Monday 31 January 2011
The end of January
Now at the end of January you would be forgiven for thinking that there is not much going on in Belfast ?? Just how wrong are you? The Out to Lunch Festival has just finished . Well done to Sean Kelly I think the festival itself is now a staple in the post Christmas blues buster element that keeps us all sane in January n Belfast.I got my mum tickets to see the Elvis impersonator and the place was rocking with civil servants out on their Friday afternoon lunch. I think Flexi time would have to have been taken by a few of them. Last night I went to see CW Stoneking singing the blues. Fantastic event
he looked very 1930's and the lyrics of those blues songs were priceless.........interesting one about squatting on a dildo farm. Say no more.
That boy is going to be a star.
So what about the rest of the week?? well all the Art pixies are out and about in Belfast busy with their new exhibition ready for late night Art on Thursday.Platform Arts,Catalyst, Belfast Print Workshop has a solo exhibition by Brian Magee. Golden Thread has Ben Coroethers curating Dry grass and Shadows. This weekend there is that much on that I would need to be triplets if I wanted to go to everything. It's the wild geese writers festival in Strangford. Beautiful setting lovely people. On the Saturday night there is a recital in the Church at Old Court. Cold but magical some tickets are still left at Kevin Og's in Strangford.
Sunday it's the Fashion Souk at it's new location in the Europa Hotel, Black Box black market is also on as well as the Vintage fair in The Holiday Inn. (Little bit of the vintage wars going on there I think). Some thing worth pointing out is forage. Forage are having an event on this Sunday evening at the black box......it's hard to explain what it is that they are but they are deeply concerned with the enviornment and passing on skills that will help us all survive as the earth resources become more depleted.Mary Hughes arnd her Husband run it and they have so much knowledge to pass on it makes your eyes weep.
I have also been rethinking all my social media and have been rationalising a bit. Can't say what I'm doing yet but there are going to be a few changes going on and hopefully it will make a number of things a bit easier to find out about and get to.................see you around.
he looked very 1930's and the lyrics of those blues songs were priceless.........interesting one about squatting on a dildo farm. Say no more.
That boy is going to be a star.
So what about the rest of the week?? well all the Art pixies are out and about in Belfast busy with their new exhibition ready for late night Art on Thursday.Platform Arts,Catalyst, Belfast Print Workshop has a solo exhibition by Brian Magee. Golden Thread has Ben Coroethers curating Dry grass and Shadows. This weekend there is that much on that I would need to be triplets if I wanted to go to everything. It's the wild geese writers festival in Strangford. Beautiful setting lovely people. On the Saturday night there is a recital in the Church at Old Court. Cold but magical some tickets are still left at Kevin Og's in Strangford.
Sunday it's the Fashion Souk at it's new location in the Europa Hotel, Black Box black market is also on as well as the Vintage fair in The Holiday Inn. (Little bit of the vintage wars going on there I think). Some thing worth pointing out is forage. Forage are having an event on this Sunday evening at the black box......it's hard to explain what it is that they are but they are deeply concerned with the enviornment and passing on skills that will help us all survive as the earth resources become more depleted.Mary Hughes arnd her Husband run it and they have so much knowledge to pass on it makes your eyes weep.
I have also been rethinking all my social media and have been rationalising a bit. Can't say what I'm doing yet but there are going to be a few changes going on and hopefully it will make a number of things a bit easier to find out about and get to.................see you around.
Sunday 30 January 2011
creating an effective advertising strategy-free
Belfast Entrepreneurs Network
Belfast Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) brings businesses together to make new contacts, create business opportunities and share ideas, all in an informal environment.
Creating an effective advertising strategy - networking event
Stephen Bogan, Genesis Advertising has worked with many of the leading food and drink brands including Unilever, Coca-cola, Kellogg's. Heineken, Spar and Dale Farm. He will give an insight into implementing an advertising strategy for your business.
When: Thursday 3 February 2011
Where: UTV, Ormeau Road, Belfast
Time: Registration and refreshments at 5.30pm, event starts at 6.15pm
Cost: FREE
How to register
If you are interested in attending this event you must register in advance. Please email Leah Wright at wrightl@belfastcity.gov.uk with your name, business name, address, email and contact telephone number.
Future events
Check out our Belfast Entrepreneurs Network web page www.belfastcity.gov.uk/ben for future events or become a fan of our BEN Facebook page.
This event is provided free by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund under the European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland.
Belfast Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) brings businesses together to make new contacts, create business opportunities and share ideas, all in an informal environment.
Creating an effective advertising strategy - networking event
Stephen Bogan, Genesis Advertising has worked with many of the leading food and drink brands including Unilever, Coca-cola, Kellogg's. Heineken, Spar and Dale Farm. He will give an insight into implementing an advertising strategy for your business.
When: Thursday 3 February 2011
Where: UTV, Ormeau Road, Belfast
Time: Registration and refreshments at 5.30pm, event starts at 6.15pm
Cost: FREE
How to register
If you are interested in attending this event you must register in advance. Please email Leah Wright at wrightl@belfastcity.gov.uk with your name, business name, address, email and contact telephone number.
Future events
Check out our Belfast Entrepreneurs Network web page www.belfastcity.gov.uk/ben for future events or become a fan of our BEN Facebook page.
This event is provided free by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund under the European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Allan Hughes Awarded the ACNI Major Award
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to announce that Allan Hughes has been awarded an ACNI Major Award. Allan first exhibited at the Golden Thread Gallery in 2000 as part of the ‘Couch tatties’ exhibition, he has worked closely with and been represented by the Golden Thread Gallery since. Work by Allan Hughes features in the ‘M-Machine’ curated by Ben Crothers currently on show in the Golden Thread Project Space.
The Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting selected works by Allan Hughes at the London Art Fair, stand G2 launching on Tuesday 18th January – through to Sunday 23rd.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has awarded grants of £15,000 to four of Northern Ireland’s most promising artists. The Major Awards, presented to composer Peter Rosser, writer Ian Sansom, playwright Dave Duggan and visual artist Allan Hughes, acknowledge the valuable contribution each have made to the arts in Northern Ireland.
These annual awards are the largest grants presented to artists by the Arts Council each year. The financial support provided makes it possible for artists to take time out to dedicate to their creative work and to produce a substantial and ambitious project that will make a significant contribution to the development of their careers.
Allan Hughes is a video installation artist and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan Poland, UNOACTU in Dresden, La Sala Naranja Valencia, the Golden Thread Gallery Belfast and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels amongst others. ACNI via VAI
http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/allan-hughes-awarded-the-acni-major-award/
The Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting selected works by Allan Hughes at the London Art Fair, stand G2 launching on Tuesday 18th January – through to Sunday 23rd.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has awarded grants of £15,000 to four of Northern Ireland’s most promising artists. The Major Awards, presented to composer Peter Rosser, writer Ian Sansom, playwright Dave Duggan and visual artist Allan Hughes, acknowledge the valuable contribution each have made to the arts in Northern Ireland.
These annual awards are the largest grants presented to artists by the Arts Council each year. The financial support provided makes it possible for artists to take time out to dedicate to their creative work and to produce a substantial and ambitious project that will make a significant contribution to the development of their careers.
Allan Hughes is a video installation artist and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan Poland, UNOACTU in Dresden, La Sala Naranja Valencia, the Golden Thread Gallery Belfast and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels amongst others. ACNI via VAI
http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/allan-hughes-awarded-the-acni-major-award/
Monday 24 January 2011
Nearly the end of January
You blink and the next thing you know is that it's nearly the end of January. The snow is gone and people are looking forward to the end of the month.Have you put in place anything for the rest of the year?? Can you see it pan out yet?? It's going to be a year of changes, the Irish Government is having elections, a wee bit sooner than it thought. The NI Assembly are having elections in May. As one nationalist said to me last week "does anyone really want a United Ireland? sure there all crooks and the Catholic Church is worse". Changing attitudes and changing times a whole sweep of power is being swept aside in the Island of Ireland.What's going to take it's place? Who's going to stand up for the next stage of governing??? What difference is it going to make?? to you and me??
Thursday 20 January 2011
Feminism and the Truth and recovery process
Feminism and the Truth and Recovery
Exploring feminist perspectives on the
truth and recovery processes
Crescent Arts Centre
University Road
Thursday 24tth February 2011
10..30am – 3pm
How have women’s roles shaped their experiences of conflict
and how can this be recognised within truth recovery processes?
The seminar will have a Key note Speaker, Panel Discussions
and Workshop Discussions.
If you would like to attend please register by emailing
Shauna on info@wrda.net or phone 028 9023 0212
Hannas house.
Exploring feminist perspectives on the
truth and recovery processes
Crescent Arts Centre
University Road
Thursday 24tth February 2011
10..30am – 3pm
How have women’s roles shaped their experiences of conflict
and how can this be recognised within truth recovery processes?
The seminar will have a Key note Speaker, Panel Discussions
and Workshop Discussions.
If you would like to attend please register by emailing
Shauna on info@wrda.net or phone 028 9023 0212
Hannas house.
Honor Heffernan at the Black box
It's so lovely to have all the treats in January of the Black Box Out to Lunch festival. Today I went to listen to Honor Hefferman beautiful voice, beautiful music . Why can we not have that calibre of musician and singer in Ireland more often??For a reasonable price. I was transported back to the Blue Note Jazz bar in New York just listening to the set and drinking in the music. She arrived without her drummer, apparently he got his car clamped and did'nt make it to the airport. But the set did'nt miss it the keyboard and double bass just rolled along. The audience appreciated the mellow Friday atmosphere and everyone floated of afterward with a lovely Friday feeling.;-) . The festival is just over half way well worth trying out.
http://www.cqaf.com/outtolunch/20th
http://www.cqaf.com/outtolunch/20th
Wednesday 19 January 2011
sounding out space opening 20 Jan 6-8pm
sounding out space V: Fiona Larkin-
'Do You Love Me Now'- documentation of a cat in PS²
Opening, Thursday, 20 January 2011, 6-8pm
How does a cat occupy a space, more precise, the 23sqm of PS²?
With a fat grin or rather shyly?
For several days last year, Minka, the cat, lived in project space, watched by two remote cameras and observed by artist Fiona Larkin.
Part of ‘sounding out space’, Minka's project followed those of artists, musicians and a parapsychic medium in their research of the physical and psychological qualities and resonances of the small room.
What started as an observation into Minka’s use of the space quickly turned to a documentation of the reaction by passers-by.
For 'Do You Love Me Now’, Fiona Larkin edited the vast footage and produced two films, shown on small TV’s, accompanied by 58 digitally enhanced stills.
‘In editing the documentation of Minka my curious relationship with the passers by became increasingly of interest to me. Some responded to Minka’s occupying the space as they would to an animal in the zoo, wishing to pet, coax and observe her. Others, who saw her in passing, stopped to do a double take and a few responded with anger.
Each of these glances, whether fleeting or engaged, have been isolated and extracted from the footage and made still.
In doing this, I play with the function of the CCTV and divert our focus toward that of the candid camera.’ Fiona Larkin
The project continuous till 05 February 2011.
Opening hours: Wed- Fri 1-5pm.
For more information see: http://www.pssquared.org/FionaLarkin.php
Contact:pssquared@btconnect.com or 07733457772.
PS² is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
'Do You Love Me Now'- documentation of a cat in PS²
Opening, Thursday, 20 January 2011, 6-8pm
How does a cat occupy a space, more precise, the 23sqm of PS²?
With a fat grin or rather shyly?
For several days last year, Minka, the cat, lived in project space, watched by two remote cameras and observed by artist Fiona Larkin.
Part of ‘sounding out space’, Minka's project followed those of artists, musicians and a parapsychic medium in their research of the physical and psychological qualities and resonances of the small room.
What started as an observation into Minka’s use of the space quickly turned to a documentation of the reaction by passers-by.
For 'Do You Love Me Now’, Fiona Larkin edited the vast footage and produced two films, shown on small TV’s, accompanied by 58 digitally enhanced stills.
‘In editing the documentation of Minka my curious relationship with the passers by became increasingly of interest to me. Some responded to Minka’s occupying the space as they would to an animal in the zoo, wishing to pet, coax and observe her. Others, who saw her in passing, stopped to do a double take and a few responded with anger.
Each of these glances, whether fleeting or engaged, have been isolated and extracted from the footage and made still.
In doing this, I play with the function of the CCTV and divert our focus toward that of the candid camera.’ Fiona Larkin
The project continuous till 05 February 2011.
Opening hours: Wed- Fri 1-5pm.
For more information see: http://www.pssquared.org/FionaLarkin.php
Contact:pssquared@btconnect.com or 07733457772.
PS² is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Ethical remembering
Ethical Remembering
Acknowledging the Decade of Change & Violence
1912‐1922
A 6 Session Course from
19th January 2011 – 23rd February 2011
7.30pm – 9.30pm
at
The Irish School of Ecumenics
683 Antrim Road
Belfast BT15 4EG
Course Facilitators:
Dr Johnston McMaster
Dr Cathy Higgins
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Ethical Remembering and Future Vision
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Covenant, Guns and Militarised Politics
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Rising, Blood Sacrafice and Equality Deferred
Wednesday 9 February 2011
The Somme, Slaughter and Sectarianised Memory
Wednesday 16 February 2011
An Irish Parliament and a War of Independence
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Partition, Civil War and Legacy
The events of 1912‐1922 provided a decade of enormous change in Ireland leaving a legacy for good and ill. The events shaped the rest of the 20th century and still cast a long shadow into the 21st century. The Ulster Covenant and the Easter Proclamation, in ways a mirror of each other, became foundational documents of two states in Ireland after 1921. Everything had changed by 1922 but the decade was also a decade of intense and often brutal violence. The legacy of violence remained and erupted again in Northern Ireland for a further 35 years at the end of the 20th century.
The centenaries of these dramatic events will be remembered between 2012‐2022. The critical question is how? In a very different world and context how will we remember events of change steeped in violence? Both the change and the violence need to be remembered and acknowledged together in Ireland and Britain. Ethical remembering will mean asking critical and ethical questions about violence, justice, peace in the context of the present and the desired shared future.
The course will explore the events of the decade, the change that took place and the violence that surrounded it all. Above all what is our future vision?
Participants
This course is open to anyone interested in the subject matter and in improving understanding between the churches and within the local community.
Funders
This course is part‐financed by Community Relations Council Core Funding
Course Objectives
Main Objectives of The Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin) Education for Reconciliation courses ‐
∙ To develop greater understanding between people from the different traditions in local communities
∙ To raise awareness of and explore key community, religious, cultural, political, social and reconciliation issues
∙ To empower participants to be actively involved in the practice of reconciliation within local communities
∙ To promote the practice of equity, diversity and interdependence between the traditions
∙ To enable participation in the building of an integrated and inclusive civic society through the practice of active citizenship
All of this will take place in a relaxing environment, giving the opportunity to contribute, listen, discuss, learn from others and make new friends.
For further information, please contact:
Karen Nicholson
Tel: 048 9077 5010
Email: cenisec@tcd.ie
Inclusive Course Fees:
Unwaged £10
Waged £20
Acknowledging the Decade of Change & Violence
1912‐1922
A 6 Session Course from
19th January 2011 – 23rd February 2011
7.30pm – 9.30pm
at
The Irish School of Ecumenics
683 Antrim Road
Belfast BT15 4EG
Course Facilitators:
Dr Johnston McMaster
Dr Cathy Higgins
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Ethical Remembering and Future Vision
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Covenant, Guns and Militarised Politics
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Rising, Blood Sacrafice and Equality Deferred
Wednesday 9 February 2011
The Somme, Slaughter and Sectarianised Memory
Wednesday 16 February 2011
An Irish Parliament and a War of Independence
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Partition, Civil War and Legacy
The events of 1912‐1922 provided a decade of enormous change in Ireland leaving a legacy for good and ill. The events shaped the rest of the 20th century and still cast a long shadow into the 21st century. The Ulster Covenant and the Easter Proclamation, in ways a mirror of each other, became foundational documents of two states in Ireland after 1921. Everything had changed by 1922 but the decade was also a decade of intense and often brutal violence. The legacy of violence remained and erupted again in Northern Ireland for a further 35 years at the end of the 20th century.
The centenaries of these dramatic events will be remembered between 2012‐2022. The critical question is how? In a very different world and context how will we remember events of change steeped in violence? Both the change and the violence need to be remembered and acknowledged together in Ireland and Britain. Ethical remembering will mean asking critical and ethical questions about violence, justice, peace in the context of the present and the desired shared future.
The course will explore the events of the decade, the change that took place and the violence that surrounded it all. Above all what is our future vision?
Participants
This course is open to anyone interested in the subject matter and in improving understanding between the churches and within the local community.
Funders
This course is part‐financed by Community Relations Council Core Funding
Course Objectives
Main Objectives of The Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin) Education for Reconciliation courses ‐
∙ To develop greater understanding between people from the different traditions in local communities
∙ To raise awareness of and explore key community, religious, cultural, political, social and reconciliation issues
∙ To empower participants to be actively involved in the practice of reconciliation within local communities
∙ To promote the practice of equity, diversity and interdependence between the traditions
∙ To enable participation in the building of an integrated and inclusive civic society through the practice of active citizenship
All of this will take place in a relaxing environment, giving the opportunity to contribute, listen, discuss, learn from others and make new friends.
For further information, please contact:
Karen Nicholson
Tel: 048 9077 5010
Email: cenisec@tcd.ie
Inclusive Course Fees:
Unwaged £10
Waged £20
Tuesday 18 January 2011
The rubble club
Film screening and panel discussion with Owen Luder
// Thurs 20th Jan
// 5.30pm
// Ulster Museum
?Get Luder' follows Owen Luder as one of his most famous buildings, the Get Carter car park in Gateshead, is scheduled for demolition. This is nothing new for the once acclaimed 81-year-old Brutalist pioneer. His concrete giant, the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, is already down, and his other iconic Gateshead structure, the Dunston Rocket, faces a similar fate.
?Get Luder' charts his last-ditch bid to force a reappraisal and reinvention of the car park made famous by the Michael Caine gangster ?lm as demolition day looms, and views a man struggling to retain his pride and dignity as he watches his work destroyed in his own lifetime.
This one-off event brings the architect and ?lm-makers to Belfast to discuss the issues of demolition, redevelopment and membership of the “Rubble Club”.
// Thurs 20th Jan
// 5.30pm
// Ulster Museum
?Get Luder' follows Owen Luder as one of his most famous buildings, the Get Carter car park in Gateshead, is scheduled for demolition. This is nothing new for the once acclaimed 81-year-old Brutalist pioneer. His concrete giant, the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, is already down, and his other iconic Gateshead structure, the Dunston Rocket, faces a similar fate.
?Get Luder' charts his last-ditch bid to force a reappraisal and reinvention of the car park made famous by the Michael Caine gangster ?lm as demolition day looms, and views a man struggling to retain his pride and dignity as he watches his work destroyed in his own lifetime.
This one-off event brings the architect and ?lm-makers to Belfast to discuss the issues of demolition, redevelopment and membership of the “Rubble Club”.
Delorean do you remember? exhibition opening
Artist Talk & Exhibition Opening Invite
Belfast Exposed is pleased to present Make it new John by Duncan Campbell, a film about the famous DeLorean sports car – the DMC12, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it in the early 1980s. More info
Talk and Exhibition Opening is Thursday 20th January:
6pm - Setting the scene for Duncan Campbell's talk about his work, Robert Lamrock, Director of the Ireland DeLorean Owners Association, will give a brief introduction to the car's history in Belfast.
7pm - Exhibition Opening, refreshments served
Belfast Exposed is pleased to present Make it new John by Duncan Campbell, a film about the famous DeLorean sports car – the DMC12, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it in the early 1980s. More info
Talk and Exhibition Opening is Thursday 20th January:
6pm - Setting the scene for Duncan Campbell's talk about his work, Robert Lamrock, Director of the Ireland DeLorean Owners Association, will give a brief introduction to the car's history in Belfast.
7pm - Exhibition Opening, refreshments served
MFA Belfast mid term exhibition
The artists from the Master of Fine Arts Belfast course will be holding their mid term exhibition at the University of Ulster, York Street on Wednesday the 19th of January, showcasing work developed from September 2010. The exhibition addresses a wide range of concepts and utilises a broad variety of media including photography, installation, painting, sculpture and video. All 16 artists will be showcasing their work and this is a unique opportunity to view their practice in the lead up to their final show in May 2011. The exhibition will open to the public on Wed 19th Jan, 1830 - 2100 and continue for one day Thursday 20th, 0900 - 2000.
Saturday 15 January 2011
Friday 14 January 2011
Free Belfast - but will it continue?
Last night I had a lovely evening in Belfast and it was all free. First of what Ps2 Gallery opening where Jennifer Caffrey, Remembered, Heard, Fictionalized, Drawing IN, OUT, OF Belfast’. installation
was taking you to a higher power with her speakers on the roof of the gallery. It gave you a wierd feeling where the sound was actually going inside your head. The sound of a trip into Belfast nicely observed.Capturing Belfast altererial routes at a specific point of development.
Next was Platform Arts where Catherine Devlin, No use Crying was showing sculpture and photos. Now the thing about Platform Arts is that I remember when they were all working hard to clean it up to make it into a gallery space. I've got photos somewhere. Now is a ligitimate gallery space. Could it be a flegling Golden Thread? it certainly looks that way exhibition was beautifully presented . Well done keep it up.
Further on down Queen street was Queen street studios gallery space had Aleramin rising by Barbara Knezevic at QSS Gallery, Queen street studios 3 pieces interesting to look at after the other two galleries but............it was worth it just to see Brendan's trolley.
Over then to The Ulster Hall where there was a free concert with the Ulster Orchestra the star of the show for me was Codetta with Donal Doherty, Artistic Director
a choir from Derry who were fantastic ,beautiful clear voices that caught you right it the chest. It made me realise what interesting opportunities Derry talent is going to get (I hope) from being the City of Culture in 2013. The whole preformanace was going to be transported to Derry the next night.
By that time my evening was over, all free, all in Belfast City Centre walking distance apart. It's lovely to see a city changing. I only hope the drastic art cuts will not cut off the life of all this amazing creativity. Wait and see, in the meantime just keep lobbying.
was taking you to a higher power with her speakers on the roof of the gallery. It gave you a wierd feeling where the sound was actually going inside your head. The sound of a trip into Belfast nicely observed.Capturing Belfast altererial routes at a specific point of development.
Next was Platform Arts where Catherine Devlin, No use Crying was showing sculpture and photos. Now the thing about Platform Arts is that I remember when they were all working hard to clean it up to make it into a gallery space. I've got photos somewhere. Now is a ligitimate gallery space. Could it be a flegling Golden Thread? it certainly looks that way exhibition was beautifully presented . Well done keep it up.
Further on down Queen street was Queen street studios gallery space had Aleramin rising by Barbara Knezevic at QSS Gallery, Queen street studios 3 pieces interesting to look at after the other two galleries but............it was worth it just to see Brendan's trolley.
Over then to The Ulster Hall where there was a free concert with the Ulster Orchestra the star of the show for me was Codetta with Donal Doherty, Artistic Director
a choir from Derry who were fantastic ,beautiful clear voices that caught you right it the chest. It made me realise what interesting opportunities Derry talent is going to get (I hope) from being the City of Culture in 2013. The whole preformanace was going to be transported to Derry the next night.
By that time my evening was over, all free, all in Belfast City Centre walking distance apart. It's lovely to see a city changing. I only hope the drastic art cuts will not cut off the life of all this amazing creativity. Wait and see, in the meantime just keep lobbying.
Thursday 13 January 2011
Ps2 opening Remembered, Heard, Fictionalized, Drawing IN, OUT, OF Belfast’.
Remembered, Heard, Fictionalized, Drawing IN, OUT, OF Belfast’.
- Jennifer Caffrey, installation
Opening, Thursday, 13 January 2011, 6-9pm
The title seems to list the ingredients and themes of this project: drawing and sound- memory and fiction.
‘Remembered, Heard, Fictionalized, Drawing IN, OUT, OF Belfast’ is a personal portrait of Belfast.
An installation with recordings of conversations, of sentences picked up, sketches of house fronts or street corners, photographs of locations.
What occurs again and again in these small drawings, digitalized and projected, is bunting, lines with triangular, colourful flags. Leftovers of festivals, celebrations, parades and parties in the streets of Belfast. Recorded not where tourist would walk, but where the un-glamorous side of life is transformed for a while, an evening, a weekend into something memorable. A halo of everyday life and an exception in an urban routine.
Like an anthropologist, Jennifer Caffrey observed and collected these small details and leftover fragments of life and joy in the city.
Research not of a lost time, but a socially charged present.
The project continuous till 15.01.2011
Opening hours: Tues- Fri 12am- 5pm, Sat 11am-3pm
For more information see: www.pssquared.org/DrawingonIllness.php
Contact:pssquared@btconnect.com or 07733457772
PS² is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Please forward to interested parties.
- Jennifer Caffrey, installation
Opening, Thursday, 13 January 2011, 6-9pm
The title seems to list the ingredients and themes of this project: drawing and sound- memory and fiction.
‘Remembered, Heard, Fictionalized, Drawing IN, OUT, OF Belfast’ is a personal portrait of Belfast.
An installation with recordings of conversations, of sentences picked up, sketches of house fronts or street corners, photographs of locations.
What occurs again and again in these small drawings, digitalized and projected, is bunting, lines with triangular, colourful flags. Leftovers of festivals, celebrations, parades and parties in the streets of Belfast. Recorded not where tourist would walk, but where the un-glamorous side of life is transformed for a while, an evening, a weekend into something memorable. A halo of everyday life and an exception in an urban routine.
Like an anthropologist, Jennifer Caffrey observed and collected these small details and leftover fragments of life and joy in the city.
Research not of a lost time, but a socially charged present.
The project continuous till 15.01.2011
Opening hours: Tues- Fri 12am- 5pm, Sat 11am-3pm
For more information see: www.pssquared.org/DrawingonIllness.php
Contact:pssquared@btconnect.com or 07733457772
PS² is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Please forward to interested parties.
Allan Hughes
Allan Hughes Awarded the ACNI Major Award
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to announce that Allan Hughes has been awarded an ACNI Major Award. Allan first exhibited at the Golden Thread Gallery in 2000 as part of the ‘Couch tatties’ exhibition, he has worked closely with and been represented by the Golden Thread Gallery since. Work by Allan Hughes features in the ‘M-Machine’ curated by Ben Crothers currently on show in the Golden Thread Project Space.
The Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting selected works by Allan Hughes at the London Art Fair, stand G2 launching on Tuesday 18th January – through to Sunday 23rd.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has awarded grants of £15,000 to four of Northern Ireland’s most promising artists. The Major Awards, presented to composer Peter Rosser, writer Ian Sansom, playwright Dave Duggan and visual artist Allan Hughes, acknowledge the valuable contribution each have made to the arts in Northern Ireland.
These annual awards are the largest grants presented to artists by the Arts Council each year. The financial support provided makes it possible for artists to take time out to dedicate to their creative work and to produce a substantial and ambitious project that will make a significant contribution to the development of their careers.
Allan Hughes is a video installation artist and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan Poland, UNOACTU in Dresden, La Sala Naranja Valencia, the Golden Thread Gallery Belfast and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels amongst others. ACNI via VAI
http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/allan-hughes-awarded-the-acni-major-award/
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to announce that Allan Hughes has been awarded an ACNI Major Award. Allan first exhibited at the Golden Thread Gallery in 2000 as part of the ‘Couch tatties’ exhibition, he has worked closely with and been represented by the Golden Thread Gallery since. Work by Allan Hughes features in the ‘M-Machine’ curated by Ben Crothers currently on show in the Golden Thread Project Space.
The Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting selected works by Allan Hughes at the London Art Fair, stand G2 launching on Tuesday 18th January – through to Sunday 23rd.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has awarded grants of £15,000 to four of Northern Ireland’s most promising artists. The Major Awards, presented to composer Peter Rosser, writer Ian Sansom, playwright Dave Duggan and visual artist Allan Hughes, acknowledge the valuable contribution each have made to the arts in Northern Ireland.
These annual awards are the largest grants presented to artists by the Arts Council each year. The financial support provided makes it possible for artists to take time out to dedicate to their creative work and to produce a substantial and ambitious project that will make a significant contribution to the development of their careers.
Allan Hughes is a video installation artist and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan Poland, UNOACTU in Dresden, La Sala Naranja Valencia, the Golden Thread Gallery Belfast and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels amongst others. ACNI via VAI
http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/allan-hughes-awarded-the-acni-major-award/
Golden Thread Gallery @ London Art Fair 2011
Golden Thread Gallery is pleased to announce its fifth year of participation at London Art Fair, now as part of the Main Fair for the first time. From 19th – 23rd January 2011, the gallery will be exhibiting selected new works and older pieces by a range of artists including Marie Barrett, Martina Corry, Diarmuid Delargy, Gerry Gleason, Sara Greavu, Allan Hughes, Brendan Jamison, Deirdre McKenna, Darren Murray, Victor Sloan, Shaleen Temple and Charles Walsh.
Golden Thread Gallery is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to provide a unique opportunity for artists from the region to exhibit their work in both national and international contexts and markets.
Please come and visit us at Stand G2, at this years fair.
Golden Thread Gallery is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to provide a unique opportunity for artists from the region to exhibit their work in both national and international contexts and markets.
Please come and visit us at Stand G2, at this years fair.
Ben on speed ;-)
Speed Networking Event
Belfast Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) brings businesses together to make new contacts, create business opportunities and share ideas, all in an informal environment.
Our next event will take the form of a speed networking evening with the Belfast Chamber of Commerce. Harry Harpur from The Loop will facilitate the event and take you through the Dos and Don’ts of speed networking before putting what you’ve learned into practice.
When: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Where: Belfast City Hall
Time: Registration 5.30pm, event starts at 6pm
Cost: FREE
If you are interested in attending this event you must register in advance. Please email Leah with your name, business name, address, email and contact telephone number: wrightl@belfastcity.gov.uk
This event is provided free by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund under the European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland.
Check out our Belfast Entrepreneurs Network webpage www.belfastcity.gov.uk/ben for future events or become a fan of our Facebook page.
Belfast Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) brings businesses together to make new contacts, create business opportunities and share ideas, all in an informal environment.
Our next event will take the form of a speed networking evening with the Belfast Chamber of Commerce. Harry Harpur from The Loop will facilitate the event and take you through the Dos and Don’ts of speed networking before putting what you’ve learned into practice.
When: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Where: Belfast City Hall
Time: Registration 5.30pm, event starts at 6pm
Cost: FREE
If you are interested in attending this event you must register in advance. Please email Leah with your name, business name, address, email and contact telephone number: wrightl@belfastcity.gov.uk
This event is provided free by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund under the European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland.
Check out our Belfast Entrepreneurs Network webpage www.belfastcity.gov.uk/ben for future events or become a fan of our Facebook page.
Wednesday 12 January 2011
Fashion Souk in the Europa Hotel
Diary date the next fashion souk will be on Sunday 6th Feb in the Europa Hotel- it is going to incorporate Home and Fashion which I think is a great idea because it widens the opportunity's for people to show what they can do..................
Do you want to join Catalyst arts?
Catalyst Arts info
Important information for all of our members.
We have initiated t he change that membership will now be valid for the calendar year running from January to December.
Membership paid in any month of that calendar year is only valid in that year. Renewals will be issued in December for the following year.
This has now come into effect for the year of 2011.
Currently, our membership rates are as follows:
Student/Unwaged
£10
Waged
£20
By way of reminder, as a member of Catalyst Arts you can:
- Have your say in our Annual General Meetings and input into programming and the running of the organisation.
- Exhibit in the Annual Members Show and take part in any related activities such as tours to other galleries, participation in workshops and other events.
- Use our new resource room (with free wi-fi) to access our extensive archive.
- Free hire of our equipment including projectors, DVD players, scanners, TVs, computers, video cameras and both digital and SLRs (for a full inventory of equipment please contact the gallery).
- Get up to date info on upcoming events and opportunities.
CATALYST ARTS GALLERY IS A REGISTERED CHARITY: XR46313
If you are interested in becoming a member of Catalyst Arts you can do so through our website at; www.catalystarts.org.uk/index.php?page=membership or alternatively you can send a cheque for £10 (student/unwaged) or £20 (waged) along with the following details to Catalyst Arts Gallery, 5 College Court, Belfast, BT1 6BS:
Name:
Address:
E-mail:
If you have any further comments please do not hesitate to contact us via email catalystarts@gmail.com or at the address indicated above.
Many thanks for your continued support!
Catalyst Arts.
You may unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL:
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Important information for all of our members.
We have initiated t he change that membership will now be valid for the calendar year running from January to December.
Membership paid in any month of that calendar year is only valid in that year. Renewals will be issued in December for the following year.
This has now come into effect for the year of 2011.
Currently, our membership rates are as follows:
Student/Unwaged
£10
Waged
£20
By way of reminder, as a member of Catalyst Arts you can:
- Have your say in our Annual General Meetings and input into programming and the running of the organisation.
- Exhibit in the Annual Members Show and take part in any related activities such as tours to other galleries, participation in workshops and other events.
- Use our new resource room (with free wi-fi) to access our extensive archive.
- Free hire of our equipment including projectors, DVD players, scanners, TVs, computers, video cameras and both digital and SLRs (for a full inventory of equipment please contact the gallery).
- Get up to date info on upcoming events and opportunities.
CATALYST ARTS GALLERY IS A REGISTERED CHARITY: XR46313
If you are interested in becoming a member of Catalyst Arts you can do so through our website at; www.catalystarts.org.uk/index.php?page=membership or alternatively you can send a cheque for £10 (student/unwaged) or £20 (waged) along with the following details to Catalyst Arts Gallery, 5 College Court, Belfast, BT1 6BS:
Name:
Address:
E-mail:
If you have any further comments please do not hesitate to contact us via email catalystarts@gmail.com or at the address indicated above.
Many thanks for your continued support!
Catalyst Arts.
You may unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL:
http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/mailout/mail.cgi/u/catalyst/
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Super Viviere@ Naughton gallery
This year my grandmother will be 90 the plan in some of the family are going to go over to New Zealand to give her a party. Why has she lives so long?? was it all the husbands?? all the travelling? getting married during the war?? Who knows but Susie Rea has linked up with her mothers research in Europe as to why people live long when others donts . The Research took place across Europe and Susie her duaghter a professional photographer decided to put together an exhibition and a book based on images of some of the people who took part of the research. The portraits are gentle and loving. Taking a view on someone in a stage of their life when they are coming -somewhere towards the end. As a recently book described it.
Dancing came in strong as a reason to keep going on strong and you can see with the care and attention and respect to the Exhibition itself is a major achievement to put together a loving extension to her mothers research. With all the interest in ageing, but focus on youth it's an exhibition that should travel.
Dancing came in strong as a reason to keep going on strong and you can see with the care and attention and respect to the Exhibition itself is a major achievement to put together a loving extension to her mothers research. With all the interest in ageing, but focus on youth it's an exhibition that should travel.
What's in a blog?
So left right and centre the governments budgets are going to be cut the departmets budgets are going to be cut and DCAL budgets are going to be cut which means that the Arts council budget is going to be cut, which means that all the Visual arts gallerys budgets are going to be cut which means that all the arts organsiations are going to feel the effect.
How do you see this panning out? Well some are retreating,some have their heads in the sand, some are ignoring it and some are trying to raise their revenue but I have to say I think alot are just hoping that somehow it's all going to be alright and I really don't think it is.;-) I think we are in for a number of surprises. I think some organisations are going to close. People are certainly going to loose their jobs. But as a result they will do other things. Bring their creativity into other areas of Northern Ireland. Because there are alot of good talented people working in Art in Belfast there is alot of knowledge and a fab fan base. So I think by the end of the year it will be all change. Change is good for Northern Ireland we need some dont you think?
How do you see this panning out? Well some are retreating,some have their heads in the sand, some are ignoring it and some are trying to raise their revenue but I have to say I think alot are just hoping that somehow it's all going to be alright and I really don't think it is.;-) I think we are in for a number of surprises. I think some organisations are going to close. People are certainly going to loose their jobs. But as a result they will do other things. Bring their creativity into other areas of Northern Ireland. Because there are alot of good talented people working in Art in Belfast there is alot of knowledge and a fab fan base. So I think by the end of the year it will be all change. Change is good for Northern Ireland we need some dont you think?
Queens Street Studio opening this Thursday
Exhibition opens on Thursday 13th at QSS gallery 6-9pm
Aleramin rising by Barbara Knezevic at QSS Gallery, Queen street studios.
Aleramin rising by Barbara Knezevic at QSS Gallery, Queen street studios.
Congratulations to Helena Hamilton
Helena Hamilton Wins Place at Celeste Prize Competition
Northern Irish artist, Helena Hamilton (24) has been awarded third place in the Installation + Sculpture category of the international Celeste Prize competition, which was held in Brooklyn, New York in 2010. Her work “To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEEQUALSME)” exhibited at PS2, Donegall Street, Belfast in April 2010, was first selected by four international critics and curators from a pool of 1,733 art works to become one of the ten finalists in her category. The curators that selected Hamilton’s piece were, Kati Kivinen (Finland based critic/curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA), Paz Aburto Guevara (Berlin based critic/curator), Manon Slome (New York based critic/curator) and Yuliya Sorokina (Kazakhstan based critic/curator). At the opening night in New York each of the 50 finalist artists voted for their preferred piece in each of the 5 categories. H! amilton was later awarded third prize in her category (Installation + Sculpture).
Helena Hamilton received a travel award grant by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland enabling her to travel to New York.
www.helenahamilton.com
www.celesteprize.com
info from Visual arts Ireland.
Northern Irish artist, Helena Hamilton (24) has been awarded third place in the Installation + Sculpture category of the international Celeste Prize competition, which was held in Brooklyn, New York in 2010. Her work “To Whom It May Concern (IEQUALSYOUEQUALSWEEQUALSME)” exhibited at PS2, Donegall Street, Belfast in April 2010, was first selected by four international critics and curators from a pool of 1,733 art works to become one of the ten finalists in her category. The curators that selected Hamilton’s piece were, Kati Kivinen (Finland based critic/curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA), Paz Aburto Guevara (Berlin based critic/curator), Manon Slome (New York based critic/curator) and Yuliya Sorokina (Kazakhstan based critic/curator). At the opening night in New York each of the 50 finalist artists voted for their preferred piece in each of the 5 categories. H! amilton was later awarded third prize in her category (Installation + Sculpture).
Helena Hamilton received a travel award grant by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland enabling her to travel to New York.
www.helenahamilton.com
www.celesteprize.com
info from Visual arts Ireland.
what will the new year bring?
As everyone winds their clock and tries to get back into the swing of the new year. Life moves on for almost three years I have been writting this blogg. Observing the infomation I get via e mail of different things and generally trying to improve the information flow around and about in Belfast because there are really interesting things going on out there and sometimes people in this wee city of ours forget that. One thing new I've noticed is that the Black box is now doing free Jazz and music on Saturday nights in the cafe. I have to say I 've been before Christmas a number of times and the Jazz was much much better than in the Merchant Jazz bar. It just goes to show that money and decor is'nt everything. The out to Lunch festival is on at the moment I went to a comedian on Saturday, she was a bit hung over. You could tell, but I brought someone who had never been to comedy before and they really enjoyed the expereince. WE could have stayed longer had a drink and another comedian. But maybe next year.
I did hear that there is another place in Botanic now setting out their seats caberet style and having nightly shows. I have no idea what exactly it is like but it goes to show how an ideas shift around once someone has proved the concept. People want something different for their money.
So what of this year? I have to say I'm bored with alot of the information I am getting and the way I am getting it, so I'm looking at something a wee bit different to bring it all together. What exactly it is I'm not saying yet. I need to get my tax retrun out of the way before I can get my head stuck into it.
Art opening this week- Naughton gallery tonight 6pm, Platform Arts, Catalyst and BPW Thursday 7-9. Catalyst has a performance all day this Saturday. Long Live Art................................Hope they all survive the cuts that are a coming.;-( if they don't Belfast will be all the more depleted because of it.
I did hear that there is another place in Botanic now setting out their seats caberet style and having nightly shows. I have no idea what exactly it is like but it goes to show how an ideas shift around once someone has proved the concept. People want something different for their money.
So what of this year? I have to say I'm bored with alot of the information I am getting and the way I am getting it, so I'm looking at something a wee bit different to bring it all together. What exactly it is I'm not saying yet. I need to get my tax retrun out of the way before I can get my head stuck into it.
Art opening this week- Naughton gallery tonight 6pm, Platform Arts, Catalyst and BPW Thursday 7-9. Catalyst has a performance all day this Saturday. Long Live Art................................Hope they all survive the cuts that are a coming.;-( if they don't Belfast will be all the more depleted because of it.
Monday 10 January 2011
Super Vivere at Naughton gallery
Susie Rea photography at Naughton Gallery
super Vivere
Opening Tues 11 Jan 6-8pm exhibition continues until 27th Feb 2011
Tuesday Sunday 11-4pm
super Vivere
Opening Tues 11 Jan 6-8pm exhibition continues until 27th Feb 2011
Tuesday Sunday 11-4pm
No use crying @ Platform arts 13th Jan
‘No Use Crying’
An exhibition of photography
By Catherine Devlin
14th - 22nd January 2011
Opening on Thursday 13th January 6-9pm
Platform, 1 Queen’s Street, Belfast .
Catherine Devlin studied photography at Edinburgh College of Art and has recently completed a PhD at the University of Ulster , Belfast . This show presents a body of work completed during Devlin’s time on the PhD course.
‘Whilst my work is firmly rooted in what might be termed straight photography, I often implant sculptural pieces onto the landscape to expose the inorganic nature of our contemporary world. By using a variety of methods to present my work, I endeavour to manifest yet elevate the banal in order to bring out the intriguing and somewhat droll nuances of our daily lives that remain largely unnoticed but are nonetheless affective. With the built environment of Belfast as backdrop, this exhibition includes three new bodies of work and an older large-scale photographic installation. Thematically, this exhibition addresses loneliness, identity and temporality in the urban experience, but it’s not as grim as it sounds, promise.’
Catherine Devlin.
Opening is on Thursday Jan 13th from 6 - 9 p.m.
The exhibition runs until Saturday 22nd January and it is open to the general public Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm.
Contact Fiona Goggin at platformarts@live.co.uk or 028 90311301 for further details.
An exhibition of photography
By Catherine Devlin
14th - 22nd January 2011
Opening on Thursday 13th January 6-9pm
Platform, 1 Queen’s Street, Belfast .
Catherine Devlin studied photography at Edinburgh College of Art and has recently completed a PhD at the University of Ulster , Belfast . This show presents a body of work completed during Devlin’s time on the PhD course.
‘Whilst my work is firmly rooted in what might be termed straight photography, I often implant sculptural pieces onto the landscape to expose the inorganic nature of our contemporary world. By using a variety of methods to present my work, I endeavour to manifest yet elevate the banal in order to bring out the intriguing and somewhat droll nuances of our daily lives that remain largely unnoticed but are nonetheless affective. With the built environment of Belfast as backdrop, this exhibition includes three new bodies of work and an older large-scale photographic installation. Thematically, this exhibition addresses loneliness, identity and temporality in the urban experience, but it’s not as grim as it sounds, promise.’
Catherine Devlin.
Opening is on Thursday Jan 13th from 6 - 9 p.m.
The exhibition runs until Saturday 22nd January and it is open to the general public Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm.
Contact Fiona Goggin at platformarts@live.co.uk or 028 90311301 for further details.
Sunday 9 January 2011
New Year
Funny how new year starts ? on what kind of a feeling? Compaired to this time last year??? Well the thing is I think alot of things are going to change this year. Change in society , change in peoples lives. Are you on Facebook? I've been on it for a while and I have to say you get to see what your fellow friends are up too. You notice the people who are personal, the people who are promoting themselves, the people who are concerned about wider things, have wider concerns. The people who never post anything. I suppose thats a bit like life really, some are out for themselves some like to help others and have a wider social concious. My social concious does'nt let me stand by and and see inequality happening. It means I share information if I believe it will be of use to people. I'm interested in how society is developing. I'm interested in participating in changes going on in Belfast. Some people find that uncomfortable. I mean why volunteer? it just helps the universe along if you share your skills and do not always look for monetary reward for what you do. If it's in a positive good way.It gets people connected, helps things along. You often gets thrown back in your face. But such is life, after all the years I have spent working in Belfast I'm used to that. You don't do it for the glory. You do it so that good people can get an opportunity to connect with other good people.That positivity gets a bit of space.Perhaps you might think of doing things the same way? Or why not just keep all that energy for yourself? go down the pub instead?
I'm working on a few things at the moment..its going to be a different year for me.Exciting....................roll on 2011.
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I'm working on a few things at the moment..its going to be a different year for me.Exciting....................roll on 2011.
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Thursday 6 January 2011
Free Ulster Orchestra Tickets
Ulster Orchestra concerts: January 2011
Why not start the New Year with tickets to one of our evenings of music-making with the Ulster Orchestra?
Celebrate Derry!
The City of Derry has been awarded UK City of Culture for 2013 and, as part of the celebrations, BBC Radio Ulster's Sounds Classical programme and Derry City Council are joining forces with the Ulster Orchestra for two jubilant nights of music-making.
The concert will be presented by BBC Radio Ulster's John Toal and is taking place on consecutive evenings at the Ulster Hall, Belfast and the Guildhall, Derry.
Programme
John Tavener Svyati
Michael McGlynn The Great Wood
Michael McGlynn Rising of the Sun
Camille Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1
Michael Kamen Saxophone Concerto
John Rutter Gloria
Codetta Donal Doherty, Artistic Director
Gerard McChrystal saxophone
Kim Vaughan cello
Ulster Orchestra
David Brophy conductor
Recording on Thursday 13 January at the Ulster Hall, Belfast and on Friday 14 January at the Guildhall, Londonderry.
Radio 3 Invitation Concert with the Ulster Orchestra
Renowned American conductor JoAnn Falletta returns to Belfast for a concert which includes the Marosszek Dances, a series of folk dances by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, Copland's jazzy Clarinet Concerto and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No.2, a stalwart of German romantic music.
The concert will be presented live on air by BBC Radio 3's Martin Handley.
Programme
Zoltán Kodály Marosszek Dances
Aaron Copland Clarinet Concerto
Johannes Brahms Symphony No.2
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta conductor
Robert Plane clarinet
Recording on Tuesday 25 January at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.
To apply for tickets, visit the BBC Tickets Website or call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227*.
Why not start the New Year with tickets to one of our evenings of music-making with the Ulster Orchestra?
Celebrate Derry!
The City of Derry has been awarded UK City of Culture for 2013 and, as part of the celebrations, BBC Radio Ulster's Sounds Classical programme and Derry City Council are joining forces with the Ulster Orchestra for two jubilant nights of music-making.
The concert will be presented by BBC Radio Ulster's John Toal and is taking place on consecutive evenings at the Ulster Hall, Belfast and the Guildhall, Derry.
Programme
John Tavener Svyati
Michael McGlynn The Great Wood
Michael McGlynn Rising of the Sun
Camille Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1
Michael Kamen Saxophone Concerto
John Rutter Gloria
Codetta Donal Doherty, Artistic Director
Gerard McChrystal saxophone
Kim Vaughan cello
Ulster Orchestra
David Brophy conductor
Recording on Thursday 13 January at the Ulster Hall, Belfast and on Friday 14 January at the Guildhall, Londonderry.
Radio 3 Invitation Concert with the Ulster Orchestra
Renowned American conductor JoAnn Falletta returns to Belfast for a concert which includes the Marosszek Dances, a series of folk dances by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, Copland's jazzy Clarinet Concerto and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No.2, a stalwart of German romantic music.
The concert will be presented live on air by BBC Radio 3's Martin Handley.
Programme
Zoltán Kodály Marosszek Dances
Aaron Copland Clarinet Concerto
Johannes Brahms Symphony No.2
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta conductor
Robert Plane clarinet
Recording on Tuesday 25 January at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.
To apply for tickets, visit the BBC Tickets Website or call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227*.
Tuesday 4 January 2011
Writing festival in Strangford. for Feb
Write! Down's fifth celebratory Wild Geese Festival
Write! Down welcomes all visitors to Strangford on Saturday, 5th February to celebrate writing in all its forms at the fifth Wild Geese Festival. The programme includes writing workshops; the First Annual Wild Geese Lecture; readings presented by Templar poets; And an evening concert featuring poet Sinead Morrissey– music with Seamie O Dowd - at the church in Old Court, Strangford.
And more…
The venue for day events is the Inverbrena Hall, Strangford. The festival is supported by the Down Arts Centre and Poetry Ireland, and is one of a necklace of festivals of literature in the north of Ireland, which links Strangford to the Let me take you to the island Festival in Rathlin Island, the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival at the Summer Palace in Kilcar.
Full programme circulated on 10th January - Evening Concert Tickets: priced £10/conc £8, are available from then at Kevin Óg’s, The Square, Strangford. Phone 00 44 (0)28 4488 1377 .
Everyone Welcome
Write! Down welcomes all visitors to Strangford on Saturday, 5th February to celebrate writing in all its forms at the fifth Wild Geese Festival. The programme includes writing workshops; the First Annual Wild Geese Lecture; readings presented by Templar poets; And an evening concert featuring poet Sinead Morrissey– music with Seamie O Dowd - at the church in Old Court, Strangford.
And more…
The venue for day events is the Inverbrena Hall, Strangford. The festival is supported by the Down Arts Centre and Poetry Ireland, and is one of a necklace of festivals of literature in the north of Ireland, which links Strangford to the Let me take you to the island Festival in Rathlin Island, the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival at the Summer Palace in Kilcar.
Full programme circulated on 10th January - Evening Concert Tickets: priced £10/conc £8, are available from then at Kevin Óg’s, The Square, Strangford. Phone 00 44 (0)28 4488 1377 .
Everyone Welcome
So what's in it for you the new year?
So it's the Yew year how are you feeling? optimistic? interested? hopeful? or skint?
I've been thinking about the new year and everything that has been going on in the lives of people around me and I suppose what I see is well there is still a shift going on. Lot's of people have money worries. Relationship worries.Life worries. Some feel too old ,some too young, some hardly feel at all.Health issues abound, if you don't have your health you don't have anything. Yet how many people focus on that as a top priority?? Everyone is in the game called life and yet how have people prepared for it? Or is that just the way it is. I walked into the sales the other day and all I saw was lots of things I don't need, as I was surrounded by peope who didn't need them either, panic buying I wondered what was going on?
So I think that this year is a year of doing things differently, people need to realise that life can be done differently.Running it the same way may just not work any more. We have an election this year that should bring about some changes- if you vote ( what do you mean your not registered sort it out)we could do with a bit of fresh air in that direction. I have to think of the things that gave me the most satisfaction last year? They were small things having time to talk to people, volunteering ,art work. Feeling more connected, reading more. Researching my next exhibition. This year with all of my voluntary commitments gone will need to watch this space.
I've been thinking about the new year and everything that has been going on in the lives of people around me and I suppose what I see is well there is still a shift going on. Lot's of people have money worries. Relationship worries.Life worries. Some feel too old ,some too young, some hardly feel at all.Health issues abound, if you don't have your health you don't have anything. Yet how many people focus on that as a top priority?? Everyone is in the game called life and yet how have people prepared for it? Or is that just the way it is. I walked into the sales the other day and all I saw was lots of things I don't need, as I was surrounded by peope who didn't need them either, panic buying I wondered what was going on?
So I think that this year is a year of doing things differently, people need to realise that life can be done differently.Running it the same way may just not work any more. We have an election this year that should bring about some changes- if you vote ( what do you mean your not registered sort it out)we could do with a bit of fresh air in that direction. I have to think of the things that gave me the most satisfaction last year? They were small things having time to talk to people, volunteering ,art work. Feeling more connected, reading more. Researching my next exhibition. This year with all of my voluntary commitments gone will need to watch this space.
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