Young People
CreativeCareers.ie launches this week as the only website especially dedicated to Jobs and Opportunities in the Arts, Creative and Cultural sector in Ireland.
As a special launch promotion, advertising a job on the site is free until June 1st (and €50 thereafter) all other opportunities and postings are free.
As well as Jobs and Opportunities, CreativeCareers.ie also features an arts directory, a list of third level college courses in the creative field and offers career advice (we are looking for established professionals in all creative lines of work to help us with this).
Jobs and opportunities are advertised in a broad range of creative areas such as Film, Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Design, TV, Radio, Heritage, Fashion, Journalism, Architecture, Illustration, Animation and Dance as well as jobs in Arts Management and Arts Education.
Whilst there are a number of resource websites that advertise a few jobs at a time, these tend to be in arts specific areas and not widely known to the whole creative community or general public. CreativeCareers.ie will bring all of these and more under one roof. It also displays links to these sites which offer further resources to the job or education seeker.
For further information on this please contact
Brendan Mac Evilly at info@creativecareers.ie or Ph. 085 7172414
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BARNSTORM'S KILKENNY YOUTH THEATRE IS BACK!
Barnstorm Theatre Company is about to re-launch its Youth Theatre (KYT) to serve teenagers in Kilkenny city and county. Meeting Tuesdays 5.15pm-7.15pm, the group will be a clear alternative to stage schools in the Kilkenny area. The focus will be on intensive theatre training and creating both original and innovative performances.
Are you between 14 and 18 years of age? Do you have an interest in Drama? Are you enthusiastic and can you commit some of your free time to Youth Theatre? Then call Barnstorm to book your place on an Open Drama Workshop on the 1st October. At the workshop young people will get a real sense of what the Youth Theatre is all about and can then sign up to be considered for membership.
The Youth Theatre will provide its members with a vast array of workshops mainly focused on acting skills, but will also delve into directing, writing, lighting and more. There will be annual performances which will vary from new writing and classics to street theatre and devised performances. All activities will be led by professional theatre practitioners. Members can also expect theatre visits as well as national and international events, festivals and exchanges.
Barnstorm's long term goal is to create a highly skilled and extremely creative young group, who will create innovative work and help foster youth arts culture in Kilkenny.
"Youth Theatre is about having fun and being extremely creative in a non-competitive and safe environment. But it's also about being fully involved and demanding high standards of yourself in the creation of theatre. So we are looking for young people with alternative ideas, creative abilities and real commitment" says Rónán Mac Raois, Barnstorm's Outreach and Education Officer. "The Youth Theatre's home will be The Barn - Barnstorm's own actors' studio and rehearsal room. This is the same space in which our professional productions are created; and through Barnstorm the youth theatre has unique access to professional theatre facilitators, directors and writers."
There is an annual membership fee for Youth Theatre members of €50 and a charge of €5 per weekly workshop (a limited number of scholarships are available).
If you are interested the Youth Theatre, then book your place on one of the Open Theatre Workshops on Monday 01 October, at either 5pm-6pm or 6.30pm-7.30pm. Places are limited so booking is essential - contact Barnstorm on 056 7751266 or at outreach@barnstorm.ie
Barnstorm is a non-profit organisation that has been serving the local community since 1991. It tours its professional theatre work on a national basis, while committed to serving its local community through a variety of drama and theatre projects.
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Contact: Rónán MacRaois
Past Young People Events
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Community Childcare Workshops
Kilkenny County Council believes that the experience of participating in high quality professional workshops should be part of all children's education. The expense and effort for both parents and schools in bringing workshops to children in this care is fully understood. For this reason Kilkenny County Council Arts Office is providing Puppetry, Storytelling and Craft Activity Workshops with Smadar O'Connor to ten Community Childcare groups in Kilkenny City and County during the months of October, November and December.
The aims of these workshops for children aged 3 to 5 years is to capture and develop the imagination of the child by the introduction of the art of traditional story telling and to introduce visual and sensory images to the child that are gentle and help invoke the imagination.
The Ginger Bread Man, The Swan Geese and Mashenka and The Bear are a selection of the Puppetry and Storytelling workshops with Smadar O'Connor. Each story is introduced with some warm-up games which include songs, finger games, rhythm and clapping games. Craft activities relating to the Puppetry and Storytelling will then follow such as making stick puppets and masks.
Smadar O'Connor has already provided similar workshops to various libraries in county Kilkenny, Waterford and Carrick on Suir, as well as the Thomastown Community Kindergarden and the Muckalee playgroup.
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Rhyme Rag 2006 Issue 2
Kilkenny County Council's Arts Office launched the second edition of Rhyme Rag, a poetry publication featuring the work of young Kilkenny writers. Close to 250 poems by 218 writers were submitted for inclusion in edition 2 of the Rhyme Rag making the editors decision a good read but a difficult choice. 31 poems from young people aged between 12 and 21 years who have little or no previous writing experience were selected in this year's publication.
As the numbers were so great, this years Rhyme Rag takes the form of a comic book, containing a poem per page. The illustration of the comic will be undertaken by artist Ale Mercado. Ale's original illustrations, which will be based on each poem, will also be printed up in large format for an exhibition at No. 72, John Street and there will also be a limited edition of the prints available.
Rosemary Canavan is the editor for this years Rhyme Rag. Rosemary is a writer and visual artist who was born in Scotland and brought up in Ireland. Her first collection of poetry, 'The Island', was published in America in 1995 and was shortlisted for the Vincent Buckley Poetry prize at the University of Melbourne, Australia. A second collection, 'Trucker's Moll' is due for publication by Salmon Press in 2007. She has also published two children's books, and recently completed a novel. Anthologies she has edited include 'Breacadh, An Anthology of Kerry Writing', and 'A Safe Harbour?', a collection of writing by asylum seekers, for Cork 2005. She is currently Poetry Editor of 'Southword'.
Editor Rosemary Canavan praises this literature publication and young writers in saying "Good writing is usually done in solitude, and writers risk becoming isolated unless they can meet those who share their interests. This is especially true for young poets, who pass through a school system which tends to reward analytic thinking and sporting prowess above individual creative expression. Kilkenny Arts Office have put a huge amount of energy and inspired thinking into the publication of 'Rhyme Rag', an event which will recognise the achievement of young writers, and give them the opportunity to meet and share their work.
Kilkenny is well known for its hurlers, and its design centre, but is not generally thought of as a centre of writing. Perhaps this is about to change, for the response to the poetry competition for this year's Rhyme Rag was truly amazing. When I opened the first of the bulging packages from the Kilkenny Arts Office and began to hear the voices of the young poets speaking to me through their work, the feeling of excitement grew in me. It takes courage to write truthfully and passionately about your innermost thoughts and feelings, and the best of the writers have done this. They allow us to experience the intense pains and joys of young adulthood, through poems of exceptional quality that range in theme from loss and love to the terrors of modern war, the excitement of scoring a goal, of waiting for Halloween.
'Can a moment change a life forever?' asks one of the poets. Be warned: some of these poems may change your life."
The launch of the Rhyme Rag and the exhibition took place at No. 72, John Street on Friday 10th November 2006 at 5pm. The Rhyme Rag exhibition ran from November 10th until December 8th.
For further information on Rhyme Rag and other literary events please contact the Arts Office.