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The Care Seminar – “…Art does not confine itself Clare County of Culture and glór in association an event focusing on to reason and with Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE 2016 creativity and the arts in experiment. health, care and wellbeing It deals also Thursday 5th, Friday 6th & Saturday 7th May 2016 in emotion Thursday 5th May, 2 - 5pm, and feeling, Free of Charge contradiction Co. Clare has an outstanding reputation in the design and delivery of and paradox, creative projects for, with and about older people, having initiated and Contributing artists, facilitators and our multiple hosted a range of projects and events over the 20 years of the existence of theatre practitioners will discuss senses and the BEALTAINE festival working across a range of artforms. how they have brought their artistic embodied practice and experience to care/health knowledge. Its communities and will look at the Whisper, Sinead Dinneen. In 2016 Bealtaine/Age and Opportunity and glór, in association with Clare resources include importance creativity can play in health comedy and ritual, metaphor, imagery County of Culture are hosting a national event called VOLTage. The event will and wellbeing both on a personal and and symbol, sound and movement, time, platform the many extraordinary projects and creative activities which bring a community level. space and the body. Among its strengths together artists and older people from Clare and throughout Ireland. Participants include: Sally Murphy are the capacity to communicate things Painting Back, VOID Engage Project, we sense inarticulately, know without glór Interim Director & VOLTage Festival Director – Liz Kelly Derry; visual artist Sinead Dinneen knowing and are afraid to say or think.” and collaborator Katie Verling from 2 Bealtaine Festival Director – Tara Byrne Both Sides of the Coin: The Distinctive Value 3 the Kicking the Bucket project; theatre of Art in , François Matarasso. VOLTage Festival Co-ordinator – Rachel Thunder artist Eleanor Feely (St Josephs Hospital, Ennis); visual artist Sarah Fuller (Other For bookings contact glór: Possibilities, St Brendans Nursing E: [email protected]/[email protected] T: 065 6843103 W: www.glor.ie Home, Loughrea); theatre practitioner and therapist Marie McNamara; For additional information on the national programme: and WillFredd Theatre, who will be CARE at 8pm. E: [email protected] T: 01 8535180 W: www.bealtaine.com performing their show www.facebook.com/glorennis @glorennis

Still from Painting Back, VOID Engage Project. An exhibition of visual artist Sinead Dinneen’s work and a screening of the filmPainting Back, VOID Engage Project, and can be seen in the glór gallery from May 3rd to 9th.

Funded by VOLTage/Clare County of Culture 2016 and supported by Age and Opportunity. Photograph, Sarah Fuller.

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FIRST CITIZENS SPEAK! Deirdre O’Mahony is an artist, CARE presented by low-tech academic and occasional writer. segments of An exhibition by She received a BA in Fine Art from WillFredd Theatre CARE to the Deirdre O’Mahony St Martin’s School of Art London, an Presented in association with staff and hear Thursday 5th - 28th May, MA at the Crawford College of Art Cahercalla Community Hospice, Ennis. their thoughts, Free of Charge Cork and a PhD from the University of Thursday 5th May, 8pm, feedback Brighton titled New Ecologies between €20/€18 Conc. and questions Opening Thursday 5th, 6pm by Rural Life and Visual Culture in the West about what Catherine Marshall art writer, curator, of Ireland: History, Context, Position, and In 2013 WillFredd Theatre developed we do and formerly head of collections at IMMA Art Practice. O’Mahony has received the theatre show CARE with various how we numerous awards, both national and Irish Hospice Staff. The production make work. Artist Deirdre O’Mahony has been international. She is a full time lecturer was created in response to interactions WillFredd will be visting the following: commissioned by BEALTAINE and at the Centre for Creative Arts, they personally had with Hospices in St. Francis Hospice (Dublin), Marymount VOLTage to develop FIRST CITIZENS Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Ireland. CARE explores different aspects Hospice (Cork), Cahercalla Hospice SPEAK!, a project responding to of the day-to-day life of Hospice Staff, (Ennis) and Galway Hospice (Galway). Bealtaine’s citizenship theme for 2016 presented through the form of live Through ethical encounters between ‘First citizens of Ireland’. The project music, verbatim text and dance. CARE artists and communities of place, space explores the memories and thoughts is a show about the people who add life and interest, WillFredd Theatre develop of older members of the community in to days, if not days to life. work which responds to and represents North Clare – aiming to investigate elements of these communities. the values and behaviours they Hospice Visits: 4 Funded by Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE 5 As part of the Bealtaine Festival, hold dear and that are, and were, 2016 and VOLTage/Clare County of Culture WillFredd are visiting local Hospices to particularly important in allowing them 2016. to attain a level of contentedness and interact with their staff and to present connectedness that many of us lack. The project involves the artist working with GP Dr Fergus Glynn (whose catchment area is in North Clare) as interlocutor, anthropologist Anne Byrne and local members of the North Clare communities as interviewers and mediators.

FIRST CITIZEN SPEAK!: Paddy, photograph, Deirdre O’Mahony 2016. Funded by Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE 2016 and VOLTage/Clare County of Culture FIRST CITIZEN SPEAK!: Pauline, photograph, Deirdre O’Mahony 2016. 2016.

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Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th May 2016 VOLTageat AT A GLANCE

DATE EVENT TIME PRICE CATEGORY Thurs, 5th May The Care Seminar – an event focusing on creativity and the arts 2 - 5pm Free Seminar in health, care and wellbeing Opening: FIRST CITIZENS SPEAK! By Deirdre O’Mahony 6pm Free Visual Art CARE by WillFredd Theatre €20/€18 Conc. Theatre Fri, 6th May Catherine Marshall, Rural Art Projects: The tail that wags the dog 6pm Free Talk Seminar - Working Lives 2 - 4pm Free Seminar 6 Old Flames, Brian Leyden with Seamie O’Dowd 8pm €15/€10 Conc. Theatre/ 7 Music Sat, 7th May Eoin O’Neill and Friends 2.30pm Free Music A Walk in the Woods, dir. Ken Kwapis, 104mins, 15A 4pm €7 Film One Night in with Vladimir Jablokov 8pm €25/€23 Music €15 Conc.

ONGOING EVENTS

DATE EVENT TIME PRICE CATEGORY Starts April 28th Spring Chickens Drama Club (Thursdays for six weeks) 2.30 - 4pm €30 Workshop May 5th -28th FIRST CITIZENS SPEAK! By Deirdre O’Mahony, The Red Room, glór Daily Free Visual Art May 3rd – 9th Work by artist Sinead Dinneen and VOID Engage Project, Derry Daily Free Visual Art The Gallery at glór

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Catherine Marshall Talk Old Flames by Brian Leyden Rural Art Projects; with Seamie O’Dowd The tail that wags the dog Friday 6th May, 8pm, Friday 6th May, 11am – 12.30pm, €15/€10 Conc. Free of Charge Old Flames blends the stories of writer Catherine Brian Leyden with music by the multi- Marshall will instrumentalist Seamie O’Dowd in a look at the warm-hearted look at romance and challenges courtship, house-dances, dowries and for RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany. His she saw as matchmaking, school day love notes, radio documentary work includes No Catherine Marshall is an art historian, Head of radio memories, bereavement and Meadows in Manhattan, Even the Walls curator and critical writer. She was Collections in retirement. Old Flames will light up fond Were Sweatin’, and An Irish Station adviser to the Arts Council’s Touring IMMA and at memories for many of you and maybe Mass. He received an Arts Council Experiment and she was appointed the projects even rekindle a romantic fire or two. Literary Bursary in 2014. His most as first head of collections at the Irish that have recent work is Sweet Old World: New Museum of Modern Art in 1995. She emanated Brian Leyden is an Irish writer, & Selected Stories (2015). Kathleen Lynn. has curated many exhibitions of Irish art from so called playwright, screenwriter and in Ireland, the United States, Canada marginalised communities. The documentary maker. His books include Commissioned by Sligo County Council Arts and China. She is a board member for 8 importance of the Iniscealtra Festival in the bestselling memoir, The Home Place Service and the Hawk’s Well Theatre for 9 Age and Opportunity and was formerly the development of the IMMA National (2002), Death and Plenty (1996), and BEALTAINE Sligo 2015. on the board of the Douglas Hyde. She Programme, Ex-P0, The Kathleen Lynn the short story collection, Departures has published widely on Irish art. Funded by Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE Project in Mayo and other key projects. (1992). He won the RTÉ Radio 1 Francis MacManus Short Story Award 2016 and VOLTage/ Clare County of Culture in 1988 and has written extensively 2106. VOLTage/Clare County of Culture 2016 as part of the First Friday Series in association with The Artist’s Resource Room and supported by Clare Arts Office.

SEMINAR Working Lives in North Clare. Also addressing the political, social, cultural and economic Friday 6th May 2 – 4pm, implications for older creative lives Free of Charge in a rural context, the panel includes the artist, GP Dr. Fergus Glynn with Working Lives is a panel discussion whom the project was developed and which explores the challenges and Tina Roche, Chief Executive of The rewards for artists working cross- Community Foundation for Ireland. generationally, collaboratively and This event has been developed with across disciplines. The discussion takes VOLTage and CREATE. place in the context of Bealtaine’s Iconic Citizen’s Project and the specially Funded by CREATE, Age and Opportunity commissioned FIRST CITIZEN’S SPEAK!, BEALTAINE 2016 and supported by VOLTage/ by artist Deirdre O’Mahony working Clare County of Culture 2016. with older members of the community

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Saturday Session with for his informal Vladimir Jablokov presents music sessions Eoin O’Neill and Friends and classes in One Night in Vienna Saturday 7th May, 2.30 - 4.30pm, many venues Saturday 7th May, 8pm, Free of Charge throughout €25/€23, €15 Conc. the county, Award winning trad musician Eoin and is chiefly Having wowed audiences across the O’Neill will be joined by special guests responsible for nation with the stunning Two Brothers from the Clare music scene. Eoin has encouraging show, Vladimir Jablokov is delighted lived in Clare for the past 30 years the playing of young and old alike. to announce the return of his warmly and has been an integral part of the In 2015 Eoin was the winner of the received classical show One Night In traditional music landscape in the county. MÓRglór award for Outstanding Vienna. Join him as he plays some of His passion for his craft has led him to Contribution to Traditional Music in the most beautiful classical melodies preserve music that was in danger of County Clare. from the Romantic era of the Strauss being lost forever, and is now being Funded by Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE Family. This is a show devoted to the enjoyed and re-invented by a new 2016 and VOLTage/Clare County of Culture evergreen classical touchstones and generation of musicians. He is famous 2016. will highlight the more traditional side of Vladimir’s musical spectrum. Expect to hear The Blue Danube, The Voices A Walk In the Woods of Spring, the Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, the 10 Film Screening as part of Radetzky March, the Merry Widow also features solo spots from special 11 access>CINEMA’s May Film Tour Waltz, Beer Barrel Polka and many guest Soprano and Tenor Sean Costello. more favorites. One Night In Vienna Saturday 7th May, 4pm, €7 also features an ensemble of his hand Director: Ken Kwapis / USA / 2015 / Funded by Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE picked musicians including some of his 2016 and VOLTage/Clare County of Culture 104 minutes / Certificate : 15A family members. In addition, the concert 2016. Cast : , , ONGOING EVENTS After two decades of living in the UK, renowned travel writer Spring Chickens Drama Club with Marie McNamara (Robert Redford) returns to America realise that they may have under- From 28 Apr | 2.30 – 4pm | 6 week term with his English wife Cathy (Emma estimated the scale of the adventure Thompson). In an attempt to find a they have undertaken. way to reconnect with his homeland, Based on Bill Bryson’s best-selling 1998 The aim of the programme is to introduce people aged 60 and over to the art he impulsively decides to hike the memoir, A Walk in the Woods is a of theatre making; offering a taster of different techniques over a six session Appalachian Trail, a trek of over 2,000 gentle comedy that combines breath- period, including voice and movement, theatre techniques, stagecraft, miles stretching from Maine to Georgia. taking scenery with the charming story-making, devising and scene work from your favourite plays or poems, With Cathy protesting against the idea chemistry of its two veteran stars, who as well as theatre games and exercises all with the emphasis on self- of Bill doing the trip solo, an out-of-the- are clearly enjoying themselves. expression, confidence and of course, fun and laughter along the way. blue call from old friend Katz (Nick Nolte), offering to accompany him, Funded by VOLTage/Clare County of Culture Funded by Age and Opportunity BEALTAINE 2016 and VOLTage/Clare County of seems like the perfect solution. But as 2016 and supported by Age and Opportunity Culture 2016. their journey unfolds, this odd couple BEALTAINE 2016.

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