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Midlands Arts and Culture Magazine Spring-Summer 2017 Midlands andCulture ArtsMagazine A REVIEW OF THE ARTS IN LAOIS, LONGFORD, OFFALY AND WESTMEATH SPRING/SUMMER 2017 • ISSUE 27 THE WRITTEN WORD MUSIC & DANCE THEATRE & FILM VISUAL ARTS FREE MidlandsArts andCultureMagazine A Word from the Editor . .Page 2 National Drawing Day in Laois Poems from the School Room . .Page 3 NATIONAL Lighthouse Studios • Edgeworthstown . .Page 4 30 Artists/Anniversary . .Page 5 DRAWING Tullamore Club Sessions Poetry & Prose in Longford • Lars Vincent . .Page 6 DAY IN Yarnbombing Mountmellick . .Page 7 A Word from Offaly: Destination Festival . .Page 8 Longford ETB Film Course LAOIS the Editor Raised Bogs . .Page 9 National Drawing Day is a national Building creative communities is the event celebrating drawing in all its Dominic Reddin • Sean Rooney . .Page 10 ambition of the Creative Ireland forms and media. Laois Arthouse, Programme, a five year initiative which Westmeath Arts Grants . .Page 11 will run from 2017 to 2022. Kubrick by Candlelight . in conjunction with studio resident Longford Photographers . .Page 12 Saidhbhín Gibson, will host a The programme follows in the wake of the very successful Centenary comme- Dolores Keavney . .Page 13 workshop to encourage you to try out drawing. morations which saw a wide range of Kiki Theatre Grows • Fleadh in Ballymahon . .Page 14 arts, culture and heritage initiatives A Glimmer of an Idea . .Page 15 Join us for a fun workshop where you across the country. Alan Meredith • Aimee MacManus . .Page 16 will learn about drawing on Saturday 20 May from 11am to 1pm at Laois In the midlands there was an impressive Expressions • Singfest 2017 . .Page 17 Arthouse, Stradbally, Co Laois. selection of events in counties Laois, Mental Health and Art . .Page 18/19 Suitable for all ages, adults and children, Offaly, Westmeath and Longford and it Laois Youth Dance Ensemble . .Page 20 and no experience is necessary. Advance is to be hoped that this will be the case Midland Youth Orchestra booking is required, please contact the with the Creative Ireland Programme. A network of highly experienced arts Art at St Christopher’s . .Page 21 Arts Office on 057 866 4033/13 to officers, heritage officers and librarians Birr Festival of Music & Voice book a place. Age 6 years to adults and children under 10 must be accompanied has been set up across all 31 local Fore Tiny Trail • Laois Youth Theatre News . .Page 22 by an adult. authorities to lead on each county’s Bealtaine in Laois • TMS Award Season . .Page 23 Creative Ireland Programme. Cilleo Yew Tree Players . .Page 24 Saidhbhín Gibson recently completed a Over the next few weeks there will be MFA in Sculpture at NCAD, Dublin. Anam Beo • Easter Camps in Laois . .Page 25 a series of public meetings across the She employs a range of techniques in Longford Live and Local • Rosemarie Langtry .Page 26 midlands to share ideas, develop her practice including drawing, Summer Painting Programme in Laois collaborations and explore oppor- printmaking and needlepoint lace and tunities for increased investment in local Laois Arthouse Expos • Foundation/Female . .Page 27 uses various fabrication methods in her arts, culture and creative industries. Charles Badiller . .Page 28 sculptural works. New Animation Course in Athlone Additional funding to support the Sites of Tension Seminar . .Page 29 initiative will be made available through Patricia Gibney • Music Generation Laois . .Page 30 the Creative Ireland Programme in 2017 with the potential for further Creative Ireland • Magical Moments . .Page 31 investment over the next four years. Music at Tullynally . .Page 32 Full details of the Creative Ireland Mark Garry • Darina Meagher . .Page 33 Programme are available at To be a Pamphleteer . .Page 34 creative.ireland.ie or check with the arts office in your county. Tanya O’Callaghan • Moate Comhaltas . .Page 35 Our Sweetest Hour . .Page 36 Vivienne Clarke of Acumen Media, Fourth Wall Theatre Group Editor A look inside YOUR LOCAL ARTS OFFICERS County Offaly County Westmeath County Laois County Longford WHO: Mary Brady WHO: Miriam Mulrennan WHO: Muireann Ní Chonaill WHO: Fergus Kennedy (Temporary Arts Officer) WHERE: Westmeath County Council WHERE: Laois County Council, WHERE: Longford County Council, WHERE: Offaly County Council, County Buildings, Mullingar Portlaoise, Co Laois Great Water St. Longford. Charleville Road, Tullamore CONTACT: Telephone 044 93 32016 CONTACT: Tel: 057 8664109 CONTACT: Tel: 086 8517595 CONTACT: Telephone 057 9357400 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]. www.westmeathcoco.ie www.laois.ie/arts www.longfordcoco.ie/arts_office.html www.offaly.ie/arts 2 POEMS from the SCHOOL ROOM by Eileen Casey It was with great pleasure I facilitated a number of poetry workshops in Birr primary schools last November. Initially, the idea was to commemorate 1916 through its poetic legacy. After all, the historical events of 1916 were initiated by poets such as Pearse, McDonagh and Plunkett who believed in the power of poetry to spark change. Going further back, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe sense of camaraderie was captured so eloquently by containment of the school room itself, a reference Shelley (1792-1822) claimed that poets were the Lorraine McCarthy in her poem, tempered by the word ‘cozy’. natural ‘legislators of the world.’Heady stuff for sure. Awakening Thaw Words like ‘politics’and ‘history’ weigh heavy when As I woke on this bitter, cold, frosty winter morning, I awoke on this frosty November morning. facing a room filled with bright young folk. It I saw a thin layer of white ice covering my roof – I could smell eggs and burnt toast. I looked out seemed not entirely fitting to bring these children all from my bedroom window. the kitchen window. I saw the frosty, crunchy grass, back through the winding labyrinth of revolutionary blue azury sky and the clouds as white as snow. events, especially when it was clearly obvious how When I walked slowly across the slippery As I was eating my breakfast I was listening to grounded in the present they were. Then it occurred road to my granny’s house, the robins in the trees. to me that a political poem or indeed a historical the smell of scented shampoo and body spray At 9.00am it was time to go to school. one, can be born from the simplest act. John wafted in the air. I walked into the kitchen, I got my fluffy Lionsdale jumper and my scarf. McGahern once said that “a woman combing her the smell of tea filling my senses. The car windows were frozen hair or a man eating an egg were every bit as so my dad got hot water and it started to thaw out. important for writing as big, significant events.” I then made my way to school with my best friend I arrived at school at 9.05 am When I asked the children to remain in their present by my side, and chatted with my friends Ella G, Shannon and timeframe and write out of these moments in their cheeks red as tomatoes Becky. lives, so recently lived (moments such as travelling to skin white as snow The bell rang so we got all cozy in our class. school, getting up earlier, making breakfast etc.), I telling me jokes, (By Kayleigh Corrigan Bennett) knew that they would lay down histories which making me laugh. future generations could read and learn from. St Brendan’s Primary School proved equally fruitful Our voices filled the cold air on the morning I visited. In keeping with the Mercy Powder with warm breath Primary School, I recognised names from childhood. This November morning, when I awoke in my bed ready to start the day. It was pleasing also to see the number of other I glanced across the room to see a little sleepy head; (By Lorraine McCarthy) cultures and nationalities who have made their home her hair as brown as cocoa powder here. New, strange sounding surnames add to the her face as pale as baby powder. In Lorraine McCarthy’s poem Awakening, she familiar. Hubert Zakrzewski’s poem, titled simply makes the journey across the ‘slippery road’ to her November Morning, is a camera eye cameo of his The smell of the fresh morning filled the air. granny’s house. Again, like most of the poems morning. I watched as my mother washed her hair written during the workshops, sensual imagery And I listened as her singing filled the air, abounds; ‘the smell of scented shampoo and body November Morning along with my father talking spray,’ and ‘tea filling my senses.’What I felt was When I woke up, a thick smell of coffee came upon about his mare. noteworthy about Awakening is the reference to my nose. (Megan Ward, sixth class, Mercy Primary) ‘cheeks red as tomatoes’ and ‘skin white as snow’. I stretched and yawned and I put on my clothes. The filtering in of fairy tale reference makes a solid I looked out the window and saw the blue sky. When I first read Megan Ward’s poem, I was filled claim for the influence of reading and how the I walked down the hallway while putting on my tie. with admiration. Wonderful imagery marks the familiar stories of childhood (Snow White, for poem out as memorable (‘hair brown as cocoa example) often act as scaffolding for story telling. As I left the house, my mom waved goodbye. powder’ is utterly unforgettable). This poem is The closing tercet in Awakening, is a beautiful Yet again, I admired the beautiful sky. political in that male and female lines are clearly evocation of ‘voice’and how it’s breathed into, rather The children’s laughter was all I could hear. drawn. Mother is associated with action (washing like an engine, to begin the mechanics of the day.
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