Doghouse Books

Invite you to the launch of

The Angels’ Share By Barbara Smith

To be launched by Enda Coyle-Greene, poet

 6.00. pm, Wednesday 23^rd. May

Basement Gallery, Town Hall, Dundalk

All Welcome

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Black Angels is a mainstay in the repetoire of the Contempo Quartet and they have performed the work on television in their native Romania. Also known as ‘Thirteen Images from the Dark Land’, it is Crumb’s personal response to the horrors of the Vietnam war. Jane O’ Leary is the founder of the renowned contemporary Irish music ensemble Concorde and, like the ConTempo Quartet, resides in Galway.

Patrick Connolly and Breifne Holohan studied music at DKIT (Dundalk) and are members of the Irish Composers Collective. Patrick Connolly was awarded the Seán O’ Riada Memorial Trophy at the Cork International Choral Festival in 2011. Breifne Holohan was awarded the Bill Whelan Bursary for Young Composers in 2004. David Ernest McCarthy is a graduate of TCD and has had compositions performed both at home and abroad. Michael Holohan has composed a large number of works for different media and is a member of Aosdána. David, Patrick, Breifne and Michael all reside in the Louth/Meath area and hope to stage further collaborations in the near future.

Where: Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall

When: Tuesday, June 5^th at 7:30pm

Price: 12 euro, 10 euro concession

Programme:

Jane O’ Leary                                  ConTempo Conversations

Patrick Connolly                           Glistening, Moving*

Michael Holohan                         String Quartet*

Breifne Holohan                           Vela – Sails in the Stars*

David Ernest McCarthy            String Quartet*

 Interval                

George Crumb                                Black Angels

* World premiere

Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office on 01 4170000 or on the website www.nch.ie

Supported by The Arts Council’s touring programme.

The Stinging Fly magazine has worked since 1997 to publish and promote the best new writing. It comes to the Droichead Arts Centre this month as part of a national tour showcasing the talents of some of the many writers who have published work in the magazine over the past 15 years.

Saturday May 26^th – Fiction Workshop with Sean O’Reilly

10-5pm       Fee €50

Short-story writer and novelist, Sean O’Reilly, will lead a fiction workshop focusing on work in progress. Each participant will be expected to submit work in advance, and all work submitted will be shared prior to the workshop. In-depth discussion of participants’ work will form the basis of the workshop.

Tickets for the workshop can be booked at:

http://droicheadartscentre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873481455/events

Early booking is encouraged and participants should submit work in progress (a short story or 10-15 pages from a longer work) as soon as possible. Work in progress should be sent to stingingfly@gmail.com.

Wednesday May 30^th – Stinging Fly Showcase Reading

7.30pm       Admission Free (booking advised)

Join The Stinging Fly for an evening of literature and music. Readings by the novelist, Emer Martin, short-story writer, Mary Costello, and poets, Alan Jude Moore and Leeanne Quinn. Plus music from special guest, Briana Corrigan (The Beautiful South), who has recently released her second solo album, Redbird.

To book a place on workshop/reserve tickets for the evening event contact:

Droichead Arts Centre on 041 983 3946 or see www.droicheadartscentre.com

For more information on The Stinging Fly please contact:

Declan Meade

T: 086 840 9133          E: stingingfly@gmail.com        W: www.stingingfly.org

You are invited to SYMBIOSIS
an Exciting Exhibition of recent works by
Adrienne M Finnerty & Roisin Duffy
Wednesday 23 May 7pm – 9pm
Ranelagh Arts Centre
26 Main Street Ranelagh Dublin 6 ( beside Superquin)

Exhibition continues daily 12noon – 7pm until June 6

www.adriennemfinnerty.com
www.roisinduffy.com

Images available here: http://press.ifta.ie/photo-archive/viewcategory/21.html

The inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium takes place 7 – 10 June with a four day focus on film and filmmaking, inspired and informed by the timeless work of legendary Irish-American director John Ford.

Ford directed 137 films and worked on circa 80 other projects, documentaries & short films, and still holds the record for winning the most Oscars for his work as Director.  Ford, whose parents were born in the west of Ireland, was the first recipient of the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and received the American Presidential Medal of Freedom for his important war documentaries during his World War II American Navy service.  His work continues to be much loved by audiences around the world, with favourites including the big screen classics such as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, Fort Apache, Rio Grande, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and How Green Was My Valley.

Ford kept strong connections with Ireland, where he made a number of films, the most important of which was The Quiet Man, considered his most personal film.

60 years on from that iconic Irish film, the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium will feature a diverse programme of events designed to entertain, inform and educate Symposium delegates and movie fans gathering in Dublin for this unique film event.

Highlights of the 1st John Ford Ireland Film Symposium include:

-       Opening night Gala Screening of Ford’s silent epic The Iron Horse at the National Concert Hall with music accompaniment from the RTE Concert Orchestra.

-       A Public interview and Masterclass with Oscar nominated director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show) who knew Ford and made the remarkable documentary Directed by John Ford, which includes rare interviews with Ford, Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Clint Eastwood.

-       Keynote address and Ford Lecture by world-renowned biographer and film historian Joseph McBride (biographer for Ford, Spielberg and Orson Welles amongst others).

-       The 60^th Anniversary screening of The Quiet Man, with special guests Dan Ford (grandson of John Ford), Hollywood royalty Maureen O’Hara and Oscar nominated producer Redmond Morris (son of The Quiet Man producer Lord Killanin)

-       Over a dozen Public Screenings; including a FREE outdoor screening of The Searchers, the 1956 classic John Wayne western; rare screenings of Ford classics The Grapes of Wrath, Fort Apache, The Informer and the recently discovered feature film Upstream (screening for the first time in Ireland)

-       Ford Panel Discussions each day with leading international film experts including Charles Barr (University of East Anglia), Gaylyn Studlar (Washington University), Kevin Rockett (Trinity), Luke Gibbons (NUI Maynooth) and Waylon White Deer (Choctaw Nation), amongst others.

-       Ford Industry Hub with Oscar nominated directors Jim Sheridan (Into the West) and John Boorman (Deliverance), BAFTA nominated Brian Kirk (Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones) and Emmy nominated Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Into the Storm), IFTA winning screenwriter Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy), Colin Bateman (Divorcing Jack) and Paul Fraser (Once Upon a Time in the Midlands).

-       Masterclass with Oscar winning editor Joel Cox (Unforgiven, Mystic River).

-       20^th Anniversary screening of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar winning revisionist Western Unforgiven, facilitated by Empire Magazine’s Kim Newman reflecting on Eastwood’s work as the recipient of the inaugural John Ford Award.

-       Music for the Screen event with Golden Globe nominated composer and musician Kyle Eastwood (Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino).

-       The Abbey Players & John Ford – an exploration of Ford’s relationship with the actors of the Abbey Theatre.

-       The John Ford Exhibition displaying rarely seen Ford papers and correspondence.

-       Plus much, much more….

Speaking about the John Ford Ireland Film Symposium programme, IFTA Chief Executive Áine Moriarty said:“Ford’s films have always connected with and continue to resonate with ordinary people around the world. He was a great storyteller but moreover he was a master-filmmaker who has influenced so many of cinema’s great filmmakers today.  The Academy is proud that this annual Ford Film Symposium will now be held in Ireland each year, where film fans, ford enthusiasts and filmmakers can gather to examine and learn from Ford’s work and legacy.”

Speaking on the establishment of John Ford Ireland, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD said:“What a perfect setting to study this legendary filmmaker’s work in the land of his beloved ancestors at the John Ford Ireland Film Symposium… I anticipate a tremendous excitement within Ireland’s film industry with the establishment of this initiative – and I look forward to welcoming film communities and the extensive Irish diaspora across the globe who have been inspired by the incredible work of John Ford.”

For the full Symposium lineup and information about Season passes, visit the John Ford Ireland website www.johnfordireland.org

Notes for editors:

The John Ford Ireland Film Symposium is an initiative of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) in Ireland, the John Ford Estate in the US, and Ireland’s Department of Arts.

Born John Martin Feeney, John Ford was the ambitious son of Irish immigrant parents who hailed from Ireland’s west coast.  Throughout his 60 years working in Hollywood cinema the acclaimed director chronicled the history of the United States, and moreover the story of the American Dream and the Irish American journey.

Ford stands out as an exemplar of Irish American achievement. In addition to his Academy Awards, Ford was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was the first honouree of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. No American filmmaker has had such a vibrant legacy – influencing the work of filmmakers such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese and  Stephen Spielberg, who described the director as “one of the most patriotic directors who has ever graced the screen.”

In December 2011, Clint Eastwood accepted the first John Ford Award at a ceremony held in Burbank, California. Each year the John Ford Ireland committee, which consists of leading international experts on John Ford, will select one contemporary filmmaker to be presented with the John Ford Award; a filmmaker who has demonstrated similar skill and vision as Ford.  A Filmmaker who has learned from the mastery of John Ford and who best represents Ford’s legacy and ideals to the world – an individuality, a uniqueness of vision, an artistic talent that is admired and enjoyed by audiences throughout the world.

On receiving his award Mr. Eastwood thanked John Ford Ireland saying, “This is a great privilege for me because any kind of association with John Ford is most directors’ dream as he was certainly a pioneer of American filmmaking and I grew up on his films. His Westerns had a great influence on me, as I think they had on everybody.”

Creative Spark, Louth Creative Community Hub,

invites expressions of interest from creative

practitioners who have experience of working in collaborative participatory practice with adults, children, community or other special interest groups.

Creative Spark, Louth Creative Community Hub has been developed

with a focus on the development of the creative sector in this region,

both in terms of enterprise development and the use of creative practice to promote social engagement.

We wish to establish a panel of practitioners who can work with us to deliver a programme of creative events, classes, courses and interventions across all creative media (design-led, expressive and digital).

If you are interested in getting involved,  please download more details here

Dear friends.

We are thrilled to present Louth’s First Social Cinema Festival in Drogheda especially targeted at teenagers and young adults. From the invention of the motion picture, cinema has continued to entertain us all. Importantly, film has also inspired and challenged us as individuals and as a society.

Louth’s first Social Cinema Festival in Drogheda is targeted in particular at young people aged 15 years plus. It invites us to critically examine society through the medium of film, to ask questions of ourselves and of society at home and across the world. With a host of international movies on view and workshops and talks from leading film and TV industry figures, artists and community development activists, the Festival celebrates the capacity of cinema to cast a critical eye on the major social, economic and cultural issues of our time.

Please find full programme attached. The tickets have been subsidised for all films to €2 per student and €3 per student for workshops to ensure the events are accessible to all students.

To book a school group please contact 041 9833946 or 041 9875140.
We will be distributing programmes to your schools and projects over the next few days

Dún a Rí Short Story Competition 2012

01 Mar 2012 – 30 Sep 2012

This competition is a search for a short story inspired by the magic of Dún a Rí Forest Park, Kingscourt, Co. Cavan. It aims to create a lasting legacy for the Forest which also acknowledges the existence of the unique sculptural works that have been commissioned for the Forest. This short story could be viewed as a modern day legend that informs popular vocabulary associated with the Forest and contemporary Irish identity. The finished work will be published in e-book format and formally launched in August 2012 in conjunction with the sculptural work commissioned for the Forest. The winner will also be awarded €500 and a commemorative scroll. Further details here