News
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- 04 Jan 2012 Arts Council Project Award, 2012 Round 1 This award supports specific projects in the field of a particular artform commencing in 2012. The Arts Council received 222 applications for the Project Award 2012 Round 1. 48 awards were made to the value of € 999,942.00.
- 04 Jan 2012 Arts Council Bursary Recipients 2011 A summary of those who received funding under the Dance heading.
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04 Jan 2012
Opportunities
Check here for some of the upcoming job/work and other professional opportunities which come into the Firkin Crane office. We publish them as seen, so please check the credentials of the individuals and organisations involved.
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08 Oct 2011
The Treatment Room
Give yourself or a friend a back-to-school treat!
The Treatment Room welcomes appointments for therapeutic massage from everyone - dancers, performers, users of the Firkin Crane and members of the public. Avail of a 10% discount just for visiting this website! -
03 Oct 2011
Arts and Civil Society Symposium in Cork
Create and Voluntary Arts Ireland
Arts and Civil Society Symposium
Date: 20 and 21 October 2011
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03 Oct 2011
Arts Advisers at the Arts Council
Aoife McGrath, has been appointed Dance Adviser at the Arts Council
- 03 Aug 2011 Congratulations to Ballet Ireland! The Arts Council has annunced that the Touring and Dissemination of Work grant scheme provided over €1.2million in additional funding in Ireland in theatre, music, traditional arts, literature, visual arts, young people's programming and dance. Ballet Ireland were granted €56,000.
- 27 May 2011 Dates for your Diary Now that the Firkin Crane facebook page is up and running, do join us there
- 13 Apr 2011 Swing Dance Class - pay as you go Swing Dance Cork have launched Pay As You Go classes. No partner, no booking and no experience of dance is required. All are welcome.
- 16 Mar 2011 Arts Council Funding Clinic for dance Dance Ireland will host a clinic Funding Clinic in collaboration with the Arts Council dance team at DanceHouse, Foley Street, Dublin 1
- 10 Mar 2011 Cork City Council Arts and Cultural Strategy 2010- 2015 The draft strategy is now available for comment.
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14 Feb 2011
Cotton Club News
Wonderful News! ‘The Cotton Club’ returns to Cork on Saturday 7th May in the Firkin Crane! A night to be entertained and be entertaining!
The evening is a creative collaboration between Elaine Peace, Jessica Peel-Yates, Gary Baus, the Firkin Crane Theatre……and…..YOU! - 08 Feb 2011 DanceHouse Residencies Congratulations to the artists/companies, particularly those who have been part of BLANK CANVAS, who will have residencies in DanceHouse over the coming months.
- 01 Feb 2011 National Campaign For the Arts update A message from The National Campaign for the Arts
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20 Jan 2011
Arts Council Small Festivals Award 2011 Round 1 Dance
Congratulations to the following dance artists for being successful in the Arts Council Small Festivals Award 2011 Round 1:
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20 Jan 2011
Arts Council Project Award 2011 Round 1 Dance
Congratulations to the following dance artists for being successful in the Arts Council Project Award 2011 Round 1:
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19 Jan 2011
Unity Drums African Drumming restarts
Unity Drums - African Drumming started again last night after the break in the Firkin Crane. ( 7.00pm - 8.30pm )
- 18 Jan 2011 Swing Dance Cork courses for 2011 places are starting to fill up on all the Swing Dance Cork courses.
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20 Dec 2010
‘Ready for this?’ perfect present ...
aeve Higgins presents a night of fun with brilliant comedy, a special guest, a couple of baking tips and maybe even some signature cat material!!
Tickets will be on sale before Christmas and would make a very nice present ...
- 15 Dec 2010 2011 Budgetary allocation for Culture and Film Mary Hanafin T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport outlined details of the Budget 2011 allocation.
- 08 Dec 2010 Arts Attendance in Ireland: Attendance by artform Arts Audiences has published the latest audience report drawn from the Target Group Index.
- 06 Dec 2010 2011 Arts Council Touring Awards 2011 Arts Council Touring Awards for Theatre and Dance just announced. Theatre got approx €340,000 of this, Dance €128,000.
- 30 Nov 2010 Congratulations to Ríonach Ní Néill! Congratulations to Ríonach Ní Néill, recipient of the first Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award
- 10 Nov 2010 Culture Ireland funding grants Culture Ireland's principal funding scheme is designed to support the presentation and promotion of Irish arts internationally. In the last funding round dance applicants received €30,000.
- 09 Nov 2010 Joint Oireachtas Committee Presentation by VAI Voluntary Arts Ireland made a representation to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Sport, Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs earlier in the month.
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29 Oct 2010
Step Up programme announced
Arts Council and University of Limerick are to undertake a new initiative in dance education and professional training
- 20 Oct 2010 Dance Artist Residency Scheme 2010 Congratulations to those artists and organisations that recently received Arts Council Dance Artist in Residency Awards
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20 Oct 2010
Is Ballet Dead? Jennifer Homans in The New Republic: Books & Arts 10/14/10
quoted from The New Republic: Books & Arts 10/14/10
The following is an excerpt from the epilogue of Jennifer Homans's new book Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet.
- 29 Sep 2010 By The Artist - Intimate Cities Independent artist, choreographer and contemporary dance performer, Mary Nunan, gave a fascinating lunchtime talk as part of Cork City Council's ‘By the Artist’, a series of free public talks by emerging and established artists.
- 30 Aug 2010 Rhona Coughlan announces departure from Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company
