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Kids Céilí with The Christchurch Celtic OrchestraThis Sunday the Christchurch Celtic Orchestra and Southern Cross Irish Dance Academy are throwing a different kind of céilí - a Kids' Céilí!
There is a large amount of interest in this event and tickets are running out - don't miss out - book yours here.
Date: Sunday 8th September
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: 29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon
Cost: $5 per dancer
With live music by the Celtic Orchestra and expert dance calling and guidance from Southern Cross Irish Dance School, don't miss out on this opportunity to have a go at a variety of favourite group dances. Suitable for children from 4-12yrs. Teens and adults welcome to join in and dance in their own groups. No experience necessary - all instruction provided.
Kids Céilí with The Christchurch Celtic Orchestra
This Sunday the Christchurch Celtic Orchestra and Southern Cross Irish Dance Academy are throwing a different kind of céilí - a Kids' Céilí!
Date: Sunday 8th September
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: 29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon
Cost: $5 per dancer
With live music by the Celtic Orchestra and expert dance calling and guidance from Southern Cross Irish Dance School, don't miss out on this opportunity to have a go at a variety of favourite group dances. Suitable for children from 4-12yrs. Teens and adults welcome to join in and dance in their own groups. No experience necessary - all instruction provided. Book your tickets here.
NZ International Film Festival - Kneecap
NZ International Film Festival is Screening Kneecap
Never has a film had so much fun with Irish indigeneity. Rich Peppiatt’s sophomore feature forgoes the bleak Belfast of car-bombings and sectarian conflict in its following of the rise of Irish-language hip-hop group Kneecap. Members Naoise and Liam (both playing themselves) capitalise on the “intergenerational trauma” of The Troubles as an easy ticket to score prescription drugs. That isn’t to say those dark days have been forgotten; rather that these lads from West Belfast won’t let that history define them. After a close call with the garda, Liam is introduced to schoolteacher JJ (also playing himself) who discovers lyrics in Gaeilge in Liam’s notebook. Alongside Naoise, they form the group Kneecap and become a sensation on both sides of the border. Despite their affinity for courting controversy with songs ranging from the rebellious ("C.E.A.R.T.A", which is the Irish word for rights) to the ridiculous ("Your Sniffer Dogs Are Shite"), the band fast become a political symbol for the Irish Language Act.
The first Irish-language film to ever play at Sundance, the film, like the eponymous band, is unapologetically proud to be Irish. With parallels to African American culture in the 1980s and ’90s, the trio use hip-hop as a means of expression, using storytelling as a form of resistance against corrupt authority figures, not least the duplicitously named Radical Republicans Against Drugs.
Kneecap is a rip-roaring two-finger salute to the establishment and a resounding statement that the Irish language is here to stay.
Christchurch
Friday 16 August: 8:30PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bernhardt)
Wednesday 21 August: 4:00PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bernhardt)
Saturday 24 August: 8:30PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bardot)
Afternoon Tea with Keely
Join us at the clubrooms today for Afternoon Tea!
This afternoon from 1:30pm - 4:30pm
29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon
Come and give your support and best wishes to Keely O'Grady before she heads off to Ireland and represents us on stage as our New Zealand Rose of Tralee. There are some huge prizes to be won today, as the mega raffle is being drawn.
PRIZES INCLUDE: Dental Consultation Voucher, 32" TV, 6 Hampers, 4 Bottles of Wine, a bottle of Whiskey, and many more.
Welcome to It's in the Bag!!
Come join us this Friday, 2nd August, at The Piano for a fun-filled event where we reprise the iconic NZ TV show, but with a twist.
Will you be a lucky person called up on stage to choose between the Bag or will you take the Cash???
The event is to support Hato Hone St John so will have raffles and silent auctions with some great prizes available.
The bags will include a number of amazing prizes and a few that you might not expect.
Come and have a great night out full of fun and laughter!!
Doors open at 6.00pm with the show starting at 7.00pm.
Book your tickets here.
It's in the Bag!
Afternoon Tea for Keely
This Sunday we will be hosting an Afternoon Tea with Keely O'Grady, our New Zealand Rose of Tralee
Sunday 4th August at 1:30pm - 4:30pm
29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon
The Raffles will be drawn this Sunday. The prizes are fantastic, so don't miss out on raffle tickets!
PRIZES INCLUDE: Dental Consultation Voucher, 32" TV, 6 Hampers, 4 Bottles of Wine, a bottle of Whiskey and more!
We would love to see you there and to see Keely off to Ireland with many good wishes behind her.
A gold coin donation is welcome
- Maureen Bonham Life Member
- Fantastic Quiz Fundraiser for Keely
- REMINDER: AGM this Sunday at 2:30pm
- 3 Days to go! Get your tickets to the big QUIZ
- Club Night - tomorrow evening
- The Jameson's Irish Band presents... Tunes for Tadhg
- AGM - Sunday July 21st at 2:30pm
- Quiz Time for Keely - Fundraiser for our NZ Rose of Tralee
- We hope you all enjoyed your Matariki Weekend
- Matariki at the Christchurch Irish Club - 4 Days to go!
- 3 Days to go - Don't miss out!
- Listen to Keely on The Breeze Breakfast 94.5FM tomorrow morning!
- Whiskey & Gin Tasting Event to raise funds for Hato Hone St John!
- Thank you to Imelda Curtin & Anne Jordan
- Congratulations to our Canterbury Rose
- Shop Open - This Saturday 9am to 12pm
- Living an Empowered Life at Every Age & Stage
- This Friday Club Night - Meet the Canterbury Rose's!
- Living an Empowered Life at every Age & Stage: Workshop
- NEW SHIPMENT of Irish goods!!!