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Dear All,
Welcome to the e-bulletin from Kilkenny County Council's Arts Office. Each bulletin is packed with the latest information on Kilkenny Arts Office activities, county events as well as news and opportunities for arts practitioners from around the country.
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(Image: Anthony Pilbro exhibition image)
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ARTS OFFICE
•Goodbye to the museum dedicated to broken hearts and lost loves!
•Arts Office Exhibition at the Watergate Theatre, Upstairs Gallery: ‘Days and Nights of
Strangers
’ by Anthony Pilbro
•Arts Office: On the move
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ARTS OFFICE
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GOODBYE TO THE MUSEUM DEDICATED TO BROKEN HEARTS AND LOST
LOVES!
The Museum of Broken Relationships opened in Kilkenny County Councils Arts Office
No. 76 John Street (old Meubles building) on Thursday 30th July at 6pm to a large and excited crowd. With over 3,000 visitors to the exhibition in Kilkenny it is now coming to an end and is heading to the Philippines.
Should you wish to contribute an item to the Museum please see: www.brokenships.com
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ARTS OFFICE EXHIBITION AT THE WATERGATE THEATRE, UPSTAIRS GALLERY:
‘DAYS AND NIGHTS OF STRANGERS’ BY ANTHONY PILBRO
Mayo based artist Anthony Pilbro will present Days and Nights of Strangers in the
Watergate Theatre, Upstairs Gallery from Friday 21st August until Friday 9th October
2009.
Anthony is a past graduate of Croydon College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art,
London. Anthony has exhibited widely in group and solo shows throughout his career, including in Ireland, the Dock, Leitrim, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, The
Ormond Gallery, Dublin, and internationally in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pearson
Gallery, London, and Pienza, Italy. His work is also held in public and private collections in Ireland, UK, Europe and USA.
In this exhibition the depiction of scenes from everyday life are shown under the title
The Days and Nights of Strangers. The work, being part of an ongoing theme that the artist has been pursuing over a number of years - places before the spectator the dilemma of that innate theatricality of human endeavour. The inspiration for this exhibition has come from the poem The Watchers by W.H. Auden.
Deeper towards the summer the year moves on.
What if the starving visionary have seen
The carnival within our gates,
Your bodies kicked about the streets,
We need your power still: use it, that none,
O, from their tables break uncontrollably away,
Lunging, insensible to injury,
Dangerous in a room or out wildly
Spinning like a top in the field,
Mopping and mowing through the sleepless day
The artist wants you, the spectator, to read the exhibition as a frieze, moving though the work in a stream of consciousness
– perhaps dream like - glimpsed from the corner of the eye, when walking past - half remembered - some incidental happening. The viewpoint constantly changes through an emotional and visionary experience of continuous drama.
Exhibition Days and Nights of Strangers at the Upstairs Gallery, Watergate Theatre,

Kilkenny, 21st August
– 9th October 2009. Opening hours: Monday–Friday 10am–7pm,
Saturday 2pm –7pm. For further information or sales, contact the Arts Office.
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ARTS OFFICE: ON THE MOVE
Kilkenny County Council Arts Office will officially move to No. 76, John Street, the week of September 7th. Due to the move Arts Office staff and services may be limited so do please with us.
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In this e-bulletin:
Kilkenny Events
•David Godbold at the Butler Gallery – Events and Competition
•Butler Gallery Lunchtime Talk Art and Ecology (Image above: Pisces #25 Chromogenic print 2003, Susan Unterberg)
•Kilkenny Chamber Orchestra seeks Members
•Farmhouse For Sale/Rent/Artists Workshop Spaces
•Earthworks Ceramics Studio & Gallery: Fantastic Studio Opportunity!
•Blackbird Gallery: Call for Sequential Art Submissions
•Kilkenny’s Alan Counihan and Julian Wild at Sculpture in the Parklands
•Watercolour Workshops 2009
Grants
•David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards
Jobs
•Spleador Arts Festival seeks Researchers / Research Company
Education / Training
•Health & Safety Considerations for Conservators – of interest to restorers, photographers or anyone in the arts working with chemicals
•Modern and Contemporary Art Appreciation Course, Hugh Lane
Call for Submissions
•AN CÓR – Sideline’s new Irish language choir competition series for RTÉ One
•Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery Call for Submissions for 2010
•Irish Concrete Society 2009 Sculpture Award: Call for Nominations
•ArtTrail 2009 Writer in Residence: Call for Entries
•Achill Heinrich Boll Residencies 2010: Call for Submissions
News / Events
•Environment? HSE? Politics? Banks? Justice? Waste? Inequality? What’s pushing your ANGRY button?
•Glas Vegas: Calling all Singers, Musicians and Dancers!
•Culture and the Economy: Creativity and Innovation in Post Boom Ireland
•VISUAL announces details of Official Opening Night
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Kilkenny Events
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David Godbold at the Butler Gallery – Events and Competition
The end of the beginning of the beginning of the end
Butler Gallery
August 8 – October 4, 2009
Godbold has been described as an artist who has found a curiously viable reason for making old master quality drawings with an acidic relevance to the contemporary world.
Language and humour are central to his practice, which ranges from intimate
‘imagetext’ drawings to mural-scale installations and recent large canvases, all of which form irreverent and iconoclastic commentaries on the philosophical struggle with daily life.
David Godbold born UK, was educated at Goldsmiths’ College, London and holds a
PhD from the NCAD, Dublin. He moved to Ireland in 1990, from where he has exhibited extensively worldwide, with recent solo exhibitions in Antwerp, Dublin, Hong Kong,
Munich and New York. His work is represented by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
EVENTS:
Exhibition Talk: Does it offend you?
16 September
1pm
All welcome
Free. Booking essential
Hear Dean Norman Lynas’ (St. Canice’s Cathedral) perspective on religious iconography in the work of David Godbold and join in the debate on the offensiveness or lack of in the work shown in the Butler Gallery exhibition.
Young Peoples’ Workshop: Without End
26 September, 2
– 5pm
15 – 18 years
Free. Booking essential.
Come to the Butler Gallery for a stimulating afternoon of drawing and writing with artist
Julie Moorhouse and author Grace Wells inspired by the work of David Godbold.
COMPETITION:
The wonderful David Godbold exhibition currently taking place at the Butler Gallery includes a number of images containing text. One of those images contains a quote from a David Bowie track.
Kilkenny County Council
’s Arts Office and the Butler Gallery are offering you the chance to win a €50 voucher to spend at Roller Coaster Music shop on Kieran Street if you can find the quote and:
1. Name the song that the quote is from and
2. Name the album that the song is from
So now all you have to do is:
• visit Butler Gallery
• peruse the David Godbold show
• find the quote and
• fill in the competition form to be found at the front desk of the Butler Gallery
• and post it into the competition box
Competition deadline is Sunday September 13th 2009.
Competition winner will be picked by David Godbold when he is next in Kilkenny for his
Artists talk in September, actual date to be confirmed.
Good luck!
With thanks to Kilkenny County Council Arts Office for supporting this event.

t: + 353 56 7761106 f: +353 56 7770031 e: info@butlergallery.com www.butlergallery.com
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Butler Gallery Lunchtime Talk Art and Ecology
Dr. Jo Anna Issak, John L Marion Chair in Art History, Fordham University, New York
Tuesday September 8 2009
The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle
Free. Booking essential.
1 – 2pm
In this once-off Butler Gallery lunchtime talk, Professor Jo Anna Isaak traces modern art’s sustained connection with nature and its subsequent role in environmental reform.
She presents the work of a number of contemporary artists working in a variety of non traditional media, who are engaged in what she terms “the greening of the avant-garde”
-- employing their talents in the service of environmental awareness, providing innovative approaches and models of participatory engagement, designing solutions to environmental problems and broadening public concern for what is becoming the most pressing issue of our time-- environmental degradation. She suggests that one of the most radical of modernism’s avant-garde gestures may be in art’s reintegration into the praxis of life, and the realization that art may be necessary for our successful stewardship of the environment.
The Butler Gallery are delighted to welcome Dr. Issak to Kilkenny, who has very generously agreed to give this talk while in Ireland and continue the discussion on art, ecology and the environment, currently the focus of Moot - Kilkenny Arts Office and
B utler Gallery’s series of discussions.
(Image above: Pisces #25 Chromogenic print 2003, Susan Unterberg -Butler Gallery
Lunchtime Talk Art and Ecology)
Please contact the Butler Gallery for more information and to book a place by calling
056 7761106
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Kilkenny Chamber Orchestra seeks Members
Interested in reviving your musical skills? Kilkenny Chamber Orchestra, an amateur orchestra for adults, is seeking additional players to fill out its sound. Directed by
William McGlynn, the orchestra meets on Monday nights in Kilkenny City and will recommence in September.
All welcome! Please call (087) 2358801 for details.
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Farmhouse For Sale/Rent/Artists Workshop Spaces
3 Bedroom Farmhouse on 3 and a half Acres of Land
With 4 Stone built Outhouses
Oppertunity to convert into Studio Workshop Spaces
Land suitable for Polytunnels
Situated 10 minutes from Castlecomer Co. Kilkenny.
Contact Details: Gabriella Eviston 087-7578255
Gabriellaeviston@gmail.com
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Earthworks Ceramics Studio & Gallery: Fantastic Studio Opportunity!
For Crafts Person (Ceramicist or other Discipline)
At Earthworks Ceramics Studio & Gallery, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.
Studio space shared with two other ceramicists in a fully equiped ceramic studio

available to rent for one year commencing October 2009.
Very affordable workspace with gallery / retail outlet in a beautiful location with river view. Ideal for a ceramicist or craftsperson / artist.
For further information, phone Earthworks on 056 7724714 or email earthworksceramicstudio@gmail.com. www.karenmorganceramics.com & www.carolinedolanceramics.com
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Blackbird Gallery: Call for Sequential Art Submissions
The Blackbird Gallery in Kilkenny invites Irish and Irish-based comic book artists to submit work for consideration for 'POW', a show of contemporary Irish sequential art that will take place at the gallery in November 2009. All interested artists should send a short biography and at least 4 samples of sequential art for consideration, marked for the attention of Cliodhna, to:
E: info@theblackbirdgallery.com
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2009
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Kilkenny’s Alan Counihan and Julian Wild at Sculpture in the Parklands
Sculpture in the Parklands is hosting its annual artist in residence programme at Lough
Boora Parklands from 31 August to 18 September 2009 with artists Julian Wild (UK) and Alan Counihan (Ireland). The artists will work on site for three weeks creating artwork inspired by the industrial and environmental heritage of the peatlands. Don
O’Boyle, Seamus Barron and Tom Egan of Bórd na Mona will work with the artists during the residency programme which is open to the public throughout. An official launch of the new work will take place 18 September 2009.
School tours can be organised during the 2nd and 3rd weeks of the residency.
Teachers should contact Helen or Lisa for more information at:
T: 087 9904234 www.sculptureintheparklands.com
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Watercolour Workshops 2009
The Kilkenny Watercolour Society, sponsored by The Arts Council, and Kilkenny Co.
Council and Kilkenny Corporation are holding two Watercolour Workshops in the
Newpark Hotel, Cost of each 2 day w orkshop is €70
October 3rd and 4th October.
Barbara Barrett, from Cork is a very experienced tutor. She is loves sharing her skills and experience through Workshops, Barbara has given workshops in Ireland, South
Africia, France and England.
November 14th and 15th November
Olivia Hayes, from Dublin, is a member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland, She is a very experienced tutor and brings many workshops to the South of France and Italy
Any one interested should contact Sheila Foley at 287 2375120
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Grants
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David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards
Calling all arts entrepreneurs who have been in business for 3 years or less to consider entering this year’s David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards, which nurture the enterprising spirit in Business, the Arts and the Social community!
The prize fund valued at €100,000 includes a cash prize, and a year of mentoring from

a range of top-level businesses in all areas of business. The overall winners receive a substantial and enviable range of prizes - €10,000 prize in cash, and mentoring and services to the value of about €90,000 from top companies such as Deloitte; Mason
Hayes+Curran; Enterprise Ireland; Thesaurus Software; Image Now; Newmarket
Consulting; Dublin Chamber of Commerce; Newmarket Partnership; Business &
Finance; and gbc Public Relations.
In each of the 3 areas of endeavour, arts, business and social, three shortlisted nominees will be selected to go forward to the semi-final round of judging. For the first year ever, all 9 of these semi-finalists will receive mentoring courtesy of Enterprise
Ireland, and be supplied with payroll and accounting software from Thesaurus Software.
Arts entrepreneurs wishing to enter should contact Business to Arts or check out the awards website on www.davidmanleyawards.ie.
Closing date for entries is 18 September 2009. The Awards will be presented in
January. Further details and a copy of the entry form can be obtained on www.davidmanleyawards.ie
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Jobs
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Spleador Arts Festival seeks Researchers / Research Company
The Spleador Arts Festival has been taking place in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary for the past nine years. The festival celebrates the excitement of Hallowe'en week, with a series of arts events, concerts and workshops.
Looking towards the future, Spleador Arts Festival wishes to contract a researcher or research company to assess audience interest and participation in the festival and to meet with funders, sponsors and the event organisers to reflect their viewpoints.
Information gathered should then be compiled to give a perspective for the future of the event.
For more information on this opportunity please contact Brendan Maher, Manager, at:
Nenagh Community Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Square, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
T: 067 34900
E: manager@nenagharts.com www.nenagharts.com
Deadline for applications: 11 September 2009
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Education / Training
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Health & Safety Considerations for Conservators – of interest to restorers, photographers or anyone in the arts working with chemicals
ICHAWI (Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works in Ireland) and
Business to Arts are working with NIFAST to develop a bespoke Health & Safety day aimed at Conservators, but of interest to anyone who has a need to work with chemicals.
Date: Friday 18 September
Venue: Lecture theatre, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2
Fee: €100
Course tutor: Dave McDonald, National Institute for Fire and Safety Training (NIFAST)
The course will cover:
• Introduction to Health and Safety
• Health and Safety Legislation
• Safety Management Systems and Safety Statements
• Risk Assessment
• Chemical, Biological and Physical Hazards
• Manual Handling

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Modern and Contemporary Art Appreciation Course, Hugh Lane
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is delighted to announce a comprehensive Art
Appreciation Course based on the gallery’s permanent collection and presented by the
Hugh Lane’s team of curators. The series of slide illustrated lectures and tours of the gallery’s permanent and temporary exhibitions will look at the development of international and Irish modernist movements through to post-modern and contemporary arts practice and will discuss the range of influences, subject matter, techniques and artistic philosophies explored in art from the 19th to 21st centuries.
The course will cover 6 weeks (from 8 September 2009) with two sessions a week
(Tuesdays from 2.30pm and Thursdays from 2.30pm) and will involve lectures and gallery tours. It is designed for those who have an interest in art but previously have not had the time to follow this through. Cost: E50. Places are limited so early booking is recommended. For information on the full programme and bookings please contact Katy
Fitzpatrick on:
T: 01 2225553
E: katy.fitzpatrick@dublincity.ie www.hughlane.ie
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Call for Submissions
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AN CÓR – Sideline’s new Irish language choir competition series for RTÉ One
What happens when you cast the six best or most suitable choirs in the country and then have these largely English-speaking singers learn, rehearse and perform the most popular Gaelic songs ever sung by Irish school children even to this day? The result is the bilingual TV series An Cór (The Choir) – an Irish language singing competition with a difference broadcast over 4 shows during Seachtain na Gaeilge March 2010 on RTÉ
One.
Note that AN CÓR (pronounced ‘encore’) is a bi-lingual TV series and choirs do not have to contain all Irish speakers.
P resented by Fiachna O’Braonáin (Hothouse Flowers), AN CÓR features six choirs immersing themselves in the culture, language and history of traditional Irish songs like
Báidín Fhelimí, Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile, Poc ar Buile, Bean Phåidín and Beidh
Aonach Am árach. In each of the first three shows two choirs compete against each other whilst learning and understanding the words, rehearsing the pronunciation whilst
Fiachna travels the country understanding the back story of the songs themselves and mentors the choirs as they attempt to impress the judging panel (to be announced) with their final polished version. The three successful choirs from the heats then compete in the final show with one choir crowned the winner on the final RTÉ One programme in
March 2010.
To take part in this brand new TV series, production company Sideline, and RTÉ are seeking choirs from all styles and nationalities over the ages of 18. What is important is that the choir was formed prior to the competition, committed to a high standard of performance, led by a charismatic choirmaster or conductor and possibly has an interesting history itself.
To download an application form please log onto www.rte.ie/tv/wanted and remember the closing date is Friday September 11th
Choirs that meet the criteria and contain an Irish-speaking member (or members) are particularity encouraged to enter, and all choirs have to be available initially for auditions and filming on selected dates between September and December 2009.
Note the application process is merely an expression of interest and not an indication to the choir that they will be asked to take part in any stage of the TV programme.
If you need further information please email ancor@sideline.ie or call Arlene McGann at

SIDELINE at 01 631 5310
The application form is available from the RTE website (www.rte.ie) and the sideline website (www.sideline.ie).
Closing Date is Friday September 11th
AN CØR is a Sideline Production for RTE www.sideline.ie
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Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery Call for Submissions for 2010
Deadline: 5pm, Friday 2nd October 2009
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery is seeking submissions for the forthcoming year, 2010.
The newly renovated Ennistymon Courthouse building features a main art gallery, the smaller Red Couch gallery space, five artists’ studios, and a sound recording studio.
The Courthouse Gallery seeks to attract local and national audiences by exhibiting work of the highest standard by local, national, and international artists.
We are interested in exhibiting a wide range of visual art, including collaborations and multi-media projects for exhibition in both our gallery spaces. We also welcome proposals that are participatory led or involve some engagement with the community.
We wish to focus on exhibiting emerging artists based locally and nationwide.
If you are interested in applying, please send your submission (which should include):
*biography/ CV
*artist statement,
*brief description of proposed show,
*6-8 images on CD or hard-copy photos
25% commission charged.
Please send submissions to:
Trudi van der Elsen - Coordinator,
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery,
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Irish Concrete Society 2009 Sculpture Award: Call for Nominations
The Irish Concrete Society is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Irish
Concrete Society 2009 Sculpture Award. This award scheme aims to acknowledge excellence in the design/construction of a sculptural project completed in concrete.
Eligible entries should use concrete as the main visual element in the sculpture.
The Irish Concrete Society is sponsoring a cash prize of E1,000 for the winning sculptor and adjudication will be carried out by an independent jury convened by the Council of the Society. Nominations for the award may be made by sculptors or others directly involved in the nomination. Nominations must refer to work completed since 1 August
2007 which is currently in Ireland and which can be made available for inspection by the jury later in the year, if requested.
All entries will be displayed at an Awards Evening held in early 2010 at which the winner will be announced. Nomination forms may be obtained from Emma Flood at:
Irish Concrete Society, Platin, Drogheda, Co. Louth
T: 041 9876466
E: secretary@concrete.ie www.concrete.ie
Deadline for nominations: 30 October 2009
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ArtTrail 2009 Writer in Residence: Call for Entries

ArtTrail, in association with Visual Artists Ireland, are inviting proposals for the position of Writer-in-Residence at the ArtTrail festival 2009, taking place in Cork City from 13 to
22 November 2009.
To enter, please submit a 300 to 500 word long text responding to the ArtTrail 2009 theme of 'Rediscovering Locality', along with a CV and up to 2 examples of recent pieces of writing (as attachments or links).
The selected entry will be published in the ArtTrail 2009 brochure/catalogue, and can include up to 2 images. In addition, the selected writer will be commissioned to write a full-page feature article about ArtTrail for the Visual Artists' News Sheet (Jan/Feb 2010 issue) and invited to publish a regular blog on the ArtTrail website during the festival. All entries will be reviewed by the ArtTrail board and the Visual Artists' News Sheet editorial team.
Entries should be sent by email with 'Writer-in-Residence' to: info@arttrail.ie www.arttrail.ie www.visualartists.ie
Deadline for submissions: 5pm, 2 October 2009
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Achill Heinrich Boll Residencies 2010: Call for Submissions
The Achill Heinrich Böll cottage on Achill Island is a residency for writers, composers and artists. Applications are now being accepted for artists' stays in the cottage during
2010.
To apply for a stay at The Achill Heinrich Böll Cottage during 2010, please send a letter of interest, including your preferred dates, a short CV and brief example(s) of your work by postal mail (no emails please) to:
John McHugh, Secretary Achill Heinrich Böll Association, Abha Teangai, Dooagh,
Achill, Co Mayo
Deadline for submissions: 31 September 2009
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News / Events
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Environment? HSE? Politics? Banks? Justice? Waste? Inequality?
What’s pushing your ANGRY button?
“Angry School” is a once off special event marrying the shape of a school day with adult advice from your best friend, expert knowledge with speed dating, fun with dissent. It’s where specialists exchange information freely and where you can ask all the questions.
Invest ˆ15 and change your expectation of “a good night out”.
ANGRY SCHOOL Stay Mad Get Smart.
Angry School, Saturday September 5th, works like this:
Buy a ticket http://dublinfringefest.ticketsolve.com/shows/8527749/events
1) Get to “School” on time. Eleven classmates start alongside you. Classes start every
20 minutes. At Reception learn the “School Un-Rules” then take the Entrance Exam.
Find out what makes you Angry? Which Expert are you? Everyone takes it. Everyone passes.
2) Next stop a one to one lecture. Chat to a specialist for twenty minutes. Ask anything.
3) There’s two more classes before you Graduate with the award you deserve, and there’s a Break where you Speed Date Your Class Mate. Who might you meet? What might you learn? What might you do?
Angry School: Stop beating your head against the wall and examine what holds the bricks together.
Expertise available:
For classes starting from 4pm to 5pm experts focused on Justice include: Madeleine
Boughton (Culture Ireland), Chris Robson (Gay Rights Activist), Catherine Rose (Age and Opportunity, Publisher), Tony Weeks (Environmental Economist), Gabriel

Gbadamosi (Playwright and thinker), Martin Collins (Traveller and Actor), Michael
Finucane (Lawyer)
Between 5pm to 6pm experts focusing on Health include: Margharita Solon (Care Home visionary), MervynTaylor (Irish Hospice Foundation), Priscilla Robinson (Artist, Stand
Up Comic, Civil Servant), Dr Simon Roberts (Anthropologist), Tom Meskill (artist),
Regina McQuillan (professor palliative care), Ann Mc Neely (head organisational development Beaumont).
Between 6pm to 7pm experts focusing on Equality include: Dylan Haskins
(provocateur), Gavin Kostick (playwright), Willie White (Director Project Arts Centre),
Shane Byrne and Eoghan O Brien (Camphill Community), Mick Wilson (pedagogue),
James Doorly (National Youth Council Ireland)
Between 7pm to 8pm experts focus on Global include: Patricia Hallahan (activist),
PaulMaher (teacher, observer), Shalini Sinha (researcher), Dil Wickremasinghe (Social
Entrepreneur). See www.homeofthebewildered.com
Angry Schoo l: There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question.
5th September 2009.
11 West Arran St, Smithfield, Dublin (by Luas stop)
Absolut Fringe 2009
Tickets ˆ15 www.fringefest.com 1850 FRINGE (1850 374 643)
Absolut Fringe Box Office, Filmbase, Curved Street, Dublin 2
Angry School is a Home of the Bewildered Initiative. www.homeofthebewildered.com
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Glas Vegas: Calling all Singers, Musicians and Dancers!
GLAS VEGAS is back for a fourth series on TG4!
Auditions are being held around the country over four days, from Thursday 3rd September to Sunday 6th September 2009.
Register your details NOW at www.tg4.ie/GlasVegas and we will be in touch to let you know your nearest audition venue.
Or contact James for more details: 01 284 3877
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Culture and the Economy
Creativity and Innovation in Post Boom Ireland
Roscommon County Council in association with the Western Development Commission presents:
Douglas Hyde Conference 2009 -
Comhdháil an Chraoibhín 2009
Culture and the Economy
Creativity and Innovation in Post Boom Ireland
Abbeyfield Hotel, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
Friday 16th to Sunday 18th October, 2009.
Martin Cullen TD, Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism will deliver the opening address at this year’s Douglas Hyde Conference in the Abbeyfield Hotel, Ballaghaderreen on
Friday 16th October 2009.
Not only is it important that we continue to value the creative sector, but perhaps now, in the current climate, it is vital that we look to the creative sector and better examine the benefits culture, creativity and innovation can bring to our society, and to our economy.
While creativity is often most evident or pronounced within the arts sector, in any sphere

it is the characteristic essential to the development of new solutions. The lateral thinking, multiple intelligences and problem solving skills central to the arts and all the creative industries represent the same creative thinking employed in technology, the environment, education or industry - creativity is the quality that allows the next new step to be conceived.
Chaired by broadcaster Cathal Mac Coille, the programme consists of –
Martin Cullen TD Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism
Mícheál O' Súilleabháin Chairperson, Culture Ireland
Finbarr Bradley Co-author of Capitalising on Culture, Competing on Difference
Roger O'Keeffe EU Directorate General of Education and Culture
John Concannon Director of Regional Deve lopment, Fáilte Ireland
Una McCarty Festivals Director, the Arts Council
Sarah Glennie Director, Irish Film Institute
Lisa McAlister CEO, Western Development Commission
Stuart McLaughlin CEO, Business2arts
Martina Earley CEO, Roscommon Integrated Development Company
Garry Hynes Director, Druid Theatre Company
Michael John Gorman Director, The Science Gallery
Alice Lyons Poet and Visual Artist
Niall Brady Archaeologist, The Discovery Programme
Also playing over the weekend are some of Roscommon's finest exponents of music
John Wynne and friends and the legendary Mairtin O’Connor, Cathal Hayden & Seamie
O’Dowd.
A full programme is attached. For further information please contact Philip Delamere on
09066 37259/85 or at the conference website at www.roscommonarts.com/hyde.
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VISUAL announces details of Official Opening Night
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Carlow has announced the details of the new arts centre's official opening night which will take place on Thursday 24 September 2009.
Opening with a new performance by Amanda Coogan from 6pm onwards, VISUAL will celebrate its official launch with an inaugural exhibition programme including artists
Joseph Albers, Polly Apfelbaum, Brian Connolly, Maud Cotter, Yingmei Duan, Richard
Gorman, Neva Elliott, Cecil King, Alastair MacLennan, Tadhg McSweeney, Eilís
O'Connell, Declan Rooney, Patrick Scott, Sean Shanahan, Sean Scully, Charles Tyrrell,
Ciarán Walsh and Michael Warren. Daphne Wright will present a work commissioned by Visualise/Carlow Arts Office in addition to a new public art work commissioned under the PerCent for Art scheme by Eileen McDonagh.
For those who intend on travelling from Dublin to Carlow for the launch event, a bus will run from outside the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square on 24 September (departing at 6.15pm) to arrive at VISUAL at 7.30pm approx., with late return back to Dublin
(departing at approx. 10.30pm). Fare: €5 return.
For further information please contact VISUAL at:
E: info@visualcarlow.ie www.visualcarlow.ie

Working to strenghten and cultivate the Arts in Kilkenny, by supporting and empowering practitioners, encouraging creativity, innovation and excellance and increasing community appreciation and participation.
Kilkenny County Council County Hall John
Street Kilkenny Opening time: Monday to
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