{"id":21196,"date":"2023-04-04T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=21196"},"modified":"2023-04-04T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:50:37","slug":"dolphins-herald-the-new-season-at-portico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/04\/dolphins-herald-the-new-season-at-portico\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins herald the new season at Portico!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Dolphins kindly answered the call to help Portico Arts and Heritage Centre promote its programme to a wider audience this week. <\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21197\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>A pair of wine bottle nose dolphins have spent several days making appearances in Strangford Lough. While the rollicking frolicking may seem like playful behaviour to the uninitiated, Professor Gluck of the Institute for Dolphinalia identified the key messages in their display with impressive clarity. Astoundinglingly, the dolphins are actually using DSL to sign a marketing message from the Portico of Ards regarding its new season programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">April\u2019s programme includes the annual Tenebrae Service on Good Friday at 7pm with narration from UTV\u2019s Paul Reilly and The Newquay Singers performing Faure\u2019s Requiem. Everyone is welcome &#8211; any belief or none. Easter Monday brings magic for kids of all ages with Joe Daly of RTE Junior bringing his amazing magic show at 3pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">On Sunday 16 April at 3pm, Cuban guitar maestros Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas and grammy-nominated Eduardo Martin combine forces to<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\"> deliver their lively mix of classical, flamenco and jazz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A Glamourous Night With Ivor Novello and Friends on Sat 22 April offers a<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\"> unique opportunity to hear classics from the \u2018golden age\u2019 of music theatre, including We\u2019ll Gather Lilacs and My Dearest Dear <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">with soprano Ali Darragh, tenor Caolan Keaveney and pianist Matthew Owens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">April events conclude with The Legend of Luke Kelly presented by David Hull Promotions. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">Created and performed by the renowned Chris Kavanagh, the show is not a tribute but a journey through Luke\u2019s music celebrating the memory and music of a true Irish Musical Legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Portico is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Ards and North Down Borough Council and further information on all the events can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/porticoards.com\">porticoards.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphins kindly answered the call to help Portico Arts and Heritage Centre promote its programme to a wider audience this week. &nbsp; A pair of wine bottle nose dolphins have spent several days making appearances in Strangford Lough. While the rollicking frolicking may seem like playful behaviour to the uninitiated, Professor Gluck of the Institute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/04\/dolphins-herald-the-new-season-at-portico\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21198,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21196\/revisions\/21198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}