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MUSIC QUIP
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”
PAST TIMES, CHANGING FORTUNES
An T-Am Fado, Athru Ratha
The National Roads Authority Archaeology Seminar will take place in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin on Thursday 26th August 2010. To register please contact Lillian Butler at 01 660 2511. lbutler@nra.ie
CINE CAFE
As part of the Junction Festival, Paul Kelly and Will Nugent are co hosting Cin Cafe in the South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street from 2nd - 11th July
The fun packed progamme of activities includes; a practical, hands on approach to the techniques of film and TV Production. Participants will have the opportunity to create short films in workshops hosted by Paul Kelly. Make your own Animation is the theme of Will Nugent's workshops.
The Cin Cafe will also screen films throughout, with a different theme each day. Fresh Monday,for instance, will feature short films made by young people from Clonmel, Fethard, Newcastle, Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary Town.
A comprehensive programme is in place for trainees who register with the Junction Festival. We would also encourage the public to drop in and take part.
'One Minute Movie' is open to all comers and the best will feature in the Charavari Parade as well as being screened in Cin Cafe on the closing Saturday.
The Big Brother Booth is open to all visitors to Cin Cafe to have their say.
Guest filmmakers will introduce and discuss their films
Anyone wishing to register as a trainee should visit http://www.junctionfestival.com
JOHN’S PHOTO EXHIBITION
“Photos on Canvas”
John Murphy is holding an exhibition of his photographs in Cluain Restaurant, Nelson Street, Clonmel. Photos may be purchased. Contact John on 052 6124874 or 086 817 9581.
Why not pop along and cast your eyes over this very nice exhibition.
N.M.C. SESSIONS AT THE 19TH
Mundy, Garrett Wall Band and N.M.C. Sessions during Junction week.
Mundy with special guest Adela Meally will play on Tuesday 6th July, tickets at Premier Music and Brazil's Bar, and Garrett Wall Band will play a full gig, tickets at door, + N.M.C. Sessions with Jukebox Gypsy, Bean Dolan, Renny Field and Robin James Hurt all on Wed. 7th July at New Music Club at Brazil's Cafe Bar, Irishtown, Clonmel during Junction Festival week. This is going to be two superb nights, not to be missed.
Mundy was born Edmund Enright in the rural town of Birr, County Offaly, in 1976. At age 18, Mundy moved to Dublin and began performing on infamous busker haven Grafton Street, and at open-mike nights at the nearby International Bar. Less than two years later Mundy signed with Sony subsidiary Epic Records, and released his debut single, "To You I Bestow," on New Year's Day 1996.
One came to Madrid to get out of music; another played in the Metro. One served pints of Guinness and the other taught English classes: the unassuming beginnings of the four honorary Madrileos that comprise the Garrett Wall Band: each one doing the hard graft playing with various projects, before finally crossing paths in the Autumn of 2006 and joining forces as the GWB.
In 2007 they released their first album, Sky Pointing, recorded live over three days in PKO Studios with the production of Fernando Montesinos. The project was then mixed in Nashville by David Ferguson, known for his work with Rick Rubin on recordings of U2, Jacob Dylan and the American Recordings of Johnny Cash.
That first CD of the GWB marked a point of departure for future recordings: a clean and powerful acoustic concept in which each of the four members – Garrett Wall (guitar/piano/voice), Howard Brown (trumpet/voice), Robbie K. Jones (cajn) and Dave Mooney (bass/doublebass) – form a cornerstone in the foundation of the group’s sound. All club info in local papers, Tipp FM, facebook and myspace.com/newmusicclub.
DUST IN THE AIR SUSPENDED
South Tipperary County Council’s Arts Service is delighted to announce the launch of a new exhibition which will run through the summer months at the County Museum. Dust in the air suspended is an exhibition of works from the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, presented by South Tipperary County Council’s Arts Service at the South Tipperary County Museum. The exhibition brings together an exploration of both the physical and metaphysical understanding of suspension and the tensions that arise from the state of being suspended or in suspense. This collaborative project between the Arts Council, the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National Programme and South Tipperary County Council’s Art Service, brings together for the first time in one exhibition, works from two national collections. Artists in the exhibition include; Dorothy Cross, Gary Coyle, Antony Gormley, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Maher, Fergus Martin, Austin McQuinn, Isabel Nolan and Jess Rafael Soto. The exhibition runs until 25th August 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a full colour catalogue and an education programme will form part of the programme. For more information contact Sally O’Leary, Arts Officer, South Tipperary County Council. Tel: 0526134565, Email: sally.oleary@southtippcoco.ie, Web: www.southtippcoco.ie
A FRINGE EVENT
Clonmel Junction Festival 2010
Orchard Theatre Company
Presents “Cream”, a new hilarious, side splitting and gritty play wriien by Binda Singh
What happens when two women of a certain age, living in a cramped flat, their hormones screaming for attention, and all the men on offer are useless as potential dads or would rather dress-up as tillers girls?
That’s “Cream”, it’s more common than you think.....
Directed by Simon Thompson
With a superb cast, featuring Amanda Kirwan, Trisha Harte, Ricky Dunne, Catherine McVicker and Neal Shirran
Venue: Knocklofty House Hotel, Clonmel on the 7th, 8th and 9th July. Curtain at 8pm. Tickets: €12.
Booking: www.orchardtc.com or 052 9153853
FINDING LOST TIPPERARY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
Do you have any shots of Tipperary’s lesser known heritage sites?
Tipperary Studies, the county’s Local History Library, with the kind assistance of Hickey’s Photo Centre, is seeking images of the county’s neglected historical sites for this summer’s Finding Lost Tipperary Photographic Competition.
Images abound of famous Tipperary sites such as The Rock of Cashel, Holycross Abbey, Nenagh Castle and the Swiss Cottage, but this competition is aimed at those sites that have been ignored by the photographers for hundreds of years. Now is your opportunity to bring these unique and beautiful sites to the county’s attention, while at the same time putting yourself in the running for some superb prizes.
Images are welcome in every format – hardcopy or digital – and from every device that can capture an image.
Please include your name, contact details, the name of the site photographed and the townland in which it is to be found.
The Competition is open to everyone over the age of 16, and the closing date for entries is 20 July 2010.
Simply drop a copy of your non-returnable entry into your nearest branch of Tipperary Libraries, or email/post them to;
Tipperary Studies, The Source, Cathedral St., Thurles, Co. Tipperary
studies@tipperarylibraries
A selection of entries will form a photographic exhibition that will be hosted by Tipperary Libraries during Heritage Week, 24 – 31 August 2010. Good Luck!
STARCAMP IS BACK AND IT’S COMING TO A SCHOOL NEAR YOU!
The all singing, dancing and acting Summer Camp that all 5 – 13 year old boys and girls everywhere are talking about is coming to Loreto Convent, Clonmel from July 19th – 23rd along with 6 other Tipperary locations, including Cashel, Thurles and Tipp town. STARCAMP runs from 9:30 – 2:30 pm daily for one week of the Summer holidays and successfully deals with self-esteem and confidence building in children. For the shy and lovable kids to the outrageously outgoing, this is the camp that will bring out the absolute best in each and every child that participates. It will be the highlight of their holidays and the one thing that they will be talking about for a long time to come.
The weeks activities include vocal lessons, hip-hop training, acting tips, interview and audition technique, social games that deal with self esteem and confidence and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Children will then have the opportunity to showcase their wonderful talents at the end of the week when they put on a show for all to come and see! High School Musical eat your heart out!
The aim of STARCAMP is to createa relaxed and fun atmosphere. It is there to providepositive integration amongst participants, it is about the building of self-esteem and most importantly - letting children know just how wonderful they really are! To bring out the star in them!
Starcamp t-shirts will be provided, and comfortable tracksuit pants / leggings and soft shoes / runners are recommended for comfort and dance. Children are required to bring a packed lunch and drink and we will provide the smiles. Book online today at www.starcamp.ie or download an application form from here. You can also call 021-4287490 to receive one.
To find the Starcamp nearest to you see www.starcamp.ie Tel: 021-4287490.
Email: info@starcamp.ie Website: www.starcamp.ie
NEW LOCALLY CREATED DANCE WORK
To Premier at Junction Festival
A new locally based dance company - the Iseli-Chodi Dance Company will premier their new dance piece MSY2 [me seeing you too] at the Junction Festival at Chadwick’s, Clonmel on the 2nd July with further performances on the 3rd and 4th July. Dancers Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli have been working as dancers in residence in South Tipperary since 2008. The South Tipperary Dance Residency was initiated by South Tipperary County Council Arts Service and Tipperary Excel. The Dance Residency aims to develop contemporary dance in the County, both as a practice and as an Art form.
MSY2 [me seeing you too] mixes dance with video projected on a changing 3-dimensional set, and further explores the relationships between public and performers, and the shifts between image projection and physical dance. Choreographed and performed by Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli. The video and the lighting design have been created by Colombian artist Catalina Fernandez.
MSY2 [me seeing you too] was commissioned and funded by South Tipperary County Council Arts Service and Tipperary Excel Centre, and is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland under their Commissions award. South Tipperary County Council Arts Service and Tipperary Excel are working in partnership with The Junction Festival as co-producers, making it possible to finalize the piece and show it on stage.
The creation work was realised within South Tipperary Dance Residency, and also during a Blank Canvas Residency (Blank Canvas Residency scheme, Firkin Crane, Cork). The support of Cork Film Centre was instrumental for the realisation of the videos and their projection on stage.
“Involving multi-video projections and dismantling the frontal dimension of performance, MSY2[me seeing you too] juxtaposes elements of dance in a changing space, and mixes layers without hierarchy : an eclectic array of images and actions, dancers and objects, entangled in wires and screens, scattered with colours and darkness, exposing contents and structure…. softly chaotic, MSY2 brings the outdoors into the theatre, the public on and around the stage, multiplies the angles, interrupts the flow. Referring to Amish Fulton’s “an object cannot compete with an experience”, MSY2 provides an experience with little more to interpret than your own feelings. Sensorial rather than rational, making space for unnamed memories and sensations, MSY2 seeks to blur the frontier between public and performer. It evokes the prevalence of our sensitive body over abstract thinking, the ambiguous mirroring relationship between the show and the spectator...” [Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli]
As part of the Junction Festival Participation Programme the Iseli-Chiodi Company will be working with 10 committed young dancers looking for a training experience : they will take part in a 5 days dance workshop organized by Clonmel Junction Festival. The workshop, tutored by Alexandre & Jazmin, will lead into a short piece that will be presented 3 times in Clonmel Junction Festival, including one performance for the launching event of the Festival. This work will lead the public into the performance of MSY2[meseeing you too]. The workshop will take place in Clonmel between the 24 of June and the 4 of July. For more information about the participation project or to book tickets check out the Junction Festival website www.junctionfestival.com
For more information about South Tipperary Dance Residency contact Sally O’Leary, Arts Officer, South Tipperary County Council, 052 6134565, arts@southtippcoco.ie
STAG NOTES
21 members of Junior STAG had a great day at their last 'Out and About' Drawing session at the Rock of Cashel on Saturday last.
The Adult artists enjoyed a great meal in Befani's on their final night out of the season last Tuesday night.. Both sections of STAG are now closed until September, however there are a few events that Adult STAG will be involved in during the next 8 weeks so watch this space. Junior check in with the Co. Museum as events are taking place in July and August and are filling up very quickly.
Happy summer Holidays to all and keep painting! Maureen Purcell, Organiser STAG
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