Jack B. Yeats’ Communicating With Prisoners reaches TOP 10 of Ireland’s Favourite Paintings
April 24, 2012 at 9:04 pm | Posted in Arts, Visual | Leave a commentTags: Niland Collection, RTE Masterpiece, sligo, The Model, Yeats
Niland Collection painting shortlisted in RTÉ’s Search for Ireland’s Favourite Painting
The Niland Collection painting Communicating With Prisoners by Jack B. Yeats has been shortlisted as one of Ireland’s favourite Top 10 paintings in RTÉ’s Masterpiece: Ireland’s Favourite Painting, hosted by Mike Murphy.
The Niland Collection is the only regional art collection to have an artwork in the shortlist, a demonstration of the calibre of work held in Sligo’s Municipal Collection housed at The Model in Sligo.
A list of one hundred paintings was compiled by invited public institutions and a distinguished panel, including Murphy, Gemma Tipton, Peter Cherry, First Lady Sabina Higgins, Oliver Dowling and Robert O’Byrne, whittled down the selection to a final ten.
An intense campaign to determine Ireland’s best-loved work by public vote is intended to increase awareness of the immense riches in our public art collections and to encourage people to get out and see these works for themselves.
In voting Murphy encouraged the public to, “Trust your own response, your own instincts. These are, after all, your paintings and, in these difficult times, they are a real source of delight and inspiration on your doorstep.’’
The campaign will run for 5 weeks and voting can be done through RTÉ’s Masterpiece website, www.rte.ie/masterpiece or by sending a postcard to RTÉ’s Freepost address.
President Michael D Higgins will announce the final winner on a special edition of RTÉ’s The Works on May 24, which will also feature a special show devoted to each of the paintings and its merits.
Communicating With Prisoners will also feature in The Model’s forthcoming Niland Collection exhibition Father and Son, which opens on May 12. This Yeats work is entrenched in romanticism and is particularly commended for the way in which it conveys the mood of local social turbulence, captured ingeniously in each brush stroke.
You can vote for Communicating With Prisoners as Ireland’s Favourite Painting through RTÉ’s Masterpiece website, www.rte.ie/masterpiece or by sending a postcard to RTÉ’s Freepost address. RTÉ, Freepost, Dublin 4. The closing date for postal entries is Friday 18th May.
May 1st – 31st Bealtaine celebration of creativity in older age in Sligo
April 17, 2012 at 8:30 am | Posted in Arts | Leave a comment
Bealtaine Events Sligo 2012
Sligo Arts Service and HSE West Programmes of Events
Annual Bealtaine Festival Art Exhibition
Opening from Tuesday 1st May
Primary Care Unit, Markievicz House, Sligo
This wonderful exhibition is a collection of photographs by members of Active Age and Retirement Groups, participants at Day Care Centres and individuals throughoutCountySligowith a passion for this form of creative expression.
This Exhibition will run at the Primary Care Unit until March 2013.
‘Faces of Sligo Town’ Photographic Exhibition
By James Fraher
Wednesday 2nd May, 6pm
Hawk’s Well Theatre, Temple Street, Sligo
‘Faces of Sligo Town’ is a Bealtaine Festival Sligo 2012 commissioned photographic project based on local Sligo town shops and the people that run them. The theme of the project celebrates the generational link of family-run shops which, over the years, continue to give character to the face of our streets. This exhibition is part Sligo 400, the 400th Anniversary of Sligo Borough.
‘Our Streets’ Window Installation
Thursday 3rd May
A 3D installation of paper sculptures and collage created by the participants of the Tuesday Afternoon Arts in Health group at the Avalon Centre, Sligo Town. (Window to be confirmed).
‘Pop Up’ Windows Exhibition
Friday 4th May
Shop Windows, Sligo Town
A collection of installation works exploring the theme ofSligo’s Town and County festivals. The work was created by Clasp & Rathcormac Intergenerational groups and Cliffoney, Collooney, Carrigans and Easkey Health Centres. These groups were led by local visual artists Brigitta Varadi, Laura Mahon, Karen Webster, Sherrie Scott, Heidi Wickham, Dorothee Kolle, Pia Lück and Joe Helder.
Cos Cos Sean Nós Festival
Wednesday 9th May, 6 pm – 8 pm
Rathcormac Hall, Drumcliffe, Sligo
The Cos Cos Sean Nós Festival (Friday 11th – Sunday 13th May) links with Bealtaine Sligo 2012 to celebrate older musicians and their music with a session of music, dance and song. All are welcome; admission is free.
Sunday 13th May, Afternoon The History Cottage, Rathcormac, Drumcliffe, Sligo
Join in an afternoon of stories from County Sligo and beyond. All are welcome to share a story and add to the conversation led by writer Maura Gilligan.
THE MAN IN THE WOMAN’S SHOES’
A one man show by actor Mikel Murfi
Bealtaine Festival Sligo is delighted to introduce a new drama production ‘THE MAN IN THE WOMAN’S SHOES’ commissioned for 2012 by Sligo Arts Service and The Hawk’s Well Theatre with funding from Sligo County Council, Sligo Borough Council and the Arts Council of Ireland.
THE MAN IN THE WOMAN’S SHOES is a one man show developed with older age groups inCountySligoby actor Mikel Murfi. Over the course of a month, Mikel met group members who shared stories about characters from the town and county who stand out in their collective memories. Poignant, funny, charming and sometimes outrageous, the show brings to life an amalgam of the magical and sometimes contrary folk who were familiar here and about.
PERFORMANCE DATE AND VENUES
St Johns Nursing Home Sligo Town Friday 25th May 2pm
Cliffoney Hall Saturday 26th May 2pm
Ballymote Cinema / Theatre Wednesday 30th May 2pm
Hawk’s Well Theatre Thursday 31st May 7pm
Closing the Bealtaine Festival Sligo
Tickets are free to all performances. Booking is required. Contact the Hawk’s Well Theatre box office: 071 916 1518
A number of events are being hosted by The Model, Sligo and other groups and venues throughout the County.
For further information see www.themodel.ie and www.bealtaine.com.
Calling all Sligo musicians, ensembles, venues and promoters – get involved for love:live music!
April 15, 2012 at 7:24 pm | Posted in Arts, Music | Leave a comment
Calling all Sligo musicians, ensembles, venues and promoters – everybody! – to plan and register events for love:live music on Thursday 21st June 2012.
Now in its third year, love:live music continues to grow from strength to strength and this year, the event will take place on the Summer Solstice, Thursday 21st June to coincide with celebrations for International Music Day – Fête de la Musique.
The love:live music movement is a celebration of Ireland’s musical identity and aims to promote access to Irish music for everyone. 120 countries around the world will co-ordinate their national music day on Thursday 21st June and Irish musicians, both professional and amateur, are urged to occupy a stage and create a free music experience. Here is a guideline of simple steps to start:
- Have a think, speak with other performers/promoters in your area, and see what ideas come up.
- Now get your planning boots on and book, organize and plan your event time for 21st June 2012
- Once you have a solid idea, you can speak with us at love:live music or simply go ahead to step 4!
- Register your event on the website and get ready for a fun filled day and night
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a first-time event organiser, we want you to get involved! You could organise a regular gig or concert… or something a little more unusual! Last year over 160 musical events took place across 24 counties. Event organisers put on free shows in a huge variety of venues including, halls, schools, churches, libraries, pubs, outdoors- in short, everywhere and anywhere!
love:live music is presented by Music Network in association with RTÉ lyric fm and funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht.
Visual Art: Exhibition “All Humans Do” opens at The Model, April 21st
April 15, 2012 at 7:12 pm | Posted in Arts | Leave a comment
The exhibition All humans do opens at The Model on April 21, 2012 next at 6pm and will feature 12 Irish Artists including David Beattie, Rhona Byrne, Brendan Earley, Aleana Egan, Fergus Feehily, Mark Garry, Kevin Kirwan, Bea Mc Mahon, Niamh O’Malley, Locky Morris, Dennis Mc Nulty & Tasmin Snow.
The show, curated by Aoife Tunney, attempts to balance the familiar with the complex and give way to another way of seeing objects, materials and images that we accept in our everyday lives. By looking and engaging without trying too hard to understand, we perhaps get some time to reflect on knowing who we are and what truths we are seeking out.
The idea for the show comes from a scene in the science fiction film Solaris by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Set in a space station the film revolves around a psychologist Kris Kelvin and his confused wife Hari. “I don’t even know who I am anymore. Who am I? Do you know who you are?” Hari asks. “Yes, all humans do,” Kris Kelvin replies.
This idea of absolute certainty in knowing who we are in our contemporary world is something worth questioning. It is a function of our biology to strive to survive day to day. Our futures and formed identities are dependent on the choices we make. The choices of materials and processes used by the artists in this show are quietly, yet confidently testing and doubting our understanding of our surroundings and knowledge.
Conceptual art in this show prods the appearances and meaning of what we see. The works lie in between architectural form and science fiction sets, places of pilgrimage, of musical compositions, of handmade scientific machines, of the natural world, human states of mind and the grandiose museum style presentation of art. Similar to a pilgrimage, this show hinges on the moment when we shed all preconceived ideas in order to find and see something deeper. That moment when humans don’t fully know.
All humans do was previously on show at the White Box gallery in New York in January 2012.
Sat 26th May: Vintage Spring Ball at Temple House
April 9, 2012 at 12:29 pm | Posted in Arts, Sligo Events News | Leave a comment
The Centre for Creative Therapies, Sligo presents the Vintage Spring Ball on the 26th of May 2012 at 8pm in Temple House, Ballinacarrow, Sligo.
Dress in the glamour of the 1920′s-1950′s, dust off your dancing shoes and come dance to the live tunes and vintage sounds of the era.
Tickets 25 euro which includes swing dance class @ 8.30pm
Shuttle Bus service to and from Temple House available.
For Ticket and bus bookings and further information, visit www.templehouse.ie/ball or phone/text 0861572285
All proceeds go to Joyn, company for Art and therapy, in support of the Mental Health Open Studio Art group.
April: Live music at Furey’s
March 28, 2012 at 10:00 am | Posted in Arts | Leave a commentLive music listings for Furey’s Pub, Bridge Street
March
Friday 30th
Off The Hook-acoustic
April
Wednesday 4th
Open Mic
Thursday 5th
Michael Gormley
Sunday 8th
Eoin Troy & Brendan Emmett
Wednesday 11th
Open Mic
Friday 13th
Dolcet Tones
Saturday 14th
Ruby Ridge-Acoustic
Wednesday 18th
Open Mic
Friday 20th
Eoin Troy & Seamie McGowan
Wednesday 25th
Open Mic
Thursday 26th
Jackk Jones
Friday 27th
Chris Stucky
Saturday 28th
Eoin Troy & Gerry Grennan
31st March: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse With Special Guests, comes to the Hawk’s Well
March 21, 2012 at 8:23 pm | Posted in Arts | Leave a comment
Look out Kids! Much loved Disney characters from four popular TV shows appear together live on the Hawk’s Well stage in an unforgettable celebration of the Magic that is Disney on Saturday 31st of March at 2pm.
The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Tribute brings audiences into the colourful worlds of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Iggle Piggle, Upsy Daisy, Dora the Explorer, Boots the Monkey and Peppa Pig.
Mickey Mouse hosts the show and wants to sing but when everyone gets the hiccups’ they have to find ways of curing them. With participation from the audience and help from Mickey’s friends on stage, they all soon get their singing voices back and everyone joins in a sing song with all the gang.
The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Tribute brings together these wonderful characters children have loved down through the years, live on stage, right before their eyes in this exciting and fun filled musical production.
Kids will learn that music can be found everywhere as they sing and dance to all their favourite songs. Throughout the show there are interactive moments that children and parents alike can enjoy. Watch your kids take part in action songs like the ‘Hokey Pokey’ ‘The Music Man’ and ‘If You’re Happy And You Know It’ as well as many other all-time children’s favorites.
With different adventures from every character, the show will have parents and children alike laughing playing and singing. Featuring fantastic costumes and colourful lighting, it will be an experience for all the family to remember and cherish.
This is the first time that this particular show has come to Sligo having played at various other theatres throughout the country and the Hawk’s Well are looking forward to welcoming Mickey Mouse and friends to Sligo.
6th May: An Post Tour of Sligo
March 20, 2012 at 9:30 am | Posted in Adventure Sligo, Arts | Leave a comment
Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership is delighted to announce the return of the An Post Tour of Sligo 2012 on Sunday 6th May with Bike Blast taking place on Saturday 5th May.
The first cycle event of this kind held in Sligo took place in 2009, and again in 2010 and 2011. All have been outstanding successes with over 1,800 cyclists taking part last year. It was fantastic to see so many people of all ages and cycling abilities out on their bikes and enjoying all that Sligo has to offer. So let’s build on this and make it an even bigger and better event in 2012!. This cycling tour will afford the people of Sligo and visitors to the County, the chance to enjoy stunning scenery ranging from majestic mountains to spectacular sea views and including picturesque country scenery and rural villages from the saddle of their bike
For further information, log on to www.tourofsligo.ie
Sat 11th August: Promotional Video for Lough Gill Swim in aid of Northwest Hospice
March 19, 2012 at 2:56 pm | Posted in Arts | Leave a comment
The event is the brain child of Paul McGarry. Paul sadly lost his nephew Neil McGarry to cancer.
The excellent care he received at the NW Hospice inspired Paul to organise a fundraiser for the hospice.
The primary purpose of the swim is to raise much needed funds for NW Hospice, Sligo. Last year we raised over €11,000.
It also acts as the ILSDA Connaught 10km championships.
Event listings at The Model
February 27, 2012 at 2:00 pm | Posted in Arts | Leave a comment03 Mar. 2012 8pm
Con Brio presents The Contempo Quartet €20
CON BRIO presents the celebrated Contempo Quartet from Romania Formed in 1995, the quartet has toured the world extensively and has won a record 14 international prizes. Since 2003, it has been quartet in residence in Galway. The programme chosen for this recital includes two of the best loved string quartets in the repertoire and a new piece by Northern Irish composer Deirdre McKay.
Booking Tel. (071) 914 1405 / http://themodel.ie/music/
10 Mar. 2012 8pm
David McSavage I’m Alive Inside €18 (Early Bird €14)
Creator and star of The Savage Eye, Ireland’s funniest and most outrageous comedian is back in Sligo for one night only. David McSavage is one of Ireland’s most popular comedians and street entertainers. His cutting commentary and performances cover all aspects of life and nothing is safe from his truth induced interpretations. From The Barman (Mick The Bull) to Father Finnegan to former President Mary Robinson and Pat…….Kenny, audiences relate to each character from the many aspects of Irish life.
Booking Tel. (071) 914 1405 / http://themodel.ie/music/
11 Feb. – 06 May 2012
Young Curators: Double Vision
Curated by two groups of young people from Sligo and Antrim as part of The Model’s Young Curator’s Programme features work from The Niland Collection and the social history collection of the Mid-Antrim Museums in Ballymena.
Booking Tel. (071) 914 1405 / http://themodel.ie/exhibitions
03 Mar. – 15 Apr. 2012
A Series of Navigations
This group exhibition presents a number of artists whose work traverses different dimensions of reality, identity and reportage.
Each work, at its root, has a form of investigation – questions about sexual identity, the cosmos, the canons of philosophy, the meaning of life, third world poverty or the relevance of art itself.
Booking Tel. (071) 914 1405 / http://themodel.ie/exhibitions
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