Dance Theatre of Ireland New Term of Classes -  now on
 
Enrolment for Dance Theatre of Ireland's new term of classes for April/May/June has just begun!
To enrol in any of our daytime, weekend & evening classes please call 01 280 3455 or email info@dancetheatreireland.com.  The new 10-week term of classes starts April 26th. 

Information on new classes are available on the website:

• info@dancetheatreireland.com
• www.dancetheatreireland.com

The Marienbad Palace
30 April - 15 September

Curated by Jacqui McIntosh
Laura Buckley, Diana Copperwhite, Jorge De La Garza, Alicja Kwade, Haroon Mirza, Ian Monroe

Venues:
Droichead Arts Centre until June 26, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery until September 15
Exhibition Opening and Festival Launch: Friday 30 April at 6.00pm, Highlanes Gallery
Curator's and artists' talk: Saturday 1 May at 1.00pm starting at Highlanes Gallery

"Sooner or later the process will halt, at that moment revealing the true dimensions of the world we inhabit, and which the visual centres of our timid brains have concealed from us."

JG Ballard, The Enormous Space

'The Marienbad Palace' brings together works by Laura Buckley, Diana Copperwhite, Jorge De La Garza, Alicja Kwade, Haroon Mirza and Ian Monroe. The works shown within the exhibition explore ideas of reality beyond our everyday experiences of space and time. In the Marienbad Palace time stretches and is without duration, space is multidimensional, the distinction between subjective and objective reality blurred. The exhibition, which includes collage, painting, sculpture, installation and video, takes its title from JG Ballard's 1989 short story 'The Enormous Space' and Alain Resnais' seminal 1961 film 'Last Year in Marienbad'.

Saturday  12th June – Saturday 28th August│10am – 5pm

Graphic Studio Dublin at glór Gallery

glór gallery will come alive this summer with an exciting range of top class printwork as we celebrate with Graphic Studio Dublin their 50th anniversary. Established in 1960 Graphic Studio Dublin aimed to teach traditional printmaking skills, (then unavailable in Irish art colleges), and to provide studios and technical assistance to artists to make fine art prints. They currently have sixty-seven members and this exhibition has a selection of work from some of these artists. Including, Meadhbh Arthurs, Jean Bardon, Gerard Cox, Louise Farrelly, Paul Fitters, Niamh Flanagan, Nickie Hayden, Stephen Lawlor, Robert Russell, Siobhan Hyde and many, many more.

http://www.glor.ie

This year's Visual Arts programme sees a change of venue and format. The festival's official exhibitions will be in a single venue, and what a venue it is: VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art. Éigse will celebrate its thirty-one years of great art shows with a huge group exhibition of work by artists who made Carlow a major venue for all art lovers. These will range from artists who show in major international galleries to artists from the Carlow area some of whom have shown annually since the festival was launched in 1979.

11/06/2010 - 29/08/2010 11.00 h - 17.30 h

An Éigse Carlow Arts Festival event

An exhibition of 22 Graphic Studio Dublin artists, based on 11 poems of William Butler Yeats
 YEATS AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF PRINT
Primary Colours is an annual exhibition at Sligo Art Gallery to increase dialogue and interaction within the visual arts programme, to include schools, and the local community.
Given the cultural integration with the Yeats family in Co. Sligo, and given the intrinsic link between fine art print and the written word, specifically through the Yeats' sisters Cuala Press, Sligo Art Gallery felt it appropriate to invite members of Graphic Studio Dublin to respond to the poems of William Butler Yeats. This is particularly appropriate given that 2010 is Graphic Studio Dublin's 50th anniversary, and its original core group of founders included William Butler Yeats' daughter Anne Yeats.

The artists responded to various poems by William Butler Yeats including: Down by the Sally Gardens, When You are Old and Grey, Byzantium, The Cat and the Moon and A Man Young and Old (I First Love, II Human Dignity and III The Mermaid). Each artist has made one work.

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From 7 - 10 October, Dublin buildings of all types and periods will open up their doors to allow citizens explore the architecture of their city, with special tours by hundreds of professionals and enthusiasts, completely for free.

2010 is an exceptional year in Irish architecture as it sees the completion of several large-scale projects in Dublin city. To mark these new urban landmarks as well as the innovative work of Irish architects across all scales, we have adopted the theme – Big, Small, Global. Open House Dublin is a unique opportunity to explore the city in all its dimensions.

Open House Dublin is curated by Dr. Sandra O'Connell and is presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation. To see the programme as it grows, visit www.architecturefoundation.ie/openhouse

In powerful black-and-white photographs, Giorgia Fiorio records heightened moments of spiritual and religious ritual from across the planet. 'The Gift' explores the relation of the individual to the Sacred. It reveals the tenacity and endurance of all human beings in their search for spiritual meaning in their lives.

info@galleryofphotography.ie

Illuminations – an exhibition of paintings and stone work by John Carew will be opened by Liam Browne on Friday 2nd July @ 7.30pm.  The exhibition will run until the end of July.

Dance All Day! One week summer courses for young people and adults. Week 1: Adult (18+) July 5th - 9th, 2 - 6pm, €115 Week 2: Ages 13-17 July 12th - 16th, 10 - 4pm, €150 Week 3: Ages 8-12 July 19th - 23rd, 10 - 4pm, €150 Dance All Day is a one week Summer Dance Intensive course for young people and adults in Dun Laoghaire. Classes for those who love to dance! The course is designed to give young people and adults exposure and experience in a variety od dance styles, concentrating on modern forms of dance. Emphasis is placed on Fun through Dance, learning, creating and performing. Participants learn a variety of dance routines in: Contemporary, Hip-Hop and Stage dance to popular and world music. For registration information don't hesitate to contact us at: danceire@iol.ie or ring us: 01 280 3455 Our website is: www.dancetheatreireland.com

Due to popular demand Still life with… by AIB Prize winners 2009 Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly will continue until the 20 August 2010

The project is inspired by Patrick Hennessy's magnificent Still life painting from the permanent collection of Limerick City Gallery of Art. Still life with... reconstructs the original Still life as a 3-dimensional set, inviting you to step right into the painting.  LCGA Off-site presents this interactive and engaging exhibition at The Hunt Museum, Rutland Street, Limerick.

The exhibition is bipartite in structure, so don't miss Cleary and Connolly's previous works on display at Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall, Merchants Quay, where LCGA has taken up residency during the redevelopment of the Carnegie Building.  Istabraq Hall will be open on Saturday 10 July from 10am-5pm.

More information: http://www.huntmuseum.com/

'On the Edge' exhibition of contemporary glass

Wed 7 – Sat 31 July

Triskel @ ESB Substation, Caroline Street, Cork

'On the Edge' is a touring exhibition organised by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Chinks Grylls and Mary Mackey in partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland, which celebrates contemporary glass by artists from Ireland and South West England. It includes work by artists already established and highly regarded internationally, as well as emerging artists.

Two and three dimensional works display techniques already familiar, and also show new explorations in using this medium that challenge our perceptions and excite our senses. The range of work in the exhibition reflects what is being made by artists using glass today, and whose work richly demonstrates the way in which glass can and is being used as a powerful creative medium for self-expression.

There are twenty one artists in this exhibition, and the show has already been seen in the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, Torre Abbey in Torquay, the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, National Botanic Gardens in Dublin, Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford.

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Hide & Seek II Exhibition

Hide & Seek II is a solo exhibition of artworks by Margaret O' Brien Moran in response to her experience of migraine. The body of work on view provides an insight into the subjective world of the migraine sufferer. Having suffered from migraine for over 40 years the images draw on Margaret's personal diary and experience. By illustrating the visual disturbances of classical migraine, the images set out to reveal that which is normally hidden, the migraine experience from within.

This collection of images was produced during June 2009 at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and comprises both traditional black and white photographs with darkroom manipulation and digitally manipulated images.   

Margaret will give a talk about the work in the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health on the 9th July at 1.15pm. The exhibition will be on view in Waterford Regional Hospital until the 2nd September.

KING RAT

A dark and menacing exhibition, originally inspired by all things Gothic, King Rat presents a series of artworks by some of visual arts most original international voices.  The gallery will transform in to a space filled with a sense of unease and discomfort, the stuff that nightmares are made of. A carpet made of thousands of black pieces of paper will create a striking landscape from which sculptures rise, paintings hover above, tapestries loom and text speak.

More information: http://www.projectartscentre.ie/programme/whats-on/1069-king-rat

The Quare Land (World Premiere)
Decadent Theatre Company's examination of motivation, greed and money set in Cavan where Hugh Pugh is about to take his first bath in four years.  John McManus' first full professional production.  Directed by Rod Goodall.

Nun's Island Theatre
Mon - Sat July 12 - 17, 19 - 24 8pm Matinees 17 & 24 July 3.30 pm €22/€20 http://www.galwayartsfestival.com 091 566577

Triskel summer workshops for kids: Japanese Art and Culture

Following on from the very popular and successful Artist in Schools programme 'An introduction to Japanese Arts and Culture' which took place recently in primary schools around Cork, Triskel is running four separate weeks of summer workshops featuring classes in Japanese culture, origami, traditional arts and crafts and brush calligraphy. The classes will be given by Chika Ueda, a qualified teacher from Japan.

Dates: July 12 – 16 / July 19 – 23 / Aug 9–13 / Aug 16–20
Time: Mon – Fri, 11am – 1pm
Ages: 7-12 years
Cost: €50 for the week (materials included)
Venue: The River Lee Hotel (formerly Jurys), Western Road.

For further details contact Alan Collins at 021-4277300
Email alancollins@triskelartscentre.ie

For bookings please phone 021-4272022
or call into Triskel, ESB Substation, Caroline Street, Cork

www.triskelartscentre.ie

Exhibition of new paintings by young American artist, Dana Schutz. Please visit http://www.douglashydegallery.com for full details

Exhibition of photographs and one painting by visionary American outsider artist, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. Please visit http://www.douglashydegallery.com for full details

The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey

For more information and booking: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/

DID IT! is a celebration of creativity, confidence and completion.

To mark the end of the first year of their four-year degree course in photography at DIT, the exhibition provides a platform via which young emerging talent can display their work.

DID IT! helps fresh talent find a voice and creates new-found confidence.

This major survey exhibition of Jack B Yeats promises to bring many of his great masterpieces together for the first time in almost 40 years. Guest curated by Brian O'Doherty (aka Patrick Ireland), the internationally acclaimed artist, critic and theorist, the show will explore Yeats' interest in the subject and realities of the outsider persona. Many of the great works from Yeats' late ex- pressionist phase will be included alongside his more local, political works of the 1920s. The show will be accompanied by a new publication with a major new critical text by Brian O'Doherty, as well as new texts by Dr Tricia Cusack and Dr. Thomas McEvilley.
Guest curated by Brian O'Doherty. 

For further info please visit www.themodel.ie

Learn to dance alongside the professional ballerinas from Ireland's national ballet company.

Suitable for children ages 6 and older.

More info

Clann Lir, an eternal tale of evil and salvation, is a story as old as Ireland itself.  According to the legend, the four children of King Lir, Fionnuala, Conn, Aodh and Fiachra were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother, Aoife.

This production portrays the journey of the four Children of Lir who are doomed to spend nine hundred years in the guise of swans, but are allowed to keep their beautiful singing voices.  A glorious visual, musical and magical performance.

For further information call 066 712 3055 or visit www.siamsatire.com

These workshops are for children who love to explore visual arts. During the week participants will get the opportunity to work with a range of materials, dry and wet - so wear old clothes just in case!
Mon 26 - Fri 30 Jul 2010 11am-12pm // Art Workshop A (4-6 years) // €40
Mon 26 - Fri 30 Jul 2010 1pm-3pm // Art Workshop B (7-9 years) // €40

Box Office: 01 885 2622
www.draiocht.ie

Tramps and Poets - Summer Camp! New : our resident youth drama programme presents Summer Camp 2010! A week of creativity, confidence building and imagination. Facilitated by Aisling Flitton.

One week course: Mon- Sat. July 26th-31st.

Age 4-6: 10.30am - 1.30pm

Age 7-10: 2pm- 5pm.

Cost €45 per child for the week. Booking tel the Courthouse Arts Centre: 0402-38529

EXHIBIT ME!
Ever wondered what it's like to BE an artist? Now you have a chance to make - and exhibit - your work in a Dublin city centre venue this summer. Come to The Ark and work alongside professional artist Terry O'Farrell, who will guide you and inspire you to create your very own artworks in a visual arts experience exploring the theme of FAMILY.

For ages 4 - 14.

DRAWING  28 JULY-1 AUGUST

Join us for a week of drawing where you will be introduced to a number of different mark making tools and techniques. Using interesting drawing methods, such as ripping, scratching, cutting, and collaging you can create flat or sculptured artworks.

Times:
Wednesday                                           1.30pm / 3.30pm
Thursday to Saturday                             10.30am / 1.30pm / 3.30pm
Sunday (Family workshops)                    1.30pm/3.30pm

For more information visit www.ark.ie or contact our Box Office on 01.6707788

The Ark Summer Season 2010
Exhibit Me! Free Evolving Exhibition.
Children's work will be be showcased in The Ark gallery alongside professional artist Terry O'Farrell's in a free evolving exhibition. The exhibition will change each week, so you can keep coming back to see how it develops as hundreds of pieces are added! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 5pm.

For more information please visit www.ark.ie or contact our Box Office on 01.6707788

Everyone is an Audience

An exhibition asking the audience to do more than just look curated by Claire Meaney and Mary Grehan and features the work of David Bickley, Aoife Casey, Andrew Dodds, Aoife Flynn, Fiona Hallinan, Jennie Moran, Bern Roche Farrelly, Libby Seward and Brigid Teehan.

Exhibition launch is on Friday 30th July at 7pm

In SOMA Contemporary Art Box, Lombard St., Waterford.

The exhibition continues until 21 August.

The Sean McCarthy Festival now in its 17th year runs between 30th July and 2nd August in honour of singer, songwriter and poet, Sean McCarthy.  The Festival takes place at Teach Siamsa in Finuge Village and plays host to a wealth of talented singers, songwriters and poets.  Activities include the infamous Bog Walk and Ballad Competition which takes place during the weekend along with The Dublin City Ramblers officially opening the festival celebrations.  With events suitable for the whole family, a packed programme takes place over Finuge during the August bank holiday weekend to celebrate one of Kerry's most talented and generous singer songwriters.

For more information visit www.finugeweekend.com

Best known as the hilarious and sometimes outrageous Jake Stevens from RTE 's Naked Camera and Makin' Jake, PJ Gallagher one of Ireland's most popular and well-loved comedians.

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For the August weekend the Sands make their way from Germany, Australia, Turkey, the USA or wherever they happen to be and head back to Rostrevor to be together for almost the only time in the year. For the past few years we've been lucky enough to catch them and "cage" them long enough to come to Iontas with their very special and unique brand of song, music and fun. Their performance is a cultural experience: a chance to enjoy and share in the craic with four superb performers who have the unique ability to make theior audience an integral and important part of the show. This is the feel-good factor to the power of four. Welcome them back.

€20/18  www.iontascastleblayney.ie

Have you got Talent? 
 Can you sing? Dance? Juggle? Act? Do stand-up? Anything else? 
 If so, come and be part of Thurles' Got Talent- the ultimate local talent show! Thurles Community Estates Association and Tipperary Regional Youth Service are hosting a 'Thurles' Got Talent' competition as part of their annual Fun Day. They are looking for young people between the ages of 8-18 years who have a talent and fancy winning €200 cash prize. So whatever your talent, don't miss out on this chance to be spotted! Depending on demand, there may be several heats before the final at The Source.

Applications forms can be obtained by phoning Sara Leahy in the Tipperary Regional Youth Service Office, Croke St., on 0504 23426 or from The Source Arts Centre 0504 90204 or www.thesourceartscentre.ie 

 Tickets for the competition final: €5/€3 concession.

Toby Kaar to play Loading Bay

Sat 31 July, 4pm

Loading Bay, ESB Substation, Caroline Street, Cork

Toby Kaar is a brilliant young Cork based creator of ambient soundscapes. Within his work, Toby tries to accomodate influences from every type of music he has ever loved. Because of this, his music has a schizophrenic quality, at times fragile, at other times overpowering.

His live shows can be bleak, beautiful or banging depending on what he feels right for the situation.

This adaptability has seen the Cork producer play shows in both art galleries and dance clubs, alongside punk bands, techno DJs and ambient composers alike.

For this show with the Triskel, Toby will be performing new pieces, some of which will never be performed again.

http://www.myspace.com/tobykaar

LOADING BAY – FREE live music every Saturday, ESB Substation, Caroline Street, 4pm

http://www.triskelartscentre.ie