RESIDENCIES
Michelle Read receives the Hugh Leonard Award from DLR Arts
DLR Arts is delighted to announce Michelle Read as the 2009 recipient of the Hugh Leonard Award for her script Snakelight. The award honours the late Hugh Leonard and celebrates the significant contribution he made to Irish theatre, TV and film and marks the special relationship he had with his home-place of Dalkey.
The award consists of a bursary of €5,000 and the production of a rehearsed reading of Snakelight at Mountains to Sea, DLR Literary Festival.
Michelle is a Dublin-based theatre-maker and writer and has written for
stage, TV and radio. She began her career as a stand-up comic and actor
in London, moving to Ireland in 1991. In 2000 she set up Living Space Theatre,
which she co-runs, and for which she writes, produces and occasionally performs.
Her plays include The Lost Letters Of A Victorian Lady, Romantic Friction
and Play About My Dad. Her latest stage play Snakelight won the Eamon Keane
full-length play award at Listowel Writers' Week 2009.
Set twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Snakelight is a play about choice and fate and the 'what ifs' in everyone's history. Martha is a German artist who escaped from East Berlin, Lennie is an Irish documentary-maker. They're mother and daughter but they've never met …until now. Both women are forced to confront the historical events that have made them strangers.
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Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office
is delighted to announce two exciting opportunities for writers
DLR Arts and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire invite submissions from writers of contemporary fiction for a residency in IADT from October 2009 to May 2010
DLR Arts invites submissions from mid-career script-writers for The Hugh Leonard Award.
The award will consist of a bursary of €5,000 and the production of a rehearsed reading of one of the writer’s scripts at Mountains to Sea, DLR Literary Festival in September 2009.
Closing Date: Fri 17th July 2009 @ 4pm
For more information contact Carolyn Brown, DLR Senior Arts Administrator at cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or (01) 271 9532.
Please see the attached briefs for more details on these exciting opportunities.
IADT Residency Brief - June 2009 (PDF file - 143kb)
Hugh Leonard Award 2009 (PDF file - 133kb)
Writer-in-Residence Background
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown's writer-in-residence programmes facilitates the work of an individual writer or poet both practically and financially. A residency can last from anything from 9 months up to a year. During this time the writer is encouraged to develop or create a new piece of work that may be presented at the end of the residency. In some way the residency contributes or gives something back to the community, this could involve workshops, writers groups and / or the creation of work inspired by the community.
Composer-in-Residence Background
To date three composers have held this residency. The residency supports
contemporary, professional composers to create and develop their own work.
The work is presented to the community upon conclusion of the residency.
In addition to this the composer may also develop projects that will support
the work of other young, emerging or interested musicians over the course
of the residency.
Métier - Jazz Ensemble in Residence Background
Joe O Callaghan - Guitar
Michael Buckley - saxes and flute
Justin Carroll - keyboards
Ronan Guilfoyle - bass
Sean Carpio - drums
Métier is Ireland's first Jazz Ensemble in Residence. Supported by
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, and formed in 2007, Métier
has just completed two concert series at Cabinteely House to great critical
and audience acclaim. Under the artistic directorship of Ronan Guilfoyle,
one of Ireland's leading jazz musicians and composers, Métier is
a group bristling with creative energy, both in improvisation and composition.
Their repertoire is comprised exclusively of pieces composed by the various
members of the ensemble and a performance by Métier represents the
best that jazz in Ireland has to offer both in playing and composition.
Plans for 2009 include a national tour, an innovative film project in association
with Temple Bar, another concert series at Cabinteely House, new music commissioned
for the band, and performances with international guest soloists.
As Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council's Jazz Ensemble in Residence, the band is the first of its kind here, following similar initiatives around Ireland in classical music, and is just one strand of an innovative project that has also featured schools workshops and performances by international artists like cellist Vincent Courtois and Lars Jansson. With a line up that convenes five of the strongest musicians in Ireland today to play their own compositions, Métier is a potent assembly, and Michael Buckley (saxophones), Joe O Callaghan (guitar), Justin Carroll (piano) and Sean Carpio (drums) join the project's leader, bassist Ronan Guilfoyle, in a quintet that is at the very pinnacle of the art form of jazz in Ireland.
"With the support of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Métier has been able to achieve that rare thing in today's music world, an opportunity to play, work together and grow artistically and musically. I think the results of this support are evident on this new recording featuring wonderful compositions by all the band members. I'm proud and excited to be involved in this musical venture, and myself and my colleagues in Métier are looking forward to developing the music and group even further over the coming years"
Ronan Guilfoyle (Artistic Director)
