September 2010 - December 2010

VISUAL ARTSSeptember 2010 - December 2010

www.visualcarlow.ieOld Dublin Road, CarlowT. 059 917 2400

The brochure is divided into two parts; from one side you can read the TheatreProgramme, if you turn the brochure around and upside down you can look upthe Visual Arts, Community Strand and Outreach & Education Programme.

Between the Theatre and Visual Arts, Community Strand and Outreach sectionyou can see our quick find calendar of events, information about our friendsscheme, booking tickets, restaurant, how to join our mail list.

VISUAL - Centre for Contemporary Art and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre is aCarlow Local Authorities project, located on a site generously donated by theTrustees of Carlow College and developed with the support of a grant of €3.17million by the Department of Arts, Sport & Tourism under the ACCESS Programme.

STAFFDirector Carissa FarrellTheatre Manager Róisín McGarrTechnical Manager Joe FlavinTechnical Assistant Andrew NeavesTechnical Assistant Paddy O’ByrneMarketing & Press Manager Hazel Williams Box Office & Reception Manger Caroline O’BrienFinancial Accountant Suzanne MorrisseyAccount Assistant Kim TreacyCaretakers John Delaney/John DoyleOffice Volunteers David Kirwan, Rose Fay & Enya Murray VISUAL Intern (May - Oct 2010) Emma Lucy O’Brien

Ushers Robert Allen, Laura Brennan, Caroline Byrne, Pauline Byrne, Gillian Camps, Jonathon Casey, Brigid Deering, Shane Geoghan, Saidhbhin Gibson, Mary Foley, Edel Horan,Lucy McKenna, Hannah Morgan, Natalia Pralat & Ann Ryan

Gallery Volunteers Carolyn Ashe, Stephen Dargan, Maureen Egerton, Stephen Flood, Sinead Gisel, Peg Harding, Rose Lawlor, Tony Maher, Deirdre Millar, Éilis O'Neill, OonaghBarrett, Monica Barry, Alecia Burturla, Mary Cannon, Kay Cullen, Mary Cunningham, AnneHandy, Jacinta Haughney, Mary Keating, Debbie Kelly, Eilish Langton, Rebekah McDermott,Margaret McKenna, Frances O'Connor, Betty O'Gorman, Aedeen O'Hagan,Maura O'Halloran,Amelia Peart, Ann Ryan, Maria Seymour, Renee Stafford, Susan Wain, Ellen Walsh, David Kirwan, Enya Murray, Rose Fay, Beatrice Walsh & Carlow Photography Society

Design & Production: dynamite design, kilkenny www.dynamite.iePhotography: Backgrounds by Helen Binet

Brochure Guide

Front Cover: Fallen Caryatid, 2010, Monterrey Cyprus, 85 x 102 x 190 cm Photography: Ros Kavanagh

I am delighted to extend a very big welcome to all our patrons to a new and exciting season at VISUALCentre for Contemporary Art & the George BernardShaw Theatre. We are now open one year, and it hasbeen a most remarkable year - with a success thatwas only made possible by you - our patrons - throughyour continued loyal support.

This season brings a wealth of artistic activities withevents to suit everyone’s taste. In the galleries we arehonoured to welcome Ireland’s greatest exponent ofmodernist and minimalist sculpture, Michael Warren.This exhibition, which marks Warren’s 60th birthday,will include two spectacular bodies of new work inthe Main and Link Galleries, while the other galleriesand spaces will be filled with retrospective works fromhis 40 year career. The theatre sees a superb line up oftop-quality events with drama, ballet, comedy, film,puppetry, and much more.

We are especially delighted to introduce our newstrand of Community Programming, where we presentand support different types of exhibitions and eventsfrom both within the local community and furtherafield. This season we are delighted to welcome, theRIAI Awards exhibition, Connie Byrne Hyland andAgata Stoinksa, The Barrow Valley Painters , the ICAand Carlow Photographic Society. I hope that this newprogramme will reach out to new audiences with different interests who will come and experience allwe have to offer at VISUAL.

Also this season sees the return of a variety of visualart workshops for adults and young people, a new parent and toddler group, gallery tours for schools,African drumming, dance workshops for older peopleand much more. Check out our education pages forsomething that suits you.

Please join us as we embark on our second year, it willdefinitely be a fascinating journey!

Carissa FarrellDirector

Director’s Foreword

Michael WarrenUnbroken LineNew Work and Retrospective

VISUAL is delighted to present this major exhibition comprising both new and retrospective work by the renowned Irishsculptor Michael Warren. Entitled UNBROKENLINE, this project brings together Warren’slife’s ideas and concepts and provides aunique opportunity to view a compellingbody of new work in the award winning architectural environment of VISUAL.

The exhibition will spread throughout all ofthe galleries of VISUAL. The Link and MainGalleries will feature three new and powerfulbodies of work, Sei Personaggi, Caryatids and Unbroken Line.

In discussing this new work and showMichael Warren describes how, "Since 1977 an awareness of weight has informed mysculpture. My work may be read as meditations on downward pressure: but the work also concerns the issue of levity.

With the magnificent space that is VISUAL in Carlow, I have embarked on one of the mostambitious projects I have ever undertaken. The aim is to bring together all that I haveworked on for over 40 years as a sculptor, inone multi-part installation. What is importantis that space is activated and the sense ofbeing in the space - and of Being, itself - isbrought to as high an intensity as possible.

To this end I have secured the largest timbertree butts I can find. The biggest of these to

date weighs in the region of 2 tonnes. Each piece must work in its own right but also as a whole. I have always wanted to fulfil thedream of Amedeo Modigliani to make a temple of caryatids. The exhibition at VISUALprovides just such an opportunity.”

Michael Warren is a unique artist who hascarved out his well earned position as one ofIreland’s finest minimalist sculptors. Warrenhas been making sculpture since the early1970’s and is known for his inexhaustible ability to create simple and structured worksthat exist within their own gravitationalfields, invoking light, weight and forms thattransform their immediate environments.Warren is known for his extensive career inmaking public art, most notably in Carlowwhere his work Ceatharloch (2001) stands atthe Dr. Cullen Roundabout. Warren has alsobeen commissioned internationally including,Spain, France, Portugal, Andorra, Japan, SouthKorea, the United States and Saudi Arabiaamongst other countries. He was one of thefirst artists to be made a member of Aosdánain 1981.

There will be an Artist’s Discussion with Patrick T. Murphy, Director of the RHA Gallery, Dublin, on November 3rd @ 7.30pm preceeded by a special contextual performance of Actions by Irish Modern Dance Theatre in the galleries. Tickets for both events are €5 and available through the box office.

MAIN GALLERY Sept 24 - Jan 16 2011

Fallen Caryatid, 2010, Monterrey Cyprus, 85 x 102 x 190 cm (detail)

Thrones, Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow

Countermovement, 1984, Spanish Chestnut, at Trinity CollegeDublin, an example of Michael Warren’s exterior public art

Ceatharloch, 2001, Stainless steel, located at the Dr. CullenRoundabout, Carlow Town

Michael Warren, Portrait by Amelia Stein

Michael Warren

Pure Thinking Community ProjectConnie Byrne Hyland & Agata StoinskaVISUAL is delighted to present Connie Byrne Hyland and the CBHdesign team in conjunction with acclaimed photographer AgataStoinska. Together they bring you three collaborative photographiccollections "THE COLONY" motivated by the recent recession - inspired by rugged beauty, intensity and styling on a shoe string."THE BEAUTY AND WISDOM OF AGE" was based on the contrastsof ancient and modern Ireland both physically and structurally. Thegroup’s latest collection, "MIXED AND MUMBLED" involves the participation and the integration of immigrants within our localcommunity. It offers a reflection on their experience in our society through work, education, and family. This project will beaccompanied by short films by film director Marc Ivan O’Gormansound from musician Eddie Sheehan.

Michael WarrenUnbroken LineNew Work and Retrospective

VISUAL is delighted to present this major exhibition comprising both new and retrospective work by the renowned Irishsculptor Michael Warren. Entitled UNBROKENLINE, this project brings together Warren’slife’s ideas and concepts and provides aunique opportunity to view a compelling

body of new work in the award winning architectural envi-ronment of VISUAL.

The exhibition willspread throughoutall of the galleries ofVISUAL. The Link andMain Galleries willfeature three newand powerful bodiesof work, Sei Person-aggi, Caryatids and Unbroken Line.

Date: Sat 18th September - Sat 9th October

SEPT 7th - 19th VISUAL FOYER

SEPT 18th - OCT 9th THEATRE FOYER & BAR

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VISUAL is delighted to introduce our new strand of Community Programming, where we present andsupport different types of exhibitions and events from both within the local community and furtherafield in the various non-gallery spaces of the building. This new programme will reach out to newaudiences with different interests so please come and enjoy all that we have on offer this season.

RIAI Awards ExhibitionVISUAL is delighted to bring to Carlow the RIAI 2010 Premier Awards Exhibition in which VISUAL features as winner of Best Cultural Building.The exhibition supports the RIAI efforts to inform the public of the impact of good architecture on their lives, and over the past twenty twoyears there have been 351 such exhibitions all over Ireland. In 2010 wereover 183 entries spread over 14 different categories. Founded in 1839, theRIAI is the regulatory body for professionally qualified architects in Ireland.This exhibition will attract many professionals in the industry as well ascapturing the imagination of the general public.

The RIAI have invited Terry Pawson Architects to give a ‘talk and tour’ on Thursday 16th November @ 7.30pm, admission is free, please book with the main box office 059 9172400

Date: Tues 7th - Sun 19th September

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The Barrow Valley Group of PaintersAnnual ExhibitionThe Barrow Valley Group of Painters was established in1973. The group is based in Carlow and consists of 34 artistswho work in studio and en plein air producing work in oil,acrylic, watercolour, pastels and mixed media. Since itsfoundation, the group has exhibited annually showcasing new work. Other exhibitions are heldduring Eigse and in the County Library at Christmas. The membership consists of professionaland amateur artists who meet regularly to paint with a tutor. The group also took part in Carlow Local Authorities Visualise programme with artist Alanna O'Kelly in 2004. The Grouplooks forward to this new venture at Visual.

ICA Centenery ExhibitionThe United Irishwomen (later renamed the “The IrishCountrywomen’s Association - ICA - Bantracht ne Tuaithe) came into being in 1910, at Bree in CountyWexford, founded by a small band of women whorecognized the urgent need for a National Women’smovement. This exhibition celebrates, in photographs,the history of this remarkable association - from itsinception in the first decade of the Twentieth Century;through the birth of our State; the hungry Thirties;

the ‘Emergency; Rural Electrification and Rural Water Schemes; the founding of its Adult EducationCollege An Grianan, The appointment of members to National Bodies, EEC Appointments and the affiliation of the Association to Women’s Organizations worldwide; and its continuingchampionship of women’s issues, especially in the fields of Health, Education and Equality Status,with particular emphasis on Carlow’s role in the Association.

It illustrates, the important, ongoing social movement that is the ICA, whose motto is “Deedsnot Words”.

OCT 20th - 27th THEATRE FOYER & BAR

NOV 5th - 28th THEATRE FOYER & BAR

Date:Wed 20th - Wed 27th October

Date: Fri 5th November - Sun 28th November

St. Aidans hall, Bree, Co. Wexford. Site of 1st official meetingof the I.C.A., May 1910

Bernadette Scott, Les Oiseaux, Acrylic 2006 20”x17”

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Carlow Photographic Society“A day in the life of VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre”

VISUAL & the GB Shaw Theatre has teamed up with The Carlow Photography Society.During 2010 Carlow Photographic Society worked tirelessly to document all that happens here… visual arts, theatre, music, dance, comedy, film, backstage happenings,workshops, and much much more. This exhibition is a fascinating document of whathas taken place in the building throughout the year both backstage & behind thescenes as well as our programme as it is delivered to our patrons. Created by a teamof dedicated and talented photographers so don’t miss it!

DEC 7th - JAN 16th

Date: Tues 7th December - Sun 16th January 2011

Photo of Carlow Vocational School Sillouettes, May 2010 by Austin Kinsella

VISUAL FOYER Gallery Tours for AdultsEvery Sunday @ 2.30pm & 3.30pmGallery tours for the general public are available on Sundays, for groups of ten or more advance booking is required, please contact the box office well in advance of your visit. For individuals and small groups. Tours last 30 minutes.

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Dates: (Tues - Fri) Primary: 19th Oct - 22nd Oct / 2nd Nov - 5th Nov Secondary: 1st - 5th Nov Time: 11.15am

Gallery Tours for Schools Primary & Secondary

VISUAL is delighted to present gallery tours for both primary and secondary schools. Tours takeplace at 11.15 on the days detailed above and last approximately 40 minutes. Tours are limitedto one class at a time with a maximum number of 36 students. Teachers are required to remainwith tours at all times. Tours cost €2.00 per student must be booked in advance, please call ourmain booking line to secure your class place. There is limited availability so tours will be offeredone class per school, until all schools are booked, where spare capacity allows, schools can beoffered a second tour for another class.

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Date: Sundays Times: 2.30pm & 3.30pm

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Parent & Toddler Group This group is for Parents, Guardians and Childminders and preschoolage children. Why not come along and avail of an opportunity for your children to socialise and play with other children and forparents to chat to each other, share information, advice and support.The VISUAL Parent and Toddler group will also offer art activities forthe children and this will be facilitated by an artist. This group willtake place on Wednesday mornings at 11am starting Wednesday13th October. If you would like to come along please contact the BoxOffice on 059 9172400 to register your interest.

OCT 13th

Date: Tuesdays; Sep 7th/14th/21st/28th & Oct 5th Time: 7.30pm - 9pm Price: €60 (5 week course)

African Drumming WorkshopsWith fun and enjoyment at the core, these AfricanDrumming Workshops offer participants the opportunity to enjoy an inclusive activity under the guidance of Eddie Sheehan, a highly skilled drumming facilitator from Carlow. Drumming is about tuning into our playfulness and collaboratively creating something in the moment, letting the rhythm renew our spirits, energies our bodies and free our minds.

These workshops are open to everyone with an interest - no previous musical experience is required - just a willingness to enjoy yourself!

For more information please contact Eddie Sheehan of Ostinato on 087 637 7483

SEPT 7th GB SHAW THEATRE

Date: Starting 13th October (for 6 weeks every Wednesday) Time: 11am

COURSES

Evening Course in Watercolour Painting with Maureen Phelan

Maureen Phelan is an award winning watercolourand atmospheric painter, "colour and mood" wouldbest describe her work of flowers, musicians, figures,town and landscapes. This watercolour workshop willintroduce the basics of watercolour techniques be-ginning with very simple subjects then moving on tomuch more complex ones with guidance in selectingbrushes, paints and watercolour paper. Ideal for thebeginner who wants to learn about watercolour andthe more advanced who wants to broaden his or hercommand of this wonderful medium.

Notes: No class Tuesday 26th October. (Materials not included but a list will be provided)

Painting by Maureen Phelan

Date: Tuesdays; beginning Oct 5th Time: 11am - 12.30pm (8 weeks) Price: €8 (per session)

Dance Ireland

ExpandanceWorkshopFor: Over 60sCome dance with expandance! Alicia Christofi-Walshe, afounding member of expandance, will be running classesfor Older People at the George Bernard Shaw Theatre.Keep fit, maintain flexibility, strength, balance, and co-ordination all in a social and relaxed environment! Seelive performance & video of professional contemporarydance companies. Meet new people & make new dances!

www.expandance.com

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OCT 12th - Nov 23rd

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Date: 6 Tuesdays from 12 Oct - Tues 23 Nov Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm Price: €120

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This workshop will introduce participants to the world of animation by looking at its history and development, and thestyles, techniques and basic principles of this captivating artform. Working as a team, participants will create their ownshort animated film from a simple script concept and developbasic skills that can be taken away and used again. A fun andenjoyable workshop guaranteed to flex the imagination. The Facilitators Anthony Walsh and Brian Bastick are graduates ofthe renowned Irish School of Animation in Ballyfermot, Dublin.

Home-Recording & Production for Musicians with Rory Grubb and Niall Fallon

This workshop aims to show musicians how easy it is to record real music to a computer, usingvery-affordable/free technologies to produce professional-sounding tracks. Participants will be introduced to the to the basic tools used to make recordings (microphones and associatedhardware), and will then be guided through basic mixing and editing using software. The work-shop will conclude with the production of a professional standard CD of the group's recordingsand arrangements.

Print Making with Amelia Peart

Returning for a second workshop following her sold out andvery successful workshop in April this year, Amelia will lead anintroductory workshop in three print-making techniques, dry-point, carborundum & etching using ferric acid. Print-making isa wonderful medium that lends itself well to many styles, representational, abstract, figurative and so on. For those whowish to return a second time Amelia will introduce new techniques such as, Chine-Colle, soft ground etching (using impressions of leaves, material etc), hard ground etching andAquatint (green & safe) method.

Anthony Walsh & Brian Bastick, Little Duck, stillfrom previous workshop, dimensions variable

Date: Sat 30th Oct Time: 10am - 6pm Price: €100 (some materials provided)

Amelia Peart, Patterns for Precipitation, copper etching

Date: Sat 13th Nov Time: 9.30am - 6pm Price: €100 (materials provided)

Date: Sat 20th Nov Time: 10am - 6pm Price: €100 (all materials provided)

SATURDAY VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS (ADULTS & YOUNG PEOPLE)

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Date: Wed 3rd Nov Time: 8pm Price: €5 (Booking through the box office)

Artists Discussion by Michael Warrenwith a SpecialPerformance of Actions by IrishModern Dance Theatre in the GalleriesMichael Warren will discuss his exhibition Unbroken Line (seevisual arts pages) with Patrick T. Murphy, Director of the RHAGallery Gallery Dublin.

Prior to this discussion VISUAL is delighted to present in the gallery, ACTIONS by Irish Modern DanceTheatre. Actions is a physical conversation between two individuals in empty space by two out-standing male dancers. ACTIONS is a battle through the space using physicality, lifts, falls, text andsound, the dancers alternately throwing their bodies together then fragmenting into threads of raw movement. ACTIONS is both funny and exciting. ACTIONS will be performed in the gallerycontext of Michael Warrens new work, Unbroken Line.

ACTIONS is the biggest hit dance by John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre. Recently performed in New York, Tanzmesse NRW, Germany and Dublin Dance Festival to rave reviews andwild audience acclaim.

“ a powerhouse duo, athletic in sneakers and drenching their sweat pants in a sheen of sweat after extensiveexplosive movement sequences” - Culturebot/New York Arts magazine

Experimental Collage with Mary Cullen

'Inspiration is everywhere!'. So often inspiration and ideas surround us, and all it takes is a map of how to find and tapinto them. This workshop gives participants the opportunityto focus on identifying sources of inspiration for future projectsand start to use those ideas creatively.

This workshop will focus on two aspects of the creativeprocess, looking at sources of ideas and themes for artworkwith a slide show, and a practical workshop in experimentaltextile and paper collage, based on source materials provided on the day (books, photos, etc.),so themes are chosen by individual participants.

Date: Sat 11th Dec Time: 10am - 6pm Price: €80 (some materials provided)

Mary Cullen, Heather Hill, 2009, textile collage,13cm x 10cm.

NOV 3rd

SATURDAY VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS (ADULTS & YOUNG PEOPLE)

Guna Nua

Shakespeare Workshops for StudentsFROM MULTI AWARD WINNING THEATRE COMPANY GUNA NUA AND AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR LIAMHALLIGAN COMES AN INNOVATIVE AND INTERACTIVE EVENT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.

Liam Halligan, a team of actors, and a box of costume pieces and props will replicate for your students a rehearsal room for Shakespeare's plays.

Students will be introduced to the language structure, to character interpretation and scene work;to the given circumstances; character motivation; the possible social and political context and thechallenges of the text for present day actors. Your students will then be encouraged and facilitatedto ask questions and to make suggestions, to effectively direct the scene. The actors will takethese questions and suggestions on board and replay the scene accordingly, to sometimes powerful and sometimes comic effect. Engagement with your students is our principal concern.We achieve this through performance, reminding ourselves at all times that William Shakespearewas primarily a working professional actor and writer.

Each workshop is limited to 100 students and is 90 minutes in length.

NOV 15th

Date: Mon 15th November - Tues 16th November Price: €10

Carlow Enterprise Board

Transition Year Enterprise Carlow County Enterprise Board has been

supporting Enterprise in County Carlow since 1993 and has worked with over 20,000 studentsacross all levels of education in Carlow. Annually the Board would interact with over 3000 Students via its education programme. The Enterprise Show is a show which aims to inspire, education and involve students in the world of Enterprise which is all around us. The range ofspeakers have a variety of backgrounds and decades of experience in SME’s. They will share in an interactive and interesting way their take on Enterprise and what it takes to stand out from thecrowd in this changing economy. Booking through Carlow Enterprise Board, tel 059 9130880

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Dates: Transition Year Students: 5th Oct 2010 Sr. Cycle Students : 19th Oct Time: 10am

T: 059 917 9245 E: eat@lennons.ie www.lennons.ie

At Lennons we are committed to providing good honest food produced with passion and attention to detail while using only the finest Irish meat and locally sourced ingredients. Our intention is to provide a restaurant that will suit all preferences and dietary needs with a carefully chosen menu including gluten free, vegetarian & healthy options.

• An independent restaurant offering the best of local ingredients and produce for morning coffee, lunch & dinner• A seating capacity for 70 people with additional sun terrace • Friendly and casual environment• Pre-theatre supper and dinner menu• Value for money wines with particular care given to wine by the glass• Post theatre sharing boards• Ready-made meals to take home• Catering for private & corporate functions• Ideal location for corporate functions, parties & product launches

Opening Times:• Monday - Saturday 10.30am - 5.00pm• Thursday - Saturday 6.00pm - 9.30pm *last orders Join us on facebook• Sunday Brunch 12.00pm - 4.00pm

*We will also be open for additional evening service in conjunction with theatre events please enquire for more details

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