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GROUP SHOW AND TARTINE RESTAURANT | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

Tartine Restaurant, Distillers Arms, Bushmills, Co Antrim

 

Tartine Restaurant is offering the chance for your artwork to be shown as part of its restaurant collection. Through an online submission process, selected works will be chosen through the means of a juried competition and be part of a temporary 8 week group show during the summer of 2014. Approx 24 artworks will be selected for display as the restaurant collection with one outright winner being given the opportunity for a solo show at Tartine in 2015.

 

This event is excellent platform for emerging artists and dedicated amateurs. All the winners will have the opportunity to have their work viewed by the diverse patronage of the restaurant and benefit from the online publicity drive associated with the competition.

 

Tartine Restaurant, Distillers Arms, Bushmills, Co Antrim, has a particular interest in the visual arts supporting activities such as a summer ‘Artist in Residence Program’, numerous Peep Art exhibitions and takes pride in showcasing original artworks within its permanent collection. Now to further celebrate the skills of Northern Ireland artists the bespoke restaurant is offering the chance for other artists to receive recognition for their work.

 

Submission Deadline 27th June 2014.

 

Winners announced on website 14th July 2014.
Drop off date Mon 21st July – and Sat 22nd July 11am – 3.30pm.
Launch, viewing and announcement of winner 26th July 2014.
Exhibition continues until 19th Sept 2014

 

www.distillersarms.com

2015 EXHIBITION PROGRAM IN THE ARDS PENINSULA, CO. DOWN | CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

 

Emerging and established artists of all disciplines are being sought for our 2015 Exhibition program in the Ards Peninsula, Co Down.

 

Three Studios and Gallery to open late 2014, with eatery, designed for artists by artists. Exhibition space & studios perfect for painters, drawers, designers, multi-media artists etc. As we are a new initiative, we are trying to establish what will encourage and help artists to develop, eg career advice, promotion, classes.

 

As we are self funded, there will be a flat rate charge for exhibition space, however this results in an extremely reduced commission on sold works. Introductory rates for for early interest!

 

Please title the email ‘EOI’ to hello@rachelmcbride.co.uk Include an Expression of Interest along with your CV and six samples of work.

 

ROYAL ULSTER ACADEMY 133RD ANNUAL EXHIBITION | CALL FOR ENTRIES

 

The RoyalUlsterAcademy 133rd Annual Exhibition will take place at the UlsterMuseum, Belfast from the 17th October 2014 – 4th January 2015. With over 70,000 visitors, this long standing event aims to celebrate, enrich and expand contemporary approaches to the visual arts.

 

The Annual Exhibition showcases works by members of the Academy and works selected through open submission and by invitation.

 

Artists applying through the open submission process can enter a maximum of three works in any medium online, by 11th July 2014. From these entries the Selection Panel will draw up a shortlist of works for delivery to the Academy. The Annual Exhibition will be selected from these shortlisted works.

 

To enter the exhibition please visit: www.royalulsteracademy.org/submit

 

Over £7,000 in prize money will be awarded to exhibiting artists of merit by an independent adjudicator. Prizes include The Young Artist Prize, Portrait Prize, Printmaking Prize and the Royal Ulster Academy President’s Prize for a full-time student.

MYSLEXIA WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION 2014

Deadline: Monday 16th June 2014 

The Myslexia Women's Poetry Competition welcomes poetry submissions of any length and on any subject, as long as they are written by women. The judge for this year's competition is Wendy Cope.

Further details and submission guidelines can be found on the Myslexia website: Click here

2014 OVER THE EDGE

New Writer of The Year competition

OPEN TO POETS & FICTION WRITERS

WORLDWIDE

 

NOW TAKING ONLINE PAYMENTS 

COMPETITION JUDGE: ELEANOR HOOKER

Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

other sponsors to date:

ISupply, Quay Street; Ward’s Hotel Lower Salthill;

 Clare Daly TD, Kenny’s Bookshop & Derek Nolan TD

Closing date: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014

 

In 2014 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual international creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland and internationally. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2014. The 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2014/15. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction category. The winner in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry published in the April 2015 issue of Skylight 47 magazine.

Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or stories. Put your contact details on a separate sheet. If you live in Ireland and wish to be informed of the results by post, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. OTHERWISE, YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE.

Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Any of the aforementioned is one entry. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee. The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque or  money order to Over The Edge. The competition is open to writers worldwide. We accept payment in Dollars, Sterling, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars and so on. Writers from outside the Euro area can calculate the payment for their entry here http://www.xe.com/ucc/ WE ALSO NOW ACCEPT ONLINE PAYMENTS. See the below for details. If you pay the entry fee online you must still post us a hard copy of your entry/entries and enclose with it a note saying ‘entry fee paid online’. PLEASE INCLUDE THE EXACT NAME IN WHICH THE ONLINE PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE SO THAT WE CAN VERIFY. 

 

To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st 2014 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in the genre in which you enter. Chapbooks/ pamphlets excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition. The closing date is Wednesday, August 6th, 2014. A long-list will be announced at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 28th, 2014 (6.30-8pm). THE LONGLIST WILL BE AVAILABLE, BEFORE THAT, AT CHARLIE BYRNE’S BOOKSHOP FROM 5PM ON THURSDAY AUGUST 28TH.  The shortlist will be announced at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 25th, 2014 (6.30-8pm). The winners will be announced at the October Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, October 30th, 2014 (6.30-8pm).

 

Eleanor Hooker lives in North Tipperary. Her debut collection of poems The Shadow Owner’s Companion, published by The Dedalus Press in 2012, has recently been shortlisted for the Strong/Shine award for best first collection in 2012.  Her poetry has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, The SHOp, Crannog, Can Can, Agenda, POEM: International English Language Quarterly, New Leaf, and in the anthology I Live In Michael Hartnett. Online her poetry has been published in Wordlegs, And Other Poems, Ink Sweat and Tears and Poethead.  In June 2013 Eleanor won the Poetry Ireland/Trocaire poetry competition (Published Author Category). In 2011 she was a winner in the Frank X Buckley Flash Short Story competition at the Irish Writers' Centre, was joint second prize winner in the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story competition. In December 2012 a winner in the ten word short story competition held by @shortstoryday. Eleanor has a BA (Hons 1st) from the Open University, an MA (Hons.) in Cultural History from the University of Northumbria, and an MPhil in Creative Writing (Distinction) from TrinityCollege, Dublin. She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2011. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Dromineer Literary Festival. She is Helm and Press Officer for Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat. 

 

For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748,

e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com

or to make an online payment see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

other sponsors to date: ISupply, Flood Street;

Ward’s Hotel, Salthill; Clare Daly TD, Kenny’s Bookshop & Derek Nolan TD

Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Competition

The Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland's leading film festival, is delighted to announce a call for entries for the new-look Pitching Competition.

Ireland's only film-pitching competition our aim is to encourage budding writers with ideas (at any stage of development) to get their vision out there and to develop the crucial craft of 'the pitch'.  In the film industry, 'the pitch' is how you impart your passion for your project to others. It doesn't matter how good your idea is as a writer unless you can convince a director, producer, or financiers of its merits.

Since its inception in 2005, The Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award has challenged writers and provided a platform them to share their ideas with their peers. In 2010 the Fleadh was proud to open with Paul Fraser's My Brothers, which began life a mere three years earlier as a pitch by writer Will Collins. Success at the Pitching compeition acted as a springboard for Collins' project and the film went on to secure funding from the Film board.  My Brothers subsequently went on to feature at festivals around the world, including New York's Tribeca and Will is currently co-writing the follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Secret of Kells with director Tomm Moore.

 

Closing date is Friday 6th June. 

Entry forms and guidelines available from www.galwayfilmfleadh.com. 

 

THE DERMOT HEALY POETRY PRIZE!

 

Presented by The Five Glens Arts Festival.  

 

Write your best poems and to send them to us here in the five glens by

the 15th July 2014.    

  

The prize money of 1,000 euro and shortlisted entrants will be invited to read their work at the festival.  

 

Send only your very best to the details listed on the website.  

 

Dermot Healy will be judging the ten shortlisted poems and then present the prize of one thousand euro to the winning poet.  

 

The prize-giving ceremony will take place over the weekend of the 22nd August, and it should be a great evening for all concerned. Be you a budding bard or a seasoned scribe, we wish you the very best of luck! 

  

More details here

 

www.fiveglensartsfestival.com

http://fiveglensfestival.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/fiveglensartsfestival

BRING YOUR LIMERICKS TO LIMERICK

The world's richest Limerick verse competition takes place this year July 19th at the University of Limerick. Free to enter competition run by The Limerick Writers' Centre and Campus Life Services UL and is aimed at anyone who has an interest in this poetic form. Prize: €1,000 

Send entries online at www.facebook.com/limerickcompetition Further details: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com   

 

BLAS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

The Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance returns to the IrishWorldAcademy at the University of Limerick for the 18th successive year this June 23rd - July 4th 2014. The summer school will be launched on Monday 23rd June where students attending the course at the University’s Irish World Academy will benefit from the wisdom and tutelage of eminent figures of the Traditional World such as Martin Hayes, Dónal Lunny, Steve Cooney, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, John Carty, Colin Dunne, Noirín Ní Riain, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Michelle Mulcahy, Niall Keegan, Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Mats Melin, Aileen Dillane, Sandra Joyce and Michael Ryan, with more being added all the time.

The Blas Summer School is delighted to announce the continuation of the Paul Brady Blas Bursary for 2014. The recipients of the scholarships benefit from master classes and tuition from Ireland’s most distinguished traditional artists. The value of each bursary covers a portion of tuition only for the 2 weeks of the programme. 

 For further information on all aspects of the Blas Summer School, see www.blas.ie or contact  Ernestine Healy, Director, Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, IrishWorldAcademy, University of Limerick.

Email: Ernestine.Healy@ul.ie or by Phone: 061 202653.

2014 TEMPLAR PAMPHLET AND COLLECTION AWARDS – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The ninth Templar Pamphlet & Collection Awards are open for submission of full length pamphlet manuscripts until Monday 16th June.

▪ Up to three Pamphlets published from the submissions received
▪ Pamphlet poets offered the option to submit a full collection for later publication
▪ Up to Fifty Poets published in the annual Templar anthology
▪ Pamphlets & anthology published at the Derwent Poetry Festival November 2014
▪ Launch Events at the Festival for Pamphlet & Anthology Poets
▪ Complimentary copy of the 'Templar Anthology' or latest 'Iota Poetry' for all who submit
▪ Pamphlet Poets invited to record their work for our online Poetry Live archive

For submission guidelines Click here

For online submissions Click here 

WILD WORDS VOL. 2 – CALLING ALL YOUNG AUTHORS!

The Wild Words Book is part of the Carrick on Shannon’s Wild Words Children’s Literature Festival and features writing by young people aged 14-18 who have started to write their own short stories and poetry. 

Last year’s book featured authors from all over Ireland and the UK and we are now looking for submissions for Volume 2.  Those chosen will have their work published and be invited to a free three-day writing workshop with some of Ireland’s leading authors at the festival from 15th -17th August. 

To make a submission, email your short story or poem along with your contact details and date of birth to wildwordsbook@gmail.com . 

Deadline: Friday 4th July 2014

Further information: The Reading Room, Carrick on Shannon, Leitrim

T: +353(0)719671580 E: wildwordsbook@gmail.com

 

CRITICAL BASTARDS | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Critical Bastards Magazine are specifically seeking critical articles and reviews relating to the theme of Expectations and Disappointment in Visual Art. This theme can be interpreted flexibly.

Send submissions to criticalbastardsmagazine@gmail.com Any article should be approx. 500 words and can be a review of an exhibition/event/art organisation, an interview, or a theory based article. Creative writing is always welcomed.

The submission deadline for this issue is June 15th.

Articles should be typed and sent as a pdf and word document to criticalbastardsmagazine@gmail.com. Articles will be selected on their fitness for inclusion in each issue.

www.criticalbastards.wordpress.com

VANISHING ART | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Deadline July 30th 2014

Exhibition will open October 1st and run until December 20th 2014.

Artists are invited to submit entries by July 30th for pre-selection to Vanishing Art’s 2nd annual appearance on the grounds of Carton House, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. This year Vanishing Art is delighted to announce the Carton House people’s choice award. €5,000 will be awarded to the sculpture voted most popular by the public.

Submissions must be of a high standard, both in presentation and in content. A site visit for artists will be scheduled for the 16th and 17th August 2014.

www.vanishingart.ie/exhibition/

 

7TH ANNUAL 126 MEMBERS’ SHOW | OPEN CALL

Curated BY Paul McAree
126, Artist-run Gallery, 4 Commerce House, Flood Street, GalwayCity

Closing Date for Submissions by email, June 6th, 2014 at 4pm

As part of our continued commitment to support our membership, 126 is delighted to announce a call out for its 7th Annual Members’ Show. 126 is grateful for the financial and moral support of its members and each year offers this special opportunity to exhibit their work. The members shows are usually selected by the board and have taken place at various times over the years. This year, with generous support from the Galway Arts Festival, we would like to present the work of our members to the international audience that visit the festival from 14th – 27th of July.

To develop this exhibition, we are delighted to announce Paul McAree as curator. McAree is founder of FLOOD, Dublin, a contemporary art project in Dublin city. FLOOD has hosted several group exhibitions including artists Michelle Browne, Alan Butler, Martin Healy, Nevan Lahart, Beatriz Olabarrieta, and Suzanne Treister, a commissioned publication by artist Kevin Atherton, and printed projects with Theresa Nanigian, Terry Atkinson, and Flávia Müller Medeiros. McAree is also Exhibitions and Events Co-ordinator at Lismore Castle Arts in Waterford. Previously McAree worked at Breaking Ground, Tate Modern and Ikon Gallery Birmingham.

For more information visit: www.126.ie/#opencall

 

BABY BEEF INDEPENDENT ART PRESS | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We started Baby BEEF in 2006 as a contributor based zine of art, poetry, stories, photography and articles. We did this to give ourselves and people like us an outlet and platform for our work to be seen, outside of a gallery setting. To not wait around for people to discover us but to do it ourselves. We released 3 issues before branching off to do other publications, artist books and projects. In those 3 issues we published artists from all over the world, distributed them globally by sending them to the contributors and bringing them travelling with us.

We have decided to make Baby BEEF Issue 4 this summer and launch it at this years 4th Annual Dublin Zine Fair in August.

We are looking of submissions of art, poetry, stories and articles. We celebrate the handmade and love anything analogue, so we are not looking for digital artwork. Pretty much anything goes. If you have any questions let us know.

Submit to: babybeefheart@hotmail.com

More info about our publications: www.babybeefartpress.com

ARTS FESTIVAL | CAIRDE VISUAL – SLIGO OPEN SUBMISSION

The Cairde Arts Festival is delighted to announce details of their first open submission exhibition entitled Cairde Visual – Sligo Open Submission.

Cairde Visual will open on Tuesday July 8th at 6pm in the Hyde Bridge Gallery in Sligo and will run throughout the Cairde Arts Festival and until Saturday July 19th at 6pm.

The Cairde Arts Festival is accepting submissions for the exhibition until midnight on Monday June 2nd. Details of how to submit works are available on the home page of the Cairde Arts Festival website where entry forms can be downloaded: www.cairdefestival.com.

Artists can also pick up entry forms together with details of terms & conditions at the Hyde Bridge Gallery in Sligo.

For further information or queries please e-mail: submissions@cairdefestival.com

CELESTE PRIZE 2014 – 6TH EDITION | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Celeste Prize is an international contemporary art prize which supports quality work by emerging artists in a worldwide, talent scouting environment. Every year thousands of artists use the prize to promote their works and their careers.

Join now / more information:
http://www.celesteprize.com/celesteprize2014/

20,500 euro cash prizes:

Project Prize 4,000 euro

Painting & Drawing Prize 4,000 euro

Photography & Digital Graphics Prize 4,000 euro

Video & Animation Prize 4,000 euro

Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize 4,000 euro

Visitors Choice Prize 500 euro

This year’s team of international selectors is led by Elena Sorokina, chief-curator of Celeste Prize 2014 and independent curator based in Paris, France.

Selection Panel:

Antonia Alampi – Curator at Beirut Art Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Natasa Petresin Bachelez -  Chief-Editor Manifesta Journal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Daniele Balit  – Independent curator and critic, France

Daria de Beauvais – Curator at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Jelle Bouwhuis  - Curator at Stedelijk  Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Andrea Bruciati – Independent curator and critic, Italy

Katerina Chuchalina – Curator at V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia

Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield – Independent curator and philosopher, UK

N’Goné Fall – Independent curator and founder of Gaw-Lab, Senegal

Andrew Hunt - Director of Spacex, Exeter, UK

Mélanie Mermod  – Independent curator, Switzerland

Solvej Helweg Ovesen – Artistic Director at Grosses Treffen, Berlin, Germany

Oscar Roldàn-Alzarte – Curator, Museum of Modern Art Medellin, Colombia

Pedro Vélez – Independent curator, Chicago, USA

Deadline for entries is 15 July 2014.

Final exhibition and awards at Assab One, Milan, Italy, 15 – 23 November 2014

Entry fee payable online is 50 euro / work; 90 euro / project (includes up to 10 works).

Celeste Prize 2014 is supported by Celeste Network, a social network for contemporary arts, which includes gallerists, curators, critics, art organizers, collectors and many artists. Celeste Network is a fertile environment in which to promote artwork, make contact and start up art projects around the world. Take a look at Celeste Network, you can sign up and have your free page, then decide later if you wish to join the prize.

www.celesteprize.com/eng_auth_login/

For more information, please email: info@celesteprize.com

 

RHA: THE ELIZABETH FITZPATRICK TRAVEL BURSARY 2014

Closes Friday 6^th June

The RHA is delighted to present an open call for submissions to the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary 2014. The Bursary of €2,500 is awarded to enable Irish artists to further their studies abroad. This Scholarship is awarded in memory of Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a lifelong friend and supporter of the visual arts in Ireland. The Purser family, into which Elizabeth was born in 1904, was one of a Dublin circle with many artistic affiliations. Between 1930 and 1980 she moved in this circle which included Sarah Purser – her great aunt, – Jack Yeats, ‘A.E.’, Mainie Jellett and Mary Swanzy.

Applications forms and further information on the award conditions are available on the RHA Website:

http://www.rhagallery.ie/about/awards/

For further information on the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel bursary contact Fernando Sanchez, Academy Coordinator, phone 01 6612558, email fernando@rhagallery.ie

 

BOYLE ARTS FESTIVAL OPEN ART EXHIBITION 2014

This is a reminder to all artists, local, new, those from further afield and those 'under 25' – that it is time to be thinking of your entry to the BAF14 Boyle Open Art Exhibition. The exhibition runs this year from Friday 25th July until Saturday 2nd August.

Entries will be accepted in any medium, to a maximum of 3 per person. We were delighted that last year’s exhibition was well supported again, as always and anticipate another excellent show, exhibits for which will be selected by an anonymous panel.

Handing-in of entries will be on Friday 4th July 4pm to 6pm and/ or Saturday 5th July from 3pm to 5pm in Church of Ireland, Parochial School, Military Road, Boyle (opposite Family Life Centre).

Conditions of Entry and an Entry Form are available from www.unabhan.com , if you have any queries about the exhibition you can ring me at 071 96 63033 between 9am and 5pm. 

 

 

POETRY SOCIETY SEEKS POEMS FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS FOYLE YOUNG POETS OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014

Deadline: 31 July 2014

The Poetry Society has announced the launch of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2014, the world’s largest and most prestigious award for young poets aged 11 to 17 years old.

Last year’s competition attracted entries from a staggering 7,478 young people from 75 countries worldwide, making it one of the largest literary competitions in the world. The 2013 winners (15 top winners and 85 commended poets) spanned the globe, from Nigeria to Malaysia and from right across the UK. Now in its 17th year, the competition once again invites young poets to enter their writing.

Any young person writing in English can enter the competition, whether they have been writing for a long time or just started, and the competition is free to enter. Full details on entering the competition can be found at www.foyleyoungpoets.org.

 RDS STUDENT ART AWARDS 2014 | CALL FOR APPLICANTS

Deadline fast approaching for the 2014 RDS Student Art Awards

2014 prize fund is over €18,000 and this year we have two new awards:

RDS Lens Based Art Award of €2,200, open to film and photography based entries

RDS Monster Truck 1 Year Studio Award open to final year students (BA/MA/PhD), including curatorial support and all bills

You can apply online at www.rds.ie/arts until the closing date of June 18.

RDS Student Art Awards:

Works are critiqued by an expert panel of judges nominated by the RDS, the RHA, the NGI and IMMA

Selected works are exhibited alongside other art students both in the RDS and in the BournVincentGallery, University of Limerick

Works are professionally photographed and included in a catalogue

Students compete for a number of significant cash prizes and studio awards.

All media are accepted, including print-making, mixed media, film, fine art, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation work.

Top prize is the Taylor Art Award of €5,000, a prize won by such artists as Dorothy Cross and Louis Le Brocquy, and it is open to all disciplines.

For more info, follow us on facebook (RDSDublin) or Twitter (TheRDS).

AN GUTH

Tá filíocht ag teastáil le haghaidh na hirise Gaeilge is Gàidhlig An Guth. Cuirtear dánta don eagarthóir Rody Gorman ag anguth@btinternet.com
 
Poems in Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic are sought for the annual anthology An Guth. Consideration will also be given, for inclusion in Gaelic translation, to unpublished work in English by poets with a collection profile. Editor Rody Gorman anguth@btinternet.com

2014 Templar Pamphlet and Collection Awards
The ninth Templar Pamphlet & Collection Awards are open for submission of full length pamphlet manuscripts until Monday 16th June.

▪ Up to three Pamphlets published from the submissions received
▪ Pamphlet poets offered the option to submit a full collection for later publication
▪ Up to Fifty Poets published in the annual Templar anthology
▪ Pamphlets & anthology published at the Derwent Poetry Festival November 2014
▪ Launch Events at the Festival for Pamphlet & Anthology Poets
▪ Complimentary copy of the 'Templar Anthology' or latest 'Iota Poetry' for all who submit
▪ Pamphlet Poets invited to record their work for our online Poetry Live archive

For submission guidelines Click here

For online submissions Click here 

ADF GALLERY | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2015

Deadline Friday 27 June, 3pm

The ADF Gallery is a contemporary space in the centre of Belfast running a year-round programme showcasing new artwork and raising the profile of disabled and deaf artists. The ADF also runs performing arts events and workshops as part of Bounce! Arts Festival.

Disabled/deaf artists, you are invited to submit proposals for solo exhibitions as part of our 2015 programme. We are looking for a wide range of art in contemporary and traditional styles, including themes reflecting disability issues. If you are interested in presenting work in the ADF Gallery, please submit a proposal containing the following:

Full contact details

An outline (250 words max) telling us what you would like to show and talking about the motivations behind making the work.

Up to 10 samples of work, in print or digital format.

An outline of any technical requirements, such as black-out or audio visual gear.

Artist’s biography / history of exhibitions.

Send proposals by email to leo@adf.ie (include jpgs and/or links to personal websites). Or send by post (give disks and photos). Do not submit original artwork. Ensure that your samples of work are clearly labelled with your name and a number and link this to a numbered list giving your name and details – title, medium, size.

We are also open to proposals for other types of event but this can take longer to arrange, for example if we need to do additional fundraising. To make a proposal, please follow the list above as much as is relevant. For workshops please outline your experience, tell us you would want to do and give references. For performances, give a DVD or You Tube link to a performance and/or a script.

Please submit all information by Wednesday 25 June at 3pm. Send to leo@adf.ie or by post marked for the attention of Leo Devlin, Gallery Officer at the address below. For further information contact Leo on 028 9023 9450. It’s not possible for us to accept every proposal that is made but we do try to give feedback.

www.adf.ie

 

 

KENMARE LACE FESTIVAL 2015 SEEKS ARTIST

Kenmare Lace Festival 2015 are accepting expressions of interest from artists to design, construct and install a piece of artwork. The work will be temporary in nature and suitable for outdoor conditions. The work is intended to launch the Kenmare Lace Festival in March 2015 by raising awareness of the event and captivating imaginations.

The Kenmare Lace Festival is a celebration of traditional Lace skills alongside the promotion of cutting edge design and contemporary approaches to making.The work will be installed in January 2015.

This project will operate in conjunction with the artist in the community scheme, therefore, interested practitioners must be willing to participate in the artist in the community scheme application process. The closing date for this scheme is June 23rd.

For further information or to submit expression of interest please contact Fiona Harrington on 087 0671860 or by emailfiharrington@gmail.com, no later than June 12th.

www.kenmarelacefestival.ie | www.fionaharrington.com

 

 

Im/Plants

Im/Plants proposes a programme of seasonal implantations (insertions) into the National Sculpture Factory. This project is open to Irish and international artists, curators, independent art groups, individual cultural and spatial practitioners, and collectives across all art disciplines.

Artists/participants are implanted as productive agents, that is, invited to respond to the specificity of the National Sculpture Factory - as a site for manufacture; as a host organism; as a seedbed for propagation - in order to test, affect or re-imagine the boundaries of what the art organisation can be through alternative forms of production.

Each implant is of a 3-month duration and is programmed to happen seasonally. It is self-directing and self-sufficient, with an overall stipend of €3,000 and with access to the full resources and supports of the NSF, adapted to the needs of each specific applicant.

There are no prescribed outcomes, but each implant is expected to leave a trace, residue, or shadow, of their period of interactivity with the host organisation. Such outcomes are not restricted to the ephemeral and can be of a more permanent nature. 

 

For its part the NSF will be openly receptive to the unknowns made possible by interaction with these implanted agents.

The Im/Plants strand in the NSF’s annual programme is designed to act as a source of imaginative hybridization, to create as yet unknown forms of production or provocation, and enable the NSF to work with the broadest range of artistic practitioners, leading to the synthesis of new ideas and work practices within the artist-centric institution.

NSF Im/Plants project allows the implanted artists to practically challenge the ideologies of the monolithic or static institution, and to act instead as a generative substrate engaging directly with the receptive NSF to external forces. In its making available of its resources, experience and network of relations, the NSF wishes, through these insertions open itself to the stimulus of new ideas, alien influences and new creative productive outcomes.

 

Application Details:

Criteria for assessment:

 

The nature and quality of the proposition or provocation.

Experience relevant to this particular site-specific research implantation.

The feasibility of each proposition as well as the nature and extent of the research and methodology being proposed

Applicants are invited to propose, themselves; their practice and their particular Im/plant proposal in whatever form they deem relevant bearing in mind the considerations above and the context being offered.

Applicants can develop proposals for Im/plants with the understanding that they need not be present, or resident in Cork for the entire 3-monthly season. This is not a studio-based residency, while a space in the NSF can be made available if necessary. Applicants should suggest how they propose to proceed over the 3-month period and how this can lead to a constructive and productive engagement.

For the full details on applications please visit our website

www.nationalsculpturefactory.com

 

Proposal deadline:

All applications must reach the National Sculpture Factory by 12 Noon, Monday 9th June 2014.

This Programme is part funded by the Cork City Council Project Award

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR SIRIUS ARTS CENTRES RESIDENCY AND EXHIBITION PROGRAMMES 2015/16

Sirius Arts Centre has been developing its Artist in Residency and Exhibition programmes for over a decade. The programmes receive funding from the Arts Council and Cork County Council and are recognised internationally.

The Artist in Residency programme at Sirius is primarily for international artists, though exceptions are made for special projects related to CorkHarbour and East Cork. Residential and some work space is provided to visual artists, individuals or groups.

The Exhibition programme at Sirius is partially developed through the Residency programme, with artists developing exhibitions over a period of time related to their stay in Cobh. Sirius also encourages applications for exhibitions from local and national visual artists.

Due to funding requirements, Sirius’ curatorial panel meet once a year to select residencies and exhibitions for the following year.

 

The deadline for April 2015 - March 2016 Residencies and Exhibition proposals for Sirius Arts Centre is Friday 27 June 2014

Aesthetica Art Prize 2014

Offering both emerging and established artists the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a fantastic opportunity to develop your presence in the international art world. Now in its seventh year the competition is a celebration of visual art, inviting artists to submit imaginative and innovative work in any medium.

Prize includes:

• £1000 Main Prize
• £500 Student Prize
• £250 art supplies voucher
• 12 week group exhibition in York, UK for eight shortlisted artists
• Publication in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, distributed at major galleries across the UK for 100 longlisted artists
• Editorial coverage in Aesthetica Magazine, which has a readership of
  140,000 worldwide

Categories for entry are: Photographic & Digital Art, Three Dimensional Design & Sculpture, Painting & Drawing and Installation & Performance.

Entry is £15. Deadline is 31 August.

For more information visit www.aestheticamagazine.com/artprize

Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal Competition 2014 Now Open for Entries

Deadline: Friday, 26 September 2014, 5.00pm

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Casla, CO GALWAY

The competition for the Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal 2014 is now open to entries.  This year’s competition is for fiddle, and closing date is 26 September.    

The Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal 2013 was won by Kerry concertina player Cormac Begley at the final held in Cork in February.  As well as the medal, he also won a cash prize of €2000.  

The competition, now in its fifth year, was initiated by musician and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta presenter Peadar Ó Riada on his radio programme Cuireadh chun Ceoil because he felt that there was far too much emphasis on technique and ornamentation in traditional music competitions these days.  In this competition judges deem character, spirit and musicality as being equally as important as technical proficiency.

To enter, musicians should record 5 pieces of music and upload them to www.cuireadhchunceoil.ie, or alternatively burn them to CD and send them to Peadar Ó Riada.  Full details are on the website.  Those intending to enter are advised to do so as soon as possible, rather than waiting for the closing date.  

15 musicians will be shortlisted, and they will take part in a concert in February in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork, where the winner will be chosen.

Over the next few months Peadar Ó Riada will play some of the entries to the competition on his weekly traditional music programme Cuireadh chun Ceoil on Raidió na Gaeltachta on Fridays at 7 pm.  Listeners can also register with the website www.cuireadhchunceoil.ie to hear the entries.

 

Competition Announced for Choreographers and Directors of Physical Theatre

"HAMLET" Shakespeare performance production with Russian professional actors at the Russian repertory theatre.

The project is open to participants from different countries.

Participants who successfully finish the programme can receive the Certificate.

Find out more about the programme and application details on:
http://www.stagedirectorslab.org/theatre2014

 

THE PATRICK KAVANAGH POETRY AWARD 2014.

Closing date for entries Friday 25th July 2014

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for a first unpublished collection of poems in English is open to poets, born in the island of Ireland, or of Irish nationality, or long term resident in Ireland. 

The award is now in its 43rd year. Previous winners include Eileán Ni Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, Thomas McCarthy,

Peter Sirr, Sinead Morrissey, Conor O’Callaghan,

Celia de Freine and Joseph Woods.

The winner of this year’s award will receive €1,000.

Closing date for entries is Friday 25th July 2014.

The Award will be presented on the evening of the

Friday 26th September 2014 at the opening of the

Annual Patrick Kavanagh Weekend in Inniskeen.

Rules and entry form from the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen:

Tel. 00353(0)429378560,  Fax 00353(0)429378855

E-mail: infoatpkc@eircom.net www.patrickkavanaghcountry.com

 

 

WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME COMPETITION

Genre: Prose, poetry. (Themed; see website for full details). Word Count: Maximum 2,500 words of prose or 40 lines of poetry. Entry Fee: Free. Prize: 1st prize - £200, 2nd prize - £100, 3rd prize - £50, plus highly commended certificates. Some entries will, subject to the authors' agreement, be used to promote the Dying Matters Coalition and will feature on Dying Matters' website.

Deadline: 30 June. Link here.  

 

Call for Submissions – VerbalArt & Phenemenal Literature

Submissions are invited for two literary journals: VerbalArt & Phenemenal Literature. please visit following links for complete submission guidelines:

1. http://verbalart.in/submit-1.html

2. http://phenomenalliterature.com/submit.html

 

BARD OF ARMAGH FESTIVAL OF HUMOROUS VERSE COMPETITION 2014

Over £3000 in prizes

The poem should be no more than 650 words and should not exceed 9 minutes performance time.

The poem must be the original work of the entrant. It should be humorous verse, suitable for family audiences and radio broadcast.

Each entry should be type written in English. It should have a detachable cover page stating clearly the entrant's name, address, telephone number and the title of the poem.

CD/Tape recorded entries are also encouraged.

There will be an entry fee of £2.00 for each poem.

Entries should be sent to:
Mr John Makem, 34 Fergort Rd, Derrynoose, Co Armagh, N. Ireland.
BT60 3DN

Final closing date for entries is 1st October and competitors will be contacted by mid-October.

Finals will take place in the Armagh City Hotel on Friday 21 November 2014.

Tickets for the event will go on sale early September.

Visit:  www.bardofarmagh.com

 

£5,000 Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2014

Sponsored by Cegin Productions (see our Poems page for 2007-2013 prizewinners & prizewinning poems)

Judged by Amy Wack & Neil Astley with both judges reading all poems

prizes: 1st £5,000, 2nd £1,000, 3rd £500
plus 20 prizes of £25 each 
plus a spring 2015 coffee-house-poetry season-ticket
plus a prize-winners' coffee-house poetry reading
with amy wack & neil astley
on mon 1st dec 2014
…for all prize-winning poets

Submissions, via e-mail or post, by Mon 20th Oct 2014

Rules

General: Entry implies acceptance of all rules; failure to comply with all rules results in disqualification; submissions accepted by post or e-mail from poets of any nationality, from any country, aged over 18 years; no poet may win more than one prize; judges’ decision is final; no correspondence will be entered into.

Poems: Poems must be in English, must each be no longer than 45 lines, must fit on one side of one A4 or US-Letter-size page, must show title & poem only, must not show poet's name or any other identifying marks on submitted poems (whether submitted by post or as e-mail attachment), must be the original work of the entrant (no translations) and must not have been previously broadcast or published (in print or online); prize-winning poems may be published (in print or online) by Troubadour International Poetry Prize, and may not be published elsewhere for one year after Monday 20th October 2014 without permission; no limit on number of poems submitted; no alterations accepted after submission.

Fees: All entries must be accompanied by submission fees of £5/€6/$8 per poem (Sterling/Euro/US-Dollars only); entries only included when payment received via—

• EITHER
• PayPal:  (visit www.coffeehousepoetry.org/prizes/ PayPal account not required, no additional details required, please note your PayPal Receipt No.)
• OR
• Cheque/Money-Order: payable to Coffee-House Poetry

NB: include PayPal name or cheque signatory name in e-mail or postal submission details, only if different from Poet's Name

By Post: No entry form required; two copies required of each poem submitted; please include the following details on a separate page — 
Poet's Name & Address, Phone No, E-Mail Address (if available), List of Titles, No. of Poems, Total Fees, & EITHER PayPal Receipt No. OR cheque/money-order/postal-payment enclosed; no staples; no Special Delivery, Recorded Delivery or Registered Post; entries are not returned.

By E-mail: No entry form required; poems must be e-mailed to coffPoetry@aol.com  as attachments (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf only); please include the following details in your e-mail message — Poet's Name & Address, Phone No, List of Titles, No. of Poems, Total Fees, and EITHER PayPal Receipt No. OR send cheque/money-order/postal-payment by post, no Special Delivery, Recorded Delivery or Registered Post.

Deadline: All postal entries, and any cheque/money-order/postal-payments for e-mail entries, to arrive at Troubadour International Poetry Prize, Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON W4 1ZP postmarked on or before Mon 20th Oct 2014. Prize-winners only will be contacted individually by Mon 24th Nov 2014. Prize-giving will take place on Mon 1st Dec 2014 at Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour in Earls Court, London.

Acknowledgement/Results: E-mail entries acknowledged within 14 days of receipt of both entry & payment; postal entrants may include stamped, addressed postcard or envelope marked Acknowledgement &/or stamped, addressed envelope marked Results; results will be posted on website (& mailed to all postal entrants who included a Results envelope) after announcement of results on Mon 1st Dec 2014; no correspondence will be entered into. 

 

Moth International Short Story Prize

Word count max: 6,000 words. Entry fee: Entry: €9 per story. Prize: 1st prize €3000, 2nd prize €1000, 3rd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France (including €250 towards travel). Winners will read in the Winding Stair book shop, Dublin in September and winning pieces will feature in the autumn issue of The Moth.

Deadline: 30 June. Link here.

 

 

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is delighted to invite artists to submit their work for consideration for this year’s Festival, November 7 - 23 | 2014

TULCA is a multi-venue, artist-centered Festival of Contemporary Visual Arts taking place in Galway city and county since 2002. This critically acclaimed, annual visual art event is the most important of its kind to take place in Ireland each winter and has grown in stature locally and nationally working with Irish curators to present innovative exhibitions that provoke and energise audiences into the world of the Visual Arts. 
TULCA is now accepting submissions from artists to exhibit in 2014. This open-call opportunity is open to Irish and international artists working in any visual art practice and in design (graphic, furniture, textile and domestic scale industrial design), architecture, crafts, web-based work and social media as artform.

Support of artists

Artists will be paid a fee of €350 to produce new work or €150 to present existing work.

There is no submission fee. 

A fully illustrated catalogue with commissioned essays will be published to accompany TULCA Festival of Visual Art 2014.

A comprehensive website will be online for the duration and after the exhibition.

A dynamic programme of education within primary and secondary schools and third level institutions is implemented by the Festival Education Officer Joanna McGlynn. 

The online application process is now open and submissions can be made at any time up until 12.00p.m Thursday 12^th June 2014.

Artists are welcome to propose the presentation of existing works or the production of new work. Work must not have been previously exhibited in Galway. Artists may submit up to 4 existing artworks for consideration and/or 1 proposal for new work yet to be made.

Artists curated through this open call are responsible for the transport/delivery and collection of their work.

A combination of art and non-art venues, including Galway University Hospital, a county library, 126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway Arts Centre, Nuns Island Theatre etc will be used to house parts of the exhibition. Works for these contexts will be selected accordingly. Apart from these partners’ spaces and supports, there will be one principal (non-art) building, which will show the main exhibition this year.
 
To apply, please e-mail the following.
1. A concise artist’s statement * (100/200 words)
2. CV *
3. Examples of previous work (no more than 16 images). * Each image of existing work must include the title, its dimensions, the material/medium, the date and your name. No more than 2 videos can be submitted and are to be sent as links to YouTube, Vimeo etc.
* items 1 – 3 are obligatory
4. (Optional) Where new work is being proposed, please include a clear outline text not to exceed 300 words. For any proposed new work, please include as much detail as possible at this stage, as to its scale and production.  All sketches/ proposals for new work should be emailed as a word document.
 
THERE IS NO SUBMISSION FEE
 
The organisers reserve the right to photograph works and to use elements of accepted entries for exhibition for publicity purposes, unless the artist expressly states the contrary in writing. Copyright of all work is the property of the artist. Work is accepted for exhibition on merit.
 
Proposals accepted by email only
 
Our email address is info@tulcafestival.com
Please put TULCA OPEN SUBMISSION in the subject box

Further information & submission of application
contact: Kate Howard Festival Producer 
Email: info@tulcafestival.com
 
TULCA 2014 Deadline:
Thursday June 12th at 12.00pm 

Selected Artists will be notified via email on:
June 24^th
 
TULCA Festival of Visual Art is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Galway City and County Council.

 

 
BLOOD at Science Gallery | Call For Proposals

Calling all artists, scientists, and designers: hot-blooded, blue-blooded, or just bloody interested in BLOOD.

Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin requests proposals for works to be included in a new exhibition entitled BLOOD. From the subcutaneous to the cultural, BLOOD seeks to investigate to blood across diverse realms of human and post-human endeavour. From cutting edge research in immunology and genetics, to bioart works that use the medium of blood, to mythical stories of vampires, we will explore the materiality of BLOOD through science, medicine, body and bioart, kinship and religious beliefs and its many symbolic and cultural meanings.

We are interested in everything from the internal dynamics of blood cells and their diseases, to themes such as racism, eugenics, bio-politics, popular cultural tropes such as vampires, gender, performance, ritual and religion.

Why do we love vampires but fear needles? Why do we ‘see red’ when our blood ‘boils’? What are the positives and negatives of our fascination with this crimson, coagulating oxygen carrier? Coursing in our veins, blood connects, sustains and fuels life, yet it also harbours disease and infection. It fascinates and it is feared, floating between transcendence and abjection.

We kindly invite you to contribute to this exciting project and let different disciplines bleed into one another. We are out for blood!

IN PARTICULAR WE WELCOME PROPOSALS:

– on blood, i.e. exploring blood via conceptual, polemic and textual inquiry.
– made with/from blood, i.e. exploring blood via artworks employing blood as a medium, such as paintings, performance and body art.
– on blood on film: i.e. exploring representations of blood in film.
made in/of blood, i.e. bio-artistic manipulations of blood at the discrete level.
– exploring the Health/Physiology/Disease of blood – its properties, diseases, circulation. We are especially interested in serology, haematology and pathology; blood count, transfusions, blood types and blood vessels; logistics of storing and donating blood.
– exploring blood as a source of genetic material.
foregrounding the Baroque celebration of blood and the Gothic ominous blood; Baroque rapture and Gothic rupture.
– on bloody hell!, i.e. foregrounding various psychological and psychosomatic effects of blood: catharsis, uncanniness, abjection.
– investigating the tension between blood as a biological substance and a cultural entity.
– investigating the often contradictory cultural meanings of blood.
– on life-blood, i.e. exploring blood as a life-giving substance, marker of individuality, a basic life force, token of the sacred. We are interested in both forensics and religious doctrines on blood.
– on one blood, i.e. exploring blood as the common denominator, token of communal bonds and social solidarity. We seek to explore blood as a ritual, seen through the lens of anthropology and ethnography. Last but not least, we would like to draw attention to the altruistic premise behind blood banks and blood donations.
– on bad blood, mixed blood, blue blood, i.e. exploring blood as a token of difference, boundary, otherness – associated with gender, race, religion, nationalism and social class. We welcome proposals which foreground blood-based nationalism as a source of conflict and displacement. We would also like to hear proposals exploring the prejudice behind blood libel accusations in Eastern Europe.
– investigating the bio-political aspect of blood as an exploitable commodity embodying social and political tensions whereby the very integrity of the human body is at stake and subject to state power. We are interested in submissions harnessing the captivating power of pop cultural tropes such as vampires.
on future blood, i.e. looking towards the future of the human body; investigating the role of blood in new posthuman landscapes of the future; producing self-mutating assemblages of the organic, the inanimate and the technological.
– on non-human blood e.g vertebrates vs invertebrates, unusual blood such as horseshoe crabs

CURATORIAL TEAM

– Jens Hauser – Art curator, writer and video maker
– Professor Luke O Neill – was appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin in 2008, where he leads the Inflammation Research Group. He is also Academic Director of the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute.
– Professor Shaun McCann – Professor of Academic Medicine, School Of Medicine, TCD
– Professor Clemens Ruthner – Professor of Germanic Studies, TCD Co-ordinator of European Studies Option: Cultures of Memory and Identity in Central Europe
– Lynn Scarff – Director, Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin

DATES

October 23rd, 9am-12pm: Media preview
October 23rd, 6-8pm: Launch party/ member and supporter preview
October 24th: Exhibition opens to the public
January 25th: Exhibition finishes

BUDGET

We are looking for up to 30 works for the BLOOD exhibition. Two outstanding projects may be funded up to the amount of €10000 and the others may be funded up to the amount of €4000. Please note that these are maximum amounts, not targets. We are happy to write letters of support for applicants seeking funding from elsewhere.

www.opencall.sciencegallery.com

 

CologneOFF X 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival | Call for Entries

Extended deadline: 30 June 2014

Founded in 2006, Cologne International Videoart Festival is celebrating in 2014 its 10th festival edition, standing unter the topic of “TOTAL ART”
(“Gesamtkunstwerk”) CologneOFF X is showing video as a multi-facetted artistic audio-visual medium to be executed solely by its creator or a group of creators, including filming, cutting, editing, composing, post-producing etc, thus the whole creation in one single hand. The digitalization of video made it only possible, that artists can create such a total art work,due to the affordability of the entire production. It is not even necessary to have the most advanced professional equipment for creating excellent art works.

The call is encouraging submitting artists to use all their creativity to do steps forward in exploring the artistic potential of video.

CologneOFF X is:
- looking for art works using video as a medium in all its variety, but for submitting only single channel videos are eligible, a hybrid type of workwhich can be used for different presentation forms like screening, projection and installation.
- expecting new and experimental artistic approaches in transforming essential issues of human existence into the language of the “movingimages”.
- inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 videos (max duration 10 minutes, exceptions possible)) in following categories –> (experimental forms of) film – videoart – documentary, whereby animated and very short (60 seconds) forms are particularly encouraged

More info, the regulations and entry form can be found on: www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=5219

 

DUKE STREET GALLERY | CALL FOR IRISH PAINTERS

Irish painters are invited to submit works for exhibition in Duke Street Gallery, Dublin 2.

Each submission must include a current C.V and 5-10 images, or a link to the artist’s website.

Duke Street Gallery specializes in the work of Irish art on an international scale, and selected artists will benefit from having their work presented to this vast audience.

Email your submission to: art@dukestreetgallery.ie

www.dukestreetgallery.ie

 

Exhibit at Leixlip Library Gallery Space

Exhibit your work at Leixlip Library gallery space! Come and visit us Leixlip Library, Captains Hill Leixlip Co. Kildare, ring 01 6060050 or email jbranigan@kildarecoco.ie

 

The Lime Tree Theatre/Limerick City and Council: Programme Funding – Call for Interest

The Lime Tree Theatre has been awarded funding from the Arts Council of €100,000 for the year April 1st 2014 to March 31st 2015. The award is for the programming of the performing and visual arts in Limerick city venues to support the making of work by local practitioners and towards developing a strategic approach to programming of venues. The funding is a continued partnership between the venue and LimerickCity and County Council to ensure a professional arts programme is presented in the city.

This will be, in effect, the continuation of the interim Limerick Arts Encounter, whereby a sum of €120,000 was spent on programming in the city over a period of six months from October 2013 to March 2014. The new amount represents a cut in funding to the city, but the Lime Tree and LimerickCity and County Council will endeavour to continue to present as full and high quality a programme as possible, augmented by the provision of new office facilities in 69 O’Connell Street.

As before, some of the work presented will be by touring companies in both the Lime Tree Theatre and the former Belltable, and some will be by Limerick based practitioners in the Lime Tree, the former Belltable or other venues in the city as preferred.

If you wish to be included in the programme, please fill out the Expression of Interest form and return to Louise Donlon at the Lime Tree Theatre or Sheila Deegan at LimerickCity and County Council with details of your proposal which should include:

• Title of event
• Discipline (music, theatre, film etc)
• Preferred performance period – i.e summer/autumn 2014/Jan-March 2015
• Funding required

Please bear in mind that there will be significant demand on relatively limited funds, so competition will be extremely high. Programming will be chosen based on Arts Council criteria – high quality work undertaken by full time, professional artists.

Expression of Interest Form - Expression_of_interest_Programming_funding

Expressions of interest should be made to Louise Donlon at the Lime Tree Theatre, MaryImmaculateCollege, Limerick.
Email: louise@limetreetheatre.ie. There is no specific deadline, but please bear in mind that once the limited funding available is allocated, there will be no further funds available.

 

 

kinsale arts festival announces launch of now wakes the sea 2014

OPEN SUBMISSION EXHIBITION AND AWARD

Supporting outstanding emerging talent in the visual arts

Now in its fifth year, Now Wakes the Sea promotes the work and profile of outstanding emerging visual artists in Ireland and wider Europe to an international audience. Hosted annually as part of Kinsale Arts Festival, submission is open to all artists who have not yet had a major solo show, with an overall winner exhibiting in the 2015 festival.

Now Wakes the Sea will be once again selected by a distinguished independent panel drawn from Ireland and the UK, comprising guest curator Tessa Fitzjohn (UK), Helen Carey (Director/ Curator at Limerick City Gallery of Art), Kathy Prendergast (Artist IRE), Ingrid Swenson (Director, Peer, London) and Trish Brennan (CIT College of Art and Design). Selected artists will exhibit as part of Kinsale Arts Festival from 19-28 September. The winner of the Now Wakes Award will be offered a solo show at the prestigious CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery in CorkCity for 2015, with promotional support provided by both organisations.

Festival Director Marie McPartlin said: “Kinsale Arts Festival is proud to reconfirm its commitment to supporting emerging visual arts practice in Ireland and beyond. Last year’s panel were overwhelmed by the quality of submissions for Now Wakes the Sea, with selected work seen by over 4000 people over the course of the festival. We’re delighted to have such a distinguished panel selecting this year, and look forward to hosting another exhibition of outstanding contemporary work”.

Key Dates

Submissions will be accepted between 30 March and 13 June 2014

Artist’s notification                                    27 June

Delivery of work                                        15-17 September

Exhibition preview                                     19 September

Exhibition                                                    19-28 September 

Collection of work                                      29 - 31 September

Now Wakes The Sea 2013 award winner Doireann Ni Ghroighair’s first solo show will be open at the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery during the festival.

For further information, guidelines and application form please visit http://kinsaleartsfestival.com/now-wakes-the-sea/   

 

Luan Gallery

Athlone’s Luan Gallery opened its doors to the public on 30th November 2012 following its official opening by Mr Jimmy Deenihan, T.D. Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.  Luan Gallery is a purpose built modern facility incorporating the sympathetically restored Fr Mathew Hall.  The new site juxtaposes the late 19 century build with a modern glass section extending over a boardwalk area. The Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of acclaimed Irish and International artists from the IrishMuseum of Modern Art’s (IMMA) permanent collection. Entry to the exhibition is free.

Luan Gallery caters primarily but not exclusively for the visual arts, with an emphasis on meeting local audiences’ needs in terms of art exhibitions and engagement.  It targets both national and international projects ensuring a varied and engaging arts programme is delivered to the people of Athlone.

Luan Gallery aims to champion innovative, challenging and engaging arts practice.  The space is dedicated to progressing, strengthening and inspiring audiences’ engagement, perception and appreciation of traditional and modern approaches to the arts.  The exhibition and education programmes reflect this commitment. 

As an institution dedicated to nurturing the engagement with and understanding of visual art, Luan Gallery operates on a broad spectrum seeking to achieve its objectives through the provision of high quality collections, exhibitions, programmes and services. 

This facility represents a progressive and sustainable measure for the development of the arts in the region and aims to make positive contributions to the living culture of Athlone and beyond. 

Luan Gallery and the intrinsically linked Abbey Road Artists’ Studios work closely together, particularly in regard to educational initiatives and in the areas of access and inclusion.

The gallery is now taking open submissions from professional artists and curators as well as the amateur arts community. Full details are available on the website.

Gallery Opening Times:
Tuesday—Saturday 11—5pm
Sunday 12 noon—5pm

Contact: www.athloneartandheritage.ie / T: 09064 42154.
Luan Gallery, Grace Road, Athlone, Co. Westmeath

 

Bainnlann Chúil na nGabhar Art Gallery | Open Call

Bainnlann Chúil na nGabhar Art Gallery, 66 O’Connell Street, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

Submissions need to include: A concise, clearly written artist statement, CV and a proposal. Gallery does accept group applications.

Address submissions to: Open Submissions, Bainnlann Chúil na nGabhar Art Gallery, 66 O’Connell Street, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bainnlann-Chuil-na-nGabhar-Art-Gallery/127095944039322?ref=tn_tnmn

 

Exhibiting at Turn-berlin
Turn-berlin is an artist funded space, with a large gallery in the middle of the biggest concentration of art in Europe. We are working to find the most effective ways of progressing an artists name and reputation. By introducing a more integrated approach we can be more effective and develop wider opportunities.
The intense experience of showing work in a gallery is the best way to have work seen. To get the most from  exhibiting which can be a relatively short event, to include it as part of a comprehensive package gives more considered exposure. Developing a name is the only way forward, it takes time and a lot of determination. This is why many artists are finding new ways of being seen. If you don’t exhibit you are only doing half of the job, but taking a positive approach to exhibiting should include other forms.
We are now big enough to be a representational gallery offering a full promotional package. More information on turn-berlin’s long term approach to developing artists is on the following link: http://turn-berlin.de/application/index.html
Address: turn-berlin Gallery, Josetti Höfe, Rungestr 22-24, 10179 Berlin, Germany.
Deadline: Open.

 

Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre: Call for Submissions

The Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre is a multi-purpose arts centre featuring exhibition galleries, community workshop rooms, 215 seater theatre, dance studio, storytelling/ presentation area and outdoor town square for external events and performances. We are currently seeking visual artists to contribute to our gallery programme which will include local, national and international artists. Artists working in any media are welcome, as are both emerging and established artists. Interested artists should submit a current CV, statement and a minimum of 8 images of recent work. Please also indicate interest and capacity to participate in accompanying gallery education and community activities if applicable. Requested items should preferably be emailed to or posted to:

Email: desima.connolly@limavady.gov.uk

Address: Limavady Borough Council, 7 Connell Street, LimavadyBT49 0HA (marked for the attention of the Arts & Cultural Services Officer)

Website: www.limavady.gov.uk

Deadline: Ongoing

 

New summer residency programme at GMIT's Centre for Creative Arts and Media

The residency begins on June 16th 2014, and runs for 2 months.

The Deadline for applications is May 18th 2014. Please Email all applications to ccam@gmit.ie

The program aims to provide opportunities for artists to research and develop their practice in the privacy of their own studio and with access to GMIT’s Library and Macintosh editing facilities.The residency will be of most benefit to artists seeking space and quiet time to focus on their artistic development. The residency aims to support both emerging and established artists. It will be of interest to arts professionals who plan on taking a summer break from academic duties and who wish to explore and research from the West of Ireland.

Selected artists will have the opportunity to develop an informal exchange of ideas and influences and to share expertise. Artists may see possibilities for future independent creative collaborations nationally, regionally and within the City of Galway and they are encouraged to pursue possibilities for dialogues and exchanges with art organisations, which may arise the course of the summer.

Applications are open to both Irish and international practitioners working in any medium. The resident artists will be selected through competitive process. Artist must be capable of working on their own. Following an initial induction Residency recipients will be free to work in their new CCAM studio space. Applicants will be expected cover costs relating to travel and accommodation and materials. Artist will be expected to sign a agreement of usage and to abide by the Institute Policies with regard to health and safety.

For further information contact

GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Monivea Road, Galway

E-mail: ccam@gmit.ie

Tel: +353 91 770661

Fax: +353 91 770740

 

 

Banff Artist in Residence (BAIR) Programs
Banff Artist in Residence programs offer independent periods of study where artists, curators, and other arts professionals are free to experiment and explore. Participants are provided with an individual studio accessible 24 hours a day, as well as use of Visual Arts facilities including printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. BAIR offers short and long-term opportunities to work at a remove from the constraints of everyday life. For more information and to apply: Office of the Registrar | Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca | www.banffcentre.ca/va

 

Artists Residencies

The Gyreum in tandem with Foras na Gaeilge is offering Arts Residencies to speakers of Irish or those working through Irish or bilingually.  The Gyreum is a round wooden  hilltop "arts fortress," "acoustic perfect" with easy access to inspiration.  
This suits sculptors, painters, ceramicists, composers, song writers, choreographers, calligraphers, dramatists + actors, puppeteers, poets, prose writers, film directors, editors, academics and architects.  There are two well lit spaces for painting etc.  There are five rooms that can be used as single/ double or triple usage.  As a workshop accommodation space we can roof 25 people.
Cost of Arts Residency is €30 per day with all meals covered, €150 per five day week.
A team of two or more or couple who can share a room would be €25 per day each. €125 per week.

Colum Stapleton
Gyreum, Corlisheen, Riverstown, Co Sligo
+353 71 9165994
www.gyreum.com
087 3280 789

 

The Schoolhouse - Artist Retreat and Studio, Kiltimagh

IRD Kiltimagh Ltd. is taking applications from artists who wish to undertake a period of retreat, work on a commission or prepare for an exhibition, in our modern tastefully refurbished Schoolhouse Artists Retreat and Studio. The facility is let on a self catering basis and applications for tenancy are welcomed from all disciplines particularly visual and literary Artists.  Applications for Tenancy should be by way of Covering Letter and CV. The Covering Letter should specify in detail, when and how you propose to use the studio, emphasising work being undertaken on a commission, preparing for an exhibition or other works. Each Application will be assessed on its merit by a selection committee.

Further details on the building and the residencies, are available from the IRD Kiltimagh Ltd. website, www.ird-kiltimagh.ie by following the links on the front page and also by visiting the IRD Kiltimagh Ltd. Facebook page.  A full album of photographs is available and the brochure for this facility can also be downloaded.

 

New service for VAI Members - International Studio Exchange with fellow artists around the world

We are pleased to announce a new service available to paid members of Visual Artists Ireland.  In partnership with Artquest, VAI has negotiated places for members on their Artelier international studio exchange.  Artelier is for professional visual artists to arrange free studio exchanges with their peers anywhere in the world.

Membership of Artelier is by 'invitation only' to ensure it is only used by professional visual artists and is safe for members. Members can request an invitation by contacting us through our Artelier webpages.

This is a great opportunity to meet fellow artists around the world and potentially find artists with studios looking to exchange with the city you live in.  You can also find and arrange free accommodation or a studio on holiday or when working overseas, or indeed, find someone to look after your studio or apartment while you are away.

Artelier keeps your exact location and personal contact information private until you choose to let individual artists know where you are.

For more information see: http://visualartists.ie/resources/studio-exchange-programme

 

Raggle Taggle Consortium Limerick | OPEN CALL for Residency
Email: raggletaggleconsortium@gmail.com 

Three month placements directed to graduates who wish to continue their practice after Degree Show.  Contact email for further details and application for Work plan.