NORTH BY NORTH WEST FESTIVAL A Two Day Urban Festival May 25th 2013 to May 26th 2013 - £15 Early Bird - 2 Day pass (limited)- Full £ 20 - 2 Day Pass - Saturday Ticket £14 (limited)- Sunday Ticket £14 (limited)

A Two Day Urban Festival including 40 bands, DJs & acts

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Columba Canticles Four centuries of Song at St Columb’s Cathedral June 9th 2013 Tickets: £10/£7

A dazzling tapestry of music and verse celebrating 400 years of Derry's richly joyous, yet volatile history

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Marks of Time– The Buildings Of Derry~Londonderry June 10th 2013 to June 12th 2013 Free entry

Manus Deery, Principal Conservation Architect in the Historic Buildings Unit of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, provides a personal contribution to the UK City of Culture

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Gay McIntyre June 15th 2013 Tickets: £11/ £9

An evening of music with jazz legend Gay McIntyre

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Music City! June 21st 2013 Freee

Music City! promises to be one of the most memorable days of 2013. The Playhouse are proud to be one of the venues for this day-long celebration of music of all genres.

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Borderline Players presents It Runs in the Family By Ray Cooney June 22nd 2013 Tickets: £10/ £9

The frantic world of a doctors' common room comes alive in this fast paced comedy by the legendary Ray Cooney.

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The Playhouse and Black Sheep Theatre presents The Cook Directed by Dennis Bohr June 26th 2013 to June 29th 2013 £14/ £10 (Opening night offer £10)

While much is unknown, The Cook is an imaginative treatment of the year before the execution and what led Cecily Jackson to her death.

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An Nua presents Derry 24 July 17th 2013 to July 19th 2013 Tickets £10/ £6

Derry Stories combines images and sounds gathered from the city to form a 24 hour frame into which we have placed several monologues, duologues, stories and caught moments.

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Sole Purpose Productions presents Rehearsed Readings of LGBT Plays in Development August 22nd 2013 Tickets £3

An entertaining and uplifting evening featuring the work of local writers who are developing scripts on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes.

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The Playhouse presents 'Twinkletoes', 'Mustn’t Forget High Noon', 'Christine' by Jennifer Johnston Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin December 9th 2013 to December 14th 2013 Tickets: £14/ £10 (Opening night offer £10)

‘Twinkletoes', 'Mustn't Forget High Noon' and ‘Christine' are three monologues written by award-winning Irish author Jennifer Johnston in response to The Troubles

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The Playhouse has a number of rental units that provide affordable office and workspace for the Creative Industries. The workspace units were funded by EU Peace II Programme administered by Department of Enterprise Trade & investment and International Fund For Ireland.

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Our Creative Tenants include:

Sole Purpose Productions: Founded in 1997, Sole Purpose Productions is a professional theatre company that exists to use the discourse of imagination to illuminate social and public issues.
Contact: Patricia Byrne (Artistic Director) / Nicola Schnurr (Company Administrator).
Telephone: 028 71 279918.
Web: www.solepurpose.org

Lilliput Theatre Company: Lilliput are Ireland 's foremost theatre company of people with learning disabilities. Contact: Gordon Smyth.
Telephone: 028 71 368150

Context Gallery: The Context Gallery has established a reputation as one of the most vital spaces for the presentation, promotion and dissemination of contemporary art in the north of Ireland . Since its conception in 1993, the gallery has promoted and encouraged emerging Northern Irish artists and presented their work alongside emerging and established international artists, thereby providing an important platform for the development of their careers. Contact: Theo Simms.
Telephone: 028 71373538.
Email: info@contextgallery.co.uk
Web: www.contextgallery.co.uk

Theatre Of Witness: Theatre of Witness is a form of performance, developed by founder and artistic director Teya Sepinuck that gives voice to those who have been marginalised, forgotten or are invisible in society. Their true, life stories, performed by the people themselves, are shared onstage so that audiences can collectively bear witness to issues of suffering, redemption and social justice. Theatre of Witness productions, performed in spoken word, music, movement and film projection, put a face and heart to societal issues of suffering, and celebrate the power of the human spirit to grow and transform.
Contact: Teya Sepinuck.
Telephone: 028 71 268027.
Web: www.theatreofwitness.org

Positive Futures
: Support children, young people and adults with learning disabilities.
Web: www.positive-futures.net



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