season brochure April-August 2020

1 What’s Coming This Season

DRAÍOCHT – VISUAL ARTS & ARTIST RESIDENCIES Opened in March and exhibiting until 30 May is ‘MAKing Art: PRINTing’, which explores and celebrates printmaking (pgs 46-47). The Ground Floor Gallery exhibition ‘New Impressions’, features artists Neil Dunne, Margot Galvin, Fiona Kelly and Aoife Scott. The First Floor Gallery exhibition features work from Graphic Studio, Fingal members, on the occasion of their 60th MAKING ART PRINTING PAGE 46 anniversary. Draíocht continues its INCUBATE Studio Residency Programme, including this season: Susan Buttner, whose practice is concerned with ideas around knowledge and power, and identity politics; and Orla Kelly, an artist well known for her stunning creations at our Toddler Takeover each year (pgs 50-51). Artists Susan Buttner, Ellen Duffy, John Rainey and Katherine Sankey will have their work included in ‘A World of their Own’ as part of PLATFORM 2020, an exhibition and series of associated performance events showcasing the work of emerging and early career artists (pgs 48-49). Draíocht’s two gallery spaces are free to visit and open Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm.

DRAÍOCHT - CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE Inspired by our printing exhibition, children aged 2-4 years can enjoy PLATFORM 2020 PAGE 48 ‘Stamping & Stencilling’ and ‘Wibbly Wobbly Lines’ workshops (pg 32), while artists Aoife Scott and Margot Galvin will show you their printing techniques at our Family Days (pg 34). Book early for our sensory friendly screening during the Easter Holidays of ‘Moana’ (pg 08); and get your dancing shoes on for ‘Tiny Dancer’ (pg 11). Draíocht’s 6th Toddler Takeover event takes place from 10-11 June for ages 1-5 years (pg 33), including a Sensory Friendly day. Did you know Draíocht’s Artists can come to your classroom (pgs 38-39)? Or pupils can come to Draíocht for a School Tour or to learn how to Drypoint and Monoprint (pg 40). We welcome The Abbey Theatre’s production of ‘Me, Mollser’ (pg 17) for pupils in 5th & 6th class. Second level THE TODDLER TAKEOVER PAGE 33 students, under the guidance of artist Bridget Flannery, can enjoy a Sketch Tour, or join artist Neil Dunne for a Silk Screen Printing Workshop (pg 41). Summer Projects take place in July (pg 42) and we’ve an Open Call for Youth Dance Companies who may like to take part in the IYDF 2020 (pg 43).

DRAÍOCHT - PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME Theatre audiences can look forward to meeting Pom Boyd’s ‘Windy Lady’ this Season (pg 16), and learning more about Maura Laverty, the ‘mammy of Irish cooking’ who died tragically in 1966 (pg 10). Coolmine Drama Circle will have you in stitches with ‘Abigail’s Party’ (pg 18) and Talking Shop Ensemble and Run of the Mill Theatre present ‘Making a Mark’, written and directed TINY DANCER PAGE 11 by Shaun Dunne (pg 30). We’re excited to present Fingal Africa Day 2020 in May for the first time (pg 22). Movies this season include ‘Judy’ (pg 09) and ‘Downton Abbey’ (pg 13), as well as a Free movie Screening for Bealtaine (pg 21). The Laughter Lounge goes on tour for the first time and we welcome Eric Lalor, John Colleary and Gar Murran to Draíocht (pg 12) and Dirtbirds are back with ‘No Filters’! Music enthusiasts have plenty to choose from, from Luan Parle (pg 11), Don Baker (pg 12) and The Illegals (pg 14), to The Classic Beatles (pg 20) and Red Hurley (pg 15).

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02 03 REFUNDS & EXCHANGES Bookings We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase except in the event of a cancellation by the venue.

Draíocht’s Box Office is open Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm. You can book RECORDING & PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY in person by calling into our Box Office during these hours, or by phone on Members of the public/audience members are not permitted to record 01-8852622, or Book Online anytime at www.draiocht.ie. A booking fee of €1 or photograph any event in Draíocht, including gallery exhibitions, events per ticket applies online. Booking by phone or in person incurs no booking with children on stage (in accordance with Draíocht’s Child Safeguarding fee. Payment is accepted by cash (in person only), cheque (with valid Policy), family days etc. cheque card) and by credit / debit card (Mastercard, Visa).

RESERVATIONS Reservations without payment are held for 24 hours only and then released Early Bird Offers and re-sold.

CONCESSIONS Be an early bird and book before 07 April for these new season shows and Draíocht offers concessions to the following customers: Students in full get these great discounts! time education & under 18’s / Senior Citizens – Over 65 / Registered Disabled Tickets must be paid in full before 07 April to avail of these Early Bird Offers. / Wheelchair Users / Carer (when accompanying registered disabled or A maximum of 6 tickets can be bought at these prices per person. wheelchair user) / Equity Card holders / Unemployed. Proof of status for Not applicable to group bookings. ALL concession seats purchased must be produced when collecting tickets from Box Office. BOX OFFICE 01 885 2622

GROUP BOOKINGS & SPECIAL OFFERS Buy 10 tickets and get your 10th ticket free. This offer applies to selected MAY - DRAMA show tickets purchased at the full price or concession price only and is The Windy Lady by Pom Boyd not available in conjunction with any other offer. SAT 02 MAY 8.15PM Full price: €16 / Early Bird: €14 / See page 16 Friends Scheme Members Offer Early Bird Offers MAY - FILM ACCESS La Belle Époque Draíocht is a fully accessible venue, with adapted toilets, wheelchair spaces in WED 06 MAY 7.30PM the auditorium, lift access to all levels inside the building and disabled parking Full price: €7.50 / Early Bird: €5 / See page 17 spaces directly outside our front door. Please tell us when booking if you have any special requirements and we will do our best to facilitate you. Wheelchair MAY - DRAMA spaces in both our Main Auditorium & Studio Space must be allocated at the The Experience of Being time of booking. They are limited and are on a first come first served basis. THU 21 MAY 8.15PM Full price: €16 / Early Bird: €14 / See page 21 LATECOMERS Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance at JUN - FILM the discretion of management. The Peanut Butter Falcon WED 03 JUN 7.30PM

BETELNUT CAFÉ & THEATRE BAR Full price: €7.50 / Early Bird: €5 / See page 23 Betelnut Café at Draíocht is open for breakfast, lunch and snacks from 9am- 5pm Monday to Saturday. The Betelnut Café stays open until 7.30pm on JUN - FILM performance nights for pre theatre refreshments. Our theatre bar is open for Military Wives pre-show drinks from 7.30pm and interval drinks may be pre-ordered at the WED 17 JUN 7.30PM theatre bar before the show. Please note, consumption of food is Full price: €7.50 / Early Bird: €5 / See page 26 not permitted in either theatre space.

04 05 Season at a Glance Diary Family Events & Youth Workshops CREATE DANCE PROJECT APR-JUN 37 APRIL-AUGUST 2020 D15 YOUTH THEATRE APR-JUN 43 BOOK NOW tel: 01 885 2622 or online www.draiocht.ie LOOK, TALK, DRAW, PLAY APR-AUG 35 MOANA SENSORY SCREENING 07 APR 3PM 08 Drama TINY DANCER 15 APR 3PM 11 EVENT DATE TIME PAGE EARLY YEARS: STAMPING WORKSHOP 20 APR 10AM & 11.45AM 32 MAURA LAVERTY - THIS WAS YOUR LIFE 09 APR 8PM 10 FAMILY DAY: UNPACK, REUSE & STAMP 25 APR 12PM-3PM 34 THE WINDY LADY BY POM BOYD 02 MAY 8.15PM 16 FAMILY DAY: MAGIC MONOPRINT 16 MAY 12PM-3PM 34 ABIGAIL’S PARTY 07-09 MAY 8.15PM 18 INTER-GENERATIONAL PRINT WORKSHOP 23 MAY 12PM & 2PM 35 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? 09 MAY 6PM 18 EARLY YEARS: WIBBLY WOBBLY LINES 26 MAY 10AM & 11.30AM 32 THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING 21 MAY 8.15PM 21 LEARN TO PLAY MUSIC DAY 27 MAY 1.30PM-5.30PM 36 AMPLIFY 05-06 JUN 7.30PM 24 THE TODDLER TAKEOVER SENSORY DAY 10 JUN 10.30AM-12.30PM 33 MAKING A MARK 10 JUL 8PM 30 THE TODDLER TAKEOVER 11 JUN 10AM-3PM 33

GROOVE SENSORY SHOW 13 JUN 2PM, 3PM, 4PM 25 Music DANCE MASTERCLASSES 27 JUN 12.15PM-4PM 29 BE OUR GUEST, COOLMINE MUSICAL 03-04 APR 8PM 08 SUMMER PROJECTS 29 JUN-27 JUL 42 LUAN PARLE - NEVER SAY GOODBYE 16 APR 8.15PM 11

DON BAKER - BLUES MAN TOUR 17 APR 8PM 12 THE ILLEGALS WITH NIAMH KAVANAGH 25 APR 8PM 14 School Shows, Workshops & Outreach THE GLEN CAMPBELL STORY 30 APR 8PM 14 ARTIST IN YOUR CLASSROOM APR-JUN 38-39 RED HURLEY - THE MUSIC OF MY LIFE 01 MAY 8PM 15 PRIMARY SCHOOL TOURS APR-JUN 40 FINGAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA 10 MAY 7PM 19 SECONDARY SCHOOL TOURS APR-JUN 41 THE CLASSIC BEATLES 15 MAY 8PM 20 SECONDARY CYCLE FILM SCREENINGS APR-MAY 41 TOM COLE JR 12 JUN 8PM 25 SILK SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP 21 APR 10AM & 12.30PM 41 FOCUS ON PRINTING WORKSHOPS 27-28 APR 10AM & 12.15PM 40 Comedy ME, MOLLSER BY ALI WHITE 05 MAY 10.15AM & 12.15PM 17 LAUGHTER LOUNGE LIVE TOUR 18 APR 8PM 12 CREATIVE DANCE RESIDENCY FOR TY 22-26 JUN VARIOUS 28 DIRTBIRDS - NO FILTERS 13 & 25 JUN 8PM 26 GROOVE IN THE COMMUNITY 25-26 JUN 44 CONNECT CLUB LAUREL LODGE JUL 44 Dance IRISH YOUTH DANCE FESTIVAL 27-28 JUN 8PM 27 Conference ARTS + HEALTH: CHECK UP CHECK IN 23 APR 9.30AM-5PM 13 Film JUDY (2019) 08 APR 7.30PM 09 Festival DOWNTON ABBEY (2019) 22 APR 7.30PM 13 FINGAL AFRICA DAY 2020 23 MAY 7PM 22 LA BELLE ÉPOQUE (2019) 06 MAY 7.30PM 17

BEALTAINE FREE SCREENING 20 MAY 7.30PM 21 Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Residencies THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON (2019) 03 JUN 7.30PM 23 JESS ROWELL - DANCE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MAR-NOV 45 MILITARY WIVES (2019) 17 JUN 7.30PM 26 STUDIO RESIDENCY: SUSAN BUTTNER 02 MAR-22 MAY 50

MAKING ART: PRINTING 25 MAR–30 MAY 46-47 Variety STUDIO RESIDENCY: ÓRLA KELLY 25 MAY-26 JUN 51 KIDKAST PRESENTATION 13 MAY 7.30PM 19 STUDIO RESIDENCY: SUSAN BUTTNER 29 JUN-18 SEP 50 REACH FOR THE STARS 16-17 MAY 8PM & 6PM 20 PLATFORM 2020 08 JUL-26 SEP 48-49 STARKIDS ON STAGE 29-30 MAY 3PM & 7.30PM 22 OPEN CALL INCUBATE 52 STAGEZONE ON STAGE 2020 20-21 JUN 2PM & 7.30PM 27 OPEN CALL HOME GROUND 53

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07 MUSICAL FILM Be Our Guest Judy (2019) Coolmine Musical Society WED 08 APR 7.30PM Main Auditorium €7.50 / €6 conc FRI 03 - SAT 04 APR 8PM Main Auditorium €20 / €17 conc CERT: 12A Language: English Dur: 118 mins

Come along and be our guest as Coolmine Musical Society brings some razzle-dazzle to your season. We will give you the greatest show and come what may, we’ll add some sparkle to your night out.

Director: Gladys Coyle Musical Director & Chorus Master: John Dawson Choreographer: Louise Hudson

FILM Moana (2016) Sensory Friendly Family Screening 1968: Having fallen on hard times and desperate to re-establish herself, Judy Garland (an Oscar winning Renée Zellweger) accepts a residency in London TUE 07 APR 3PM Draíocht Studio €5 adults & children Dur: 113 mins to perform a five-week, sold-out series of concerts. Separated from her children, who are back in Los Angeles where her ex-husband is fighting her for custody, and heavily dependant on drugs and alcohol, she reflects on her life, specifically her childhood, irreparably damaged by studio chief Louis B Mayer. Yet every night she still manages to dust herself off, welcome her fans and become ‘Judy Garland’, the star they all know and love.

‘Renée Zellweger is phenomenally good … the film captivates; it grabs you by the heart and demands adoration.’ The Observer ★★★★ ‘It’s a wonderful performance, as rich and alluring as a length of golden brocade, but one with appropriately ragged edges.’ Time Magazine Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a ‘Being back with Judy - even if it isn’t the “real” Judy - is like coming back millennium, their voyages stopped, and no one knows why ... Walt Disney home from a long, exhausting trip. It’s a reminder that there’s no place like Animation Studios’ Moana is about an adventurous teenager who, with home, and no one like Garland.’ L.A. Weekly help from demigod Maui (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and save her people. Enjoy our Sensory Screening with lowered volume, lights on a low level, small audience size, comfy beanbags and the ability to make noise and move around freely during the screening if you wish.

08 09 DRAMA FAMILY Maura Laverty - This Was Your Life Tiny Dancer: A DJ set for kids with DJ Donal Written by Yvonne Quinn and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh Dineen 8PM Main Auditorium €18 / €16 conc Dur: 75 mins THU 09 APR WED 15 APR 3PM Draíocht Studio €7 adults / €5 children Dur: 50 mins Age 0-9 yrs *

Let’s dance! It’s time for the kids to throw some shapes and bust out their best moves as DJ Donal Dineen hits the decks for a special musical rollercoaster ride. Expect dance tunes from every era and every corner of the globe. So if you’re ready to get into the groove, lace up your dancing shoes and grab those glowsticks! * Age 0-9 yrs - under 1s go free, but if you’re dancing you need a ticket! Commissioned and premiered by TRACKS: an initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

This sparkling new play, which premiered in the Viking Theatre in 2019, MUSIC spirits forgotten Irish celebrity Maura Laverty, Ireland’s famous broadcaster, agony aunt, playwright, writer of banned novels and iconic cookery books, Luan Parle - Never Say Goodbye back from the dead, to face a contemporary audience as a guest on the THU 16 APR 8.15PM Draíocht Studio €15 ‘This Was Your Life’ show.

Maura Laverty was a household name in Ireland for three decades. Known as the ‘mammy of Irish cooking’, she had her own ESB-sponsored radio show on RTE for thirty years, where she dispensed advice on relationships and cooking. She also toured the country giving cooking demonstrations and encouraging housewives to use electricity for cooking and other labour- saving devices. In the ‘60s her iconic cookbook ‘Full And Plenty’, with its unique blend of recipes and stories, was to be found in nearly every home in Ireland. She also wrote novels and short stories. Her work was often controversial and her novels were banned by the censors for their sexual frankness. In the 1950s she wrote three plays that saved The Gate Theatre Meteor & Tatler Award winner Luan Parle has had numerous hits and from financial ruin. She wrote Ireland’s first ever television soap opera for accolades including Meteor Award for Best Irish Female. Her top 10 hit RTE, Tolka Row. single ‘Ghost’ spent three months in the Irish Charts and was the most Maura Laverty died in tragic circumstance in 1966 and her body was not played Irish single of that year. Parle signed her first record deal at just discovered for nearly a week. In the play, Maura will be spirited back from 12 years of age before later signing with Sony Music & Elton John’s the dead to give a live cookery demonstration and to reveal some of the management company, Twenty First Artists. Luan will be playing songs secrets and stories from her tumultuous life, as she confronts the price she from her new album ‘Never Say Goodbye’, (released Feb 2020). The album paid for her success. Starring Malachy Mc Kenna and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh. features 10 original tracks including two co-writes with Dire Straits guitarist Directed by Joan Sheehy. Hal Lindes. This will be the fourth album release from the Wicklow born songstress. She will be accompanied by renowned guitarist Clive Barnes.

10 11 MUSIC FILM Don Baker Band - The Blues Man Tour Downton Abbey (2019) 8PM Main Auditorium €25 FRI 17 APR WED 22 APR 7.30PM Main Auditorium €7.50 / €6 conc CERT: PG Language: English Dur: 122 mins

To star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘In the Name of the Father’, headline with Tom Jones and Van Morrison at The Marlay Park Festival, have his Downton Abbey follows the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who songs recorded by scores of artists including Sinead O’Connor, Charlie worked for them at the turn of the 20th century in an Edwardian English McCoy, Damien Dempsey and Finbar Furey, tour at home and internationally country house. Over its 6 seasons on TV, the series garnered 3 Golden for 50 years; it can clearly be seen that Don Baker’s career in the Globe Awards, 15 Primetime Emmy Awards and 69 Emmy nominations entertainment industry has been amazing. But it is in his love of The Blues, in total, making Downton Abbey the most nominated non-US television of the harmonica and of performing live that Don really shines. Bono’s show in the history of the Emmys - even earning a Special BAFTA award favourite harmonica player is first and foremost, a true entertainer. and a Guinness World Record for the highest critically rated TV show along the way. The story of the Crawley family continues where the television series left off. Starring: Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, COMEDY Tuppence Middleton, Hugh Bonneville. Laughter Lounge LIVE Tour With Eric Lalor, John Colleary & Gar Murran CONFERENCE SAT 18 APR 8PM Main Auditorium €20 / €18 conc Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2020

THU 23 APR 9.30AM-5PM Main Auditorium €30

Ireland’s leading national arts and health event is open to arts practitioners, healthcare professionals and anyone interested in learning more about this exciting field. Featuring a keynote address by Dr Jenny Elliott, Artistic Director of Arts Care (Belfast), plus presentations and workshops by some of the most innovative and creative practitioners working in arts and health in Ireland today, this is the ‘go to’ event to share ideas, exchange practice and be inspired.

The Laughter Lounge opened its doors in Dublin in December 1997 and Check Up Check In 2020 is organised by www.artsandhealth.ie, quickly established itself as Ireland’s premier comedy venue. Over the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) and Create, the national years, 4,000 comedians have performed in 3,000 live shows to an audience development agency for collaborative arts, with local partners of over 1 million. Now they want to make the whole of Ireland laugh, not Draíocht and Fingal County Council Arts Office, and is funded by the just Dublin, so guess what? They’re going on tour! Come see the Laughter Arts Council and the HSE. Lounge’s most requested acts - Eric Lalor, John Colleary and Gar Murran for Booking through www.artsandhealth.ie one craic’in night out! Age 15+, some adult content & strong language.

12 13 MUSIC MUSIC The Illegals with Niamh Kavanagh 2020 Red Hurley - The Music of My Life

SAT 25 APR 8PM Main Auditorium €20 / €16 conc FRI 01 MAY 8PM Main Auditorium €29.50

Widely regarded as one of the best live tribute acts in the country, The Multi-award-winning Irish vocalist Red Hurley is one of Ireland’s most Illegals are back with their ever-popular classic-rock revival show replicating enduring entertainers whose career has spanned several decades to the the sound of the world’s two greatest rock bands. Led by Niamh Kavanagh, present day. Affectionately referred to as ‘The Voice’ amongst his peers, Red The Illegals will take you on a journey for three hours of soulful harmonies, has the gift of singing all genres of music. Several decades of adapting to exciting riffs, blistering guitars and unforgettable songs. Expect songs like the many varieties of entertainment and entertaining thousands of people ‘Hotel California’, ‘Go Your Own Way’, ‘Life In The Fast Lane’, ‘Take It Easy’, around the world has made Red the consummate concert artist. ‘Say That You Love Me’, ‘Love Will Keep Us Alive’, ‘The Chain’ and ‘New Kid ‘He will find the key element of any song – a single note or phrase – and In Town’. elevate that into an unexpected little musical jewel.’ Irish Independent

MUSIC The Glen Campbell Story - Gentle on My Mind

THU 30 APR 8PM Main Auditorium €25

With state of the art video projection and lighting, the show will take you on a truly amazing journey with some of Glen Campbell’s best known hits, from ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ to ‘Wichita Lineman’. Starring master guitarist and well known country music personality, Ciarán Rosney. Joining Ciarán is his 5 piece band, featuring such well known musicians as Billy Burgoyne (former band leader and drummer with Daniel O’Donnell) and fiddle player extraordinaire, Denise Boyle.

14 15 DRAMA DRAMA The Windy Lady Me, Mollser by Ali White An Axis Ballymun Production An Abbey Theatre Production

SAT 02 MAY 8.15PM Draíocht Studio €16 / €14 conc €14 TUE 05 MAY 10.15AM & 12.15PM Draíocht Studio €7 adults / €5 children / 2 teachers free per class of 20+ / Age 10+, 5th & 6th Class Pupils / Dur: 60 mins

‘Me, Mollser’ puts the character of Mollser from Sean O’Casey’s ‘The Plough and the Stars’, centre stage. This compelling, funny and poignant performance is designed specifically for young audiences. The play introduces children to a strong-willed and passionate young woman coping with consumption against the backdrop of the 1913 Lock-Out and the Easter Rising. Mollser is a proud Dubliner struggling to thrive in the overcrowded tenements but having lost none of her curiosity and idealism.

MUSIC A lesson in laughter and life ‘The Windy Lady’ invites you to share the FILM contents of her mind, her shopping bag and her biscuit tin. Original, La Belle Époque (2019) anarchic and very funny ‘The Windy Lady’ dances at the crossroads where Stand Up and Theatre meet, in this very special show – where you’ll be WED 06 MAY 7.30PM Main Auditorium €7.50 / €6 conc welcomed into her madcap world of hairnets, turkeys, the healing power CERT: 15A Language: French (English Subtitles) Dur: 115 mins €5 of a cuppa and Vladimir Putin. Witty, warm and delightfully irreverent, Pom Boyd’s ‘The Windy Lady’ is a subversively witty and charming celebration of animals, old-womanhood and ordinary life.

Presented in partnership with Age & Opportunity as part of the nationwide Bealtaine Festival – celebrating the arts and creativity as we age.

‘The Windy Lady’ is an original character created by Pom Boyd. This production was commissioned by Axis Ballymun. This tour was funded by the Arts Council and Age & Opportunity. Additional support by The Irish Theatre Institute. Axis is core funded by Dublin City Council. Illustrator Victor and his wife Marianne seem to have nothing in common Written and performed by Pom Boyd. any more. He detests the modern technologies that she can’t seem to live without. When Victor is offered a re-enactment service that allows customers to live in any era of their choice, he chooses to go back to the rainy day in 1975, when he first met Marianne … Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Fanny Ardant and Doria Tillier.

‘…the most thoroughly entertaining big-screen French farce in a very long time …’ The Hollywood Reporter

16 17 DRAMA MUSIC Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh Fingal Youth Orchestra - Annual Celebration Coolmine Drama Circle Concert 2020 8.15PM Draíocht Studio €18 / €15 conc THU 07-SAT 09 MAY SUN 10 MAY 7PM Main Auditorium €15 / €10 conc

Set in 1970s UK Suburbia, this play tells the story of a drinks party at Comprising of just under 60 members, FYO nurtures the orchestral playing Beverly’s house which allows her and her husband Laurence to get to know of musicians ranging from 8 to 18 years of age. The four musical staff new neighbours, Angela and Tony, with a visit from Susan, whose daughter members work together tirelessly to bring out the best in each and every Abigail is throwing a party a few doors down. Marital problems, hatred and player. FYO fosters a love for orchestral playing, cultivating musical talent desire all make an appearance, along with cheese & pineapple cocktail sticks, and musical appreciation in an atmosphere of enjoyment and teamwork. a few olives and copious drinks. Since its formation in 1972, Coolmine Spanning a huge repertoire of music, from concertos to pop songs, FYO Drama Circle has been entertaining audiences both young and old, and has adopts a non-competitive and motivational approach to all its activities. presented no less than 66 productions locally, nationally and in the UK. www.fingalorchestra.ie

DRAMA What Would You Like? Romanian Community of Ireland VARIETY SAT 09 MAY 6PM Main Auditorium €35 Kidkast Presentation 2020 Kidkast Castleknock

WED 13 MAY 7.30PM Main Auditorium €18 / €14 conc

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco, the French essay writer Pascal Bruckner created a frothy sitcom, an experience that each one of us could go through at some stage. A customer (Maia Morgenstern) enters a coffee shop, however she does not know what to order. She hopes that the Kidkast Castleknock are delighted to be showcasing their year’s work waiter (Rodica Mandache) will solve her dilemma. The waiter, a very good in Draíocht this year. Come see their fantastic students, ranging in age seller, leads her customer into a nervous breakdown. God (Chris Simion from 3-14 years, demonstrate their dancing, singing and acting skills. – Mercurian) meets with both of them, gives them a life lesson and sends It’s guaranteed to be a fun night of entertainment with something for them the bill. Language: Romanian. everyone. Under the direction of Eunice McMenamin.

18 19 MUSIC FILM The Classic Beatles - Let it Be - 50 Years On Bealtaine Free Screening 8PM Main Auditorium €25 / €23 conc FRI 15 MAY WED 20 MAY 7.30PM Main Auditorium Free

‘Let It Be’ was the twelfth and final studio album from the world’s greatest Thousands of older people all over the country take part in the Bealtaine band. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group’s Festival each year during the month of May, celebrating creativity in older break-up, in tandem with the motion picture of the same name. The Classic age. Draíocht in association with access>CINEMA are delighted to host Beatles will perform the album from start to finish, followed by a collection the May Film Tour here on 20 May, a programme of curated films specially of the fab four’s greatest hits. A Classic Beatles show brings all the joys of selected with older audiences in mind. Stay tuned for updates on this Beatledom to a whole new generation and allows first-generation fans to Special Film Screening and we look forward to welcoming you to celebrate relive the music that changed our lives forever. As well as many costume creativity in older age with us during May. Tickets are free and early booking changes, the band also partake in the witty banter for which The Beatles is advised. were equally famous.

DRAMA VARIETY Reach for the Stars 2020 The Experience of Being Written and performed by Carol Moore The Norma Breen Hurley Theatre School THU 21 MAY 8.15PM Draíocht Studio €16 / €14 conc Dur: 60 mins €14 SAT 16 MAY 8PM / SUN 17 MAY 6PM Main Auditorium €25

The Norma Breen Hurley Theatre School presents an energetic and fast- On her 60th birthday Cathy should be celebrating, but it rapidly goes moving evening of song and dance, showcasing the children’s talents with downhill. This is an empowering story of a woman who decides to take well-known celebrity guests. back control. ‘In the shop they didn’t see me. They saw a warm cardigan and sensible shoes woman. An insignificant woman.’The Experience of Produced and Directed by Norma Breen Hurley. Being is a funny, absorbing and moving one-woman play about dwindling power, how to challenge it and why ageism makes growing older far harder than it needs to be. Written and performed by Carol Moore, in association with An Grianán Theatre. Directed by Patrick J. O’Reilly.

20 21 FESTIVAL FILM Fingal Africa Day 2020 The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) In association with Fingal County Council WED 03 JUN 7.30PM Main Auditorium €7.50 / €6 conc SAT 23 MAY 7PM Main Auditorium Free Event CERT: 12A Language: English Dur: 97 mins €5

Celebrated in Ireland since 2006, the nationwide programme of free events, to mark Africa Day 2020, comes to Draíocht for the first time. This is a celebratory event highlighting Ireland-Africa connections and how Africans and people with African heritage have integrated into Irish society and enriched the communities in which they live. Supported by Irish Aid and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the evening’s programme of music, spoken word and theatre will feature a line-up of professional artists representing the very best of African culture. Early booking is advised.

VARIETY Zak, a 22-year-old wrestling enthusiast with Down Syndrome, lives in a retirement home because the state has nowhere else for him. After Starkids on Stage 2020 numerous failed attempts, he finally breaks out and heads cross-country FRI 29 – SAT 30 MAY 3PM & 7.30PM Main Auditorium €16 / €13 conc to find his favourite wrestler, The Salt Water Redneck. Stowing away in the boat of a troubled outlaw named Tyler, Zak manages to convince Tyler to help him get to a wrestling school run by his hero. The two set off on an adventure through the stunning North Carolina Outer Banks. Along the way they hunt, fish, drink and share their secrets. But hot on their heels is nursing home volunteer Eleanor, sent to bring Zak home.

This modern-day Huckleberry Finn type drama is a pure, feel-good adventure. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen.

‘An odyssey audiences won’t soon forget.’ Variety

‘Deeply textured, deeply felt Americana.’ The Irish Times Join the amazingly talented performers from Starkids Stage School for a ★★★★ fantastic jaw-dropping show to remember, as they take you on a journey ‘Harks back to the ragged romanticism of a Huck Finn adventure … this through some of your favourite musicals including ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘The Lion shambling buddy movie really works.’ The Observer King’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’. This show is not to be missed and ★★★★ one for all the family. www.starkids.ie

22 23 DRAMA MUSIC AMPLIFY Tom Cole Jr - Songs that Shaped the World

FRI 05 – SAT 06 JUN 7.30PM Draíocht Studio FREE FRI 12 JUN 8PM Main Auditorium €20 / €18 conc

Amplify is a devised piece of work arising out of a 9 month collaboration If you are of the age who remembers the nostalgic years of the 30s, 40s, 50s with writer and actor Sorcha Fox, Coolmine, Ashleigh House addiction and 60s, the great songs of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, recovery centre in Damastown, D15 and Draíocht, Blanchardstown (see pg The Rat Pack, Nat King Cole; The great big band and swing hits of the 60s, 56). Funded by CREATE, through the Artist in the Community Scheme with Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more, then you have to experience additional funding provided by Draíocht, ‘Amplify’ comes from and belongs the man they are calling the new King of Swing. Tom Cole Jr. endeavours to to the women in recovery in Ashleigh House. Come join us for these very keep alive the timeless evergreen songs from the golden age of swing and special performances, set in the ‘Feedback Café’ and which had its genesis The Great American songbook. in the Home Theatre (Ireland) project when Sorcha met Rachel and other FAMILY women in recovery. GROOVE - Anna Newell Theatre Adventures

SAT 13 JUN 2PM (1-8 yrs), 3PM (9-13 yrs), 4PM (14-18 yrs) Draíocht Workshop Room €5 (accompanying adults free) Dur: 20 mins show + 20 mins play

GROOVE is a chilled out theatre adventure for children and young people with complex needs, created by a team of award-winning artists. It is an immersive experience which happens inside a purpose-built portable performance space, with audience members in their own special seating, chilling out to this 60’s/70’s inspired adventure full of live singing, tactile experience and gorgeous hypnotic projections. Each show is limited to 4 young people with complex needs, plus one adult guest each.

Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and presented in association with The Civic, Tallaght. This show is available to tour in Dublin 15 on 25 and 26 June 2020. See pg 44 for full details.

24 25 COMEDY VARIETY Dirtbirds - No Filters Stagezone on Stage 2020 Stagezone Theatre School SAT 13 & THU 25 JUN 8PM Main Auditorium €24 / €22 conc SAT 20 – SUN 21 JUN 2PM & 7.30PM Main Auditorium €17 / €15 conc

In a world where women are expected to have the patience of Mother Teresa, the arse of Jennifer Lopez, the social media profile of Kim Kardashian Join the energetic young stars of Stagezone Theatre School with a show and the BMI of Elle McPherson, the pressure is relentless. Dirtbirds, the for all the family, packed with great songs and dance routines. This year comedy duo and internet sensation, present their hilarious new show ‘No students will perform ‘Save our Planet’, ‘Rockstars’, ‘The Grunge’, ‘Hairspray’, Filters’ which takes a close look at the barrage of bullshit we are subjected to ‘Glee’ and ‘The Addams Family’ together with hip hop, contemporary and tap on a daily basis and reminds us that despite what we’re told, there is routines. Stagezone is based in Draíocht with classes for boys and girls from NO SUCH THING AS PERFECT ... (except maybe Jamie Dornan’s arse in Fifty 5 years of age to young adults. www.stagezone.ie Shades Darker). Perfect women not allowed in!

DANCE FILM Irish Youth Dance Festival 2020 Military Wives (2019) DYDC in collaboration with Draíocht & Fingal County Council

WED 17 JUN 7.30PM Main Auditorium €7.50 / €6 conc SAT 27 – SUN 28 JUN 8PM Main Auditorium CERT: 12A Language: English Dur: 112 mins €5 €14 / €12 conc / Family of 4 €40

The inspirational story of friendship, love, and support on the home front. Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, this unique and hugely popular festival offers A group of women come together as their partners serve in Afghanistan. audiences the opportunity to see the most exciting up-and-coming young Together they form the very first military wives choir, helping each other contemporary dance talent Ireland has to offer, along with Masterclasses, through some of life’s most difficult moments and also becoming a media International Dance Residencies and performances (see pgs 28-29). The sensation and global movement in the process. Peter Cattaneo (The Full festival will also feature international companies and artists including The Monty) directs Oscar Nominee and BAFTA Winner Kristin Scott Thomas National Youth Dance Company of Scotland, new work by Irish Choreographer (Darkest Hour) and BAFTA Nominee Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) in this Liz Roche, emerging Irish artist Hannah Rogerson, American choreographer feel good crowd-pleaser. Toni Bravo with Diverse Space Youth Dance Theatre and Brazilian choreographer Anderson de Souza.

26 27 DANCE FESTIVAL

Dancers Day: Masterclasses

SAT 27 JUN 12.15-4PM Main Auditorium €10 per class

Irish Youth Dance Festival 2020 at Draíocht As part of the IYDF 2020 activities, there are masterclasses available in Presented by Dublin Youth Dance Company (DYDC) in Contemporary Dance, Jazz and Urban. collaboration with Draíocht and Fingal County Council 12.15PM – 1.30PM Jazz Arts Office 1.45PM – 2.30PM Contemporary Dance As well as the weekend performances (pg 27), other activities for the 2.45PM – 4PM Urban festival in Draíocht include: a Creative Dance Residency for Transition Year students (22-26 June), Masterclasses with International Guest Teachers (27 June) and an opportunity for Young Creators to display their own Booking through Box Office 01-8852622 or Online www.draiocht.ie choreography as part of the night time performances. These Masterclasses are FREE for festival participants. Creative Dance Residency for Transition Year students

MON 22 – FRI 26 JUN

This week long residency for young people, in Draíocht’s Studio with teacher and choreographer Sue Malone, is the second stage of an exciting 10 week long contemporary dance project that took place with transition year students in Spring 2020. TY students from Hartstown Community School, Blakestown Community School and Riversdale Community College took part in a contemporary dance project, which also gave the students the option to continue on into the summer dance residency. Young Creators Platform Over the 5 days of the dance residency in June, participants will work SUN 28 JUN 8PM Main Auditorium €14 / €12 conc / Family of 4 €40 together with DYDC facilitator Sue Malone, exploring and creating a contemporary dance piece for performance. The resulting dance piece will be performed at the Young Creators Platform on Sunday 28th June, Young dancers aged 12-25 years will perform their own choreographic alongside other young dancers from around the country and abroad, and works and share their creativity in front of a supportive audience. It is dancers from Draíocht’s Create Dance project. a great opportunity for young dancers to present their work and get feedback from the audience at the Q&A after the performance. Further If you are a transition year co-coordinator from any Dublin 15 based information about applying for Young Creators Platform from Mariam school and are interested in your TY students taking part in this project in Ribon at [email protected] or see page 43. 2021, please contact [email protected] or tel 01 8098029. This projects is supported with funding from Fingal County Council Arts Office.

28 29 DRAMA Coming Next Season – Making A Mark Talking Shop Ensemble & Run of the Mill Theatre Now Booking

FRI 10 JUL 8PM Main Auditorium €18 / €16 conc / €14 groups 10+

SEPTEMBER – FILM / YOUTH / ART Culture Night FRI 18 SEP 4PM-10PM Main Auditorium FREE

OCTOBER - MUSIC The 4 of Us SAT 03 OCT 8.15PM Draíocht Studio €25

OCTOBER - DRAMA An Evening with Michael Harding FRI 15 & SAT 16 OCT 8PM Main Auditorium €20

Mark has competed in the World Games, played King Lear before, packed OCTOBER - MUSIC houses and packed bags for 20 years in Tesco’s … But that’s not even half The Fureys the story. Part live interview, part self-led confessional, this is Mark’s life and he’s ready to take a seat at the table. FRI 23 OCT 8PM Main Auditorium €30 Ambition, disruption, grief and frustration. He hopes this show will be the making of him. Are you ready for what he has to say? OCTOBER - COMEDY Gearóid Farrelly – Alchemy Following a sell out premiere production at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 FRI 30 OCT 8.15PM (nominated for Best Production, Best Performer, Wilde Courage Award & Winner of the Judge’s Choice Award), Making A Mark returns for a National Draíocht Studio €14 / €12 conc Tour. NOVEMBER - COMEDY Written + Directed by Shaun Dunne Featuring + Co-Created by Mark Smith + Aisling Byrne Des Bishop – Mia Mamma Produced by Killian Coyle THU 19 NOV 8PM Set Design + Costume Design by Sarah Foley Main Auditorium €28 / €26 conc Lighting Design by Eoin Winning Sound Design by Jack Cawley Photography + Film + Visual Design by Luca Trufarelli

This production is funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Kildare Book Now tel 01-8852622 County Council with support from Draíocht Blanchardstown and Project Arts Centre. Full show details available on www.draiocht.ie Developed in conjunction with Axis Ballymun Playground Residency, The Abbey Theatre 5X5 initiative, and at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival and Arts & Disability Ireland. Shaun Dunne is a resident artist of Project Arts Centre.

30 31 Draíocht and Early Years The Toddler Takeover – For Ages 1-5 Years A big event celebrating the creative lives of very young children

WED 10 JUN 10.30AM-12.30PM THU 11 JUN 10AM-3PM Draíocht

Exploring More With Early Years Arts This series of individual monthly workshops is intended to allow you and your child to explore printing and to celebrate the exhibition MAKing Art: PRINTing (see pgs 46-47) in two different ways with two different artists. There will be mess but there will also be fun! Cost: €5 Per Child Per Workshop (Accompanying Adult is Free). Booking and further information from Box Office on 01-8852622. Printing is fun, and is also messy, so make sure to DRESS FOR MESS. Stamping And Stencilling With Anne Cradden

MON 20 APR DRAÍOCHT WORKSHOP ROOM €5 AGE 2-4 YRS 10AM-10.50AM & 11.45AM-12.35PM (50 MINS) This is Draíocht’s 6th Toddler Takeover event which celebrates the limitless imagination of the very young child and the magic that happens when it is Explore the fabulous shapes and colours that can be created with stamping; combined with the world of artists and the arts. play with pre-made stamps to see the magic of stencilling and mixing of This year we explore the wonderful and curious elements of earth, air, fire inks. This workshop has been created to gently support you and your child’s and water; finding the gooey beauty of clay and earth, the airy movement engagement of our current exhibition. of dancers, gravity’s ups and downs, the awesomeness of rainbow light and its sound, with mini footprints, small hidden worlds and big fun. With a Wibbly Wobbly Lines With Jane Fogarty combination of book-in and free drop-in events, children are invited to bring TUE 26 MAY DRAÍOCHT WORKSHOP ROOM €5 AGE 2-4 YRS their insatiable curiosity and their adults to explore, discover new art forms, 10AM-11AM & 11.30AM-12.30PM (60 MINS) create, play, do a dance, see a dance, draw, explore and nurture creative potential, while having fun too.

We will play with shapes, colours and wibbly-wobbly lines through basic Booking opens on Tue 5th May 2020, 10am, tel: 01-8852622. Book-in printmaking techniques. This workshop has been created to gently support workshops and shows cost €5 per child (accompanying adult free). you and your child’s engagement of our current exhibition. WED 10 JUN 10.30AM-12.30PM – SENSORY FRIENDLY Leading on from the success of last year, this year we will also have a special sensory day. This will have limited capacity. Events and workshops will be adapted to suit the needs of young children with additional needs. This WORKSHOP NOTES: event needs to be pre-booked. Please contact Paula directly if you have a These workshops are designed for children aged 2-4 years. Please respect age limits as each workshop has been designed especially for this age range. All children must group or a child that you think might be interested in coming along. be accompanied by an adult and all adults must be accompanied by a child. Where To pre-register for advance information, email [email protected] with indicated please DRESS FOR MESS and bring a change of clothes. These sessions are ‘Toddler Takeover’ in the subject field or [email protected] only suitable for one parent/guardian and accompanying child (without siblings).

32 33 Draíocht and Families

Booking tel: 01-8852622

Inter-Generational Print Making Workshop With Fiona Kelly

SAT 23 MAY Draíocht Galleries 12PM-1.15PM & 2PM-3.15PM (75 MINS) €5 PER PERSON / FOR CHILDREN AGED 8+ AND THEIR GRANDPARENT

Join artist Fiona Kelly for this printing workshop that celebrates the MAKing Art: PRINTing exhibition (see pgs 46-47) and the unique relationship that exists between families. Learn about the process of drypoint printmaking, use a printing machine and see if there is something new you can learn from each other.

Family Day: Unpack, Reuse And Stamp

SAT 25 APR Draíocht Galleries 12PM-3PM

Aoife Scott prints onto plastic, using plastic and creates beautiful 3D work. Meet Aoife and be inspired by her ideas of recycling and re-using materials through art. We will use some non-traditional printing materials, creating stamps from plastic packaging to make prints of our own.

Family Day: Magic Monoprint SAT 16 MAY Draíocht Galleries 12PM-3PM Look, Talk, Draw, Play

Printing is a kind of magic, with an instant cause and effect. Using colours, CHILDREN’S GALLERY GUIDE inks, lines and rollers, come and feel this messy magic yourself, explore the exhibition and meet the artist Margot Galvin. Learn about her work and be Come and pick up Draíocht’s new Children’s Gallery Guide (free from inspired to create some prints of your own. Draíocht’s Creative Corner during opening hours) to help you and your family explore our exhibitions and building at your own pace and in your own time. Help yourself to our chalk boards, packs and large floor cushions! FAMILY DAY NOTES Look around the building, talk about the artwork, draw with the viewfinder, Sessions are free, but space is limited. Max 50 per workshop play a game of I Spy in the gallery! This gallery guide was designed and Session 1: 12PM – 12.50PM created with generous support from Creative Fingal’s Cruinniú na nÓg 2019 Session 2: 1PM – 1.50PM programme, an initiative of Creative Ireland, in collaboration with Kotryna Session 3: 2PM – 2.50PM Kotoviciute from TU Dublin Blanchardstown’s, Creative Digital Media Dress for Mess. Unless otherwise stated workshops are designed for children from Degree course. Draíocht’s Creative Corner was designed by Artist Andrew 5-10 years, though younger and older siblings are welcome to take part. Please be Carson. aware that Draíocht’s Family Days are not designed for groups. All children must be accompanied by an adult and all adults must be accompanied by a child!

3434 35 Learn To Play Music Day With Castleknock School of Music Mini Music & Instrumental Classes

WED 27 MAY 1.30PM-5.30PM €5 AGES 6 MONTHS TO 8+ YEARS

Ever wondered what it would be like to play a piano, pluck a violin string or blow into a saxophone? Well, now you can with Castleknock School of Music’s ‘Learn to Play Music Day’, where you can come and try a range of instruments. There are also ‘Mini Music Classes’ available for ages 6 months Create Dance Project to 7 years. This promises to be a great afternoon to learn a little about APR-JUN 2020 music and have some fun. Advance booking essential on tel: 01-8852622. Create Dance, now in its 8th year, is a core part of Draíocht’s programming. Ages Mini Music & Instrumental Classes Times It’s a fun, innovative dance project, where our young dancers, with a variety 6 – 24 Months Mini Music: Busy Babies 1.30PM – 2.00PM of intellectual disabilities and abilities, love to dance and move. Dancers and facilitators, Mark Rogers, Antje O’Toole and Conor Donelan, work together 2 – 3 Years Mini Music: Bonny Bluebirds 2.10PM – 2.40PM with participants and their parents to explore all types of dance and free 3 – 4 Years Mini Music: Red Robins 2.50PM – 3.20PM movement, ending each workshop with the all-important solo dance. 4 – 5 Years Mini Music: Pink Bears 3.30PM – 4.00PM Over the next two terms, our dancers will begin to work with Draíocht’s 5 – 6 Years Try it Out: Pathway to Piano 3.30PM – 4.00PM 2020 Dance Artist in Residence, Jess Rowell and Dancer Brian McSweeney 5 – 6 Years Mini Music: Yellow Bunnies 4.00PM – 4.30PM (see pg 45), on a new piece of choreography to showcase alongside other dancers as part of the Irish Youth Dance Festival 2020 (see pgs 28-29). 5 – 6 Years Try it Out: Adventures in Violin 4.30PM – 5.00PM Create Dance will also be collaborating with Lamh Signs Ireland to create 6 – 7 Years Try it Out: Adventures in Violin 3.30PM – 4.00PM another very special piece of choreography to showcase later in 2020.

6 – 7 Years Try it Out: Gateway to Guitar 4.00PM – 4.30PM There are currently spaces available for children aged 6-8 years of age. If 6 – 7 Years Mini Music: Green Frogs 4.30PM – 5.00PM you have a child of that age with a love of dance, please get in touch with Paula, [email protected] or tel 01-8098029. During term time, workshops 6 – 7 Years Try it Out: Pathway to Piano 5.00PM – 5.30PM are on Saturdays: Juniors (Age 6-12 yrs): 12.15PM-1.15PM and Seniors 7+ Years Try it Out: Adventures in Violin 4.00PM – 4.30PM (Age 13-17 yrs) 1.30PM-2.30PM. Pre booking for this project is essential. 7+ Years Try it Out: Pathway To Piano 4.30PM – 5.00PM 7+ Years Try it Out: Gateway to Guitar 5.00PM – 5.30PM 8+ Years Try it Out: Flute / Clarinet / Saxophone 2.50PM – 3.30PM

36 37 Draíocht and Primary Schools Print In Your Classroom

Age Range: 3rd-6th Class Duration: 2 Class Groups get a 2 hr Workshop Each Artist: Deirdre O’Reilly Draíocht’s Artist in Your Classroom Initiative Deirdre will introduce your pupils to a number of different print making Workshops In Your Classroom With Draíocht’s Artists techniques, before they work together to plan, create and produce a series MON 06 APR - FRI 12 JUN of limited edition original prints. Print making allows pupils to explore the endless possibilities of shape and colour, line and pattern and offers This programme aims to provide a range of high quality arts experiences opportunities to create individual and collaborative works of art. All materials for primary school pupils and teachers in their own classroom, working will be provided. A must-do cross curricular creative workshop for your class.. with Draíocht’s professional artists. Your school can choose from the range of specially selected and purposefully created school workshops below. This Season, pupils will have the opportunity to perform, print and sing. Workshops are tailored to your class’s age and abilities. Drama In Your Classroom

Age Range: Adaptable To All Age Ranges Duration: Junior/Senior Inf: 4 Class Groups get 45 min Workshop Each / 1st Class Upwards: 2 Class Groups get 1.5hr Workshop Each Artist: Eimear Morrissey

Using a theme of your choice as a starting point, Eimear Morrissey introduces pupils to the wonderful world of theatre through imaginative fun collective group games. The workshop will explore different ways of engaging the imagination, of thinking creatively, seeing, listening, new ways of communicating and expression, as well as building confidence. Pupils will work together towards a common goal of creating a short improvised performance piece, giving them the opportunity to experience the creation of something from nothing!

Workshop Notes & Bookings Music And Singing In Your Classroom Workshops can take place from 06 April – 12 June on a date of your Age Range: Adaptable To All Age Ranges. Duration: 3 Class Groups get 60 choosing. Closing date for Bookings is Friday 01 May min Workshop Each Artist: Dónal Kearney The programme is offered on a first come first served basis and is restricted This music and singing workshop introduces pupils to the potential of to schools within the Dublin 15 area. Each day is subsidised by Draíocht making music with their own voice. The workshop focuses on building and costs the school €120 including all materials. Schools are welcome to listening skills, encouraging creative play, and creating music using the voice make multiple bookings, subject to artist availability, but due to budgetary and the instruments available in each school. Based on years of research in constraints, the above subsidised workshop rate is limited to two days per music education and practical choral training, Dónal and his team at Fingal school. For further details please contact Paula on 01-809 8029 or email Academy of Music believe in the power and benefits of music engagement. [email protected]

38 39 Draíocht & Secondary Schools

Preparing For Section 3 Art Appreciation MAKing Art: PRINTing Sketch Tours

APR - MAY €25 per class Dur: 60mins

The exhibition ‘MAKing Art: PRINTing’ (see pgs 46-47) provides an excellent opportunity for your students to engage with a local gallery, a range of Focus On Printing artists and an interesting collection, including a selection of works by Drypoint & Mono-Printing With Aoife Scott Fingal artists represented by Graphic Studio Dublin. Facilitated by artist Bridget Flannery, this tour gives students the opportunity to ask questions MON 27 & TUES 28 APR Draíocht Workshop Room 10AM-11.30AM OR and explores how Draíocht lays out, installs, displays and lights work. This 12.15PM-1.45PM AGE RANGE: 3rd-6th Class Pupils Cost: €45 per class can feed directly in to this section of the Leaving Certificate Art exam paper, which often includes a question on visiting an exhibition or a gallery After a facilitated exploration of the exhibition MAKing Art: PRINTing, space. Students will also have an opportunity to make notes, sketches and featured artist Aoife Scott will lead a workshop introducing basic printing diagrams. Contact Paula on 01-8098029 to arrange a time and date for skills. Using a number of different techniques and our printing press, pupils your sketch tour. All materials will be provided. Please give at least 2 weeks’ experience the magic of making plates and printing. The process of printing notice. Max 30 students per class with accompanying teacher. Limited encourages not only thoughts and ideas, but experimenting with layering, number of tours available, early booking advised. colours, shapes, lines and textures in new ways with unexpected outcomes.

Limited to 1 class per school but other classes are welcome to be part of a waiting list. Please get in touch with Paula on 01-8098029 if cost is an issue Exploring The Art Of Silk Screen Printing for your school. Max of 30 pupils per class. With Neil Dunne

TUE 21 APR 10AM-11.30AM or 12.30PM-2PM Age Range: 1st yr-6th yr students Cost: €45 per class

After a facilitated visit to the current printing exhibition (see pgs 46-47), exhibition artist, Neil Dunne, will lead a response workshop where he will introduce and demonstrate the process of silk screen printing. Students will create prints onto paper, using inks and adding elements with markers, paint and pencil work, responding directly to the artists own exhibition works.

Limited to 1 class per school but other classes are welcome to be part of a Explore More - Primary School Tours waiting list. Please get in touch with Paula on 01-8098029 if cost is an issue for your school. Max of 30 students per class. Visit Draíocht’s exhibition ‘MAKing Art: PRINTing’ (see pgs 46-47) and explore the process of making prints and contemporary art making. These Secondary Cycle Film Screenings 2020 tours will encourage pupils to examine and voice their opinion about the artist and their work and explore the rest of the building including If you are interested in arranging a screening of a film for your school’s Draíocht’s two theatre spaces, backstage and dressing rooms. Please get in students, please do get in touch to discuss the possibility of this. Screening touch with [email protected]. Tours will take approx 50mins, are free, but will be possible in accordance with the availability of the film and the are subject to availability. Max 30 pupils with accompanying teacher. auditorium and with a minimum number of 100 pupils. For further details please contact Paula on 01-809 8029 or email [email protected]

40 41 Summer Projects Draíocht Youth Arts

Bookings: 01-8852622

Summer Song School

MON 29 JUN - FRI 03 JUL 10AM-4PM THURS 02 JUL 10AM-8PM Free Concert For Family & Friends on THU 02 JUL at 7PM AGE: 13-17 years Cost: €45

The ever popular SongSchool returns for what will undoubtedly be another sold out week of music based curiosity, collaboration and creativity. SongSchool is a week-long project that is ideal for those who are interested Irish Youth Dance Festival (IYDF) 2020 in writing and recording songs, performing a concert, making a video, learning about music technology and meeting people who love music as Open Call for Youth Dance Companies much as they do … not to mention forming bands and having fun! Dublin Youth Dance Company, in collaboration with Draíocht and Fingal Arts Office, are looking for youth dance groups, companies and young dancers from the locality interested in participating at the Irish Youth Dance Festival Art Explorers: Artistic Adventures 2020, to be presented at Draíocht on Saturday 27th June and Sunday 28th MON 06 - FRI 10 JUL June 2020. This is Draíocht’s 2nd year to host this fantastic festival, which WORKSHOP A: 4-8 YEARS 10AM-12PM Cost: €35 started in the year 2000 and is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, delivering exciting, highly physical and uplifting performances from a selection of up- WORKSHOP B: 9-12 YEARS 1PM-3PM Cost: €35 and-coming Irish and International Youth Dance Companies. Each year, IYDF programmes masterclasses, workshops, informal showings and outdoor Artist Deirdre O’Reilly will introduce the children to a range of art materials performances. If you are interested in presenting your group or company at and artistic experiences. ‘Artistic Adventures’ will be a creative journey for the festival, please send an email to Artistic Director of the festival Mariam children to explore a wide range of techniques which will stimulate their Ribon to [email protected] with a digital link to the work intended for imaginations to be inventive and harness their curiosity. From print making, the festival or a previous work. to painting, to creating their own clay masterpiece, the workshop will culminate in an exhibition of work on the last day for all to enjoy. Criteria: No longer than 7 mins for group pieces. Up to 4 mins for solo work. Maximum of 15/18 dancers. Original dance choreography. Priority given to contemporary dance works. Although the Irish Youth Dance Fingal Film School Festival aims to develop contemporary dance, other dance styles will also be considered. Applications by email are free (no entry fee) and should be MON 13 – FRI 17 JUL 10AM-4PM AGE: 13-17 years Cost: €45 received by 27th April 2020 to [email protected]

Want to learn how to make your own films? Over these 5 days, facilitated by CreateSchool, you will collaborate with other creatives to plan, script, D15 Youth Theatre storyboard, film, edit and learn how to effectively add audio to produce APR - JUN 2020 your own short films. Using mobile digital devices and a selection of apps, you will gain skills and tips that you can take home and master with your Youth Theatre’s 30 strong membership will work on stage craft with youth own projects. The workshop will conclude with a screening of the films. theatre facilitators Emily Matthews and Eimear Morrissey. Youth Theatre These workshops are funded by Fingal Arts Office. and Fingal Film Club gives young people aged between 14-18 years a space to create, express themselves and explore ideas. For further information Draíocht has a number of Access Places available across its programme. If you would please see www.draiocht.ie. Auditions for new members will take place like to nominate someone to participate who may not have the fee for a course or an event, please contact Paula on 01-8098029 or [email protected] in confidence. in October 2020, please contact [email protected] to receive up to date Draíocht is committed, within its resources, to access to the arts for all. information on auditions.

42 43 Draíocht and Community Dance Artist in Residence

Jess Rowell – Sharing the Journey MAR-NOV 2020

GROOVE On Tour Draíocht Touring to Our Communities

In line with our 2018-2022 Strategy ‘Space for the Arts’, this Season sees us Draíocht is delighted to announce Jess Rowell as Dance Artist in Residence partnering with Dublin 15 organisations to bring ‘GROOVE’ to where you are. during 2020, and by doing so, respond to our 2018-2022 Strategy ‘Space for Created by Anna Newell and composer David Goodall, this show is suitable the Arts’, in particular our commitment to expand equality of access to more for children with complex needs, aged 1-18 years, and takes place in its own children. purpose-built portable performance space, within your venue. Available dates are Thursday 25 & Friday 26 June 2020. Each show is limited to 4 Jess has a specialism in working with children, young people and artists with children with complex needs, plus one adult guest each. an intellectual disability. Throughout the year she will be developing her own professional practice, working with other professionals in the same field, and GROOVE has been created by a team of award-winning artists and is an building on a magical partnership with dancer Brian McSweeney, a dance immersive experience for audience members, who have their own special artsit with Down syndrome of Traces Dance Ensemble. Jess will facilitate and seating while chilling out to this 60’s/70’s inspired adventure full of live support members of Draíocht’s ‘Create Dance’ project, our special needs singing, tactile experience and gorgeous hypnotic projections. dance programme, in devising a new dance work ‘Autonomy’ (working Shows are 20 minutes long, with an optional 20 minutes playtime afterwards title) to be performed with Brian McSweeney, as part of the Irish Youth and can be performed a maximum of 3 times in a day. Shows are being Dance Festival in June 2020 at Draíocht (see pg 27). As a role model, Brian’s offered for free to the partnering organisations in Dublin 15 and their presence, commitment and passion for dance will help inspire Draíocht’s audiences. If you are interested, please call Emer McGowan on 01-8098027 young dancers to make their own dance dreams come true. or email [email protected]. Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Some of the overarching aims of the residency are to: Ealaíon and presented in association with The Civic, Tallaght. - Expand on Draíocht’s relationship with artists of all disciplines, nurturing collaborative exchanges between artists, young people and the community.

Connect Club - Be at the forefront of the dialogue around dance and disability in Ireland. JULY 2020 - Create ‘Threads’ (working title) a short film capturing the creative process This July will be Draíocht’s 12th year working with the Daughters of Charity’s and progression of the young dancers throughout the residency. Summer ’Connect Club’ in Laurel Lodge. The camp, catering for young - Offer principal dancer Brian McSweeney, a co-facilitation role in the people with varying degrees of intellectual disability, aims at providing workshop phase, thereby supporting his professional development. an outlet that is fun and focused on the individual’s likes and interests. In the past our Artists have facilitated drama, dance, music and visual art Jess Rowell’s Residency is supported by Fingal County Council and The Arts workshops, encouraging participants to work on their individual creativity Council. and style. Workshops are for ages 12-18 years. For further information on this project contact Ruth Walsh, Daughters of Charity directly at [email protected]

44 45 Visual Arts in or referencing print, expands the boundaries of that medium. New Impressions includes artists Neil Dunne, Margot Galvin, Fiona Kelly and MAKing Art: PRINTing Aoife Scott. Works from the Graphic Studio (First Floor Gallery) is an exhibition which 25 MAR – 30 MAY 2020 Ground & First Floor Galleries marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Graphic Studio and New Impressions: Neil Dunne, Margot Galvin, Fiona Kelly, Aoife Scott features members from Fingal who work across a range of process including Ground Floor Gallery etching, woodcut/lino, screen print and lithography. & Artists include: Susan Early, Mary Grey, Julie Ann Haines, Michele Works from the Graphic Studio: Members from Fingal Hetherington, Ernada Husic, Siobhan Hyde, Desmond Kenny, Michael Killen, First Floor Gallery Jennifer Lane, Pamela Leonard, Ned McLoughlin, Sorca O’Farrell and Una Curated by Sharon Murphy Sealy. The exhibition will also feature work by master printmakers, Niamh Flanagan and Robert Russell.

MAKing Art: PRINTing will be accompanied by a programme of engagement for children and young people facilitated by participating artists and Draíocht’s Artist team. (see pgs 32, 34, 35, 40 & 41).

Image: Aoife Scott, Milking It.

MAKing Art: PRINTing is the third in a series of exhibitions aimed at children and young people, which explores a particular visual art discipline, its materials, processes and varied manifestations. Printmaking is the focus of this third exhibition. It celebrates different techniques, styles and approaches to the use of print, to the act of printmaking and to the print as a finished artwork. Image: Niamh Flanagan, The Lost Villages, Etching. It includes two exhibitions: New Impressions (Ground Floor Gallery) explores how traditional printmaking techniques have been re-imagined and re-worked and invites us to consider: what makes a print a print? Common conceptions of printmaking are expanded, from two-dimensional to three- dimensional, from mass-produced to unique, from paper to mixed and digital media. The exhibition features artists whose work, though rooted

46 47 PLATFORM 2020 Worlds of their Own Ellen Duffy describes her work as falling somewhere between expanded painting, assemblage and installation. She explores the vitality an object/ 08 JUL - 26 SEP 2020 Ground Floor Gallery material possesses once it is introduced to the network of an assemblage. Susan Buttner, Ellen Duffy, John Rainey, Katherine Sankey She uses found/discarded materials and through her haptic process creates Curated by Sharon Murphy a dialogue between one another. Her work attempts to look at the world as existing in perpetually changing assemblages that create infinite networks. Her work speaks to the inter-reliance between objects, space and viewer.

John Rainey works with sculpture, 3D print technologies and ceramics. Through a series of classical references and using manual and digital processes, his works consider how digital cultures, advancing technologies and photographic practices can suggest new pathways for representing the body. With the aid of emerging 3D print technologies as a source for rethinking approaches to sculptural practice, his work explores recent changes to our cultural, personal and social ways of living and communicating.

Katherine Sankey employs sculpture, video, drawing and painting in her installations. Her practice explores ideas about the tendency of living things to reach into and take over an area, colonising, adapting and mutating, as a means to survive. Working with trees, roots and plumbing pipeage, as well as medical, electrical and crustacean parts, she re-shapes these conduits of flow to question our perception about the relation between bodies (human and otherwise) and ideas of ‘the natural’.

PLATFORM 2020, now in its third year, is an exhibition and a series of Draíocht’s Galleries are open Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm. Admission is associated performance events showcasing the work of early career artists Free. who engage with the Gallery as a playful, experimental and creative space.

PLATFORM 2020, Worlds of their Own presents the work of four emerging Irish artists, Susan Buttner, Ellen Duffy, John Rainey and Katherine Sankey whose installations, though conceived out of different circumstances, contexts and ideas are united in the scale of their distinctive ambitions.

Their shared practice is encompassed in the term ‘installation art’ which involves the configuration of objects in a space often described as theatrical, experiential, immersive and which invites the viewer to step inside.

Susan Buttner works with sculpture, painting, performance, film and in collaborative contexts, to engage with bodily experiences of knowledge and power, alienation and difference. Appealing to her own sensibility, choice materials are wide-ranging, integrating industrially manufactured with crafted objects, revealing juxtapositions and co-existences. Her work is currently focused on the medical and health impacts of mesh surgery on the individual and collective body and considers the politics of female subjectivity.

48 49 Artist Residencies Órla Kelly 25 MAY – 26 JUN 2020

This season Draíocht continues its INCUBATE Studio Residency programme for visual artists, offering them time and space to research, test new ideas and develop new work. Susan Buttner 02 MAR - 22 MAY 2020 / 29 JUN - 18 SEP 2020

Órla Kelly is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice is focused on installation, sculpture, drawing, painting and sound with a cross over into performance and narrative. In her work she is interested in exploring the language of painting through painted gesture, space and solids, land and sky and that which holds a type of visual narrative and speaks as much as it withholds. Órla has a particular interest and specialism in making work for Susan Buttner is a visual artist based in Dublin 15 whose practice is early years children and she creates immersive experiences in both gallery concerned with ideas around knowledge and power, identity politics, and public spaces to engage the naturally creative, poetic, philosophical and alienation and differences. Appealing to her own sensibility, her choice curious intelligences of the child. of materials are wide ranging, integrating industrially manufactured with ‘Work that I create for children encourages many worlds, one the crafted objects, often revealing playful juxtapositions and co-existences. poetic, another the experiential, mostly via one-time, unrepeatable Performance, film and sound elements activate her installations, offering sculptural structures and moments, immersive experiences, proposing an a metaphorical sense of place where hierarchies between historical and acknowledgement of beauty, the structure of a space, at once real and personal narratives are collapsed. imaginary.’ Orla Kelly Current and forthcoming projects include ‘Chewing gum in my hair’, (which Órla is a member of Draíocht’s Artist’s Team and co-founder and Artistic began in 2019 as part of the RHA school peer residency award), it explores Director of Draíocht’s annual Early Year’s Festival – The Toddler Takeover - the medical and health impacts of mesh surgery on the individual and now in its 6th year (see pg 33). During her studio residency, Órla will devise, collective body, and considers the politics of female subjectivity. This project make and install this year’s exhibition, immersive experiences and encounters incorporates a series of collaborative art workshops in Dublin, and Belfast, in gallery and non-gallery spaces across the building. creating a space where women can come together to discuss the side effects of the mesh and the detrimental impact it has had on their lives. This project Órla works collaboratively with theatre makers, musicians and other visual will culminate with a live performance, choreographed by Buttner with artists. Recent installation work for performance collaborations includes: dancers Rebecca Reilly and Ella Clarke creating a synergy between sound, Leaf (Draíocht, 2019), Moon Woke Me Up (The Ark, 2019), A Winter Wish film, sculpture, figuration and movement. It will form part of the exhibition (Draíocht, 2019), From a Railway Carriage (The Civic Theatre) and Whistle PLATFORM 2020, Worlds Of Their Own (see pgs 48-49). in the Wind (National Concert Hall, 2018). Órla has been Artist in Residence at Room 13 (Fingal Arts Office Initiative, 2017- 2019), Creative Consultant Recent selected group exhibitions include ARRANGEMENTS (Orphans), of children’s arts, Farmleigh, (OPW, 2013-date). Órla is the Artistic Director Pallas Projects Studios. Sirens III, live installation/performance, (Celina of Early Childhood Creativity which she founded in 2012. Muldoon) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. Cairde Visual, The Model. RHA 189th Annual Exhibition. Periodical Review, Pallas Projects Studios. Image: Órla Kelly Toddler Take Over 2019, Draíocht. Image credit: Sharon PeripheriesOpen, Gorey School of Art. Strange Foreign Bodies, Hunterian Murphy Art Gallery, Glasgow, (sculptural works selected by Sarah Browne for Report to the Academy Exhibition).

Image: Susan Buttner, Chewing gum in my hair, 2019, installation view, photograph courtesy of the artist, RHA Studios, Dublin.

50 51 OPEN CALL - INCUBATE OPEN CALL - HOME GROUND

Draíocht Incubate Studio Residency HOME GROUND Programme 2020/2021 Fingal Arts Office in collaboration with Draíocht invites applications for INCUBATE its Studio Residency Programme Draíocht Oct-Dec 2020 for the 2020/2021 season, from practicing artists. Artists are invited to apply for an opportunity to research and develop their practice, test new ideas, Fingal Arts Office in collaboration with Draíocht is delighted to announce develop new work and to engage in dialogue with Draíocht. This is a non- an Open Call for HOME GROUND, a Mentoring Residency Programme and accommodation residency. Open Studio Gallery for three visual artists whose practice is socially engaged and collaborative. The studio provides space for artists to engage in a programme of work over a period of up to 6 months, to interact with the exhibiting artists, and to HOME GROUND takes place in association with Dublin 15 community facilitate access to their studio practice for specific groups working with the groups in Draíocht over a twelve week period October to December 2020. children/young people’s programme and with the general public. Draíocht HOME GROUND is rooted in notions of place, identity, memory, belonging is open to applications from professional artists working in any visual art and home. discipline, practice or context. However it is recommended that artists HOME GROUND aims to: acquaint themselves with Draíocht’s 5 Year Strategy 2018-2022 ‘Space For The Arts’, available on its website or in print form. - Reflect and celebrate people and place in Dublin 15 (Ref: Draíocht’s 5 Year Strategy 2018-2022 ‘Space For The Arts’). Residency dates 2020/21 -To enable the creative and professional development of artists (Ref: Fingal There are two fixed 6 months INCUBATE residency periods. County Council Arts Strategy 2019-2025). 1) 23 November 2020 – 21 May 2021 - To support the development of a socially engaged/collaborative arts 2) 05 July - 31 December 2021 bespoke mentored residency between artists and community groups, which Artists are expected to take up residency for the duration. explores place and identity through the visual arts.

To apply please submit: - To foster the growth of visual art practice in socially engaged contexts and the development of dynamic new collaborative art opportunities in -An expression of interest to include your proposal for the studio residency Dublin 15. (max 500 words) - CV - Artist’s statement HOME GROUND has three distinct yet overlapping elements: - Up to 10 images of your work (jpegs no larger than 2mb each) - a structured mentoring programme for participating artists - A list of images with relevant information - A written proposal which clearly states the following: - a socially engaged arts residency programme involving community groups

from Dublin 15 and three visual artists - An outline of your project / programme of work. - The dates that you are available to avail of the opportunity - an experimental pop-up open studio exhibition which presents working - What you hope to achieve during your residency. processes, emerging artworks and work in progress in Draíocht’s Ground - Any ideas that you may have about ways to engage with participants Floor Gallery. on the children/youth arts programme or with the local community / general public or communities of interest. Details of how to apply available on www.draiocht.ie - Details of any public engagement activity (workshops, masterclasses, Deadline for expression of interest is Friday 01 May 2020. talks, discussions etc) proposed during your residency.

Applications by email only to [email protected] Please submit as PDF.

Deadline for submissions is Friday 24 April 2020.

52 53 Artistic Collaborations

Included in Draíocht’s 5 Year Strategy 2018-2022 ‘Space For The Arts’ (available on our website), is our commitment to building strong and effective collaborative partnerships and supporting artists to develop their practice and work.

Draíocht and Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMME 2020-2021 Louise White Draíocht is delighted to continue our partnership with CCI, supporting Life Story Work with Older Migrants an artist to travel to Paris to participate in the 2020/2021 Residency Programme, tapping into the resources of the CCI and the city of Paris, as Draíocht is delighted to be working with theatre-maker and facilitator Louise well as having the opportunity to showcase their work on an international White. Her shows have taken place in theatres, arts venues, community stage. The recipients of Draíocht supported residencies are artists working halls, decrepit Georgian buildings, psychiatric hospitals and abandoned in any discipline with a clear focus on children and/or young people. warehouses. Louise works with real people, stories and events in order to create performances. She has worked with Dublin Youth Theatre, The To date, 4 people have been awarded Residencies; theatre makers Mary Lou National Women’s Council of Ireland, The SAOL Project, The Abbeyleix McCarthy and Dan Colley (2018/2019); writer and theatre maker Sian Ní Mhuirí (2019/2020) and theatre artist Deirdre Dwyer (2020/2021). Bog Project and The Lantern Centre’s International Women’s Group among others. During her Residency, Mary Lou McCarthy developed a show for audiences aged 10-12 years entitled, ‘The Dead Letter Office’. She researched the Her theatre work includes: This is the Funeral of Your Life (National Tour French postal system and the history of the Dead Letter Office in Europe 2019 which included Draíocht); Mother You, Way Back Home (winner and also worked with Paris based director John McIlduff. Dan Colley Spirit of the Fringe), and From The Heart, all for Dublin Fringe Festival. worked on ‘Dance Plague’, a dance/theatre piece aimed at teenagers, to be produced by Collapsing Horse. Sian Ní Mhuirí developed her piece, Louise is currently developing a programme of creative activities to Knapsack, a survivalist romp for children aged 8+. engage older members of migrant communities in Dublin 15 to take part in Life Story Workshops. Life-story work offers a means of opening up Deirdre Dwyer is the 4th and latest Draíocht recipient of a CCI Residency communication, creating understanding between people from different (2020/2021). During her month long residency, Deirdre plans to research cultures and sharing commonalities among neighbours. and explore the children’s stories of Charles Perraut and Madame d’Aulnoy with a view to creating a play for young audiences focusing on their If you or your group are interested in learning more about this project and female protagonists, investigating the similarities and differences between are based in Dublin 15, please contact Louise by visiting her website ‘Cinderella’ (Perraut) and ‘Finnette Cendron’ (d’Aulnoy). www.louisewhiteperformance.com/draiocht or by emailing Emer McGowan, Image: Mary Lou McCarthy, Dan Colley, Sian Ní Mhuirí, Deirdre Dwyer Director Draíocht, [email protected] www.centreculturelirlandais.com This project is funded by The Arts Council and supported by Draíocht and Fingal County Council.

54 55 Draíocht’s Network Collaborations Venue Networks and Partnerships

Image: Pat Kinevane’s ‘Before’

Draíocht is an active member of two venue networks.

ShortWorks is a four member Network that focuses on multidisciplinary work for children from 0 to 12 years. 2020 will see the Network provide an Artist Development Bursary for an emerging artist in the field of TYA Sorcha Fox (Theatre for Young Audiences), to attend an international festival of arts AMPLIFY for young audiences. The bursary will amount to €1200. The recipient of the award will be identified via a call out in early 2020. Through this The word addict comes from the Latin ‘Ad Dicere’, and means ‘Without award the recipient will be exposed to high quality international work, and Voice’. It came from slavery - when you were sold as a slave, you provided with an opportunity to connect with others working in this field. surrendered your voice. When you surrender your voice, other people get to tell your story. The Strollers Touring Network comprises of ten Theatre/Arts Centre venues located across Ireland. It is currently the largest touring network in ‘Amplify’ is a 9 month collaboration with writer and actor Sorcha Fox, the country. An annual Production Award is granted to a company or artist Ashleigh House addiction recovery centre in Damastown, Dublin 15 and to assist in the making and touring of work. Details of the 2020 Production Draíocht, Blanchardstown. Funded by CREATE and Arts Council Ireland, Award will be announced shortly (€10,000) with the selected piece touring ‘Amplify’ is a devised piece of work that will come from and belong to the to all Stroller venues in 2020. women in recovery in Ashleigh House. It is a project of empowerment and exploration through writing and performance and a reclamation of voice The 10 venue members and their locations are: Siamsa Tíre, Tralee; and narrative. ‘Amplify’ will culminate in a performance in Draíocht in 2020. Hawkswell, Sligo; Watergate, Kilkenny; Solstice, Navan; GB Shaw Theatre, Carlow; Draíocht, Blanchardstown; The Source Arts Centre, Thurles; Sorcha Fox teamed up with Rachel, a woman in recovery in Ashleigh House, Belltable, Limerick; Riverbank, Newbridge; Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar. as part of Draíocht’s ‘Home Theatre Ireland’ project in 2018. The short play ‘2 Squirrels’ was the result of that collaboration and was one of 30 plays in Previous Award Winners include: In 2010: Garter Lane and Lane total that were created and performed all over Dublin 15 on the same night Productions - ‘Brighton’ by Jim Nolan. In 2011: Julie Feeney - for a in people’s homes. ‘2 Squirrels’ was also included in the selection of plays collaborative project working with regional choirs and new choral performed as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2018 and can be seen in full commission. In 2012 - Theatre Lovett - ‘The House That Jack Filled’. In on YouTube. Sorcha devised the concept for ‘Amplify’ as a result of meeting 2013 - Fishamble: The New Play Company ‘Little Thing, Big Thing’ by with Rachel and the other women in recovery during ‘Home Theatre Donal O’Kelly. In 2014/2015 – Moonfish Theatre Company: ‘Star of the Ireland’, in Ashleigh House. Sea’. In 2016 - Monkeyshine Theatre - ‘Voyage’. In 2017 - Duke Special – ‘Hallow’ – based on works by poet Michael Longley. In 2018 - Fishamble: The New Play Company – Pat Kinevane’s ‘Before’. In 2019 – Joanne Ryan – ‘Eggsistentialism’.

56 57 A Big Thank You From Draíocht To All Our Friends

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Civic and Mermaid to offer support and tours to invited artists, enabling FRIENDS them develop a specific strand of practice. To date, we have worked Aidan & Jo Bannon O’Keeffe Jackie McCormack with Anna Newell who makes work for children and young people with Betelnut Café Michael & Catherine Mooney profound and complex needs as well as a range of work for babies aged 0 Suzanne Beard Catherine & Joe Mullins to 6 months, including shows ‘Sing Me to the Sea’, ‘I AM BABA’ (pictured Braco & Slavica Becirovic Jeff Murphy above) and ‘GROOVE’ (see pg 25). 2020 will see us support both Anna Mairead & Christy Boylan Teresa & Kevin Murray Newell and Branar theatre to make new work for their respective audience Bernard & Maria Brogan Mairín & Tadgh O’Conchubhair demographics. Dermot & Anne Byrne Michael & Carol O’Riordan Roma & Niall Byrnes Paul & Mary Quinn Maurice Carbery Jim Ryan Christine Carleton Catherine & Andrew Shirran Aine Cody Bernie Sullivan Rory Coghlan Grainne Uí Chaomhanaigh Rachel Devlin Leo Varadkar James & Teresa Dunne Michael & Helen Walsh Paula Galvin Una Waters Joan Greene Michael & Mairead Kelly THISISPOPBABY - Mrs Macushla Maree Lynott Draíocht and Axis Ballymun are supporting (through some seed funding) THISISPOPBABY and theatre artist, Thommas Kane Byrne to develop a new piece of work called ‘Mrs Macushla’. It will have an in development showing as part of the ‘Where We Live’ programme in March 2020 in Project Arts Centre. The Macushla Ballroom was situated between Foley St, Amiens St LET’S BE FRIENDS! and Buckingham St in the heart of Dublin’s North Inner City. Once a dance You can save money on your theatre tickets by becoming a Friend of Draíocht hall haunt, it went on to become a Bingo Hall that was cherished by locals. for as little as €100. There are Friends offers on almost every show in Draíocht This is the story of Gertrude Kelly, the bingo caller in Macushla. When she’s (look for the symbol), and you will also enjoy other benefits like complimentary calling numbers, she’s untouchable. When she’s not, her story begins to tickets on your birthday, your name printed in our season brochure and on our website, advance programme information, priority booking and more. So don’t delay and sign fray. www.thisispopbaby.com up today so you can start saving money NOW! Further information about Artistic Collaborations from Emer McGowan, Phone Alex Cahill for more information: 01-809 8024 Director, 01-8098027 / [email protected] or email [email protected]

58 5959 Season Brochure April-August 2020

Since opening in 2001 Draíocht has reached right to the heart of the people it serves in Dublin 15 and its environs to provide stimulating and accessible arts programming. Over 50,000 people a year attend performance events including a mix of professional, national, international and local work. In addition, thousands more attend our two exhibition galleries, use our conference facilities and of course many enjoy the facilities of our Bar and Betelnut Café. We aspire to reaching as wide an audience as possible and our commitment to access for all, to the facilities and activities of the Centre, forms the backbone of all our endeavours. By presenting an exciting line-up we hope to offer you, our audience, a programme which will be entertaining and exciting as well as at times challenging and provocative. Programme details are published in good faith but changes may occasionally be necessary.

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