- Location: PA, NC, CA
- Dates: October 27 – November 20
Death and Sensuality
A group exhibition with: Nina Amazing, Roisin Byrne, Alan Butler, Benjamin DeBurca, Breda Lynch, James McCann, Leo McCann, Tom Molloy, Not Abel and Alan Phelan. …
- Location: CA
- Dates: November 04 – December 03
Forgotten by Pat Kinevane
Written and performed by Pat Kinevane
Directed by Jim Culleton
Produced by Marketa Puzman
‘Has no one a skitter o’ dignity…- Location: CA
- Dates: November 16 – December 11
Ronnie Hughes
Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles presents a solo show of Ronnie Hughes’ work.
- Location: LA
- Dates: November 19 – December 17
Irish Christmas in America
‘Irish Christmas in America’ returns to the United States during November/December 2011 for a 7th consecutive tour of East and West coasts. Produced by Oisin…
- Location: CA, MT, NE, IA, MA, NJ, DC, DE, IL, WI
- Dates: November 25 – December 18
An Irish Holiday Festival
An Irish Holiday Festival at Bowers.org as part of the Bowers Museum Arts and Culture events. As part of the Festival there will be a…
- Location: FL
- Dates: December 11 – December 11




