Packed with live music and fun galore The Northside Music Festival 2011 guarantees to be a celebration that all the family will enjoy! This year’s exceptional music programme will be held in distinctive settings such as city parks, community centres, churches and civic spaces that will strengthen existing audiences and encouraging new audiences to come along.

The Red Stables plays host to The Oxo Boys Stringband and Beoga  on Monday 1^st August from 2pm.

The Oxo Boys Stringband play fiddle and banjo music that we associate with America ‘s Appalachian Mountains and Beoga, a five piece band from Antrim specialise in modern Irish music.

The Northside Music Festival is proudly brought to you by Dublin City Council.  A full programme of events is available from The Arts Office on t: 01 222 8588/7305, e-mail: artsoffice@dublincity.ie or visit our website: http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/ArtsOffice.

Exhibition opening Thursday 14 July 6–8pm

by Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Maria Parodi, representing the Lord Mayor.

Cecilia Bullo
Martina Galvin
Maria Makrai

Cecilia’s work investigates the potential of a metaphorical journey taken with the aim to heal ones inner self. Martina Galvin’s photographic works explores various forms of light and feature landscapes of liminal light and Maria Makrai’s work presents compositions of the built environment rendered through abstract drawing.

Exhibition continues: 15 July – 5 Aug

The essay “Process–ional’ Geographies” by James Merrigan was written in anticipation of the group exhibition ‘fractures, lines and light’.

Every July, Dublin City Council invites applications for the Irish Artists’ Residential Studio Award. This highly sought after award is intended to support an emerging Irish visual artist at an early stage of their professional practice and runs from November 2011 to November 2012.

The Award includes:

- Studio and living accommodation at nominal rent of €200 per month for a one-year period (incudes light & heating costs);

- Inclusion in Exhibition Programme at The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1;

- Administrative and curatorial support through Dublin City Council’s Arts Office;

 - Wireless broadband internet access.

To apply for the Irish Residential Studio Award 2011 please send a cover letter

detailing the proposed usage of the studio and a work plan outlining

ideas for the residency; current Curriculum Vitae; documentation of

work; and any special requirements, for example in terms of Access. 

Applications should be submitted no later than 5pm on Friday 22nd July 2011 to Victoria Kearney, Dublin City Council Arts Office, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 2.

T. 01 222 7843

Curator: Deirdre Morrissey

Exhibition: 6th–19th June, St Anne’s Park

Live Performances: 6th, 11th , 12th, 18th and 19th June

The Red Stables presents a temporary art exhibition at various locations in St. Anne’s park inspired by the nonsensical elements of the Lewis Carroll’s book ‘Alice, Through the Looking Glass’. The exhibition prompts questions about the notion of what can be considered logical, encouraging visitors to enter a world of fantasy. Eleven artists have been chosen to create work that is engaged with notions of impossibility, the uncanny and the imaginary to create a labyrinth of site specific
installations and live art.

Participating Artists:

Catherine Barragry, Francis Fay & Mary B Keane, Michael Fortune, Carl Giffney, Jennie Guy & Claire Behan, Joan Healy, Maria Makrai, Niamh Murphy and Meabh Redmond.

For more information please visit  http://whatalicefound.wordpress.com/

Farmer’s Daughter

selected for inclusion in the

181 st Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition

GRAND OPENING Tuesday 24 May 6 – 8pm

by Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Exhibition continues: 25 May – 30 July

image: ‘Farmer’s Daughter’

for more information visit www.royalhibernianacademy.ie and www.marynoonan.com

Toine Horvers, a Dutch performance artist is currently staying at the International studio of The Red Stables on a two month residency. His work investigates language both written and oral. He describes his observations of situations that occur in daily life through performances, recordings, drawings, sound installations and hand written books.

Toine will be giving a talk on his work and a performance at The Broadcast Gallery, D.I.T., St. Joseph’s Convent, Portland Row, Dublin 1, on Thursday 31^st March at 5pm.

Copying as a Ritual Act is a performance by Toine Horvers based on fragments of speech recorded from passers-by in the crowded streets of Dublin city. The performance will take place at Pallas Studios, Dominick Street Lower, Dublin 1 on Wednesday 6^th April at 7.30pm, followed by an additional performance involving participants on Friday 15^th April at 6pm.

www.broadcastgallery.ie

www.toinhorvers.nl

www.pallasprojects.org

UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011.

UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011. We plan to do this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City and are calling on all artists to submit work for this exhibition.

The objectives of UpStart are to encourage a debate on the role of the arts in this state. We hope to highlight the importance of creativity and ingenuity when society is in need of direction and solutions, and to emphasize the value of the arts to public life. We believe that the future development of the country requires a healthy cultivation of the Arts.

image: So filthy spuds would grow in his ears… on Parnell St., Dublin 1

For more info visit www.upstart.ie

James Merrigan, GOTH-HEAD (Part 1), (video still), HDVideo, audio and text (collegiate font), 2011.

GOTH-HEAD refers to obsessions and addictions with the so-called ‘dark’ aspects of culture. It also refers to my art practice over the last 3 years, which has obsessed over such cliches, reinventing cultural beliefs with humour and potential fear from a filmic perspective.

2 previous works were chosen by the curator and 1 work was made by the artist with the theme of “multplicity” in mind. (Multiplicity is the title of the 5th chapter of Italio Calvino’s book, Six Memos, which has been the fundamental influence behind Mary Conlon’s curated project “Six Memos”).

The 3 works, which include video, audio, text , fabricated and found objects, focus on ‘multiple’ reference points from the southern gothic in William Faulkner’s prose to fabricated identity in the tones of cheer-leader chants. The titles of the works are: My Mother is a Fish (2010), Before the Cut(2008) and GOTH-HEAD (2011).

http://jamesmerrigan.blogspot.com/

+BILLION- is an exclusively online ‘affirmative’ art review journal and is committed to reviewing what it refers to as ‘contextually critical art’.

http://billionjournal.blogspot.com/

Tuesday Nov 30th, 2010, +BILLION- will post its inaugural reviews of Alan Butler’s solo show at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and Bea McMahon’s solo at Green on Red.

Alan Butler, Some Kind of Agit Prop Monster,(2010), Video Still, TBG&S, 2010; image courtesy of Alan Butler.

Circa’s new online issue is now live. They have selected a group of writers to tackle what is in effect Circa ‘s core activity: criticism and criticality .

“It’s a new venture – one linking to the past and looking to the future; please join us.”

See James Merrigan’s ‘response’ to a selection of the texts in his article ‘Stupid Judgement’ here