Spotlight
A deep dive into the artists creating Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh experiences from coast to coast
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A guest blog about the journey Ar Ais Arís has taken, from idea to its eventual premiere at Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh by James Riordan, Artistic Director of Brú Theatre.
Spotlight on Ar Ais Arís
Watch murals in Waterford come to life from the compfrt of your own home!
Spotlight on The Walls Project
In an industrial site at the edge of a regional town, the rhythm of machines and people stopped a long time ago. A giant landmark – an edifice, sat impatiently, waiting for someone to hit play and turn it on again...
Spotlight on Woman In The Machine
If you live in Ireland, chances are you live near an outdoor handball alley. Peppering the length and breadth of the country, they hold vast collections of stories of communities past and present. Over the last week, CoisCéim’s Broadreach Coordinator, Caoimhe Coburn Grey, has been visiting In The Magic Hour’s venue locations and found some real gems from these uniquely Irish structures…
Spotlight on In The Magic Hour
What links a blue whale beached in Wexford in 1891, 18th Century shipwrecks, pottery fragments washing ashore in Rosslare for more than 150 years and the Natural History Museum in London?
Spotlight on Wexford Blue Whale
Since 2019, John Conway has been developing work built around the oral histories of older people who attend the Naas Day Care Centre, exploring the romanticising of certain life experiences and the minimising of others, whilst acknowledging mortality and the challenges of social isolation, ageing, and age related illness.
Spotlight on The Ballad of a Care Centre
One of Ireland’s most celebrated visual artists, Richard Mosse’s photography captures the beauty and tragedy in war and destruction.
Spotlight on Richard Mosse
Twenty-one young curators were selected by eight arts venues nationwide to programme a festival of work for children and young people.