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23 July 09
Welcome to the ArtLinks Monthly e-Newsletter
A regular Art News and Information Bulletin from the participating ArtLinks Partner Counties: Co Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford & Wicklow
Hi Everyone,
ArtLinks has been busy recently undertaking a second series of its Mentoring Advice Sessions for painters/printmakers. From the comments received the sessions have been highly regarded from all those who participated. Comments revealed the level of advice from our two mentors were both practical and encouraging for artists attempting to maintain and develop careers in these challenging times. ArtLinks on behalf of these artists would like to again thank Eamonn Carter, artist and Director of Gorey School of Art and painter, John Noel Smith, for so enthusiastically sharing their advice, professional knowledge and assisting in helping create such a highly regarded programme.
ArtLinks this month is also pleased to announce five brand new Film Busaries, in association with our partner organisation,  One Bursary is available for each of the 5 ArtLinks counties to assist people to attend Filmbase's highly professional development courses. Open to all ArtLinks members, simply fill out the one page application form on the Bursary page of ArtLinks.ie. Please feel free to forward this email to people working in film. The closing date is 21 August 09. The ArtLinks Film Bursary programme has been co-ordinated by the Wicklow Arts Office and recipients of the award will be announced at annual Wicklow Wicked Film Fes tival Awards, 7.30pm, Sat 29 August, Greystones Theatre. And there is more! We are also offering a filmbase training course designed specifically for ArtLinks members, 'Producing a Short Film' on 28 & 29 Aug. Please contact the Wicklow Arts Office, (0404) 20155. Places are limited.
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the Arts in the current economic climate. I came across an excellent article in the Practice.ie newsletter - a network and support organisation that we partnered with last year and one that I recommend to those in the arts who work with young people and children. The article Urgent: Making the Public Case for Arts mentions the newly available and important report from the VAI, The Social, Economic and Fiscal Status of Visual Artists (available at this link or from the VAI). You can see links to Mary Cloake, Director of the Arts Council speeches on youtube, on the important role of the Arts for Ireland that she presented at the recent annual Theatre Forum Ireland meeting in Wexford. During that meeting the idea was also raised of creating a database of Arts Workers for every electoral constituency in the country, online at Facebook. This has
really taken off with over 1,500 people now registered from across Ireland. However its success depends on having a
comprehensive list of people working professionally in the arts i.e. those make
their living from it - in whatever form (theatre, opera, dance, venues,
festivals, film including cinema staff, visual arts, writers of all kinds etc) and those supported by Arts Funding. If you have not registered yet, details on the 4 constituencies covered
by ArtLinks are as follows:
Carlow/ Kilkenny - Set up by Philip Hardy, Barnstorm Theatre
Company (28 signed up so far)
Waterford - Set up by Jenny Clooney in Red
Kettle (200)
Wexford - Set up by Chrisin Bar, Bui Bolg
(35)
Wicklow - Set up by Melanie Clark Pullen, Actor
(21)
(look how the artists in Waterford have been quick to support this)
NB
Please join the group where you live (and invite your Art Worker facebook friends) and are registered to vote
(this might be different to where you work). If you are not on Facebook and
wish to join your constituency then email theatreforum@ireland.com and give your name,
email and constituency. Tania Banotti of Theatre Forum Ireland says 'that in the short to medium term the idea is to use
this strength of numbers to make the case for arts funding to local Councillors
and TDs'.
 Another initiative that was launched this month was the new PublicArt.ie website resource, supported by the Arts Council. PublicArt.ie covers a wide range of activities across art forms - do have a look! And did you hear that U2 has made an incredible gift of €5 million to our Arts Partner organisation, Music Network. It will enable Music Network to offer new music and  vocal training opportunities to Ireland's children. Can you imagine the return from such a gift in years to come. Ireland's place in the world, from tourism to inward investment has often rested on the valuable, creative abilities and skills of its people; all of us will need to highlight our work to ensure that such investment in the Arts continues. And don't forget to keep your ArtLinks Profile Page current and upload all your art activities to the website.
Lets keep creating!
Cathy Fitzgerald
ArtLinks Director and Member
 PS: The monthly roundup of art news is getting so long, which is a great complaint but look out soon for the NEW Weekly email ArtLinks News & Events Digest! I'll let you know soon how to subscribe!
PPS: Follow updates about Artlinks on www.Twitter.com/ArtLinks.
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Upcoming July/Aug 09 Events posted by Members
on the ArtLinks.ie Calendar
Drama/Theatre
 ON NOW 21-07-2009 - 25-07-2009 Kilkenny: Devious Theatre Co presents 'Stags and Hens', Watergate Theatre29-08-2009 - 29-08-2009 Waterford: An Audience With...A night of one-act comedy plays by Jamie Flynn, Dean Sullivan and Alan Cliff.
FilmVultures 'new episode' online
Filmbase/RTE funded short, 'Blood Coloured Moon', written and directed, respectively by Carlow men; Barry McKinley and Marc-Ivan O’Gorman, is finally completed
Music
 24-07-2009 - 24-07-2009Kilkenny: SWUNG OUT, BlueBird Jazz Quintet at Left Bank11-06-2009 - 14-08-2009 : Wexford /Waterford/Wicklow: Summer Songschool: Week-long music workshops
Visual Art
Co. Carlow
21.04.2009 New Spitting Image Art Gallery - replica paintings
Co.Kilkenny
 26-07-2009 Co Kilkenny Arts Office Woodstock Promenade -A Contemporary Public Art Event celebrating Woodstock Gardens, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
30-07-2009 - 4-09-2009  Kilkenny Arts Office New Gallery: The Museum of Broken Relationships
Co Kilkenny Arts Office: Mayo based artist Ian Wieczorek will present Convergence in the Watergate Theatre Gallery
20-06-2009 - 26-07-2009:Kilkenny: David Beattie, Remote Control at Butler Gallery
01-08-2009 - 31-08-2009 Carysfort Gallery Sculpture Exhibition at Castlecomer
01-08-2009 - 17-08-2009 Kilkenny Art Exhibition Group Show; brock butler, laurence o'toole, brian o'loughlin, graham carew, tom watson, paula minchin, marina hamilton, sharon mcdaid, karen wilson
06-08-2009 - 16-08-2009 Kilkenny castle: Daithi O hUallachain / David Holohan Exhibition
07-08-2009 - 16-08-2009 Carysfort Gallery Fine Art Exhibition at Butler House
07-08-2009 - 16-08-2009 Kilkenny: Carysfort Gallery with Maeve Doherty at Butler House
07-08-2009 - 16-08-2009 Jacinta Crowley-Long Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
08-08-2009 - 16-08-2009Kilkenny: Siobhan Hegarty and Geri Doyle Ryan -"The Yellow Door"
 08-08-2009 - 16-08-2009Co. Klkenny: 'Townlands' Gypsy Ray & Alan Counihan at Johnswell Community Hall
09-08-2009 - 16-08-2009Kilkenny: Visual Art at Ballyduff House, Thomastown
Co Waterford
 26-06-2009 - 13-08-2009 WHAT: Once Upon A Time An exhibition of artworks by Laura Fitzgerald, Artist-in-Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
08-08-2009 - 07-09-2009Co Waterford Arts Office: Old Market House Arts Centre, Reverse glass paintings by Gosia and acrylic paintings by Luke.
Co Wexford25-06-2009 - 21-08-2009 Wexford: Wind on Water by Veronika Kladnakova and others at The Cockleshell gallery
03-07-2009 - 05-08-2009 New Ross, Cockle Shell Gallery: Niamh Cook 'Time and Tide
 18-07-2009 - 02-08-2009The Norman Gallery, Wexford: New Works by David Begley and Robert Ryan (pictured)
23-07-2009 - 26-07-2009 THE SCULPTU RE TRAIL WEXFORD, Calling for Submissions
24-07-2009 - 31-10-2009Wexford: Sweet Memories, the Story of Urney Chocolates
Co Wicklow
05-08-2009 - 15-08-2009 Signal Arts Centre Wicklow: Fictitious Interludes by Saskia Vermeulen
 21-07-2009 - 02-08-2009 Signal Arts Centre - Figures & Landscapes Exhibition of Paintings by Maria O'Brien
Register Now with ArtLinks.ie to post your own Events/News/Courses/Comments - it's free! Please note ArtLinks attempts to have all information correct but cannot guarantee that event details posted by member or other details are correct
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Items from the ArtLinks Noticeboard
Calling for Submissions
Thomastown: What's On Tom Productions call for theatre scripts
Kilkenny People -Calling all Arts Festival exhibitors
JOAN CLANCY GALLERY - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR SUMMER SHOWS
Craft needed for farmers market Thomastown
THE SCULPTURE TRAIL WEXFORD, Calling for Submission's
New Arts Website Invites Submissions From Artists
CALL FOR PAPERMAKERS AND PAPER ARTISTS
Classes / Courses/ Workshops
FELT workshops with international visiting felt artist Sigrid
Bannier, Clasheen Studios, Co. Carlow
Aug 5-9, 2009
Kiddies Art Camp in Dranagh Studio, Near St Mullins
Tues 12th,Wed 13th and thurs 14th August.
CREATIVITY & CLAY- SUMMER HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS BALLYGARRETT, NORTH CO. WEXFORD
Art Workshops - Children Age 7+ with Marie Cumiskey
Suspension Aerial Dance Summer School
Drawing Course with Gerda Teljeur
WORKSHOPS on HAND PAPERMAKING and SILK PAPERMAKING
Tiny Tots Summer Camp at Wexford Arts Centre
Life Sucks - Graffiti & Multimedia Workshop - Teen at Wexford Arts Centre
Art Attack Summer Camp
at Wexford Arts Centre
Get Creative & Make Art at Waterford Healing Arts Trust Centre
Summer Selection
: Cockleshell Gallery - Murals, Clay, Puppetry
Employment Opportunities
Irish Architecture Foundation seeks Education Curator
General
Knockanstockan music festival, Wicklow
New Online Photography Journal
Carlow Kilkenny Arts Blog Launched!
Arts and Health Library - Call for Publications, Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Information
CALL FOR PAPERMAKERS AND PAPER ARTISTS
at Kozo Studio And Gallery
Local Meetings
Kilcoole Craft Club
Looking for Cast/Crew
Thomastown: What's On Tom Productions looking for actors
Actress needed
Studio Space News
Studio space in Ardmore Art Gallery to rent
Volunteers Needed
Kilkenny Arts Festival
Craft Council of Ireland, Kilkenny
Notice: Volunteers Needed for Opening of VISUAL, Carlow
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