Creative Places Ballaghaderreen

30/10/2024

If you have taken part in any of the chats, events and programming over the past year with Creative Places Ballaghaderreen, you are invited to join and reflect together with us at our final community consultation event!

📍 Location: St. Nathy's Hall, Ballaghaderreen.

🕑 Time: 11.30am - 2.30pm.

🗓 Date: Sunday, November 10th.

Take part in a Feedback morning session facilitated by artists Dani Gill & Conor Burke through fun, arts-based research activities to reflect on the Creative Places programme. ✏️

Then enjoy a celebration afternoon with us. Have a look at an exhibit of some of the projects that happened over the year, meet the Artist Researchers Anna, Nollaig and Julie, and tea, coffee and lunch refreshments will be available.

Roscommon County Council Ballaghaderreen TownTeam Arts Council of Ireland Ballaghaderreen Community Art Group
Ballaghaderreen Mens Shed Ballaghaderreen Town Team Ballaghaderreen Writers' Group
Ballaghaderreen Arts Festival 24 Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Julie Sharkey Anna King Nollaig Molloy Ballaghaderreen Women's Shed Page Ballaghaderreen Tidy Towns Ballaghaderreen Family Resource Centre Roscommon Leader Partnership Ballaghaderreen Community Garden

30/10/2024

Is there a specific hurdle you're facing in your creative career?

Register now for a free career clinic with our experts

You'll receive 1:1 advice relating to your personal creative career circumstances

https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/events/online-career-clinic/

13/10/2024

Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Artist-researcher Anna King has just launched her new podcast PLACEWAYS. In the first episode Anna speaks to local artist Maria May. In a very insightful and healing conversation, Anna discusses Maria's artwork with her and Maria shares her thoughts on nature, how she explores art-making to draw attention to environmental crisis while using her artwork process to acknowledge and work through grief. Make yourself a cuppa and settle in for a warm conversation.

12/10/2024

Regular and new faces joined us for the Artist Meet at the Shambles this morning.

🍃 Thanks firstly to Conor O'Connell Art for sharing with us his practice, looking back at older paintings and inspirations, and onto his work now which combines his many interests collecting, natural world, animals and birds, taxidermy and older processes such as bronze-making.

🎥 Also to Christine Braithwaite who joined online to share her experiences of the 2nd year and first in person event of Roscommon International Film Festival. She shared what she learned and films that were selected including the Roscommon and Surrounds section
>> Roscommon International Film Festival

We spoke about the arts community and creativity in Ballagh, what could be needed for artists, reflected on the year with Creative Places Ballaghaderreen, and considered what has been gained and needs to change with the Artist Network.

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08/10/2024

LAWPRO (Local Access Water Programme) are hosting an event with valuable talks from community groups on their experience caring for water, and an opportunity to link up with others who are interested in this area. Its happening on Saturday the 9th of November in Athlone.

This would be a great opportunity for any group wishing to find out more about working with LAWPRO and getting support for community-led projects that want to focus on caring for water in your locality. We were lucky to have LAWPRO catchment scientist and local to Ballaghaderreen Noreen Shyrane give a presentation about water and the River Lung at our recent event 'The Cut on the Lung River'. Keep an eye out for registration for their event at www.lawaters.ie

06/10/2024

Free film & screen workshops 🎥🎬📢

Register now for Zoom workshops with experts from Ireland's screen industry:

🔹Pitching skills for screen
🔹Business of being a film creative
🔹Writing for animation
🔹Essentials for screenwriters

https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/events/

06/10/2024

✨️The team behind Roscommon International Film Festival 2024!✨️🎥

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06/10/2024

Well done Roscommon International Film Festival on a fantastic day of film! 👏 🎉
Looking forward to celebrating again next year 🎥

Roscommon Arts Centre Roscommon County Council Creative Ireland

What a night! A big thank you to all who came and supported us - such a great buzz! We look forward to seeing you all next year. It was so great to have so many creatives under one roof along with all the film buffs who love watching films 🎥 ❤️☘️

05/10/2024

Willowbrook Halloween Experience

Audio - Visual Interactive Theatre experience

You become part of the story

2 shows per night
6.30pm - Over 8yrs and over
8pm - Over 16yrs and over
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/willowbrookwhispers/1391645

05/10/2024

Advanced Sources in Genealogy Course To enrol, email [email protected] Date Wednesdays, October 23rd - December 11th | 2.15-4pm Location Online via Zoom Category Course Price €100 Date Wednesdays, October 23rd - December 11th | 2.15-4pm Location Online via Zoom Category Course Price €100 Wa...

04/10/2024

04/10/2024

04/10/2024

The next Artist Meet will be held at the Shambles Ballaghaderreen on Saturday 12th October 11am - 12.30pm.

🟢 Get to know creatives and artists living in and around Ballaghaderreen.
🟠 There is an opportunity for two artists to share their work and process to the group.
🟣 We will be chatting about the year with Creative Places Ballaghaderreen, and the Artist Network what is the future and what do you hope from it if it continues?

Small refreshments available.
Come along and bring a friend!

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04/10/2024

Ballaghaderreen's very own Lee Regan with his band Diaspora have just released their new single 'King of Only a Few Things' from their new album Family Matters. CHECK IT OUT! https://diasporabg.bandcamp.com/track/king-of-only-a-few-things

track by Diaspora

03/10/2024

ROSCOMMON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (RIFF)

A thrilling celebration of cinematic talent in front of and behind the camera.

Based in the breath-taking heartlands of County Roscommon, Ireland, this event - now in its second year - sets the stage for emerging filmmakers and screenwriters to showcase their creativity on a global platform in October 2024.

This dynamic event brings together a captivating selection of short and feature-length films from across the globe, with a special spotlight on emerging Irish talent. An event filled with film screenings, networking opportunities, and the excitement of awards across eight categories.
The full line-up of films will be revealed this Autumn on roscommonfilm.com.
Tickets via https://roscommonartscentre.ie/
Supported by the Roscommon Creative Ireland Programme 2024
CreativeIrl Roscommon Arts Centre Roscommon International Film Festival

03/10/2024

26/09/2024

***Ballaghaderreen***

New universal youth groups starting in The Phoenix Youth and Community Centre, Ballaghaderreen! Please see our poster on our new youth groups starting with two youth cafes. If you would like to sign up your young person please contact the number below.😄

26/09/2024

Snippets from the wonderful Culture Night @ The Palace last weekend ✨️🎶
Edmondstown House Slí na Croí - Malinké music of upper Guinea

Documented by Marek Petrovič Photography

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25/09/2024

24/09/2024

CALL OUT: Community Consultation Creative Installation or Activity

Creative Places Ballaghaderreen welcomes submissions from artists for a community consultation creative installation or activity, as part of our final event for the R&D phase of Creative Places.

Deadline for Proposal: 3pm Friday 11th October.
Email submission to [email protected]
Event date for installation / activity: 10th November 2024.
Award: An award of €2,500 is available for one artist or divided among a group of artists, depending on proposals.

More information on the Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Commission Brief:https://www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/services/community/arts-office/creative-places-ballaghaderreen-images/briefing-document-creative-consultation-commission-2024.pdf

Commission scope and audience:
The event will be open (and free) to the public to attend. The commission should facilitate the
community of all ages, whom have been involved in the programme in some way, to reflect on
their experience. It could also facilitate conversations and data collection which considers arts programming, needs and provision in Ballaghaderreen for future. To imagine and reveal a vision of a Creative Ballaghaderreen.
For example, this could involve an interactive temporary public art piece with which the community would engage or an arts-based research activity based on some of the programme’s emerging topics/themes from the year.

Submissions should be 2 pages max. Visuals where relevant are welcomed.
The successful proposal/s will be considered by members of the project Steering Group together
with Roscommon County Council Arts Office based on the following criteria:
• Reflect on its relevance to the Creative Places R&D phase (40/100);
• Engagement with the community (40/100);
• Artist/Creative experience (20/100).

About Creative Places Ballaghaderreen
Creative Places Ballaghaderreen is a one-year Research and Development project focused on local engagement, through conversations and developing relationships with different groups, artists and individuals in the area. It involves community-focused arts research with three artist-researchers with different disciplines Dr. Anna King, Nollaig Molloy and Julie Sharkey and coordinator Mary Smyth designing a mix of targeted workshops, open events and artist meet ups. These explore local interests, inform a developing local arts and creative programme and open dialogues on what a Creative Ballaghaderreen could be. A Steering Group involving a diverse group of local committed
partners meet quarterly to consider the ongoing programme.

As we come to the end of our Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Research & Development Phase,
there will be a final open community consultation held to reflect on the conversations and activities
over the past year and consider what is next for Ballaghaderreen as a Creative Place. This event will be led by the Creative Places Artist Researchers and Coordinator.
As part of this event, we wish to commission an interactive artwork, installation or activity.

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Roscommon Arts Centre Roscommon County Council Anna King Julie Sharkey Nollaig Molloy Mary Smyth Art Ballaghaderreen Writers' Group

23/09/2024

We had a great day yesterday at our rescheduled Heritage Week event ‘The Cut on the Lung River’ in Ballaghaderreen. Thank you to all those who attended and those who participated in Nollaig’s clay workshop using clay from the banks of the Lung River and those who embraced Anna’s contemplative presentation about the symbolism of water with stories from James Woods. Many thanks to Noreen Shyrane from LAWPRO (Local Access Water Programme) who provided a kick sample on the day as well as an important presentation and discussion on the water quality in the area. Thank you to local painter Conor O Connell and local writer Carol Beirne for sharing their thoughtful artistic responses on the River Lung. The event would not have been possible without farmers and landowners Christy McCann, Declan Mc Garry and Cyril O’ Connor, thanks for your openness and support, to Grace, Patricia and Anita in the Community Resource Centre in the Shambles for shelter and seating, to Arrowe for transport and set up and to Mary for traffic stewarding and continued support as Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Co-ordinator. Creative Places Ballaghaderreen is supported by Roscommon County Council and Arts Council of Ireland.

We have loads of lovely images to share with you over the coming days, but here are a few moments captured over the course of the event.
1 Attendees gather to listen to Carol Beirne recite her short essay.
2 and participants making clay constructions using clay dug from the banks of the Lung River.
3 Photo collage of clay objects and tiles made from clay from the banks of the Lung River.
4 Attendees walking through the field by the ‘cut’.
5 Plan of the natural course of the river alongside the ‘cut’.
6 Archival news clippings: ‘The Powerhouse’, Echoes of Ballaghaderreen, 1993, written by Dan Galvin.
7 Water invertebrates within the kick sample provided by LAWPRO catchment scientist Noreen Shyrane taken from a tributary of the Lung River
8 Noreen Shyrane of LAWPRO speaking about the water quality of the River Lung.
9 Container with kick sample.
10 Array of newspaper clippings about the hydro-electric turbine placed in the ‘cut’ in 1912/13, it was in operation until 1933.
11 ‘Oil Spill on Lung River’, Roscommon Herald October 29th, 1997 written by Christina McHugh.
12 An array of plants taken from the hedgerow and field for use in the clay tile-making workshop.
13-14 Attendees listening to Anna’s contemplative and meditative talk.
15 Conor O Connell unveiling a recent plein-air painting of the ‘cut’ on the River Lung
16 Attendees listing to Carol and Conor speaking about their artistic responses.
17 LAWPRO map of the Lung waterways.

23/09/2024

22/09/2024

Follow the flags at field entrance on the road to get to the Cut event, parking across from entrance! 🌿