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David McWilliams has been invited to speak at the first free public lecture in the 2010 Points of View Lecture Series at 6pm on Thursday 2 September in Millennium Hall, Cork City Hall. The five lecture series, bringing world-renowned artists and cultural entrepreneurs to Cork, aims to give the people of Cork a unique chance to shape the direction of arts and culture in the city.
The Points of View lecture series brings together some of Ireland’s leading cultural and economic thinkers to give their perspectives on the role of arts and culture in the life of the city. The free lecture series also sees leading European cultural experts talk about how Cork must look outside itself and learn from international experience.
On the 2 September, David McWilliams, economist and driving force behind the 2009 Farmleigh conference, will start the series with a lecture focusing on the economic value of arts and culture, the similarities between the entrepreneur and the artist and how we drive the value of Cork’s cultural heritage on the world stage.
The other lecturers in the series are - Aidan Connolly, the Executive Director of the Irish Arts Centre in New York, Bob and John Crowley, Cork-born brothers who have pursued award winning careers in theatre and filmmaking in Ireland, London and America, Dragan Klaic, a cultural analyst, theater scholar and lecturer based at the Felix Meritis Foundation in Amsterdam and Raumlabor Berlin, an architectural and artistic collective who specialise in urban renewal.
The Points of View lectures are being run in tandem with the ‘By the Artist’ talks, a series of five talks given by some of Ireland’s leading practicing artists that will examine the role of art in the city. These talks, beginning with writer and director Oonagh Kearney, will give people a look at the reality of working in the arts and cultural world today, giving a rarely seen insight into the creative process and how a film or play makes it onto stage or screen. The first talk in the By the Artist series will take place at 1.00pm on Thursday the 2nd of September at the Crawford Art Gallery Lecture Theatre.
The By the Artist series will also feature talks by world-renowned short story writer, Claire Keegan, choreographer and Course Director of the MA in Contemporary Dance in UL, Mary Nunan, Cork-born electro-acoustic composer Linda Buckley, and Emma Underhill, Director of UP Projects, which curates and produces art projects and events outside traditional gallery and museum space.
Cork City Council is establishing an online presence to help people discuss the lecture series and the direction of Cork’s cultural policy. People can visit http://www.corkcity.ie for information on the speakers, to register their interest and to give their point of view. To join the discussion on arts and culture in Cork, people can visit http://www.facebook.com/corkcityarts or follow @corkcityarts on http://www.twitter.com.
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12-18 September 2010 a workshop in Body Weather Practice will be held on the Beara Peninsula. This discipline willl be of interest to Dancers, Performers and artists of all disciplines who have an interest in the landscape. For details contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Cork Culture Night 2010
On Friday 24 September 2010 the theatres, galleries, observatories, public laboratories, artist studios, historic houses and museums of Cork are staying open late and putting on a range of special programmes for one night only. With over fifty venues, one hundred and fifty events, the city opens it doors and lets the culture flow.
You, your family and friends can all explore Cork and its culture in many different ways. There are workshops, plays, movies, readings, music, dance and exhibitions. Running from the early evening until past midnight, the events all offer a new way of experiencing culture in Cork . Everyone one is invited, the young, old, families and friends, visitors and residents.
The Cultural organisations, their staffs and their funding partners have all welcomed and supported this project. Cork City Council would like to thank them for all of their efforts in creating this programme for you to enjoy.
For Further Information Contact Cork City Council Arts Office: Tel: 021 4924333 E mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Two Exhibitions at Cork Public Museum as part of the Aloys Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations
Cork Public Museum is delighted to launch two new exhibitions as part of the Fleischmann Centenary celebrations. These will be our first temporary exhibitions of 2010. Cork Public Museum suffered extensive damage during the terrible floods on November 2009 and only recently re-opened after many months of refurbishment.
Our first exhibition is entitled “Landscape Paintings from the Artists’ Colony of Dachau 1890 – 1920” and celebrates the life and works of the artists who formed part of this artistic movement. This exhibition was only made possible by the close cooperation between Cork Public Museum and the Zweckverband Dachauer Galerien und Museen (the Dachau Art Gallery). Thirty paintings by over 25 artists have been loaned from Dachau to Cork so that they can be displayed in Ireland for the very first time.
Our second exhibition is entitled Three Generations of Fleischmanns. This exhibition will trace the ancestors of Aloys Fleischmann back over three generations starting with his maternal grandfather Hans Conrad Swertz (1858-1927) and ending with Aloys himself. Much of their story takes place between Germany and Cork. It is often understated how living, studying and working in Munich and Dachau played a vital part in shaping the important contribution of the Fleischmann family to the artistic and cultural legacy of Cork City.
The exhibitions will be officially opened by Mr. Micheál Martin T.D., Minister of Foreign Affairs on Friday 9th July at 6pm. The exhibition will be open to the public from July 10th to September 5th 2010.
The life of Aloys Fleischmann, the renowned Irish composer, conductor, scholar, campaigner, organiser, and Freeman of Cork City is celebrated in an exhibition entitled Fleischmann, Family and Friends which was launched by UCC's Emeritus Professor of Irish History, John A. Murphy in Cork City Central Library on 16 February 2010.
The exhibition chronicles the remarkable lives of Professor Aloys Fleischmann, his family in Cork and Germany and their wide circle of friends, including Joan Denise Moriarty, doyenne of ballet in Ireland.
The exhibition which is open to the public will remain in the Cork City Central Library until April before touring to other libraries and venues in Cork and around the country.
Aloys Fleischmann is without doubt one of the most important figures in music in Ireland in the last century and to mark his centenary celebration a host of concerts, recitals, exhibitions, dance performances, public lectures, conferences and special tributes are taking place in Ireland, Germany, England, America and China throughout 2010.
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David McWilliams has been invited to speak at the first free public lecture in the 2010 Points of View Lecture Series at 6pm on Thursday 2 September in Millennium Hall, Cork City Hall. The five lecture series, bringing world-renowned artists and cultural entrepreneurs to Cork, aims to give the people of Cork a unique chance to shape the direction of arts and culture in the city.
The Points of View lecture series brings together some of Ireland’s leading cultural and economic thinkers to give their perspectives on the role of arts and culture in the life of the city. The free lecture series also sees leading European cultural experts talk about how Cork must look outside itself and learn from international experience.
On the 2 September, David McWilliams, economist and driving force behind the 2009 Farmleigh conference, will start the series with a lecture focusing on the economic value of arts and culture, the similarities between the entrepreneur and the artist and how we drive the value of Cork’s cultural heritage on the world stage.
The other lecturers in the series are - Aidan Connolly, the Executive Director of the Irish Arts Centre in New York, Bob and John Crowley, Cork-born brothers who have pursued award winning careers in theatre and filmmaking in Ireland, London and America, Dragan Klaic, a cultural analyst, theater scholar and lecturer based at the Felix Meritis Foundation in Amsterdam and Raumlabor Berlin, an architectural and artistic collective who specialise in urban renewal.
The Points of View lectures are being run in tandem with the ‘By the Artist’ talks, a series of five talks given by some of Ireland’s leading practicing artists that will examine the role of art in the city. These talks, beginning with writer and director Oonagh Kearney, will give people a look at the reality of working in the arts and cultural world today, giving a rarely seen insight into the creative process and how a film or play makes it onto stage or screen. The first talk in the By the Artist series will take place at 1.00pm on Thursday the 2nd of September at the Crawford Art Gallery Lecture Theatre.
The By the Artist series will also feature talks by world-renowned short story writer, Claire Keegan, choreographer and Course Director of the MA in Contemporary Dance in UL, Mary Nunan, Cork-born electro-acoustic composer Linda Buckley, and Emma Underhill, Director of UP Projects, which curates and produces art projects and events outside traditional gallery and museum space.
Cork City Council is establishing an online presence to help people discuss the lecture series and the direction of Cork’s cultural policy. People can visit http://www.corkcity.ie for information on the speakers, to register their interest and to give their point of view. To join the discussion on arts and culture in Cork, people can visit http://www.facebook.com/corkcityarts or follow @corkcityarts on http://www.twitter.com.
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12-18 September 2010 a workshop in Body Weather Practice will be held on the Beara Peninsula. This discipline willl be of interest to Dancers, Performers and artists of all disciplines who have an interest in the landscape. For details contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Cork Culture Night 2010
On Friday 24 September 2010 the theatres, galleries, observatories, public laboratories, artist studios, historic houses and museums of Cork are staying open late and putting on a range of special programmes for one night only. With over fifty venues, one hundred and fifty events, the city opens it doors and lets the culture flow.
You, your family and friends can all explore Cork and its culture in many different ways. There are workshops, plays, movies, readings, music, dance and exhibitions. Running from the early evening until past midnight, the events all offer a new way of experiencing culture in Cork . Everyone one is invited, the young, old, families and friends, visitors and residents.
The Cultural organisations, their staffs and their funding partners have all welcomed and supported this project. Cork City Council would like to thank them for all of their efforts in creating this programme for you to enjoy.
For Further Information Contact Cork City Council Arts Office: Tel: 021 4924333 E mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Two Exhibitions at Cork Public Museum as part of the Aloys Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations
Cork Public Museum is delighted to launch two new exhibitions as part of the Fleischmann Centenary celebrations. These will be our first temporary exhibitions of 2010. Cork Public Museum suffered extensive damage during the terrible floods on November 2009 and only recently re-opened after many months of refurbishment.
Our first exhibition is entitled “Landscape Paintings from the Artists’ Colony of Dachau 1890 – 1920” and celebrates the life and works of the artists who formed part of this artistic movement. This exhibition was only made possible by the close cooperation between Cork Public Museum and the Zweckverband Dachauer Galerien und Museen (the Dachau Art Gallery). Thirty paintings by over 25 artists have been loaned from Dachau to Cork so that they can be displayed in Ireland for the very first time.
Our second exhibition is entitled Three Generations of Fleischmanns. This exhibition will trace the ancestors of Aloys Fleischmann back over three generations starting with his maternal grandfather Hans Conrad Swertz (1858-1927) and ending with Aloys himself. Much of their story takes place between Germany and Cork. It is often understated how living, studying and working in Munich and Dachau played a vital part in shaping the important contribution of the Fleischmann family to the artistic and cultural legacy of Cork City.
The exhibitions will be officially opened by Mr. Micheál Martin T.D., Minister of Foreign Affairs on Friday 9th July at 6pm. The exhibition will be open to the public from July 10th to September 5th 2010.
The life of Aloys Fleischmann, the renowned Irish composer, conductor, scholar, campaigner, organiser, and Freeman of Cork City is celebrated in an exhibition entitled Fleischmann, Family and Friends which was launched by UCC's Emeritus Professor of Irish History, John A. Murphy in Cork City Central Library on 16 February 2010.
The exhibition chronicles the remarkable lives of Professor Aloys Fleischmann, his family in Cork and Germany and their wide circle of friends, including Joan Denise Moriarty, doyenne of ballet in Ireland.
The exhibition which is open to the public will remain in the Cork City Central Library until April before touring to other libraries and venues in Cork and around the country.
Aloys Fleischmann is without doubt one of the most important figures in music in Ireland in the last century and to mark his centenary celebration a host of concerts, recitals, exhibitions, dance performances, public lectures, conferences and special tributes are taking place in Ireland, Germany, England, America and China throughout 2010.
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Join The National Campaign for the Arts - details
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