COME FORWARD TO MEET YOU

Directed by Louise Lowe

Battle of the Boyne Visitors’ Centre

7pm sharp Thursday 25^th, Friday 26^th and Saturday 27^th August 2011

Tickets €10 Booking 041 9833946

www.droichead.com

You want to know how I came to live here?

Following its sell out premiere as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival in May of this year. Upstate Theatre Project revive Come Forward To Meet You for Heritage Week August 2011

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COME FORWARD TO MEET YOU is an adrenaline fuelled encounter created on site at Oldbridge House.  Based on the real life memoirs of local woman Angela Mitchell, who lived and worked here as a servant in the 1920’s, we invite the audience to surrender to their very own journey, cross paths with Angela and immerse themselves in an intimate and interactive experience in the original kitchens of the big house.

COME FORWARD TO MEET YOU is a unique collision of oral history and highly physical performance.  Created by members of the community and directed by award winning director Louise Lowe.

‘It is a theatrical haunting.’

Irish Times

There is limited capacity for these performances and early booking is advisable

The Submission process is open to both solo and group proposals. If you would

like to be considered, please submit your proposal by the 30^th August this year. Those submitting work should read Droichead Arts Centre’s Visual Arts Policy to establish if their work is in fitting with the organisations overall artistic policy.

All submissions should include the following information;

A submission proposal – covering what you would hope to exhibit including proposed sizes of work where possible.

• An Artists CV (art related only)
• An Artists Statement
• A maximum of six slides (clearly marked with your name), photographs or images on CD
• (Preferably tiff or jpeg), giving information on the medium, size, year etc.
• Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you require your photo’s etc. returned to you.

Further information on Gallery Technical Specifications please check out our website www.droichead.com under Visual Arts or contact Box Office on 041 9833946.

Submission Criteria

 Selection Process

There are two main methods Droichead use in selecting artists;

a.    Open submission

Advertisements will be placed in arts publications, emails to arts centres, arts officers, local arts networks, art organisations, and on the Droichead Arts Centre Website and News letter.

b.    Direct invitation or approach.

An approach will be made where the centre feels the programme would be enhanced by the work or reputation of a particular artist or group of artists.

The timetable for shortlisting will be a maximum of eight weeks. Artists will then be notified in writing whether their proposal has been successful.

For artists who wish to receive feedback on the selection, a meeting can be set up upon prior arrangement.

The criteria

The criteria for selecting artists will be based on the ethos of the centre and will include the following;

• The quality of the artist’s proposal and presentation
• The development of the art form by the artist
• The significance of the work
• The themes and issues

Contracts

• The contracts will be clearly agreed during the first discussion meeting with the artist.
• The responsibilities of Droichead Arts Centre and the artist will be clearly discussed and determined.
• Dates for the delivery of work, insurance details and installation will be defined.
• Fees and methods of payment and disputes procedures will be outlined.

Fees and costs

Costs incurred by Droichead Arts Centre include;

• An Artists fee     €300
• The cost of designing and printing invitations
• The design and print of posters
• The cost of mailing invitations
• The launch and wine reception
• An advertisement in the local newspapers.
• An advertisement in the AAI and selected art publications
• Insurance of work during exhibition
• Presentation costs
• Workshop expenses

Costs which are generally not covered by Droichead Arts Centre

•  Artist Travel expenses
• Storage costs for work before and after the exhibition
• Transport of work costs

Mission Statement

To transform Droichead Arts Centre into an energetic visual arts space, accessed and understood by the community it serves.

Community arts development is at the core of Droichead Arts Centre’s ethos. This is adopted in our visual art programme to ensure wider community engagement and interaction. This will be facilitated through educational gallery visits, devised workshops, artist’s talks, school programmes and artist network meetings

Art doesn’t always lend itself to unambiguous simple definition. It is a process which evolves in time, manifesting different experiences and expressions for each person. Droichead aims to present a wide multiplicity of artist interpretations in an inclusive, animated and developmental way.

Long term objectives

•  Droichead Arts Centre will strive to keep up to date with good contemporary arts practices and models.

• Droichead Arts Centre will continue to train staff to appreciate and value the visual arts regardless of discipline and to encourage this understanding with visitors.
• The Droichead Arts Centre commits having systemic reviews in order to keep abreast of visual arts challenges and needs within the organisation.
• Droichead Arts Centre will work closely with Visual Arts Organisations in order remain artist focused and to promote good arts practice within the industry. 

Droichead Arts Centre,

Drogheda

Booking: 041 9833946

www.droichead.com

€15/€12 (conc) €18 on the door

www.nationalchamberchoir.com

Chamber works by Medyulyanova, Nadarejshvili, Part, Tavener, Vrebalov & Yanovsky, The Carducci Quartet; Dublin Guitar Quartet; Patricia Rozario, Eamonn Dougan, Joachim Roewer, Malachy Robinson etc
Louth Contemporary Music Society LCMS 1001 65:29 mins BBC Music Direct £11.99  or alternatively available from www.louthcms.org/path

Except for the extract from Nadarejshvili’s quartet all these pieces are receiving their premiere recording (Part’s Summa is realised by guitar quartet here), and all are rooted in ancient folk traditions.

Yanovsky’s piece is inspired by the Chang, a traditional Uzbeki stringed instrument. To evoke this, the quartet uses plucking and percussive techniques, vividly conjuring visions of folk-dances surviving from time immemorial, but the opening materialises from ethereal notes which gradually give way to more corporeal, though no less mysterious, sounds. The Carducci Quartet also performs the third movement of Nadarejshvili’s quartet, a threnody drawing on Georgian folk sources that evolves from restrained pizzicato gestures above a quiet drone to an outcry about the experiences of Georgia under Stalinism.

Part’s Face to Face for soprano, baritone, clarinet, viola and bass contains some of his bleakest ever music but, by the end of its brief span, this meditation on St Paul’s ‘through a glass darkly’ epistle is imbued with the A major light of understanding. Tavener’s Samaveda effectively, features the tampura and flute to surround Patricia Rozario’s voice with intimations of eternal wisdom. Rozario is also featured to impressive effect on Epistle.

Medyulyanova’s Eternal Peace, beautifully’ sung by Doreen Curran, is a comparatively, lush piece of neo-Romanticism, contrasting dramatically with Vrebalov’s Spell, a mesmerising piece for violin interacting with live electronics and pre-recorded choral fragments. Barry Witherden PERFORMANCE ***** RECORDING *****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pfg6JrQ4_4

Click the image below to read the Programme

A new series of contemporary music and arts events, ‘Sounds of the Silk Road organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS), will be launched this April as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.

The first performance of the series will feature work specially commissioned by the LCMS by Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky a composer from Uzbekistan a country at the cross-roads of the rich oriental and Islamic traditions of Central Asia. The work has been has written for world renowned Hilliard ensemble, Ivan Monighetti one of the world’s most accomplished cellists who stunned audiences with his performance at the Drogheda Arts Festival 2010 and some of the foremost Irish musicians in the newly formed EQ Ensemble which includes Cliona Doris,harp, Malachy Robinson,bass, Elizabeth Cooney,violin, Cian O’Duill,viola, Maria McGarry,piano, Deirdre O’Leary, clarinet, Susan Doyle, flute, Chris Stynes and Maeve O’Hara, percussion.

The concert will take place in St Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda on the 29 April 2011 at 8pm.

This is the first time the Hilliard ensemble, have been involved with an Irish based commission and it is also Dmitri’s first Irish commission. Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky was born in 1963 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. As the musicologist Gerard McBurney says “His remarkable surroundings are vividly reflected in his music. What is most impressive is the skill with which he weaves the colourful threads of contradictory influences into a musical fabric always refined, beautifully patterned and absolutely personal”

The piece ‘Morning’ based on text from Robert Lax’s poem ‘Morning’, from his book called Circus of the Sun described by the New York Times as one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Lax was also a friend of the writer, monk and mystic Thomas Merton. The performance will also include another of Dmitri’s works called Nightmusic – Voices in the Leaves which was written for Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.

World renowned Lydia Kavina will open the concert with a contemporary piece called Kitezh 19, by Iraida Yusupova. Iraida is Russian but was born in Turkmenistan.
Lydia plays music on a theremin, an electronic instrument which makes music without touching. It is an unusual instrument based upon the technology of proximity meters and was invented and pioneered by Lydia’s great uncle Leon Theremin in the 1920’s. Leon Theremin was a Russian engineer who invented the electronic musical instrument that bears his name, and his story is as strange as the music the thing produces. After experimenting with radio vacuum tubes, Theremin developed a machine (1917-20) whose pitch and volume could be controlled by the movements of the performer’s hands — without touching the instrument. The instrument was demonstrated for Vladimir Lenin, who was so impressed he ordered their mass production and asked Theremin to give him lessons.

Theremin also taught and mentored Lydia to play with the exceptional skill and feeling she shows in her performances today. She has become an icon for performances with the Theramin and will be giving a workshop on the instrument for both beginners and advanced players whilst she is in Ireland.

The concert and events are the latest of several high profile art music events organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society which have brought world renowned composers to Ireland, previously having successfully featured, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Valentyn Silvestov and to the 2010 Drogheda Arts Festival, the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Eamonn Quinn, Artistic Director with the LCMS, spoke about the forthcoming event.“Sounds of the Silk Road is another step on LCMS remarkable musical jourmey this time into the glorious melting pot of music from the East. LCMS already have an association with Yanov Yanovksy as the Carducci Quartet recorded his Chang Music IV for our critically acclaimed CD ‘Path’. It is very exciting to be able to bring the works of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky and performers of the calibre of the Hilliard Ensemble, Ivan Monighetti and Lydia Kavina together here in Ireland. We are a small society trying to make a big difference to Contemporary music in Ireland.”

The event in April will be the first of three major events to make up the Sounds of the Silk Road series. Two more major performance events, ‘Dervish’ and ‘Fire and Water’ will follow later this year and in 2012, continuing the Silk Road theme and will feature a composer from Azerbaijan and a Chinese composer.

To enrich the experience of the Silk Road this April, LCMS are also organising additional Silk Road arts events during the Drogheda Arts Festival. These will include a free showing of a film about the Silk Road on 29 April at 6.30pm in the Barbican Drogheda and a children’s art workshop with painting on silk, called Silk Worm on Sat morning 30 April  at 11am in Barlow House, Drogheda . The screening and workshop are both free.

Sounds of the Silk Road is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) in association with Create Louth. The event is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by Create Louth.

Tickets for the performance priced €15 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com and Droichead Online Booking Service www.droicheadartscentre.com/booking. Tickets for the screening of the film The Silk Road are available from the festival box office in Droichead. Lydia Kavina will also give a free workshop on the music of the Theremin on the day of the concert for the interested and simply curious. The venue and time of the workshop will be announced later.

The Sounds of the Silk Road is part of the Drogheda Arts Festival. The Drogheda Arts Festival will run at various venues in Drogheda from 29 April to 1 May 2011. For programme details, arts events and biographies of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky, Ivan Monighetti, the Hilliard Ensemble, Lydia Kavina and all the performers see www.louthcms.org    www.droghedaartsfestival.ie and www.createlouth.ie

Concert Programme
1. Composer: Iraida Yusupova ( Turkmenistan/Russia)
Work:          Kitezh 19
Performer:  Lydia Kavina on theremin
2. Composer : Ken Ueno ( Japan/USA)
Work:           Shiroi Ishi
Performers: Hilliard Ensemble
3. Composer    Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky ( Uzbekistan)
Work:           Morning ( World Premiere)
Performers: Hilliard Ensemble (vocal ensemble), Ivan Monighetti (cello), Malachy Robinson  (double bass), Cliona Doris (harp), Deirdre O’Leary (clarinet), Susan Doyle (flute), Chris Stynes (percussion). Meave O’Hara (percussion). Conductor:  Jean Thorel
4. Composer: Franghiz Ali Sadeh( Azerbjian)
Work:         Ask Havasi
Performer: Ivan Monighetti,cello solo
5. Composer: Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky ( Uzbekistan)
Work:          Nightmusic
Performers:Ivan Monighetti (cello), Maria McGarry (piano), Malachy Robinson ( double bass), Cliona Doris ( harp), deirdre O’Leary ( clarinet), Susan Doyle ( flute), Chris Stynes ( percussion), Maeve O’Hara( percussion), Elizabeth Cooney(violin), Cian O’Duill(viola). Plus Tape.
Conductor:  Jean Thorel

VENUE
St. Peter’’s Church of Ireland Drogheda
29 APRIL 2011 AT 8PM.

Reviews
Some of the most striking voices in today’s classical composition are not coming out of the West but from far-flung outposts on the other side of the world. Such a voice is that of Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky. Chicago Tribune

The Hilliard Ensemble’s sound, as always, was beautifully blended and subtly shaped. The New York Times

Ivan Monighetti really is a remarkable cellist …his exceptionally clean, pure technique, his tone, capable of fine expressive variation.Gramophone

To see a thereminst of Ms. Kavina’s quality seemingly pluck notes out of the air is one of the great performance experiences available to us...Michael Beckerman,The New York Times

Under the direction of Jean Thorel, Musiques Nouvelles showed themselves to be clearly among the foremost ensembles present at this year’s Ars Musica festival.Michel Debrocq, Le Soir,

Videos
Hilliard Ensemble performing Ken Ueno’s Shiroi Ishi

Ivan Monighetti performing Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun

Lydia Kavina

Leon Theremin

The Music of Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky

All Are Welcome On FRIDAY 29 APRIL – SUNDAY 1 MAY
OPEN FRI 7-9PM; SAT 10AM-5PM; SUN 1-7PM

The Exhibition Takes Place In
FORMER ACC BANK – 112 WEST STREET – DROGHEDA
2.FREE ART – An Outdoor Event
GET YOUR PERSONAL PIECE OF ART MADE BY STENCIL ARTISTS NOEL FEENEY AND DARA DONOHOE
YOU Bring Old Pictures, Record Covers, T-Shirts, Bags, Guitars, Books…
WE CREATE Your Personalised Piece Of Art. And Best Of All It’s FREE!!!
All Are Welcome On
SATURDAY 30 APRIL FROM 10AM-5PM
SUNDAY 1 MAY FROM 1PM-5PM

The Event Takes Place Outside
FORMER ACC BANK – 112 WEST STREET – DROGHEDA

3.STREET SCULPTURE – An Outdoor Event
ARTIST DECLAN KELLY WILL BUILD A LARGE SCULPTURE MADE OUT OF SOFT DRINK CANS
WE GIVE You A FREE Can Of Soft Drink
YOU DRINK IT And Give The Empty Can Back To Become Part Of The Sculpture
All Are Welcome On SATURDAY 30 APRIL FROM 10AM-5PM
SUNDAY 1 MAY FROM 1PM-5PM

The Event Takes Place Outside
FORMER ACC BANK – 112 WEST STREET – DROGHEDA

4.CLOSING NIGHT
CLOSING NIGHT OF THE EXHIBITION BY ADRIAN+SHANE WITH REFRESHMENTS
TO CELEBRATE GREAT ART AND A GREAT BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND

All Are Welcome On
SUNDAY 1 MAY FROM 5-7PM
The Event Takes Place In
FORMER ACC BANK – 112 WEST STREET – DROGHEDA

This is an exciting new project at Droichead Arts Centre. We are inviting young people from 14 years upwards to join us for four introductory sessions in traditional singing.

If you have an interest in singing in general, and want to know a little bit more about the extensive repertory of traditional songs that cover a range of themes and human experience as portrayed in the old ballads, local songs, folk songs, songs on politics, murder, love, emigration and more. Then join us and see if this is something for you.

Dates: 12th, 19th & 26th May, 2nd June.
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Fee: €20 for four weeks.

Droichead Arts Centre
Barlow House
Narrow West Street
Drogheda
Co.Louth
Ireland
Tel: + 353 041 9875140
Fax: + 353 041 9842055
www.droichead.com

One of the biggest bands to ever rock the planet, The Beatles revolutionalised popular music in the 1960s and their legacy still lives on. Now, for one night only, St. Peter’s Male Voice Choir joins with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to perform the classic songs of the legendary Fab Four. See Ireland’s leading male voice choir and this wonderful orchestra as they perform memorable songs such as Hey Jude, With A Little Help From My Friends, Here Comes the Sun, A Day in the Life and All You Need is Love.

Tickets priced €27.50 (plus €1 Booking Fee) are now on sale online at www.theTLT.ie or by dialling the TLT Box Office on (041) 9878560

Other ticket outlets include

The Sound Shop, Drogheda • CD World, Drogheda Town Centre • CD World,
Dundalk • e2 Music, Navan •
Scotch Hall (Information Booth) Drogheda • Finlay’s Coaches, Ardee •
Music Man, Cavan

Link
http://thetlt.ie/2011/03/the-songs-of-the-beatles-rte-concert-orchestra-st-peters-male-voice-choir-2/

www.stpetersmalevoicechoir.com
www.edwardholly.com