Boyle Arts Festival 16 - 25 July 2020

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Boyle Arts Festival

4 days ago

Ryan Molloy announced as composer for the King House Piano Commission 2020/21.

Roscommon County Council Arts Office is pleased to announce that composer Ryan Molloy is the first recipient of this new Award.

The King House Piano Commission 2020/21 marks the first in a series of music commissions by Roscommon County Council, in celebration of the grand piano at King House. The Steinway Grand Piano was purchased by Roscommon County Council in 1998 through the Arts Council Joint Purchase Scheme.

The 2020 commission to the value of €8,000 is funded by the Arts Office of Roscommon County Council together with the Arts Council of Ireland, in collaboration with Boyle Arts Festival and in association with the Contemporary Music Centre.

Accepting the award, Ryan Molloy has said "I am honoured to have been selected for the King House Piano Commission and look forward to working on the new piece. I feel that the commission's themes of embracing the traditional and classical worlds, as well as local and national heritage, resonate strongly with my own performance practice and compositional voice. The call for proposals caused me to reflect on the many composer-performers that have emerged from traditional Irish music - many of whom shaped the music for future generations, from Turlough O’Carolan to Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - and of how challenging one’s own performance can lead to new compositional ideas. I hope to explore this composer-performer duality through the course of this new work and to challenge my fellow musicians as well as myself!”

Announcing the award, Arts Officer Rhona McGrath says she is "looking forward to working with the composer, the musicians, Boyle Arts Festival and Caroline Wynne, project manager. King House is a stunning venue, with an array of fascinating exhibitions, in a charming historic and cultural quarter of Boyle. The Main Salon and the Grand Piano are the heart and soul of King House and fittingly all corridors lead there. We look forward to those corridors and rooms being filled again with the sounds and sights of Boyle Arts Festival in 2021. The commission, to be premiered during the festival, will merge the worlds of classical and traditional music, celebrating the history and heritage of the county through uplifting, exceptional music, reflecting the lives of Roscommon people."

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4 days ago

Some beautiful artwork from the children in some of our local primary schools, who took part in the 'I Love Christmas' art competition on the new BAF sposnored 'Boyle At Christmas' page. ... See MoreSee Less

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5 days ago

Boyle Arts Festival are delighted to sponsor the new 'Boyle At Christmas' Facebook page.

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2 weeks ago

PLATFORM 31 is a nationwide artist development scheme by the 31 Local Authority Arts Offices, in collaboration with the Arts Council .

It is a national opportunity for artists to develop their practice and test new ideas of collaboration, research, audience development, place-making and sharing their work and is designed to support and offer career development for 31 mid-career artists (one artist in each of the 31 local authorities around Ireland).

The award is open to artists of any discipline and practice, based in Ireland, as well as multi disciplinary practice and design of all kinds.

There are two elements of support for participating artists in the scheme: financial and developmental. While several schemes exist to support emerging and debut artists, this pilot scheme is designed to support more experienced artists who require time and space to focus on their practice, and access to expertise that will benefit their continuing careers.

Participating artists will receive an €8,000 bursary to invest in themselves and their practice, combined with participation in an advisory and developmental framework and a peer network.

The scheme will establish a peer networking framework for participating artists, introducing them to a pool of critical thinkers to share their work and learnings, and encouraging a national conversation about creating work in local contexts. The exact nature of this artist support framework will be informed by the proposals and interests of the 31 artists selected.

Applications open from November 9th - 30th.
For more information email localartsireland@gmail.com or see

https://platform31.localartsireland.ie/

Application Info - The Platform 31 scheme is open to:

• Artists living in any of the 31 Local Authority regions in the Republic of Ireland.
• Artists working in any medium and practice, as well as multi-disciplinary practice and design of all kinds.
• Artists who have received Local Authority Arts Office or Arts Council funding within the last 3 years (2018, 2019, 2020).

Stage 1 selection: December 2020
Eligible applications are compiled and sent to the Local Authority Arts Officer of the region in which the applicant lives.
Each relevant Local Authority Arts Officer will engage the assistance of an external assessor of their choice to assess the applications on the basis of the scheme’s selection criteria. Up to three artists from each Local Authority region will be recommended for consideration in Stage 2.

Stage 2 selection: January 2021
Up to 93 recommended artists – three from each Local Authority region - will be considered by a national selection panel (composed of four Local Authority Arts Officers and up to two arts practitioners).
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2 weeks ago

Universal basic income of €325 a week mooted for arts workers

www.irishtimes.com

Three-year pilot, costing €2.5m per 1,000 participants, proposed by recovery taskforce

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