Millennium Court Arts Centre

adminPF April 22, 2011

Millennium Court is a leading community venue which connects people, communities & business, through producing a quality, versatile, shared space with engaging activities.
Our initiatives are focused on revitalising the Portadown town centre and surrounding areas. We actively promote social cohesion by creating welcoming spaces that foster integration and support community development. Together, we are building a brighter future for our community

At Millennium Court we organise, sponsor and conduct a wide range of events such as educational and training workshops and classes. We have room hire facilities suitable for meetings and conferences. We have exhibitions on display and offer a range of other civic and cultural activities.

Samuel Beckett Theatre

adminPF April 13, 2011

The Samuel Beckett Theatre, named after one of the most innovative playwrights of the 20th century, was opened in 1992 to celebrate the quatercentenary of Trinity College Dublin. It is the campus theatre of the University's Department of Drama. During University term time it showcases the work of the Department and its courses, while outside term time it hosts visits from some of the most prestigious dance and theatre companies from Ireland, Europe, Japan and the United States. Regular events at the Samuel Beckett Theatre include the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival..The Samuel Beckett Centre, the building in which the Theatre is situated, also houses the Department of Drama offices, seminar room and rehearsal studio, along with Players Theatre, the studio theatre of Dublin University Players, Trinity's student drama society.

Focus Theatre

adminPF April 13, 2011

Focus Theatre’s Acting Studio was founded in April 1963 by Irish American actor Deirdre O’Connell. She trained at the Lee Strasburg Studio in New York. Class mates included Marilyn Monroe and tutors include Arthur Miller. The Focus Theatre was opened by O’Connell and her husband, folk legend – Luke Kelly (The Dubliners) in 1967. The first production was Play with a Tiger by Doris Lessing. The theatre then went on to produce nearly 400 productions including record breaking runs of classics such as Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and contemporary plays such as Auburn’s Proof running for six months at a time. The Focus introduced Irish audiences to plays by Beckett and Shepard for the first time as well as new writers such as Giannia Carbunariu, Vassily Sigarev, Malachy McKenna and Conall Quinn, Elizabeth Moynihan and Brian McAvera.

Many of Ireland’s leading theatre and film artists started their career at the Focus including – Gabriel Byrne (Our Patron), Tom Hickey, Johnny Murphy, Sean Campion, Olwen Fouere, Joan Bergin and Mary-Elizabeth Burke Kennedy. In the late 70’s Burke-Kennedy pioneered the use of mask and mythology in performance at the Focus (an experiment that was recently revived in 2008 at the Focus with European partners Pantakin Commedia dell’Arte, Venice). Tim Mc Donnell won the O.B.I.E. Award in the 1980’s for his performance in Diary of a Madman directed by Deirdre O’Connell. Deirdre died in 2001. Tim McDonnell ran the acting studio from 2001 until he retired in 2008.

In 2002 Joe Devlin took over as artistic director and has continued its tradition of producing plays from world theatre and developing new writing. Joe also now runs the acting studio. Since 2002 the Focus has won numerous Fringe Awards and in 2004 and 2005 the Spiegeltent Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2006 the venue was temporarily closed pending refurbishment. In 2007 Focus Theatre worked as full-time Stanislavski advisors on Pantakin’s award winning production of L’Utima Casa at the Biennale, Venice. On the 45 ^th anniversary of the Focus in 2008 the Deirdre O’Connell Archive opened at the National Library of Ireland and Hold the Passion, a documentary on her life and work premiered at the Cork Film Festival. That same year the Focus won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for the Encouragement of New Work for its production of Brian Mc Avera’s Picasso’s Women.

On 16 June 2010, after four years of touring and working off-site our venue re-opened.

Focus Theatre’s programme now includes touring (national and international), site specific productions, co-productions and outreach nationwide projects.

Bluewall Gallery

adminPF April 12, 2011

Bluewall gallery is a privately owned new space for contemporary visual art in Co.Cavan. It is located 10 km from Cavan town close to the Radisson Hotel at Farnham and Killykeen Forest park. The gallery is situated in a converted artist's studio set in landscaped gardens overlooking Lough Oughter. It is composed of three exhibition spaces and an outdoor sculpture garden. Exhibitions are curated both in house and by open submission. The gallery program presents a broad range of contemporary art practice from emerging and established artists working in all media. We aim to maintain a platform for new work of excellence on both sides of the border and to create an audience for contemporary art in the north east by producing a program which is stimulating, bold and accessible.

Crescent Arts Centre

adminPF April 6, 2011

The Crescent is a diverse community arts centre which has served the population of Belfast and beyond with a wide range of arts and cultural activities for almost 30 years. It is housed in an historic four storey listed building located at 2-4 University Road, built originally in 1873 as what would later become Victoria College.

The neutral location of the building, with central rail and bus access encourages visits and attendance from all communities, and has provided excellent opportunity for cross-community work. The outreach programme is developing and growing, embracing new arts and cultural developments and creating new partnerships.

The programme offered by the Crescent embraces the visual arts, many forms of dance and movement, verbal arts, music in many forms, theatre and drama activities, crafts, and an extensive programme of activities and workshops for young people. The wide-ranging programme has been a key and critical provider of culturally diverse activities throughout the centre’s existence. Many of those attending classes and workshops in the Crescent have had their first encounter there with a particular art form or activity. Professional tutors work with all ages, ranges of ability and disability, and at all levels of expertise.

The centre is also home to many diverse events including cutting-edge theatre, live music and dance performances, and runs two key festivals each year, ‘Between the Lines Literary Festival’, and ‘Citydance’. Exhibitions are held in the dedicated gallery spaces.

The Crescent offers to a number of carefully-selected tenants the opportunity to have office space, with classes/workshops/event spaces as needed, in an appropriate cultural environment. It also hires spaces for appropriate activities by accredited arts and cultural organisations and individuals.

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Complex, The

adminPF April 6, 2011

The Complex is a dynamic arts centre that presents the work of both emerging and established artists, while offering a welcoming and inclusive space. Its unique warehouse aesthetic provides a blank canvas for arts of all kinds for both in house and visiting artists. It is also home to nine artist studios and several community engagement initiatives, such as The Browbeating Project, The Complex Women's Drama Group, High Hopes Choir and Complex Youth Theatre. Located in the heart of north west Dublin, The Complex aims to enrich our community with art of meaningful social value.

Black Church Print Studio

adminPF March 29, 2011

Black Church Print Studio is an artistic collective and one of the leading contemporary fine art print studios in Ireland. It was established in 1982 as a non-profit organisation and is grant-aided by the Arts Council, Dept. of Tourism, Culture & Sport and Dublin City Council. Black Church Print Studio provides fully equipped facilities for all types of fine art printmaking from traditional to innovative techniques. Approximately two-hundred artists use the workshop yearly through our various access programmes and courses/workshops. Full-time technical and administrative support is available from Mondays through Fridays from 9am–5pm. Visitors are welcome by prior appointment.

Hamilton Gallery

adminPF March 2, 2011

Hamilton Gallery is located on the first floor of No. 4 Castle Street, a listed Victorian building in the heart of Sligo.

The gallery was established by Martina Hamilton in 2010, to present art exhibitions by emerging & established Irish artists to collectors and art lovers in the region.

The gallery hosts monthly exhibitions which are open to the public from 10am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. In addition to our exhibition calendar we present an extensive collection of fine art limited edition print and sculpture by Irish artists.

Hamilton Gallery stockroom collection may be viewed by appointment.

Watergate Theatre

adminPF February 17, 2011

The Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny is a centre for the performing and visual arts in South East Ireland. It provides a varied programme of professional and amateur dramatics, classical and contemporary music, opera and dance, together with regular exhibitions of paintings and photographs.

The comfortable 328-seat theatre is an intimate venue for artists and audience alike and plays an important role in the cultural life of Kilkenny.

National Sculpture Factory

adminPF January 8, 2011

The National Sculpture Factory is a national organisation, dedicated to artists, which advances the creation and understanding of contemporary art. Specifically, it provides and promotes a supportive environment for the making of art, opportunities for commissioning new works, collaborations, residencies and other artistic interventions.