MAY 2007
irish news and arts events
Israeli troops shoot Nobel Peace Prize winner
Noble Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan was treated for injury in leg sustained by rubber bullet
Ali Waked, 20TH APRIL 2007
Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Corrigan has been injured during confrontations between security forces and left-wing activists protesting the security fence route near Bilin, activists said.
Corrigan, who won the prize in 1976 for her work in encouraging a peaceful solution to the Northern Ireland dispute, was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet and was transferred to a hospital for treatment. She was also said to have inhaled large quantities of teargas.
"I salute the residents of Bilin for their peaceful struggle in a region that is so violent and I call on the Israeli public, whom I know is for justice and peace, to support the residents' struggle," Corrigan told Ynet. Tito Kayak was also there
"I want to say that this separation wall, contrary to what the Israeli say, will not prevent attacks and violence. What will prevent attacks and violence is a peace agreement between the two peoples, and I am sure the Israeli people, like the Palestinian people, wants peace," Corrigan added.
26th April Press Release:Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Maguire said today: "I was invited with my
friend to attend a nonviolent conference in Bilin, a
village outside Ramallah [in the West Bank], and to give
a talk there, which I did. At the end of the conference,
we were invited to participate in a
nonviolent demonstration with some of the Palestinian
members of parliament and Israeli peace activists and
local villagers and international visitors.
"We walked along to try to walk up toward the
separation wall, and it was a totally nonviolent protest.
And we were viciously attacked by the Israeli military.
They threw gas canisters into the peace walkers, and they
also fired rubber-covered steel bullets. "As I tried
to move back and help a French lady, I was shot in the
leg with a rubber-covered steel bullet, and the young
Israeli soldier who shot me was only 20 meters from me. I
was stunned by it, and then later on, after having some
treatment by the ambulance medics, I went back down to
the front line with the peace activists, and we were
again showered with gas. I was overcome and had a severe
nosebleed and had to be taken by stretcher to the
ambulance and treated.
"And I witnessed there ... an old Palestinian man
with blood on his face. These were over 25 unarmed peace
people who had been viciously attacked by the Israeli
military. And it was a completely peaceful protest. It
was absolutely unbelievable. I never in all my years of
activism witnessed anything so vicious as from the
Israeli military."
The shooting of Maguire took place on Friday, April 20;
she is now back in Ireland and available for interviews.
| I heard the highly-praised, General David
Petraeus, give a briefing at the Pentagon today:
Two things got my attention: 1) he told the press that Iraq now has private banking. He underlined the significance of that. So the war was about that? It was for private banking? We had private banking at the height of the civil war in Lebanon, and you don't see us bragging. 2) he said that the press should know that Iraqis should be able to live with car bombs and violence. He reminded the press that people in Northern Ireland were able to live with violence and bombings for years. So the American invasion of Iraq was a social science project to see whether the Iraqi people are capable like the people of Northern Ireland to live with bombings??AngryArab.blogspot.com |
Rathmines Festival,Dublin.
An outstanding performance of Sam
Beckett's "Molloy."
Conor Lovett's performance, his clumsy gear, his
sensitive hands and face full of tacit gestures and
minute vocal inflections to a full house in St Mary's
College will not be forgotten. The usual comedy of crude
aspect, fahrts and portrait descriptions was completely
overwhelmed by the comic desperation that can be felt in
general when observing a ten year old child blunder
through his errors, falls and confessions. The child
cannot be blamed, as can the more mature, and the sight
of innocence under seige is just too much for us to
control, bursts of laughter assail the audience.
Well ofcourse Molloy/Lovett is not a
child but his conversation with us was held with such
confidence in our interest,and yet with such nervous
apprehension that his histrionic art conveyed, even
through glances from his eyes, that we shared a future
with him - wherein he too would claim his memory of our
response. A brilliant evocation of a man isolated by
experience, solitary by choice, but an innocent certain
that confession is a conversation that welds us all
together in a manner quite differently from the religious
rite of the Catholic.
The College had arranged in another Hall a small
exhibition of biographic texts and photographs about Sam
Beckett.
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Lies, Damned Lies and......
A debate with three speakers
Michael Clifford of Sunday Tribune fame, Valerie Cox
author of "Ireland's Missing People", and
Padraig Breathnach broadcaster and celebrity.
Michael Clifford "...and Statistics............" spoke about the false claim that statistics confirm that Ireland is sudddenly awash with crime. Infact, he says, statistics have been constant for the last ten years and Ireland has the lowest crime ratings in Europe. Gun crime, drug related, has no impact on people's general lives. The anti-social behaviour that the media records is blown out of all proportion to reality. Also we have the politicians fluctuating in their reactions to the violence of crime and its affect on the victims. Affluence brought insecurity and security is more easily broken up among those with less financial stability by their own peers.
One may reflect, obviously, how the affluent are recorded in the media for their corrupt business practices among themselves.
Valerie Cox revealed how difficult it is for journalists to get information from County Councils. She drew attention to their preference for expensive foreign travel junkets instead of the financial input that local problems at their Parish Pumps demand. These Councils are full of politicisized members who have to avoid penalising their Party profiles - she recorded that meetings held with journalists were often quite irrelevant or ill attended - two politicians ill advised to attend, as questions overheated the atmosphere at one Council meeting, disappeared and hid in the Toilets. She claims that it is very evident that Council members do not read the papers given out prior to Meetings that would enable them grasp problems, debate and recommend solutions. She is horrified at the scandal about dumping in Wicklow and claimed that aircraft and trucks who dump their fecal and hospital waste have evidently come to some agreements with Councils as to where that shall be . She then drew attention to the sewage problems throughout the country, effluence in rivers etc.
Padraig Breathnach jumped up from his seat and roared that the public life of this country is entirely one of lies - We Are Liars! He settled down to a steady pace up and down one side of the hall and fumed about lies he has told; lies he knows of that are so outrageous that have convulsed the political life of this country; lies that will in future be maintained and lies that will be invented in the future. Trapped into a Grant-aid development in his own home he gained a Grant by telling a lie that described for the first time ever that water flowed up the stairs rather than down. He roared about the travesties in Salmon and Lake and River fishing that is now reserved for Tourists whom he descried in their Edwardian gear on fishing trips that were, hilariously, guided by those cunning little men in tweed caps whose profits were amplified not only by the time taken to find a fish but by the substantial grants rendered those sutiably employed "in the cap", doffing salutes to the English and the estate owners.
Questions and answers buzzed back and
forth and although we all knew that this debate merely
illustrated what, as Padraig said, is spoken as
"Common Sense" at home, everybody was well
pleased to have these matters aired, with laughter,
indictments and gossip.
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Meeting an old friend for the first time for some years
myself and my daughter retired to Slattery's with him to
hear about Vincent Woods, "the excellent poet"
and retrieve time that we artists are loosing because
there is no longer, as in the 1980's a kind of centrifuge
of the arts in Central Dublin. We do not meet enough. A
large diaspora of writers, poets, painters and musicians
into the mist has occurred and as a result, for instance,
the variety of material that I received for the original
print editions of The Handstand as a community paper at
that time, (sold around the pubs), will not get
reproduction now unless I learn to get up from this
computer or quit my easle or typewriter and travel round
to find the artistic individuals that do remain in
hidden, small, sparse rented rooms(the rents are colossal
now), as I myself, in central Dublin.
Prepare to see the fantastic drawings
of a tattoo artist working here in Rathmines in a future
issue, if I can persuade him to scan them.
Glad to meet another old friend, Pat Boran, but I found
his programme a shade lacking in the bold poet stakes.
Shake your listeners up Pat!Read some of your own work!
MAY AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
(Tá Leagan Gaeilge thios)
DRAWING DAY
There is a particular emphasis this month on the art of
Drawing, with a number of special talks being given by
artists and experts. Not to be missed is our ever-popular
'Gallery Drawing Day' on Saturday 26 May. Robert Ballagh
will launch a day-long series of events for adults and
children, commencing at 10:30am. Adults session is in the
morning, family session in the afternoon. Arrive early
for enrolment. All events are free, no booking is
required, but bring your own equipment.
See the gallery website for a list of other participating
institutions nationwide.
WHAT'S NEW?
Now adults can try their hand at being creative with the
gallery's new Drawing Kits. These include quality drawing
materials, sketch pads and instruction booklet. They may
be borrowed free of charge for use within the gallery.
(Available at Millennium Wing information desk)
ONGOING:
'TREASURES FROM THE NORTH: IRISH PAINTINGS FROM THE
ULSTER MUSEUM'
Perhaps the most impressive show of Irish art ever
presented in one location, as we display along with our
own collection an exhibition of 60 masterpieces from the
Ulster Museum. A full colour catalogue is available
(price €9.95). A free activity sheet accompanies the
exhibition. (Until 16 September, Millennium Wing,
admission free)
'As a visual record of Irish life it is unequalled…(Metrolife)
It is a joyful experience from beginning to end…(Irish
Iindependent)
'THE FANTASTIC IN IRISH ART: IMAGES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
AND THE UNCANNY'
This exhibition looks at the role of the fantastic in the
work of Irish artists of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Preferring the inner world of the imagination
to the current emphasis on rationalism these artists
created evocative and fascinating works of art intended
to delight or unsettle their audience.
The exhibition includes work by Richard Doyle, George
Russell, Jack Yeats, Oliver Sheppard, Harry Clarke and
Art O'Murnaghan amongst others. ( Until 12 August, Print
Gallery, admission free )
'YEATS AND O'MALLEY'
An in-focus exhibition commemorating the friendship
between the painter Jack B Yeats and Ernie O'Malley, the
writer, critic and War of Independence veteran. (Until 30
June, Yeats Gallery, admission free)
Additional information is available at http://www.nationalgallery.ie/html/exhibitions.html
FOR YOUR DIARY
Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 May
'Art for all Ages'. A series of events celebrating
creativity in older age, including afternoon themed tours
and workshops. Please contact the Education Department 01
6615133 for details.
MUSIC EVENTS
An intriguing afternoon is in store on Sunday 27 May when
the Concorde Ensemble perform a number of contemporary
works by Irish composers in various spaces in the
gallery. Admission free.
For further information on all forthcoming events check
out our website www.nationalgallery.ie
Kind Regards
Visitor Services Officer
National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West, Dublin 2.
Phone - 6615133 ext 3813
Fax - 6615372
dgalligan@ngi.ie
How to Find Us:
National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West & Clare Street, Dublin 2.
Admission is free to the permanent collection.
Telephone (01) 661 5133
Email: info@ngi.ie
www.nationalgallery.ie
Gallery Opening Hours:
Monday-Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm
Thursday 9.30am-8.30pm
Sunday 12.00pm-5.30pm
Closed 24-26 December & Good Friday.
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MÍ BEALTAINE i nGAILEARAÍ NÁISÍUNTA NA hÉIREANN
Tá béim ar leith an mhí seo ar ealaín na Líníochta.
Beidh sraith léachtaí speisialta ar an ábhar, á
thabhairt ag ealaíontoirí agus saineolaithe airithe i
rith na míosa seo. Agus ná caill ceann de na
himeachtaí is taitneamhaí sa Ghailearaí, 'Lá
Líníochta', atá ar siúl ar an Satharn 26ú Bealtaine.
Seolfaidh Robert Ballagh sraith imeachtaí do dhaoine
fásta agus do pháistí, ag tosnú ag 10:30rn. Tá
seisiún na ndaoine fásta ar maidin, seisiún teaghlaigh
um tráthnóna. Bí ann go luath le clarú. Tá na
himeachtaí go léir saor in aisce, ní gá áirithintí,
ach béir leat do chuid trealaimh féin.
Féach ar shuíomh gréasáin an Ghailearaí do liosta de
na institiúdí eile ar fud na tíre atá rannphairteach.
NUA
Anois is féidir le daoine fásta a dtaobh cruthaíoch a
thaispeáint leis na Maingíní Líniochta atá ar fáil
sa ghailearaí. San áireamh, tá trealamh líníocht
d'ardchaighdean, bloic sceitseála, agus treoirleabhair.
Is féidir iad a fháil ar iasacht gan táille ón Deisc
Eolais, Sciathán na Mílaoise.
AR LEAN
'An Fhantaisíocht in Ealaín na Éireann:
Íomhánna den Osnádúr agus den Diamhair'
Léiríonn an taispeántas seo ról na fantaisíochta i
saothar ealaíontoirí Éireannacha ag deireadh an 19ú
haois agus tús an 20ú haois. Agus iad ag díriú ar
shaol inmheánach na samhlaíochta seachas ar spéis na
ré sin sa réasúnachas, chruthaigh na healaíontóirí
seo saothair spreagúla, inspéise a tharraing aird an
lucht féachana nó a rinne míshuaimhneach iad. Tá
saothair le Richard Doyle, George Russell, Jack Yeats,
Oliver Sheppard, Harry Clarke, Art O'Murnaghan agus
daoine eile le feiceáil sa taispeántas. ( Go dtí 12
Lúnasa, An Gailearaí Priontaí, saorchead isteach )
'YEATS AGUS Ó MÁILLE'
Taispeántas speisialta a chomórann an cairdeas ar leith
idir an péintéir Jack B Yeats agus an scríbhneoir,
critíceoir agus iar-shaighdiúir de chuid Chogadh na
Saoirse, Ernie O'Malley. (Go dtí 30 Meitheamh,
Gailearaí Yeats, saorchead isteach)
Seoda ón Tuaisceart: Pictiúir Éireannacha ó Mhúsaem
Uladh
B'fhéidir an seó is fearr d'ealaín na hÉireann a
cuireadh ar siúl ar aon láthair riamh á chur ar
taispeáint, nuair a léireoimid 60 sárshaothar ó
Mhúsaem Uladh in éineacht lenár mbailiúchán féin.
Tá catalog lándaite ar fáil (Praghas €9.95).
Tá bileog oibre saor in aisce ag gabháil leis an
taispeántas.
(Go dtí 16 Méan Fómhair, Sciathán na Mílaoise,
Saorchead isteach)
'As a visual record of Irish life it is unequalled…(Metrolife)
It is a joyful experience from beginning to end…(Irish
Iindependent)
Tuilleadh eolais ar fáil ó http://www.nationalgallery.ie/html/exhibitions.html
DÁTA DON DIALANN Céadaoin 9 go dtí Aoine 11 Mí
Bealtaine, tráthnóna 'Ealaín do Chách'. Sraith
imeachtaí ag céiluradh cruthaíochta i measc daoine
aosta. Bain leas as turais théamúla an ghailearaí agus
ceardlanna.
Tá tuilleadh eolais ar fáil ón Rannóg Oideachais 01
6615133.
IMEACHTAÍ CEOL
Tráthnóna spéisiúil atá geallta ar an 27ú Bealtaine
nuair a fhilleann an cheolfhoireann 'Concorde' ar an
Ghailearaí. Beidh siad ag seinm sraith piosaí
comhaimseartha le cumadóirí Éireannacha in áiteanna
eagsúla timpeall an ghailearaí. Saorchead isteach.
Tuilleadh eolais ar ár imeachtaí ar fad le fáil ón
suíomh idirlíon www.nationalgallery.ie
Le meas,
Oifigeach Seirbhisí Cuairteora Gailearaí Náisiúnta na
hÉireann Cearnóg Mhuirfean Thiar Baile Átha Cliath 2
Teil - 6615133 ext 3813
Faics - 6615372 dgalligan@ngi.ie
Conas teacht orainn: Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann
Cearnóg Mhuirfean Thiar agus Sráid Chliara Baile Átha
Cliath 2 Teil - 6615133
Tá Saorchead Isteach sa Taispeántas Buan
R-phost: info@ngi.ie www.nationalgallery.ie
Uaireanta Oscailte
Luan go Satharn 9.30rn-5.30in
Déardaoin 9.30rn-8.30in
Domhnach 12.00 meán lae -5.30in
Dúnta 24-26 Mí na Nollag & Aoine an Chéasta.
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Treasures from the North: Irish Paintings from the Ulster
Museum
14 March - 16 September 2007
Millennium Wing, Level 2
Admission Free
Yeats and O'Malley
28 March - 30 June 2007
Yeats Museum (Beit Wing)
Admission Free
The Fantastic in Irish Art: Images of the Supernatural
and the Uncanny
4 April - 12 August 2007
Print Gallery.
Admission Free.
Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Ireland
http://www.nationalgallery.ie/html/exhibitions.html
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The National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: 353-1-661 5133
Fax: 353-1-661 5372
http://www.nationalgallery.ie
Bray Jazz Festival
Some of the biggest names in global jazz will be coming
to Ireland as part of the Bray Jazz 2007 festival.
From: May 4, 2007 |
To: May 6, 2007 |
ART PROCESS - SET UP FIVE YEARS AGO BY THE IRISH ARTIST
JOHN-PAUL DELANEY
Open
Invitation for Contemporary Visual Artists.
http://www.artprocess.com
PRESS RELEASE
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info
email: info@artprocess.com ( english)
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tel : +39 33 88 37 44 81 (english) +39 349 7377279
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THESE
CRAZY individuals HAVE SET ALIGHT THE dANIEL PIPES
PROGRAMME IN UNIVERSITIES - WE HAVE THEM HERE AMONG OUR
ARTISTS IN AOSDANA - COMBATANTS FOR THE CNUS - "A
BUNCH OF NUTS" AS MICHAEL HARTNET OBSERVED.
APRIL 10, 2007 202/376-7700
ENDING CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM, PUBLIC EDUCATION WEB SITE TO
BE LAUNCHED
BY U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, April 13, the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights will launch a Web site that contributes
to ending campus anti-Semitism by educating college
students and others about anti-Semitism, urging victims
and witnesses of anti-Semitism to report such incidents,
and listing sources of assistance for students. This Web
site is part of a campaign that the Commission undertook
following the occurrence of anti-Semitic incidents on
many of the nation's university and college campuses and
receiving testimony from a panel of experts that too many
college students are unaware of their rights and
protections against anti-Semitic behavior. Campaign
materials include the Commission's recent report Campus
Anti-Semitism http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/081506campusantibrief07.pdf),
and posters, postcards, and e-messages that will direct
students to the Web site.
When: Friday, April 13, 2007, 9:30 a.m. Where: U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, 624 Ninth Street NW, Room 540
Washington, D.C.
| FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL TIDY
TOWN COMMUNITIES - THIS REPORT FROM NEW YORK
DESERVES WORLD WIDE ATTENTION TERRIFIC ANTI-PESTICIDES VICTORY: NYC SETTLES 7-YEAR OLD LAWSUIT WITH NO SPRAY COALITION, ET. AL. City admits that pesticides may remain in the environment beyond their intended purpose and may cause adverse health effects ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For seven years, the No Spray Coalition and other environmental groups have battled the City of New York in Federal Court in opposition to the Giuliani administration's massive and indiscriminate spraying of toxic pesticides, including Malathion. On April 12, a federal judge signed a settlement agreement in which New York City admits that the pesticides sprayed may indeed be dangerous to human health as well as to the natural environment. The settlement agreement states that, contrary to the City's prior statements, pesticides - may remain in the environment beyond their intended purpose - cause adverse health effects - kill mosquitoes' natural predators - increase mosquito resistance to the sprays, and - are not presently approved for direct application to waterways. This settlement agreement is a tremendous victory for health advocates and a rebuff to the anti-environmental polices of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Thousands of New Yorkers were made seriously sick by the spraying. A number of members of the No Spray Coalition, including several of the plaintiffs, died from pesticide-related illnesses. Many suffer from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) or Asthma caused or exacerbated by the spraying. We are very glad that the new City administration has to some degree acknowledged that pesticides are extremely dangerous to human health. They need to be rejected as a way of killing mosquitoes. In particular, the use of insect repellents containing DEET should never be used, especially on children. The settlement agreement stipulates that the City meet with the Coalition for two 3-hour sessions. We will be discussing that and other concerns with the City when we meet. One plaintiff in the lawsuit, artist Robert Lederman, notes that in 1999 and 2000 then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and other City officials claimed that the spraying was "safe" and was used as "a last resort" in its effort to kill mosquitoes said to be vectors for West Nile encephalitis. "This agreement represents the latest rebuff to the notion that Giuliani was a good Mayor," Lederman said. "In 1999 and 2000, while repeatedly spraying the population of NY with pesticides derived from Nazi-era nerve gasses, Giuliani appeared in daily press conferences claiming that the chemicals were completely harmless. The City of NY has now admitted that these chemicals are harmful, that they persist in the environment and that much more caution will have to be used if they decide to ever spray them again." Attorneys for the No Spray Coalition -- Joel Kupferman, (NY Environmental Law and Justice Project, and National Lawyers Guild), and Karl Coplan and Daniel Estrin (PACE Environmental Litigation Clinic), announced that as part of the settlement the City agreed to pay $80,000 to five grassroots environmental and wildlife rehabilitation groups and meet with the plaintiffs in several sessions to review an extensive list of concerns that the Coalition provided. The Plaintiffs are not permitted, under the terms of the Clean Water Act, to receive a monetary settlement themselves. The resolution of the lawsuit begins a new phase in our activities. In our letter of concerns to the City, which is officially attached to the lawsuit settlement and available for reading on our website, the No Spray Coalition seeks to win official approval for a proposed "Community Health and Environment Council." Should the City approve this new Council, it would - make recommendations on environmental health impacts of pesticide use and alternatives - review and propose alternative, nontoxic control of mosquitoes. - critique the city's official mosquito control plan - offer new plans to replace adulticides with safe materials - assess agents chosen with regard to interaction with all toxins in our living environment. There is currently no testing of chemical or biological agents in combination, and these chemicals often have synergistic or cumulative impacts on health and the environment that fall below the officially designated danger zone when examined separately. While we hope that the City would approve the proposal to establish the Community Health and Environmental Council, we recognize that it will probably take another prolonged struggle to achieve that, the next step in our fight to make the City accountable environmentally and health-wise to the people subjected to these toxins. We expect that the terms of the Settlement Agreement will be especially helpful to those fighting against pesticide spraying elsewhere. Indeed, we consulted with many organizations not only in the U.S. but in Canada and Mexico as well, and we negotiated clauses in the Agreement with the needs of other locales in mind. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit were: No Spray Coalition National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides Disabled in Action Save Organic Standards - New York (by its president, Howard Brandstein) Valerie Sheppard (Rest In Peace, Valerie!) Mitchel Cohen Robert Lederman Eva Yaa Asantewaa.NoSpray Newz NYC settles anti-pesticides lawsuit brought by No Spray Coalition |
KILKENNY
ARTS COURSES
KOZO STUDIO AND GALLERY
Thomastown
Tel:
056-7793265
Mob:
087-2543362
E-Mail: tundetune@gmail.com
Web: www.kozogallery.com
At KOZO STUDIO AND GALLERY
Starting on the 3rd
of May 2007
On Thursday evenings at
This course is tailored to the specific
needs of those attending: focusing on many aspects of
creative writing – including tone, narrative,
dialogue, character development…etc.
The course will be presented by Janet
E. Sahafi, published author of literary novel
‘Jigsaw’ as well as two non-fictions and
various performance pieces.
For further information, details and for
booking please contact KOZO Gallery on 056-7793265
or E-mail: tundetune@gmail.com
Workshops
And Courses For Adults
April - June 2007
Silk Papermaking
- 28th
April (Sat)
- 23rd
June (Sat)
Participants will learn how to create
beautiful ‘fabric-like’ papers using a wide
range of various silk fibres - carded fibres from
cocoons, hand dyed silk tops, threads …etc -
The workshop covers three different techniques used in
silk papermaking.
Tutor: Tunde Toth, Fibre Artist
€ 80 (All
materials included)
Hand Papermaking (from natural fibres and
recycled materials)
12th –
13th May (Sat-Sun)
The 2-day beginners workshop is designed
to introduce participants to papermaking techniques using
a combination of recycled materials and natural fibres of
cotton, bamboo and abaca. Incorporating fabrics, threads,
dried plants, herbs and seeds into their pieces made from
various pulps, they will create a variety of papers and
unique images.
Tutor: Tunde Toth, Fibre Artist
€145 (All
materials included)
Batik
19th May (Sat) 11 am
– 5.30 pm
The generic term 'Batik' -- a Malay word
-- refers to the process of dyeing fabric using resist
technique: covering areas of cloth with a dye-resistant
substance to prevent them absorbing colour.
This 1-day workshop introduces various
Batik techniques (using natural bees wax resist with
traditional tools) and fabric dyeing techniques.
Tutor: Blaithin Quinn, Batik Artist
€ 80 (All materials included)
Creative
Basket making
20th May
(Sun)
As well as learning a traditional skill,
participants will be introduced to basic basketry
techniques, creating a beautiful willow basket or garden
structure during the one-day workshop.
Tutor: Heike Kahle, Basketmaker
€70
(Including all materials)
Felt Making
9th JUNE (Sat)
1-day workshop for beginners, introducing
felt making techniques (wet felt) using hand-dyed
sheep’s wool and decorative materials: silk threads
and fibres. Participants will create their own handbags
and/or colourful wall hangings.
Tutor: Marika Miklosi-Manning
€ 85 (All materials included)
Textile
Art Workshop – Experimental Textiles
16th JUNE
(Sat)
This is a unique, 1-day workshop
experimenting in making textile backgrounds from a
variety of materials and making a small picture piece
based on their source. Participants will learn to use
acrylic paint, bondaweb, oil sticks, paper, gold leaf and
stitch to make exciting backgrounds for their textile
pieces.
Tutor: Caroline Schofield, Textile Artist
€85 (All materials included)
Workshops, short courses and
demonstrations on Hand Papermaking (from recycled
materials and natural fibres) and Silk Papermaking are
available for primary and secondary schools (linked
to the visual arts curriculum), libraries, museums, art
centres …etc. Please contact the Studio for the full
list of courses offered.
FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS PLEASE CONTACT KOZO STUDIO AND
GALLERY:
T: 056-7793265
M: 087-2543362
HAZEL WILLIAMS GALLERY:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Hazel Williams Gallery, Kilkenny’s newest art
space, opening in May
2007. Call for Submissions for artists. For 2008 / 2009
Program. Submissions
to include 5 images of current works on CD Jpeg format.
Current Biography. A
stamped address envelope, if you require your work to be
returned to you.
Address submissions to: The Hazel Williams Gallery,
No 1 The Parade, Co
Kilkenny. Deadline is 1 July. T: 086 1687044
http://www.hazelwilliamsgallery.com
HAZEL WILLIAMS GALLERY, KILKENNY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Grants
and Bursaries 2007
Kilkenny
County Council s
The
practitioner will be selected based upon their previous
achievements and the project they intend to undertake
during their residency. The selected Artist
Residency should take place before the end of 2007.
The aim of the
Residency is to assist and encourage both established and
emerging practitioners. To give them an opportunity
to work intensively on a ‘project’ alongside
others in a very unique environment.
Closing date for receipt of completed
applications is no later than
Facilitation
Award 2006
Kilkenny
County Councils
The bursary
can be used to organise such events as:
- Peer Critique Sessions which may
raise issues or debates and provide events among
fellow artists
- Inviting Specialist Advisors to
provide workshops
- Networking events whereby
recognised speakers in the arts arena can be
invited to share their experiences
- Collaborative projects and
activities across the various disciplines.
These are guides for the Award and are by
no means exhaustive.
activities
include:
·
Percussion master class undertaken by Sam Alexander to a
Kilkenny based Afro-Brazilian percussion Ensemble
·
Artists talk by Stephen Brandes at the Berkeley Gallery
coinciding with the Illumine exhibition
· Collaborative arts events at the Kozo Gallery, Thomastown.
The
Closing date for receipt of completed
applications is no later than
For further details and application forms
regarding all of the above please contact:
The
County Hall
Kilkenny.
T: 056 779 4135
E: mary.butler@kilkennycoco.ie
E: niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie