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January 2012 Blog Posts (44)

Conference “radius of art”

Press Release

On 8^th-9^th February 2012, the MA Art in Public students, staff and alumni

Alice Burns, Ciara O’Malley, Julie Miller, Susanne Bosch and Fiona Whelan will attend the

Conference “radius of art”

Creative politicization of the public sphere

Cultural potential forces for social transformation

Heinrich Boell Foundation, Berlin

Prominent participants of the conference with 250…

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Added by Alice Burns on January 31, 2012 at 23:40 — No Comments

Catalyst for Kids and it's late night art again this Thursday

When should you start taking children to a contemporary art gallery? I had my two nieces on Saturday for the day aged 3 and 9, both being country children I thought it would be nice to get them to see a bit of city life. First we went to Mo Mowlam childrens play park at Stormont, and with great gusto they threw themselves into every slide and swing. The three year old then wanted to know if we were going to Ikea ? no we were going to a gallery next, not a shop.As we parked down an alley way…

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Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 31, 2012 at 16:30 — 2 Comments

WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY 17th FEBRUARY 2012

World Community Arts Day's aim as on thier website is:

ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING.

All we ask of you:…

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Added by Rosetta Jallow on January 28, 2012 at 12:19 — No Comments

Artists wanted

ARTISTS WANTED: We are a new gallery seeking to represent emerging artists in Northern Ireland. We don't care who you are or where your work has been sold before, just so long as you have talent! If you want to get in touch about selling your work through us, email lynda@johnstreetgallery.com with some images of your work. For more information, visit www.johnstreetgallery.com - thanks!

Added by John Street Gallery on January 27, 2012 at 15:33 — 3 Comments

Down Community Arts Seek New Board Members

Down Community Arts are looking for people from all backgrounds to apply to sit on its board of trustees.

If successful in applying you will have an excellent opportunity to improve your community through assisting the organisation in achieving its goal of ‘Enhancing Community Arts Experiences in the Down Area’.

For further information contact DCA Project Manager Philip Campbell on 028 44615703 or alternatively you can e – mail him at philip@downcommunityarts.org.

Added by Down Community Arts on January 26, 2012 at 14:57 — No Comments

Boston College has many archives, photos of empty ammunition boxes at Ballykinlar Camp

When I was a school in Downpatrick there was a joke that all us children shouted at each other when someone was taking a photograph. "Who do you think you are Bobby Havery?" Bobby Hanvey was the local photographer who worked for the Down Recorder, he was always seen out and about with his camera. I called into the new art centre in Downpatrick this week and their first exhibition is "About faces" a selection from his 70,000 archive of photos taken in the area since the…

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Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 24, 2012 at 23:00 — No Comments

make something small happen - an update

http://makingsomethingsmallhappen.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/a-tract-in-progress/

Added by Julie Miller on January 24, 2012 at 14:38 — No Comments

Knitglected group

http://juliemillerart.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/knitglected-more-photos/

Added by Julie Miller on January 24, 2012 at 14:30 — No Comments

2012 marks the 18th anniversary of Array Studios in Belfast. We have a great line up of events to celebrate this. Keep an eye out for the week long series of open studio events we have planned at t…

2012 marks the 18th anniversary of Array Studios in Belfast. We have a great line up of events to celebrate this. Keep an eye out for the week long series of open studio events we have planned at the end of April. We will keep you all updated on Creative Change NI, Facebook and you can find out more on our website www.arraystudios.co.uk

For now, we begin the year with a group show:…

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Added by Array Studios on January 21, 2012 at 8:48 — No Comments

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Added by Bigg Life Arts Centre on January 19, 2012 at 23:45 — No Comments

Titanic themed arts showcase

We are now taking submissions of work for our Titanic themed arts showcase which shall run for the month of April.

Artists such as Brian Mullan, Gerry Gleason, Sean Johnson and Leslie Anderson are already onboard.

If anyone else is interested please get in contact with us at the arts centre.

We have 3 spaces to exhibit the work in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter on the cobble streets at 8 Commercial court by the Duke of York Bar .…

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Added by Bigg Life Arts Centre on January 19, 2012 at 23:30 — No Comments

Sex and Religion coming to East Belfast ;-)

The most interesting thing I went to last week (apart from my studio) was a talk loyalist or Royalist murals at The Ulster Museum, a couple of things were sorted out for me, one question was "Why were there so many protestant murals before their were Catholic ones? answer because the protestants were in charge. Also why did the mural in East Belfast move from ones about King Billy to large scale wall murals, answer, they started around the time…

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Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 17, 2012 at 19:53 — No Comments

anyone for a special effects course ?

http://www.fxphd.com/

Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 17, 2012 at 0:00 — No Comments

Tags not labels at Ulster Museum

http://tagsnotlabels.tumblr.com/

Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 15, 2012 at 22:47 — No Comments

Bouncing off the Walls

12^th – 18^th January 2012

A Draw Down the Walls exhibition with Tar Isteach, Ardoyne Women’s Group and Bunscoil Bheann Mhadagáin.

Launch: 6pm – 8pm,

Venue: Golden Thread Gallery, Project Space

Exhibition runs until…

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Added by Golden Thread Gallery on January 11, 2012 at 16:47 — 1 Comment

My Elementals Birds Installation NY

Bronagh asked me to share images of one of my recent installations.

I meditated before sculpting each porcelain bird individually.…

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Added by inga hamilton on January 10, 2012 at 17:42 — 1 Comment

Black Bear art cafe looking for staff

http://www.black-bear-cafe.co.uk/

Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 10, 2012 at 16:39 — No Comments

supporting European women photographers

http://www.fire-cracker.org/ with thanks from Source twitter feed.

Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 10, 2012 at 15:54 — No Comments

touch.... about the project

This international exhibition will consist of eighteen print works with a thematic core of work inspired by the word and letters of touch.

This project was initiated by Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford as a collaborative exploration of the interplay between venerable/archaic and experimental/modern technology in the effort to produce a hybrid form of typographic design where the…

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Added by Josephine Mc Cormick on January 9, 2012 at 20:48 — 2 Comments

Artist lead development in Clandeboye are you interested?

Are you an artist /craftsperson who would like to work in a rural studio facility. I am in the planning process of starting and building an exciting new artist led development close to Clandeboye Estate at Ballyskeagh High Newtownards Co Down Northern Ireland. The planned development will be situated on an old tarmac stock car track hidden in a small valley with views over Bangor and beyond to Scotland. I intend to build a saukenei smokeless kiln, which is a wood fired kiln that produces…

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Added by Bronagh Lawson on January 8, 2012 at 21:43 — 1 Comment