JULY/ AUGUST

21 Jul 2010 – 31 Aug 2010

Summer workshops, 2009

Venue: Highlanes Gallery

Admission: EUR30.00

Programme for Children:

Join artists and facilitators in exploring the artwork and ideas in the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection and the current temporary exhibition The Marienbad Palace this summer for 3 unique workshop sessions, each over three days.

The 3-day workshop blocks are age appropriate for 5-8yr olds (W1), 9-12yr olds (W2) and teenagers 13-17yrs (W3) and delivered on Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays from 10.45am-1.00pm.
Cost: The blocks are €30 for the three days, with materials included. There is a 10% reduction for Friends of Highlanes Gallery, and for 2 or more children from one family.

5-8 years Week 1: W21, T22, F23 July, 10.45am-1.00pm (each day)
Facilitator and educator Lynn McGrane looks The Marienbad Palace with the children and considers Abstraction through shape and colour; discusses dreams and reality in a session-Mind Mobiles and facilitates and makes a memory box with the participants.

9-12 years Week 2: W28, T29, F30 July, 10.45am-1.00pm (each day)
Join artist Raphael Hynes exploring Drogheda through the Ages in considering the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, making individual paintings and constructing a 3D model of Medieval Drogheda as a group.

13-17 years Week 3: W4, T5, F6 August, 10.45am-1.00pm (each day)
Artists Declan Kelly and Els Borghart considers perception and ideas of reality through the exhibition The Marienbad Palace. The group will consider and explores ideas of the natural world through the eyes of other creatures large and small using a broad range of media.

Programme for Adults:
Workshop: Tuesday 27 July, 11.00am-1.00pm
Drogheda as a theme
Join artist Raphael Hynes to consider the current exhibition selected from the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection that focuses on Drogheda through three centuries. Participants are invited to bring in sketches, photographs or material relating to place, be it Drogheda or their home place.
Cost: €15, 10% concessions apply for Friends of Highlanes Gallery, materials supplied

Gallery Talk: Tuesday 10 August, 1.00pm
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection: Drogheda
Join Brendan Matthews, Community Historian and Archivist at Millmount Museum, author of a History of Stamullen, the Burning of Balbriggan by the Black & Tans in 1920 and Tower of Strength; A History of the Millmount Museum Complex in Drogheda.
Cost: Free, donation of €2 encouraged

Workshop: Tuesday 3 August, 11.00am-1.00pm
An exploration of the world around us through light and shadow
Declan Kelly and Els Borghart consider the current exhibition The Marienbad Palace using some blind drawing exercises, demonstrating some drawing techniques, and looking at tone and shadow.
Cost: €15, 10% concessions apply for Friends of Highlanes Gallery, materials supplied

Heritage Week
Gallery Reading: Thursday 26 August, 12.00pm
Artist Amanda Coogan reads the short story The Enormous Space by J.G. Ballard. The story is the starting point of the current exhibition The Marienbad Palace, curated by Jacqui McIntosh.
Cost: Free, donation of €2 encouraged

Gallery Talk: Thursday 26 August, 1.30pm
Historian Seán Collins discusses the current exhibition selected from the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection featuring the mace and sword of Drogheda
Cost: Free, donation of €2 encouraged
Booking is advised; telephone Siobhan Murphy and Hilary Kelly on 041 – 9803311, places limited for all workshops.

Gallery Opening hours are:
Monday- Saturday 10.30am-5.00pm, closed Sunday and Bank Holidays
Book a free tour for groups or individuals, or drop in and ask the gallery invigilators.
And throughout the summer…
Thursdays at 11.00am: Tours for children and babies (with adults) €5, children free (complimentary coffee and scone afterwards, lemonade for children)
Fridays at 11.00am: Tours for adults €5, (complimentary coffee and scone afterwards)

Highlanes Gallery has onsite partners of Andersons Cafe and Louth Craftmark.
Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Laurence Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth T. + 353 (0) 41 9803311, W. www.highlanes.ie

The Band are busy preparing to represent Louth at the South of Ireland Band Championships to be held in Cork in July, and will preview their entertainment programme with a Free concert open to all.

The Lourdes band have won the top section of the championships many times are hope to triumph once again against a field of 20 competing Bands from travelling from Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Navan.

Saturday’s concert will showcase some of the Band most talented young musicians Cormac Black and Megan Carter who recently won the top prizes at the Irish Association’s recent solo competitions will perform hits by Robbie Williams and Elton John.

There will also be performances by local musicians Leeanne Mathews and Aislinn O’Brien who will be accompanied by guest pianist Jacqueline Mc Govern.  Leeanne and Aislinn were both winners at the Beverage Business Solutions solo competitions held in the Bandroom on Bachelors Lane.

The Band will be conducted on the night by Mr. Harry Kelly the Band’s resident conductor and by their deputy conductor Mr. Mark Shortt. The Free concert starts at 8pm, so arrive early, and will be a selection of light and entertaining music for all.

The band committee would like take the opportunity to tank the people of the town and surrounding areas for their generous support of the band’s flag day, and invite you to join them in the Arts Centre.

DROICHEAD ARTS CENTRE INVITES OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR ITS GALLERY PROGRAMME 2011

Open submission constitutes an integral part of the Droichead Arts Centre Programme and is selected by the Droichead committee once a year.

The next submission deadline is June 25^th,2010

Submissions may be made in the following categories:

Painting | Print | Sculpture | Drawing | Photography | Video | Installation.

Proposals for installation incorporating one or a number of the above media will be considered. In the case of installation, drawings outlining the artist’s proposals may be submitted with a written description as appropriate.

Submission Guidelines

• Please mark ‘submission’ clearly on the envelope / package.
• Please contact Droichead Arts Centre if you do not receive acknowledgement of your submission within 30 days.
• If you wish to have your submission returned to you; please enclose a SAE.

Artists are advised to include:

1. A minimum of 10 images, slides or disc format.
2. A written exhibition proposal no longer than one A4, outlining the content and format of the proposed exhibition.
3. A C.V. and other supporting materials i.e. catalogue etc.

A detailed gallery plan is available upon request or visit www.droichead.com. Artists are welcome to visit the gallery space during opening hours. Please contact the Visual Arts programmer if you have any specific queries about the gallery space.

All submissions should be addressed to:

Gallery submissions,

Tony Conaghy,

Visual Arts Office,

Droichead Arts Centre,

Stockwell Street,

Drogheda,

Co. Louth.

Tel: 041-9833946     Fax: 041- 982055

Email: tconaghy@droichead.com

Web site: www.droichead.com

The Gillette Chamber Singers is a vocal ensemble comprised of musicians from Gillette, Wyoming and the surrounding area who enter the group through audition. Although greatly varied in their musical backgrounds and training, each member possesses a love of performing great and varied traditional choral music.
The ensemble will perform a selection of music from many and varied sources in St. Peter’s during their tour of Ireland in June 2010.
The programme will include a selection from the following
The Sounding Sea Eric Barnum
Polly Wolly Doodle Gail Kubik
O Lord God Paul Tschesnokoff
Ubi Caritas Maurice Duruflé
You Are the New Day John David
Seek Not Afar for Beauty Leland Sateren
My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord Moses Hogan
When I Fall in Love Kirby Shaw
Lux Arumque Eric Whitacre
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Moses Hogan
O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen
We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace Moses Hogan
Oh Shenandoah James Erb
The Old Church Steven Paulus
Nun danket alle Gott Pachelbel
Tickets: tel: 041 9838791; email: Bookings

The Rhythm of Strife

What can happen in a town in a week?  A migrant man becomes a local hero only to lose everything.  A female Garda is plagued by a personal health secret.  A priest is the subject of gossip.  An unemployed musician gets lucky in love and comes to understand his mother’s grief.  A young girl gets lucky in love with the unemployed musician while her feckless father is traumatised by a fire.  A free-living hippy girl witnesses the fire and doesn’t care.  A fallen aristocrat falls further only to rise again.

In November 2009, Upstate Theatre Project and St. Brigid’s Drama Group agreed to collaborate on a new ‘exploratory’ community drama programme.  Out of this has come a new play for 20 performers, based on group improvisation and collective writing.

The play is set in 2010, in a large fictitious town in County Louth, Irelandwhich has a major regional hospital as well as the usual civic and private buildings and spaces common to all towns.  It begins at the local Saturday market and follows the fortunes of seven diverse characters, their families and associates, across various locations, concluding seven days later at the same weekly market.

Hilarious and poignant, a fast-paced, 24/7, ‘slice-of-life’ comedy-drama that will entertain and engage Droghedaaudiences for 3 nights only.  Book now!

THE BARBICAN,  St. Peter’s Parish Centre

June 10, 11 and 12   8.00 p.m.

Tickets available from

The Barbican Ticket Office

041-9807416 until 5.30 p.m.

or at the door

‘ Fields of Blue and White ‘ is Michael Holohan’s first full-length CD. The eminent Irish pianists John O’ Conor and Therese Fahy will focus on a wide range of the composer’s piano music. The recital and launch will include works which have been commissioned by The National Concert Hall and the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition. The pianists will also perform piano duets and a number of pieces by Chopin, commemorating the 200th  Anniversary of the Polish composer’s birth.This concert, which is being presented by Droichead Arts Centre is also funded by the Louth County Council and the Drogheda Borough Council. An event not to be missed!

Date:  1 June 2010

Time:   8pm

Venue: St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda

Tickets : 20 euro. (Ticket price includes a complimentary CD).

Biographies

Michael Holohan
Michael Holohan was born in Dublin in 1956 and has lived in Drogheda for the past twenty seven years, close to the Prehistoric and Early Irish Christian sites of the Boyne Valley which have been a constant source of inspiration to him as a composer. He studied music in Ireland and France. He has won numerous prizes for his compositions and his music has been performed and broadcast both in Ireland and abroad. In 1999 he was elected to Aosdana, Ireland’s state- sponsored academy of creative artists.

Therese Fahy
Therese Fahy is a Professor of Piano and Director of Chamber music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. A former student of John O’ Conor she is now one of Ireland’s foremost pianists and enjoys an active performing career both in Europe and the USA. She has an affinity with French music and  has been critically acclaimed for her performances of the piano music of Debussy, Ravel and particularly the great 20th Century French composer, Olivier Messiaen.

John O’Conor
The Irish pianist John O ‘ Conor has earned a worldwide reputation as a masterful interpreter of the Classic and early- Romantic repetoires. In 1973 he was unanimously awarded First prize at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and in 1975 he won First Prize at the Bosendorfer Competition. He premiered Michael Holohan’s ’ Listoke Preludes’  in Drogheda  in 2002 and also performed  his piano piece  ’Monaincha’  in Bejing. He has toured the world in recital and concerto appearances and makes regular visits to Europe, Japan, Korea and China. He has been decorated by both the French and Austrian Governments for his services to music.

Come see by joining Droichead Youth Theatre!!

Following on from the success of their production MOCK during Drogheda Arts Festival this year, Droichead Youth Theatre is recruiting new members for its summer introductory programme. This workshop programme will give you a chance to see if the youth theatre is really for you!

Drama workshops will be held every Saturday beginning on the  26^th June for a 10 week period.  The emphasis is on having fun, exploring creativity and learning about drama in a safe and supportive environment.   No previous experience is necessary. This introductory programme will give members a taste of what’s in store when the formal youth theatre schedule resumes in September.

Droichead Youth Theatre is now in its 19^th year.  There are twenty members led by Artistic Director Niall Cleary under the auspices of Droichead Arts Centre.  The summer workshops will be led by guest facilitator Gavin Logue.  If you are between the ages of 14 and 18 and interesting in joining, we would love to hear from you! Our 10 week introductory programme costs €50, for further information or to sign up please contact Carol Ann Brodigan on 041 9875140/info@droichead.com or call into Droichead Arts Centre at Barlow House on West Street, Drogheda.

Gubaidulina (pronounced ‘goo-bye-DOO-lee-nah) who is visiting Ireland for the first time, will attend a composer portrait concert at 8pm on 1 May 2010 in St Peter’s Church, Drogheda in which highly acclaimed performers including Ivan Monighetti, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, Malachy Robinson, the Heath Quartet, The Oriel Trio and Dermot Dunne will perform a range of her works.

The concert is the latest of several high profile art music events organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society, to bring world renowned composers to Ireland, previously having successfully featured, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Valentyn Silvestov.

Eamonn Quinn, Artistic Director with the LCMS, spoke about the forthcoming event.
“We are proud to be able to attract such major contemporary musical events to the area and host such high calibre composers who have chosen to have their music performed in Ireland.”

“It is very exciting to be able to bring the works of Gubaidulina here to Ireland. She has been called the greatest Russian composer at work today since Shostakovich.”

“We are a small society trying to make a big difference to Contemporary music in Ireland. We are becoming more recognised internationally and this has helped us to attract such important composers and performers to attend and participate in our music events,” he said.

“The ‘Fire and the Rose’ performance will be a significant cultural event for Ireland, as it is the first composer portrait of Gubaidulina with the composer present in Ireland.”

Born in 1931 in the Tartar region of the former Soviet Union, performance of her works was forbidden and she was subject to the severest of repression. Now, her music, which was unknown in the West before the Iron Curtain fell, is in great demand by artists all over the world.

Her unique music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations and tunings and shows her interest in folk and ritual instruments from Russia, the Caucasus region and Asia.

Sometimes, fiery and sometimes as soft as a rose, her music includes elements of Christian spirituality, musical symbolism, unique structures derived from fragmentation and repetition of simple material. Early on in her career, she was supported by Dmitri Shostakovich who recognised the musical gift that she possesses.

In 2007, Gubaidulina was the first woman composer to be spotlighted by the BBC during its annual ‘composer weekend’ in London and she has been awarded many prestigious awards including the Prix de Monaco in 1987 and the Living Composer Prize of the Cannes Classical Awards in 2003.

The Fire and the Rose: the Music of Sofia Gubaidulina is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) in association with Drogheda Arts Festival. The event is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by the Drogheda Arts Festival and Louth County Council.

A free viewing of the Barrie Gavin film ‘A Fire and a Rose’ about the life and work of Gubaidulina scripted by Gerard McBurney will take place at 5pm in Barlow House on the 1 May 2010

Tickets for the performance priced €15 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com and Highlanes Gallery, Laurence St, Drogheda Telephone: +353 (0)41 9807114. Tickets for the screening of the film the Fire and the Rose are available from the festival box office in Highlanes.
The Fire and the Rose is part of the Drogheda Arts Festival. The Drogheda Arts Festival will run at various venues in Drogheda from 1-4 May 2010.  For programme details and biographies of Gulaidulina and the performers see www.louthcms.org www.droghedaartsfestival.ie and www.createlouth.ie

1. Programme

Gubaidulina Reflection on a Theme B-A-C-H Heath Quartet

Bach   Cello Suite Ivan Monighetti

Gubaidulina  Garden of Joy and Sorrow The Oriel Trio

Gubaidulina  In Croce Dermot Dunne + Ivan Monighetti

Gubaidulina  Repentance Ivan Monighetti, Dublin Guitar Quartet + Malachy Robinson.

1. Further information
   Wikipedia
   Sikorski
   Schrimer

1. Biographies
   Full biographies and images available here
   www.louthcms.org/press
2. Reviews
   Critics have been unanimously glowing in their reviews of Gubaidulina’s most distinctive work In tempus praesens. in recent years, describing the concerto as “luminous and deeply expressive,” “fervent and gripping.” Mutter’s new recording of Gubaidulina’s concerto on Deutsche Grammophon has shot to the top of classical releases.

Cheryl North S.F. Symphony Review: Masur, Gubaidulina make out-of-this-world                music in Davies Hall

http://www.northworks.net/c_reviews_SFS%20Masur%202-09.htm
Review of Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun

http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/e/emi57153a.php
5.   Videos

Clip of Anne-Sophie Mutter performing Gubaidulina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-b5waTDQpM&feature=related

Kurt Masur talks about Gubaidulina’s Two Path’s. He will conduct the work for the

New York Philharmonic in April 2011.

Version of Repentance ( Pentimento) for 3 guitars and cello.