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ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE
ÁISLEANN BHÉAL AN MHUIRTHEAD, BELMULLET,
T: 097 81079
Féile na bPáistí 2011
Wednesday, 27th April - Building Bears
Bear Essentials was founded by Anke Morgenroth 11 years ago in Co. Cavan, where she also runs a Teddy Bear Hospital. This is an unique, unusual and personal activity which was voted Best Family Outing on mykidstime.ie
11.00 am to 12.30 pm or 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm
1 child €10 each, 2 children €8 each, 3 children €5 each
Wednesday, 27th April Making Music
Mary Curran from The Whistleblast Quartet will, together with the children, compose rhythms, raps, songs & tunes – providing an educating and fun time for all!
3.30 pm to 5.30 pm. €5 per child
Thursday, 28th April - Art Attack
Cyril Ó Flatharta is well known amongst primary school children in Erris – he has facilitated very successful art workshops here in the past. This event includes a walking tour of Belmullet town, which will provide the children with the inspiration to create their own unique mural at Áras Inis Gluaire.
10.00 am to 3.00 pm
1 child €15 each, 2 children €12 each, 3 children €10 each
Friday, 29th April - Creative Ceramics
Decorating ceramics workshop with Lisa Fahy, from the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life.
11.30 am to 12.30pm or 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm or 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm
€5 each
Friday, 29th April - The Three Little Pigs Puppet Show
Punch & Judy style puppet show with Kidzpuppets’ Carmel Balfe from Kilkelly, who made puppets, masks & costumes for TV, theatre & film in New York for 4 years. This is a sweet, simple & easy-to-follow show – a joy for children and adults alike!
4.00 pm to 5.00 pm €5 each
ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE
ÁISLEANN BHÉAL AN MHUIRTHEAD, BELMULLET,
T: 097 81079
Cineclub na Cásca, Holy Thursday 21st April 2011
11.00 am – 12.00pm Ealaín/Art
12.00pm – 12.30pm Tráth na gCeist/ Quiz
12.30pm – 1.00pm Lón/ Lunch
1.00pm – 2.20pm Scannán/Film
2.20pm – 3.00pm Comhrá/Chat
Dublin City Council Launches Public Art Programme
Dublin City Council will launch its first Public Art Programme on 12 April 2011 at City Hall.
The Dublin City Public Art Programme offers opportunities for artists to engage with the city in new and exciting ways including music, theatre, literature, film, dance and visual art. Speaking in advance of the launch, Dublin City Council Public Art Manager Ruairí Ó Cuív believes that the programme offers artists “opportunities to respond to the city in ways that are reflective of the current breadth of artistic practice” while also enabling the general public “opportunities to relate to and engage with the programme”.
The Public Art Programme incorporates commissions undertaken with funding from the Per Cent for Art Scheme from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government as well as funding from Dublin City Council capital developments. It also includes commissions undertaken in partnership with public bodies, communities and private organisations.
Detailed information and briefs for the Public Art Programme will be available online from 13 April at: www.dublincitypublicart.ie .
For further information and for images please contact; Ruairí Ó Cuív, Public Art Manager, Dublin City Council, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1.E: ruairi.ocuiv@dublincity.ieT: 01 222 8589
Internship opportunities at Cake Contemporary Arts
Cake Contemporary Arts is seeking applications for a number of upcoming internships. This will provide experience in the following fields; administration, including clerical and accounting, marketing, promotions and public relations, artist liaising and technical support and exhibition and programme management. Cake is dedicated to providing a platform and open forum for contemporary artists. It supports professional artists practicing in the area of Visual Arts, Film, Live Art, New Media Art and Literature through a variety of initiatives, including a year round exhibition programme, peer critique sessions and studio residencies.
Cake is situated in what is referred to locally as the Old Band Hall or the Presbyterian Soldiers’ Institute. It is centrally located in the Curragh Camp, Kildare, opposite the Post Office. Own transport is required. All internships are unpaid posts.T: 086 390 5216 E: hello@cakecontemporaryarts.com W; www.cakecontemporaryarts.com
Call for Submissions: Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahealy
The Courthouse Arts Centre’s programme consists of year-round visual arts exhibitions. Our visual arts and performance activities co-exist in the same space, we host wall-hung pieces between September and May each year, and during the summer months of June through August we suspend live shows to accommodate larger installations, multimedia, sculpture and other three-dimensional works in the main space. We host ten visual exhibitions per year.Artists are selected through an open submissions process, with applications due to arrive [attention: Artistic Director] by 31 May each year, for one of ten slots in the following calendar year.Submissions should include: - Biography - C.V. - A short proposal on the project presented - Examples of the artists work – preferably on cd-rom (images should be no smaller than 100 ppi)
For further information contact: Deryn O’ Callaghan (Artistic Director) / Irene Farrell (Visual Arts Co-ordinator) T: +353 (0)402 38529 E: director@tinahely-courthouse.ie / visual@tinahely-courthouse.ie W; www.tinahely-courthouse.ie
Call for Submissions: Kaunas Textile Biennial Satellite Exhibition
Venue: Kaunas “Žalgiris” arenaPeriod: 15 September – 4 December 2011 (official opening will be held during Biennial openings’ week)
Organiser: Textile Artists’ Guild, gallery “BALTA”, director: Jolanta Šmidtienė: www.tdg.lt .
Dissemination: through all channels of biennial promotion, pages in common biennial catalogue and separate DVD catalogue.
Lab: During exhibition period several workshops will be held for local community people.
The biennial partner – The Textile Artists’ Guild – is announcing the call for participation at the project Experiments with Light: Art Lab. The brand new Kaunas arena’ media centre will become the place for international exhibition which exhibits will be installed in the darkness and lightened by black light bulbs which spotlight luminescent details of the art pieces and thus enrich the aesthetic experiences of the visitors by mystical effects and unexpected approaches. Since 2006 several editions of Black Light exhibition, organised by the Textile Artists’ Guild, were held in Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, and all of them became known as most visited exhibitions of the venues.
Conditions for participation: Proposed artworks (wall or space pieces, objects, etc) should be made using luminescent treads, materials or dyes, which reflect the black lighting.
Please send the proposals to Textile Artists’ Guild team by 1 July 2011 by e-mail to gallerybalta@gmail.com .
The organizer will provide equipment and technical help installing and through exhibition, will work on exhibition promotion in Lithuanian and European media, will produce DVD catalogue (each participants will be provided by 1 copy) and will ensure the security during exhibition period.
Participants will take care on transportation of the pieces both sides.
The results of the jury will be announced on 15 July 2011 (answer will be sent to you by e-mail). The selected artworks will have to be sent to the Textile Guild office by 15 August 2011. www.biennial.lt
Thematic Residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada
18 The Soiree Retreat – A bit of a Chekhovian situation with Ragnar Kjartansson, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Davíð Þór Jónsson
Program dates: 12 September – 28 October 2011
Application deadline: 25 April 2011
The truly essential artists’ needs are tranquility and camaraderie. In the crisp Canadian autumn, three Icelandic artists who have been working with performance art, cinema, and music throughout their career (together and apart) will seek to inspire fellow artists with a situational, performative residency.
The Soiree Retreat residency is aimed at artists working with performance, video, music, painting, poetry…ahhh who cares?
It will be a retreat in the mountains for crazy work and constant intellectual stimulation.
19 Adam Chodzko: Something in the Water. A Search for the Turn of the Backwash
Program dates: 14 November – 9 December 2011
Application deadline: 15 July 2011
It’s a collaboration. Each participant contributing equally. Field trips, hikes, meetings with “real” people, collaborative video projects, individual quests, a lot of “show and tell,” too much late night Googling, and lots of misunderstandings will steer us through this residency.
Banff Artist in Residence (BAIR) Programs
Ongoing opportunities
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 E: arts_info@banffcentre.ca T: +1 403 762 6180 or 1.800.565.9989 www.banffcentre.ca/va
Open Call for ARTErra Artistic Residence, Portugal
ARTErra is a hosting place for artistic creation projects. Here you find a inspirer and quiet place, with a comfortable house, work places suitable for distinct artistic disciplines and a personalized attendance for each project.
If you are seeking a place to develop your artistic project, please contact us. We are accepting proposals for applications until September 2011.
Deadline: 15 May 2011
The application process is quite simple, if you send the following information:
- Brief description of the project to be undertaken at ARTERRA (including title (if applicable), objectives, needs and expectations for the residence, work methodologies and availability to informal presentations);
- Curriculum Vitae and portfolio;
- Ideal dates and residence time duration;
- Logistic needs (number of bedrooms, number of residents, food, etc)
- Technical requirements (need for tools and/or technical material/equipment, resources, etc)
www.arterra.weebly.com / arterra-residencias.blogspot.com E: arterra.geral@gmail.com
Minister Deenihan Advertises for Board Members
The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan T.D., has today (15 April 2011) published an advertisement on the Department’s website seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced persons for appointment as Chairperson of the National Concert Hall and new Board members for the National Concert Hall, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), the Arts Council, the Heritage Council and the Irish Architectural Archive.
The advertisement can be seen on the website of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht www.tcs.gov.ie .
All appointments will be made in accordance with the legislation governing appointments to each body.
In submitting expressions of interest, a person should state the Board(‘s) that they wish to be considered for appointment, their area of expertise, relevant experience and qualifications, and also set out clearly any actual or potential conflicts of interest were they to be appointed to a Board. The Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies www.finance.gov.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/Guidelines/codepractstatebod09.pdf includes a description of the role and responsibilities of Directors.
The Minister may appoint persons from outside the expressions of interest received in response to this advertisement.Expressions of interest should be sent by email to tadhgoshea@tcs.gov.ie or in writing to: Tadhg O’Shea, Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, New Road, Killarney, County Kerry to be received no later than 5pm, Friday 13 May 2011.
Allotrope Issue 02: Call for Submissions
This is an open call for textual and/or visual submissions to the publication Allotrope (ISSN 2046 – 2859)issue 02: theme: L I S T SSubmissions can be text or image based – up to 500 words and at least 1MB for Jpegs.
Deadline for submissions is 13 May 2011 – submissions to be sent to allotropepress@gmail.com. Second issue to be launched in conjunction with the UU Festival of Art & Design, 4 – 19 June 2011 (limited numbered editions).T: 0044 7503771015E: allotropepress@gmail.com Deadline: 13 May 2011
The Fold: The Future - Open CallThe Future – Open Call
Submissions are sought from final year and postgraduate art students for the next issue of The Fold; which will explore the theme of ‘The Future’. Submissions can be visual documentation of artworks, written responses, drawings, photography or digital images. Successful submissions will be included in the next edition of The Fold alongside invited artists work. The Fold is an occasional publication that gathers artists together on the ‘space of the page’ to consider a particular issue of theme. The publication will be circulated this autumn as part of an exhibition / event that will take place in Dun Laoghaire.Further information on theme and previous Folds at: www.foldeditions.blogspot.com
Submission Guidelines: Submissions should be sent on CD (images should be no smaller than 5-6mb in file size or larger and saved as 300 dpi CMYK files).
Written submissions should be up to 500 words max and saved as Microsoft word files
A hard copy of each entry (eg. thumbnails of images, prints out of text) with captions, artist names and contact details) needs to be included with entry.
Entries should include name email address and telephone number.
Closing date for submissions: Thursday 30 June 2011Send submissions to: The Fold, C/O The Blackchurch Studio Temple Bar Dublin 2
Call for Submission of Interest: PLATFORM 2011
This is will be an exciting new talent showcase which provides an opportunity for anyone who makes clothes, hats, jewellery and fashion accessories (or anyone who is involved in set design, sound and lighting) and would like to be involved in an exciting talent showcase (catwalk) in the Black Box on 7 July 2011.
Email up to 5 images (please don’t make the file size too big) and a statement about you / your work to: platform2011@hotmail.co.uk .You may submit production pieces, limited edition pieces or one-off pieces.
Black Box, 18 – 22 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LA
Date: Thursday 7 July 2011
Deadline for Submission of Interest: Friday 20 May 2011
Call for Site-Specific Submissions - Outside: insight
‘Outside: insight’ is an open call site-specific exhibition currently looking for submissions. In co-orperation with Galway Arts Centre, the show will take place at Bridget’s Garden, Roscahill, Co. Galway from 10 July – 4 September 2011.Bridget’s Garden is not-for-profit project with 11 acres of contemporary gardens. The exhibition calls for high-quality artwork which responds to the natural and architectural landscape of the site, descriptions and photographs can be viewed at www.brigitsgarden.ie and artists are welcome to visit the site by arrangement to identify possible spaces. Sculptural works will accepted in a range of material and forms, lens-based media work will be accepted on review of suitable indoor space.Two awards of E200 each will be presented to the artists whose work most fully engages with the brief, these are the Adjudicator’s Award, selected by 2011 adjudicator Annette Maloney and the Visitor’s award, selected by members of the public.Submissions to include cv, artists statement and proposal to:Outside: Insight, Jenny Beale and Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick St, Galway or by email to maeve@galwayartscentre.ie with subject heading Ouside: Insight. Submissions to arrive no later than 5pm, Monday 23 May 2011.Please include SAE with hard copy entries if you wish for them to be returned. Selected artists will be notified within two weeks of closing date.For full brief details and further information please contactJenny Beale at Brigit’s Garden jenny@brigitsgarden.ie or Alicia Lydon at Galway Arts Centre alicialydon@gmail.com .
Call for Proposals: Dublin City Public Art Programme
The Dublin City Public Art Programme was launched on 12 April 2011.
The Programme offers opportunities for artists to engage with the city, making new work that responds to the context of Dublin as the capital of Ireland, international city, and a city of communities and localities.The intention is to offer opportunities across many art forms, such as architecture, dance, film, literature, music, opera, theatre, verbal arts, and visual art; including all aspects of contemporary arts practice such as performance, live art, multimedia, video art, sound art, etc.
Proposals are sought for Strand 2 – Interaction with the City.
Strand 2 intends to create connections and collaborations between different areas of Dublin City Council’s work as well as interconnections between art, city and the public. The emphasis is on making new work and proposals are invited from artists, curators, creative producers and artistic directors.
A briefing day is taking place on Tuesday 3 May 2011 at 1pm @ The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1. Places are limited so booking is essential. The closing date for proposals is 27 June 2011, 4pm.For further information and the brief for Strand 2 see: www.dublincitypublicart.ie and for an interview with Ruairí Ó Cuív, Dublin City Council Public Art Manager about the public art programme see www.publicart.ie .
Art Writing & Criticism Residency, Wicklow
Wicklow County Council is seeking a small number of artists/writers and individuals from other backgrounds who are interested in art and art writing. A series of art writing workshops are being developed by James Merrigan which will run concurrently with the Visual Arts Programme at the Mermaid Arts Centre alongside a series of seminars, screenings and conversations. This programme is likely to involve a number of group sessions in Wicklow over a period of six months commencing on 12 May at 5pm at the Mermaid Arts Centre. At that initial meeting, times and dates for the continuation of the group will be determined in consultation with participants. Please note that this initiative is free and has been developed by Wicklow County Council Arts Office, supported by the Arts Council, Mermaid Arts Centre and Cliodhna Shaffrey.The workshops will be conducted in a round table fashion, involving the group in screenings and conversations with artists, writers and curators as part of Mermaid’s Visual Art Programme and proposed curated events.
Interested participants should send the following: Short statement on areas of interest and why you would like to participate in the above (max 250 words)CV or short biography
For further information in relation to the opportunity please email jamesmerrigan@hotmail.com .
Information should be returned to:Jenny Sherwin, Arts Officer, Arts Office, Wicklow County Council, Wicklow Town, County Wicklow.
Latest date for submission: Tuesday 3 May 2011, 5pm
Please note that this opportunity commences 12 May 2011 as indicated above.
Open House Festival, Internship
Deadline: 2 May 2011
Three month voluntary internship opportunity offered to efficient, organised, proactive person who would like hands-on experience of festival and event management.
Title: Festival Assistant Voluntary unpaid Internship - 3 Months
Hours: 5 days (35 hours per week)
Start Date: Commencing early May
Responsible to: Assistant Festival Manager
Location of role: Open House Festival, Oh Yeah Music Centre, 15-21 Gordon Street, Belfast, BT1 2LG
Applicants must be available for key festival dates including: 22nd - 26th June 2011
Now in its 13th year, Open House Festival is a not for profit music festival which takes place in the Cathedral Quarter, Belfast each year. The festival also includes the fiery food and music phenomenon, ChilliFest. Almost 20,000 people attended Open House Festival events in 2010. The Festival is organised and managed by a small team of staff who are passionate about the development of the event; the successful intern will be expected to work well as part of this team.
Application details from:
Louise McElvanna
Coors Light Open House Festival
T: 07738 090064
E: louise@openhousefestival.com
W: www.openhousefestival.com
Deadline: 4 May 2011
Culture Night Belfast invites applications for a fixed-term six-month contract for event management services, working as part of a team, to deliver Culture Night Belfast on the 23rd of September 2011. The fee for 6 months is £12,000. Services are to be provided on a free-lance basis.
The Culture Night Manager will be based in
Download the Scope of Work and Application Form from www.culturenightbelfast.com or contact Patricia Freedman at p.freedman@belfastcentre.com
Call for Evaluator DANCE RESIDENCY 2008 - 2011
South Dublin Co Arts Office
Deadline: 21 April
Category: Tender
Email: vdurrer@sdublincoco.ie
South
three year residency from 2008 to 2011. This residency followed a model for contemporary dance development created by the Arts Offices and Sports Partnerships of Westmeath and Roscommon.
South Dublin County Council is seeking a suitable professional to undertake an evaluation of the Dancer in
Residence programme. The evaluation will follow the process outlined in the original application and refer to
current dance practice in
during May/June 2011 and the report will be delivered to South Dublin County Council by July 15th, with a progress report on June 1st. Please send a current CV highlighting any previous evaluation and/or research experience and contact details for two references to email only at vdurrer@sdublincoco.ie
Interviews will be scheduled for May 3rd, you must be available for this date.
FEE: €2,500
The University of Westminster
Writer-in-Residence in the University Archive
Deadline: 9 May
Category: Call
Website: http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2011/04
Email: A.Caink@westminster.ac.uk
The award seeks to: Develop research activity in relation to Creative Writing and the Westminster Archive; Develop student interest and involvement with the archive; and Publicise the Westminster Archive and its holdings.
For one academic year starting September 2011
Applications may be sent in hard copy to Dr. Andrew Caink, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies,
Testing Grounds
Deadline: 22 April:
Website: www.nightingaletheatre.co.uk
Email: info@testinggrounds.org.uk
Testing Grounds is inviting artists to apply to their next event at the Nightingale,