Events

  • Martin Lynch to speak at C-aim Event

    Craigavon Arts in Motion Invites:

    Individuals or Groups based in the Borough of Craigavon with an interest in arts and creativity to its Annual General Meeting & Networking Event:MLynch

    The AGM will take place from 6.00pm Tuesday 25th May 2010 at the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre, Oxford Island. 
    This will be followed by a networking event entitled ‘Working Together’ which begins at 7pm and will include refreshments and a keynote speech from renowned playwright and writer Martin Lynch.

    If you are interested in contributing to the arts locally we would be delighted to see you.  If you would like to join the C-aim committee or would like to nominate someone, nomination forms will be available at the meeting.

    If you would like to attend, please contact the Arts Administrator on 028 38311679 or e-mail glenn.dickson@craigavon.gov.uk to reserve your place.

  • Blacksmithing Workshops at Tannaghmore

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    If you are creative, and you enjoy a challenge, why not try your hand at learning one of the oldest crafts known to mankind?

    After an absence of several months, the popular Blacksmithing workshops are returning to Tannaghmore Farm on Saturdays in March, April and May. With new equipment and now with two qualified blacksmiths as instructors, the workshops promise to be bigger and better than ever!

    Participants in the workshops will learn how to forge and shape metal, turning recycled car parts and even old washing machines into decorative craft items such as gates, ornaments and sculpture.

    Two artist-blacksmiths, Eamonn Higgins and Stephen Murphy, who both learned their trade in England, will be on hand to demonstrate techniques and pass on their skills.

    It is hoped that by working together, students will create a piece of public art to be displayed in Tannaghmore Gardens for visitors to admire.

    Classes are free of charge, and have proved popular with both women and men. Anyone over 16 with an interest in the arts is welcome to come along. Booking is essential as places are limited. Please call Craigavon Borough Councils Arts Development team on 028 38311686, or 0777 8373472 to reserve a place or for more information.

  • Illustration Master Class at MCAC

     

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    David Haughey, whose work includes illustrations for the Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, Vacuum and Source Magazine, will be taking an illustration Master Class at Millennium Court Arts Centre on Saturday 6th March 2010 from 10am to 4pm. Places are available at £20 per person.  This Master Class accompanies MCAC’s current exhibition ‘Into Irish Drawing’.

    To book or for more information contact Millennium Court Arts Centre at:
    T: 028 3839 4415
    E: geraldine@millenniumcourt.org

  • Belfast Exposed

    Increasing regulation of public space, restrictions on travel, routine invasions of personal privacy – these are the starting
    other’s jobs/a short conversation;
    points for an interrogation of the demands and denials of
    freedom alongside artists’ responsibility to actively engage with
    an argument/the giving of money
    the political. Simultaneously functioning as a debating chamber,
    an installation of esoteric and popular media and an archive
    display, Exchange Mechanism seeks to challenge the absence of
    for its equivalent in the money
    spontaneous political encounters from everyday life.
    Over eight weeks, Belfast Exposed will operate as an alternative political space, opening up a platform for discussion, debate,
    of another country/Mechanism,
    campaigns, presentations, talks, speeches, performance and all
    forms of public engagement. If you want to take the platform as
    noun: a system of parts working
    an activist, organizer or speaker send an expression of interest,
    setting out your ideas, alongside a short description of how your proposal relates to the Exchange Mechanism themes.

    Belfast ExposedIncreasing regulation of public space, restrictions on travel, routine invasions of personal privacy – these are the starting other’s jobs/a short conversation; points for an interrogation of the demands and denials of freedom alongside artists’ responsibility to actively engage with an argument/the giving of money the political. Simultaneously functioning as a debating chamber, an installation of esoteric and popular media and an archive display, Exchange Mechanism seeks to challenge the absence of for its equivalent in the money spontaneous political encounters from everyday life.

    Over eight weeks, Belfast Exposed will operate as an alternative political space, opening up a platform for discussion, debate, of another country/Mechanism, campaigns, presentations, talks, speeches, performance and all forms of public engagement. If you want to take the platform as noun: a system of parts working an activist, organizer or speaker send an expression of interest, setting out your ideas, alongside a short description of how your proposal relates to the Exchange Mechanism themes.

    Belfast Exposed

  • Jill McKeown - Small World

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    The Exhibition ‘Small World’ runs from 2 July – 15 August

    Opening Night 1 July 7:00 – 9:00 pm

    Artist’s Talk: 1 July 6:00 – 7:00 pm

    Jill McKeown studied at the University of Ulster, Belfast receiving a BA (Hons) Combined Studies Art & Design and an MA Fine & Applied Art in 1997. Since leaving college she has undertaken artists residencies in Wisconsin, Ohio, Maine, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Connecticut, Venice, Italy Annaghmakerrig, Cushendall and Clo Ceardlann, Donegal.

    McKeown has gained an international reputation, exhibiting in solo and group shows in Ireland, UK, America, Europe, Egypt, China and Japan. She explores memory and simultaneous experiences through photographic source material and the process of photo-intaglio printmaking to create visceral layers of details and associations.

    She currently lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is a member of Seacourt Print Workshop where she teaches printmaking classes in photo-intaglio. For the past five years she has worked as ArtsCare artist in residence for The Southern Health and Social Care Trust, in the Craigavon and Banbridge locality. And for the past year McKeown has been the MCAC Artist-In-Residence. In December 2008 McKeown was awarded the Leonie King Mid-Career Artist Award at Impressions 2008, Galway.

    As part of the residency McKeown will be working toward a major solo show at MCAC in July 2009. Over the one-year residency MCAC will host — Open Workshop Days for the Public during Open Art Days — Specialist Expert Classes — Children’s & Adult Workshops

    Artist’s Statement
    “Attention and the focus of awareness follow circuitous paths, never travelling in logical and straight lines but seemingly leaping from one disparate area to the next in an agitation of mind. My work explores memory and simultaneous experiences in the context of a collection and archive. The works on paper use photographic source material, which through the process of photo-intaglio printmaking and the use of mixed media, form visceral layers of details and associations. Along with printmaking I often assimilate memory as narrative within artist’s books and assemblage.” –Jill McKeown

    Book Binding: Saturday 27 June, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
    An introduction to bookmaking with MCAC’s Artist-In-Residence Jill McKeown. Learn how to make folded paper books and simple Japanese stab bindings. Create a concertina format hardback book to take home with you. £20

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