Nuacht & Deiseanna Eile | Other News & Opportunities - Workshops/Masterclasses/Training Courses
Core Theatre College (Galway) Audition dates released.
After two succesful years we are opening our doors again to students that are serious about theatre training. Our popular Autumn course will start on the 18th of September to the 2nd of December 2012. The Autumn course offers in depth professional training; we teach voice, movement for theatre, acting technique, theatre history and includes masterclasses in stage combat, improv, mask and audition techniques. Mikel Murfi (Abbey Theatre), Tim Smith (Druid Theatre), Miquel Barcelo (The Gombeens), Liam Halligan (Storytellers Theatre), Tara Breathnach (TG4) and others have given masterclasses.
This year our auditions for the Autumn course are the 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th of June 2012. To apply please email coretheatrecollege@gmail.com for an application form.
For more information please go to www.coretheatrecollege.com
ALâ ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’
ALâ ( Adult Community Theatre, Arts and Education )
Ballybane, Galway City, Ireland
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Jim Aherne - Project Director
Web site ala-ct.ie
EMail: alagalway@gmail.com
ALâ have been running ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ Facilitation Skills Training courses over the past four years in conjunction with the Cty of Galway V.E.C. and NUI Galway Societies. All of these courses have been facilitated by the best available facilitators/Jokers including Mary Duffin, Mags McMonagle, Janna Lindstrom, Annette Tierney, Andrew Jackson, Julian Boal, Gavin Crichton, Sarah O’Toole. Through these courses we provide participants with a means of learning to use drama as an effective community engagement and social justice tool. To this end these courses offer both theoretical exploration and practical immersion in Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, with a particular focus on Image and Forum Theatre and in the context of community organizing.
ALâ. are presently planning the following Training Opportunities
Rainbow of Desire 3 Weekends GalwaySept Oct. & Nov
Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed 3 WeekendsCorkSept Oct. & Nov
Advanced Jokering Skills Training 3 WeekendsGalwayJan, Feb, March 2013
ALâ, founded in 2004 is a personal social and community development organization, catering for adults of all nationalities and ethnic groups, which uses theatre and education as developmental tools. Workshops are run on a weekly basis September to June each year. It is a not for profit organization, run by participants, with Charitable Status.
LET'S GET SINGING! A TOOLKIT FOR GROUP SINGING AND CHORAL PRACTICE
The Association of Irish Choirs & Music Generation, in association with the IrishWorldAcademyof Music & Dance, presents, Let's Get Singing! A toolkit for group singing & choral practice at the Universityof Limerickon 23rd & 24th July 2012.
Led by Choral Music Education Practitioner Anne Barry along with a specialist faculty, this practical two-day course is open to anyone currently working, or interested in working, with children's and youth choirs in a range of teaching and learning environments. Come along to this 'hands-on' participatory course which will provide a practical toolkit of supports and resources including:
* Warm-ups and work-outs for young voices
* Approaches to teaching and learning in choral music education
* Introduction to a range of repertoire and resources
* Score preparation
* Conducting
* Approaches to commissioning
* Establishing your choral programme
Course Timetable: Monday 9.30 am - 8.30 pm / Tuesday 9.30 am - 6.30 pm
Developed in response to the growth in group singing across the country, this stimulating two-day course will kick-start what is intended to be a long-term initiative, aimed at:
* providing ongoing high-quality continuing professional development in choral music education
* building a professional development network for vocal ensemble leaders working with young voices
* resourcing local, regional and national networks for children's and youth choirs.
Fee: €150 per participant (excluding accommodation and evening meal - details of campus and/or other accommodation options will be available shortly).
For further information: visit www.aoic.ie / www.musicgeneration.ie
To book: download an application form onwww.aoic.ie or contact the Association of Irish Choirs, University Concert Hall, Foundation Building, University of Limerick, Ireland. Tel: +353-61-234823 Email: aoic@ul.ie
EVENTS AND TRAINING FOR YOUTH WORKERS
National Youth Council of Ireland
3 Montague Street, Dublin 2
Tel: 01-478 4122
Fax: 01-478 3974
Direct line: 01-425 5955
Mobile: 087 781 4903
www.youth.ie
Diversity goes cross border (18 June, 2012)
An event celebrating and supporting inclusion and diversity in youth work.
Minster Frances Fitzgerald will launch Access All Areas: diversity toolkit for the youth sector North and South at the event. Free workshops on the day.
Youth Arts Summer School (27 June - 30 June, 2012)
The three day summer school will offer workshops, outings and lots more that seek to stimulate your imagination and send you back home with a wealth of ideas and techniques for developing creative approaches for your work with young people.
We’re Here. Hear Us Now. (28 June, 2012)
A national consultation on integration and inclusion in Ireland, bringing together young people and youth workers to tackle the issues and draft recommendations to be brought to the next EU Youth Conference in Cyprus.
PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING & DOCUMENTATION OF WORK WITH SYLVAIN DELEU
Photography Training & Documentation of Work with Sylvain Deleu
July 2012 at Workhouse Studios, Waterford| World renowned photographer Sylvain Deleu will visit Irelandthis July. This is a unique opportunity to have your artwork or craft professionally documented, whether in situ, in the studio or in a fashion shoot. There is also a unique opportunity to take part in a once-off training day with Sylvain for only €100 plus your share of travel expenses. You'll complete the day with images of your own work plus the learning experience of working on several shoots that day. Places are limited. Please get in contact to secure your place | www.sylvaindeleu.com | www.workhousestudios.com
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTING LAB
July 1 - 7,Austria
Wonderful chance to acquire reliable director's toolkit to create contemporary professional productions, to find collaborators and partners for future creative work and to gain new experience of creative collaboration in a multicultural and multilingual theatre environment. Moreover, the workshop opens the door towards participation in the collaboration project in Russiain autumn 2012 - the six-week period of performance creation in a Russian repertory theatre together with Russian actors and performers from different countries.
Participants receive the Certificate.
The working language is English.
The nearest international airports are located in Grazand Vienna, Austria.
Accommodation and meals are organized.
Programme & Registration: http://www.iugte.com/projects/director
http://youtu.be/8pN6pCaJhXA
Diploma in Community & Group Music Teaching at the RIAM
In response to Music Generation, the RIAM has created a Diploma that aims to develop appropriately skilled musicians to teach in the community and classroom setting.
This one-year programme will be run over 6 intensive weekends on RIAM premises inDublinbetween September and June of each year.
On-site work in schools or community settings will also be undertaken by participants. The six weekends are as follows:
2012
September: Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th
October: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st
November: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th
2013
February: Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th
March: Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th
April: Saturday 13th
For further information visit www.riam.ie or email generaloffice@riam.ie
MA in Arts & Heritage Management
The aim of the Masters in Arts & Heritage Management is to address specific and identified needs within the arts and heritage industry for management training in the area of cultural administration, and to provide you with the necessary skills for effective cultural leadership and management. It offers you an opportunity to reflect on your professional practice (work placement) and gain a theoretical and critical perspective on managing organisations and events in the cultural/heritage sector.
The Masters in Arts & Heritage Management is a 90-credit programme suited to Arts graduates, Business graduates with a particular interest in arts/heritage, and practitioners of the arts/heritage sectors.
Mandatory Modules
- Irish Arts, Heritage & Cultural Studies (10 credits)
- Strategic & Financial Management (5 credits)
- Cultural Tourism & Public Policy Studies (5 credits)
- Professional Development & Research I, including Minor Placement (5 credits)
- Events Management (5 credits)
- Employment & Legislative Studies (10 credits)
- Public Relations (5 credits)
- Professional Development & Research II, including Minor Placement (5 credits)
- Major Placement (15 credits)
- Minor Dissertation (15 credits)
Electives in Semester 1
- Museum & Gallery Studies I (5 credits)
- Arts in Context I (5 credits)
Electives in Semester 2
- Museum & Gallery Studies II (5 credits)
- Arts in Context II (5 credits)
Entry Requirements
- A 2nd Class Honours Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
- Access to a cultural organisation where your work placement and research can be carried out
Closing Date for applications
Friday 15th June 2012
How to apply
Please go to the online application facility at www.pac.ie
For academic enquiries:
Please contact Dr. Rachel Finnegan Email rfinnegan@wit.ie or telephone 051-834116
NSF Technical Workshop Programme Spring-Summer 2012
As part of our commitment to providing services and resources to visual artists, the National Sculpture Factory has programmed a series of technical workshops to support visual artists and their practice. These sessions aim to address the technical needs of artists working in a professional environment.
More Information & Bookings: contact Elma O’Donovan, Artists’ Liaison / Administrator @ elma@nationalsculpturefactory.com
Or t: +353 (0) 21 4314353
Workshop fees must be paid at the time of booking - fees are non refundable.
In order to proceed with the workshops a minimum of 6 participants is required per workshop. In this respect, if closer to the date of the workshop, if we have less than six participants, it may be necessary to cancel the workshop. In this instance, fees will be refunded.
Listowel Writers’ Week 2012
30th May to 3rd June 2012
Listowel Writers’ Week is now taking bookings for their Literary Workshops, book early to avoid disappointment. Places on workshops are limited to 15. We have in place a magnificent array of Workshop Directors who will guide, direct and enthuse every workshop participant.
Short Fiction with John MacKenna
Creative Writing Getting Started with Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Creative Writing Advanced with Ronan Bennett
Novel Getting Started with Aifric Campbell
Novel Advanced with Eoin McNamee
Poetry Getting Started with John Hartley Williams
Poetry Advanced with Paul Perry
Writing for Theatre with Mark O’Rowe
Writing for Screen with Mark O’Halloran
Songwriting with Mickey MacConnell
Writing Funny with Jeremy Sheldon
Freelance Journalism with Sinead Gleeson
Non Fiction & Memoir with Molly McCloskey
Travel Writing with Manachán Magan
Full details of our 2012 festival will be announced in April 2012.
Contact Information:
Enquiries regarding competitions, entry to workshops and all other information should be addressed to:
Writers’ Week Ltd, 24 The Square, Listowel, Co Kerry
Telephone: +353 (0) 68 21074 Fax: +353 (0) 68 22893 Email: info@writersweek.ie Website: www.writersweek.ie
Shakespeare Performance Project for Directors
Russia - 2012
Four Scholarships for professional directors available
More details: http://www.iugte.com/projects/shakespeare
Coracle - the Work It! Youth Theatre Development Programme.
The Programme includes:
- Setting Up a Youth Theatre Seminar
- Child Protection Training
- Youth Drama Facilitation Training
- Networking
- Skillshare
- Mentorship and Development
- Cross-Border Collaborative Youth Theatre.
All workshops are free and should attract people in the Southeast who are working, or interested in working, in a youth drama/theatre context with young people; beginner and experienced youth theatre facilitators, senior youth theatre members, youth workers, volunteers from local amateur drama groups, community workers, teachers and parents etc.
Please find a brochure attached. For bookings, further information or if you would like us to post you a brochures please contact arts@wexfordcoco.ie or 053 - 9196369.
Places are strictly limited and will be assigned on a first come first served basis - early booking advised so you don't miss out!
To find out more about Coracle and to upload a profile as an individual practitioner, youth theatre or arts organisation visit www.coracle.eu.com
Visual Artists Ireland
For full details of our current Professional Development Training for Visual Artists see:
http://visualartists.ie/education-2/ or follow our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/VAIProfessionalDevelopment
H2 Studio Spring/Summer Courses 2012
June 9th-10th | Introductory Bronze Casting Course | Cost E 200 includes materials, tea/coffees.
July 13th-15th | Contemporary Art and Ancient methods | Cost E 295.
Aug 11th-12th | Introductory Bronze Casting Course | Cost E 200 includes materials, tea/coffees.
Aug 25th -26th | Life Modelling / Bronze Casting (1day of modelling without casting also an option for this course) | Cost E 245 (€100 for 1day) includes all material, model, tea/coffee |
For further information on each of these courses, please contact Helle Helsner T: 353-238849223 | 0863256689 | http://www.h2studioart.com
MA Art in Public: University of Ulster, Belfast Campus
The MA Art in Public has evolved from current complex concerns for the role of art / artists in a changing society. The MA focuses on a wide set of contexts, it is based in and responds toBelfast, where engaged art practices have been developed in various “public” spaces for many years.
The programme seeks to develop testing modes of working that are dialogic, participatory, interventionist or collaborative in intention and structure.
Throughout the programme students will work with formal / informal external partners and be expected to develop self initiated, innovative practice based approaches.
The programme is run full-time over 3 semesters – a period of 18 months including a summer break. Part-time it is run over a 3 year period.
More details here: http://masterartinpublic.wordpress.com/
The deadline is ongoing.
Arts Courses at Newtownbarry House
The fully equipped Artists Studio is in the old Kitchen of Newtownbarry House. It has beautiful light from its two roof light windows making it an excellent painting and drawing studio. It has easels, a room with sinks and a separate room for painting boards or still life. It can accommodate 12 people on the art courses. It also has a separate room for lunch and discussions. Newtownbarry also offers B&B with a delicious dinner for anybody who wishes to stay. There are also plenty of opportunities to do landscape painting or drawing around the grounds and parkland of the house.
For details, please download the PDF of New Studio Programme 2010 (approx 1mb).
For more details check out http://www.newtownbarryhouse.com/
Notice from Dublin Institute of Technology
BA Visual and Critical Studies: New Degree at Dublin Institute of Technology
BA Visual and Critical Studies is a 3 years Honours Degree (Level 8) programme on the study of contemporary visual culture. The programme provides students with up-to-date histories and theories of art and design; methods of research; practical skills of documentation in new media and; real-world experience in sectors that cater to the public mediation of visual and material culture such as publication, heritage, exhibition and design industries. Full information on the curriculum is available at: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 2012
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim
Digital Printmaking Workshop
Dates: Sat 1st & Sun 2nd December
Digital Design & Graphics Workshop
Dates: Sat 6th & Sun 7th October
Contemporary Printmaking Masterclass
Dates: Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th June - Masterclass
Traditional & Contemporary (Intaglio) Printmaking Workshop
Dates: Sat 21st & Sun 22nd July & Sat 6th & Sun 7th October
Bronze Casting Using Solid Investment Workshop
Dates: Fri 16th to Mon 19th November
Sandcasting in Bronze & Aluminium Workshop
Dates: Sun 28th October
Metal Fabrication Workshop
Dates: Sat 6th & Sun 7th October
Patination and Finishing of Metal Workshop
Dates: Thur 31st May to Fri 1st June & Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd September
Woodcarving Workshop
Dates: Sat 5th to Mon 7th May & Fri 7th to Sun 9th September
Woodturning Workshop
Dates: Sat 19th & Sun 20th May – Spindle & Sat 29th & Sun 30th September - Bowl
Stone Carving Workshop
Dates: Sat 2nd to Mon 4th June & Fri 28th to Sun 30th September
Stone Lettercutting Workshop
Dates: Sat 8th & Sun 9th September
Glassblowing for Beginners Workshop
Dates: Sat 15th & Sun 16th September & Mon 17th & Tue 18th September
Sand Casting with Hot Glass Workshop
Dates: Mon 24th to Wed 26th September
Hot Glass-casting into Zircar Moulds Workshop
Dates: Mon 24th to Wed 26th September
Reproduction Moulding for Artists & Architects Workshop
Dates: Thur 25th & Fri 26th October
Refractory Mouldmaking for Kiln Cast Glass & Bronze Casting Workshop
Dates: Sat 2nd to Mon 4th June & Sat 27th to Mon 29th October
Patination and Finishing of Metal Workshop
Dates: Thur 31st May to Fri 1st June & Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd September
Portfolio Development & Professional Practice Workshop
Dates: Sun 7th October
Pottery and the Art of Ceramic Construction Workshop
Dates: Sat 19th & Sun 20th May
The Use of Glazes in Ceramic Art Workshop
Dates: Sat 8th & Sun 9th September
If you are interested in any of these courses, please contact:
Leitrim Sculpture Centre
info@leitrimsculpturecentre.ie
Telephone: 071 985 5098
"Legislative Theatre: using performance to promote political participation"
Approved by the LLP National Agency and it is published in the Comenius - Grundtvig Training Database with the reference number "IT-2012-845-001"
Trainer: José Soeiro fromPortugaland Roberto Mazzini by Giolli .
Main language of the course: English, but also French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Place: in Casaltone, northItaly, close toParmatown.
Date: from 4th to 8th December 2012, more one day for travel both arriving and leaving.
Participants: from all overEuropeor overseas, speaking English (or Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese).
Subsistence and accommodation: we provide biological meals at the same structure of the training as well as accommodation (in multiple beds rooms).
More information about the training at this address:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/search.cfm?fuseaction=R
or this:
Or more information about us, visiting our website: www.giollicoop.it . Here you can choose a rough translation of each page by clicking on the top right of the page (there are several possible languages).
Costs: 500,00 Euro for the course and 250,00 for the board and lodging and 50,00 for the space use. This cost should be paid even if you don't eat or sleep there, because is a “lump sum†of all costs divided for the number of participants.
Deadline to apply to your National LLP agency is 30th April 2012.
If approved, your costs (language preparation, travel, subsistence and accommodation, course fee) will be covered by the Agency.
Find your LLP National Agency here: http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm#irl
After your e-mail that is a pre-submission, we will send to you a confirmation that is often necessary in order to apply the Agency
Places are limited to 25 people, so as early you subscribe as easy is to have a place.
European Training Session: Music in Health Settings, Paris
Musique & Sante (Paris) will deliver European Training Session: Music in Health Settings in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) in Parisin June 2012. The objective of the training is to understand and imagine the place of music and of the musician in health settings and to explore the theoretical and practical competences necessary to carry out quality musical actions
Dates: 25 – 29 June 2012
Location: Paris (France)
Working language: English
Registration fees:
€750 for residents of European eligible countries (outside of France)
€900 for residents of France
The European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme offers the opportunity to apply for a Grundtvig In-Service Training Grant. Anyone involved in adult education can participate in the programme including adult learners, teachers and trainers from a variety of organisations.
Click here for further information.