Exhibition and Commission Opportunities
COMMISSIONS AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
10 x 10 minute Plays – 10 Directors Wanted
Cork Arts Theatre seeks ten directors for the 10 x 10 Minute Play event (ten plays, ten casts, ten directors, one hundred minutes of theatre) which takes place from Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th September. CAT will provide set, crew, publicity etc and seeks ten directors to tackle the 10 plays that are available for production – further information from 021 – 4505624 and at james@yourpositivelife.com
Arts for Health Placement Programme 2011
This placement is a professional development opportunity for an artist who wishes to gain experience in working in a healthcare setting. Artists are invited to submit an application to participate in a sixteen-week placement programme to work alongside a visual artist delivering a programme in a Community Hospital setting. The placement is part of the Arts for Health partnership programme. All applicants must be available to attend weekly sessions at Clonakilty Hospital, Co. Cork on Mondays 9.30am until 12.30pm and be available for regular artist team meetings at West Cork Arts Centre. Garda clearance will be sought for the successful applicant. Placement begins on Monday 12th September 2011 – further information from justine@westcorkartscentre.com – closing date for applications Thursday 1st September.
Public Art Commissions, Ballina, Co Mayo
Mayo County Council invites artists to develop proposals for two new commissions. Commission 1 – Ballina Arts Centre – Budget €20,000; Commission 2 – Ballina Riverside Walkway – Budget €35,000. The first is for a permanent wall based, suspended or window mounted internal artwork in the foyer of the newly developed Ballina Arts Centre. All art forms will be considered though the outcome is assumed to be permanent. A second commission is for the new nearby Riverside Walkway. It is envisaged that the artwork for the Walkway will be sculptural due to the nature of the proposed site and the fact that North East Mayo has very few examples of sculptural work. Artists can apply for either or both commissions. Further information from 094 – 9047561 and at www.mayococo.ie – closing date for applications Monday 17th October.
Heritage Week Appeal for Personal Cork Memories
The Cork Northside Folklore Project is taking the opportunity of National Heritage Week to gather personal memories of the city for a major ongoing project. The Cork Memory Map will be an online interactive map where visitors can click anywhere in the city to hear personal memories of that place in the teller’s own voice. A series of free Heritage Week 2011 Cork Memory Map events will be hosted by Civic Trust House, 50 Pope’s Quay where visitors can visit an exhibition of the map in progress and add their own memories to it. Cork Northside Folklore Project has begun carrying out interviews to create the online map of Cork city portraying the landscape of Cork in the words of its people. During Heritage Week, visitors to Civic Trust House will be able to read and hear extracts of this rich material in the exhibition, and if their memory is stirred by this, they’ll have the chance to add their contribution in a mini-interview.On Saturday 20 August (2-4pm) the exhibition will be opened by Jim McKeon before visitors are taken on a whirlwind tour of Cork through the cream of the interview clips already collected. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 23-25 August (12.30-2.30pm), the exhibition will be open and Cork Northside Folklore Project will be on-hand to collect memories. On Cork Heritage Open Day, Saturday 27 August (1-6pm) visitors are invited to drop in to see and hear the harvest of new stories collected during Heritage Week. Avail of one more chance to add your own in person. Young or old, Cork born and bred or Corkonian by choice: the project is interested in hearing everyone’s memories and stories of the city. For anyone who cannot attend the events during the weeka dedicated storyline will be set up so anyone worldwide can put themselves on the map. The phoneline will be open 24 hours a day from Sat 20th of August until September 19th. On phoning 021 421 5105 the caller will be able to listen to stories from the Cork Memory Map and add a story or memory themselves. The Memory Map Storyline can be usedanytime day or night, from Sat 20th of August. Further information from 021 – 4215101 and at www.corkmemorymap.org.
Arts Council Project Awards
The Arts Council will offer the following Project awards for activities commencing in 2012. Arts Participation Project Award; Circus Project Award; Dance Project Award; Film Project Award; Music Project Award; Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award; Theatre Project Award; Visual Arts Project Award. The awards support specific project activities under each art form/arts practice area. The Award Guidelines for each award can be downloaded from the available funding section of the Arts Council's website. Further information at www.artscouncil.ie
Crash Ensemble invites score submissions for Free State VII
TheCrash Ensembleis currently accepting score submissions for Free State VII- further information at www.cmcireland.wordpress.com – closing date for submissions Sunday 30th October.
The Carrigaline Choral Group seeks new members
The Carrigaline Choir resumes onTuesday 30th August, with an information evening and first rehearsal on Tuesday 6th September, at 8.00.pm. in the Meeting Room of the Stables Bar Main Street Carrigaine. Further information on www.carrigaline-choral.org.
PfizerPfonics seeks new members
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PfizerPfonics have limited spaces for Soprano/Tenor/Bass sections this Sept. Rehearsals are held in Douglas on Tue. evenings from 7 - 9 p.m. Further information at www.pfizerpfonics.ie and from 087-287-9423.
Carrigaline Gospel Choir seeks new members
The Carrigaline Gospel Choir sings on the first and third weekends of the month, at the Saturday evening 8pm Mass in Carrigaline in the Church of Our Lady & St John, and has few vacancies for all parts and open to both men and women. Further information from 087-659 8721 and at www.CarrigalineGospelChoir.com
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Music Educators’ Orchestra
The Music Educators’ Orchestra is a new Irish orchestra, direcetd by Peter Moran for people who work in music education. This orchestra is designed to suit all abilities - especially amateurs and people who have fallen out of practice. In August, they are running a week-long summer course for music teachers. The course is approved for primary school teachers’ EPV days, though all-comers are welcome to sign up. Each day participants will play some new music and take home some new ideas to use in the classroom. They will also compose their own pieces and record a CD of their week’s work. This orchestra represents a valuable new enterprise in Irish music education and a highly original contribution to the Irish music scene in general. Rehearsals will be held just one Sunday a month, starting in September, thus making the orchestra accessible to teachers all over the country – further information at www.irishmusiceducation.ie.
Call for Community Artists at Cork Simon Community
Cork Simon Community is seeking 4-6 interested individuals to work with people who are homeless on an exciting visual art project to be displayed in Cork city centre this October. This project will launch Simon Week 2011 and is part of the ongoing programme marking 40 Years of Cork Simon. Further information from 087 - 3544632 or email georgia@corksimoncommunity.ie
Artist in Youth Work Scheme 2011
The Artist in Youth Work Scheme is offered as a means of extending and enhancing opportunities for young people to experience and participate in the arts. Applications are now open for 2011/12.The aim of the scheme is to encourage artistic collaboration between professional artists and young people. Young people will have the opportunity to work with and learn from practitioners of excellence in their field. Equally, artists will have the opportunity to enrich their own professional practice through the contextual experience of working with young people. There are two awards under this scheme. The Artist in Residency award and the Youth Arts Development award. Applications are now open for 2011 www.youtharts.ie
Cork Screen Commissioner to be recruited
Applications are now being invited by Cork Film Centre for the position of Cork Screen Commissioner. Job description and Application form are downloadable from http://www.corkfilmcentre.com/newsletter/applications-invited-for-position-of-cork-screen-c/ Cork Film Centre is developing the new Cork Screen Commission which will be responsible for the marketing of Cork as a location for Film and TV production.
Open Call - Electric Picnic Festival
Greencrafts, the environmental company trail-blazing exciting eco craft villages at events, are delighted to make a welcome return to this years Electric Picnic Music & Arts Fesitval with directors Nic Piper and Marie Brett issuing an open call to sculptors and craftspeople to get involved. Full details about opportunities at www.greencrafts.iewww.electricpicnic.ie and at
Deis Award 2011
The purpose of the Deis Award is to provide support for traditional arts projects, or projects involving collaboration between the traditional arts and other artforms. Deis supports one-off or short-term projects only and other funding will not be granted under the scheme. Proposals are accepted from all areas in the traditional arts (traditional music, song, dance and oral artforms such as storytelling and agallamh beirte). Deis proposals are currently accepted on a rolling basis, submitted at least twelve weeks before the project is due to start. Closing date Friday 9th September - further information from www.artscouncil.ie
Croi Glan, Integrated Dance Company call for participants
Croi Glan, Ireland's leading Integrated Dance Company, is looking for athletic men and women with physical disabilities who are interested in coming along to dance sessions in Cork City, further information from 087 – 3112899 and atwww.croiglan.com.
Basement Project Space: Call for Studio Applications
Basement Project Space Studios are inviting applications for a studio space which has become available. BPS Studios is adjacent to Basement Project Space an artist-led initiative established in July 2009. In addition to your studio space artists have the use of a separate timetabled space (the Media-Lab), which we have recently secured funding to develop. The selected artist will have access to an iMac computer with a suite of programs including Final Cut and additionally free Internet access. There is also the benefit of engaging with a lively program of events, talks and social nights taking place in the project space. Longer-term members will be given the opportunity to exhibit in the project space in the summer period. Applicants should send an e-mail indicating interest; please include an artist statement and CV and a selection of 4 – 8 jpegs of work to basementprojectspace@gmail.com. – further information at www.basementprojectspace.wordpress.com.
