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For 2011 BLANK CANVAS is inviting applications with emphasis on exploring duet work. Dance artists may apply to work with an artist from another artistic medium as part of a duet exploration. In this case, we would encourage a physical interactive element be explored as part of the residency. It is also possible to submit an application as an individual artist with an aspiration to work with local professional artists to form a duet. The BLANK CANVAS Dance Team can assist in suggesting suitable collaborators.
BLANK CANVAS works in partnership with each artist to support the needs of their residency subject to resources available and would like to acknowledge the Arts Council of Ireland for its continuous support of the programme.
About the Project:
The piece, created in collaboration with filmmaker Julia Reisen, is an exploration of how fairy tales that we have read to us as children influence our paths towards adulthood. We are adapting European fairy tales for film that will be integrated into an installation with live performance to explore the effect of children's stories on the mindsets of children in Western society.
Fairytales are, at times, extremely dark, attempting to scare us into doing the right thing. In The Little Match Girl we are presented with the last few thoughts that the match girl has before she freezes to death. The Little Mermaid trades in her most prized feature – her voice – for a pair of feet that bleed if she walks too much on them. Little Red Riding Hood is eaten by a wolf. Through accentuating this darkness the piece makes sense of the masked morals that we learn as children, consciously or subconsciously, and shows the cultural reverberations of how we perceive the world as adults today.
Qualifications:
The dancer should have experience with improvisation and collaborative work as well as a strong movement background in contemporary dance. The collaborative process will be based in experimental theater and improvisation with a heavy emphasis on viewpoints and moment work.
The dancer will be compensated €50 for the final performance.
Time Commitment:
March 18: Audition (time TBA)
March 23-27: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
March 29-April 2: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
April 5: 12pm-3pm.
April 6: All day. Final sharing of the work (time TBA)
Location:
The Firkin Crane
Shandon – Cork
Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: 086 8147837
The conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and abroad. Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations, practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations, dance workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance performance contributions.
Proposals include any one of six presentation formats listed below. Only one presentation per applicant is permissible. It is essential that proposals address the theme of the conference and present new insights in the attempt at advancing dance research knowledge and practice. Please submit your proposal form, including your one-page abstract (approximately 250-300 words) of your presentation, detailing your presentation format and outlining your proposed research topic and argument together with a short bibliography and/or videography, and forward it electronically to the Secretary of DRFI, Ms. Carmel McKenna at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). It is more convenient for the programme committee if the proposals are forwarded electronically both within the body of the email and in an enclosed attachment using Rich Text Format.
Please note that potential delegates need not at the stage of proposal submission be members of DRFI. However in order to present at the Conference, delegates must be DRFI members in good standing. Application forms for membership are available on the DRFI website: http://www.danceresearchforumireland.org
Programme Committee:
Dr Catherine Foley, Chair of Programme Committee, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Ms. Sheila Creevey, Dance Artist, Researcher and Consultant, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Dr. Victoria O’Brien, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Dublin.
Mr. Paul McCarthy, General Manager, The Firkin Crane, Cork.
Presentation Formats:
1. Academic-based and/or Practice-based research presentations
These presentations will be programmed for the duration of 20 minutes, including any audio-visual material. A ten-minute discussion period will be allotted after each presentation.
2. Panels
A panel presentation consisting of three or four presenters is also welcome. Panels are co-ordinated by one of the panelists who co-ordinates a panel to address a particular topic at the conference. This topic may or may not address the theme of the conference. The co-ordinator submits a one-page proposal outlining the selected topic and each of the panelists contributes to this topic. In addition, each panelist is required to write a one-page proposal (as in written research-based presentations above) outlining the particular research focus in relation to this topic. The co-ordinator is responsible for co-ordinating all proposals for the panel and these are forwarded together. The panel is assessed as a whole and will be allotted one hour in the programme, including discussion.
3. Lecture Demonstrations
Lecture-demonstrations relating to the theme of the conference are welcome. These will be programmed for the duration of 45 minutes including a 15 minute discussion.
4. Dance Workshops
Proposals for dance workshops concerning any dance genre in Ireland or its diaspora are welcome. These will be programmed for I hour.
5. Student Posters
Students are encouraged to present their theses or current research on a poster for a Dance Poster Exhibition which will be programmed at a particular time during the conference. Posters should be presented on one large sheet, at least A3 size, containing written and illustrative material. Topic of research, theoretical and methodological choices, argument, and conclusion are required to be outlined.
6. Dance Performance Contributions
Dance performance contributions are welcome that address the theme of the conference. These will be programmed for 5 to 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion.
Abstracts of presentations addressing any topic relevant to the theme of the conference should be forwarded electronically in Rich Text Format to Ms. Carmel McKenna, Secretary DRFI, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Deadline for Submission of Proposals is Friday, 29 January, 2010.
This humorous but poignant quartet investigates the disparity between how we view ourselves, and how we are viewed by others through the powerful cocktail of identity, sexuality and politics. David Bolger, Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre, has choreographed a piece which may redefine your perceptions. Premiering at this years Cork Midsummer Festival "with impressive grace" (Irish Times) the work will be performed at the Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September at 6pm.
Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs
Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September, 6pm
Tickets €16/€14
This venue is wheelchair accessible
Street names like Cat Lane, Phair’s Cross, Connor’s Glen are almost gone from living memory. Shawlies and Black & Tans, The Shakespeare of the Northside, Christy Ring with his modern incarnation Seán Óg, Dagenham Yanks and Celtic Cubs: Jimmy gives them life in our imagination, weaving stories about the colourful characters, maritime exploits and daily life in between the ballads and ditties. This is a vibrant dramatization of his lifelong musical expedition as song collector and creator, among the people and places of Cork City, where the musical richness mirror's the city's cultural diversity - a great trad heritage as well as a legacy of both music-hall vaudeville and high art song.
Aug 26-27 - 21:00 (1hr 10mins)
£12.00 (£10.00)
To Book 0131 225 5521 | dancebase.co.uk (no booking fees)
RAW has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award in the Physical/Visual Theatre category.
About RAW
Within the BLANK CANVAS programme, projects may be speculative, where time and space is given to preliminary work in forming a concept or idea; or developmental, where existing material needs further thought or reworking; or may have a specific outcome in mind, e.g. production, publication, etc.
One of the residencies will result in a fully-formed performance, produced with support from the Firkin Crane. The artists undertaking this residency would not normally have the experience or resources to produce a performance on the scale that the Firkin Crane will provide.
Contact the Firkin Crane for application details.
The current dance class ‘menu’ includes:
classical and modern ballet
bellydance
contemporary dance
hip-hop and breakdancing
swing, salsa and tango
Most of the adult dance teachers will let you try one class or workshop at a reduced cost, or even for free, so you can see how much fun each dance form is before you decide which is the best for you.
So whether you want to prepare for that first wedding dance, or make new friends, or simply keep fit - please check individual notices.
The Performers' Academy, in association with the Firkin Crane, present a magical musical adventure for all the family!
Tickets €16
Family ticket (4 people) €60
School Performances: Monday 15th – Friday 19th December at 11.00 am
Special rate of 10 euro per child for School Performances
Running until Tuesday 30th December
View the Performance Listing
Rather than being all about the infamous Jack, the story concentrates on his victims: the murdered prostitutes - the ‘Unfortunates’ as they were called back then; who they were and why they were there….
Too often, with all the salacious tales and gory details, the victims themselves are forgotten and become merely statistics in the background.
This play will give the ladies their voices, their stories and their chance to become three-dimensional.
Following last year's sellout concert, Brazilian trumpeter Tonynho and friends will again bring their eclectic mix of sounds from all over the world. This year's show will feature special guests Tabla Sounds, creating an unique combination of infectious new world groove with Indian classical music.
On Saturday night, jazz masters Georgie Fame and Louis Stewart will deliver an amazing double bill, presenting a wonderful range of music, from chart-topping pop songs to a repertoire of jazz classics.
Sunday is the night to get on your glad rags, shine those shoes and step into the mysterious Shanghai Palace 1937. Dress to impress, act your character, lose yourself on the dance floor to the swing sounds of The Swingin' Bluecats. A complimentary cocktail will get you in the mood and a quick lesson will give you the moves!
If your interest goes deeper, come to the Jazz Festival Workshops: Sitar and Tabla with Unity Drums; Jazz Singing with Ines Reiger; Guitar Magic with Louis Stewart; and, the perennial favourite, Swing Dance with Jessica
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The Arts Council will offer the following project awards for activities commencing in 2011.
* Arts Participation Project Award
* Circus Project Award
* Dance Project Award
* Film Project Award
* Music Project Award
* Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award
* Theatre Project Award
* Visual Arts Project Award
The deadline for all the above awards will be 5.30pm on Thursday 2 September 2010. Applications will only be accepted through the online system.
The awards are open to individuals and organisations. Organisations in receipt of funding under any of the main Arts Council grant programmes (Regularly Funded Organisations, Annual Funding, Annual Programming Grant) will not be eligible to apply
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The All Ireland Talent Show is back and are about to start the search for the 2011 Champion. So could you be taking to the stage representing your county? Could you be crowned 2011 Champion and win €50,000?
Whatever your age, whatever your act, auditions are happening soon around the country. If interested in auditioning please see dates, locations and conditions below.
DUBLIN - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 21st August 2010
Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8
THE SOUTH - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 28th August 2010
Clarion Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork
THE WEST - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 4th September 2010
Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa Galway, Lough Atalia Road, Galway
THE NORTH - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 11th September 2010
Everglades Hotel, Prehen Road, Londonderry, BT47 2NH
THE EAST - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 18th September 2010
Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde Street, Kilkenny
RULES AND CONDITIONS APPLY
· You can only audition at the regional centre where you were born or have lived for the last 6 months. Counties fall into the following regional centres:
· DUBLIN - City and County
· NORTH - Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Tyrone
· SOUTH - Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
· EAST - Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow
· WEST - Galway, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo
· If under 18 - you MUST be accompanied by a parent/guardian who MUST stay with you for the whole audition process. If you are a large group, with many under 18s, we require one adult supervisor, for every 5 children
· Proof of age may be requested, so please ensure that you bring some form of photo ID
· Registration opens at 7.00am on the day and closes promptly at 3pm the same day. If you have not registered by 3pm, you will not be allowed to audition
· Your performance must be no longer than 2 minutes
· If you perform to a backing track you must bring your own CD and make sure that it works on a regular CD player
· If your act requires props, you must bring you own
· If your act requires any safety equipment, you must bring your own
· It is advisable to take public transport wherever possible as paid parking is limited at some venues
· You may only audition once at one regional centre during the 2011 talent search
· If you want anymore information please go to our website or find us on Facebook
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Public Art Per Cent for Art Scheme - Expressions of interest sought
Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Limerick, is inviting expressions of interest under the Public Art – Per Cent for Art Scheme from established artists wishing to create unique work/s in any medium with an allocated budget of €100,000.
Following a major capital investment programme to a total of €40 million, two new buildings have been completed in MIC, Tailteann and Teamhair/Tara, enabling the complete reshaping of the campus.
In 2008 Tailteann the first new building on campus for 30 years was opened. This state-of-the-art Sport, Leisure and Physical Education building was recognised by the Royal Irish Architectural Institute as Ireland’s “Leisure Building of the Year 2008.”
The second of Mary Immaculate College’s new buildings, due to be officially opened by the Tánaiste this forthcoming September, is the Teamhair/Tara building. This 8500 sq. metre building will give the College the much needed 300- and 150-seat lecture theatres, teaching laboratories, computer facilities (open access and dedicated learning laboratories) in addition to a 500-seat multi-purpose theatre.
The overall budget for the design, supply, fitting and installation of the entire project will be €100,000 inclusive of all costs, project management, travel and other expenses, VAT, insurance and other charges.
Deadline for expressions of interest is Thursday 9 September 2010 at 3pm.
* For further information, details of the brief and application form contact Holly Cowman T: 061 204998, E:mailto:Holly.Cowman@mic.ul.ieie or visit http://www.mic.ul.ie/visitors/default.htm
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Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund
deadline: 9 September 2010
Applications are invited for two funding awards to encourage the development of choreographers in the early stages of their career.
UK New Choreography Award
The award is given to undertake research, a personal project or personal study which the choreographer believes will contribute in a vital way to forwarding his / her development as an artist.
Marion North Mentoring Scheme Award
To provide choreographers with the opportunity to have feedback from, and discussion with an experienced choreographer / dance artist for an approximate period of a year.
Applications for the awards are welcome from:
• professional choreographers in all styles;
• British choreographers or choreographers who have lived in the UK for at least 12 months;
• choreographers who have not yet received regular/substantial funding;
• for the UK New Choreography Award applications are also welcome from more experienced choreographers who are at a major turning point in their careers.
For more information on the awards and to download application forms please visit http://www.laban.org/home/bonnie_bird_choreography_fund.phtml or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Fort Camden (Meagher) Arts Project
Programme of Artistic Interventions and Responses to the site
This project is funded by Cork County Council
Artists are invited to submit expressions of interest and outline proposals for a series of artistic commissions relating to Fort Camden in County Cork.
Fort Camden (also known as Fort Meagher) is widely regarded as an outstanding example of 19th century coastal fortification. It is located on Ram’s Head near the village of Crosshaven overlooking the entrance to Cork Harbour. Its sister fort, Fort Davis(formerly Carlisle), stands on the opposite shore.
As a fortification of one of the Irish Treaty Ports, Camden Fort was occupied by British military until July 1938 when it was officially handed over to the Irish defence forces. It was subsequently renamed Fort Meagher.
Cork County Council has taken ownership of the entire site which covers some 49 acres and is working with statutory and local interests to develop access and a long term development plan.
The Fort Camden Artistic Programme forms part of a developing strategy to raise public awareness about the historical importance of this fortification and its place in local and national heritage.
The commission programme aims to realize up to five artist led projects that will be directly inspired by the architecture, environment and/or history of the site.
We are particularly interested in proposals from
* Creative Artists of all disciplines whose work addresses or engages with the natural/built environment.
* CreativeArtists whose work may engage with the military and social history of this site
Artists are encouraged to especially consider ways in which their proposed work can engage with the public. We will consider all contexts in which work may be presented, for example, permanent, temporary installation, web based, publication, etc. Proposals for temporary or off site locations should consider methodologies for creating a permanent record of the work.
Proposals from artists working in all artforms are eligible. Collaborative and/or interdisciplinary proposals will also be considered.
The commission process will take place in two stages. Stage One is an open call for proposals. From this a shortlist will be drawn up. Some or all of the shortlisted artists will be invited to submit fully developed and budgeted proposals. (Cork County Council may decide at this point to reserve a number of shortlisted proposals for development to commission in a further phase of the project, if appropriate.) Artists shortlisted for stage 2 will receive a small budget for expenses in developing proposals to second stage
A maximum budget of €10,000 inclusive of all costs may be awarded for each commission.
Camden Fort is currently closed to the public. Two site visits are scheduled to assist artists making proposals. Each tour of the site will last approximately 2.5 hours including time for discussion. Tours will be led by a member of the local Camden committee assisted by a member of the Council steering group for the project.
Sites visit times
* Friday, June 25th 2.30 p.m. (Meet at Entrance)
* Tuesday June 29th 11.00 a.m. (Meet at Entrance)
N.B. Sections of the site involve entering or crossing difficult terrain. Persons attending are advised to wear suitable outdoor clothing and footwear and to pay particular heed to all safety instructions. Artists with disabilities will be accommodated as far as practicable. However the site is not developed and access may not be possible to certain sections. Any artist with a mobility or other impairment should advise the Arts Office in advance.
Competition Requirements Stage 1:
* A letter outlining your interest in this project
* A general project proposal outlining the general scope of the project envisaged and how it relates to your current practice. This will include a written proposal, outline budget, and any other supporting information relevant to the proposal
* Artist’s c.v.
* Documented examples of at least two previous projects, commissions or other work by the artist. No original artwork is to be submitted.
* Up to 10 images/digital files of your word, (where relevant)These can be submitted as prints, or on CD/DVD. Digital image files must be in JPEG format Music files as MP3 files, Film clips in QuickTime. Individual excerpts not to exceed more than 2 minutes duration.
* List of images/ files submitted
* Two references relating to previous commissions or projects in which the artist was involved
Programme Schedule to commission stage
* Advertisment of project June 18th
* Deadline for Stage 1 Friday July 23rd
* Short list Announced: (Provisional date July 30th )
* Deadline stage 2 September 17th
* Commissions announced TBC
The process is open to all artists working in all artforms.
If you wish any of your submission material to be returned to you please include a statement to that effect and enclose a stamped address envelope.
All artists intending to visit the site must first register with the Arts Office of Cork County Council. Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel 021 4346210
A maximum budget of €10,000 inclusive of all costs may be awarded for each commission.
Post Applications marked Camden Commission to:
The Arts Office, Cork County Council, County Hall, Cork
Closing Date Stage 1 Closing date is 5.00 p.m. Friday July 23rd 2010
Background information.
Fort Camden (Meagher) is recognised internationally as one of the world's finest examples of a Palmerston Fort.
Fortifications at the site date from as early as 1550 but the present construction owes its existence to the Royal Commission report of 1860 which recommended the construction of Camden, Carlyle and Westmoreland forts. Situated at the western entrance to Cork Harbour, Camden stands about 200 feet above sea level. The fort area is honeycombed with underground passages and emplacements including a large magazine. It has a magnificent tunnel, engineered to house the fixed torpedo invented by Louis Philip Brennan.
Groups of forts built during the Victorian period on the report of the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom were called Palmerston Forts after the then Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston. During this time, forts were built all over the UK, including Plymouth, Pembroke, Portland, Dover, Chatham and Medway. Unlike Fort Carlisle, Charles Fort or Fort Templebreedy, Fort Camden is acknowledged as being the only true Palmerstonian fort in Cork and one of the world’s finest examples of a coastal artillery fort.
Useful websites about Fort Camden
Rescue Camden http://www.rescuecamden.com/index.php
Abandoned Ireland http://www.abandonedireland.com/cf.html
RSWiki http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/Fort_Meagher
The Fortress Study Group http://www.fsgfort.com/Fort/27/Art4/Fort27-4.htm
About John Louis Brennan http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_heroes/hist_hero_louis_brennan.html
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Aerowaves is a Europe-wide project started in 1996, which brings together dance specialists from 32 countries to look at the work of young choreographers. For the last 14 years this has resulted in ten performance opportunities at The Place in London as part of the Resolution! festival as well as many other informal presentations around Europe.
For the first time in 2009, over 70 additional performances were confirmed in 21 other European cities: Moscow, Oslo, Tallinn, Vilnius, Copenhagen, Dublin, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Prague, Poznan, Warsaw, Zurich, Lausanne, Bassano del Grappa, Rome, Porto, Limassol, Osijek and Zagreb. We anticipate a similar number of opportunities in 2010. Application for 2011 is open to any artists in geographical Europe (including the UK), although performances will not be offered in their country of residence.
It's for emerging choreographers and companies who have not yet done much touring abroad.
Artists complete an online application by 20 September 2010 and send 2 identical DVDs to London of the work they wish to present. They may now add performance dates for the proposed work under ‘Candidates’ in the Aerowaves calendar. The Aerowaves partners meet to assess the DVDs in late October and their advice helps the Presenters in choosing works for the following year. The performance opportunities above are confirmed; however, each year other informal opportunities arise and work has been presented through Aerowaves in the majority of the countries represented at the meeting.
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Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2010 - Arts & Older People
deadline: Monday Sept 27 at 5pm
The Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2010 aims to support individual professional artists in any artform working in the field of Arts and Older People.
Designed to support and nurture the professional development of individual arts practitioners collaborating with older people, the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award of 10k will provide an artist with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their art practice.
This is the first year that the Arts Council has provided a Bursary award as part of the Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. To find out more about the application process and eligibility criteria visit: http://www.create-ireland.ie. For enquiries about the application process call Katherine Atkinson at Create – 01-473-6600.
Please note the Bursary Award is €10,000.
In partnership with Age & Opportunity, Create is hosting two information and discussion events for interested artists in Mayo and Dublin. Full details on how to apply and information sessions at: http://tinyurl.com/2uoqaa4
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The Arts Council is introducing a new funding scheme to support the touring and dissemination of work in all artforms. Building on the interim scheme introduced for 2010, the new scheme is one of a number of initiatives designed to implement the Council’s Touring Policy, with a strong focus on the audience.
As referred to in previous announcements, it is intended that the touring and dissemination of work will be supported by a number of strands to take account of the different timeframes involved in the planning of tours and similar activities in different artforms.
These strands are:
* Medium term planning
* Advance planning
* Short term planning
The medium term planning strand will be introduced first, as the principal scheme for 2011. This will support tours taking place within the calendar year 2011.
The application deadline for this strand will be on 31 September 2010. It is expected that applicants will be notified of the outcomes of their applications by 30 November 2010.
Details of this strand are being finalised and will be published by mid-August 2010.
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EU Culture Programme 2007-2013
Financial support designed to promote a common cultural area, characterised by both cultural diversity and a common cultural heritage, is available for European cultural co-operation projects in all artistic and cultural sectors.
New call for proposals under the Culture Programme 2007-2013 for the following strands:
- Strand 1.1: Multi-annual Cooperation Projects. Deadline: 1 October 2010. Budget: €20,204,724.
- Strand 1.2.1: Cooperation Projects. Deadline: 1 October 2010. Budget: €18,500,000.
- Strand 1.2.2: Literary Translation Projects. Deadline: 3 February 2011. Budget: €2,700,000.
- Strand 1.3.5: Special Cooperation Projects with Third Countries. Deadline: 3 May 2011. Budget: €1,500,000.
- Strand 1.3.6: Support for European Cultural Festivals. Deadline: 15 November 2010. Budget: €2,500,000.
- Strand 2: Supports for Organisations Active at European Level in the Field of Culture. Deadline: 15 September 2010. Budget: €6,100,000.
- Strand 3.2: Cooperation Projects between Organisations Involved in the Impact assessment of Cultural Policies. Deadline: 1 October 2010. Budget: €7,000,000.
Further information:
The Directorate-General for Education and Culture website - http://ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.htmor the Education, Audiovisual
The Culture Executive Agency website - http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.php
UK Cultural Contact Point - Visiting Arts - http://www.visitingarts.org.uk
Irl Cultural Contact Point - http://www.ccp.i
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NOTE: ALTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING REFERS TO ARTISTS FROM ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES, PARTNERSHIPS WITH ORGANISATIONS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ARE SUPPORTED BY THE FOURTH PILLAR.
Unlimited will celebrate disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Commissions totalling £1.5 million will be awarded to produce work by disabled and Deaf artists and arts organisations in the UK which celebrates London 2012.
The programme has four pillars:
• Unlimited Commissions: a £1.5million commission fund to support the production of quality work by disabled and Deaf artists, and disabled and Deaf led arts organisations
• Unlimited Talent: bespoke training and mentoring programme for successful applicants to support the realisation of their commission. Training will be specifically created for the needs of each artist or partnership
• Unlimited Presents: Work created through Unlimited Commissions will have the opportunity to be showcased in London and across the UK up to and including games time
• Unlimited International: This will support collaboration between artists in the UK and other countries, and showcase new work around the world. It will also promote a global debate amongst young people about disability rights. This pillar of the programme is being led by the British Council and is still in development, full details will be announced in 2010
Arts Council England is delivering Unlimited Commissions with the Scottish Arts Council, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales on behalf of London 2012 and the Olympic Lottery Distributor.
Unlimited Commissions will support the creation and production of high quality work across all artforms that places disabled and Deaf people at its centre either through its form, content or setting. Artists are encouraged to explore new partnerships with mainstream presenting organisations, venues and events and new artistic and managerial collaborations.
We welcome proposals from disabled and Deaf artists, and disabled and Deaf led arts organisations, who wish to develop their work, strengthen their artistic practice, challenge perceptions and forge new partnerships with presenting venues and events. We want to commission high quality work that can be seen and experienced by a broad range of audiences in a wide range of spaces.
Grants for the arts application forms and guidance can be downloaded from our website (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding).
Please state ‘Unlimited Commissions’ in the project title to help us identify your application.
There are three deadlines for the commissions. They are:
Round one Deadline for applications 4 January 2010 Successful applicants notified 12 March 2010
Round two Deadline for applications 1 October 2010 Successful applicants notified 23 December 2010
Round three Deadline for applications 18 April 2011 Successful applicants notified 8 July 2011
Collaborations with a range of arts organisations will be welcomed, however all applications will need to show how disabled and Deaf artists lead creatively.
In addition Unlimited Commissions is looking for:
• High quality work that could be performance ready from late 2010
• Work that could forge new partnerships with presenting venues and events
• Work that responds to the three core values of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. These are:
• celebrating London and the whole of the UK welcoming the world – our unique internationalism, cultural diversity, sharing and understanding
• inspiring and involving young people
• generating a positive legacy (eg arts, cultural and sports participation, audience development, cultural skills, capacity building, urban regeneration, tourism and social cohesion, international linkages)
Follow the standard Grants for the arts budget guidance at http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/grantsforthearts
Commissions will be required to incorporate best practice in relation to sustainability and environmental impact. For further information, see the London 2012 sustainability strategy at http://www.london2012.com/plans/sustainability
Successful applicants will be entitled to specific professional development support to ensure that their idea reaches production, as part of Unlimited Talent. This could include:
• mentoring from experienced artists and practitioners
• training in areas such as production, marketing or access
• brokering relationships with mainstream festivals and producers
• assistance in tour booking
• contract management
If you require further information on the application process, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or phone 0845 300 6200.
If you require access support to help you fill in your application, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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South Dublin County Council’s Arts Office is currently seeking freelance dance teachers/choreographers who would like their contact details to be kept on-file.
We are looking for dancers who demonstrate the following:
- Experience in choreography/teaching dance with groups of varying ages
Your CV should include
· Details of your teaching, choreographic experience
· Areas of interest, any style is welcome
· Qualifications
· Two references with contact details
Experience of working with diverse groups and in community arts programmes is desirable.
CV’s and references should be sent to Collette Ryan, Arts Office, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght D24 or Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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ARTISTS ARE EXPERTS TOO!
Call for expressions of interest EACEA/2007 for the establishment of a list of experts to assist the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in the framework of the management of the Community programmes in the fields of education, audiovisual, culture, youth and citizenship.
The Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture is issuing a call for expressions of interest in order to obtain applications for the establishment of a list of experts. This call is managed by the Agency in conjunction with the European Commission.
The experts’ duties will be to assist the Agency, or, where applicable, the Commission, in the performance of the tasks mentioned below, with reference to the programme objectives, the priorities and criteria laid down in the calls for proposals, as well as the guides and manuals made available to applicants.
The tasks to be performed include:
1. Evaluating proposals received in response to calls for proposals
2. Evaluating and monitoring projects:
* evaluating project reports
* evaluating project products and results
* project monitoring and site visits
* any other tasks relating to the analysis and/or monitoring of programmes and projects
3. Specific studies and analyses relating to fields of activity
The experts chosen within the framework of this call may also be required to assist the Agency’s parent Directorates-General (DG EAC, INFSO, AIDCO) within the framework of their activities (general coordination of policies and programmes, communications, management of strands for which the Agency is not responsible).
Applications can be submitted until 30 June 2013.
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Corcadorca are currently putting together a database of all professionals who work in the theatre industry and are based in the greater Cork area. This will be similar to our existing Actors Register in terms of how it is compiled. We are looking for people who are working on a professional basis in all aspects of theatre, for example, costume designers, set designers, stage managers, composers, playwrights etc.
We are currently looking for CSV's of theatre professionals in every field who wish to be included in the register. By establishing a database of this kind, our aim is to promote closer links within the theatre community in Cork. We feel it is important that professional theatre workers have access to information and contact details. This approach stands to benefit us all and encourages a stronger base for
Cork theatre. We hope that initiatives such as this can promote collaboration and expand the lines of communication for members of our theatre community.
If you are interested in being included in this database send your details to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Creative Careers - Ireland's jobs and opportunities website for the arts/creative sector includes a Careers Chat Forum, Training, Seminar section, Classifieds section and an RSS feed for the latest jobs and opportunities. You can also place adverts seeking Interns or Volunteers or letting Creative Space. The site covers areas such as Theatre, Performance, Film , Literature, Arts Management, Visual Arts and Design ! Digital Media.
CreativeCareers.ie is now fully automated so your adverts go online in a matter of seconds and all services are completely free.
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RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Cenre, is looking to expand its database of freelance arts tutors. We are looking for tutors across all art forms including visual arts, dance, drama and music.
If you would like us to consider you for future projects run by the centre, please email or post a cv and a description of any specialist
skills to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Opportunities, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
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Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company are looking for PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES to join the Company. We are looking for 1-2 people with physical disabilities - who EITHER have a background in sports or athletics OR have some previous dance experience or training
We are also looking for 1 NON-DISABLED MALE CONTEMPORARY DANCER. This person must have strong contemporary dance technique and good contact improvisation skills. Previous integared dance experience not required. A driving licence is a plus.
Croi Glan is a professional integrated dannce company based in Cork which performs dance nationally and internationally. We are looking for people to work on a project Spring-Summer 2010, with the possibility of then making a 2 year commitment to the Company. Please send a brief C.V or biography outlining your sports or dance background to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Information +353 87 9042753
The Firkin Crane is a wheelchair accessible venue
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The Foundation for Community Dance: The National College for Community Dance
The FCD’s National College for Community Dance, now in its 2nd year, offers a wide-ranging programme of events for all dance practitioners working in community dance contexts. They would like to get this information out to dance artists and teachers around the UK and internationally.
The National College delivers an annual programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events and learning opportunities that aim to support, inspire and improve the practice of dance leaders working in community dance contexts. The programme includes workshops; seminars; induction, intermediate and advanced courses; annual 3-day residential Summer School; accredited learning pathways; consultation events; network events and resource books.
See their current programme and further information at: http://www.communitydance.org.uk/nationalcollege
Tel: +44 (0) 116 253 3453 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Foundation for Community Dance is the professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance.
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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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Rhona writes:
A Chara,
I am writing to let you know I have decided to leave Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company. Tara Brandel and I set up the company in 2006 with the support of a lot of people. I have had the most amazing time while in the company and I have danced and worked with the most incredible people, but now I see that my life is moving in a different, but still in a creative way for now, and a wonderful opportunity was presented to me, which I could not refuse, my other love, working in radio.
There are so many people and agencies I would love to thank….
The Irish Arts Council and Mr. Ian Mc Donagh of Cork County Council, both helped so much with funding and support.
The Firkin Crane staff and especially Paul McCarthy who helped make this dream for me a reality and Dance Ireland for their influence and help.
I have been blessed to work with some outstanding choreographers namely Jess Curtis, Kim Epifone, David Bolger & Adam Benjamin. Thank you all so much. Working with you all has been a great joy. To all the dancers I have worked with, you have made my dance experience a beautiful one and I thank you so much for that. I want also to thank CanDoCo Dance Company, Axis Dance Company, Patric Cashman, Sally Edwards (Blue Eyed Soul), Wendy Hesketh and Kate Mansion (aerial dance UK) for being such an inspirations to me, thank you all so much. To all at Cope Foundation and everyone that I have met along the way, while teaching the integrated dance classes which were held in the Firkin Crane, I am blessed to have worked and danced with you all. To every single person who has helped and supported me along the way. I thank you.
I would like to wish every one in Croi Glan the very best with their future projects. I'd like to thank Tara Brandel, Julie O Leary, William O Donavan, Mary Nuggent, Dawn Molloy, Miriam Engel, Skye Reynolds and Chole De Buyl Pisco and also all the people who helped behind the scenes, Ashling Kavanagh, John Moloney, Sarah Smith, Sharon Heffernan and Sarah Cairns.
To any one that I have been connected with, while working in Croi Glan I thank you and you know who you are and finally I want to thank all my family and friends for all their support and love along the way.
If you wish to contact me in the future and I hope you will, please do so, through my personal email address .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or else please add me as a friend on facebook. I look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Rhona Coughlan
The Pines
Sunday's Well
Cork
086 0679101
rhonacoughlan@hotmail
Meanwhile, our other show running at the Firkin Crane during the summer months will open on this Wednesday at 8pm. Songs From The Beautiful City, with Jimmy Crowley, will run every Wednesday and Thursday in the intimate Musgrave Theatre at The Firkin Crane. Ticket prices are only €15 with group and family bookings available.
Jimmy and all the staff at the Firkin Crane dearly hope that the people of Cork will support Songs from the Beautiful City as a show from the heart of the city, about every one of us and our colourful past.
Cork City Ballet (Director: Alan Foley)
Cork City Ballet presents a series of sparkling divertissements, which include Alan Foley’s own ballet Enigma, with CCB star Leigh Alderson and students from Coláiste Stiofán Naofa Dance. Also featured are Irish ballerina Monica Loughman and Robert Gabdullin from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, who will perform the pas de deux from Giselle Act 2.
The company will also present a new jazz ballet Rule The World, choreographed by Phillippa Davison, and The Male Dying Swan solo performed by Leigh Alderson, with music by Saint Saens.
Directed by Alan Foley, this eclectic suite of dances by the company is sure to please every cultural palate, with its fresh and innovative modern choreography, combined with the great classical traditions of Giselle and The Dying Swan.
CruX Dance Theatre (Director: Jane Kelleghan)
A contemporary adnce performance will include extracts from CruX's repertoire, including Infallible Muse 2, Hermaphrodite, Wet Dance and Individual Myth, all choreographed by Jane Kelleghan. This performance celebrates a diverse body of work, creating a medley of choreographic encounters, which includes elements of multimedia.
Dancers include Mark Carberry, Samon Presland and Amy Lawson.
Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company (Director: Tara Brandel)
A new aerial dance solo, Fling, is choreographed and performed by Tara Brandel, and directed by Scottish Dance Theatre's Dance Agent for Change disabled choreographer Caroline Bowditch. Fling evokes the sense of teetering on the edge, a feeling of not being able to let go and walk away - a solo dancer is drawn back.
This will be followed by an extract from Fall, choreographed in 2009 by Tara Brandel, with dancers Dawn Mulloy and William O'Donovan.
Special Guests, The Students and Alumni of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance Programme, University of Limerick (Course Director: Dr Catherine Foley)
The dancers are Renske Burghout; Meabh Felton; Máiréad O'Connor, Anna Shalabudova and Breandán de Gallaí (PhD Arts Practice Research Student). Excerpts performed from the Rite of Spring. Choreography: Breandán de Gallaí. Music Igor Stravinsky.
The Guidelines are designed to present clear, concise and user-friendly guidance to those working in the area of participatory arts in healthcare contexts. They were developed through consultation with artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health.
They would appreciate if artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health would take the time to consider and interpret the Guidelines in the context of their own practice, possibly in consultation with peers, partners and clients, and send us feedback by the 31 October 2010. They will review the Guidelines in the light of feedback received.
Further copies of this document can be downloaded from http://www.waterfordhealingarts.com.
May I congratulate Alan Foley and Paul McCarthy and all those involved in this splendid performance of such brilliance, virtuosity, colour and magic. I know I speak for the entire family when I say how deeply moved we are that Alan arranged for a revival of a section of my father’s Golden Bell of Ko for this most special evening, which is part of Cork City Ballet’s contribution to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations of 2010. We thank Yuri for having recreated the dance with such insight, and your beautiful dancers for having performed so exquisitely. Our best thanks to you, Alan, Sinead, Paul, Tim. It is marvellous to see the cooperation between the distinguished guest dancers, the talented dancers of Cork City Ballet, of the Cork School of Dance, the Irish Youth Ballet and of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa. It is I suppose that spirit which makes such miracles possible even in these dire times.
I cannot think of anything which would have given Miss Moriarty and my father more joy than to have seen the wonderful production this evening and to know that Domy Reiter-Soffer has travelled from Tel Aviv by circuitous routes over Britain and Ireland to get here today in time to open our exhibition The Music for the Ballet. The material for the exhibition was selected by my sisters Anne and Maeve (who spent the best part of two years going through the Fleischmann papers containing perhaps 200,000 items); it was designed by Aloys Fleischmann`s grandson, Max Fleischmann, who has digitised 20,000 documents from the collection. The Cork Lyons Club very kindly sponsored the exhibition, which will be open until the end of the week, will then travel to Cork City Library and from thence to Kerry School of Music in Tralee. When we began the work we had intended to focus on the five ballets written by our father for Miss Moriarty`s companies. But when we realised the highly significant role she played in providing a forum for Irish musicians to compose for a new genre, commissioning 18 new works and using in all the works of 30 Irish composers for the hundred ballets she created, we felt we had to widen our perspective.
It is my special privilege tonight to introduce to you Domy Reiter-Soffer, the Israeli dancer, choreographer, play producer, opera producer and painter, who has just returned from a most successful production of Beauty and the Beast in Denver USA. Domy had a close friendship with Joan Denise Moriarty and with my father for thirty years. He first came to Cork in 1962 as a dancer with Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland’s first professional ballet company, when he travelled to every town in Ireland north, south, east and west that had a stage big enough for the company to perform on. From 1973 he was artistic advisor and choreographer to Miss Moriarty’s second professional company, the Irish Ballet Company, later called Irish National Ballet, and he created some of the most wonderful works in the company’s repertoire. I think dancers of all three of Miss Moriarty`s companies are with us here tonight. Domy shared the work, the struggle, the anxieties and the triumphs of the late 1970s and 1980s. Very many of the works he created for Miss Moriarty’s companies were revived by him for dance companies all round the world. The one ballet he has not revived is the swan song of Irish National Ballet: his magnificent ballet Oscar, the last work performed by INB, set to The Garden of Fand by Arnold Bax, a composition Miss Moriarty herself had hoped to choreograph.
Domy, we are deeply grateful to you for having honoured this event with your presence in tribute to the memories of Miss Moriarty and Aloys Fleischmann – may I call on you to officially open the exhibition The Music for the Ballet?
Dance is discipline, work, teaching, communication. With it we save on words that perhaps others would not understand and, instead, we establish a universal language familiar to everyone. It gives us pleasure, it makes us free and it comforts us from the impossibility we humans have to fly like birds, bringing us closer to heaven, to the sacred, to the infinite.
It is a sublime art, different each time, so much like making love that at the end of each performance it leaves our heart beating very hard and looking forward to the next time.
English translation by Marcia De La Garza (Original in Spanish)
The following successful projects were selected:
* Admit One - Choreographer John Scott, Director Steve Woods and Producer Catherine Lyons.
* Deependance - Choreographer David Bolger, Director Conor Horgan and Producer Martha O’Neill.
* Her Mother’s Daughter - Choreographer Cindy Cummings, Director Oonagh Kearney, Composer Denis Clohessy and Producers Rachel Lysaght and Steven Davenport.
* Mo MhórChoir Féin - Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchuir, Director Dearbhla Walsh, Composer Iarla Ó Lionaird and Producer Maggie Breathnach.
The completed short dance films will be premiered on RTÉ Television during this year’s Dublin Dance Festival which runs from 8-23 May and then screened in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square [tbc].
Speaking about the scheme, Fionnuala Sweeney, Head of Film and International Arts, at the Arts Council said: “Dance on the Box provides a unique opportunity for film and dance artists to collaborate and the Arts Council is delighted with the response to the third round of the scheme. We would like to congratulate all of the successful applicants and look forward to seeing four imaginative and engaging dance films on RTÉ Television as part of the Dublin Dance Festival in April”.
David McKenna, RTÉ Television's Executive Producer Arts & Cross-Media, added: “The exceptional quality of this year’s applications highlights the value placed on this scheme by film and dance artists. We are particularly grateful to the short-listed creative teams who met us and are very much looking forward to premiering these films on RTÉ during the Dublin Dance Festival.”
An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012 is now available for download from the Arts Council website. This paper outlines how the Arts Council intends to build on its review of Partnership for the Arts concluded in June 2008. Feedback from ongoing discussions with dance artists and organisations contributed directly to the shaping of the ideas in this document, which offers a developed and integrated overview of how the Council envisages dance provision in the future.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Integrated-dance-strategy-2010-2012.pdf
Giving Body to Dance
Giving Body to Dance, a summary report of the review of building based infrastructures for dance in Ireland is now available for download from the Arts Council website. The review involved a nationwide consultation with dance artists, companies, organisations and spaces. The document contains findings which relate to the quality of spaces that are currently available to professional dance practitioners countrywide. The report outlines comprehensively, the recommended health and safety standards for dance spaces. This is the first time that such a list of recommendations has been compiled for dance in Ireland.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Giving-body-to-dance-report-2010.doc
Online services was developed to more efficiently manage funding applications and payments. This new website means that you can:
- Download application forms and guidelines;
- Create a profile for banking, tax and contact details (which you can reuse for other applications);
- Upload the completed application form(s) and up to 20MB of electronic supporting materials;
- Avail of a one-week deadline extension to complete online applications;
(Where successful), submit a payment request or payment schedule with supporting documentation.
Applications for the Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme 2010 will be also be open via online services. Details of the scheme will be published on http://www.artscouncil.ie shortly.
Read more: http://www.relais-culture-europe.org/fileadmin/fichiers/4_Monter_son_projet/manuel2-E-BD.pdf
..And if you are looking to make a start at making links and contacts in Europe read Voluntary Arts Network briefing at: http://www.voluntaryarts.org/uploaded/map12513.pdf
In its overall approach, the Council sought to ensure that organisations can continue to bring the best of the arts to audiences across Ireland. Emphasis was given to achieving a regional balance, on enabling the arts to reach more people, and on supporting artists to make work.
While the value of the allocations has decreased across the artforms, the relativity of allocation between the artforms (with the exception of Opera), has remained broadly similar to previous years.
Theatre Forum has provided an analysis of the funding
We are also looking for a NON-DISABLED MALE CONTEMPORARY DANCER. This person must have strong contemporary dance technique and good contact improvisation
skills. Previous integrated dance experience not required. A driving licence is an advantage.
Croi Glan is a professional integrated dance company based in Cork which performs dance nationally and internationally. We are looking for people to work on a project during Spring-Summer 2010, with the possibility of then making a 2 year commitment to the Company.
Please send a brief C.V. or biography outlining your sports or dance background to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
For further information +353 87 9042753
Auditions will be held in the Firkin Crane on 6th - 7th March
This is a wheelchair accessible venue
In any case, the site is now up and running - somewhat of an empty house - at http://www.corkarts.org. To get things rolling, we have put up a few relevant topics on the forum. Anyone can register and contribute / start new topics. Possibly of biggest concern at the moment is reaction to funding decisions by The Arts Council. If you have something to say, then make a contribution at http://corkarts.org/forum/topic.php?id=2
There are a number of people working on getting the website populated with useful information on what's going on and regular updates will start over the next few weeks.
Collaborators and contributors to the website are more than welcome. To join in, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The Treatment Room is set up especially to welcome clients in a warm and friendly environment, and to promote wellness and relaxation.
- Warmed towels
- Heated massage couch
- Soothing background music
- Privacy screen
Therapeutic Massage benefits most people; from general relaxation, to restoring muscle tone, improving function and circulation, relieving stress & tension or certain symptoms, and can also be preventative as part of a treatment plan. The method is based on Swedish Massage, using a light oil with applied pressure, and gentle but firm, gliding movements amongst others, and whilst some techniques used are deep, the treatment generally focuses on soft tissue. Some minor injuries can benefit from this form of treatment. It is a professional service with effective results.
Staś Bernasiński graduated with distinction from the Natural Healing Centre with a practitioner's diploma in Therapeutic Massage. He is currently broadening his professional skills with advanced massage techniques including Deep Tissue Massage, Sports & Remedial Massage and Trigger Point Therapy, and focusing longterm on specialising in dance & dance related injury. He is a member of the Natural Healing Institute of Ireland (NHII) and an Associate member of the Irish Massage Therapists Association (IMTA), and is fully insured.
Treatments: A 1 hour consultation is tailored to each person's needs, with usually approx. 45 minutes of actual treatment time. A detailed patient history is taken at the first session, and, whilst a treatment requires some degree of undress pertinent to the body part being worked, the client is otherwise draped in towels for discretion, comfort and warmth.
Rates: 1 hour session costs €50.
A loyalty scheme is in place and please feel free to enquire about discounts.
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Private Health Insurance: Currently only Aviva recognises massage as a complementary therapy. The IMTA is actively lobbying Quinn Healthcare and VHI to adopt the same stance. Please ask for an IMTA stamped receipt if you wish to claim.
Always seek professional medical advice regarding health concerns.
Angeliki Smalis performing a solo dance piece at the International Dance Festival "ABUNDANCE" in Karlstad, Sweden from the 15 - 17th June 2010 €500
Liadain Herriott presenting "Two" at the Smriti Nandan Cultural Center, Bangalore, India €500
Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at Festival Antipodes, Brittany 4 - 6 March and at a number of venues in Northern France from the 4th - 25th April 2010 €5000
Dance Theatre of Ireland performing "Block Party" at the Busan International Dance Festival, Korea from the 3rd - 8th June and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, UK from the 7th – 22nd May 2010 €38,000
New time: 9.45-10.45am
New venue: St. Joseph's Community Association (the building next to the library, behind the bus stop & up a small flight of steps, on the Old Youghal Road
New payment system: 20 Euro for X4wk Block, paid at the class week one.
New emphasis: There will be less of a bias placed towards a creative element and more focus geared towards toning, stretching, balance work and learning gentle fun routines in a variety of dance styles – to suit the group’s taste.
Same day: Thursdays’
The class is for woman aged 50 years plus. Individuals are encouraged to work at their own level of fitness with no previous dance experience or partner necessary. Wear comfy clothes with non-slip flat soled shoes and bring a bottle of water to sip through the class. New comers’ are very welcome to try their first class for free.
For further information, please contact: Jo Nichols 087 77 87 320
This is the republic’s first and only dedicated Circus space and will be providing a training and creation space for performers all over the country and also for international professionals.
To perform high skill circus shows Circus performers need to train everyday in order to perform in daredevil activities such as aerial trapeze and human pyramids. This space is the perfect place for such enterprises as it houses the specialist equipment needed for intensive training and performing.
Many performers have left the country in previous years, travelling to countries such as France or the UK, where Circus is more developed. By having such a space in Cork the performers are hoping to attract more Circus performers to the area and also develop the skills of those already living here. There are many advantages to having this innovative and creative circus centre in the heart of Cork city; it will add another level of diversity to Cork culture and make circus more open and accessible to the greater community, therefore improving the quality of circus performance and nurturing new and potential talent.
The centre will also be offering workshops in 2010 to a variety of different levels from local beginners to international professionals.
The circus community is a collaboration of 6 Cork based groups and they are currently coming up with ideas for a name and would love if the public could send suggestions to any of the following contacts:
E-mail:- .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Facebook:- CircusSpace Cork
In December the Arts Council received its budget allocation of €69.15 million for 2010. This level of funding, despite the enormous pressure on public resources, underscores the commitment to the arts of the Government and, in particular, of the Minister for the Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen TD.
The allocation does represent a significant reduction in funding, and its impact, along with previous reductions, will be felt hard across the sector. In 2009, with a final grant-in-aid of €73.35 million, the Arts Council did everything possible to minimise the effect of the reductions in its grant to artists and organisations and get best value for public money. The Council used savings from previous years and even allocated some of 2010 its budget in advance. While this meant we were able to invest almost €78 million in 2009, simple arithmetic dictates that the drop to 2010 levels will be all the more difficult.
Nonetheless, the Arts Council is best placed to invest this money wisely, and we will redouble our efforts to ensure that people right across the country have access to the best of the arts in 2010.
The full statement from our Chairman, Pat Moylan, is available to read in this month’s newsletter.
Consensus of many comments so far is that the National Campaign for the Arts was instrumental in reducing the severity of the cuts. The campaign will continue in the coming year. For some details, check here:
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan's full speech:
http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/budget2010/speech/
To celebrate the 2009 residencies and look forward to BLANK CANVAS 2010, Phluxus Dance Collective, from Brisbane, Australia, presented a taste of their award-winning repertoire and raised the temperature for a delighted audience at a sharing on Monday 30 November 2009.
Arts workers throughout the city and county are coming together to ensure the place of the arts in our country’s recovery. For more information, visit http://www.corkarts.org
The primary concern of the Campaign is to protect arts funding in the forthcoming budget from recession-inspired slash & burn recommendations made by the McCarthy Report. The aim is to raise support at a grassroots level for The National Campaign for the Arts, which is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations in visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music, literature, architecture and collaborative arts.
The National Campaign for the Arts asserts the fundamental importance of the arts to economic recovery and calls for:
The Campaign calls for:
* Retention of Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide
* Retention of The Irish Film Board, development agency of the Irish film industry
* Maintenance of existing levels of funding to the Arts Council
* Retention of the artist's income tax exemption scheme
* Commitment to retain the arts portfolio at cabinet as part of a senior ministerial portfolio
Dancing in the street - an extra special event took place last Saturday – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY5bOjT73XU&feature=player_embedded
Cork artists and arts workers are proud of their contribution to Cork's designation in the Lonely Planet Best of 2010 Guide as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit and the significance that this has had to the local economy. It is hoped that with the maintenance of current levels of Arts Council funding, the arts in Cork will continue to draw visitors to the area and that Cork can capitalise on the spending power of these visitors.
for details of Firkin Crane performance.
DAGHDHA SPACE, ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, JOHN’S SQUARE, LIMERICK, IRELAND
FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2009 8PM
AS PART OF DAGHDHA’S GRAVITY & GRACE PERFORMANCE SERIES 17 – 22 NOVEMBER AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAMUSKA NIGHTS
CALLS FOR SUBMISSION: DEADLINE FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Mamuska Limerick is back – Daghdha Dance calls local and national artists to participate in the upcoming Mamuska Limerick, as part of the Gravity & Grace performance week in November.
This will be a great opportunity to present and view evolving works, raw ideas, unrehearsed visions, trials and errors, short masterpieces, playful nonsense, first steps... all in the context of an informal environment where like minded people meet and receive feedback from the audience. So come and be a part of it.
This time around, we dedicate this evening to each sense with special focus on allegories, illusion, sensitivity, intuition and sensations. So please contact the Programme Curator Angie Smalis with your proposals as a maximum of ten artists will be chosen to present live work, complimented by installation pieces and a unique sound environment.
Mamuska Limerick - dedicated to all the ‘senses’... offers a sensation of tingling, pricking, itching, momentum, depth and brightness. So join in and be part of this evening of dance, performance, film sound art and music.
Produced by Daghdha Dance Company this event is supported by the Arts Council and in partnership with Mamuska Nights.
To submit your work, please contact the Programme Curator:
ANGIE SMALIS: +353 (0) 830067394 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Submission criteria:
• Open to works in the fields of dance, live performance, live installation, sound and video art.
• All works must be under 10 minutes long.
• All works must have very simple technical set up and requirements.
• Send title, duration and brief description of work submitted.
• Send short CV of people involved.
• Inclusion of supporting material is recommended.
• Closing Date Friday 13th November 2009.
For more information about Mamuska Nights please visit: http://mamuskanights.net
DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY: Artistic Director Michael Klien
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Supported by The Arts Council, RTÉ lyric fm, Limerick City Council, FÁS, Shannon Development, Fáilte Ireland and Culture Ireland.
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Dance mapping shows that popular culture has helped raise the profile of dance. TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Billy Elliot the Musical captured the public’s imagination, leading to classes across the country filling up with dance accounting for more than one in 10 of all adult learning classes.
Despite England becoming home to a dance sector that is the envy of the world, the research shows that though the dance workforce is highly educated (62% hold degrees) they are underpaid; 38% of people who make a living from dance only earned £5,000- £20,000 in 2008/09 and almost a quarter (23%) earned under £5,000. The Arts Council fears that the low levels of pay may affect the sustainability of careers, leadership within the sector and the ability of potential champions to emerge.
Find out more as well about New Stream - a three year corporate investment venture in Irish arts and culture between Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Business to Arts -
http://www.businesstoarts.ie/newstream.html
To be in with a chance of winning one of five sets of tickets to this delightful ballet, download this picture, colour it in and send to Cork City Ballet at The Firkin Crane by 13 November 2009.
Dancers, choreographers, anyone involved with or interested in dance, were invited to join in. Many visitors came simply to see this unique building and were drawn in to the excitement and thrill of the dance.
Throughout the evening, almost 400 people thronged the many spaces, demonstrating the variety, imagination and vibrancy of dance in Cork, and proving that, no matter what a visitor's age, experience, or level of agility, there will always be something to try, as participant or audience.
The evening's programme included performances by the newly founded Cork School of Dance (and featured a rare public performance by the Director Sinead Murphy), the Gaeity School of Performance (including an impromptu masterclass in German for a group of delighted visiting students) and a lovely, peaceful Movement Offering by Claire Osbourne and Laura O'Brien. Juliette Jones,who had only come to register for the Firkin Crane's new Irish Dancing class, was prevailed upon to give a lively demonstration.
Many tried out Salsa, Tango or Hip-Hop, and resolved to come back again for further classes!
For the whole summer The Big Wash Up has been attracting attention in the Shandon area from residents and tourists alike. This project by Cork Community Art Link features a series of temporary images that have been power-washed onto walls and buildings in Shandon bringing stories and memories of the area back to life.
“The Big Wash Up is a participative and community based arts project that was undertaken in partnership with the wider community. The project set out to gather memories and stories relating to Shandon in order to inspire a series of images. Consultations were held in St Mary’s Road Library with the assistance of the Northside Folklore Project and a wealth of local knowledge was recorded. During the course of the project we listened to stories of shawlies and corner boys, crubeens and messenger boys as well as characters that were unique to the area.”
The memories shared with Artlink have inspired over fifty temporary images that were washed onto walls and buildings in and around Shandon. From the buttera (Butter Exchange Brass Band ) circa 1885 to knitwear making in the butter exchange in the late twenties, corner boys playing pitch and toss or delivery boys taking a rest, each wall is set to tell a story. The Firkin Crane and the Butter Exchange feature as two of the principal locations and host some of the more spectacular temporary murals relating the past uses of each building.
Artist Philippe Chevrinais from Artitillerie Nantes France joined Cork Community Art Link for part of the project. Artitillerie specialise in developing public space arts project and have undertaken some spectacular large scale wall washing and paper pasting projects in France .
The Big Wash Up remains on display until Sept 28 2009. Mural trail maps can be found at St Mary’s Road Library, the Firkin Crane and shops around Shandon during July and August.
The project was undertaken with the support and participation of St Mary’s road Library, The Shandon Street Festival, Northside Folklore Project, Firkin Crane , Artist Philippe Chevrinais, Artitillerie, Shandon Youth Club and all those participants who gave their time, memories, materials and even their buildings as canvas
The Big Wash Up is part of the What if… public space arts programme and Cork Community Art Link's programme of community based participative art making for 2009.
Cork Community Art Link is a multidisciplinary arts organisation that develops participatory arts projects with communities and groups in Cork City . It prioritises working with groups who are disadvantaged or socially marginalised in their access to the arts and in their participation in the making of local and national culture.
As a multi-disciplinary arts organisation working with people in various social contexts it believes that access to the arts, not just as a spectator but both as participant and creator is a fundamental right to which every person should be entitled, regardless of their personal circumstances
Cork Community Art Link uses a range of artistic mediums from street spectacle and celebration using the street as a forum and stage for a collective community purpose, to visual arts based projects in more secluded contexts, performances, exhibitions, music and sound
Lady Mayoress Tanya Murphy, Cllr. Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork, Ann Rea, Paul O'Donoghue, Marie Lynch, Paul McCarthy, Michelle Whelan
ITI’s Information Toolbox is a key networking event aimed specifically at the needs of new and emerging theatre and dance companies/artists. This half-day event provides an ideal environment for new and emerging Irish companies and artists to promote their shows, pitch work to venues and festivals and begin dialogue with key funding agencies and support organisations. The objective is for these companies and artists to investigate the possibility of re-mounting their shows following the Dublin Fringe Festival or, indeed, to create new work in the future. The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland support this event.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment:
http://www.irishtheatreinstitute.com/event_info_toolbox_09.html
The exhibition, now on view in Bishopstown Library Gallery, features rare photographic works and personal artefacts of both the person and of the ballet company she left as a legacy to the arts and particularly to ballet and dance in Cork and in Ireland. The memorabilia of a bygone age is fascinating to behold, highlighting the multi layered involvement Miss Moriarty had in music and the arts and the wonderful links she made locally and nationally. Though Joan Denise had a national profile she was based first and foremost in Cork and the City and County owe her a debt of gratitude that has yet to be properly recognised. The exhibits show generations of dancers, musical and dance companies and the links the Cork Ballet Company had with the Irish Ballet Company, the Firkin Crane, City Hall and the Arts generally.
The exhibition was opened by the Lord Mayor Cllr. Brian Bermingham, in the presence of invited guests on Wednesday June 3 and runs until June 30. Lovingly put together by fans and friends devoted to her memory it is well worth a visit. The exhibition is open to the public and is free of charge, don’t miss it.
Clarke, Ella, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €8,525
Fitzgerald, Emma, South Dublin County Council €13,700
Giannotti, Elena, Limerick City Council, €14,000
Mc Crory, Tanya, Galway City Council, €10,000
Vaughan, Mairead, Cork County Council, €15,000
Deadline for the next round is 5 November 2009
Malcolm X was a dedicated lindyhopper before he became an incendiary civil rights leader, a fact which was featured in the eponymous Spike Lee film starring Denziel Washington. Learn to be a leader at the Swing class every Wednesday.
11 Oct 2008 -
08.00 pm
Tickets: €12/10 concession
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company presents a completely new work, featuring three highly skilled dancers: Christina Goletti, Aine Stapleton, Federica Esposito.
This work deals with touch between human beings as well as the dynamics within relationships. Touching Distance portrays real people on stage in a dance work able to touch a wide audience.… Touching distance of our dreams shared with the audience, of where we think we want to be. Allow this work to take you by surprise to question why you might want to watch a dance performance. To laugh, to get to know each other, to open up to your feelings, allow them to dance.
Choreography: Nicholas Bryson
Dance: Aine Stapleton, Cristina Goletti, Federica Esposito
Music: Michael Fleming, Mo Benison
Workshop for 12 - 17 year-olds on Friday 10th
presents
Roddy Doyle’s
Hilarious Comedy
BROWNBREAD
A Gun, a Kidnapped Bishop, Three Lads from Barrytown, the American Marines, and Two Days the Residents Of Barrytown will never forget.
Ao Farrell, John Murray and Donkey have been best friends for years. During another day wondering the streets of Dublin looking for something to pass the time, the lads make a find any young fella would dream of, a browning 9mm handgun.
What better way to put it to use then to kidnap the Bishop during the Confirmations, it was either that or watch the snooker or Live at Three. What ensues is one of the funniest stand offs you will see on stage this year. Hulled up in Donkey’s Mammy’s bedroom the lads and the Bishop settle in for a long stay as in Donkey’s own words "Can yis Imagine it!? - Walkin’ ou’. – With our hands up, yeh Know. – The fuckin slaggin we’d get!!!"
Unfortunately for the lad’s and the Bishop, his Grace was born in New York, queue the American Marines and President Ronald Regan into what has now become an international situation. On top of all that Mr Farrell hasn’t even had his dinner.
BLANK CANVAS 2011 - Call for Applications
Date: 12 Jul 2010
BLANK CANVAS is a professional dance residency programme at the Firkin Crane open to professional dance artists already making their career in dance. The residency provides a platform for incubation time and space to research, develop and explore creative ideas without emphasis on a finished production.For 2011 BLANK CANVAS is inviting applications with emphasis on exploring duet work. Dance artists may apply to work with an artist from another artistic medium as part of a duet exploration. In this case, we would encourage a physical interactive element be explored as part of the residency. It is also possible to submit an application as an individual artist with an aspiration to work with local professional artists to form a duet. The BLANK CANVAS Dance Team can assist in suggesting suitable collaborators.
BLANK CANVAS works in partnership with each artist to support the needs of their residency subject to resources available and would like to acknowledge the Arts Council of Ireland for its continuous support of the programme.
BLANK CANVAS - open audition for one female dancer
Date: 27 Jan 2010
American Choreographer Micheline Heal is seeking one female dancer to work with during her BLANK CANVAS residency at The Firkin Crane in Cork from March 23 to April 6, 2010.About the Project:
The piece, created in collaboration with filmmaker Julia Reisen, is an exploration of how fairy tales that we have read to us as children influence our paths towards adulthood. We are adapting European fairy tales for film that will be integrated into an installation with live performance to explore the effect of children's stories on the mindsets of children in Western society.
Fairytales are, at times, extremely dark, attempting to scare us into doing the right thing. In The Little Match Girl we are presented with the last few thoughts that the match girl has before she freezes to death. The Little Mermaid trades in her most prized feature – her voice – for a pair of feet that bleed if she walks too much on them. Little Red Riding Hood is eaten by a wolf. Through accentuating this darkness the piece makes sense of the masked morals that we learn as children, consciously or subconsciously, and shows the cultural reverberations of how we perceive the world as adults today.
Qualifications:
The dancer should have experience with improvisation and collaborative work as well as a strong movement background in contemporary dance. The collaborative process will be based in experimental theater and improvisation with a heavy emphasis on viewpoints and moment work.
The dancer will be compensated €50 for the final performance.
Time Commitment:
March 18: Audition (time TBA)
March 23-27: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
March 29-April 2: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
April 5: 12pm-3pm.
April 6: All day. Final sharing of the work (time TBA)
Location:
The Firkin Crane
Shandon – Cork
Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: 086 8147837
Dance Research Forum Ireland - call for papers
Date: 22 Jan 2010
Dance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) invites proposals for its 3rd International Conference: Capturing Composition: Improvisation in Dance Research and Practice, which will be hosted this year by the Firkin Crane, home of dance in Cork.The conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and abroad. Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations, practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations, dance workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance performance contributions.
Proposals include any one of six presentation formats listed below. Only one presentation per applicant is permissible. It is essential that proposals address the theme of the conference and present new insights in the attempt at advancing dance research knowledge and practice. Please submit your proposal form, including your one-page abstract (approximately 250-300 words) of your presentation, detailing your presentation format and outlining your proposed research topic and argument together with a short bibliography and/or videography, and forward it electronically to the Secretary of DRFI, Ms. Carmel McKenna at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). It is more convenient for the programme committee if the proposals are forwarded electronically both within the body of the email and in an enclosed attachment using Rich Text Format.
Please note that potential delegates need not at the stage of proposal submission be members of DRFI. However in order to present at the Conference, delegates must be DRFI members in good standing. Application forms for membership are available on the DRFI website: http://www.danceresearchforumireland.org
Programme Committee:
Dr Catherine Foley, Chair of Programme Committee, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Ms. Sheila Creevey, Dance Artist, Researcher and Consultant, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Dr. Victoria O’Brien, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Dublin.
Mr. Paul McCarthy, General Manager, The Firkin Crane, Cork.
Presentation Formats:
1. Academic-based and/or Practice-based research presentations
These presentations will be programmed for the duration of 20 minutes, including any audio-visual material. A ten-minute discussion period will be allotted after each presentation.
2. Panels
A panel presentation consisting of three or four presenters is also welcome. Panels are co-ordinated by one of the panelists who co-ordinates a panel to address a particular topic at the conference. This topic may or may not address the theme of the conference. The co-ordinator submits a one-page proposal outlining the selected topic and each of the panelists contributes to this topic. In addition, each panelist is required to write a one-page proposal (as in written research-based presentations above) outlining the particular research focus in relation to this topic. The co-ordinator is responsible for co-ordinating all proposals for the panel and these are forwarded together. The panel is assessed as a whole and will be allotted one hour in the programme, including discussion.
3. Lecture Demonstrations
Lecture-demonstrations relating to the theme of the conference are welcome. These will be programmed for the duration of 45 minutes including a 15 minute discussion.
4. Dance Workshops
Proposals for dance workshops concerning any dance genre in Ireland or its diaspora are welcome. These will be programmed for I hour.
5. Student Posters
Students are encouraged to present their theses or current research on a poster for a Dance Poster Exhibition which will be programmed at a particular time during the conference. Posters should be presented on one large sheet, at least A3 size, containing written and illustrative material. Topic of research, theoretical and methodological choices, argument, and conclusion are required to be outlined.
6. Dance Performance Contributions
Dance performance contributions are welcome that address the theme of the conference. These will be programmed for 5 to 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion.
Abstracts of presentations addressing any topic relevant to the theme of the conference should be forwarded electronically in Rich Text Format to Ms. Carmel McKenna, Secretary DRFI, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Deadline for Submission of Proposals is Friday, 29 January, 2010.
Croi Glan at Absolute Fringe
Date: 07 Sep 2009
Croi Glan are delighted to announce that they will be performing as part of Dublin Fringe Festival which takes place from the 5th - 20th September, 2009. This show is a double bill which also features Legitimate Bodies/Arno Schuitemaker with R-ated while Ella Clarke’s dance film ‘Two Hundred Feet’, with live score composed by Dara Smith, will also be screened at this performance.This humorous but poignant quartet investigates the disparity between how we view ourselves, and how we are viewed by others through the powerful cocktail of identity, sexuality and politics. David Bolger, Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre, has choreographed a piece which may redefine your perceptions. Premiering at this years Cork Midsummer Festival "with impressive grace" (Irish Times) the work will be performed at the Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September at 6pm.
Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs
Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September, 6pm
Tickets €16/€14
This venue is wheelchair accessible
Songs from the Beautiful City
Date: 26 Aug 2009
Jimmy Crowley, Cork’s own troubadour, has created a new piece of musical theatre for summer at the Firkin Crane, where he will present Songs from the Beautiful City every Wednesday and Thursday from 15 July. Street names like Cat Lane, Phair’s Cross, Connor’s Glen are almost gone from living memory. Shawlies and Black & Tans, The Shakespeare of the Northside, Christy Ring with his modern incarnation Seán Óg, Dagenham Yanks and Celtic Cubs: Jimmy gives them life in our imagination, weaving stories about the colourful characters, maritime exploits and daily life in between the ballads and ditties. This is a vibrant dramatization of his lifelong musical expedition as song collector and creator, among the people and places of Cork City, where the musical richness mirror's the city's cultural diversity - a great trad heritage as well as a legacy of both music-hall vaudeville and high art song.
RAW at the Edinburgh Fringe 2009
Date: 26 Aug 2009
Dance Base @ Out of The Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, EdinburghAug 26-27 - 21:00 (1hr 10mins)
£12.00 (£10.00)
To Book 0131 225 5521 | dancebase.co.uk (no booking fees)
RAW has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award in the Physical/Visual Theatre category.
About RAW
"In terms of technique and expressiveness, RAW excels. It is spectacular, fast, daring and dangerous. The four aerialists have exquisite skill, and the high wires are integral to the characterisation. A sequence on ropes is a perfect symbol of the ups and downs of the chemical rollercoaster. A Matrix-style fight scene injects humour and action. The finale, a peaceful arrival at a place of holiness and wisdom, resolves the desperate energy of the early scenes. It is almost a masterpiece, a showcase for aerisalism as a vibrant, important medium." - Scotland on Sunday
"Dance is springing up in new and unexpected places all over the Fringe this year. Halfway down Leith Walk at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, a Fringe community has popped up and there's a genuine buzz about the place. RAW, by Ireland's leading aerial dance troupe, Fidget Feet, is a thrilling ticket to clubland, opening with four dancers bouncing to the beats while they queue, and a DJ playing house music from on high. There are neon lights, ropes snaking down, and the atmosphere induces the jitters you feel before a big night out. If you fancy a night out clubbing on the Fringe, this is the show to get you in the mood." - CHITRA RAMASWAMY
Blank Canvas
Date: 14 Jul 2009
The Firkin Crane’s BLANK CANVAS residency provides Irish-based and international dance artists with an opportunity to explore their creative work processes, which may include research across various artforms.Within the BLANK CANVAS programme, projects may be speculative, where time and space is given to preliminary work in forming a concept or idea; or developmental, where existing material needs further thought or reworking; or may have a specific outcome in mind, e.g. production, publication, etc.
One of the residencies will result in a fully-formed performance, produced with support from the Firkin Crane. The artists undertaking this residency would not normally have the experience or resources to produce a performance on the scale that the Firkin Crane will provide.
Contact the Firkin Crane for application details.
New for 2009
Date: 08 Jan 2009
Most of the dance teachers will let you try one dance class or workshop at a reduced cost, or even for free, so you can see how much fun each dance form is before you decide which is the best for you.- please check.Spring Dance Classes
Date: 01 Jan 2009
If variety is the spice of life, the Firkin Crane has something for every taste and range of ability.The current dance class ‘menu’ includes:
classical and modern ballet
bellydance
contemporary dance
hip-hop and breakdancing
swing, salsa and tango
Most of the adult dance teachers will let you try one class or workshop at a reduced cost, or even for free, so you can see how much fun each dance form is before you decide which is the best for you.
So whether you want to prepare for that first wedding dance, or make new friends, or simply keep fit - please check individual notices.
Give a Gift of Family Fun!
Date: 12 Dec 2008
Babes in the Wood like you’ve never seen it before - limited to 12 performances.The Performers' Academy, in association with the Firkin Crane, present a magical musical adventure for all the family!
Tickets €16
Family ticket (4 people) €60
School Performances: Monday 15th – Friday 19th December at 11.00 am
Special rate of 10 euro per child for School Performances
Running until Tuesday 30th December
View the Performance Listing
Jack the Ripper - Voices of the Victims
Date: 28 Oct 2008
This is an original play, based on the deeds of Jack the Ripper, performed on Hallowe’en by the Luvius Theatre Group. Rather than being all about the infamous Jack, the story concentrates on his victims: the murdered prostitutes - the ‘Unfortunates’ as they were called back then; who they were and why they were there….
Too often, with all the salacious tales and gory details, the victims themselves are forgotten and become merely statistics in the background.
This play will give the ladies their voices, their stories and their chance to become three-dimensional.
Jazz at the Firkin Crane
Date: 15 Oct 2008
This will be the best and biggest Jazz Festival at the Firkin Crane!Following last year's sellout concert, Brazilian trumpeter Tonynho and friends will again bring their eclectic mix of sounds from all over the world. This year's show will feature special guests Tabla Sounds, creating an unique combination of infectious new world groove with Indian classical music.
On Saturday night, jazz masters Georgie Fame and Louis Stewart will deliver an amazing double bill, presenting a wonderful range of music, from chart-topping pop songs to a repertoire of jazz classics.
Sunday is the night to get on your glad rags, shine those shoes and step into the mysterious Shanghai Palace 1937. Dress to impress, act your character, lose yourself on the dance floor to the swing sounds of The Swingin' Bluecats. A complimentary cocktail will get you in the mood and a quick lesson will give you the moves!
If your interest goes deeper, come to the Jazz Festival Workshops: Sitar and Tabla with Unity Drums; Jazz Singing with Ines Reiger; Guitar Magic with Louis Stewart; and, the perennial favourite, Swing Dance with Jessica
Opportunities
Date: 01 Sep 2010
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The Arts Council will offer the following project awards for activities commencing in 2011.* Arts Participation Project Award
* Circus Project Award
* Dance Project Award
* Film Project Award
* Music Project Award
* Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award
* Theatre Project Award
* Visual Arts Project Award
The deadline for all the above awards will be 5.30pm on Thursday 2 September 2010. Applications will only be accepted through the online system.
The awards are open to individuals and organisations. Organisations in receipt of funding under any of the main Arts Council grant programmes (Regularly Funded Organisations, Annual Funding, Annual Programming Grant) will not be eligible to apply
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The All Ireland Talent Show is back and are about to start the search for the 2011 Champion. So could you be taking to the stage representing your county? Could you be crowned 2011 Champion and win €50,000?
Whatever your age, whatever your act, auditions are happening soon around the country. If interested in auditioning please see dates, locations and conditions below.
DUBLIN - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 21st August 2010
Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8
THE SOUTH - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 28th August 2010
Clarion Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork
THE WEST - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 4th September 2010
Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa Galway, Lough Atalia Road, Galway
THE NORTH - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 11th September 2010
Everglades Hotel, Prehen Road, Londonderry, BT47 2NH
THE EAST - OPEN AUDITIONS
Saturday 18th September 2010
Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde Street, Kilkenny
RULES AND CONDITIONS APPLY
· You can only audition at the regional centre where you were born or have lived for the last 6 months. Counties fall into the following regional centres:
· DUBLIN - City and County
· NORTH - Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Tyrone
· SOUTH - Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
· EAST - Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow
· WEST - Galway, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo
· If under 18 - you MUST be accompanied by a parent/guardian who MUST stay with you for the whole audition process. If you are a large group, with many under 18s, we require one adult supervisor, for every 5 children
· Proof of age may be requested, so please ensure that you bring some form of photo ID
· Registration opens at 7.00am on the day and closes promptly at 3pm the same day. If you have not registered by 3pm, you will not be allowed to audition
· Your performance must be no longer than 2 minutes
· If you perform to a backing track you must bring your own CD and make sure that it works on a regular CD player
· If your act requires props, you must bring you own
· If your act requires any safety equipment, you must bring your own
· It is advisable to take public transport wherever possible as paid parking is limited at some venues
· You may only audition once at one regional centre during the 2011 talent search
· If you want anymore information please go to our website or find us on Facebook
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Public Art Per Cent for Art Scheme - Expressions of interest sought
Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Limerick, is inviting expressions of interest under the Public Art – Per Cent for Art Scheme from established artists wishing to create unique work/s in any medium with an allocated budget of €100,000.
Following a major capital investment programme to a total of €40 million, two new buildings have been completed in MIC, Tailteann and Teamhair/Tara, enabling the complete reshaping of the campus.
In 2008 Tailteann the first new building on campus for 30 years was opened. This state-of-the-art Sport, Leisure and Physical Education building was recognised by the Royal Irish Architectural Institute as Ireland’s “Leisure Building of the Year 2008.”
The second of Mary Immaculate College’s new buildings, due to be officially opened by the Tánaiste this forthcoming September, is the Teamhair/Tara building. This 8500 sq. metre building will give the College the much needed 300- and 150-seat lecture theatres, teaching laboratories, computer facilities (open access and dedicated learning laboratories) in addition to a 500-seat multi-purpose theatre.
The overall budget for the design, supply, fitting and installation of the entire project will be €100,000 inclusive of all costs, project management, travel and other expenses, VAT, insurance and other charges.
Deadline for expressions of interest is Thursday 9 September 2010 at 3pm.
* For further information, details of the brief and application form contact Holly Cowman T: 061 204998, E:mailto:Holly.Cowman@mic.ul.ieie or visit http://www.mic.ul.ie/visitors/default.htm
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Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund
deadline: 9 September 2010
Applications are invited for two funding awards to encourage the development of choreographers in the early stages of their career.
UK New Choreography Award
The award is given to undertake research, a personal project or personal study which the choreographer believes will contribute in a vital way to forwarding his / her development as an artist.
Marion North Mentoring Scheme Award
To provide choreographers with the opportunity to have feedback from, and discussion with an experienced choreographer / dance artist for an approximate period of a year.
Applications for the awards are welcome from:
• professional choreographers in all styles;
• British choreographers or choreographers who have lived in the UK for at least 12 months;
• choreographers who have not yet received regular/substantial funding;
• for the UK New Choreography Award applications are also welcome from more experienced choreographers who are at a major turning point in their careers.
For more information on the awards and to download application forms please visit http://www.laban.org/home/bonnie_bird_choreography_fund.phtml or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Fort Camden (Meagher) Arts Project
Programme of Artistic Interventions and Responses to the site
This project is funded by Cork County Council
Artists are invited to submit expressions of interest and outline proposals for a series of artistic commissions relating to Fort Camden in County Cork.
Fort Camden (also known as Fort Meagher) is widely regarded as an outstanding example of 19th century coastal fortification. It is located on Ram’s Head near the village of Crosshaven overlooking the entrance to Cork Harbour. Its sister fort, Fort Davis(formerly Carlisle), stands on the opposite shore.
As a fortification of one of the Irish Treaty Ports, Camden Fort was occupied by British military until July 1938 when it was officially handed over to the Irish defence forces. It was subsequently renamed Fort Meagher.
Cork County Council has taken ownership of the entire site which covers some 49 acres and is working with statutory and local interests to develop access and a long term development plan.
The Fort Camden Artistic Programme forms part of a developing strategy to raise public awareness about the historical importance of this fortification and its place in local and national heritage.
The commission programme aims to realize up to five artist led projects that will be directly inspired by the architecture, environment and/or history of the site.
We are particularly interested in proposals from
* Creative Artists of all disciplines whose work addresses or engages with the natural/built environment.
* CreativeArtists whose work may engage with the military and social history of this site
Artists are encouraged to especially consider ways in which their proposed work can engage with the public. We will consider all contexts in which work may be presented, for example, permanent, temporary installation, web based, publication, etc. Proposals for temporary or off site locations should consider methodologies for creating a permanent record of the work.
Proposals from artists working in all artforms are eligible. Collaborative and/or interdisciplinary proposals will also be considered.
The commission process will take place in two stages. Stage One is an open call for proposals. From this a shortlist will be drawn up. Some or all of the shortlisted artists will be invited to submit fully developed and budgeted proposals. (Cork County Council may decide at this point to reserve a number of shortlisted proposals for development to commission in a further phase of the project, if appropriate.) Artists shortlisted for stage 2 will receive a small budget for expenses in developing proposals to second stage
A maximum budget of €10,000 inclusive of all costs may be awarded for each commission.
Camden Fort is currently closed to the public. Two site visits are scheduled to assist artists making proposals. Each tour of the site will last approximately 2.5 hours including time for discussion. Tours will be led by a member of the local Camden committee assisted by a member of the Council steering group for the project.
Sites visit times
* Friday, June 25th 2.30 p.m. (Meet at Entrance)
* Tuesday June 29th 11.00 a.m. (Meet at Entrance)
N.B. Sections of the site involve entering or crossing difficult terrain. Persons attending are advised to wear suitable outdoor clothing and footwear and to pay particular heed to all safety instructions. Artists with disabilities will be accommodated as far as practicable. However the site is not developed and access may not be possible to certain sections. Any artist with a mobility or other impairment should advise the Arts Office in advance.
Competition Requirements Stage 1:
* A letter outlining your interest in this project
* A general project proposal outlining the general scope of the project envisaged and how it relates to your current practice. This will include a written proposal, outline budget, and any other supporting information relevant to the proposal
* Artist’s c.v.
* Documented examples of at least two previous projects, commissions or other work by the artist. No original artwork is to be submitted.
* Up to 10 images/digital files of your word, (where relevant)These can be submitted as prints, or on CD/DVD. Digital image files must be in JPEG format Music files as MP3 files, Film clips in QuickTime. Individual excerpts not to exceed more than 2 minutes duration.
* List of images/ files submitted
* Two references relating to previous commissions or projects in which the artist was involved
Programme Schedule to commission stage
* Advertisment of project June 18th
* Deadline for Stage 1 Friday July 23rd
* Short list Announced: (Provisional date July 30th )
* Deadline stage 2 September 17th
* Commissions announced TBC
The process is open to all artists working in all artforms.
If you wish any of your submission material to be returned to you please include a statement to that effect and enclose a stamped address envelope.
All artists intending to visit the site must first register with the Arts Office of Cork County Council. Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel 021 4346210
A maximum budget of €10,000 inclusive of all costs may be awarded for each commission.
Post Applications marked Camden Commission to:
The Arts Office, Cork County Council, County Hall, Cork
Closing Date Stage 1 Closing date is 5.00 p.m. Friday July 23rd 2010
Background information.
Fort Camden (Meagher) is recognised internationally as one of the world's finest examples of a Palmerston Fort.
Fortifications at the site date from as early as 1550 but the present construction owes its existence to the Royal Commission report of 1860 which recommended the construction of Camden, Carlyle and Westmoreland forts. Situated at the western entrance to Cork Harbour, Camden stands about 200 feet above sea level. The fort area is honeycombed with underground passages and emplacements including a large magazine. It has a magnificent tunnel, engineered to house the fixed torpedo invented by Louis Philip Brennan.
Groups of forts built during the Victorian period on the report of the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom were called Palmerston Forts after the then Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston. During this time, forts were built all over the UK, including Plymouth, Pembroke, Portland, Dover, Chatham and Medway. Unlike Fort Carlisle, Charles Fort or Fort Templebreedy, Fort Camden is acknowledged as being the only true Palmerstonian fort in Cork and one of the world’s finest examples of a coastal artillery fort.
Useful websites about Fort Camden
Rescue Camden http://www.rescuecamden.com/index.php
Abandoned Ireland http://www.abandonedireland.com/cf.html
RSWiki http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/Fort_Meagher
The Fortress Study Group http://www.fsgfort.com/Fort/27/Art4/Fort27-4.htm
About John Louis Brennan http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_heroes/hist_hero_louis_brennan.html
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Aerowaves is a Europe-wide project started in 1996, which brings together dance specialists from 32 countries to look at the work of young choreographers. For the last 14 years this has resulted in ten performance opportunities at The Place in London as part of the Resolution! festival as well as many other informal presentations around Europe.
For the first time in 2009, over 70 additional performances were confirmed in 21 other European cities: Moscow, Oslo, Tallinn, Vilnius, Copenhagen, Dublin, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Prague, Poznan, Warsaw, Zurich, Lausanne, Bassano del Grappa, Rome, Porto, Limassol, Osijek and Zagreb. We anticipate a similar number of opportunities in 2010. Application for 2011 is open to any artists in geographical Europe (including the UK), although performances will not be offered in their country of residence.
It's for emerging choreographers and companies who have not yet done much touring abroad.
Artists complete an online application by 20 September 2010 and send 2 identical DVDs to London of the work they wish to present. They may now add performance dates for the proposed work under ‘Candidates’ in the Aerowaves calendar. The Aerowaves partners meet to assess the DVDs in late October and their advice helps the Presenters in choosing works for the following year. The performance opportunities above are confirmed; however, each year other informal opportunities arise and work has been presented through Aerowaves in the majority of the countries represented at the meeting.
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Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2010 - Arts & Older People deadline: Monday Sept 27 at 5pm
The Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2010 aims to support individual professional artists in any artform working in the field of Arts and Older People.
Designed to support and nurture the professional development of individual arts practitioners collaborating with older people, the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award of 10k will provide an artist with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their art practice.
This is the first year that the Arts Council has provided a Bursary award as part of the Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. To find out more about the application process and eligibility criteria visit: http://www.create-ireland.ie. For enquiries about the application process call Katherine Atkinson at Create – 01-473-6600.
Please note the Bursary Award is €10,000.
In partnership with Age & Opportunity, Create is hosting two information and discussion events for interested artists in Mayo and Dublin. Full details on how to apply and information sessions at: http://tinyurl.com/2uoqaa4
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The Arts Council is introducing a new funding scheme to support the touring and dissemination of work in all artforms. Building on the interim scheme introduced for 2010, the new scheme is one of a number of initiatives designed to implement the Council’s Touring Policy, with a strong focus on the audience.As referred to in previous announcements, it is intended that the touring and dissemination of work will be supported by a number of strands to take account of the different timeframes involved in the planning of tours and similar activities in different artforms.
These strands are:
* Medium term planning
* Advance planning
* Short term planning
The medium term planning strand will be introduced first, as the principal scheme for 2011. This will support tours taking place within the calendar year 2011.
The application deadline for this strand will be on 31 September 2010. It is expected that applicants will be notified of the outcomes of their applications by 30 November 2010.
Details of this strand are being finalised and will be published by mid-August 2010.
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EU Culture Programme 2007-2013
Financial support designed to promote a common cultural area, characterised by both cultural diversity and a common cultural heritage, is available for European cultural co-operation projects in all artistic and cultural sectors.
New call for proposals under the Culture Programme 2007-2013 for the following strands:
- Strand 1.1: Multi-annual Cooperation Projects. Deadline: 1 October 2010. Budget: €20,204,724.
- Strand 1.2.1: Cooperation Projects. Deadline: 1 October 2010. Budget: €18,500,000.
- Strand 1.2.2: Literary Translation Projects. Deadline: 3 February 2011. Budget: €2,700,000.
- Strand 1.3.5: Special Cooperation Projects with Third Countries. Deadline: 3 May 2011. Budget: €1,500,000.
- Strand 1.3.6: Support for European Cultural Festivals. Deadline: 15 November 2010. Budget: €2,500,000.
- Strand 2: Supports for Organisations Active at European Level in the Field of Culture. Deadline: 15 September 2010. Budget: €6,100,000.
- Strand 3.2: Cooperation Projects between Organisations Involved in the Impact assessment of Cultural Policies. Deadline: 1 October 2010. Budget: €7,000,000.
Further information:
The Directorate-General for Education and Culture website - http://ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.htmor the Education, Audiovisual
The Culture Executive Agency website - http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.php
UK Cultural Contact Point - Visiting Arts - http://www.visitingarts.org.uk
Irl Cultural Contact Point - http://www.ccp.i
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NOTE: ALTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING REFERS TO ARTISTS FROM ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES, PARTNERSHIPS WITH ORGANISATIONS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ARE SUPPORTED BY THE FOURTH PILLAR.
Unlimited will celebrate disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Commissions totalling £1.5 million will be awarded to produce work by disabled and Deaf artists and arts organisations in the UK which celebrates London 2012.
The programme has four pillars:
• Unlimited Commissions: a £1.5million commission fund to support the production of quality work by disabled and Deaf artists, and disabled and Deaf led arts organisations
• Unlimited Talent: bespoke training and mentoring programme for successful applicants to support the realisation of their commission. Training will be specifically created for the needs of each artist or partnership
• Unlimited Presents: Work created through Unlimited Commissions will have the opportunity to be showcased in London and across the UK up to and including games time
• Unlimited International: This will support collaboration between artists in the UK and other countries, and showcase new work around the world. It will also promote a global debate amongst young people about disability rights. This pillar of the programme is being led by the British Council and is still in development, full details will be announced in 2010
Arts Council England is delivering Unlimited Commissions with the Scottish Arts Council, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales on behalf of London 2012 and the Olympic Lottery Distributor.
Unlimited Commissions will support the creation and production of high quality work across all artforms that places disabled and Deaf people at its centre either through its form, content or setting. Artists are encouraged to explore new partnerships with mainstream presenting organisations, venues and events and new artistic and managerial collaborations.
We welcome proposals from disabled and Deaf artists, and disabled and Deaf led arts organisations, who wish to develop their work, strengthen their artistic practice, challenge perceptions and forge new partnerships with presenting venues and events. We want to commission high quality work that can be seen and experienced by a broad range of audiences in a wide range of spaces.
Grants for the arts application forms and guidance can be downloaded from our website (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding).
Please state ‘Unlimited Commissions’ in the project title to help us identify your application.
There are three deadlines for the commissions. They are:
Round two Deadline for applications 1 October 2010 Successful applicants notified 23 December 2010
Round three Deadline for applications 18 April 2011 Successful applicants notified 8 July 2011
Collaborations with a range of arts organisations will be welcomed, however all applications will need to show how disabled and Deaf artists lead creatively.
In addition Unlimited Commissions is looking for:
• High quality work that could be performance ready from late 2010
• Work that could forge new partnerships with presenting venues and events
• Work that responds to the three core values of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. These are:
• celebrating London and the whole of the UK welcoming the world – our unique internationalism, cultural diversity, sharing and understanding
• inspiring and involving young people
• generating a positive legacy (eg arts, cultural and sports participation, audience development, cultural skills, capacity building, urban regeneration, tourism and social cohesion, international linkages)
Follow the standard Grants for the arts budget guidance at http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/grantsforthearts
Commissions will be required to incorporate best practice in relation to sustainability and environmental impact. For further information, see the London 2012 sustainability strategy at http://www.london2012.com/plans/sustainability
Successful applicants will be entitled to specific professional development support to ensure that their idea reaches production, as part of Unlimited Talent. This could include:
• mentoring from experienced artists and practitioners
• training in areas such as production, marketing or access
• brokering relationships with mainstream festivals and producers
• assistance in tour booking
• contract management
If you require further information on the application process, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or phone 0845 300 6200.
If you require access support to help you fill in your application, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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South Dublin County Council’s Arts Office is currently seeking freelance dance teachers/choreographers who would like their contact details to be kept on-file.
We are looking for dancers who demonstrate the following:
- Experience in choreography/teaching dance with groups of varying ages
Your CV should include
· Details of your teaching, choreographic experience
· Areas of interest, any style is welcome
· Qualifications
· Two references with contact details
Experience of working with diverse groups and in community arts programmes is desirable.
CV’s and references should be sent to Collette Ryan, Arts Office, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght D24 or Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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ARTISTS ARE EXPERTS TOO!
Call for expressions of interest EACEA/2007 for the establishment of a list of experts to assist the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in the framework of the management of the Community programmes in the fields of education, audiovisual, culture, youth and citizenship.
The Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture is issuing a call for expressions of interest in order to obtain applications for the establishment of a list of experts. This call is managed by the Agency in conjunction with the European Commission.
The experts’ duties will be to assist the Agency, or, where applicable, the Commission, in the performance of the tasks mentioned below, with reference to the programme objectives, the priorities and criteria laid down in the calls for proposals, as well as the guides and manuals made available to applicants.
The tasks to be performed include:
1. Evaluating proposals received in response to calls for proposals
2. Evaluating and monitoring projects:
* evaluating project reports
* evaluating project products and results
* project monitoring and site visits
* any other tasks relating to the analysis and/or monitoring of programmes and projects
3. Specific studies and analyses relating to fields of activity
The experts chosen within the framework of this call may also be required to assist the Agency’s parent Directorates-General (DG EAC, INFSO, AIDCO) within the framework of their activities (general coordination of policies and programmes, communications, management of strands for which the Agency is not responsible).
Applications can be submitted until 30 June 2013.
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Corcadorca are currently putting together a database of all professionals who work in the theatre industry and are based in the greater Cork area. This will be similar to our existing Actors Register in terms of how it is compiled. We are looking for people who are working on a professional basis in all aspects of theatre, for example, costume designers, set designers, stage managers, composers, playwrights etc.
We are currently looking for CSV's of theatre professionals in every field who wish to be included in the register. By establishing a database of this kind, our aim is to promote closer links within the theatre community in Cork. We feel it is important that professional theatre workers have access to information and contact details. This approach stands to benefit us all and encourages a stronger base for
Cork theatre. We hope that initiatives such as this can promote collaboration and expand the lines of communication for members of our theatre community.
If you are interested in being included in this database send your details to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Creative Careers - Ireland's jobs and opportunities website for the arts/creative sector includes a Careers Chat Forum, Training, Seminar section, Classifieds section and an RSS feed for the latest jobs and opportunities. You can also place adverts seeking Interns or Volunteers or letting Creative Space. The site covers areas such as Theatre, Performance, Film , Literature, Arts Management, Visual Arts and Design ! Digital Media.
CreativeCareers.ie is now fully automated so your adverts go online in a matter of seconds and all services are completely free.
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RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Cenre, is looking to expand its database of freelance arts tutors. We are looking for tutors across all art forms including visual arts, dance, drama and music.
If you would like us to consider you for future projects run by the centre, please email or post a cv and a description of any specialist
skills to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Opportunities, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
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Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company are looking for PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES to join the Company. We are looking for 1-2 people with physical disabilities - who EITHER have a background in sports or athletics OR have some previous dance experience or training
We are also looking for 1 NON-DISABLED MALE CONTEMPORARY DANCER. This person must have strong contemporary dance technique and good contact improvisation skills. Previous integared dance experience not required. A driving licence is a plus.
Croi Glan is a professional integrated dannce company based in Cork which performs dance nationally and internationally. We are looking for people to work on a project Spring-Summer 2010, with the possibility of then making a 2 year commitment to the Company. Please send a brief C.V or biography outlining your sports or dance background to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Information +353 87 9042753
The Firkin Crane is a wheelchair accessible venue
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The Foundation for Community Dance: The National College for Community Dance
The FCD’s National College for Community Dance, now in its 2nd year, offers a wide-ranging programme of events for all dance practitioners working in community dance contexts. They would like to get this information out to dance artists and teachers around the UK and internationally.
The National College delivers an annual programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events and learning opportunities that aim to support, inspire and improve the practice of dance leaders working in community dance contexts. The programme includes workshops; seminars; induction, intermediate and advanced courses; annual 3-day residential Summer School; accredited learning pathways; consultation events; network events and resource books.
See their current programme and further information at: http://www.communitydance.org.uk/nationalcollege
Tel: +44 (0) 116 253 3453 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Foundation for Community Dance is the professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance.
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Dates for your Diary
Date: 31 Aug 2010
Check for some of the opportunities which have come into the Firkin Crane office__________________________
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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Rhona Coughlan announces departure from Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company
Date: 30 Aug 2010
Rhona writes:A Chara,
I am writing to let you know I have decided to leave Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company. Tara Brandel and I set up the company in 2006 with the support of a lot of people. I have had the most amazing time while in the company and I have danced and worked with the most incredible people, but now I see that my life is moving in a different, but still in a creative way for now, and a wonderful opportunity was presented to me, which I could not refuse, my other love, working in radio.
There are so many people and agencies I would love to thank….
The Irish Arts Council and Mr. Ian Mc Donagh of Cork County Council, both helped so much with funding and support.
The Firkin Crane staff and especially Paul McCarthy who helped make this dream for me a reality and Dance Ireland for their influence and help.
I have been blessed to work with some outstanding choreographers namely Jess Curtis, Kim Epifone, David Bolger & Adam Benjamin. Thank you all so much. Working with you all has been a great joy. To all the dancers I have worked with, you have made my dance experience a beautiful one and I thank you so much for that. I want also to thank CanDoCo Dance Company, Axis Dance Company, Patric Cashman, Sally Edwards (Blue Eyed Soul), Wendy Hesketh and Kate Mansion (aerial dance UK) for being such an inspirations to me, thank you all so much. To all at Cope Foundation and everyone that I have met along the way, while teaching the integrated dance classes which were held in the Firkin Crane, I am blessed to have worked and danced with you all. To every single person who has helped and supported me along the way. I thank you.
I would like to wish every one in Croi Glan the very best with their future projects. I'd like to thank Tara Brandel, Julie O Leary, William O Donavan, Mary Nuggent, Dawn Molloy, Miriam Engel, Skye Reynolds and Chole De Buyl Pisco and also all the people who helped behind the scenes, Ashling Kavanagh, John Moloney, Sarah Smith, Sharon Heffernan and Sarah Cairns.
To any one that I have been connected with, while working in Croi Glan I thank you and you know who you are and finally I want to thank all my family and friends for all their support and love along the way.
If you wish to contact me in the future and I hope you will, please do so, through my personal email address .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or else please add me as a friend on facebook. I look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Rhona Coughlan
The Pines
Sunday's Well
Cork
086 0679101
rhonacoughlan@hotmail
Summer Cabaret cancellation
Date: 20 Jul 2010
The Firkin Crane Theatre regrets to announce the immediate cancellation of the production Summer Cabaret, which was to run on Fridays and Saturdays in the main theatre during the Summer. The producers have identified the current economic situation as a factor in the greatly reduced number of bookings for the show. Meanwhile, our other show running at the Firkin Crane during the summer months will open on this Wednesday at 8pm. Songs From The Beautiful City, with Jimmy Crowley, will run every Wednesday and Thursday in the intimate Musgrave Theatre at The Firkin Crane. Ticket prices are only €15 with group and family bookings available.
Jimmy and all the staff at the Firkin Crane dearly hope that the people of Cork will support Songs from the Beautiful City as a show from the heart of the city, about every one of us and our colourful past.
The Best of The Firkin Crane
Date: 15 Jun 2010
The Firkin Crane presents a performance to celebrate the professional associations it has created and developed in recent years. Cork City Ballet (Director: Alan Foley)
Cork City Ballet presents a series of sparkling divertissements, which include Alan Foley’s own ballet Enigma, with CCB star Leigh Alderson and students from Coláiste Stiofán Naofa Dance. Also featured are Irish ballerina Monica Loughman and Robert Gabdullin from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, who will perform the pas de deux from Giselle Act 2.
The company will also present a new jazz ballet Rule The World, choreographed by Phillippa Davison, and The Male Dying Swan solo performed by Leigh Alderson, with music by Saint Saens.
Directed by Alan Foley, this eclectic suite of dances by the company is sure to please every cultural palate, with its fresh and innovative modern choreography, combined with the great classical traditions of Giselle and The Dying Swan.
CruX Dance Theatre (Director: Jane Kelleghan)
A contemporary adnce performance will include extracts from CruX's repertoire, including Infallible Muse 2, Hermaphrodite, Wet Dance and Individual Myth, all choreographed by Jane Kelleghan. This performance celebrates a diverse body of work, creating a medley of choreographic encounters, which includes elements of multimedia.
Dancers include Mark Carberry, Samon Presland and Amy Lawson.
Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company (Director: Tara Brandel)
A new aerial dance solo, Fling, is choreographed and performed by Tara Brandel, and directed by Scottish Dance Theatre's Dance Agent for Change disabled choreographer Caroline Bowditch. Fling evokes the sense of teetering on the edge, a feeling of not being able to let go and walk away - a solo dancer is drawn back.
This will be followed by an extract from Fall, choreographed in 2009 by Tara Brandel, with dancers Dawn Mulloy and William O'Donovan.
Special Guests, The Students and Alumni of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance Programme, University of Limerick (Course Director: Dr Catherine Foley)
The dancers are Renske Burghout; Meabh Felton; Máiréad O'Connor, Anna Shalabudova and Breandán de Gallaí (PhD Arts Practice Research Student). Excerpts performed from the Rite of Spring. Choreography: Breandán de Gallaí. Music Igor Stravinsky.
Guidelines for Good Practice for Participatory Arts in Healthcare Contexts
Date: 14 Jun 2010
Last year, WHAT and the Health Service Executive South (Cork) Arts + Health programme, with financial support from the Arts Council of Ireland published Guidelines for Good Practice for Participatory Arts in Healthcare Contexts. These were written by the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University.The Guidelines are designed to present clear, concise and user-friendly guidance to those working in the area of participatory arts in healthcare contexts. They were developed through consultation with artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health.
They would appreciate if artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health would take the time to consider and interpret the Guidelines in the context of their own practice, possibly in consultation with peers, partners and clients, and send us feedback by the 31 October 2010. They will review the Guidelines in the light of feedback received.
Further copies of this document can be downloaded from http://www.waterfordhealingarts.com.
Music for The Ballet - an exhibition to honour Aloys Fleischmann’s contribution to ballet
Date: 06 May 2010
Ruth Fleischmann said:May I congratulate Alan Foley and Paul McCarthy and all those involved in this splendid performance of such brilliance, virtuosity, colour and magic. I know I speak for the entire family when I say how deeply moved we are that Alan arranged for a revival of a section of my father’s Golden Bell of Ko for this most special evening, which is part of Cork City Ballet’s contribution to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations of 2010. We thank Yuri for having recreated the dance with such insight, and your beautiful dancers for having performed so exquisitely. Our best thanks to you, Alan, Sinead, Paul, Tim. It is marvellous to see the cooperation between the distinguished guest dancers, the talented dancers of Cork City Ballet, of the Cork School of Dance, the Irish Youth Ballet and of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa. It is I suppose that spirit which makes such miracles possible even in these dire times.
I cannot think of anything which would have given Miss Moriarty and my father more joy than to have seen the wonderful production this evening and to know that Domy Reiter-Soffer has travelled from Tel Aviv by circuitous routes over Britain and Ireland to get here today in time to open our exhibition The Music for the Ballet. The material for the exhibition was selected by my sisters Anne and Maeve (who spent the best part of two years going through the Fleischmann papers containing perhaps 200,000 items); it was designed by Aloys Fleischmann`s grandson, Max Fleischmann, who has digitised 20,000 documents from the collection. The Cork Lyons Club very kindly sponsored the exhibition, which will be open until the end of the week, will then travel to Cork City Library and from thence to Kerry School of Music in Tralee. When we began the work we had intended to focus on the five ballets written by our father for Miss Moriarty`s companies. But when we realised the highly significant role she played in providing a forum for Irish musicians to compose for a new genre, commissioning 18 new works and using in all the works of 30 Irish composers for the hundred ballets she created, we felt we had to widen our perspective.
It is my special privilege tonight to introduce to you Domy Reiter-Soffer, the Israeli dancer, choreographer, play producer, opera producer and painter, who has just returned from a most successful production of Beauty and the Beast in Denver USA. Domy had a close friendship with Joan Denise Moriarty and with my father for thirty years. He first came to Cork in 1962 as a dancer with Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland’s first professional ballet company, when he travelled to every town in Ireland north, south, east and west that had a stage big enough for the company to perform on. From 1973 he was artistic advisor and choreographer to Miss Moriarty’s second professional company, the Irish Ballet Company, later called Irish National Ballet, and he created some of the most wonderful works in the company’s repertoire. I think dancers of all three of Miss Moriarty`s companies are with us here tonight. Domy shared the work, the struggle, the anxieties and the triumphs of the late 1970s and 1980s. Very many of the works he created for Miss Moriarty’s companies were revived by him for dance companies all round the world. The one ballet he has not revived is the swan song of Irish National Ballet: his magnificent ballet Oscar, the last work performed by INB, set to The Garden of Fand by Arnold Bax, a composition Miss Moriarty herself had hoped to choreograph.
Domy, we are deeply grateful to you for having honoured this event with your presence in tribute to the memories of Miss Moriarty and Aloys Fleischmann – may I call on you to officially open the exhibition The Music for the Ballet?
International Dance Day 2010
Date: 29 Apr 2010
International Dance Day - Message from choreographer Julio BoccaDance is discipline, work, teaching, communication. With it we save on words that perhaps others would not understand and, instead, we establish a universal language familiar to everyone. It gives us pleasure, it makes us free and it comforts us from the impossibility we humans have to fly like birds, bringing us closer to heaven, to the sacred, to the infinite.
It is a sublime art, different each time, so much like making love that at the end of each performance it leaves our heart beating very hard and looking forward to the next time.
English translation by Marcia De La Garza (Original in Spanish)
Dance on the Box
Date: 31 Mar 2010
Over fifty applications were received from producers, directors and choreographers across the country and twelve applicants were short-listed for interview. This is the third round of the RTÉ Dance on the Box scheme with awards of €22,000 for each project chosen. The following successful projects were selected:
* Admit One - Choreographer John Scott, Director Steve Woods and Producer Catherine Lyons.
* Deependance - Choreographer David Bolger, Director Conor Horgan and Producer Martha O’Neill.
* Her Mother’s Daughter - Choreographer Cindy Cummings, Director Oonagh Kearney, Composer Denis Clohessy and Producers Rachel Lysaght and Steven Davenport.
* Mo MhórChoir Féin - Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchuir, Director Dearbhla Walsh, Composer Iarla Ó Lionaird and Producer Maggie Breathnach.
The completed short dance films will be premiered on RTÉ Television during this year’s Dublin Dance Festival which runs from 8-23 May and then screened in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square [tbc].
Speaking about the scheme, Fionnuala Sweeney, Head of Film and International Arts, at the Arts Council said: “Dance on the Box provides a unique opportunity for film and dance artists to collaborate and the Arts Council is delighted with the response to the third round of the scheme. We would like to congratulate all of the successful applicants and look forward to seeing four imaginative and engaging dance films on RTÉ Television as part of the Dublin Dance Festival in April”.
David McKenna, RTÉ Television's Executive Producer Arts & Cross-Media, added: “The exceptional quality of this year’s applications highlights the value placed on this scheme by film and dance artists. We are particularly grateful to the short-listed creative teams who met us and are very much looking forward to premiering these films on RTÉ during the Dublin Dance Festival.”
Arts Council publications re dance
Date: 31 Mar 2010
An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012 is now available for download from the Arts Council website. This paper outlines how the Arts Council intends to build on its review of Partnership for the Arts concluded in June 2008. Feedback from ongoing discussions with dance artists and organisations contributed directly to the shaping of the ideas in this document, which offers a developed and integrated overview of how the Council envisages dance provision in the future.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Integrated-dance-strategy-2010-2012.pdf
Giving Body to Dance
Giving Body to Dance, a summary report of the review of building based infrastructures for dance in Ireland is now available for download from the Arts Council website. The review involved a nationwide consultation with dance artists, companies, organisations and spaces. The document contains findings which relate to the quality of spaces that are currently available to professional dance practitioners countrywide. The report outlines comprehensively, the recommended health and safety standards for dance spaces. This is the first time that such a list of recommendations has been compiled for dance in Ireland.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Giving-body-to-dance-report-2010.doc
Arts Council online services
Date: 24 Mar 2010
You can now apply online for Projects and Travel and Training awards using the Arts Council online services website - http://onlineservices.artscouncil.ie.Online services was developed to more efficiently manage funding applications and payments. This new website means that you can:
- Download application forms and guidelines;
- Create a profile for banking, tax and contact details (which you can reuse for other applications);
- Upload the completed application form(s) and up to 20MB of electronic supporting materials;
- Avail of a one-week deadline extension to complete online applications;
(Where successful), submit a payment request or payment schedule with supporting documentation.
Applications for the Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme 2010 will be also be open via online services. Details of the scheme will be published on http://www.artscouncil.ie shortly.
Resource Focus: How to Develop a European Cultural Project
Date: 07 Mar 2010
Are you thinking of adding a European dimension to your work? This manual for 'European Cultural Operators' helps you to get started.Read more: http://www.relais-culture-europe.org/fileadmin/fichiers/4_Monter_son_projet/manuel2-E-BD.pdf
..And if you are looking to make a start at making links and contacts in Europe read Voluntary Arts Network briefing at: http://www.voluntaryarts.org/uploaded/map12513.pdf
Arts Council funding announced
Date: 01 Mar 2010
The Arts Council, the government agency for funding and developing the arts, has made its major grant allocations for 2010, distributing in excess of €49m to more than 350 arts organisations. In its overall approach, the Council sought to ensure that organisations can continue to bring the best of the arts to audiences across Ireland. Emphasis was given to achieving a regional balance, on enabling the arts to reach more people, and on supporting artists to make work.
While the value of the allocations has decreased across the artforms, the relativity of allocation between the artforms (with the exception of Opera), has remained broadly similar to previous years.
Theatre Forum has provided an analysis of the funding
Auditions Notice
Date: 08 Feb 2010
Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company are looking for PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES to join the Company. We are looking for 1-2 people with physical disabilities who EITHER have a background in sports or athletics OR have some previous dance experience or training. We are also looking for a NON-DISABLED MALE CONTEMPORARY DANCER. This person must have strong contemporary dance technique and good contact improvisation
skills. Previous integrated dance experience not required. A driving licence is an advantage.
Croi Glan is a professional integrated dance company based in Cork which performs dance nationally and internationally. We are looking for people to work on a project during Spring-Summer 2010, with the possibility of then making a 2 year commitment to the Company.
Please send a brief C.V. or biography outlining your sports or dance background to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
For further information +353 87 9042753
Auditions will be held in the Firkin Crane on 6th - 7th March
This is a wheelchair accessible venue
Cork Arts Network
Date: 08 Feb 2010
At a meeting of various artists and arts workers in December, it was felt by most participants that a web site for a cork arts network was an important step. There were various suggestions as to what it might / could / should do.In any case, the site is now up and running - somewhat of an empty house - at http://www.corkarts.org. To get things rolling, we have put up a few relevant topics on the forum. Anyone can register and contribute / start new topics. Possibly of biggest concern at the moment is reaction to funding decisions by The Arts Council. If you have something to say, then make a contribution at http://corkarts.org/forum/topic.php?id=2
There are a number of people working on getting the website populated with useful information on what's going on and regular updates will start over the next few weeks.
Collaborators and contributors to the website are more than welcome. To join in, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The Treatment Room
Date: 01 Feb 2010
We welcome appointments from everyone - dancers, performers, users of the Firkin Crane and members of the public.The Treatment Room is set up especially to welcome clients in a warm and friendly environment, and to promote wellness and relaxation.
- Warmed towels
- Heated massage couch
- Soothing background music
- Privacy screen
Therapeutic Massage benefits most people; from general relaxation, to restoring muscle tone, improving function and circulation, relieving stress & tension or certain symptoms, and can also be preventative as part of a treatment plan. The method is based on Swedish Massage, using a light oil with applied pressure, and gentle but firm, gliding movements amongst others, and whilst some techniques used are deep, the treatment generally focuses on soft tissue. Some minor injuries can benefit from this form of treatment. It is a professional service with effective results.
Staś Bernasiński graduated with distinction from the Natural Healing Centre with a practitioner's diploma in Therapeutic Massage. He is currently broadening his professional skills with advanced massage techniques including Deep Tissue Massage, Sports & Remedial Massage and Trigger Point Therapy, and focusing longterm on specialising in dance & dance related injury. He is a member of the Natural Healing Institute of Ireland (NHII) and an Associate member of the Irish Massage Therapists Association (IMTA), and is fully insured.
Treatments: A 1 hour consultation is tailored to each person's needs, with usually approx. 45 minutes of actual treatment time. A detailed patient history is taken at the first session, and, whilst a treatment requires some degree of undress pertinent to the body part being worked, the client is otherwise draped in towels for discretion, comfort and warmth.
Rates: 1 hour session costs €50.
A loyalty scheme is in place and please feel free to enquire about discounts.
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am to 7pm. Saturdays available by prior arrangement. Home or site visits also available, both daytime and evenings. Usual 24 hour cancellation notice period applies.
Get 10% off your next massage!
Avail of a 10% discount off your next 1 hour session simply by downloading and printing out this flyer (pdf format) and bringing it along with you on the day. This offer is not available together with any other offer or discount scheme.
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Contact: For appointments or enquiries, please call Staś on 086 060 6376
Private Health Insurance: Currently only Aviva recognises massage as a complementary therapy. The IMTA is actively lobbying Quinn Healthcare and VHI to adopt the same stance. Please ask for an IMTA stamped receipt if you wish to claim.
Always seek professional medical advice regarding health concerns.
Culture Ireland Funding
Date: 20 Jan 2010
Dance received €44,000 for:Angeliki Smalis performing a solo dance piece at the International Dance Festival "ABUNDANCE" in Karlstad, Sweden from the 15 - 17th June 2010 €500
Liadain Herriott presenting "Two" at the Smriti Nandan Cultural Center, Bangalore, India €500
Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at Festival Antipodes, Brittany 4 - 6 March and at a number of venues in Northern France from the 4th - 25th April 2010 €5000
Dance Theatre of Ireland performing "Block Party" at the Busan International Dance Festival, Korea from the 3rd - 8th June and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, UK from the 7th – 22nd May 2010 €38,000
Mayfield Fun Dance
Date: 14 Jan 2010
There have been a few changes made for this year:New time: 9.45-10.45am
New venue: St. Joseph's Community Association (the building next to the library, behind the bus stop & up a small flight of steps, on the Old Youghal Road
New payment system: 20 Euro for X4wk Block, paid at the class week one.
New emphasis: There will be less of a bias placed towards a creative element and more focus geared towards toning, stretching, balance work and learning gentle fun routines in a variety of dance styles – to suit the group’s taste.
Same day: Thursdays’
The class is for woman aged 50 years plus. Individuals are encouraged to work at their own level of fitness with no previous dance experience or partner necessary. Wear comfy clothes with non-slip flat soled shoes and bring a bottle of water to sip through the class. New comers’ are very welcome to try their first class for free.
For further information, please contact: Jo Nichols 087 77 87 320
Cork Circus Centre
Date: 21 Dec 2009
The Circus community in Cork have joined forces to set up and run a space in the Old Courthouse on Camden Quay, bringing Circus to the banks of the Lee. This space is part of a larger project, which is being run by Camden Palace Hotel Ltd., a local arts group. This is the republic’s first and only dedicated Circus space and will be providing a training and creation space for performers all over the country and also for international professionals.
To perform high skill circus shows Circus performers need to train everyday in order to perform in daredevil activities such as aerial trapeze and human pyramids. This space is the perfect place for such enterprises as it houses the specialist equipment needed for intensive training and performing.
Many performers have left the country in previous years, travelling to countries such as France or the UK, where Circus is more developed. By having such a space in Cork the performers are hoping to attract more Circus performers to the area and also develop the skills of those already living here. There are many advantages to having this innovative and creative circus centre in the heart of Cork city; it will add another level of diversity to Cork culture and make circus more open and accessible to the greater community, therefore improving the quality of circus performance and nurturing new and potential talent.
The centre will also be offering workshops in 2010 to a variety of different levels from local beginners to international professionals.
The circus community is a collaboration of 6 Cork based groups and they are currently coming up with ideas for a name and would love if the public could send suggestions to any of the following contacts:
E-mail:- .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Facebook:- CircusSpace Cork
Budget News
Date: 18 Dec 2009
From the Arts Council's Newsletter:In December the Arts Council received its budget allocation of €69.15 million for 2010. This level of funding, despite the enormous pressure on public resources, underscores the commitment to the arts of the Government and, in particular, of the Minister for the Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen TD.
The allocation does represent a significant reduction in funding, and its impact, along with previous reductions, will be felt hard across the sector. In 2009, with a final grant-in-aid of €73.35 million, the Arts Council did everything possible to minimise the effect of the reductions in its grant to artists and organisations and get best value for public money. The Council used savings from previous years and even allocated some of 2010 its budget in advance. While this meant we were able to invest almost €78 million in 2009, simple arithmetic dictates that the drop to 2010 levels will be all the more difficult.
Nonetheless, the Arts Council is best placed to invest this money wisely, and we will redouble our efforts to ensure that people right across the country have access to the best of the arts in 2010.
The full statement from our Chairman, Pat Moylan, is available to read in this month’s newsletter.
Consensus of many comments so far is that the National Campaign for the Arts was instrumental in reducing the severity of the cuts. The campaign will continue in the coming year. For some details, check here:
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan's full speech:
http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/budget2010/speech/
BLANK CANVAS 2009 final phase
Date: 01 Dec 2009
The Firkin Crane received a remarkable 52 applications from artists across the world for the dance residency programme BLANK CANVAS 2010. In 2009, eleven dance artists were supported through the residency programme. We hope to be in a position to support a similar number of artists in the coming year.To celebrate the 2009 residencies and look forward to BLANK CANVAS 2010, Phluxus Dance Collective, from Brisbane, Australia, presented a taste of their award-winning repertoire and raised the temperature for a delighted audience at a sharing on Monday 30 November 2009.
National Campaign For the Arts
Date: 08 Nov 2009
Here's your chance to take action in support of the National Campaign for the Arts. The action is open to anyone - including artists, arts workers, their families, friends, patrons etc. so please forward this information on to everyone in your personal and professional address books - it's vital to get as many people as possible to sign up for this. The main objectives are to raise awareness and inform people of what’s at stake for the Arts in the forthcoming budget and to ask people to add their signatures to an online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petition.html) in support of the cause.Arts workers throughout the city and county are coming together to ensure the place of the arts in our country’s recovery. For more information, visit http://www.corkarts.org
The primary concern of the Campaign is to protect arts funding in the forthcoming budget from recession-inspired slash & burn recommendations made by the McCarthy Report. The aim is to raise support at a grassroots level for The National Campaign for the Arts, which is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations in visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music, literature, architecture and collaborative arts.
The National Campaign for the Arts asserts the fundamental importance of the arts to economic recovery and calls for:
The Campaign calls for:
* Retention of Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide
* Retention of The Irish Film Board, development agency of the Irish film industry
* Maintenance of existing levels of funding to the Arts Council
* Retention of the artist's income tax exemption scheme
* Commitment to retain the arts portfolio at cabinet as part of a senior ministerial portfolio
Dancing in the street - an extra special event took place last Saturday – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY5bOjT73XU&feature=player_embedded
Cork artists and arts workers are proud of their contribution to Cork's designation in the Lonely Planet Best of 2010 Guide as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit and the significance that this has had to the local economy. It is hoped that with the maintenance of current levels of Arts Council funding, the arts in Cork will continue to draw visitors to the area and that Cork can capitalise on the spending power of these visitors.
Nemian Danza Ireland Tour
Date: 05 Nov 2009
for details of Firkin Crane performance.
Mamuska Limerick: Gravity & Grace
Date: 27 Oct 2009
MAMUSKA LIMERICK: SENSESDAGHDHA SPACE, ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, JOHN’S SQUARE, LIMERICK, IRELAND
FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2009 8PM
AS PART OF DAGHDHA’S GRAVITY & GRACE PERFORMANCE SERIES 17 – 22 NOVEMBER AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAMUSKA NIGHTS
CALLS FOR SUBMISSION: DEADLINE FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Mamuska Limerick is back – Daghdha Dance calls local and national artists to participate in the upcoming Mamuska Limerick, as part of the Gravity & Grace performance week in November.
This will be a great opportunity to present and view evolving works, raw ideas, unrehearsed visions, trials and errors, short masterpieces, playful nonsense, first steps... all in the context of an informal environment where like minded people meet and receive feedback from the audience. So come and be a part of it.
This time around, we dedicate this evening to each sense with special focus on allegories, illusion, sensitivity, intuition and sensations. So please contact the Programme Curator Angie Smalis with your proposals as a maximum of ten artists will be chosen to present live work, complimented by installation pieces and a unique sound environment.
Mamuska Limerick - dedicated to all the ‘senses’... offers a sensation of tingling, pricking, itching, momentum, depth and brightness. So join in and be part of this evening of dance, performance, film sound art and music.
Produced by Daghdha Dance Company this event is supported by the Arts Council and in partnership with Mamuska Nights.
To submit your work, please contact the Programme Curator:
ANGIE SMALIS: +353 (0) 830067394 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Submission criteria:
• Open to works in the fields of dance, live performance, live installation, sound and video art.
• All works must be under 10 minutes long.
• All works must have very simple technical set up and requirements.
• Send title, duration and brief description of work submitted.
• Send short CV of people involved.
• Inclusion of supporting material is recommended.
• Closing Date Friday 13th November 2009.
For more information about Mamuska Nights please visit: http://mamuskanights.net
DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY: Artistic Director Michael Klien
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Supported by The Arts Council, RTÉ lyric fm, Limerick City Council, FÁS, Shannon Development, Fáilte Ireland and Culture Ireland.
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New research on the Dance Sector in England
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Dance mapping: a window on dance - the largest piece of research of its kind - offers a deep insight into the breadth and range of dance in England. The overwhelming message is that dance is an artform in growth with more than 40,000 people currently working in dance, and the amateur sector accounting for a fifth of all arts participation in England. Dance mapping shows that popular culture has helped raise the profile of dance. TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Billy Elliot the Musical captured the public’s imagination, leading to classes across the country filling up with dance accounting for more than one in 10 of all adult learning classes.
Despite England becoming home to a dance sector that is the envy of the world, the research shows that though the dance workforce is highly educated (62% hold degrees) they are underpaid; 38% of people who make a living from dance only earned £5,000- £20,000 in 2008/09 and almost a quarter (23%) earned under £5,000. The Arts Council fears that the low levels of pay may affect the sustainability of careers, leadership within the sector and the ability of potential champions to emerge.
Business to Arts
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Check out the new-look website of Business to Arts and the services the organisation offers.Find out more as well about New Stream - a three year corporate investment venture in Irish arts and culture between Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Business to Arts -
http://www.businesstoarts.ie/newstream.html
The Nutcracker Colouring Competition
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Cork City Ballet, in conjunction with its forthcoming production of The Nutcracker, is running a colouring competition for children.To be in with a chance of winning one of five sets of tickets to this delightful ballet, download this picture, colour it in and send to Cork City Ballet at The Firkin Crane by 13 November 2009.
Culture Night 2009
Date: 04 Oct 2009
Once again, the Firkin Crane, the home of dance in Cork, opened its door on Culture Night Dancers, choreographers, anyone involved with or interested in dance, were invited to join in. Many visitors came simply to see this unique building and were drawn in to the excitement and thrill of the dance.
Throughout the evening, almost 400 people thronged the many spaces, demonstrating the variety, imagination and vibrancy of dance in Cork, and proving that, no matter what a visitor's age, experience, or level of agility, there will always be something to try, as participant or audience.
The evening's programme included performances by the newly founded Cork School of Dance (and featured a rare public performance by the Director Sinead Murphy), the Gaeity School of Performance (including an impromptu masterclass in German for a group of delighted visiting students) and a lovely, peaceful Movement Offering by Claire Osbourne and Laura O'Brien. Juliette Jones,who had only come to register for the Firkin Crane's new Irish Dancing class, was prevailed upon to give a lively demonstration.
Many tried out Salsa, Tango or Hip-Hop, and resolved to come back again for further classes!
The Big Wash Up
Date: 26 Sep 2009
The Big Wash Up is a community based participative arts project and collaboration between Cork Community Art Link and French company Artitillerie Travaux Publics from Nantes, France, supported by the Firkin Crane, St Mary's Road Library and the Northside Folklore Project. The project initiated social dialogue based on local memory and reflection, to enable participation in the making of local culture and to produce a pertinent temporary in situ work of art. The Big Wash Up is part of CCAL's What if ... public space exploration programme.For the whole summer The Big Wash Up has been attracting attention in the Shandon area from residents and tourists alike. This project by Cork Community Art Link features a series of temporary images that have been power-washed onto walls and buildings in Shandon bringing stories and memories of the area back to life.
“The Big Wash Up is a participative and community based arts project that was undertaken in partnership with the wider community. The project set out to gather memories and stories relating to Shandon in order to inspire a series of images. Consultations were held in St Mary’s Road Library with the assistance of the Northside Folklore Project and a wealth of local knowledge was recorded. During the course of the project we listened to stories of shawlies and corner boys, crubeens and messenger boys as well as characters that were unique to the area.”
The memories shared with Artlink have inspired over fifty temporary images that were washed onto walls and buildings in and around Shandon. From the buttera (Butter Exchange Brass Band ) circa 1885 to knitwear making in the butter exchange in the late twenties, corner boys playing pitch and toss or delivery boys taking a rest, each wall is set to tell a story. The Firkin Crane and the Butter Exchange feature as two of the principal locations and host some of the more spectacular temporary murals relating the past uses of each building.
Artist Philippe Chevrinais from Artitillerie Nantes France joined Cork Community Art Link for part of the project. Artitillerie specialise in developing public space arts project and have undertaken some spectacular large scale wall washing and paper pasting projects in France .
The Big Wash Up remains on display until Sept 28 2009. Mural trail maps can be found at St Mary’s Road Library, the Firkin Crane and shops around Shandon during July and August.
The project was undertaken with the support and participation of St Mary’s road Library, The Shandon Street Festival, Northside Folklore Project, Firkin Crane , Artist Philippe Chevrinais, Artitillerie, Shandon Youth Club and all those participants who gave their time, memories, materials and even their buildings as canvas
The Big Wash Up is part of the What if… public space arts programme and Cork Community Art Link's programme of community based participative art making for 2009.
Cork Community Art Link is a multidisciplinary arts organisation that develops participatory arts projects with communities and groups in Cork City . It prioritises working with groups who are disadvantaged or socially marginalised in their access to the arts and in their participation in the making of local and national culture.
As a multi-disciplinary arts organisation working with people in various social contexts it believes that access to the arts, not just as a spectator but both as participant and creator is a fundamental right to which every person should be entitled, regardless of their personal circumstances
Cork Community Art Link uses a range of artistic mediums from street spectacle and celebration using the street as a forum and stage for a collective community purpose, to visual arts based projects in more secluded contexts, performances, exhibitions, music and sound
Lord Mayor’s visit
Date: 13 Sep 2009
Cllr. Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork, visited the Firkin Crane on the occasion of the final night of Songs from the Beautiful CityLady Mayoress Tanya Murphy, Cllr. Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork, Ann Rea, Paul O'Donoghue, Marie Lynch, Paul McCarthy, Michelle Whelan
Irish Theatre Institute Information Toolbox
Date: 23 Aug 2009
Friday, 11 September 2009 11am-3pm, Spiegeltent, Georges DockITI’s Information Toolbox is a key networking event aimed specifically at the needs of new and emerging theatre and dance companies/artists. This half-day event provides an ideal environment for new and emerging Irish companies and artists to promote their shows, pitch work to venues and festivals and begin dialogue with key funding agencies and support organisations. The objective is for these companies and artists to investigate the possibility of re-mounting their shows following the Dublin Fringe Festival or, indeed, to create new work in the future. The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland support this event.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment:
http://www.irishtheatreinstitute.com/event_info_toolbox_09.html
Merce Cunningham 1919 - 2009
Date: 09 Aug 2009
Merce Cunningham died at his home in New York City on July 26, 2009, at the age of 90. He was one of the most important modern dance choreographers of the 20th century. Born near Seattle in 1919, his career spanned the postwar era: He made his first dance in 1944 and directed his own troupe, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, for over 50 years from 1953 until his death last week. He created over 200 dances for his company, many of which are now performed by companies worldwide; he also mounted works on the New York City Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet. Over the years, Cunningham worked with an impressive range of contemporary artists and composers, from John Cage and David Tudor to Radiohead and (most recently) Sonic Youth; from Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol to Frank Stella.
Joan Denise Moriarty Exhibition
Date: 15 Jun 2009
Cork Ballet Company has put together a unique exhibition celebrating over sixty two years of ballet in Cork and highlighting its driving force in focusing on the life and work of Dr Joan Denise Moriarty. The exhibition, now on view in Bishopstown Library Gallery, features rare photographic works and personal artefacts of both the person and of the ballet company she left as a legacy to the arts and particularly to ballet and dance in Cork and in Ireland. The memorabilia of a bygone age is fascinating to behold, highlighting the multi layered involvement Miss Moriarty had in music and the arts and the wonderful links she made locally and nationally. Though Joan Denise had a national profile she was based first and foremost in Cork and the City and County owe her a debt of gratitude that has yet to be properly recognised. The exhibits show generations of dancers, musical and dance companies and the links the Cork Ballet Company had with the Irish Ballet Company, the Firkin Crane, City Hall and the Arts generally.
The exhibition was opened by the Lord Mayor Cllr. Brian Bermingham, in the presence of invited guests on Wednesday June 3 and runs until June 30. Lovingly put together by fans and friends devoted to her memory it is well worth a visit. The exhibition is open to the public and is free of charge, don’t miss it.
Arts Council Bursary Awards 2009 Round 1
Date: 07 Jun 2009
The purpose of an Arts Council bursary is to support professional artists at all stages in their careers and in the development of their arts practice. The aim of the award is to allow artists, working in any context or in any artform, to buy space and freedom to concentrate on a body of work and provide the equipment, facilities and third party expertise to develop practice.Clarke, Ella, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €8,525
Fitzgerald, Emma, South Dublin County Council €13,700
Giannotti, Elena, Limerick City Council, €14,000
Mc Crory, Tanya, Galway City Council, €10,000
Vaughan, Mairead, Cork County Council, €15,000
Deadline for the next round is 5 November 2009
Odd Facts
Date: 18 Mar 2009
If you are visiting London, you can see a (black) Swan Lake tutu worn by Margot Fonteyn at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Free entry.Malcolm X was a dedicated lindyhopper before he became an incendiary civil rights leader, a fact which was featured in the eponymous Spike Lee film starring Denziel Washington. Learn to be a leader at the Swing class every Wednesday.
Touching Distance
Date: 30 Sep 2008
Touching Distance11 Oct 2008 -
08.00 pm
Tickets: €12/10 concession
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company presents a completely new work, featuring three highly skilled dancers: Christina Goletti, Aine Stapleton, Federica Esposito.
This work deals with touch between human beings as well as the dynamics within relationships. Touching Distance portrays real people on stage in a dance work able to touch a wide audience.… Touching distance of our dreams shared with the audience, of where we think we want to be. Allow this work to take you by surprise to question why you might want to watch a dance performance. To laugh, to get to know each other, to open up to your feelings, allow them to dance.
Choreography: Nicholas Bryson
Dance: Aine Stapleton, Cristina Goletti, Federica Esposito
Music: Michael Fleming, Mo Benison
Workshop for 12 - 17 year-olds on Friday 10th
Brown Bread
Date: 09 Aug 2008
Damien Tracey in association with the Firkin Crane presents
Roddy Doyle’s
Hilarious Comedy
BROWNBREAD
A Gun, a Kidnapped Bishop, Three Lads from Barrytown, the American Marines, and Two Days the Residents Of Barrytown will never forget.
Ao Farrell, John Murray and Donkey have been best friends for years. During another day wondering the streets of Dublin looking for something to pass the time, the lads make a find any young fella would dream of, a browning 9mm handgun.
What better way to put it to use then to kidnap the Bishop during the Confirmations, it was either that or watch the snooker or Live at Three. What ensues is one of the funniest stand offs you will see on stage this year. Hulled up in Donkey’s Mammy’s bedroom the lads and the Bishop settle in for a long stay as in Donkey’s own words "Can yis Imagine it!? - Walkin’ ou’. – With our hands up, yeh Know. – The fuckin slaggin we’d get!!!"
Unfortunately for the lad’s and the Bishop, his Grace was born in New York, queue the American Marines and President Ronald Regan into what has now become an international situation. On top of all that Mr Farrell hasn’t even had his dinner.
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