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The Hasbro Giving Tree @ Georges Court Shopping Centre

Children are invited to make their own decoration and bring along to put it on the Hasbro Giving Tree.

For every decoration on the Giving Tree Hasbro will donate a toy to a child in need this Christmas.
 

Event Details

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Venue	George’s Court Shopping Centre
Cost	Free

The six choirs of the WIT Choral Programme present their annual Christmas concert. This festive event will feature almost two hundred young singers aged between five and eighteen, all performing Christmas favourites, old and new.

The concert takes place in the WIT Chapel on College Street and tickets will be available on the door.

Event Details

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Cost	Admission is just €5 with FREE admission for children!
Wednesday 5th December	7.30pm

Music in Motion signing choir involves people from the Brothers of Charity Services South East.  The choir aim to share and promote the use of Lámh signs through music.  For this performance the choir collaborate with transition year students from De la Salle College. 

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Venue	John Robert’s Square
Cost	Free
Thursday 6th December	2pm

Classical favourites from a quality choral octet.

Stunning Choral Concert in prospect from Vocalis

Lovers of quality choral music are in for a real treat this December as the chamber ensemble Vocalis is set to return to the stage in Waterford.  The concert, which will be in De La Salle College Chapel on December 13th at 8.00pm, will include music from the 17th Century to the 20th Century.

Heinrich Schutz is regarded as the most important German composer before J.S. Bach and spent three years in Venice sturying with Giovanni Gabrielli.  His Hodie Christus Natus est is mostly in six parts but does have a lovely duet section also.  The concert also includes Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols which is a setting of seven Christmas Carols written in 1942 accompanied by concert harp.  With a hugely entertaining extended setting of The Twelve Days of Christmas by Bob Chilcott and a number of inventively arranged Christmas Carols this concert is certain to be a musical highlight on a dark December evening.

Vocalis is an octet of singers all of whom have performed professionally with some of Ireland’s leading choirs including Anúna and The National Chamber Choir and the Irish Youth Chamber Choir. Accompanied by Claire O’Donnell (Concert Harp) and Dr Marian Ingoldsby (Piano) the ensemble is directed by Kevin O’Carroll.

Tickets €18/€15 available on the door or from info@kevinocarrollmusic.com

Event Details

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Venue	De La Salle College Chapel
Cost	€18/€15 available on the door
13 December	8.00pm

‘Voices’ is set to be an enchanting, candlelit evening of 10th-13th Century Gregorian Chant, medieval polyphony, Georgian Orthodox Chant and old Irish Carols from the Wexford tradition.

Bringing to light a new generation of singers in Ireland; the voices are Hannah Fahey (Mezzo), Sinead Boomsma (Soprano), Cara Morrissey-Gleeson (Contralto) and Sinead McGuire (Contralto), all graduates of the B.A. in Voice and Dance at the University of Limerick.

This rich blend of voices, create a sound that can only be obtained from years of training and singing together. The group have worked with international chant scholars, Georgian Chant scholars and Irish song collectors and have toured and recorded with their University ensemble ‘Hibernia’. Both Hannah Fahey and Sinead McGuire are current students of the M.A. in Ritual Chant and Song at the Irish World Academy and active members of Lucernarium and Sonas: The UL Global Choir.

‘Voices’ promises to be a very special celebration of the beauty of the human voice through a diverse and captivating spiritual repertoire.   An evening of raw beauty and simplicity. Give yourself a treat and spend some time in  quiet contemplation that is guaranteed to revive your spirits!

Event Details

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Venue	Christ Church Cathedral, Cathedral Square
Cost	10/ €5 concession/ Children U14 free
Dec 14	7.30 PM start

Also performing will be Edmund Rice Choral & Musical Society, the De La Salle Choir, The Waterford Boy Singers and the Waterford Larks.

Family ticket is €60 and covers 2 adults and 2 children.  Additional child tickets under this family one are €10 each.

Unreserved seating, advised to bring a cushion.
Venue: Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Barron Strand Street.

Event Details

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Venue	Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Barronstrand Street
Cost	Tick €20 Theatre Royal 874402/Harvey Travel 872048 Family Tkt €60 2Ad+2Ch extra child €10
14th December	7:30pm

Climb aboard the Polar Express at your local library this Christmas, where the story of the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg will come to life. Children are invited to come along to the library in their pyjamas, drink hot chocolate, listen to the 'Polar Express' story being read and ring sleigh bells to help re-create the atmosphere of the story. Each child will also receive a small Christmas gift.

Event Details

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Venue	Ardkeen Library
Cost	Event is free but booking is essential - Ages 5 – 10 years only
Friday 14th December	4pm @ Brown's Road Library
Tuesday 18th December	6pm @ Ardkeen Library
Thursday 20th December	4pm @ Central Library

Join the staff of your local library for coffee and a mince pie this Christmas.

Event Details

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Venue	Ardkeen Library
Cost	Event is free - All are welcome
Friday 14th December	from 10.30am @ Ardkeen Library
Wednesday 19th December	from 10.30am @ Brown’s Road Library

Come and meet Mrs. Clause’s and Santa’s puppet helpers at Ardkeen library this Christmas. Mrs. Clause along with Santa's puppet helpers will amaze children with magic, play some Christmas festive favourites on her guitar and read from some well loved Christmas stories.

Event Details

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Venue	Ardkeen Library
Cost	Event is free but booking is essential - Ages 4 years and under only
Friday 14th December	11.00am

For one morning only, the foyer of Central Library in Lady Lane will be transformed into a festive winter wonderland. Join us from 11am for mince pies and other festive treats. Relax and take time out from the Christmas mayhem as our library choir performs carols, there will also be storytelling for toddlers and for the grownups some readings from our favourite Christmas tales. This celebration of the more traditional side of Christmas is brought to you by The Waterford Europe Direct Centre which is based at Central Library.

This event is a celebration of the more traditional side of Christmas and a showcase of the library’s work at the heart of the community. It is a chance for all the groups who met in the library during the year to come together with library staff and let Waterford see what they are doing and invite others to join up in 2013. Groups include creative writing groups, knitting circle, Parent and Toddler Groups, Computer Classes, book clubs, Library Choir and many others.

Event Details

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Venue	Waterford Central Library
Cost	Free
Dec 20	11 AM - 1PM

The Early Byrds are a group of musicians from Dublin and the South-East who have a love of early music and play and sing music from the Renaissance era in period costumes. They comprise of a viol consort, a recorder consort and a group of madrigal singers, performing music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, John Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and others. Come and experience a taste of the 17th Century in the historic St Patrick's Church in Waterford. The evening promises to be a memorable glimpse of times past.

Tickets available on the door €10, €5 conc.
Tea and mince pies included.

Event Details

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Venue	St. Patrick’s Church, Patrick Street.
Cost	10 Euro / 5 Euro conc
Friday 21st December	8pm

The Hasbro Giving Tree @ Georges Court Shopping Centre

Children are invited to make their own decoration and bring along to put it on the Hasbro Giving Tree.

For every decoration on the Giving Tree Hasbro will donate a toy to a child in need this Christmas.
 

Event Details

name	value
Venue	George’s Court Shopping Centre
Cost	Free

The six choirs of the WIT Choral Programme present their annual Christmas concert. This festive event will feature almost two hundred young singers aged between five and eighteen, all performing Christmas favourites, old and new.

The concert takes place in the WIT Chapel on College Street and tickets will be available on the door.

Event Details

name	value
Cost	Admission is just €5 with FREE admission for children!
Wednesday 5th December	7.30pm

Music in Motion signing choir involves people from the Brothers of Charity Services South East.  The choir aim to share and promote the use of Lámh signs through music.  For this performance the choir collaborate with transition year students from De la Salle College. 

Event Details

name	value
Venue	John Robert’s Square
Cost	Free
Thursday 6th December	2pm

Classical favourites from a quality choral octet.

Stunning Choral Concert in prospect from Vocalis

Lovers of quality choral music are in for a real treat this December as the chamber ensemble Vocalis is set to return to the stage in Waterford.  The concert, which will be in De La Salle College Chapel on December 13th at 8.00pm, will include music from the 17th Century to the 20th Century.

Heinrich Schutz is regarded as the most important German composer before J.S. Bach and spent three years in Venice sturying with Giovanni Gabrielli.  His Hodie Christus Natus est is mostly in six parts but does have a lovely duet section also.  The concert also includes Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols which is a setting of seven Christmas Carols written in 1942 accompanied by concert harp.  With a hugely entertaining extended setting of The Twelve Days of Christmas by Bob Chilcott and a number of inventively arranged Christmas Carols this concert is certain to be a musical highlight on a dark December evening.

Vocalis is an octet of singers all of whom have performed professionally with some of Ireland’s leading choirs including Anúna and The National Chamber Choir and the Irish Youth Chamber Choir. Accompanied by Claire O’Donnell (Concert Harp) and Dr Marian Ingoldsby (Piano) the ensemble is directed by Kevin O’Carroll.

Tickets €18/€15 available on the door or from info@kevinocarrollmusic.com

Event Details

name	value
Venue	De La Salle College Chapel
Cost	€18/€15 available on the door
13 December	8.00pm

‘Voices’ is set to be an enchanting, candlelit evening of 10th-13th Century Gregorian Chant, medieval polyphony, Georgian Orthodox Chant and old Irish Carols from the Wexford tradition.

Bringing to light a new generation of singers in Ireland; the voices are Hannah Fahey (Mezzo), Sinead Boomsma (Soprano), Cara Morrissey-Gleeson (Contralto) and Sinead McGuire (Contralto), all graduates of the B.A. in Voice and Dance at the University of Limerick.

This rich blend of voices, create a sound that can only be obtained from years of training and singing together. The group have worked with international chant scholars, Georgian Chant scholars and Irish song collectors and have toured and recorded with their University ensemble ‘Hibernia’. Both Hannah Fahey and Sinead McGuire are current students of the M.A. in Ritual Chant and Song at the Irish World Academy and active members of Lucernarium and Sonas: The UL Global Choir.

‘Voices’ promises to be a very special celebration of the beauty of the human voice through a diverse and captivating spiritual repertoire.   An evening of raw beauty and simplicity. Give yourself a treat and spend some time in  quiet contemplation that is guaranteed to revive your spirits!

Event Details

name	value
Venue	Christ Church Cathedral, Cathedral Square
Cost	10/ €5 concession/ Children U14 free
Dec 14	7.30 PM start

Also performing will be Edmund Rice Choral & Musical Society, the De La Salle Choir, The Waterford Boy Singers and the Waterford Larks.

Family ticket is €60 and covers 2 adults and 2 children.  Additional child tickets under this family one are €10 each.

Unreserved seating, advised to bring a cushion.
Venue: Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Barron Strand Street.

Event Details

name	value
Venue	Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Barronstrand Street
Cost	Tick €20 Theatre Royal 874402/Harvey Travel 872048 Family Tkt €60 2Ad+2Ch extra child €10
14th December	7:30pm

Climb aboard the Polar Express at your local library this Christmas, where the story of the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg will come to life. Children are invited to come along to the library in their pyjamas, drink hot chocolate, listen to the 'Polar Express' story being read and ring sleigh bells to help re-create the atmosphere of the story. Each child will also receive a small Christmas gift.

Event Details

name	value
Venue	Ardkeen Library
Cost	Event is free but booking is essential - Ages 5 – 10 years only
Friday 14th December	4pm @ Brown's Road Library
Tuesday 18th December	6pm @ Ardkeen Library
Thursday 20th December	4pm @ Central Library

Join the staff of your local library for coffee and a mince pie this Christmas.

Event Details

name	value
Venue	Ardkeen Library
Cost	Event is free - All are welcome
Friday 14th December	from 10.30am @ Ardkeen Library
Wednesday 19th December	from 10.30am @ Brown’s Road Library

Come and meet Mrs. Clause’s and Santa’s puppet helpers at Ardkeen library this Christmas. Mrs. Clause along with Santa's puppet helpers will amaze children with magic, play some Christmas festive favourites on her guitar and read from some well loved Christmas stories.

Event Details

name	value
Venue	Ardkeen Library
Cost	Event is free but booking is essential - Ages 4 years and under only
Friday 14th December	11.00am

For one morning only, the foyer of Central Library in Lady Lane will be transformed into a festive winter wonderland. Join us from 11am for mince pies and other festive treats. Relax and take time out from the Christmas mayhem as our library choir performs carols, there will also be storytelling for toddlers and for the grownups some readings from our favourite Christmas tales. This celebration of the more traditional side of Christmas is brought to you by The Waterford Europe Direct Centre which is based at Central Library.

This event is a celebration of the more traditional side of Christmas and a showcase of the library’s work at the heart of the community. It is a chance for all the groups who met in the library during the year to come together with library staff and let Waterford see what they are doing and invite others to join up in 2013. Groups include creative writing groups, knitting circle, Parent and Toddler Groups, Computer Classes, book clubs, Library Choir and many others.

Event Details

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Venue	Waterford Central Library
Cost	Free
Dec 20	11 AM - 1PM

The Early Byrds are a group of musicians from Dublin and the South-East who have a love of early music and play and sing music from the Renaissance era in period costumes. They comprise of a viol consort, a recorder consort and a group of madrigal singers, performing music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, John Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and others. Come and experience a taste of the 17th Century in the historic St Patrick's Church in Waterford. The evening promises to be a memorable glimpse of times past.

Tickets available on the door €10, €5 conc.
Tea and mince pies included.

Event Details

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Venue	St. Patrick’s Church, Patrick Street.
Cost	10 Euro / 5 Euro conc
Friday 21st December	8pm