Category: Event announcements

Connect: Artist Mentoring Project

Common Ground (the arts development agency based in Inchicore) has teamed with Create (the national development agency for collabortive arts) to deliver an action research project, ‘Connect’, on the subject of artist mentoring:

The core of Connect is a mentoring programme that brings experienced artists together with less experienced artists, to guide and support their creative process. A range of events are also taking place which present and discuss ideas about mentoring, through panel discussions, presentation of case studies and workshops. This public action research forum is one of these events. It will be of interest to artists, those working in the arts sector – particularly within the field of participatory arts practice – and those working in other sectors who have an interest in collaborating with artists or are already doing so, e.g. youth workers, community development groups, educators, healthcare professionals, etc.

The next stage of the project is a public action research forum taking place in Galway on 16 June. For more information, click below:

Background information on the project (.doc)

Programme (.doc)

Irish Museums Association annual forum

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‘Blow Your Own Trumpet’ — IMA’s annual practitioners’ forum — is set to take place on Friday, 10 July from 10-4 pm at Daniel O’Connell House (58 Merrion Square South).

The day promises to be a very interesting one, with presentations from museum professionals around the country on recent initiatives in their institutions. It’s a great way to get a snapshot of what’s happening across Irish museums, and have an annual chinwag with others in the biz.

For a full line-up of presentations click here, or on the image above.

For further information or bookings contact the IMA Administrator, Carla Marrinan, at 01 4120939 or office@irishmuseums.org

UCD Graduate Open Day – come visit!

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UCD Graduate Open Day

Thursday, 19 February 2009

We’re gearing up here for this year’s annual UCD Open Day, where faculty will be on hand to discuss postgraduate study opportunities at UCD– of particular interest to readers of this blog may be the two MA degrees offered by UCD’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy: the MA in Art History, and MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy (we also offer MLitt and PhD degrees in both these subjects). A special information session on these programmes will be held from 3-4 pm in J004 (Arts – Newman Building).

The full schedule of the day’s events is located here: http://www.ucd.ie/artsceltic/graduateschool/events/graduateopenday/

Here’s the official blurb from UCD– do come along if you have an interest in further study!

UCD offers a superb range of dynamic opportunities for graduate study and research in the humanities. Leading experts in areas as diverse as film, creative writing, musicology, art history, drama, arts management and cultural policy, languages, literatures, history, folklore and linguistics will be available to guide you through opportunities to deepen your knowledge and enhance your career potential on Thursday 19 February.

Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature & Drama, and Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History, will give short talks on the exciting challenges of graduate study and life at a key-note event at UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (HII) between 5-6 pm on 19 February. Sandra Walker of UCD Career Development will address issues of career enhancement. This session will conclude with a wine reception at the HII.

For more information, please contact Barbara Gannon, Manager of the UCD Graduate School in Arts and Celtic Studies at (01) 716 8241 or email gs.artsceltic@ucd.ie or Barbara.Gannon@ucd.ie

Irish Book Publishers’ Conference

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cleThe Irish Book Publisher’s Association is having their biennial conference on the 21st of February, this year entitled ‘The Burning Issues’.

Lots of interesting sessions planned on managing small presses, negotiating with booksellers, and identifying new markets…

For details see their flier (MS doc file), or alternatively consult their full programme (pdf).

Happy Poetry Day

Today is All-Ireland Poetry Day! Events are happening all round the country to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Poetry Ireland.

In Dublin there will be a poetry reading at 6.30 pm tonight at the Unitarian Church, 112 St Stephen’s Green West, by John F. Deane, Rutger Kopland and Fiona Sampson. Full details of events nationwide can be found on Poetry Ireland’s website…

In honour of the day, a favourite poem recently discovered:

Wisława Szymborska: ‘Slapstick’ (1993)

If there are angels,
I doubt they read
our novels
concerning thwarted hopes.

I’m afraid, alas,
they never touch the poems
that bear our grudges against the world.

The rantings and railings
of our plays
must drive them, I suspect,
to distraction.

Off-duty, between angelic –
i.e. inhuman – occupations,
they watch instead
our slapstick
from the age of silent film.

To our dirge wailers,
garment renders,
and teeth gnashers,
they prefer, I suppose,
that poor devil
who grabs the drowning man by his toupee
or, starving, devours his own shoelaces
with gusto.

From the waist up, starch and aspirations;
below, a startled mouse
runs down his trousers.
I’m sure
that’s what they call real entertainment.

A crazy chase in circles
ends up pursuing the pursuer.
The light at the end of the tunnel
turns out to be a tiger’s eye.
A hundred disasters
mean a hundred cosmic somersaults
turned over a hundred abysses.

If there are angels,
they must, I hope,
find this convincing,
this merriment dangling from terror,
not even crying Save me Save me
since all of this takes place in silence.

I can even imagine
that they clap their wings
and tears run from their eyes
from laughter, if nothing else.