The Source Arts Centre, Thurles

Call for Proposal from Visual Art Curators

Closing Date: Monday 18 August 2014, 5pm

The Source Arts Centre comprises of a 250 seat theatre, visual art gallery, community studio space and café/bar. Set in the heart of Thurles town and on the banks of the River Suir, the arts centre has a year round programme of cultural events including theatre, live music, comedy, art-house cinema, children’s theatre, youth arts and ballet. The Source shares a building with Thurles Library. The Source Gallery is a shared space programmed year round by both The Source Arts Centre and Thurles Library.

Artistic Policy 2013 - 2016

The Source Arts Centre aims to create a vibrant ’go-to’ space for the arts.

The Source Arts Centre aims to:
Engage
Enrich
Enliven
audiences in Thurles and throughout this region of Tipperary.

In addition to presenting a high quality touring programme of the best on offer across art form on the Irish circuit and internationally where possible, we place a high value on community participation and engagement with our venue. We aim to be the centre where audience and artists collide, interact, inform, enrich and present. With a focus on theatre, families, music, film and dance, in addition to a superb visual arts space, we aim to find new and lasting collaborative approaches with the local professional and amateur artistic community. We aim to create an arts infrastructure which supports and mentors professional artists working in the locality, as resources permit.

The Source Arts Centre would like to work with a Visual Art Curator to apply for funding under the Arts Council Visual Art Curatorial Award. The award opens on 12th August and closes on 11th September 2014. As time is so tight we are now looking for outline proposals from Curators who may be interested in working with The Source to put together a funding application to the Arts Council this September. If the award is similar to that of previous years the funding goes directly to the Curator to work with the arts centre/gallery, has a maximum value of €20,000 and applies to the calendar year 2015. If the joint application is not successful The Source Arts Centre will not be in a position to engage the Curator.

It is intended to apply for funding to achieve the following broad goals:

Curate an exhibition(s) for The Source Arts Centre in 2015

Potential to examine alternative spaces to run alongside the exhibition at The Source Arts Centre

Potential to support the commissioning of new work (funding dependant)

Support The Source Arts Centre to imaginatively engage the public (particularly local schools) through the visual arts

Support The Source Arts Centre to imaginatively engage with local artists and artist groups through the visual arts

Support The Source Arts Centre to imaginatively engage with other arts venues in the county through the visual arts

The aims of the Curatorial Award would be to:

Engage imaginatively with the public and local communities to encourage engagement with and a sense of ownership of the gallery at The Source Arts Centre

Examine the opportunities available to create and present contemporary visual art in
non-dedicated arts spaces

Develop through good critical writing, a local, national and international audience for contemporary visual arts in Thurles and surrounding area

The brief is intended to be open to the interpretation, and individual response of the Curator. These goals identify some parameters on which the Curator can base a response. It is recognised that at this application stage the Curator would not be in a position to articulate fully what may arise during the period of the Award. The Source Arts Centre is open to negotiation in relation to possible exhibition or other visual interventions in the public sphere to take place at the suggestion of the Curator. Work in the exhibition(s) can potentially include individual artists, collections, or works from visual artist’s collectives.

Supports

The following supports will be available to the curator:

Technical assistance

Limited Administrative Assistance

If you are interested in exploring the possibility of a joint application with The Source Arts Centre for Arts Council Visual Art Curatorial Award please submit the following to the Artistic Director by Monday 18 August 2014, 5pm. Please send to director@sourcearts.ie with VA Curatorial Award Proposal in subject line or to Artistic Director, The Source Arts Centre, Cathedral Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Please include the following:

Curriculum Vitae: An up to date CV detailing; previous curation experience or work in a gallery context as appropriate , experience of working with the public in a mediation context, and experience developing the visual arts locally.

Outline Proposal: An outline proposal for the Curatorial residency including ideas and practice not to exceed 2 pages typed at this stage (i.e. any specific ideas you may have in response to one or all of the goals)

Supporting Documentation: Documentation can be in the form of attachments, youtube links, printed images, Audio CD/DVD publications and any other relevant material from previous experience

Tesco Launches €1million Community Fund Initiative

Tesco Ireland announced the launch of an exciting new initiative, Tesco Community Fund, which will see €1million donated annually to local good causes in the communities around each of its 146 stores throughout Ireland. TV presenter Kathryn Thomas was on hand at the Tesco Fleet St store in Dublin today to help launch the initiative and is calling on all local good causes in Ireland to get involved.

Every six weeks, each Tesco store will donate up to €1,000 (€500 in smaller stores) between three local good causes in its community. Customers will decide how the funding is shared by voting for their preferred cause in store. Up to 3,500 local good causes in Ireland will receive a donation through the Tesco Community Fund over the next year.

Every time customers shop in their local Tesco store, they will receive a token of goodwill to place in the donation box of the local good cause they would most like to support. Every six weeks, the number of tokens is counted and up to €1,000 is distributed proportionally between three local good causes. The more tokens a local good cause gets the larger share of the donation they will receive.

Up to 3,500 local good causes will benefit

Tesco is today calling on customers, local good causes, charities, schools, youth and sports groups from across the country that could benefit from donations to get involved by completing a nomination form in their local Tesco store.

Westport Arts Festival presents: BLINK -Open group exhibition

Artists Brief

Project Overview:

BLINK aims to present / realise a series of temporary artworks as an installation in the town

of Westport during Westport Arts Festival (1st to 5th October 2014). Westport Arts Festival

(WAF) proposes that the works are presented in outdoor spaces and suggests, as an idea,

that work could be printed on weather proof boards that an be hung in groups (of 2 or 3

boards) fitted onto a frame around an object (eg a tree at the Mall) so that the work is

secure. WAF is open to alternative suggestions made by artists to achieve overall objective.

WAF has decided to adjust the format of the original BLINK art trail exhibitions and

transform the idea into a street exhibition. WAF wants the local artist’s work to be

celebrated as part of the Arts Festival, it is hoped that presentation of work outdoors will

succeed in extending engagement to a wider public.

The theme will be Irish Language & Heritage.

Objective

The project aims to bring high quality artwork created by selected Mayo Artists– in

the form of a temporary installation -out into public spaces within the Town of

Westport so that the public can engage informally with the work.

Text describing inspiration/ work to be included in the presentation. This text will be

presented in both Irish & English. WAF will arrange for the translation of English text

into Irish.

Project is to provide a platform for Mayo Based artists to present work and reach a

wider audience.

Location:

WAF is considering the North Mall beside the Old Railway Hotel. However the whole town

can be considered, artists are encouraged to consider sites and locations (such as The Mall,

Westport Quay, The Clock, The Octagon). This will ensure a manageable ‘trail’. However,

any sites proposed by Artists will be considered

Eligibility

Visual artists with Mayo connection- based in Mayo and/ or from Mayo

Background Information: Westport Arts Festival:

Westport Arts Festival has been running since 1976, as such it is one of the oldest arts

festivals in the country. One of the mission statements of the arts festival is to promote local

artists in selected creative context. WAF sees BLINK as an opportunity to do this.

Selection

Work submitted will be carefully selected by a selection panel consisting of members

Westport Arts Festival committee 2014, independent arts expertise an established

professional visual artist from outside the County.

Presentation

Westport Arts Festival (WAF) undertakes to print the artwork on the external boards, as well

as fitting the work onto frames in locations agreed with the artists. Therefore there will be

no costs associated with the installation of the artwork by the Artists.

Promotion

Westport Arts Festival (WAF) undertakes to produce a high quality brochure which will

document the work including a map of the selected artwork. The brochure will be separate

to the main festival programme. The brochure will be included in the Westport Arts Festival

website with direct links to selected artists websites.

WAF intends to maximise promotion opportunities for the selected artists.

Artists can propose more than one idea, though we would ask for a maximum of 3.

Westport Arts Festival will secure any necessary permissions etc.

Submissions must contain:

Textual description outlining the concept of the project (max. 1 A4 sheet/ 100

words) This will be the text to be included on the exhibition board I successful.

Artist to state preferred location for artwork and any particular criteria.

If any Artist wishes to present alternative ideas for the outdoor presentation this

should be stated in a separate text to the main descriptive text (max 100 words)

The external board size will be 813x1220mm size in portrait format. There will be a

title band on the top of the A1 sheet which will include the name of the artist, title of

the work and map number. There will be a title band at the bottom of the sheet with

the Festival logo, name of the exhibition and sponsor logo

Artists should indicate how they would like the central body of the A1sheet to be laid

out (with the exception of title bands mentioned above) allowing for text in duplicate

(English and Irish Translation) with the image(s) on remainder of the sheet

Supply minimum of 1 A4 drawings or alternative expressions to communicate the

image content of the project (electronic versions should be in pdf, jpg format)

Artists should state whether Artwork is new or from existing work

Number of Artwork pieces selected will be determined by the quality of submissions

CV, including full contact details and relevant examples of previous work

Note: as there is no financial incentive to present work in this exhibition WAF does not expect any artist to incur any expense, as WAF will cover all associated costs

Selection criteria:

Artistic Merit and suitability for the proposed format of exhibition

Submissions delivered to:

Either by post :

Westport Arts Festival, c/o Westport Chamber of Commerce, The Fairgreen, Westport

-subject title BLINK

Or by email : info@westportartsfestival.com - subject title BLINK

Deadline for submissions is 5pm Friday 5th September 2014

Sponsored by Foras na Gaeilge

Schedule: Selected Artists will be informed on September 12th if their proposal has been

accepted. They will be invited to submit high resolution images for printing to be received

no later than September 19th. Artists who were not successful will be contacted by

September 19th.

Details of Successful Artists and will be announced at the Festival opening ceremony

on Wednesday October 1st in the Custom House Studios which the brochures will be

available.

Brochures will be available at the Westport Arts Festival box office from Friday

26th September onwards as well as on the festival website.

Materials, Messages & Meaning 2014 at R-Space Gallery | Call for Submissions

R-Space Gallery, Castle St, Lisburn, County Antrim BT27 4XE

Exhibition open: 13th September – 11th October

Open Call for Northern Irish artists to respond to the theme “Lightness”

Deadline for submissions – Friday 22nd August, 5pm

R-Space Gallery would like to invite artists from Northern Ireland to submit proposals for our annual open exhibition – Materials, Messages & Meaning.

The exhibition will be a group show of four artists and makers with different approaches to the materials they choose to work with, the messages and meaning they wish to convey using those materials and the methods and processes they use to make the work.

Proposals may also include a workshop or performance. Selected artists will receive a fee for taking part.

Please email your proposal with up to 5 JPG images and an artist statement/bio to rspace@linenroomslisburn.com

www.rspacelisburn.com

‘LIVESTOCK _ BUZZERS IN ART’ | Call for Submissions

It is with great enthusiasm that we present to you a call out for proposals of live work and music for our upcoming LIVESTOCK event at The Market Studios (and beyond)!

Being an artist comes with many responsibilities, the most important of which is to our selves as creators; to maintain and give voice to the deep vein of passion within that drives us. Artwork, no matter the kind, stems from a personal excitement, elation and invigoration that runs thick in the blood of it all. This is our vision for LIVESTOCK, to show people the incredible excitement of being an artist and the BUZZ we get from doing what we do!

We are looking for work that is energetic, exciting, life affirming and invigorating.

Take this opportunity to show us what fuels you, what thrills you, and what makes your world electric.

Our LIVESTOCK night will happen on Saturday 24th August at The Market Studios (and beyond).

Please email your proposal by Wednesday the 20th of August at 5:30 PM to buzzersinart@gmail.com

www.themarketstudios.ie | www.facebook.com/events/360793670744160/

Art in the Eastside Billboard Project 2014 | Call for Submissions

Deadline for submissions is 29th August 2014

ART IN THE EASTSIDE BILLBOARD PROJECT 2014 is the biggest outdoor visual arts exhibition in Ireland, including work from local, national and international artists. As part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s programme, this dynamic public art project, celebrates the creative positive energy of East Belfast, through the use of high-quality visual art, on 50 Billboards and installations in public spaces. Collectively, it will create an outdoor gallery of positive and thought-provoking images. The artworks will be displayed in the heart of East Belfast in high-profile locations and arterial routes.

Viewed by over 400,000 commuters, visitors and residents, Art in The Eastside is for many, an introduction to visual art. It is by its very nature, accessible, presenting high-quality visual across the East of the city, adding colour, vibrancy to the urban landscape.

We have an open submission opportunity for artists wishing to participate in the “Art in the Eastside’ Billboard project and will include artists that are based locally, nationally and internationally. All that is required is a digital image submitted be emailed. Submission is free of charge and selected artists will receive a small fee for their participation.

There are 7 core elements to the Billboard Project:

50 images will be presented on billboards and ad posters sites East Belfast,

The project is in association with the Ulster Bank Festival at Queen’s and is included in their programme.

The artwork will be promoted through a specialised marketing ad PR campaign.

A selection of submissions will form part of an on-line exhibition and/or be included in the ‘Art Flag buntings’ installations

A high profile launch of the project will take place in Belfast Harbor Commissioners.

A map will be produced with names, locations and some images of the Billboards

A tour will be organized and complemented by artist’s talks.

Theme

This year the theme is Green, we are asking artists to respond to this in the widest sense their interpretation can be related to (but not limited to) color, environment, political or cultural.

Selection process

A selection panel consisting of Deirdre Robb from Creative Exchange, Joanna Harvey from ACNI, Rob Hilken from VAI and Richard Wakley the Director of Belfast Festival at Queen’s will make he final choices regarding artwork to be included in the exhibition. Submissions will be anonymous when presented to the panel.

NB. The panel’s decision will be final.

Criteria

The panel will be asked to judge the competition on the following criteria:

Quality of artwork (10 points)

Relevance to the Art in the Eastside project (10 points)

Suitability for Billboard production (10 points)

Each panel member will score individually and present their scores to the panel Chair at the end of the presentation. Scores will be accumulated and the artists with the highest scores selected. In the event of the artists receiving joint scores, consensus will be made through panel moderation.

Schedule

Brief advertised and available 3rd July 2014.

Closing date for submissions – August 29th 2014.

Selection panel meet to decide on imagery from open submission August 30th -4th September 2014.

Successful artists notified via email by the end of the first week in September.

All billboard images will be ready to go to print by 6th of October 2014. You may be consulted on edit prior to final billboard designs.

Marketing and PR of project will be in association with Type AB Consultancy who may contact successful artists for inclusion in PR and marketing activities.

Tours/artists talks will take place from the 20th October – 2nd November 2014.

A high profile launch and exhibition will take place in the Belfast Harbour commissioners, date to be confirmed.

Evaluation and Monitoring of the project will take place throughout November 2014 to January 2015 . Artists will be required to fill in an evaluation form.

Submission

Artists are required to submit a digital image of artwork
Landscape Width 375mm x Height 254mm @ 300 dpi minimum.
or portrait approx. 190mm x 250mm @ 300 dpi minimum.

Artists are also required to provide the following;

A title and statement of the work (approx. 100 words)

Artist CV/Biog

Submissions can be made via E-mail artintheeastside@gmail.com

Useful tips

It is not unusual for artworks to appear slightly darker when printed, please bear this in mind if you are submitting dark work. We are legally bound to adhere to the advertising rules for Billboards which may eliminate some artwork due to sensitivities; please consider the appropriateness of the artwork.

Some artist have found it beneficial to understand some tips associated with billboards these are 2 links you may found useful: http://www.thehangline.com/articles/the-10-commandments-of-outdoor-advertising/

http://advertising.about.com/od/advertisingglossaryb/a/The-Six-Basic-Rules-Of-Billboard-Advertising.htm

If you have trouble uploading the image, contact Esther Haller-Clarke on 028 9045 2299.

For background to the project go to www.artintheeastside.wordpress.com

Flax Gallery Open Exhibtion 2015 | Call for Submissions

22nd January – 21st March
Flax Gallery, Mossley Mill, Carnmoney Road North, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 5QA

The exhibition welcomes work in a diverse range of media from drawing, painting and photography to ceramics, jewelry and sculpture. The exhibition will feature a wide range of artists with different interests expressed through their work.

Works can be sold so it will be a great opportunity for visitors to view and buy artworks by local artists. So pick up your paintbrush, fire up the kiln and get snapping with that camera! This is your chance to showcase your work as part of The Flax Gallery Open 2015.

For more information, please email: museumatthemill@newtownabbey.gov.uk

UK/Irish Printmaker Residency at Belfast Print Workshop

Belfast Print Workshop, Cotton Court, 30-42 Waring Street, Belfast, BT1 2ED

This Artist-in-Residence Program is seeking an artist printmaker with at least 2 years’ professional experience from the UK or Ireland. The residency will conclude with a month-long exhibition in October 2015 in BPW Gallery.

Duration: The residency will last between 2-4 weeks. (Commencement date negotiable from August the 1st 2015 to September 30th 2015). Artist Stipend: £150 sterling per week. The residency does not include accommodation or travel expenses. Whilst Belfast Print Workshop will endeavour to assist the artist in every way to secure affordable accommodation, the selected artist must make their own travel and living arrangements. All expenses incurred are the responsibility of the selected artist.

Responsibilities:
The recipient artist will be required to give a demonstration and provide a talk on their practice during their residency,
The recipient will donate one work from each edition produced to Belfast Print Workshop’s Archive and editions for fund raising. The selected artist will not be an employee of the studio or its funding bodies, and any taxes or contributions that may be due from any fees paid are the sole responsibility of the artist.

For a list of BPW equipment & resources please visit http://bpw.org.uk/the-workshop/ for further info.

All applications and accompanying materials must arrive by 4.00pm Friday 6th February 2015.

Application form & further info available at: http://bpw.org.uk/BPW-AIR/

Masterclass with Peter Ablinger at the Contemporary Music Centre | Call for Participation from Composers / Sound Artists

Contemporary Music Centre, 19 Fishamble St, Dublin 8

Austrian composer Peter Ablinger will attend the Contemporary Music Centre for a masterclass with six composers/sound artists on Thursday 18 September. Since the early 1980s, Peter Ablinger has explored new aesthetic and technical fields in his works, examining listeners’ perceptions of sound, noise, timbre, performance context, and non-narrative forms through site-specific performances, installations, text-based works, instrumental and electronic collaborations (including his famous ‘speaking piano’ pieces), and music without sound.

Peter Ablinger will be visiting Dublin to oversee a Dublin Sound Lab performance of his site-specific work ‘Places’ (17 September 2014), specially rewritten for three Dublin spaces. This concert will be followed by a second programme, ‘Responses’ (18 September 2014), in which four Irish composers-Piaras Hoban, Gráinne Mulvey, Fergal Dowling and Rob Canning-respond to Ablinger’s work. Both concerts are hosted in the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival and begin at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios at 8pm.

Dublin Sound Lab and the Contemporary Music Centre invite Irish composers, sound artists and others to apply for participation in this masterclass by sending an expression of interest and work samples-scores, texts, recordings, graphic documentation, or other suitable materials-to info@dublinsoundlab.ie by 3 September. (For large files, please use Dropbox, WeTransfer, or other file sharing facility.) The masterclass is free to attend but is restricted to a maximum of six participants. The Contemporary Music Centre will cover travel expenses within Ireland within reason. Selected participants will be notified by 10 September and must be available to attend both concerts in Dublin, 17 and 18 September.

For more information, please email: info@dublinsoundlab.ie

www.dublinsoundlab.ie

The Next Stage 2014 - Open for applications
This artist development strand of the festival, presented in partnership with Dublin Theatre Festival, is now open for applications. Participants are exposed to world-class art, talks with renowned directors, producers and artists as well as master-classes and workshops with leading theatre-makers over the Festival, 25 September-12 October.

Playwright sought for new Irish language commission for young ensembles

We are very pleased to announce a new partnership with Axis: Ballymun on a unique commission for an Irish language play for young ensembles. Funded by Foras na Gaeilge, expressions of interest are sought from experienced playwrights who are willing to meet a unique brief.

Playwrights who are proficient in Irish and who can work to a brief that accommodates and promotes a strong sense of ensemble playing and embraces the potential of Irish as used by young people are invited to apply.

Tá Axis, Baile Munna agus an Cuhmann Náisiúnta do Dhrámaíocht Óige an-sásta chun choimisiúin éagsúil le haghaidh dráma Gaeilge d'ensembles óga a fhogairt. Tá léirithe spéise á lorg ó scríbhneoirí/dhrámadóirí le taithí atá sásta bheith ag obair ar sainchúram uathúil, maoinithe ag Foras na Gaeilge

Submission deadline: 29th August at 5pm. For a full brief and details of how to apply, visit the NAYD website.

Mayo based artist Anthony Foutz, exhibition in the Horse Hospital, London.

PRIVATE VIEW: Friday 5th September 7pm

EXHIBITION: Sat 6th September – Sat 27th September, Mon – Sat, 12 – 6pm

AN AUDIENCE WITH DONOVAN: Saturday 6th September, 8pm

Linda Leitch presents: SATURATION 70

A vision past of the future foretold: The greatest cult movie you have never seen

In September, the Horse Hospital will host an exhibition that documents and recreates an extraordinary lost pop culture artefact—Saturation 70—an uncompleted science-fiction fantasy film about ecological destruction shot in and around a UFO convention at Giant Rock (near Joshua Tree) and Los Angeles in 1969 and 1970.

This visionary film project—a ‘Wizard of Oz’ for the 60s counter-culture—was helmed by writer-director Tony Foutz and starred Julian Jones Leitch (the then five year-old son of Brian Jones), Gram Parsons, Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas), Stash Klossowski de Rola (the bon vivant son of painter Balthus) and couturier to the stars, Nudie Cohn (of ‘Nudie suit’ fame).

In 1967, Foutz was working on another film project entitled Maxagasm, a feature film vehicle for the Rolling Stones to star in and produce an original soundtrack, with a script co-written with Sam Shepard. The film, which was optioned by James Coburn, was the hottest unproduced script in Hollywood for several years.

While planning special effects sequences for Maxagasm with Douglas Trumbull, Foutz was tipped off about the UFO convention at Giant Rock and decided to make a documentary there to test out his and Trumbull’s ideas. The documentary turned into a larger feature film project—Saturation 70—about a group of aliens (the Kosmic Kiddies) who land on earth to save it from ecological destruction, and in the process assist a lost Victorian star child (Julian Jones) who has fallen through a wormhole to return to his own time and place.

Much like Alejandro Jodorowksy’s legendary unrealized adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune—subject of the acclaimed recent documentary, Jodorowksy’s Dune—Saturation 70 was a project ahead of its time.

The film was co-produced by special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull, who had just completed work on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, and intended as a showcase for the radical film and computer effects he was developing at his facility in the San Fernando Valley. Another veteran of 2001, British cinematographer Bruce Logan (later the special effects director on Star Wars and Tron), shot Foutz’s film. Gram Parsons and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds were set to compose original songs and score for the film, with McGuinn utilising his newly-acquired Moog synthesizer.

Many elements from Foutz’s original script, which is packed with prescient themes and imagery, would be explored by other filmmakers in years to come. He wrote of ‘data clouds’, projecting propaganda in the sky, that would later find form in the advertising dirigibles featured in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner over a decade later.

Principal photography on Saturation 70 was all-but-complete when the funding fell through. The footage subsequently disappeared.

The exhibition at the Horse Hospital will feature all that remains of the project: pages from the script, a series of never-before-seen production stills and behind-the-scenes photos from the Saturation 70 shoot, alongside a screening of the only-existing footage from the film, a five minute showreel cut to the Flying Burrito Brother’s version of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses”, which was recorded contemporaneously to the Saturation 70 shoot for the second Burrito Brothers album, Burrito Deluxe, which also features the band dressed in costumes from the film on its sleeve.

Cuisle Young Poet of the Year

Cuisle Young Poet of the Year Competition would like you to write a poem or three. Poems can be about anything that matters to you, things that happen in your life, special occasions, or everyday events. Winners will be invited to read during Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival, when prizes will be awarded.

Poems in both Irish & English are welcome. Entrants may submit up to three poems and should state their age category. Download entry forms here.

Send your poems to Cuisle, c/o Limerick Arts Office, City Hall, Limerick by 26 September 2014.

For further information contact Bertha, the Competition Co-ordinator, at 085 7593265 bertha.brid@gmail.com or the Arts Office of Limerick City & County Council at 061 407363.

The Achill Heinrich Böll Association are pleased to present

Louis Stewart Guitar with Jim Doherty Piano in concert on Saturday evening August 16th 2014 @ 8.00pm St. Thomas’s Church Dugort, Achill Island.

Tickets for sale at venues across Achill Island. Call; 087772019

Leitrim Sculpture Centre

New Line

Manorhamilton

Co Leitrim

www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie

Telephone: 071 985 5098

Fri 22nd – Sun 24th August 2014

S1 Stone Carving

Tutor: Jackie McKenna. Duration: 3 Days. 10am-5pm. Participants: 8. Cost: €230

Students will be introduced to the principles of stone carving and design, the identification and uses of different stone and the use of hand tools. Each student will design and carve a simple form that they can take home with them. Students come with: sturdy boots. Beginners to intermediate.

Fri 29th – Sat 30th August 2014

C1 Techniques For Ceramic/Pot Construction

Tutor: Ross Cochrane/Bettina Seitz. Duration: 2 Days. Participants: 5. Cost: €210

This course will teach a series of hand-building techniques for the construction of sculptural forms in clay, including coil-building, slab-building and solid modeling in clay using removable armatures and techniques for hollowing out work in preparation for ceramic firing. You will have a basic knowledge of the ceramic process through samples and practical demonstrations under the tuition of the artist. Beginners to intermediate.

Sun 31st – Mon 1st September 2014

C2 Techniques For Ceramic/Clay Sculpture

Tutor: Ross Cochrane/Bettina Seitz. Duration: 2 Days. Participants: 5. Cost: €210

An in depth exploration of various ceramic /clay hand building techniques for constructing more challenging and larger forms with detailed information on various types of clays, tools, decorating techniques and the ceramic process in general. Previous experience or prior attendance of basic /intermediate course is essential.

Sat 30th- Sun 31st August 2014

W1 Wood Construction Course

Tutor: David Spence. Duration: 2 Days. Participants: 8. Cost: €170

This course covers wood selection and preparation, making joints and cleaning and finishing your wood product with the use of hand and machine methods. Tool maintenance, health and safety and reading construction drawings. It will provide the possibility to work from a drawing to make a jointed softwood product. Students come with: sturdy boots.

Belfast City Council: Two Bronze Figurative Sculptures – Public Art Commission

Belfast City Council is seeking to commission two high-quality permanent bronze sculptures of Belfast boxers John Caldwell and John Joseph ‘Rinty’ Monaghan.

The Council is calling for applications from suitably experienced artists or consortia of artists to deliver both pieces. It is envisaged that these sculptures will become integrated into the historic fabric of Belfast, becoming tourist attractions and focal points within the city.

The application process for this commission is being issued as one procurement exercise however the assessment of applications will be a two stage process. Artists must apply to undertake both of the sculptures. Applications for only one sculpture will not be considered.

The overall budget for this project is £116,000, exclusive of VAT. The project budget is for the complete delivery of all aspects of this project, including research and development time, modelling of sculptures, moulding and foundry costs, management of the casting process, base or plinth for the sculpture, any foundations required, delivery to site and installation of the sculpture(s).

The closing date for submissions is 12 noon Friday 12th September 2014.

Further information and submission documentation can be found via the Council’s website: www.belfastcity.gov.uk/tenders

ĺontas Arts Centre Call for Submissions

ĺontas Arts Centre, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, is currently seeking submissions from artists for a free exhibition in its Foyer Gallery, for work to be exhibited from February 2015 to June 2016.

Exhibition 6-8 weeks.

Please supply the following:

• Cover Letter
• Updated CV (Art Related)
• Artist Statement
• Proposal for Exhibition
• 8-10 high resolution jpeg images. Max.1mb each. CD only.
• Images titled & with artist name.
• Indication of availability

Group applications also welcome.

The deadline for submissions is 5th September 2014.

Please post to:

Gina Martin, Arts Promotions Officer
ĺontas Arts Centre, Conabury, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan

Further information www.iontascastleblayney.ie or 042 9753400

Rencontres Internationales Call for Entries

The Rencontres Internationales is now opening its annual call for entries until the 16th of August, for the event that will take place in Paris on December 1-7, 2014.

This event is among the main European events dedicated to contemporary audiovisual creation. It proposes every year a new international program made of works by internationally renowned artists and filmmakers, along with works by young artists shown for the first time.

Any individual or organization can submit one or several proposals. The call for entries is open to cinema, video and multimedia works, without restriction of length nor genre. Submission is free, without limitation of geographical origins.

• FILMS AND VIDEOS
* Video / Experimental video
* Fiction, experimental fiction / Short, middle and full length
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Experimental film
* Animation
• MULTIMEDIA
* Video installation, multimedia installation * Net art * Multimedia concert, multimedia performance

To enter a work, register on www.art-action.org

Registration deadline: August 16, 2014

Instrumental Outreach programme Music Education Practitioners

Offaly/ Westmeath Music Education Partnership for vacancies and/or opportunities that may arise during Academic year 2014/2015

Closing date for receipt of tenders is 3pm, Thursday 28th August, 2014.

All relevant information is available from www.offaly.ie and http://www.etenders.gov.ie/ where you can also register your interest in the tender. Details on how to do this are below.

All tenders should be in hard copy format and delivered/ posted to:

Development Officer Music Generation, Offaly County Council, Charleville Road, Tullamore, Co.Offaly

Information on using etenders

• To register on http://www.etenders.gov.ie/ as a supplier: Ensure that in your company description you include the words Education and training – Music Education.
• Once your account is complete, you should then, under administration in the banner to the right, select Company Administration followed by company profile and edit.
• Select products and services offered and choose add services, from the list select Education and training services and add.
• Finally still under company administration select add business alert and ensure this is on, again select Education and training as your CPV.
• At the part of the application that requires a company number or VAT now you should be able to enter N/A or your PPS number in order to complete the process.

If you wish to contact us, please contact Roisin Dillon rdillon@offalycoco.ie Monday – Wednesday 9.30am – 4pm on 05793 46800

Atelier for Young Festival Managers in Beirut, 21-27 March 2015: apply now!

Are you part of the next generation of artistic festival directors? Do you want to broaden your programming skills and be inspired by colleagues and experienced leaders in the field? Do you want to join a new network of future festival leaders worldwide? Take part in the Atelier for Young Festival Managers.

The Festival Academy’s 2015 Atelier for Young Festival Managers, initiated by the European Festivals Association (EFA), will take place from 21 to 27 March 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon, in collaboration with the Beiteddine Art Festival. Young festival managers from all over the world are invited to apply until 12 September 2014. In the vibrant Lebanese cultural city, some 10 renowned festival directors will guide 45 participants through the 7-day training programme.

“After the Atelier for Young Festival Managers planned for 2013 had to be postponed, I am happy to reiterate my invitation to host the first Atelier in the Arab world in Beirut, Lebanon in March 2015. I am looking forward to welcoming all the young festival managers in this artistically vibrant city that is Beirut,” said Nora Joumblatt, President of the Beiteddine Art Festival.

Share your experiences on the essence of art festivals

The Atelier for Young Festival Managers is an intense and rigorous 7-day training platform addressed at emerging artistic festival directors or those who have ambitions to become involved in programming or in programming-related departments within a festival. It is all about sharing experiences and passing on knowledge to a next generation of festival makers: knowledge about programming a festival, while focusing on the very essence of art festivals – the arts and the artist.

It is guided by the motto “The true role of a festival is to help artists to dare, to engage in new projects,” borrowed from Bernard Faivre d’Arcier, longstanding Director of the Avignon Festival and President of the Lyon Biennial (France).

Explore festival issues in various formats

45 young festival managers from all over the world will be selected to participate in the Atelier. Around 10 distinguished festival directors, renowned festival pioneers, will each attend for at least two full days and guide participants throughout the 7 days. In lectures, one-on-one talks, group discussions as well as intense workshops on case studies, issues such as artistic vision, public responsibility, creation and coproduction, internationalisation, networking, renewal and sustainability will be explored. First presenters will be announced soon. Have a look at the list of presenters of the previous Ateliers.

Join a unique new network

223 Alumni from 56 countries emerged from six Ateliers for Young Festival Managers since 2006 in Goerlitz, Varna, Singapore, Izmir, Ljubljana and Edinburgh. Participants of the Beirut edition will become part of this unique global network of young festival makers which will further increase after the upcoming Atelier in Poznan (October 2014).

How to apply

The application form must be submitted by 12 September 2014. All information on the Atelier, selection criteria, application procedure and application form can be found on the Atelier website.

Get to know our host: the Beiteddine Art Festival

Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, strikes with its cultural dynamism. An overwhelming number of cultural events, such as artistic workshops, theatre plays, concerts and exhibitions of all kinds are presented to the public on a regular basis. In Beirut, art can be found everywhere, as more than 5000 artists are active in the city.

The Beiteddine Art Festival has been founded during the Lebanese Civil War in 1985. The festival, which started locally, has managed to raise international interest and has become the most attended festival in the region. For 29 years now, it has attracted more than tens of thousands of spectators every year in its beautiful location, the palace’s courtyards. The Beiteddine Art Festival is regarded as a great space of encounters for all those who believe that culture and art have a fundamental role to play in the development of society.

“This vibrant and resilient city is the cultural hub of the Middle East. It is renowned for its festivals and artistic activities, universities, free press and its rich history, as well as for being a dynamic financial and banking center. Come and discover the cradle of civilization, and experience the successful encounter between East and West, and between tradition and modernity, in one of the ten liveliest cities of the world, the city of Beirut,” said Nora Joumblatt.

Find out more

• Upcoming Atelier: POZNAN 2014
• Previous Ateliers: EDINBURGH 2014; LJUBLJANA 2012; IZMIR 2011; SINGAPORE 2011; VARNA 2009;GOERLITZ 2006

Follow us online

• Atelier on facebook
• EFA on twitter
• www.atelierforyoungfestivalmanagers.eu

In case of questions please contact atelier@efa.aef.eu or call +32 9 241 8080.

The Atelier BEIRUT 2015 is supported by with British Council Lebanon. EFA receives support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. EFA thanks the Flemish Community and theCity of Ghent for their support.