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Mayo

Mayo Culture Night 2009

HIGHLIGHTS

This is Mayo’s first Culture Night and provides an unprecedented opportunity for Mayo people to go along to their local arts or cultural venue and see what really goes on behind the scenes.  In a unique take on Culture Night, a number of arts and culture venues in County Mayo are enthusiastically participating, so the event will be county wide. Busily finalising their programmes for the night are Áras Inis Gluaire in Belmullet, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Custom House Studios in Westport, Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar and the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, in Turlough.  The varied programme includes workshops, exhibitions, film screenings, open mic sessions, tours of the venues and studios, music and much, much more. 

BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION

Make your own Print!
Printmaking Workshop running throughout the evening providing an opportunity to make your own Drypoint or Monoprint. Booking essential, materials & workshop free of charge.

Open Studios

Artists will open their studios to the public for viewing of work in progress.

Exhibition

An exhibition of work from the Ballinglen Archive will hang in Ballinglen's Courthouse Gallery showcasing work from the very best of Irish & International artists.

CUSTOMS HOUSE STUDIOS

Exhibiton by Katja Wittmer                                                                         

Katja Wittmer’s work evolves around creating abstract and semi-abstract Mixed Media paintings on canvas and paper.  For her, the human body is the ultimate and most intense subject for personal expression.  Additionally, the element of abstraction is extremely important to her, in order to leave the observer with space for individual interpretation.  By using intense colours, blending structures and scattering textures, the importance of the actual depicted scene fades.  The artist strongly emphasizes the hidden, the subtle and the profound.  By means of intuitive and spontaneous form and colour abstractions she encourages a subtle, colour orientated stimulation of personal associations.

Open Studios

An opportunity for members of the public to visit the studios of artists working at Custom House Studios.

Open print studio

An opportunity to visit the printmaking studio and participating in a workshop to make your own monoprint.

THE JACKIE CLARKE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES & The Ice House Hotel

The Jackie Clarke Library and Archives, Ballina in association with the Irish Film Institute present s special screening of the Jackie Clarke Film Collection at the Icehouse Hotel from 9pm to midnight.  This film contains footage from the Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s not recorded elsewhere and is part of the unique and priceless Jackie Clarke Library which was donated to the people of Mayo by the Clarke family. It was put together during the lifetime of local businessman, Jackie Clarke, (1928-2000) and contains over 100,000 spanning nearly 400 years of Irish history.

On September 25th the films in the collection will be premiered at Ireland’s newest boutique hotel The Ice House Hotel located at The Quay, Ballina. The films show a people and a way of life that is now gone forever and include much local as well as national material.  The Jackie Clarke Library and Archives – Ireland Newest National Treasure will remain open that night also.

The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life

Extended opening of the Museum Galleries - 6.00pm – 9.00pm                   

The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life will remain open from 6pm until 9pm. Visit the award-winning Museum Galleries and discover the lives of our very recent ancestors through agriculture, fishing and hunting, clothing and textiles, furniture and fittings, trades and crafts, transport, calendar customs, leisure and religion.

Harvest Knot Workshop - 6.00pm - 7.30pm                     

Harvest Knots were traditionally given as a love token. Watch this demonstration and then make your own for somebody special with Aoife O’Toole of the Education & Outreach Department.(Drop-in session). Venue: Museum Reception

Rush Basket Demonstration - 7.00pm – 9.00pm             

The new temporary exhibition – Straw, Hay & Rushes – recently opened in the gallery on Level D. Join Patricia O’Flaherty for a traditional craft demonstration of rush basket-making to compliment this stunning exhibition. (Drop in session). Venue: Temporary Exhibition Galleries, Level D.

Guided Tour of Museum - 7.45pm - 8.30pm                    

Join Aoife O’Toole Education & Outreach Dept for a guided tour of the permanent Museum collection. Also included will be a tour of the Moylough Belt Shrine exhibition. The Moylough Belt Shrine dates from the eighth century and is one of the great treasures of early Ireland. The exhibition will run until Spring 2010. Venue: Museum Galleries