New Summer Camp
The Xpressive Factory - Express yourself through art & drama in a fun, friendly & creative environment.
6 Day Summer Camps (Mon-Sat) in July & August 9.30 - 12.30pm (Kenmare 9.30am-1.30pm)
Our six day summer camps will be held in Ballinlough, Cobh and Kenmare. The program encourages creative thinking and imaginative play through a broad range of sensory activities such as: Drawing, painting, Print-making, collage, mask-making, the art of mask, puppet making, puppetry, drama, improvisation and games.
Spaces are limited and booking is essential please contact: 0876133087 orthexpressivefactory@gmail.com. Please see below for dates and venues
Dates:
4th July - 9th July Ballinlough Youth Centre, Cork (6-9yrs) 9.30am-12.30pm
11th July - 16th July Cobh Community Centre, Cork ( 6-9yrs) 9.30am- 12.30pm
8th August - 13th August Faungorth Activity Centre, Kenmare 9.30am- 1.30pm
15th August - 20th August Ballinlough Youth Centre, Cork 9.30am -12.30pm
22nd August - 27th August Cobh Community Centre, Cork 9.30am-12.30pm
Strong Visual Arts Programme at Kinsale Arts Week
The centrepiece exhibition of this year’s Kinsale Arts Week visual arts programme, which runs from July 9th to 17th is, “The Horse Show”, at the Mill. Curated by Patrick T Murphy, Royal Hibernian Academy Director and Gemma Tipton, “The Horse Show” features Irish and international artists, including Peter Curling, Basil Blackshaw, Max Streicher, Katherine Beug, Nick Miller, Nevan Lahart, Perry Ogden and Tim Flach.
Art History is full of horses. From Renaissance paintings such as Uccello’s famous battle and hunting scenes, to the work of Stubbs and Munnings, horses represent power, magnificence and glory. Many say horses are one of the most difficult of subjects, because it is so easy to over sentimentalise, although in this exhibition, the results are anything but sentimental.
Also at the Mill is “Point to Point” which asks artists, some of whom have never considered horses before, to play with equine ideas. Point to Points themselves originated in Co. Cork, with the first ever being run in 1752 when Mr Blake challenged his neighbour, Mr O’Callaghan, to race cross country from Buttevant church to Doneraile church – four and a half miles away. Whether it is lines, the lens of a camera, paint or paper constructions, this point to point includes work by Una Sealy, Martin Gale, Alan Phelan, Anita Groener, Maud Cotter, Sarah Walker, Diana Copperwhite, Katie Holten, Felicity Clear, Mark Garry, Sonia Shiel, Gary Coyle and many more.
Internationally acclaimed ceramicist Frances Lambe is one of Ireland’s most celebrated craft makers, with work in national and international collections and her work is on show at The Coach House Gallery, Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre. Based in rural Co. Louth, Lambe’s sculpted forms explore her many interests, including geography, botany, marine biology, natural history and astronomy. Her love of diving adds a further dimension to these pieces that evolve by means of a slow and painstaking process to show the undersea world anew.
Manifest 2011 is curated by one of Ireland’s most dynamic young curators, Katie Tsouros of KTcontemporary in Donnybrook, Dublin. Manifest was inaugurated in 2010 to showcase the work of artists who have not yet had a major solo show, but whose work promises both innovation and integrity, “Manifest 2011”, which runs upstairs in Londis, presents a “first chance to see” the shape of future art. This year’s exhibition presents the work of eight emerging artists including Lisa O’Donnell, Dee O’Shea and Mara Sola.
Artists Anne Ffrench and Brian Harte come from two different disciplines: sculpture and painting. Their interest in working together began with an exchange over an old clothes mangle and has culminated in this modern take on the Greek myth lo and the Gadfly. Come and witness the Gadfly in operation: a large time-based sculptural work incorporating cowhide tanning techniques, bronze-casting and movable parts. The Gadfly is funded by the Arts Council under the Visual Arts Project Award, and will be shown for the first time at Kinsale Arts Week 2011 at The Pigeon House Studios, 11am, 1pm and 3pm daily.
Spanning three years of research, “Abandoned Mansions of Ireland”, at Restaurant Blu at the Blue Haven Hotel, is Tarquin Blake’s fascinating photographic project documenting the lost estate houses of Ireland and the end of the landed aristocracy. The beautiful, haunting images of crumbling ruins convey an indefinable beauty. The images are accompanied by history and folklore, telling of troubled times and private hardship. Blake’s compelling images also provide convincing evidence of the wilful neglect that has led to numerous examples of our architectural heritage being allowed to disintegrate Tarquin will also give a talk on the Abandoned Mansions of Ireland at 2.30pm on Saturday 9th, July in Restaurant Blu at the Blue Haven Hotel.
“The Dog Project”, Acton’s Hotel, sees 100 papier mâché dogs of different breeds and sizes sniffing, running, sitting and scratching in the environs of Acton’s Hotel. Created as an open workshop with over 100 people, and with the assistance of the Camden Palace Community Art Centre in Cork, the dogs are the dream of artist Tom Campbell. The dogs are happiest, like all dogs, when they are walking so for their final pack outing, they’ll be taken on a walk around Kinsale. On the final day of the project, the dogs will be for sale – to good homes of course.
“Keep Going Sure It’s Grand” at the Market Bar offers you a chance to contribute to Ireland’s rescue. Fergus O’Neill is the man who is planning to pay off €42 billion of the national debt, euro by euro, simply by selling posters and bags. So how is he doing? “It’s over €300 now, so it’s quite significant…” The posters, bearing the legend “Keep Going Sure It’s Grand” and “Feck It Sure It’s Grand” are in a limited edition – limited to 42 billion copies. For every one sold, O’Neill donates €1, which he sends by cheque to the Department of Finance. He even has the receipts to prove it, and the running total on the project’s Facebook page shows we only have €41,999,999,092 to go. Work is available to buy, including your donation to our national cause.
The Sea has shaped Kinsale and been part of its history. In the past it even reached right up to the centre of the town. It has represented both a safe harbour and vulnerability to attack. Experienced as a series of stunning views, a space for sailing, point of arrival and departure, or as a means to making a sometimes difficult and dangerous living, the sea is different things to different people. In Looking To Sea: at the Trident Hotel, Kinsale’s foremost photographers, including Sheena Jolley, John Allen, Luke Lee and Stefan Syrowatka, give a personal view of what the sea means to them, and to Kinsale today.
DRAW:Kinsale – Kinsale Arts Week’s flagship architecture project, including exhibitions, and community drawing events in all sorts of unexpected locations with top-class visual artists and professional architects including Angel Brady, incoming President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Kinsale Arts Week’s Culture Works session at the Carmelite Friary Centre on Tuesday July 13th explores all issues to do with the reality of making, curating and selling, art with Josephine Kelliher, Director of Rubicon Gallery; Patrick T Murphy, Director of the RHA, artists Una Sealy, Ita Freeny and Claire Doyle, Head of Visual Arts and Architecture at the Arts Council.
For details on all events at Kinsale Arts Week, which runs from July 9th to 17th, visit www.kinsaleartsweek.com
EXPECT THE EXTRAORDINARY AT KINSALE ARTS WEEK
Michael Morpurgo, celebrated author of “Warhorse”, will launch the nine-day-week of amazing, brilliant and quite extraordinary events which is Kinsale Arts Week, 2011, running from July 9th to 17th.
Guest Artistic Director, Gemma Tipton, has brought her creativity and artistic flair to this year’s event while at the same time indulging her passion for art, horses and the sea – plus her taste for fun and surprises.
There are the now Annual Events like the Charles Fort Concerts, there’s drama, literature, great art, music, events especially for children and events for all the family, talks and discussion forums on countless different aspects of life and work.
All the Kinsale Arts Week (July 9th to 17th) events take place in and around the wonderful town of Kinsale and everyone’s invited.
For further information please call 021 470 0877 or go to www.kinsaleartsweek.com
SPECIAL EVENTS FOR CHILDREN AT WEST CORK LITERARY FESTIVAL
Bantry, Co. Cork– 3rd – 9th July 2011
Readings/workshops/seminars/children’s events/music
www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie
Children, from tots to teens, are the focus for a number of Workshops planned for this July as part of the 2011 West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry, Co. Cork.
Bantry Library will be the venue for free “Write Your Own Story” workshops on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th July. Aimed at children from 8 to 12 author Laura Jane Cassidy will share her secrets to writing a great story in this two-day workshop. She will discuss how to come up with ideas, create characters and build exciting storylines. Through fun group exercises the budding writers will explore the different stages of writing and then get the chance to write their very own story to take home.
The “Bizzy Bees Drama Club”, which takes place in St Brendan’s School Hall, is all about giving your child the chance to be creative in a safe environment. Children want to have fun and be busy but they also want to flop back and relax while being told great stories or making them up. This workshop, which costs just €50 for three days, will explore all the ways we can tell stories, be it through the body, voice or song. Presented by Rachel Yoder and Jennifer Rogers, activities include: drama games, short plays, improvisation, clowning, puppet making, story-telling, making a DVD, arts and crafts.
Michael Morpurgo, one of the highlights of the adult’s festival, will also give a special reading for children at the Maritime Hotel on Thursday July 7th. He is the author of over 120 books for children including “Private Peaceful”, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” and, of course “War Horse”. This celebrated novel has been adapted as a hugely successful stage show and is being made into a forthcoming film by Steven Spielberg.
Poet Alan Murphy will invite youngsters to unleash their creativity and imagination in a free two-day workshop of “Poetry and Collage” during which they will be introduced to the art of poetry and collage illustration. Alan will read from his own work, discuss approaches to writing and types of poems, and suggest topics on which the participants can write their own poem. On the second day they will then be invited to make a collage illustration to go with their poetry.
Sarah Webb, the author of the hugely popular “Ask Amy Green” series for young teens, presents the free “Write-a-Rama” workshop in the library on Friday July 8th. During this two-hour session young book-lovers and aspiring writers will have the chance to work with a professional writer, creating an original story - working together to invent brilliant characters, a cracking plot, and an exciting story arc.
Bestselling author Cathy Cassidy will show participants how to build a character, capture ideas and inspirations and develop a plot in the “Young Writers’ Workshop” aimed at those from 9 to 13 while Clare Beaton, an internationally-known artist who creates children's books, games, cards and posters, presents “Workshops for Tots”.
There is a Poetry Performance Workshop with legend Dave Lordan for those long listed in the Festival’s Teen Poetry Competition where he will bring the competition winners up to speed on all the artistic elements that go into transforming a good poem on the page into a brilliant performance on the stage.
In “Maggi’s Make-A-Book” workshop, Maggi Gibson the author of the fun and feisty “Seriously Sassy” series about eco-conscious 13-year-old Sassy Wilde, will talk to the young writers about how she comes up with ideas and characters, then she will encourage them to create their own cast of characters and a brief story idea. From this they will each develop the blurb for the back of the book and a title and the process begins…
The West Cork Literary Festival, July 3rd – 9th, is organised by West Cork Music in partnership with the Cork County Library and Arts Service and funded by the Arts Council and Fáilte Ireland. Booking for readings or Workshops is on 027 55987 or 52788 or through westcorkliteraryfestival.ie. John Banville, Lynne Truss, Michael Holroyd and David Mitchell are just some of the participants appearing at this year’s Festival which features some of the finest writers, poets and musicians from Ireland and abroad.
Ballinamore International Film Festival
We at the Ballinamore International Film Festivalwish to not only show films but show how films get made. From lenses, lighting, editing, broken bones, flying supermen and much more. We want to inspire people to go out and make movies or at least appreciate the skill of a film crew. If you would like to hold a workshop please get in touch ASAP as slots are limited. The application form to hold a workshop can be found on the website - www.ballinamoreiff.com
We are still accepting films so please spread the word. The deadline is the 1st August 2011. So far we have received films from America, Canada, England and Ireland. The festival is shaping up nicely with great work being received. Keep up the good work.
Jane Sullivan, aka the ‘calligra-fée’ (the calligraphy fairy), welcomes you to her new exhibition at Bishopstown Library.
At her launch on Saturday 2 July at 3.30p.m., you will discover her fantasy art and fairy paintings,
her calligraphy, and her illuminations.
All of which are part of a unique world of detail, delicacy and magic!
Jane specialises in Celtic folklore and mythology, and in Irish scripts of the early Middle Ages. Stunning detail and gorgeous colour are to be found in abundance in the Celtic knot work, and painstaking detail.
You are all warmly invited to the launch which is open to all and free of charge!
So come along and support a local artist! You can also visit her exhibition of artwork during the month of July
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