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Centre for Creative Arts & Media Newsletter March 2014 Centre for Creative Arts & Media Newsletter March 2014 Photo: Arlene Mc Padden Photo: CONTENTS 1 About CCAM 2 News 3 Events 4 Residencies 5 Students 6 Faculty 7 Alumni news 8 Opportunities for students Dear Friends, I am delighted to highlight news and achievements of our community of learning here at GMIT's Centre for the Creative Arts & Media (formally Cluain Mhuire). Since our formation as the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, eighteen months ago, we have been working to envision and consolidate our role as a specialist campus in the heart of Galway. This, our first newsletter, highlights our unique position in the Irish educational landscape, offering undergraduate studies in Film & Documentary, Art & Design, Fine Art, and Textiles in such a vibrant and lively community of learning and exchange. The highly collaborative, positive and friendly atmosphere makes CCAM an exceptional place to study. Our learners, lecturers and graduates have won many accolades for their achievements and are leaders throughout the worlds of film, television and arts. Our smaller workshop style classes are delivered by expert staff, passionate about their profession and research. We are always delighted to welcome visitors and groups to visit us. Please contact [email protected] to make an appointment. We are really keen to reach out to our graduates, please join our pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter. Sarah Searson, Head of Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, CCAM, Monivea Road, Galway. About CCAM RESIDENCIES Over the past year the Centre for Creative Arts and Media (CCAM) has established a number of new residencies and partnerships, forming an important mechanism for our students to engage within the wider region. The Tulca Festival Office is now residing in CCAM. This is Galway’s leading visual arts festival which takes place over three weeks in November. Other new residencies include photographer/artist Ruby Wallis. The Arts Council have also supported a new curatorial residency for Galway City which was awarded to artist Megs Morley, who will be based out of the Centre in 2014. Other project partners include Galway City Council and The Galway Arts Centre. RTÉ PARTNERSHIP CCAM’s new partnership with RTÉ continues to develop thanks to tremendous support from the National Broadcaster. The first event to mark GMIT's Partnership with RTE was a public lecture last October delivered by Kevin Bakhurst, MD of RTÉ News and Current Affairs. Further master classes for Film and Documentary students have been taking place this spring. These sessions commenced with a lecture from Bríd Dooley, Head of RTÉ Archives and Claire McLoughlin, Assistant Archivist with forthcoming lectures from Mairéad Ní Nuadháin, Head of External Relations and Laura Fitzgerald, Communications Manager News & Current Affairs with RTÉ. VISITORS The Film and Documentary programme board has organised a number of visits from Ireland’s leading producers, directors and actors, including a surprise visit from award winning Love/Hate Director, David Caffrey and Irish Times Theatre Awards Best Actor 2014 Tom Vaughan-Lawlor. International designer and milliner Philip Treacy (former GMIT student) made a courtesy visit to the end-of-year textile exhibition. He was given a guided tour by textile staff and was very gracious, spending time with students, commenting on their work and encouraging them in their future careers. He made reference to their unique perspective as designers/artists having the west of Ireland as their starting point. AWARDS Two former graduates of Film and Documentary were nominated for IFTA’s – Irish Film and Television Awards, both in the sound category. A large number of graduates from Film and Documentary are working on the Irish drama Corp agus Anam and others are working with Beochan as Production Managers, camera operators and post production. Other new initiatives include a student led professional practice presentation in November. News at CCAM UNSECO CITY OF FILM Galway City Council and Galway County Council announced the bid for Galway to join UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network as a City of Film. The bid was officially unveiled by Mayor of Galway City, Cllr. Pádraig Conneely and Mayor of Galway County, Cllr. Liam Carroll, along with Bill O’Herlihy, the newly-appointed Chairman of the Irish Film Board. Led by the two Councils, the bid is being facilitated by Galway Film Centre and also encompasses over 50 key partners from across the West of Ireland including, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Galway Picture Palace, Galway Film Fleadh, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Abú Media, Studio Solas, GMIT CCAM, Huston School of Film and Digital Media, Media Antenna, Cinemobile, Teach Solais and EO Teilifís. ADAPT GALWAY “ART IN THE INTERIM” INTERIM The Vacant Spaces Pilot Initiative is a project that has grown from meetings with Adapt Galway and the amount of unused retail and commercial spaces. Adapt Galway is a coalition of visual arts organisations working together to support and campaign for the use of appropriate vacant spaces in the city centre for creative purposes. The coalition comprises of representatives from Engage Art Studios, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, The Loft, Lorg Printmakers, Artspace Studios, The Forge Clay Studios, Kitchen Table Collective, Expanded Draught, Angry Hammers and TULCA festival of visual art, many of which are past students of GMIT's CCAM. Over the past two years, Adapt Galway hosted and presented 20 various events, exhibitions, talks, performances which were attended by over 15,000 people. Through the INTERIM initiative, Adapt Galway will continue to seek to provide open, accessible and versatile exhibition spaces. Adapt Galway has been campaigning since 2009 to have vacant spaces in the city used for creative purposes. It is hoped the scheme will see occupancy rates of vacant commercial units or premises increase, as well as providing much-needed space for the arts in the city. Adapt Galway’s two-year residency at The Shed on the Centre Pier of Galway Harbour, which was facilitated with the very kind support of Galway Harbour Company, has just come to an end. The Harbour Master Brian Sheridan’s generosity and support over the past two years has been greatly valued and appreciated. Artists interested in the scheme can contact [email protected]. Galway City Council is currently setting up a register of interested property owners. For further details see www.galwaycity.ie or email c&[email protected]. News at CCAM Brian loughran & Kate Howard. Expanded Draught, If you cut through the present the future 126 Galway Arts Festival 2012 leaks out. March 2013 Image credit: Allison Regan. Image Credit: Brendan Goode.( Rhs first 3) Image credit: Allison Regan.(Rhs bottom) News at CCAM Images: Adapt exhibitions held over the last 2 years in the Shed. News at CCAM 23rd February – 9th March 2014 GMIT Graduate Siobhan McGibbon 126 Gallery Galway 126, Galway's artist run gallery are delighted to present an exhibition of new work by GMIT CCAM graduate Siobhan McGibbon, with Ciara Healy and Karl Musson (Wales). This exhibition will show work produced during their participation in 126's residency programme ARTFarm in July & August 2013. The exhibition will run from 23 February – 09 March 2014 with preview on Saturday 22 February at 7pm. This exhibition will also be shown in Wales later in 2014. For more information please visit www.126. ie 28th of Feb to 29th March, GMIT Graduate Selma Makela Galway Arts Centre. ‘Magnetic North’, a solo exhibition by GMIT CCAM graduate Selma Makela will run from 28th of February to 29th March 2014. Using painting and video and referring to geological and meteorological phenomena as a visual language. She evokes the complexities of migration, memory and our changing environment. This group of paintings and video draw from a continued engagement with the arctic, a fascination with the element hydrogen and the scientific studies around magnetic and radioactive frequencies. For more information please visit http://www. galwayartscentre.ie/ and http://www.selmamakela.com/ 25th March at 6:30pm Galway City Curator in Residence, Megs Morley in conversation with Bassam El Baroni at the Taibhdhearc Theatre, Galway. Based in Alexandria, Egypt, Bassam El Baroni is a curator and art critic. He is the selected Curator of the 36th edition of EVA International in 2014. In 2005 he co-founded the non-profit art space Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), and was the Director until December 2012. In 2010, he was co-curator of Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain, and is currently a PhD researcher in the Curatorial/Knowledge program at Goldsmiths, University of London. http://www.eva.ie/ For further information please visit https://www.facebook.com/parainstitution Email: [email protected] Events Para Institution: Megs Morley Curator in Residence. Megs Morley was awarded an Arts Council Curator in Residence award 2014. Working in partnership with Galway City Council, GMIT CCAM, Galway Arts Centre and NUIG Huston School of Film & Digital Media, she will be developing a body of independent curatorial research investigating the concept of the Para Institution, which will explores the parameters and potentials of institution, and co-operation, inter-linking key organisations and practitioners. A programme of events will unfold over 2014.The first event on the 25th March at 6:30pm is a presentation and discussion with the Egyptian curator Bassam El Baroni at the Taibhdhearc Theatre, Galway. For further details and updates of Megs Morley's, Curator in Residence please follow https://www.facebook.com/parainstitution Email: [email protected] Megs Morley is an artist and independent curator whose extensive national and international practice is primarily concerned with how social and political situations are represented in art, cinema and visual culture. Her work takes the form of film, archival project, artist projects, curatorial practices and writing.
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