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Last Wednesday saw the opening in MART of an exhibition of two video works by internationally respected Berlin based artists Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani. Narita Field Trip, looks at how two Tokyo teenagers deal with the experience of encountering a farming community that is fighting against the expansion of Narita airport, a development…
RADE (Recovery through art, drama, education) are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a show entitled ‘Light Source’ that develops service users’ visual arts skills by learning the medieval craft of stained glass. Facilitated by stained glass artist Peter Young, participants designed and built two large stain glass windows. The windows will feature along with selected…
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‘Drawing Day’ is on this Saturday, May 17th from 11am-4pm in the National Gallery of Ireland as well as 54 other venues across Ireland. ‘Drawing Day’ was initiated by the National Gallery of Ireland in 2004 with the aim to encourage people to draw in their museums. It involves 54 arts centres, museums, libraries and…
Yesterday (Thursday, 30th January 2014) saw the launch of a new “‘Volunteering in the Arts’ toolkit by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaelteacht Jimmy Deenihan TD. The very readable brochure gives practical advice and tips to voluntary organizations with special focus on the arts. Among the topics covered are: recruitment & retention of volunteers,…
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Last Thursday (12th December) saw the opening of an exhibition of new works by Joby Hickey and Seán HIllen. The exhibition was opened by director John Boorman. There was a sizable crowd squeezed into the gallery space of Inspirational Arts. The exhibition continues in Inspirational Arts, 7 Herbert Street, Dublin 2 until 21st January: Thursday…
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