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Carlow Garden Festival 2017
Sunday, 30th July 2017 3:00 pm
**Neil Porteous at Burtown House and Gardens
Myanmar to Mount Stewart ** In 2016, Neil Porteous explored two regions of Myanmar (Burma) and details his fascinating experiences from his trip. Neil presents details of the famed botanist and plant explorer Frank Kingdon Ward’s collection at Mount Stewart. Kingdon Ward also travelled to Burma on plant hunting expeditions.
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Birdwoods at Burtown Exhibition
Friday, 8th September 2017 7:00 pm
Burtown House continues its connection with art of all kinds with an exhibition of 50 pieces of stunning Zimbabwean stone sculpture. On display from 8th September throughout the wonderful gardens of this 300-year old country house in County Kildare, the ‘Birdwoods at Burtown’ exhibition connects New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Ireland – through family association, a multigenerational inheritance of creativity, and a shared entrepreneurial spirit.
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A Dinner by Gill Meller of River Cottage at The Green Barn
Friday, 20th October 2017 7:00 pm
The Green Barn welcomes award-winning author, chef and cookery teacher, Gill Meller of River Cottage, cooking from the kitchen garden at Burtown for a special one-night-only dinner.
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Brunch at The Green Barn
Wednesday, 1st November 2017 10:00 am
This Wednesday November 1st we are excited to launch our new brunch menu which will run every Wednesday - Saturday from 10.00am - 12 noon.
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Sveta Rumak exhibition at The Green Barn
Saturday, 25th November 2017 10:00 am
The Green Barn is excited to showcase the beautifully evocative work of Russian artist. Sveta Rumak’s enigmatic work is a rich synthesis of her unique visual vocabulary with medieval Russian iconoclasm. The canvases are inhabited by humans and animals rendered in an earthy palette, set against very stylised but highly textured backgrounds. Like medieval Orthodox icons, her people have enlarged almond eyes with an otherworldly cast and long straight noses. The elongated figures seem weightless, and float in a spiritual atmosphere of spacelessness, without mass or shadow-casting volume. Also typical of icons, Rumak juxtaposes flat figures in ornately patterned garments with more fully modelled heads.