ART. TALKS. COMMUNITY. DRAMA. DANCE. CONCERTS. OPPORTUNITIES. MUSIC. FILM. FESTIVALS
1. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION GRANT SCHEME
Irish Aid, the Government's official development assistance programme, invites applications from voluntary organisations and educational bodies for grants for development education projects, which are designed to increase awareness and understanding of development issues.
Closing date for applications is 30 June
http://www.activelink.ie/ce/active.php?id=2259Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and community groups to work together on projects. The scheme covers all artforms. The Artist in the Community Scheme is managed by CREATE.
The next funding deadline for 2006 is 30 June.
http://www.activelink.ie/ce/active.php?id=1949Irish Youth Foundation Applications for Medium Grants 2007 The Irish Youth Foundation is inviting community and voluntary groups working in preventative and educational ways with children and young people who are marginalised or at risk to apply for grants of up to €15,000. The total fund available this year is €250,000
Completed applications must be received by 4.00pm on Friday 18th May 2007.
To get an application form contact:
info@iyf.ie or phone 01-6055580
Deadline 15 June 2007
Music Network, the national music development agency, invites young jazz musicians to apply for the Young Musicwide award 2007. Young Musicwide is a unique professional development scheme designed to assist a selected group of Ireland’s brightest young musicians at the beginning of their professional career. The award this year is open to jazz ensembles of any instrumentation up to a maximum of five people. The closing date for completed applications is Friday 15th June 2007. Through an audition process in September, an Irish or Ireland based jazz ensemble, with a proven interest in performance will be selected to participate in the Young Musicwide Award programme for three years.
Previous jazz ensembles to receive the award include Organics jazz trio in 2004 who released their debut CD, “New Light” under the scheme. Other recipients of the award include the Callino Quartet (2001); voice and piano duo Ailish Tynan and Deborah Kelleher (2002); clarinettist Carol McGonnell (2003); traditional group Slide (2005), piano, cello and violin trio The Syrius Trio (2006) and harp, flute and viola trio, Triocca (2006).
For further information and application details contact Andreas Ziemons, at (01) 671 9429 or
concertadmin@musicnetwork.ie. Application forms are available for download from
www.musicnetwork.ie.
BOYLE ARTS FESTIVAL POETRY COMPETITION 2007
Closing Date 15 June 2007
Boyle Arts Festival is pleased to announce the return of the Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Competition for 2007. The closing date for entries is 15th June 2007, and prizes will be presented on Sunday 29th July at the Royal Hotel in Boyle at 12.30pm. Guest poet and adjudicator is Paul Perry, who will be reading from his own poetry prior to the presentation. Competition Rules are as follows:
Entrants may submit as many poems as they wish. €5 per poem. Cheques or postal orders made payable to Boyle Arts Festival.
Prizes are €300 for the winning poem and €50 for the four runners up. In addition there will be ten highly recommended poems. Prizes will be awarded on Sunday 29th July at a ceremony during the Boyle Arts Festival. All winners will be invited to attend and to read their poem.
All poems must be the unpublished, original work of the author.
Poems must be typed on one side of A4 paper.
Each entry must be accompanied by an entry form or a photocopy of it. The name of the entrant must not appear on the poem itself.
The judge’s decision is final.
Entrants are reminded to keep copies of their work as poems cannot be returned
Submission of a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the rules.
INQUIRING MINDS - SEEKING ‘FRIENDLY FACES’
Inquiring Minds (Young Arts Investigators) is an award offered by the National Youth Arts Programme open to young people aged 12-17. Participants are asked, individually or as part of a youth or school group, to produce a report about an arts project, exhibition, performance or event that happened in their area. Reports can be written or in the form of a video, audio or visual account. Prizes are awarded.
NYAP now hopes to extend this initiative and engage more of the countless young people who are interested in the arts and have something to say. In this, we are seeking support from arts organisations, arts centres, museums and galleries etc. who would be open to being contacted by potential Inquiring Minds participants and assisting them by, for example:
Providing information on what is going on in their area, or within that particular organisation
Pointing them in the direction of useful publications, catalogues, reviews etc.
Perhaps helping facilitate interviews with appropriate artists and others who have been involved
A list of 'Friendly Faces' will be included in the publicity material for Inquiring Minds 07. In this, organisations who have stated their support for the initiative and willingness to be contacted will be listed along with their contact details and whether they can offer a friendly face on a local, regional or national basis.
To add your organisation to this list, or for further information on Inquiring Minds please contact Jim Cathcart at tel: 087-6923127 or
jcathcartie@hotmail.com The Leyney Writers Group are organising a Literary Festival to coincide with Tubbercurry Old Fair Celebrations that will take place on Tuesday 7th August 2007 in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. Three different competitions are being organised and the festival is calling for submissions:
Details of rules and entry criteria from Tubbercurry Community Library 071 9111705 or
Leyney Writers, 25 Ballina Road, Tubbercurry 071 9185132.
Closing date 15th June 2007
3. PUBLIC TALKS & DISCUSSIONS
ALEXANDER NIMMO
Friday 4th May, 8.15pm
Sligo Education Centre, Institute of Technology, Sligo
Sligo Field Club lecture by Prof. Noel Wilkins.
OUTING
Wednesday 9th May, 6.15pm
St. Anne’s Church, Strandhill, Sligo
Sligo Field Club outing to St. Anne’s Strandhill and Rathcarrick House.
4. FESTIVALS
EIGHTH VOGLER SPRING FESTIVAL
Friday 4 – Bank Holiday Monday 7 May
The Vogler Spring Festival 2007 spans four days, nine concerts and features seventeen performers who join the Voglers for this international gathering. For more information/booking, contact Artscope, telephone 01 5059582/ email
info@artscope.ie or log on to
www.sligoarts.ie/list/whats-on/festivals/ for full programme and information. St. Columba’s Church, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo
BEALTAINE FESTIVAL SLIGO 2007
Celebrating Creativity in Older Age
Bealtaine is an arts festival running throughout Ireland in May to celebrate creativity in older age. Coordinated at a national level by Age & Opportunity, it is organised by a range of organisations locally and spearheaded here by Sligo Arts Service and the Health Service Executive. Bealtaine Sligo 2007 will be a festival of events, workshops and exhibitions in the visual arts, music, literature, drama and short film.
A 4-day Intergenerational Arts Celebration & Exhibition Programme at the Factory Performance Space, Sligo from May 10 to 13 will be highlight of the this year’s festival. This celebration will open on Thursday 10 May at 10.30am with a Discussion Forum Building Community & Exploring Place which will provide an opportunity to hear from artists, policy makers, participants young and old and members of the community. The discussion will commence with Our Sense of Place, a short film created by Maugherow Intergenerational Group in collaboration with Dermot Healy, Joanna Parkes, Catherine Fanning and Johnny Gogan. This film will also be shown on Friday 11 May at 11am as part of an Intergenerational Collaboration which will be an opportunity for teachers, principals, active retirement groups, artists/facilitators and agencies to engage with the participants of the Maugherow and Abbeyquarter Intergenerational Projects. Attendees can take part in an open discussion on the programme and how they might wish to work with Sligo Arts Service and the HSE in establishing Intergenerational Programmes in their own areas. For the 4 days Catherine Fanning has curated an exhibition of artworks, images and video in the Foyer. At lunchtime Saturday 12 and Sunday 13, Sligo Active Retirement Association will stage their original drama, a collaboration with actors John Carty and Sandra O’Malley from Blue Raincoat Theatre Company.
For a full programme of Bealtaine Sligo Festival Events, including a listing of Arts Trail events presented by groups around Sligo city and county contact: Rhona McGrath, Assistant Arts Officer, Sligo County Council. 071 911 1984,
arts@sligococo.ie.
www.sligoarts.ie/arts-features/feature-projects/bealtaine-festival-2007/
For a full programme of Bealtaine Festival 2007 events nationwide, contact Age & Opportunity Bealtaine Festival line 1890 506060.
www.bealtaine.com.
SEAN NÓS TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 May 2007
Rathcormac, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo
Cos Cos Sean Nós Dance Company present their first Sean Nós .i.e. Old Style Traditional Irish Festival at Rathcormac Village, Drumcliffe from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th May next.
Celebrations kick off with a Traditional Concert featuring a host of local talent, young and not so young. Musicians, Cos Cos dancers, stories, poems, songs and starring Ireland’s greatest Melodeon player Johnny Connolly, Connemara. A pub session will follow with Music, Song and Dance.
Saturday brings five workshops with renowned tutors. Sean Nós Dancing – Róisin Ni Mhainnín; Singing – Rosie Stewart; Bodhrán and Bones – Junior Davey; Lilting – Bobby Gardiner; Storytelling – Paddy O’Brien, Cork, whose morning session will be for children of all ages. All workshops run from 10.30am to 1.00pm and 2.00pm to 4.00pm. This is followed by a ‘Not to Be Missed’ performance by the tutors at 4.30pm.
At 8.00pm in the Parish Hall, Sligo’s young Musicians and visiting young musicians, singers and dancers will give a recital, showing so many who are already Champions.
Saturday at 9.00pm, Frank Finn will host a singing session in Davis’ Pub at Yeat’s Tavern. Come along and sing your song.
In Collins’ Pub at 9.30pm, a great Traditional Music Session will be held. With the famous accordion player and lilter, Bobby Gardiner and the cream of Sligo Musicians – good for the heart and the sole!
On Sunday, 12.15pm there will be a Kitchen Session at the History Centre with music, storytelling and door dancing. Pub sessions in the afternoon and door dancing competition.
A Ceili with the Bush Ceili Band from 5.00pm – 7.00pm and at 9.00pm, Seamie O’Dowd and Rick Epping will raise the roof and your spirits in the Farewell Session.
Cos Cos welcomes everyone to join in the celebration of our oldest traditions.
For further information, please contact any of the following:
Brenda O’Callaghan – 086 1925988
Dorothy Kilmartin – 087 4167026
Ruth Nohilly – 087 7594349
Jim Brew – 086 2098358
DAMHSA::DOWSA – FESTIVAL OF DANCE
Hawks Well Theatre, Sligo, April – November 2007
The Hawk’s Well Theatre has invited nine of Ireland’s top professional dance theatre companies to come to Sligo for this unique dance festival. With the first show in April and the last in November, this festival features the very best of Ireland’s professional contemporary dance theatre companies. The festival will comprise live performances, recorded performances and interactive workshops. Named DAMHsa (pronounced “dowsa”) the Irish word for dance, this festival is a celebration of dance with 3 distinct aims:
to make contemporary dance more accessible to Sligo audiences,
to provide a platform for touring professional dance theatre companies to showcase their work and
to allow local groups from all backgrounds to experience the vitality of this unique artform.
Festival Programme
April, Sunday 29th: Rex Levitates presents “Cross Purposes – Same Jane”
May Sunday 27th: Irish Modern Dance Theatre presents “The White Piece”
June, Sunday 3rd: Ursula Mawson Raffalt presents “8 variations”
July Sunday 15th: Junk Ensemble “The Rain Party”
August Sunday 26th: Ponydance Theatre Company presents “Trousers”
September, Sunday 30th: Rionach O’ Neill presents “How Did We Get Here?”
October Sunday 28th: This Torsion Dance Theatre Company, “The Gold Den”
November Sunday 18th: Echo Echo – “Consequences”
November, Sunday 24th: Dance Theatre of Ireland – “Slow Down”
For full information log onto
www.hawkswell.com/damhsa/programme Friday 4 – Sunday 6 May
Coleman Irish Music Centre, Gurteen, County Sligo
Celebration of traditional music with concerts, workshops and lots of great music.
Telephone 071 9182599 for a full programme of events.
MID ULSTER FILM FESTIVAL
4th, 5th & 6th May 2007
Mid Ulster Film Festival is now in its 4th year and has moved to being a more international festival with films submitted not just from Ireland, but international submissions as well. The festival is organised on a voluntary basis and as funding is small (approx£6,000), it doesn't mean that the festival is small! Mid Ulster Film Festival are indebted to the likes of Barry Devlin (Horslips), who give masterclasses for free, Comedian Kevin McAleer, etc. This year the festival has New Yorker - Mary Pat Kelly, writer/director of Proud coming to give a Seminar, and the festival hopes to have a few big names in the film industry in Ireland in attendance. There is an enthusiastic band of helpers and volunteers without whom the festival would not happen. The Mid Ulster Film Festival has been such a significant and important event in Ulster as it is all encompassing, people of all ages, creeds and gender.
The Festival takes place on the 4th, 5th & 6th May at An Creagan, foothills of the Sperrins in Co. Tyrone. For more information please contact +44 (0) 28 807 58621
www.midulsterfilmfestival.com
5. LIVE MUSIC LISTINGS
ST. COLUMBA’S CHURCH, DRUMCLIFF
DAVID ORLOWSKY’S KLEZMORIM
MOZART IN MAY
Sun 20 May, 8pm
A concert of music by the Amaryllis Singers and Sligo Early Music Ensemble in a programme of classical music.
HAWK’S WELL THEATRE
AN EVENING WITH LIAM CLANCY & FRIENDS
Friday 4 May, 8pm
Powerful show of music and memories.
COPPELIA
Sun 20 May, 8pm
European Ballet presents a colourful, classical ballet.
CINDERELLA
Thurs 24 May, 10am, 11.15am & 12.45pm
Talisman Theatre bring us one of the world’s oldest and much loved fairy tales. Suitable for children aged 3 plus.
ST BRIGID’S HALL, TUBBERCURRY, COUNTY SLIGO
SCOILTRAD
Friday 11 May, 8pm
A celebration of traditional music, song and dance presented by South Sligo national school pupils.
LEFT BANK CAFÉ
Live Music, Bar and Restaurant, 15/16 rear Stephens St, Sligo. T: 071 9140100
www.leftbank.ie Thursday 10 May 8.30pm
Director’s music is pop simplicity at its best: boisterous energy mixed with melodic sensibility. “Music is meant to excite people; it’s there for people to enjoy. That’s what we try to focus on” notes the guitarist.
For upcoming gigs on every second Thursday night, see
www.leftbank.ie Now you can hear live jazz every Sunday afternoon at the Left Bank, Sligo. Regular special guests join house six-piece band Ellamental by the river for a Sunday session from 4.30-6.30pm. Free Admission.
BARRY’S PUBLIC HOUSE & MUSIC VENUE
CHURCH BRODSKY
Wednesday 9 May
AIDI DUNBAR & THE JONAHS
Friday 11 May
Trad / Folk Front Bar Sessions every Sunday Night
All Welcome
UP FRONT MUSICIANS CLUB
Friday 25 May 2007: Beatles Songs
Music from 10pm and anyone interested in taking part, the support meeting takes place at 9pm followed by the acts selected to take to the stage. You are encouraged to go along bring a friend or two..... The Up Front Musicians Club meets every last Friday of the month. Contact 071-9854338 or
cgc@iolfree.ie for more information.
Durkin’s Bar, Ballinacarrow, Co. Sligo
Wednesday 9 May, 9.30pm
All singers and listeners of traditional singing most welcome. The purpose of the Singing Circle is to nurture and promote the art of traditional singing in Sligo and surrounding areas. See the website for some songs and more information
http://homepage.eircom.net/~tradsing/ Email:
tradsing@eircom.net
6. THEATRE
HAWK’S WELL THEATRE
LET’S TWIST AGAIN
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 May, 8pm
Hilarious play by Margaret McKenna Mullen.
7TH ANNUAL SHOW
Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 May, 8pm
St. Anne’s Youth Centre presents another night of great local entertainment.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 May, 8pm
Sligo Grammar School presents the Oliver Goldsmith comedy.
MAD ABOUT THE MUSICALS
Two hours Friday 18 May, 8pm
Of West End and Broadway showstoppers.
SLIGO CONCERT BAND AND BRUSSELLS CONCERT BAND
Saturday 19 May, 8pm
Joint concert featuring the Sligo and Brussels concert bands.
I MISS COMMUNISM
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 May, 8pm
Solo show in which Ines Wurth recounts growing up in Croatia.
7. VISUAL ARTS LISTINGS
MODEL ARTS AND NILAND GALLERY
THE NILAND GALLERIES
Spring exhibition from the Niland Collection
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION
Until Sunday 13 May
Exhibition entitled Your Position as Much as Your Environment.
ArtTrap
Free family activities every Sunday. Contact 071 9141405 for more details.
SLIGO ART GALLERY
GERDA TELJEUR
Friday 11 May – Sunday 24 June
Exhibition of drawings.
THE CAT & THE MOON GALLERY
RACHEL QUINN & MILAN PELIKAN
Saturday 21 April – Tuesday 8 May
Two solo shows open the same day - mixed media sculptures and photography.
“Stones and Bones” is an exhibition of sculpture by Rachel Quinn. The starting point for this body of work was a ram’s skull which she found on Benbulben Mountain.
“Double Take” is an exhibition of photography by Milan Pelikan. Pelikan’s aims to challenge the way we see the local Sligo landscape in a series of sweeping panoramic images produced by use of a double negative technique perfected by the artist in his native Czechoslovakia.
For more information see Arts Features page on
www.sligoarts.ie/arts-features/ Saturday 12 May – Wednesday 6 June
Photographic exhibition. See local press for further details.
TEACH BAN NUA GALLERY
MOVING LINES
Saturday 21 April – Sunday 13 May
Exhibition of drawings by Tom O'Rourke and Heidi Wickham.
CELEBRATION
Saturday 19 May – Thursday 31 May
Group exhibition of drawing, painting, photography and mixed media in partnership with the Bealtaine Festival.
8. DANCE
IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE PRESENTS THE WHITE PIECE
Sunday May 27, 5pm
Hawk’s Well Theatre
Choreographer John Scott has been working for four years with clients from the Centre for Care for Survivors of Torture in Dublin. They are refugees who, during examination, are found to have been tortured either physically or mentally.
http://www.hawkswell.com/damhsa/programme.html#imdt
MODEL ARTS AND NILAND GALLERY
NAKED CAMERA STAR…PJ GALLAGHER
Fri 11 May, 8.30pm
PJ Gallagher is fast becoming one of Ireland’s best-loved comedians. Following the huge success of his role as Jake Stevens in the award winning, hilarious and sometimes outrageous hit TV show Naked Camera, With appearances on both The Miriam O'Callaghan and Ryan Tubridy shows, you can expect to see a lot more of this brilliant, energetic young comic.
With support from John Lynn. MC for the night is John Colleary.
MCGARRIGLES – UPSTAIRS VENUE
O’Connell St, Sligo
SCRATCH THAT
Thursday 17 May, 8.30pm, €7
A night of improvisation comedy sourcing its inspiration from the TV show ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’.
10. CHILDCARE CHAMPION AWARDS
Closing date for nominations Thursday 10 May 2007
Sligo County Childcare Committee is embarking on an innovative and exciting activity with the launch of a Childcare Champion Awards in Sligo. Sligo County Childcare Committee are the first county childcare committee to host this type of event in Ireland and are excited to be able to facilitate parents with an opportunity to express their gratitude to staff working within the childcare sector.
Nomination is being sought from parents who use any of the 75 childcare services across the county of Sligo. Parents are invited to nominate childcare workers who help care for and work with their child in any of the various childcare settings across Sligo. The childcare services include, Playgroups, Day Care, Crèche, After School Clubs, Childminder, Montessori School, Family Visitor, Steiner Kindergarten, Naionra, Drop in Centre.
Nominations forms are currently being distributed to all childcare services across Sligo and will also be available through local libraries and health centres as well as through the offices of Sligo County Childcare Committee, 50 The Mall, Sligo, Phone 0719148860, or by emailing
sccc@eircom.net Closing date for nomination forms to be returned to Sligo County Childcare Committee is Thursday 10th May at 4pm.