Dual purpose retrofit event

Cavan Arts Festival programme launch this evening

To retrofit is to modify something made in another time, adapting it to function under new conditions. In a new solo exhibition in Townhall Arts Centre, John Rainey adopts this logic of reuse - cutting into, combining, and reworking familiar forms from the history of sculpture to reflect contemporary pressures, values, and ways of seeing.

The thought-provoking new exhibition by Belfast based Rainey, has a dual purpose - it will also serve as the launch for this year’s Cavan Arts Festival programme. Now in its 9th year the festival promises four days and nights of music, dance, contemporary circus, comedy, theatre, workshops and more from Thursday, May 14 through to Sunday May 17.

Already confirmed for the May event are comedienne Aoife Dunne with her new show ‘Good Grief’, a double header concert with DUG and Zoé Basha, and the wonderful The Devil’s in the Dance Hall which brings together the potent talents of Seamus O’Rourke and Edwina Guckian.