we are hiring! August 3, 2010
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The Dock, Carrick on Shannon seeks Marketing & Public Relations Officer
A position has arisen for a versatile and enthusiastic individual to join the staff of The Dock in Carrick on Shannon. The Dock is an arts centre comprising a 117-seat performance space, exhibition spaces, workshops and artists’ studios.
Responsibilities of this post will include:
- Management and organisation of marketing and PR activities
- Preparation and dissemination of promotional materials across print and online media
- Web content management
- Management of mailing lists/databases
- Building funder/sponsor relationships
- Developing promotional partnerships
- Market monitoring and review
This is based on a two year contract at a salary of €26,000pa
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For job descriptions and full details, see www.leitrimcoco.ie or contact Human Resources Section, Leitrim County County, Áras an Chontae, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Tel: 071 – 9650460, Email: gdoyle@leitrimcoco.ie
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS –
4pm, Thursday 19th August, 2010
are you an artist? need a space? step this way please July 23, 2010
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Fancy a studio in a creative space, with gorgeous surroundings and nice people that doesn’t cost the earth? Well then come and have a chat with us about renting a studio space!
We have five studio spaces for artists in total – three are based in The Dock and two are above Solas Art Gallery in Ballinamore.
So the dealio is…
€30 per week (Light + Heat incl.). Suitable for professional arts practitioners and available for immediate rent. Dimensions: 2.9m x 6m and 5.35 x 4m. All studio spaces have water and 13A power. Some have data points and broadband access is available at additional €5 per week.
Studios are available for period of six months to 12 months (with a possible 12-month extension at the discretion of The Dock).
There are also studios available above Solas Art Gallery in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim (these can also be applied for through The Dock).
If you would like to rent a studio, please submit the following:
1. A CV / Resume / Biog / history of your work to date.
2. A description of the work / project / programme you propose to work on while renting the studio.
3. A letter of interest indicating any additional benefits / potential of your period of residency for The Dock.
4. Preferred start dates.
to
Ciara McCormac
Front of House Manager
The Dock
Carrick on Shannon
Co Leitrim
or contact cmccormac<at>leitrimcoco<dot>ie for further information.
PS will get the camera out and get some pictures up shortly!
National Campaign for the Arts…workshop June 21, 2010
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The National Campaign for the Arts is organising a ’National Day of Action’ in early September, just before the Dáil resumes and in advance of Culture Night.
It will involve arts workers in every constituency meeting their local TDs on the same day around the country.
In preparation, there will be workshops held around the country on June 23rd in Dublin, 24th in Galway and in 25th Cork.
Note - the Galway workshop has been changed to 4pm Thurs 24 June (not 5pm as previous advertised). It will take place in Town Hall Theatre, Courthouse Sq, Galway and you will need to RSVP to Antonella Villani antonella(at)aoifeonline.com.
By the way if anyone is attending who will be travelling via Carrick on Shannon/Roscommon/Castlerea/Tuam and wants to car pool leave a comment below or contact mdillon<at>leitrimcoco<dot>ie
And don’t forget for arts workers in the Roscommon-South Leitrim area you can join the facebook group, follow RSLArtsWorkers on twitter or check out the blog.
The Sacred Project continued… June 16, 2010
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The Higher Bridges Gallery, The Clinton Centre
The Barracks Store and Magazine, Enniskillen Castle Museums
1st Floor, The Imperial Building, 38-40 Queen Elizabeth Road
Janine Antoni
Karl Burke
John Byrne
Maud Cotter
Gary Coyle
Miriam De Búrca
Stephen Dillon
Cian Donnelly
Patricia Kelly
Sharon Kelly
Susan MacWilliam
Fergus Martin
Janet Mullarney
Mariele Neudecker
Abigail O’Brien
Paul Seawright
Amelia Stein
Grace Weir
Daphne Wright
The sacred Project: A Cross Border, Cross Community Arts Project Selects Artworks For Major Exhibition In Enniskillen
Project Overview
In December members of Catholic & Protestant communities from Carrick-on-Shannon/Leitrim & Enniskillen/Fermanagh gathered at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon Co. Leitrim for the first meeting of the Sacred Project. A PEACE III project funded by the County Leitrim Peace III Partnership through the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund which is managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.
The Sacred Project proposes to use the medium of creating an exhibition as a tool to initiate conversations around notions of Sacred, Divinity and Spirituality by discussing the shared, experiential aspects of religions as opposed to focusing on their differences. By using the “Art Exhibition” as a platform for finding a commonality of interests in the groups, this project will provide all who attend with the rare opportunity of experiencing and discussing spirituality and sacredness in unfamiliar terms.
The participants visited the Ulster Museum in Belfast, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon where Suzanne Lyle from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the artist and Head of Fine Art at NCAD, Philip Napier, Johanne Mullan, National Programmer, IMMA, Jerome O’Drisceoil of the Green on Red Gallery and Linda Shevlin, project facilitator, presented artworks for their consideration.
The exhibition of works selected by the groups on the theme ‘Sacred’ will be held in The Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen Castle Museum and 1st Floor The imperial Building on Queen Elizabeth Road and pens on the 25th of June 2010. Recently the groups met to make their final decisions on the works they’d like to have included in the exhibition. The process of selecting the artworks for the exhibition has ultimately be informed by group discussions, visits to art institutions and talks from key figures in the curating field.
Sacred Exhibition
Among the works chosen is the large scale multi screen video installation by the internationally renowned artist Daphne Wright, The Prayer Project. This emersive installation comprises of film portraits exploring the mystery of the intensely private and personal moment of prayer and meditation. Other artists include John Byrne, Gary Colye, Fergus Martin, Paul Seawright, Janet Mullarney, Abigail O’Brien, Amelia Stein, Janine Antoni, Grace Weir, Susan MacWilliam, Sharon Kelly, Mariele Neudecker, Patricia Kelly, Stephen Dillon and Cian Donnelly.
The exhibition will be housed in 3 venues across Enniskillen: The Higher Bridges Gallery, The Barracks and Magazine Stores at Enniskillen Castle and the 1st floor of The Imperial Building on Queen Elizabeth Road. The exhibition Sacred will open on the 25th of June with venues opening their doors to visitors from 7pm. There will be an opening reception at 8pm in the Higher Bridges Gallery.
Sacred Dialogue
There will also be a one-day seminar/conversation to coincide with the exhibition, exploring the relationship between contemporary art and Sacred on June 26th. As part of this dialogue session the artist Seamus Nolan will be performing an interview with the anarcho primitivist John Zerzan. In Nolan’s description of event ‘The essential element of liveness, of the ritual of performance, the visitation of this cultural thinker being an important aspect of this event. In terms of the sacred, this performance looks at the the idea of the symbolic communion with the ideological moment, the word of god from which we bear testament in the Bible and the text as sacred ‘what is written is divine’. Other speakers include the artists Daphne Wright who will be speaking about The Prayer Project. The artists Karl Burke and Miriam De Burca will also be speaking about their experiences creating new work for the exhibition. Karl and Miriam were selected by the community groups from an open and invited call for proposals. The artists conversation will be chaired by the independent curator Helen Carey. Philip Napier (Head of Fine Art NCAD) will be in conversation with Rev. Gary Mason who’ll be speaking about his work in communities in East Belfast and the role of art in a culture of change. More speakers to be confirmed.
For more information and to request pemissions for images or to book a place at the seminar as places are limited please email sacredproject@ireland.com
For further info you can also visit the facebook page
Contact
Linda Shevlin
Phone: +353 86 605 2571
Email: sacredproject@ireland.com
For Northern Ireland
Connie Bree
Phone: +44 7807 005516
Email: me@conniebree.com
The Sacred Project Participants were:
Ivy Boddy, Mary Boyle, Mary Brady, Kathleen Breen, Majella Curran, Kathleen Flanagan, Martina Gilmartin, Micheal Gilmartin, Corey McDaniel, Kathleen Markey, Yvonne Masterson, Jackie Mullan, Maura Newman, Mary O’Donnell, Stephen Rennicks, Sharon Richardson, Helen Reynolds, Christine and Cian Stewart, Mary Taylor, Martina Ward
With particular appreciation for the work of the Sacred Project Curatorial panel:
Mary Boyle, Mary Brady, Kathleen Breen, Majella Curran, Kathleen Flanagan, Martina Gilmartin, Kathleen Markey, Yvonne Masterson, Jackie Mullan, Maura Newman, Mary O’Donnell, Stephen Rennicks, Helen Reynolds, Christine and Cian Stewart, Martina Ward
Special Thanks to:
Fermanagh District Council
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
The Higher Bridges Gallery
Enniskillen Castle Museums
Cooper Wilkinson Solicitors
Picture This
Frith Street Gallery, London
Collection of Lowe Contemporary
Galerie Barbara Thumm
The Green on Red Gallery
Clíodhna Shaffrey & Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Leitrim County Council
The Dock
The Sacred project is Peace III project funded by the County Leitrim Peace III Partnership through the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund which is managed by the Special EU Programme Body.
SCREENING & DISCUSSION June 11, 2010
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THE DOCK INVITES YOU TO
A SCREENING & DISCUSSION of two films as part of Journeys to the Centre of the Earth Exhibition
Manufactured Landscapes (dir. Jennifer Baichwell)
La Jetée (dir. Chris Marker)
The Dock performance space (on our new screen!)
Thursday, June 17th @ 7pm
ALL WELCOME–please rsvp and let us know if you are coming 071 9650828
Manufactured Landscapes
This is a documentary with dual subjects. Nominally a portrait of the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky (and sharing its title with his book of the same name), Baichwal’s film is also about the subjects of his large-scale photographs – “the new landscapes of our time”; places where industrial activities scar and poison the earth, where raw materials from these sites are assembled into consumer goods of every description, and the places where the concomitant human detritus of every description is dumped and sometimes sorted for re-use. The photographs he produces – landscapes turned surreal through mining residues, ships being broken in Bangladesh, computer waste that resembles autumn leaves – reveal the paucity of our language for describing such troubling beauty. The film doesn’t preach. Instead, it shows the world, says “this is how it is”, and leaves us to think – hard – about the networks and goods that allow us to be who we are.” Graeme Hobbs Movie Mail reviewer
La Jetée
La Jetée (1962) is one of the seminal works of the French New Wave as well as one of the all-time great science fiction films. It deserves all the respect it receives but what is really so amazing is how much is achieved with so little. Made entirely of still black and white images–of WWII cities in ruin, of an airport observation deck in the fifties, of generic shots of a woman one could find in any magazine, of a group of men in one of the many tunnels beneath Paris–and a mundane but strangely compelling voice-over, Le Jetee is not so much a film as a series of random images linked only by the narrative spell of a single voice.” Douglas Anderson
The Sacred Project. June 1, 2010
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Exhibition Preview 25th of June. Exhibition runs until the 21st of July.
Seminar 26th of June
The Sacred Project an arts project working with communities in Enniskillen and Carrick on Shannon. The project culminates in an exhibition of National and International artists and a seminar in Northern Ireland. The project roposed to use the medium of creating an exhibition as a tool to initiate conversations around notions of Sacred, Divinity and Spirituality by discussing the shared, experiential aspects of religions as opposed to focusing on their differences. By using the “Art Exhibition” as a platform for finding a commonality of interests in the groups, this project provided the participants with the rare opportunity of experiencing and discussing spirituality and sacredness in unfamiliar terms.
The works selected include a new 6 screen video installation by Daphne Wright called The Prayer Project commissioned by Picture This, Grace Weir’s Around Now; a Mariele Nuedecker tank piece titled Gravity Prevents the Atmosphere from Drifting into Outer Space; Fergus Martin, Table; and a number of works from both the IMMA and ACNI collections.
More information can be found on the Sacred Project facebook page.
This project has been funded by the PEACE III Programme through the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund which is managed by the Special EU Programmes Body
Image credit: Daphne Wright Prayer Project 2009 Co-commissioned by Picture This and QUAD, and produced by Picture This. Funded by Esm�e Fairbairn Foundation and Culture Ireland.
Cathy Davey and The Bare Bones April 22, 2010
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This Sunday sees platinum selling, Meteor prize-winning and ridiculously talented, Cathy Davey take to the stage in the intimate surrounds of The Dock Black Box space. This is ahead of the release of her new album, The Nameless, on 7th May. If her last two albums, Something Ilk and Tales of Silversleeve, are anything to go by this is definitly one we will be adding to our CD collection. The album features guests such as Neil Hannon and long time collaborator and Villagers front man Conor O’Brien. This is part of The Bare Bones Tour which is explained by Cathy below.
THE BARE BONES TOUR!! What is this magical thing of which I speak? It’s a chance to play intimate venues without being too noisy for sensitive ears. Re arranged songs to better suit candlelight. Three of us playing as many instruments as we can fit in our suitcases and the chance for me to babble nonsense if I so choose as the bigger venues tend to echo unpleasantly, and I do so hate the sound of my own voice.. don’t we all. That’s the Bare Bones Tour. It’s nice. And slightly special.
Also the first single from The nameless, Little Red, is available to download on Friday. You can get a sneak preview of it at The Torture Garden, a quality music blog which I really recommend checking out.
Also joining Cathy on stage will be the excellent our little secrets aka Rhob Cunningham who can be seen below at the Airfield Sessions.
So get ready for a chilled out Sunday evening in the company of Cathy and Rhob. You can get your tickets from 071 9650828 and we strongly advise pre booking. See you there!
Narrative…Propositions…Landscape…Architecture…and people April 21, 2010
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The Dock’s new exhibition titled Journeys to the Centre of the Earth is all about conversations – conversations on architecture, planning, landscape, and people. There is so much talk in the Irish media these days about ‘thinking our way out of the crisis’ we’re in. Guest curator for The Dock, Maurice O’Connell gives us an opportunity to do just that by presenting various examples of groups of people who are thinking, talking – and taking action– in response to the complex of challenges we face in our rural, urban and in-between landscapes. It’s the latest installment of an ongoing series of exhibitions that have taken place at The Dock these last five years under the heading of Architecture.
Maurice O’Connell, originally from Dublin, now living in Cornwall, is an artist who works with architects, theatre practitioners, private business and local community developers to create enterprises, educational programmes, theatre manifestations and structural development plans. He is a regional adviser in the community/voluntary sector, director of a private philanthropic business, a theatre director and a lecturer at Combined Universities, Cornwall.
We hope to have some footage of the install which is happening at the moment up over the next couple of days so stay tuned!
The Dock invites you to take part in the conversation!
Come to the exhibition opening where guest curator Maurice O’Connell will initiate an informal talk about how what is displayed in the galleries might be relevant to our locality. Friday, April 23rd at 5:30 p.m., The Dock.
Visit The Dock’s galleries to see examples of creative solutions and questions posed by various groups of people in response to environmental, economic and social challenges we all face, wherever we live. A variety of films, connected to the exhibition, will be screened daily in Gallery Three. Pick up a schedule when you visit. The Dock’s galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm.
Watch this space for information on further talks and events that will develop as a result of the exhibition’s presence in Carrick-on-Shannon.
Enjoy a specialty coffee and continue the architecture conversation in the comfort of The Jury Room, where homemade cakes and other treats are available daily.
Gráda play their first Irish date celebrating their new album…tonight! March 31, 2010
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…and we are very excited!
These guys are the real deal – look what The Washington Post had to say about them “Gráda is to Irish music what Arcade Fire is to indie – informal, prodigious and full of spirit”
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This is the first Irish gig of their Irish Tour celebrating their new album, Natural Angle, which was recorded in Nashville with Grammy Award winning producer, Tim O’Brien. Gráda live gigs are always electric and we are pushing back all the chairs, clearing space for dancing and getting ready for a party!
There is lots of footage over on their youtube page to get you in the mood for the gig but we particualry liked this piece of super 8 footage they filmed while touring Germany last year.
Also Galway based Dutch singer-songwriter Christof will be joining Gráda onstage. The Dock HQ is loving his music which you can listen to here http://www.myspace.com/christoffromthevan
Fairtrade Fortnight Event at The Dock – update March 31, 2010
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You may have remember we held an event as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Here is a video showing how it went kindly made by Keith Nolan.
