As part of the online talk series, Tomm Moore - co-founder and Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon, based in Kilkenny - met up with Anne O'Gorman online to discuss his journey from Young Irish Film Makers to professional animation.
In 2009, Tomm's first feature film, The Secret of Kells, was nominated for an Oscar.
For a full transcription of Tomm and Anne's discussion, click here.
The Puppet Portal Project - Call for Artists
Helium Children's Arts and Health company, invites applications from multi-disciplinary artists working in the Dublin, Letterkenny, and Cork areas to collaborate with children across 5 participating hospitals in the next phase of this arts and health and technology project. Contemporary puppetry techniques, storytelling and technology will be explored to create live, interactive, puppetry performances via the hospital web portal, Solas, an online community for children and young people in hospital. Deadline for applications: Friday, August 6th at 5pm. For a full artist’s brief please contact Avril Carr - info@helium.ie with 'Puppet Portal Project' in the subject heading.
ABOUT THOMAS O'CONNOR:
Thomas O’Connor is a visual artist with a background in structural engineering. He works with groups and communities to produce art works. He has been employed by the City of Dublin Youth Service Board (CDYSB) since 2002 in different capacities as an artist, trainer and facilitator. Between 2005 and 2008 he was artist in residence at Stoneybatter Youth Service/MOST Project which is directly managed by the CDYSB. In 2009 he began working as a Youth Worker and it is this role he has subsumed into his arts practice exploring the overlap between the two professions especially the methodologies, languages and interventions employed by both.
We are delighted to welcome Mark Maguire as our Guest Editor on Practice.ie for the months of May and June.
Mark is Assistant Curator for Children’s Programmes at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). He currently manages the weekly family programme Explorer and the annual Primary School Programme. Previously he was Curator of Education & Community Programmes at IMMA for two periods, covering maternity leave, in 2006/ 2007 and 2008. He is author of a forthcoming series of IMMA publications for children called Our Collection. He is currently chair of the board of Tallaght Community Arts (TCA), which is based in Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre.
We look forward to Mark's input on Practice.ie
The next Practice.ie online talk is "The Writing Artist" by Jan Svenungsson
and will take place on Wednesday 12th May, 1-2pm.
Jan Svenungsson is a Swedish visual artist based in Berlin. He is interested in how the two alternative forms of expression (writing and visual art) may complement - or clash with - each other. He is author of "An Artist's Text Book" which addresses practical, as well as theoretical, concerns regarding the role of text in the life of the visual artist today. In his talk, Jan will talk about his view of "The Writing Artist".
This is a free event. Click here, to register now.
A huge thank you to Ríonach Ní Néill who gave an overview of two projects in particular, that involved children and young people in very different ways. See Saw was an interactive work for family groups; and Between Earth, Sky and Home was a piece created with professional dancers and young people aged 8-16 years.
In this presentation, Ríonach talks about what adults can learn from watching children engaging with dance and describes some of the issues that arose for her when engaging children and young people with her work.
To read more about this online talk, visit our Talk Series BLOG.
'I think this has to do with being a child, and not being a boy or a girl - that moment of defying gravity and reconnecting with the child inside is an attractive aspect of dance for all of us.'
Guest Editor Anne O'Gorman spoke to teacher and dancer Ciaran Gray about his work with Company B - a dance company for boys aged 10-12.
To read this feature on Practice.ie, click here.
Anne has also been keeping an Editor's Journal, in which she discusses the new restructuring of the Government Departments and shares some inpiring thoughts and quotes in relation to children's creativity.
Artists from the dlr artists panel are starting off the first practice.ie regional group.
As a member of a regional group, Artists will meet together on a regular basis to share their work and approaches.
Each group will define their own way of working that will best suit the group. They will define the content and structure of the meetings. they will also decide how best to documnet and share their process and outcomes to the wider practice.ie community.
It is a very exciting development of practice.ie.
There is a lot of potential for learning not only for the artists within the groups but also for the wider community, I look forward to following the developments and the outcomes.
The artists will be keeping their own project journal on practice.ie after their first meeting on the 24th.
The members of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown group are: Caroline Lynch, Claire Halpin, Jennie Moran, Joe Coveney, Julie Merriman, Liz McMahon, Lucinda Jacob, Maree Hensey, Marie Brett, and Terry O'Farrell.
If you’re interested in meeting in your local area, please contact us to find out more.
On Tuesday 30th March, the Practice.ie online talk series continued with a talk given by Helium Director Helene Hugel and freelance community artist, Siobhan Clancy.
Helene and Siobhan spoke about their experiences of working on the Puppet Portal Project in 2009.
While Helene gave an overview of working in the hospital context - guidelines for best practice and issues for consideration, Siobhan talked about some of the details of the Puppet Portal Project itself - her own responses to the challenges and one child's case study.
Click here to listen to Siobhan talking about the case study of one child and her engagement in the Puppet Portal Project.
Wexford-based artist Roisin Markham (CreativeDynamix), delivered an online talk in which she shared her approach to working with children and young people, outlined her understanding of child-centred practice and described some of the most recent projects that she has worked on.
To read more and see a clip of her talk, go to our Online Talk blog
We publish essays on topics both central and peripheral to Practice.ie: the world of artists who work with children, who work in the public sphere, and who bring their practice online. If you are interested in contributing an essay to Practice.ie please contact us.
You can leave comments on the essays, or talk about them further in the Forum.
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